the united states and i spoke from its hallowed halls. and we made clear. we swore to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the united states. and we will. we will fight. [applause] [applause] safeguard our democracy. we will fight to secure our most fundamental freedom, the freedom to vote. and that's why we have come to atlanta today, to the cradle of the civil rights movement, to the district that was represented by the great congressman john lewis. [applause] on the eve of the birthday of reverend dr. martin luther king. more than 55 years ago, men, women, and children marched from selma to montgomery to demand the ballot. and when they arrived at the state capitol in alabama, dr. king decried what he called normalcy. the normalcy. the complacency. that was denying people the freedom to vote. the only normalcy anyone should accept, dr. king said, is the normalcy of justice. and his words resonates today. over the past few years, we've seen so many antivoter laws that there is a danger of becoming accustomed to these laws.

and that's what makes missouri the best state in the united states. [applause] we were also able to host the bicentennial parade and the inaugural ball that was enjoyed and celebrated by missourians from all over the state. our historic parade included over 100 entries and proudly showcased communities all across missouri. including the lincoln university marching musical storm, the budweiser collidesdales, chinese dragon dancers, and the negro league baseball museum. it marked the first time in our state's history that the inaugural ball was held outside and we counted ourselves fortunate to be able to celebrate with thousands of missourians, many of them which had never experienced an inaugural ball. but none of this would have been possible without the efforts state government undertook to lessen the impacts of covid-19. [applause] when i stood before you last year, our limited supply of covid-19 vaccines were available for only a small group of missourians. no one had a road map or a playbook and we knew we faced difficult times ahead. nevertheles

only the united states threatens the king. only the united states threatens the regime. the way you would de-escalate the conflict in the wake of an operation that israel would make, is if the united states, through actions and words, makes clear that it supports israel, and that it delivers a clear message --and think about how to deliver that message. and then showed a unleash these proxies against israel, start firing thousands of missiles into downtown tel aviv, that the iranian regime itself would be in jeopardy. that would de-escalate the conflict. if the united states decides they would distance themselves from israel in the wake of such a decision, they may think they are calling the situation but it will lead to a greater escalation. this dynamic of the king and queen is important. the only way to peacefully resolve and get the iranians to dismantle their program is a credible military threat by the united states, or i did not mention before, if the iranian people rise up and take out the regime. everyone would agree that that is the best of all possible outcome

you don't have to set foot in the united states. it's enough that you have revealed and published material which the united states seems to be barest embarrassing war, a country to its national security was trying to strike in journalists as written, assign st. i want to stand the consequences of this guy. so that's why it's really, i mean, it's ironic, of course to strike to racially criticize the chinese government, the new laws in hong kong. one of one aspect of which was that any journals to criticize china, even without being in china, could be subject to the laws most trying to criticize that. this is no difference. this is the 1st time that domestic is been honest, legislation has been aimed at someone who has no connection to the u. s. years now mr. sanchez has been able to evade extradition for almost a decade. but it seems that the specter of it is now more con critize than ever. you mentioned be the ruling by a british sport by the in fact the u. k. hi port that allows for that extradition. do you think we receive? well,

the united states is choose that involves many sounds. if not, millions of people that also has to be mentioned is still just about the united states. it's about the security of the whole world. anyway, mr. barbie, we have to live here. thank you very much for your time. thank you. thank you for watching hope to hear again next week. and of course in the me i welcome to max as his financial survival guide, looking forward to year as we go. yeah. this is what happens, dimensions in britain. del, at this happens, you watch kaiser report july, an annual festival in st. petersburg dedicated to dust i ascii. ah, the great writer, think around psychologist, people often turn to his work to understand russia and russians perhaps even themselves. they put, they sing on, what do you see, what they think about the flooding needs, changing a rita, transforming them as they read that does die. estes unique ability to stay ascii wants to tell us you can better yourself. he makes you face your true self and we could move beyond conventions, rules of sc

united states. so is the military president guantanamo morally unacceptable? and can it be shut down for good? today we're talking to john bellenger, the 3rd, who served as legal adviser to the national security council, and senior associate council to president george w bush during the establishment of the detention facility in guantanamo. and he was a leader, chief legal advisor, the secretary of state kinda leads arise. and he also helped draft legislation that created the office of the director of national intelligence. he's now a lawyer in private practice with a law firm arnold in port porter in washington d. c and karen greenberg, director of the center on national security at fordham university school of law. she's the author of several books on the ways that the war on terror impacted justice in law inside america, including the least worst place. guantanamo the 1st $100.00 days. it's really great to be with you both, john bellenger. let me ask you, you were there at the creation and you've

