mr. goldenberg for your opening statement. >> madam chairman ranking member deutsche members of 70 thank you for the opportunity to testify on the u.s. qatar relationship in the applications within the corporation counsel to might shut if was not to recount the moves in tournaments each site is made since the crisis erupted. instead i will provide context as to what created the situation the implication of u.s. interest in the possible way ahead. qatar is a complex part is the least in one hand they pursued a policy that included building relations at factors united states finds problematic including groups in syria taliban hamas and the local weather. this approach is independent and sometimes provocative foreign-policy that is chafed some of its gulf measures -- neighbors. it has them. that meant dinner major reason for the recent action. from an american perspective the slow response to terror financing is the most problematic. since war erupted qatar was on the forefront of supporting syrian opposition groups. a number of other gulf state actors also pursued an anybody but a soft pol

mr. goldenberg? >> i agree with matt. i think that overall qatar realizes it is extremely vulnerable, and that it doesn't have the means to push back on some of its very tough neighbors. it shares -- it shares natural gas wells with the iranians, and they have to figure out how to get along. so having some of these proxies available to them is a useful thing. by the way, so is having an american air base where they can sort of bare their teeth at the iranians. at the end of the day what they're trying to do, what has happened over time is they've been very wealthy and they've tried to use whatever means they have to purchase power. so you see them buying up large chunks of london, large chunks of washington. you see them paying for proxies across the middle east, trying to push the muslim brotherhood into positions of power so that they too would be able to ride the waves of power. this is a lot of what drives them right now. i think they've taken this far -- way too far. >> and just to add, and i agree with that, what jo

mr. goldenberg for your opening statement. >> madam chairman ranking member deutsche members of 70 thank you for the opportunity to testify on the u.s. qatar relationship in the applications within the corporation counsel to might shut if was not to recount the moves in tournaments each site is made since the crisis erupted. instead i will provide context as to what created the situation the implication of u.s. interest in the possible way ahead. qatar is a complex part is the least in one hand they pursued a policy that included building relations at factors united states finds problematic including groups in syria taliban hamas and the local weather. this approach is independent and sometimes provocative foreign-policy that is chafed some of its gulf measures -- neighbors. it has them. that meant dinner major reason for the recent action. from an american perspective the slow response to terror financing is the most problematic. since war erupted qatar was on the forefront of supporting syrian opposition groups. a number of other gulf state actors also pursued an anybody but a soft pol

mr. goldenberg, in my limited time here. one of my demands in the states is that qatar must close down the turkish military base. >> they're concerned about the muslim brother influence. how important do you think this man is in terms of regional stability and security. and is this one that should be dropped? >> thank you, congresswoman for the question. think that on the list of the demands, the tirkish air base is lower on the list of demands that the emirates and sawies are leveling. what you hear them focusing on is more what the countries might be doing in the press and sort of personal attacks to the different sides are launching at each other. that's more than the financing issue that we've been talking about. it's been much more essential than this turkish base. there's been some moves for the turks to deploy a couple of years ago. when they move it very quickly sort of a symbolic step. it's an opportunity where the crisis has moved on the. what they trying to do is isolate qatar. what they want to do is strengthen t

mr. goldenberg, you talked about the conflicting messages from the president and secretary of state with respect to this conflict, and i have to agree with you. i just am wondering added to that, like, what is the policy, and should we be doing it by tweet? how about state department? only 2 of 22 assist tant secretaries even nominated. an ambassador resigning and arguing because it's increasingly difficult to wake up overseas and explain what's going on and a proposed cut to state and aid. could that have something to do with our inability to effect some kind of understanding and agreement and reconciliation among the gcc? >> well, i'll say this. yeah, i think it's a huge problem you have all the vacancies and a good example of the fact that rex tillerson had to to the go over on his own. i don't think this issue merits that unless you'll have an agreement or breakthrough. it was obvious those of us watching it, that you aren't going to have an agreement. i do think in a situation like that, who else do you send? you pretty much have nobody? especially the assistant secretaries. somebod