keep in mind the e.u.to do this before, but member states, their fears were assuaged by beijing's insistence that they were not providing any kind of military aid through government channels or its enterprises. to russia, to aid its war in ukraine. they backed off on that. that is why this is such an interesting development as the e.u. pushes forward potentially to put sanctions on at least three chinese companies. haidi: our chief north asia correspondent stephen engle there with the latest. and you can get a roundup of all the stories you need to know to get your day going on this edition of "daybreak." terminal subscribers, go to dayb . it is also available on mobile, in the bloomberg anywhere app. you can customize those settings so you just get the news on the industries and assets that matter to you. this is bloomberg. ♪ you haidi: watching deborah kostroun there haidi: . the latest corporate stores were following, lift limit gained as much as 67% in extended trading -- as much as 18% in after-ho

the e.u.nced temporary measures in an attempt to lower tensions building around europe for the past month. a judge in london throughout a lawsuit by donald trump that accused a former british spy of making inaccurate allegations. mr. trump was seeking to sue a company led by a former officer who compiled a dossier with unproven allegations about bribing officials. the judge amidst the lawsuit because it was not brought within the six-year limitation period. a british formula one driver will leave mercedes at the end of the current season to join ferrari next year. hamilton has won six of his seven world titles -- his name has been closely associated with the german team he joined back in 2013. the 39-year-old has been offered a multi-your contract at ferrari. remember you can always find more on all the day's news at our website, bbc.com/news. to see what we are working at anytime, check us narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... man: bdo. accountants and advi

the e.u.nced temporary measures in an attempt to lower tensions building around europe for the past month. a judge in london throughout a lawsuit by donald trump that accused a former british spy of making inaccurate allegations. mr. trump was seeking to sue a company led by a former officer who compiled a dossier with unproven allegations about bribing officials. the judge amidst the lawsuit because it was not brought within the six-year limitation period. a british formula one driver will leave mercedes at the end of the current season to join ferrari next year. hamilton has won six of his seven world titles -- his name has been closely associated with the german team he joined back in 2013. the 39-year-old has been offered a multi-your contract at ferrari. remember you can always find more on all the day's ne at our website, bbc.com/news. to see what we are working at anytime, check us narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... man: bdo. accounnts and advisors

. >> in the e.u.a sense that farmers are being forced to unfairly bear the burden of a lot of the effort u. regulations to meet climate emission targets. in india there's a sense that farmers are overburdened, worried about various smocks and they want some type of social protection. >> in europe those regulations include limits on pesticides and the amount of land that can harvest annually. they also worry about competition from russia and ukraine. >> stop grain from ukraine averment stop the green deal. stop deciding about our land. >> in india, farmers want p.m. modi to extend the long-standing policy of setting minimum prices for certain caroms. in 20 1 he tried but failed to scrap the policy following an earlier round of protests. farmers have been marching from the north to the capital but police and soldiers have blocked their way. >> it is not about whether we go to delhi or not. we just want our demands met for a law regarding the implementation of the minimum support price. >> experts say th

the e.u. doesn't maintain a similar black list. there have been e.u. efforts to create one and other initiatives at the e.u. just last year, in february of 2022, activists launched a campaign to propose a new law to stop trade. the campaign didn't reach the amount of signatures it needed to be brought before the e.u. commission. now let's be clear. the b.d.s. movement is antisemitic. it is one tactic in a campaign to delegitimize and isolate the state of israel and applies a double standard to israel. the b.d.s. campaign does not support measures to build engagement nor does it promote peace negotiations or negotiated two-state solution. b.d.s. presents a bias and simplistic approach to the complex palestinian conflict. this is over territorial is the fault of one party. the state of israel while ignoring other actors such as shared palestinian responsibility for the conflict. b.d.s. for while denying to jews that same right. so many of our colleagues who have called foresees fires say nothing about hamas' barbaric and horrific and brutal attacks on oc