and everyone who questions the hegemony of the united states was in the united states. and they to want to direct the resources of control europe and let in america to attack those whom they consider their main threat. in this whole story, neither spain or the e. u has any role our troops should not become cannon fodder for this most enormous machine of genocide in history for nato. by friday russians, tub diplomat was spelling are clearly that the country does not want bull. but that account allow its interest to be ignored either for a minister, a gale of rob shit, his thoughts during a 90 minute interview to russian media. history of the if it's up to russia, there will be no war. we don't want any wars. but ignoring our interest is not something we can allow either. americans are trying to create a hysteria of the escalation around ukraine, burrell and blink, and repeating it to some kind of a mantra. they say we hope that raja is going to choose the path of diplomacy and i can tell you that is something we've always stuck to since soviet times. and the outcomes of

how is it that we can sit here in the united states? american diplomats can look at russia situation and not even understand that they have a legitimate national security interest when we're militarized around its border, especially caucasus right in eastern europe, going right to russia's doorstep. for me, i haven't trouble seeing this as diploma. so we have tried and said that he's going to focus on diplomacy, diplomacy. first, we're not going to fight wars and regime changing. we're going to focus in diplomacy has this diplomacy when you, when you came in display the most basic people skills that they didn't, scott, i'm glad that brad brought up the cuban missile crisis, because we go back in time. i mean khrushchev, we say, well, cube is a sovereign country, it can have any kind of weapons. it was going to have the alliance relationships at once. and kennedy made it very clear. he said, if you don't take those missiles out, we will. why is this a reverse situation? because it seemed very clear to me, and this is what the russians re

india, asteria, united states, japan. if we pull those together, i think we can find a way to a situation where we can avoid the events of 2034. >> certainly hope we can find a constructive and pragmatic approach to how we address china and create less strategic framework that you're talking about. at the same time that we are trying to create that framework, we are sending very clear signals to the chinese that we will focus on multilateral cooperation and alignment in our own domestic competitiveness before we think about how we engage strategically the chinese. is that the right approach or should be doing it all at the same time? should we expect more from china in a bilateral framework than if we were relying on working with europeans and the administration for domestic competitors? i agree with you, but i think we have to have all three pieces of the pie. james: i think it is all six pieces of the pie that i laid out a moment ago. i agree, you cannot use one of them and except to be successful. we can't say we will

or is this normally the purview of countries like the united states? it's funny when you're reading the objections in the united states representatives reporting forward, they're demanding that russia deescalate, their aggressive behavior stops. inflammatory rhetoric is almost like a bullet point list of what the united states themselves are either doing or not doing. ah, the bad news keeps building for bars. johnson like female suggest the british prime minister prioritized pets. other people during last summer's withdrawal from afghanistan, while thousands of british citizens and allies couldn't get out of the country. a p . m had previously dismissed the claims as nonsense. that gets the message is obtained by sky news appeared to show the alice that was authorized by johnson himself equivalent charity run by x royal marine has received a lot of publicity and the pm has just authorized their staff and animals to be evacuated. animal charity are hoping to be treated in the same capacity. so the question now is did the prime minister actually authoriz

china is a bigger threat than russia to the united states. taiwan is much more important to the united states than is ukraine. we should be providing today as many or more weapons to taiwan as ukraine. we should be rushing more diplomatic and financial support to taiwan than to ukraine to avoid the kind of crisis with taiwan. >> martha: i want to show u.s. and china influence, which aishah just referred to in the map that she showed. this measures influence with other countries through economic cooperation. the united states in 1992, 160 countries that is down 140 in 2020. you can see china's influence with other countries, quite a bit in africa and other nations as well is up to 61. so they are working on supplanting our global position in every way across the board. if you look what's going on in taiwan, hong kong and economic initiatives being made in africa. you can talk about fentanyl crossing our certain border what are we doing to push back and what is the biden administration going to do to change this tide? >> martha, the most import

would mount another invasion of the united states. neither. could they know that abraham lincoln would go to gettysburg and deliver. what would eventually become the most famous political speech in our history did not at the time but it did in time the vast outpouring of writings on the battle remain to be written as did the battlefields development as a major attraction for people interested in american history. i think a fair assessment of gettysburg's impact in the summer and early autumn of 1863. is that both sides sought as a bloody but not ultimately decisive battle that represented largely good news for the united states and bad news for the confederacy. it's not nearly as important at the time as vicksburg vicksburg far overshadowed gettysburg in terms of its impact both in the united states and the confederacy now admittedly many people in the loyal states rejoiced upon first hearing about lee's retreat, of course, they did it seemed as the noted new york dire as george templeton strong observed. on july 63 that quote the rebels are h

