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decision to seek an atprim minister netanyahu and efforts to hold attorney general merrick garland in contempt of congressl is about 20 minutes. >> good come everybody. thank you for coming today. e hard at work advancing several important measures on the floor. among these items i want to highúy two bills we are pushing to protect financial privacy. values are believe that everyone can actually get behind. the financial innovation and technology for the 21st century at will protect consumers and encourage innovation by creating a regulatory framework for digital asset markets through again, the most important part, through leglation, not through

regulators, which is one of the reasons isis disarray. we are going to do this through legislation. #ispency and disclosure requirements the digital asset market place be a better place and safer for participants andi commend the f. tiurich is critical to beyond -- blocking federal beaucrats from creating a central-bank digital currency and allowing a china-like reality in which our fi system could easily be weaponize against americans of that allow the government to closely monitor every chance action. implementing it is simply there are a few things that d totally infringe on our it's kind of currency few can be closely tracked, it can be withheld, it can be weaponized based on behaviors, causes, and of course political innings. i commend our majority whip tom emmer for his readership on this

tak the podium now. >> thank you, blake. this week, house take action to safeguard our the cbdc, or central-bank my digital currency anti-surveillance state act. with this legislation, we're going to stop unelected bureaucrats in the biden administration from using a central-bank digitalv the cbdc t threatens to destroy the american way of life. unlike decentralizigassets su 's are a digital form of currency designed, issued, and monitored by the federal government. in short, a cbdc■o4 government controlled programmable money that, ifo be

just like cash, open, permission p. it not only could, it will give theovernment significant transaction level data on individuals and the ability touppress politically unpopular activity. we've already examples of phone governments weaponizing their financial system against their citizens. china, the communist party actually has the digital to monr its citizens, and they are building social scores based on behaviors. again, that's an anti-american approach. close to homee western hemisphere, canada froze the bank accounts of hundreds of truckers protesting the vaccine mandate in 2022. if you think it can happen, think again. will if we allow this to happen here.

it' naive to believe that your government will not weaponize you.tools that it has t this may be why the biden administration issued an execut order placing urgency on cbdc research and develot.all signals point towars administration developing a cbdc that can and will be used to surveil and control americans. the federal reserve has even described -- don't listen to them when they tell you they are not doing anything. the has already described cbdc's as one of their key duties in a document that was provided to my office. has proven theyhe biden are itching to trade american's right to privacy for a ccp-style surveillance tool. housrepublicans are not going to let that happen. 165 members of our conference have cosponsoredbd@rc anti-surveillance state act, and it has garnered wide industry support. this bill ensures that congress,

t the administration, or the administvete, more specifically, retains the or over the united states digital currency policy so that it reflects our american values of privacy, individual sovereignty, and free market competitiveness.if not open, pes nothing more than a big government surveillance tool op american's freedom ando right to privacy. i encourage all of my colleagues, republican and democrat, to support this bill which protects innovation and defends against an ever expanding government wi that, i yield to our majority leader. >> w i applaud the work that the whip has done on this legislation we are bringing to the floor this week. we have two bills that are limiting the ability for unelected bureaucrats in washington to col

currency. that has become more and more t here in the u.s. but around the world, who believe in the dollar as a strong way to fund things, a strong way to conduct commerce. if they want to have digital currency, they don't want to have thenment tracking their transactions. and it's important that we make it clear with these bills that we are bringing to the floor this week that that's what the be going forward, and it puts■ limitatios on the biden administration's desire tcontrol those transactions and track people's spending habits. and we have seen over and over again by thisame biden administrationha ttried to double the size of the irs to go and target people that ell unded forcing them to pay more in taxes even know when they are already paying more than their fair so needless to say we are gointe

consumers, bringing bills like this of the floor. another bill we are bringing to the floor this week would prevent people here illegally fr voting in dce elections. this is something that the d.c.o create the ability for people in election. if you look at this massive flow of illegals coming into our countrsty because of president biden's open border, we have seen ions opeople come into our country. the minimum number is 8 million, it could be well above that. list coming into our country. why should somebody at the russian embassy be able to vote in elections here in tates of a? yet that is what is allowed today. we have a bill that sa no, that is not the case. if somebody from russia or from ina working at the embassy in china wants to vote, they can vote in thowountry's election. they should not be able to, as a citizen of china, be able to

vote in america's elections, for goodness sake. i thinks agree with. we are going to find out who here in congress agrees withthat bill tomorrow. something we have been united against is not only the growing anti-semitism andhe growing movement against israel's right to self-defense, which we have strongly s but now you see the international criminal court trying to arrest the prime minister of israel for defending his country against a terrorist organization who, on october 7, engaged war inarbaric ways against the people of israel. this is a rogue agency. i know this majority many steps against it and we are going to continue to take action. butn friends around the world who are helping fund the icc to stop funding and organization that has become h anti-israel

went -- and ultimately anti-americaf they had that opportunity. somebody will probably about that is our speaker mike johnson. >> thank you mr. whip and our vice chairman, blake glad y'all are here. a lot going on around the world and let me address first what is top of mr us the passing of iran's president. we would just say clearly that the world safer place this morning because of that. the iranian people enter israel and the west. while he engaged in torture and terror, the in,■rnal court it it to note this morning, maybe , they never targeted him or even considered arresting him. insteads chosen to target israeh baselessndrest warrants and is attempting to

equatesr just war for its existence with the horrific act. to us this is just unconscionable. you have international bureaucrats -- we are not going to allow them use warfare to undermine state sovereignty or usurp the authority of democratic nations. america ld punish the icc kari and putm khan -- we don't putbody above american. &eisrael does not do that eithe. cong is reviewing all of our options. we have very aggressive legislation that we are going to push as quickly as possible. it will impose sanctions and if the icc moves forward with its