the e.u. the defense industry. putin's russia continues to loom large. that is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ welcome to ameriprise. i'm sam morrison. my brother max recommended you. so, my best friend sophie says you've been a huge help. at ameriprise financial, more than 9 out of 10 of our clients are likely to recommend us. our neighbors, the garcía's, love working with you. because the advice we give is personalized, -hey, john reese, jr. -how's your father doing? to help reach your goals with confidence. my sister's told me so much about you. that's why it's more than advice worth listening to. it's advice worth talking about. ameriprise financial. tom: welcome back. this is bloomberg markets. israel says it will launch a ground offensive on the gaza city of rafah unless hostages still held by hamas are released by the start of ramadan next month. more than a million palestinians fled to rafah during the start of the israel-hamas war. an israeli war cabinet member has promised to facilitate t

the e.u. has strengthened its support to ukraine, the e.u. will continue nsing in the sal darety laks plan to allow ukraine to expert 67 million tons of grain, seeds and other related product since may, 2022. in close, malta will continue to support all efforts to address the consequences of russia's aggression. we also reiterate that the only step toward a just and lasting peace would be for us to -- would be for russia to cease all hostility and unconditionally, competely withdraw its forces from the entire territory of ukraine within its internationally recognized borders. thank you. >> i thank the representative of malta for her statement i feel now give the floor to the representative of the russian federation. >> thank you madam president. today's meeting convened at the initiative of a number of western states is like deja vu. a year ago in this same room the mall tease presidency -- to mark the one-year anniversary of our special military operation where foreign ministers were brought together to read anti-russian statement that was c

we opened up with farmers protesting in front of the e.u. headquarters.you think about the past two years and what is going on in europe and that part of the world, what has the impact been for u.s. farmers in particular? >> u.s. farmers benefited from strong production in 20 and 2023 -- 2022 and high prices. prices have declined of late the last few months as we have restocked global food supplies. the challenge is a supply and demand shipping challenge. we had been working on the black sea issues coming out of ukraine. we have started to see ukraine ship at higher levels and had good growth of exports in december. now we have the red sea challenges with the houthi rebels attacking in that region and people going around the suez canal altogether as well as in the panama canal, a drought in panama with lesser shipments through the panama canal. we have a shipping challenge around the globe as far as exports. katie: absolutely. whether it is geopolitical or the weather, it feels like the supply chain can never truly get organized. you mentioned supply and

18% where the lines are now but the other 82% is a sovereign secure nation that maybe is a member of e.u. and nato, would you take that deal? eventually got to the place saying there is a document that is drawn up but it needs to be signed off by the big countries in the world to provide security. that's the main concern, security. they are talking about fighting towards the 1991 everything is theirs and russia is out of there. numerous times in this interview there were negotiated points that he said are there. he just needs to be in a position of strength to do it. see if he can do it. >> bill: one last point. great job, job well done. if that's the case that's the new front line of cold war 3.0 as long as putin is in power to the east and ukraine moving closer to the e.u. and potentially nato at some point. that's the new line. >> yeah. the question is if you believe putin would stop there. he said he has no ambitions for poland and latvia and lithuania. they don't buy that and think he will be on the move. i do want to say one thing. the crew was fantastic. we did a lot of traveling.

if we look at the debt of navalny we see that e.u. and u.k. at new sanctions for russia. >> they are looking apparently at sanctioning some of the people in the prison system that were responsible for his death. i do not think we really know all the details of that death. the united states is also considering new sanctions. again on people, but also more broadly it is possible there are ways to crack on existing sanctions, to reduce the leakage involved in some of the economics. so the u.s. and europe and britain are doing this. caitrÍona: what does the u.s. need to look at to have an impact on these sanctions? >> one of the big things that we could do that has a great impact is take the $300 billion in russian central bank reserves that has been frozen since the big invasion and western banks, take that frozen money and put it into an account, sees it, -- seize it, put it into an international account that ukraine could use to rebuild or by weapons. they need the funds and the russians are responsible for all of this destruction. caitrÍona: t

the e.u. is waiting on hungry for new sanctions on russia for its invasion of ukraine. years old navalny died unexpectedly in a prison camp. his family has not been allowed to see his body to determine how he died. the kremlin says it is not responsible for navalny's death and an investigation will take at least two weeks. yulia navalnaya accused russian authorities of murdering her husband and said he was killed because russian president could not break him. our editor steve rosenberg reports. reporter: for three days she has been trying to recover her son's a body, but alexei navalny's mother was told investigators are not ready to release it. a clue perhaps caught on cctv in the dead of night near mr. navalny's penal colony, a prison envoy heading to a nearby town just hours after announcement of his death. it is thought this midnight motorcade could be transporting his body. alex e navalny was ambitious, promising a brighter future for russia. he once tried to run for president. he ended up in prison and now is dead. in a video statement his widow accused the kremli