both the united states and the united states also approved for nato allies to take u.s. arms they might have and transfer them into ukraine. allies sending anti-aircraft and tank systems. requesting the transfer of some high technology helicopters to ukraine. a, are those the right steps, and, b, what else would you be recommending to the president of the united states right now? >> well, i think it's very important that we move forward both with economic leverage and military leverage as well. the russians are going to pay attention a lot more to the military steps we take than almost anything else. they have been through the sanction game, but i think it's on the military side where you can send a very strong message, so i think any movement of our forces north to nato towards the -- towards the border is important. i think providing defensive weapons to the ukraine army is very important right now, anti-tank, anti-aircraft, anti-missile, anti-personnel. that is very important to give the ukranians the ability to be able to resist an all-out invasion if that happens. n

d a was the last plantation in the united states . so there's a long pattern up until today of specifically black farmers being dispossessed from the land, not being granted access to credit the same way. white farmers are given access to credit and financing. and so over the years there's been a decrease in black farmers over the years. and then if you look at other groups, indigenous people and immigrant communities, minorities, by any definition, it's hard to get into farming. but it's hard for anyone to get into farming in the united states, so there's racism. but then this is the corporate domination of the farming sector in the us, but also globally overseas banks. and then i, they conclude credit worthiness on, on the idea ratios. you paintings, i'm sort of apartheid picture that well, banks will know, no one will say i am a racist right? normally it's structural meaning, it's the pattern of how, how these loans are made and who gets those loans. and then if you added up in the aggregate, you see these very clear patterns of wh

so countries driven by the united states and the united kingdom, the sanctions would target russia's energy and banking sectors. they would kick in . of course, if there was any invasion by russia of ukraine, we spoke to martin dozer of germany, the left party. he says, the nato chief's remarks may reflect a growing realization that of war on russia's border can't be one called the 1st step. it's a good step below to stop this. so propaganda which has been proceeded for last, let's say 2 or 3 months. no, maybe we need to states, maybe the u. s. government and the 2 states, and inside that, so it's not useful to escalate. this is conflict because they kind of rim, and if you look object of lee, it was clear that russia cannot have any interest to a tech ukraine because ukraine, this is like the on the russian border drive. it was exactly what steps florida to escalate. that situation will be stupid. so maybe, you know, the idea of government has changed and the name was changed that they see a better way to proceed. more chaos has a ruptured in the once a watertight relationship betwe

two landmark bills sit before the united states senate. the john lewis voting rights advancement act and the freedom to vote act. [ applause ] and these two bills represent the first real opportunity to secure the freedom to vote since the united states supreme court gutted the voting rights act nearly a decade ago. we do not know when i'll have this opportunity again. senate republicans have exploited arcane rules to block these bills. and let us be clear, the constitution of the united states gives the congress the power to pass legislation and nowhere -- nowhere does the constitution give a minority the right to unilaterally block legislation. the american people have waited long enough. the senate must act. and the bottom line is this. years from now our children and grandchildren, they will ask us about this moment. they will look back on this time, and they will ask us, not about how we felt. they will ask us what did we do? we cannot tell them that we let a senate rule stand in the way of our most fundamental freedom. instead, let u

definitively their intention not just to leave the united states, but to dissolve the united states, right? the union subsisting between south carolina and other states under the name of the united states of america is hereby dissolved. in some ways. this is an acknowledgment of the problem of secession right if you withdraw from the union does the union continue to exist. lincoln is going to make the same kind of claim once he is going to give his inauguration in march in general the idea. is that the constitution only functions through comedy right through this compromise framework and if one state withdraws then the union is dissolved and this is echoed in almost all the newspapers in south carolina in the period following the december 20th vote. and so they're going to say that the union is dissolved. this language makes the case that south carolina's consent is required to be in the union. this is not something that lincoln and other republicans are going to accept but this is the argument that they are going to make. now south carolina is doing this but at the same time. federa

or medication, which would be covered by the state in europe is very expensive in the united states. when i go down to the pharmacy and they say, oh, what's going to be a $1000.00 i'm, i'm used to hearing that. so i just leave without the insulin. my solution right now is just to ration to a dangerous degree. i know that i need to stop doing an ah, unlike in europe, there is no universal health insurance in the united states. the only americans to benefit from a limited public healthcare system are the very poorest members of society and the over 60 fives. every one else is either covered by their employers who pay most of the cost of health insurance. or they have to take out an individual health insurance plan like karen and her husband, eric some pulling up the site right now to look at the plans for next year. okay. although they both work, they can barely afford the costly insurance premiums. oh, so for me, the premium is $695.00 and ah, now to be covered in the united states, you must 1st pay a monthly premium. these are very high and the average premium for a family of 4 is $1

