Clay Lowery
Clay Lowery
advice ask intelligence services threat
They also look at the intelligence; they ask for intelligence advice from the intelligence services about is there a threat from this transaction, are there vulnerabilities of this transaction.
bank reasons risk
One of the reasons you have something like this is to take some risks. Why do you have a multilateral development bank that is not going to take risk?
citing concerns
The concerns that you're citing were addressed and resolved.
citing concerns national security
In this case, the concerns that you're citing were addressed and resolved. There were no national security concerns that were not addressed.
charge clearly concerns congress heard port raised
The administration will take this charge very seriously. We have heard very clearly the concerns raised in Congress and in some of the port authorities. We will look at that transaction in that light.
authority helpful lots provides trade
Trade is very helpful to people. It provides lots of opportunities, it provides more markets. Our trade authorities, the U.S. trade representative, are in discussions with Uruguay about these issues.
formal fulfill initiate move process promptly request review
Upon receipt of the formal filing, CFIUS will move promptly to initiate the review process and fulfill D.P. World's request for a 45-day investigation.
advance further gotten
We probably should have gotten up there further in advance than we did.