and e.u. for support? >> it depends on what kind of operations we are talking about.irst half of the previous segment was about the successful naval operations and the drones used the uniquere -- there. ukraine has wretched capability and is on the forefront of understanding how drones can be used in modern warfare and they are using this for strategic and psychological victories as we are seeing now with the ship that was attacd just off of crimea. now the problem is that on land, on the front lines, the russians are playing a numbers game, using all of their past refurbished artillery shells, and creating more, buying them from questionable countries to buy from north korea for example, drones from iran, playing the numbers game on the front lines. for this to be the stalemate that many see it today, there needs to be more coming from the u.s., in particular ammunition and shells, in order to keep the line where it is. and here's -- ukrainians need to maintain their defenses. with the increase in military production across the alliance and in ukrainian south, 2025 c

i applaud e.u. members reaching agreement on 50 billion euros for ukraine. at home, in the u.s., the senate passed the national consumeral with strong bipartisan support. the house of reference must now act to maintain budget support for ukraine to enable ukraine's continued heroic resistance and protect our national security interests and the values we and our allies and partners all share. we should be clear, we putin first invaded ukraine, he believed he could take over easily and he failed for two reasons. first, due to the strength, commitment and resilience of the ukrainian people. second, due to the efforts and resources of the broad global coalition that has stood with ukraine. this week, g7 leaders announced additional coordinated sanctions to degrade russia's war machine and we will continue to take action to restrict russia's access to the materials and money it needs to continue the war. but now putin's strategy is hoping he can simply wait out ukraine and its allies, and we must prove him wrong and show the kremlin that we will collectively stan

i applaud e.u. members reaching agreement on 50 billion euros for ukraine.home, in the u.s., the senate passed the national consumeral with strong bipartisan support. the house of reference must now act to maintain budget support for ukraine to enable ukraine's continued heroic resistance and protect our national security interests and the values we and our allies and partners all share. we should be clear, we putin first invaded ukraine, he believed he could take over easily and he failed for two reasons. first, due to the strength, commitment and resilience of the ukrainian people. second, due to the efforts and resources of the broad global coalition that has stood with ukraine. this week, g7 leaders announced additional coordinated sanctions to degrade russia's war machine and we will continue to take action to restrict russia's access to the materials and money it needs to continue the war. but now putin's strategy is hoping he can simply wait out ukraine and its allies, and we must prove him wrong and show the kremlin that we will collectively stand wi

and e.u. announce sanctions. will president putin feel it? i asked one of the best kno experts. and german foreign minister

the e.u. has struggled to put measures in place. they are different from those in the u.s.lsewhere around the world. explain what is being done around the world to try to present a united response to what needs to be done to prioritize child safety online. >> wearsing measures around the globe -- >> we are seeing measures around the globe to introduce legislation. much needed legislation. it's very clear that that is the only way the incentives will be there for tech companies to take children safety seriously. here in the u.k. we have seen the online safety act passed. it will impose duties to identify and address reasonably foreseeable harms. we have seen legislation passed in the eu and further legislation specifically relating to child abuse is currently being considered. but that u.s. is the big focus here. one of the objectives was to absolutely draw attention to the scale of entirely preventable harm that we have seen children face on social networks, to try and make sure that child safety legislation on capitol hill goes to the floor. because as you say, there's a r

and e.u., low-value products. on the industrial sector, the understanding is much less, but i will say and certainly in response to imbalancees that exist in industrial manufacturing capacity, the administration has just put out yesterday r.f.p. for increasing industrial biomanufacturing capacity in the united states. that is in the early stages but for industry that is a welcomed development a support in supporting biomanufacturing capacity. a it's an area we don't have good analytic data. but there is support on the industrial side and they have large public companies that aren't using these engineering techniques but fer mentation is an old manufacturing science. and they will have an advantage over ours. companies are facing difficult decisions between financing their own facilities or paying high fees to contract out that capacity. we had a funding program yesterday which we advocated for and we are in support of increasing that capacity in the united states. >> question for you, on page four of your testimon