the united states. just a moment completely irrelevant. and it's really important for people to focus on the fact that it doesn't matter what else wookey lakes is alleged or matter that's completely irrelevant to this particular case. and that's what i'm saying to people in a start it. and i have to cite a number of people who now supported the sergeant strike. they have actually made that point. we don't particularly like some of the things that he likes, what he likes has done, but that's not the point. and that's right, the focus has to be on why of each that he finds himself in intolerable conditions in a breach. first, it's much less publicized by the dmc in $2900.00 tried to go off to leaks and challenge the delay gallon relations and their soup was actually dismissed with their use charge in the case that we did not participate in any role doing. obtaining the materials and therefore what within the law of publishing this information, and that makes me question whether it be your legal system is

could the united states insist. he asked the united states had not expanded westward to the pacific by a vote of the people that had happened through military force with us army sweeping indigenous peoples out of the way. lodge also anticipated that all would go well in this new international community as long as quarreling nations agreed to abide by the league's rulings on their disputes, but what if one of them refused and declared war the league would have to call on its members to send troops to enforce its ruling which might well widen the war. lodge wanted to be constructive in this moment and in place of wilson's grand vision for the world. he offered a modest to-do list for the united states. build up national defenses work for arms limitation and assist with the restoration of the rule of international law which had been grossly violated by the perpetrators of the war. lodge admitted that these were small ideas compared to wilson's but he thought that all three were reasonable and sure to do substantial goo

inan fact, the united states natural gas. and natural gas is a complicated and expensive thing to move from one continent to another. so it has to be liquefied, and that's an expensive process. so to think that we would ever import natural gas from russia when we have so much natural gas in the united states that we are liquefying it and exporting it to asia, and now, i will say this. if russia invades the ukraine, that isn't biden's idea. that's putin's idea. america has to respond. the listth of responses we have talked about, but if we didn't talk about them, putin knows what they are. anybody who looks at ul international economics could make pretty w much the same lis. and if you say, well, biden shouldn't be mentioning that we're goings to take tough action, well, that would be an invitation tog putin to invade theif ukraine. you can say it's bad for biden to give a speech saying putin, if you invade, we're going to hit your economy. imagine if biden had given the other speech and said, putin, if you invade, we're not g

the united states has condemned it as an act of terror. he likes nations as calling on all parties to exercise maximum restraint and prevent any further escalation. the secretary journal condemns today's attacks on abbey darby's international airport and the nearby industrial area which were poorly caused several of civilian casualties. and have been claimed by the who t's attacks on civilian infrastructure and civilians are prohibited by international humanitarian law. the secretary journal calls upon all parties to exercise maximum restraint and prevent any escalation against amidst height and tensions in the region. they are no military solutions to the conflict in yemen. to death have been confirmed and tongue are following the soon army that struck the pacific island nation on saturday. a 50 year old british woman was the 1st victim to be named. the new zealand government says one tongue and is also known to have died. security forces in sudan have killed at least 7 protested in the capital cartoon. tear gas and bullets were fired at

or is this normally the purview of countries like the united states? it's funny when you're reading the objections in the united states representatives reporting forward, they're demanding that russia deescalate, their aggressive behavior stops. inflammatory rhetoric is almost like a bullet point list of what the united states themselves are either doing or not doing. ah, the bad news keeps building for bars. johnson leaked females suggest the british prime minister prioritized pets. i the people during loss them as withdrawal from afghanistan, while thousands of british citizens and allies couldn't get out of the country. a pm had previously dismissed the claims as nonsense. yet the messages obtained by sky news appeared to show the i left was authorized by johnson himself. equivalent charity run by x royal marine has received a lot of publicity and the pm has just authorized their staff and animals to be evacuated. animal charity are hoping to be treated in the same capacity. so the question now is did the prime minister actually authorize pen paldin

crush and everyone who questions the hegemony of the united states and the united states. and they to want to direct the resources of control europe and latin america to attack those whom they consider their main threat in this whole story. neither spain or the e. u has any row our troops should not become cannon fodder for this most enormous machine of genocide in history for nato. on friday, rush has helped him from out spelled out quite clearly that the country does not want war, but a condo. so allow its interest to be ignored for a mississippi leverage, shed his thoughts during a 90 minute interview to russian media. history of the, the if it's up to russia, there will be no war. we don't want any wars. but ignoring our interest is not something we can allow either. americans are trying to create a hysteria of the escalation around ukraine, burrell and blink, and repeating it to some kind of a mantra. they say we hope that raja is going to choose the path of diplomacy and i can tell you that is something we've always stuck to since soviet times. and the outcomes of th