absurd requests, this is going to be an even bigger international leregarding the b, internationalucra are not the only ones trying to subvert the notion of safe sovereignty. our own commander-in-chief joe biden is continuing to undermine america's sovereignty through his open border policy. we got the latest report from the border this morning, fox news reported there were large groups of persons coming through middle eastern countries in china. men of military ageand just by , military capability, flowing right across the border into our country. the problem continues every single day. and now you have senator schumer who is trying to get his vulnerable members covered for because they created this catastrophe by voting on a bill which has already failed in the senate.ven get 50 votes because it is a bad bill, and it is really a phony messaging exercise that is going to go

nowhere. the house, as we all know, we pass multiple bipartisan bills, by the way, to secure the border and deport criminaleg immigrants including the lake and riley act. with every single measure we have sent to the senate has been blocked by senator schumer. if he was serious in his attempt to secure the border, senator schumer would bring up the you all know was the most comprehensiv bill ever passed by congress that we did now more than 13 months ago. een sitting on chuck schumer's desk. if they were serious they would move it through thend get into the president's desk and they would sign into law. but they are not serio ait. do not ever fort, documented 64 specific executive actions that president biden himself took beginning on the first day he walked into the oval office, an his agencies at dhs under the directiomayorkas, tha.

they opened the border and it it intentionally. they are not serious about the issue. many democrats here in washington want illegal aliens in our country. so they can become voters and they can affect the outcome of the senses in six years top reapportionment in congress. if you want example of that, look at the st columbia. he city council has decided they want noncitizens and foreign actors deciding who will serve charge of not support such lawless behavior. we are not going to let russian spies and criminal aliens decide o nation's cap. that is why the houses voted thee reverse the dangerous decisions by the d.c. city council andtizens from voting in d.c. elections. worked together

to reverseif this voting bill c, and everybody watch very closely, it will be proof positive that there sodemocratsl aliens deciding election outcomes. it is going to be clear that they don't want americans deciding american elections. and with that, i will take a few questions. >> what's next on the contempt referral for the attorney general? we working on that lle coming r soon. and the reason we are doing that is because thi n politics. this is about process. you have the judiciary and the oversight commissions working the purpose of getting the audiotapes of the biden interview is because the committees have to do their legislative work. they use the audio to evaluate the work and the accuracy of this vessel council.-- the spec.

we have the transcript. it is very interesting to us the president is trying to evoke ut that, which does not even apply here. this is not covered by eileg this is not the president receiving candid advice fromsera presidential responsibility. with his ghost writer, and then sitting a prosecutor investigatg whether he himself cnalassified. so, executive privilege does not e. and that is why the contempt is the measure that is appropriate here and i think it will pass the house handily. >> has israel's response to hamas made jews around the world safer? >> i am not sure how to evaluate fight for their very existence. hamas is a proxy up iran. this is a high-stakes battle for

the survival of a nation. and our very close friendally, . it destabilizes all global affairs. the middle east is a tinderbox. and now you have a hot war going on there. we have to stand with israel eq have to protect and do everything we can to protect jewish people. just because of their ethnicity on college campuses right now eyl threat, just because of who they are. that is not who we are as americ sued so strongly against that and we stood here and announced we are having a hole of house investigation into we have to look at every angleis and approach we cano with the jewish people and with israel in their time of great need and we will continue to do atand that will be a big theme here. nd of coordination you have

with the biden administration and leader schumer on response the icc, and how closely you might be -- >> look, there are some great ideas on the we're down to the fine points of that. have spoken about it directly scheduled to talkr netanyahun■v with him again today. clearly this is a great threat to the international community and our allies a we are getting down to the fine points of that and hopefully it will be a bipartisan bill and everybody will be able to stand together on that. we need to send a strong message to the world that this is wildly inappropriate and we are not going to stand for it. >> what is the reaction to ireland, spain, and norway, saying they would recognize palestinian statehood? >> i don'i have not seen what te proposing.

i would just say this ishe time for anybody in international community n president to be stepping in and trying to micromanage e af in israel as they are trying to fight for their very existence. that. they will be a lot of deliberate discussiont isext after the war, and after peace is restoredbut i think it is pro do that and i'm not going to comment on that. you have been clear about your disdain. what about the underlying alleged conduct of paying off a star to keep them quiet? you are a deeply religious man. does thatt the former president's character? >>i have called what is happenig in manhattan a disgr are clearlr president trump because of who he is. he will soon officially be the nominee for president.

he has been tied up for weeks in ur when he should have the ability to speak freely in the campaign and be around the country. th is clearly by design. these prosecutors in these vas coordinated with the departt of justice in washington. ybodknows what's going on. everybody. if you look at this look at this in any other way. the case is patently absurd. you have hadveeg analyst across the board acknowledge as much. it needs to be handled quickly, and i hope that he will be fully te we can move forward. but the damage has been done. they are doing real damage t i do ever to be say many times that is my greatest concern. if a people in a constitutional republic do not trust of the justices fear andual justice under the law, and you lose an important elementwhats a republic like ours, so we have a lot of repair work to do to the

()stion itself and our system of justice without thise. >> do you have any reaction to the americans being held? [laughter] announcer: coming up tonight on c-span, secretary of state antony blinken testifying on u.s. diplomacy and global challenges. then house ranking rules member jim mcgovern chastised after comments he made on the businese white house. later first lady jill biden giving a preview of the upcoming state dinner in honor of the kenyandent announcer: c-span is your unfiltered view of gov