the entire e.u. and japan combined. they're the ones bringing two foal fired power plants online, two a week, that's china. so it's clear when the white house and congressional democrats push for the green new deal, they're color behind. what they're pushing for is a red new deal that benefits our number one adversary china. i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: may i inquire how much time is remaining? the speaker pro tempore: 12 minutes. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, boy, that's a lot to try to wrap my head around, listening to the gentleman from pennsylvania. this is not just kind of reruns week in terms of legislation. it is reruns week in terms of talking points. you know, the priest president, mr. trump, who my republican friends are so enamored with, let me remind you of some of what he was all about. called president xi brilliant. said he got love letters from king jeong uniof north korea. said we fell in love who said that? said president orr ba

versus the e.u. versus asia when it comes to ev's?lexious: different markets, different trajectories. i am singaporean. we have had this for a long time. it is something that resonates with every person in my generation. so sports car electric vehicles, suvs, is something that resonates in the u.k. market, the smaller version, the sedan. we offer a full variety of products. and that is why it's so important that in 2018, we had this strategy, we have committed full electrification. the second is the goal of the expansion of our product range be on the sports card to the suv, sedan and others that range beyond the sports car to the suv, sedan -- range beyond the sports car to the suv, sedan and others. katie: lotus tech all electric. would you entertain the idea of introducing a hybrid for example? alexious: we are committed to full electrification as part of our strategy. we stick to our strategy. we think it is well-placed and will continue, given we are listed today, make sure we can put it in place and deliver our promise. katie: a

if adopted, the restrictions would be the first time e.u.as imposed on mainland chinese firms since russia invaded ukraine. pakistan's major family controlled political parties are moving closer to a coalition that would thwart another group. the jailed former prime minister's candidates won the most seats in last week's election. the parties of these clowns say they agreed in principle to save the country from what they called political instability. president biden's reelection campaign launched a tiktok account. the channel was unveiled during the super bowl. it is the first time biden has joined the platform. the bipartisan leaders expressed concern over the move because tiktok is owned by a beijing-based company. plenty more to come on daybreak australia. this is bloomberg. ♪ when you automate sales tax with avalara, you don't have to worry about things like changing tax rates or filing returns. avalarahhh ahhh ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ ( ♪♪ ) ( ♪♪ ) ( ♪♪ ) -awww. -awww. -awww. -nope. ( ♪♪ ) constant contact delivers the marketing tools your sm

efforts in ai but this story seems to be the investment into nai startup is facing scrutiny in the e.uter the company announced a strategic partnership that includes making the startup's latest ai models available to customers of microsoft. i want to go out to london. we know clearly the relationship between microsoft and openai, so now they are making a relationship with mistral and the you wants to look at it. what do we know? >> we know the numbers are different, so microsoft is up to about 13 billion dollars in openai, the largest financial backer and partner for a number of years. the mistral partnership includes a $15 million investment, so -- 15 million euros. so pretty small relative to their share in openai. for both sides, this makes them the second company after openai to have their language models available for customers on microsoft's cloud, so this is -- they are french. so far, they have been relegated to europe, but this gives them a bigger potential to have a global reach. microsoft can go out to regulators and say, we are not just tied to openai. we have a partnership

over the last two years, the e.u. has been forced to import 40% more l.n.g. from russia, directly funding russian aggression in ukraine, with roughly $21 billion in year 2022 alone. if kept intact, our l.n.g. energy is projected to bring 432,000 additional jobs to hard-working americans by 2040. and some $53 billion to our economy. plus, we gain the economic leverage as a importer to other nations. as a co-sponsor of h. recess 987, i urge my colleagues to put an end to biden's war on the u.s. energy sector. it's time to prioritize the well-being of americans over the flawed ideologies of the green new deal. i yield back. mr. joyce: i thank the gentleman from idaho, a fellow member of energy and commerce, for his insight and comments. mr. speaker, could you please tell us how much time we have remaining? the speaker pro tempore: 11 minutes. mr. joyce: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, as we have stated, the impact of stopping the export of liquefied natural gas affects all of americans. we've had individuals from all over, representatives who know the impac