crush and everyone who questioned the hegemony of the united states and the united states. and they to want to direct the resources of control europe and latin america to attack those whom they consider their main threat in this whole story. neither spain or the e. u has any row our troops should not become cannon fodder for this most enormous machine of genocide in history for nato vienna. on friday, russia top diplomat, spelled out clearly that the country does not want war, but a candle swill i was interested, be ignored. for a minister, sokolov rav shed his thoughts cheering a 90 minute interview to russian media. yes, we have to say if it's up to russia, there will be no war. we don't want any wars, but ignoring our interest is not something we can allow either. americans are trying to create a hysteria of the escalation around ukraine, burrell and blink, and repeating it to some kind of a mantra. they say we hope that raja is going to choose the path of diplomacy. and i can tell you that is something we've always stuck to since soviet times. and the outcomes of this d

well, the united states has this hardy frontier culture. this idea you can always flee west and remake yourself even though that's a bootstrap's mythology. we have the ethnic and racial divides. the hyper capitalist class was always able to divide the working class against itself, either racially or ethnically or regionally. and then there was a sustained effort by the government to suppress socialism here. so i think there's a lot of reasons why we didn't develop a sort of left wing like europe did. eugene debs low is one of those important forgotten figures because he, he's e 5 class warfare. but he does on a democratic ways of democratic socialist. he speaks a lot like a christian actually, even though he's not one, he respects religion and you know, when he sentenced the federal prison for opposing the draft and giving a speech under sedition act during world war one, i have fooled more than one person who is a self proclaimed conservative person by quoting what he said to the judge to them and asking who said it. and many times i've be

mark: we created the oligopoly in the united states. while crushing american freedom, and different ideas and speech, they work with the autocratic regimes. china and anyone else they could. they would love to work with iran. they don't much care, this is a big problem, not about free market capitalism,. they work the system. and more centralize it is, the more power they have given how much resources they have. when we come back, peter. i want to talk to you about the bidens. that mess, that is next. shhh... you think she's still awake? don't worry. the lexus rx, built for a modern families. get $1,500 lease cash toward a 2022 rx 350. ♪♪ (vo) verizon is going ultra! and so is manny! event planning with our best business unlimited plan ever! with 5g ultra wideband now in many more cities and up to 10 times the speed at no extra cost, the downloads are flying fast! verizon is going ultra, so your business can too. we have to be able to repair the enamel on a daily basis. with pronamel repair toothpaste, we can help actively repair en

crush and everyone who questions the hegemony of the united states and the united states. and later want to direct the resources of control to europe and lead in america to attack those whom they consider their main threat in this whole story. neither spain or the e. u has any row our troops should not become cannon fodder for this most enormous mission of genocide in history for nato. vienna o friday, russia top diplomat, spelled out clearly, the country does not want war, but it can't sell loads interest. a big note either. for a minister cycle of rob shed is thought, cheering a 90 minute interview to russian media. yes, if the, if it's up to russia, there will be no war. we don't want any wars. but ignoring our interests is not something we can allow either. americans are trying to create the hysteria of the escalation around ukraine, burrell and blink, and repeating it to some kind of a mantra. they say we hope that raja is going to choose the path of diplomacy. and i can tell you that is something we've always stuck to since soviet times. and the outcomes of this dipl

well, the united states has this hardy frontier culture. this idea you can always flee west and re make yourself even though that's a bootstrap's mythology. we have the ethnic and racial divides. the hyper capitalist class was always able to divide the working class against itself, either racially or ethnically or regionally. and then there was a sustained effort by the government to suppress socialism here. so i think there's a lot of reasons why we didn't develop a sort of left wing like europe did. eugene debs low is one of those important forgotten figures because he, he's e 5 class warfare. but he does on a democratic ways of democratic socialist. he speaks a lot like a christian actually, even though he's not one, he respects religion and you know, when he sentenced the federal prison for opposing the draft and giving a speech under sedition act during world war one, i have fooled more than one person who is a self proclaimed conservative person by quoting what he said to the judge to them and asking who said it. and many times i've b

the united states is truth, that involves many sounds. if not millions of people that also has to be mentioned is still just about the united states. it's about the security of the whole world. anyway, mr. barbie, we have to live here. thank you very much for your time. thank you. thank you for watching hope to hear again next week on the part in the me. ah. while our officers are facing an increasingly dangerous environment, we are seeing a growing debate about so called warrior cops. the term that i've heard in the militarization of believe this is an amber vehicle we acquired through the 1033 program, very free program and the government program that call us military property that is no longer use to local law enforcement. we're building an army over here and i can't believe if people aren't seeing those agency elder conflicts here. yeah. think of terrorism here because it again a feeling that hey, you have to deal with your hard practice. well, you putting in uniform got beds. it'll probably have like money in play tricks and people m

thousands of rioters spurred into action by the sitting president of the united states attacked the united states capitol in an armed, violent, and deadly effort to halt the peaceful transfer of power. its windows were smashed. its offices were vandalized. and lawmakers and our staffs, everyday citizens who love their country and work here every day, feared for their lives. nearly 140 police officers were injured. at least five people lost their lives that day or in its aftermath. the warnings of history are clear. when democracies are in danger, it often starts with a mob. that's what happened a year ago here in this building. a mob attack. and for mob violence to win the day, it doesn't need everyone to join in. it just needs a critical mass of people to stay out of the way, to ignore it, to underestimate it, to excuse it, and even condone it. the mob can start out as a small number, but if it's allowed to grow and leaders egg on the mob, encourage it, it can become poison. that is what donald trump is doing. as even his response to president biden's speech today showed. and once that ha

we looked at what made last year it difficult long for the united states. and also on the way, 19 years, 10 months at $25.00 days on these americans, legacy party looked back at one of the defining moments of last year that disastrous us withdraw from afghanistan is brought the country to the brink of collapse with other great. now the weather is what 10 am here now in the russian capital. this is anti international cove cases are soaring across european nations. daily new infection rates are breaking old time records with france, leading the way it reported more than 200000 cases for a 4th day in a row. in the meantime, governments are again imposing harsh restrictions, especially on those who haven't been vaccinated yet. and it sparked a lot of anger and amsterdam, people went on to the streets to protest against locked down the clash with the police, seize dogs and battens to break up the illegal protest. ah ah ah thousands of people, as you saw their rallying in the dutch capital on sunday, defying upon amidst the corona virus lockdown measures that hav

states senate. i yield the floor. sen. mccain: mr. president, the events that took place today are probably as historic as any votes that i have seen taken in the years i have been here in the united states senate. the majority with only majority votes, the same as was passed with obamacare, with only democrat votes, changed the rules of the senate in a way that is detrimental, in my view, not only to the united states senate, not only to those of us in the minority party, but great damage to the institution itself. one of the men who served in this senate for a long time that we respected as much or more than any other leader, he certainly knew the senate rules more than any of the rest of us combined, was one robert byrd. three months before his death, robert byrd wrote this letter. three months before his death, he said, "during my half-century of service in various leaderships during the u.s. senate, including minority leader, majority leader, majority whip, and now president pro tem, i have car

the united states, canada and united kingdom are providing weapon systems to ukraine. it is important to distinguish those two tasks. support ukraine, yes, important. the commitment to defend allies, that is our core task, and france is part of that. >> what i hear you saying is the intention of deployment -- regional conflict that would affect your members, not to deter russia from attacking a country that is not a partner, is that correct? >> we are not planning to deploy nato combat troops to ukraine. >> neither is united states, president biden has made that clear. that has been one of the criticisms. going back to 2014, the united states and nato were not willing to use force to deter aggression and annexation of territory from nato partners. vladimir putin saw that and he knows there is a willingness to not use force to stop him. why should he take nato seriously now? >> because our main task is to support allies. not america and europe. that is our core task. defend and deter any attack against nato allies. i am sure president putin takes nato seriously and our

we love the united states of america. and we know, and when we say that we love the united states, it means a lot of things. it means we love our history, we love our neighbors, we love our communities, we love our values, we love god, we love all kinds of versions of god, but most of all, and we love our purple mountains majesty. the landscapes that form the basis for this country. most of all, it means we love the united states constitution. and we have witnessed over the past 20 months a coup d'etat against democracy and the controlled demolition of the united states constitution and the bill of rights. and starting with the censorship , and james madison, john adams, thomas jefferson all said the same thing. we put freedom of speech in the first amendment, because all of the other rights that we were trying to protect relied on that right. if you give government the license to silence its critics, you have given them the capacity to commit any atrocity they want and to obliterate all the amendments and rights of the c

states who vote shall not be denied or abridged by the united states or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, and the congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. these rights enshrined in the constitution under the 15th amendment, they are certainly being abridged. they are certainly being affected in a way that we could not fathom in the year 2022. how shameful it would be if we let it slip through our fingers and be buried under an avalanche of one sore loser's lies. how shameful it would be to violate our oath to the constitution, to that 15th amendment, in order to preserve some rule that is not in the constitution and certainly is not as enshined as that right to -- enshrined as that right to vote. i hope that those who joined us in 200 will be there today to vote with us on the republican side. and if that fails, then i hope we will change the filibuster into a talking filibuster so the nation can see who stands on the side of ensuring the franchise of that right to vote for every american. i yield the floor.