crane president says the e.u. is falling short on commitments for military support.his is bloomberg. ♪ hey you, with the small business... ...whoa... you've got all kinds of bright ideas, that your customers need to know about. constant contact makes it easy. with everything from managing your social posts, and events, to email and sms marketing. constant contact delivers all the tools you need to help your business grow. get started today at constantcontact.com constant contact. helping the small stand tall. annabelle: ukraine says the european union has only delivered about one third of the artillery and ammunition the bloc pledged to the country. as the war grinds into the third year, kyiv is looking for weapons lifeline with the u.s. military aid package still stuck in congress. nick is with us. i think it is worth pointing out the appraisal from zelenskyy does appear to deviate from the figures given by the european commission. where does the discrepancy lie? >> there are a few things going on. i think what you are seeing is president zelenskyy trying to impress

meanwhile, e.u.ors announced an investigation into to doc's alleged failure to protect minors. it could result in heavy penalties to bytedance. the eu market commissioner announced the social media platform will face a formal investigation. which empowers regulators to levy fines of as much as 6% of annual sales or ban repeat offenders from the eu. softbank -- leaving the investment fund. jet has represented softbank on boards. but there is a lot of news surrounding softbank at the moment. let's go to the parent company. the founder is create -- is considering the creation -- interesting thing is where he is doing this and who with. alex webb has the story, and we should have no surprise that softbank, having taken money out of saudi arabia into the vision fund, is willing to build a new chip reality too. alex: the saudi's are sitting on a huge amount of capital. they are trying to diversify their economy away from oil. this is not news. the fact is, you have to wonder whether the saudi's are once bi

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but it is up against this wall of repression from the e.u.t absolutely doesn't want this to happen. the consequence is european economic growth is lower and they have all kinds of internal problems as a result. for example, it's hard to pay for a modern military if you don't have a growing economy and tax base. so the american success stories here are just absolutely spectacular permit huge credit to the people who built those companies, but also a huge credit to the system that we have that this is possible. techno optimist. 30 years ago that would have been a noncontroversial statement. everybody would have said, of course, tech is fantastic and wonderful and it is economic growth. it is fantastic and it has become, i would say, very fashionable in the last decade in particular. to go very dark and negative. in my experience, the two political sides kind of have different -- they both have negative views on tech, negative for different reasons but both negative. i would say, look, the fact is that tech has become central, so central and imp

back in 2020, trump even told e.u.rsula von der leyen, "you need to understand that if europe is under attack, we will never come to help you and support you." never come to help you or support you. you know what? that's actually kinda sweet. he quoted his wedding vows. speaking of which... [cheering] speaking of which, trump was in south carolina this weekend and used the opportunity to go after nikki haley's marriage. >> then she comes over to see me at mar-a-lago. "sir, i will never run against you." she brought her husband. where's her husband? oh, he's away. he's away. what happened to her husband? [shouting] what happened to her husband? where is he? he's gone. >> stephen: to be fair, trump struggles with object permanence, so this is what he sounds like when anything leaves his field of vision. "the ball rolled behind the couch. where is ball? ball is away. what happened to ball? [shouting] what happened to ball? ball gone." all gone. [applause] where ball? peekaboo. fun fact: nikki's husband, michael haley, is

europe has passed the united states in support for ukraine with the e.u. spending $96 billion compared to the u.s. sending 75 billion to date. >> thanks, jennifer. oklahoma republican senator mark wayne mullen joins us now. he's a member of the armed services committee. senator, welcome to you. nice to speak with you. >> thank you. >> sandra: what would you like to see come out of this meeting between the president and king abdullah? >> king abdullah is a dear friend of mine. i've known him for many years. just yesterday my wife and my kids and i had a brunch with him. he is one of our strongest allies. he's a guy that is in a very bad neighborhood that loves america. but yet he needs our support. he needs a strong commitment by the president that we will be there. we will continue to have joint forces working together that we're going to make sure that we have the resources in his country to help him stand with us. listen, iran is no friend to jordan. he's very concerned about iran's proxy wars that is happening in syria with their terrorist organizations