we must remember that the united states promised the russian invasion, an eminent russian invasion all the way back in and december. they kept postponing it, but they nevertheless say that it is still imminent and has been postponed now by 2 months, according to the state department to mid february, but day here at the foreign minister was asked many questions about the tensions about what russia is going to do about them and where ultimately this is all going to lead, whether it's going to be a boy. he himself was much more diplomatic with regards to the america documents, the counter proposals to russian security proposals that arrived in moscow just 2 days ago that the united states finally sent and writing, which is something that russia now demands given how in the past that fields cheated by verbal guarantees that it was given. so now it insists on, on documents, on paper in rights and guarantees. and what marsha, sort of guarantees that ultimately the gist of it is that neither missiles and troops on stationed in the near future on russia's borders or any closer to russia's bord

states and the united kingdom. the sanctions would target russia's energy and banking sectors. they would kick in, of course, if there was any invasion by russia of ukraine. we spoke to martin dozer of germany is at the left party. he says that the nato chiefs remarks may reflect a growing realization that a war on russia's border can't be one called the 1st step. it's a good step though to stop this program. i don't know which has been proceeded for . let's say 2 or 3 months, no, maybe the need to states, maybe the u. s. government to states and inside that. so it's not useful to escalate. this is conflict because the kind of room and if you object to flee, it was clear that russia don't have any interest tech ukraine because you claim this exactly on the russian border and it was exactly what steps florida to escalate. that situation will be stupid. so maybe you know, the idea of what u. s. government has changed and the name has changed that they see that a dialogue is a better way to proceed. more chaos has ere

and there is no body in america that can fix mistakes made by the united states congress. so deliberation is an important function, and that's why forcing us to do what doesn't come naturally, which means to work together to build consensus to get 60 votes to cut off debate, is such a critical role. well, unfortunately, our colleagues have, according to the democratic leader, the majority leader, our democratic colleagues have chosen to leave tradition at the door in order it to grow their own political power. make no mistake, they face an uphill battle. two of our democratic colleagues have stated their outright opposition, and i imagine others who hold the same view who have not wanted to catch the slings and arrows that have made their way toward the senator from arizona and the senator from west virginia, there aren't many other democratic senators -- there are many other democratic senators who hold the same idea in private. still the senate majority is looking to light the -- as this chamber considers such an extreme rule, i want to share wise words from one of our f

the united states just a moment completely irrelevant. and it's really important for people to focus on that fact that it doesn't matter. what else wookey lakes is alleged or not? that's completely irrelevant to this particular case and that's what way they signed the paper when i started. and i have to cite a number of people who now supported the sergeant strike. they have actually made that point. we don't particularly like some of the things that wiki likes what he likes has done, but that's not the point. and that's right, the focus has to be on why of each that he finds himself in intolerable conditions in a breach. first, it's much less publicized by dmc in $2900.00 tried to go off to a we can leaks and challenge the delay gallon relations. and there was actually dismissed with kind of their a use charge in the case that we did not participate in any role doing, obtaining the materials. and therefore, what within the law of publishing this information, and that makes me question whether it be your legal system is indeed so hopeless

are they fully backing the united states? is the allies unified when it comes to dealing with what's happening between russia and ukraine? amb. thomas-greenfield: the alliance is unified we have engaged very closely with our european colleagues, both in brussels and the capital, but also in new york to ensure we are unified in our response to the russians, and is that -- and it is that unity that the russians are worried about. jonathan: we just celebrated the holiday for reverend dr. martin luther king junior and we are in quite a moment in this country when it comes to what he marched and died for. in your personal capacity, i would love your reflections on dr. king, his legacy, and our country right now. amb. thomas-greenfield: being able to celebrate the legacy of dr. king is an extraordinarily important event for our country. what he led the fight for, the legacy he has left behind is so powerful and i thought about as we look about what is happening across our country, i grew up in the south in louisiana and i remember

so the united states doesn't see it that way, does it? we are not going to give up until they take aggressive action. we are going to push them and keep our foot on the accelerator on this. they have two options, they can opt for de-escalation, the outward dialogue, and they can opt for diplomacy, or they can take the alternative, which would be an aggressive action against ukraine and our response would respond to that action. jonathan: so let's talk about the u.s. response would be. there are economic sanctions that could happen. how aggressive with the united states be on sanctions, on economic sanctions? with the united states go as far to freeze the bank accounts not only of prominent russians and close to vladimir putin but to freeze vladimir putin's account also? amb. thomas-greenfield: we have said we will apply sanctions to the russians and they know what those sanctions will entail. that is going to advance what the playbook would be in terms of who we will apply those sanctions to and when we will apply those sanctions so the r

states and the united kingdom. the sanctions would target russia's energy and banking sectors. they would kick in, of course, if there was any invasion by russia of ukraine or your correspondence, thus for tomatoes of germany. the last party says the nato cheese remarks may reflect a growing realization that a war on russia's border can be one called the 1st step. it's a good step though to stop this propaganda which has been proceeded for last. let's see, 2 or 3 months. no, maybe we need to states, maybe the u. s. and the 2 states, and inside that, so it's not useful to escalate. this is conflict because they cannot room an issue objectively. it was clear that rush, ok, i don't have any interests for crane calls. you claim this exactly on the russian border and it was exactly what steps florida to escalate. that situation will be stupid. so maybe no idea what u. s. government has changed. the name has changed that they see a better way to proceed elsewhere. more care says rob to, than the ones for the type of rela

or is this normally the purview of countries like the united states? so it's very confusing right now. and nato is desperate to find relevance in the world, and it is really working hard to try to i think wrap up this crisis in order to keep itself relevant. so this is so what we see anyway that are having some technical unless executive editor of 21st century y dot com. thank you very much for your time today. if you, ah, the bad news keeps building for boris johnson leaks. email suggest the british prime minister prioritize pets, either people during loss them as withdrawal from afghanistan or thousands of british citizens and allies couldn't get out of the country. the pm had previously dismissed the claims as nonsense. yes, the message is attained by sky news, a pet to show the i left was authorized by johnson himself. equivalent charity run by x royal marine has received a lot of publicity and the pm has just authorized their staff and animals to be evacuated. animal charity are hoping to be treated in the same capacity. so the question now is did

which have a sitting president of the united states shouting that united states senators are on the side of bull connor and jefferson davis for refusing to shatter the senate. was the senate created to make these kinds of factional fevers worse or to help break the fevers ?r does the senate exist to help narrow majorities double down on divisions or to force broad coalitions to build bridges? this fake hysteria does not prove the senate is obsolete, it proves the senate is as necessary as ever. republicans have supported this limitation on the majority's power, both when we've been in the minority which these rules protect, and when we've been the majority, which they inconvenience. and last week, some of our colleagues across the aisle reconfirmed they have the courage and the principle to keep their word and to protect the institution as well. but to many of our colleagues across the aisle -- too many of our colleagues across the aisle still want to respond to a 50-50 senate with a rule-breaking power grab. voting to break this institution will not be a free vote or a harmless action,

he has been serving the united states army for 17 years. and one man, john pope is not going to change all of that. once porter begins moving his core to fort monroe. he did so very quickly in fact his core, march 25 miles in the first day from their camps around harrison's landing two, fort monroe despite orders from george mcclellan to slow down and not move his core so far away from the rest of the army. porters eager to get out of there, but even though he knows he's going to john pope's command. that doesn't stop him from still marching as quickly as his men possibly could and i should also say any relationship takes two people to make a successful relationship. john pope is one part of the pope porter relationship fitz. john porter is the other so for john pope pope did show some disdain for porter? no doubt. of course, he's armed with the kennedy letter that porter writes on july 17th were porter refers to him as an --. but pope tells one of his staffers daniel ruggles just as the fifth corps has arriving in northern virginia not to

the united states ended 20 years of war in afghanistan, the longest war and american history. we completed one of the biggest air lists in history with more than 120000 people evacuated to safety. no nation, no nation has ever done anything like it in all history. the only the united states had the capacity to will and billing you to do it. and we did it today. where was the afghan army, where it was the west and backed government? where did all the money go? the united states sunk more than a $100000000000.00 in her rebuilding of data stock for reference adjusted for inflation. that is more than the united states spent on the marshal plot to rebuild europe after world war 2. and the tragedy of it is that for a civilian the side from all the american weapons and the taliban fads berries almost no evidence that any of that money ever passed through here from broken roads that lead to nowhere to abandoned hospitals from twisted contracts isn't corrupt, leaders of janice, dawn can arguably be called the largest money laundering operation in human history . the united states is al

ongoing military activities by the united states and south korea here. but it's really all of a state media coverage of most of these tests really focused on the technical aspects of it. and leader came going only showed up that one of the 7 tests, unlike many of the test back in 2017. and this is something that analysts point to as evidence that north korea is in many ways trying to normalize its tests. in fact, get the world to accept that these are normal self defense operations by a country that is just trying to protect that. so let's have a look at the timing of this test. diplomats, i working round the clock at the moment to prevent russian invasion in ukraine relations with china, worst in years. what do you read into the timing of this missile test? so there are a lot of internal things going on in north korea outside of that, this is comes ahead of some very key holidays that they usually like to show a display of their military power around. and they of course have some economic crises. so this is in part way the government show strength in th