. >> this to be humorless what was your initial review reporter, caroline getting a mcginnis e.u.here commander gotta say this amino needs overcome is over at 538, the national point shop, he was wondering why the president, continues to decline in the polls anytime writing to the voter concerns about his age and that is what is keeping his balls down on multiple issues to apple right, jimmy kimmel was money to the house was come about some of the media has been gas fighting the public about these dementia concerns which are so bad last of the trump is making them a centerpiece of his campaign. for trading hundred treating him on as an old beater guesswork this warning from police severity of the future to come up biden in the visiting angels, senior care advertisement. granted trump is only a few years younger than his opponent, but at east together with, to market in a meme and biden publicly does not even know what me ms. great so i think that the people of arts from same enough mental adjustment biden, to conclude that the computer is broken and the presidency is vacant and in

and e.u., low-value products.n the industrial sector, the understanding is much less, but i will say and certainly in response to imbalancees that exist in industrial manufacturing capacity, the administration has just put out yesterday r.f.p. for increasing industrial biomanufacturing capacity in the united states. that is in the early stages but for industry that is a welcomed development a support in supporting biomanufacturing capacity. a it's an area we don't have good analytic data. but there is support on the industrial side and they have large public companies that aren't using these engineering techniques but fer mentation is an old manufacturing science. and they will have an advantage over ours. companies are facing difficult decisions between financing their own facilities or paying high fees to contract out that capacity. we had a funding program yesterday which we advocated for and we are in support of increasing that capacity in the united states. >> question for you, on page four of your testimony,

the e.u.ion in assistance and just passed a package to help with the nonmilitary assets. >> neil: so all the other nato members that you talk to -- you're being very diplomatic about that. i commend you for that, ambassador. they're frantic right now. they think that president trump back in office is going to maybe go so far to abandon nato. >> i don't think there would be support in the united states for an abandonment of nato. nato supports american national security interests, supports american international security interests. senator manchin was saying that america is a super power. one of the reasons that america's preeminent super power in the world is because she's got friends and allies. that's what makes a critical difference between america and china and russia when russia was with in her hay day. i don't think that will change. i think there's going to be a lot of support for that remaining those alliances remaining on the hill and among the american people. >> neil: ambassador, ve

the fact that the e.u.ogether including hungary to put 40, $50 billion in ukraine's pocket just a week or so ago and the u.s. has still not anteed up and the u.s. is not number one on its contributions to nato. far from it. per capita for gdp. >> yeah. you and i old enough to remember mr. gorbachev tear down this wall. what we're hearing now is mr. putin, do whatever you want to europe. we've come a long way since the days of ronald reagan and it would be a klaas sal mistake for the united states to walk away from nato. here is an alliance of 32 countries that represent over 55% of the world's gdp. 3 million troops under arms. almost all of them volunteers. and by the way, on defense spending, the europeans collectively spend over $300 billion a year. news flash. that's the second largest defense budget in the world. bigger than china. about triple what russia puts on the table. so where former president trump is coming up with this mysterious conversation where supposedly the leader of a large european cou

our allies have already contributed more than $96 billion in aid and the e.u. agreed to provide $54 billion more over the next four years. next, it was argued that we should instead focus on the pacific and taiwan, but taiwan and japan and south korea tell us that the single best thing we can do to dissuade china's aggression is to support ukraine. next we were told that we couldn't afford $60 billion for ukraine-related funding. but somehow we could afford an $850 billion annual defense budget, an annual trillion dollar deficits which just happened under both former president trump and president biden. next it was claimed that we would have insufficient weapons to defend america in israel if we send more weapons to ukraine but the department of defense has explained that helping ukraine will actually strengthen our national security by helping to rebuild our depleted military industrial base. the latest excuse for denying aid to ukraine is that this bill is a clever disguise to set up an up peachment of donald trump somehow in the future. under the so-called l

meloni used to be very anti-e.u. as well. but has come to embrace it. and according to the new york times she persuaded or been that it would be better for him to work with the european union than against it. she pointed to her own success in securing billions from the eu and much needed funds for italy back in 2022 when meloni came to power, some actually saw her as an italian version of orban or perhaps an italian donald trump. she was anti-immigration , anti-abortion, anti lgbtq. her coalition partners were close with putin and her own party had its roots in italian fascism joe biden described her victory as something for democracies to be worried about. but his staunch support for ukraine won him over within a year. biden was hosting her at the white house saying they had become friends and applauded her for standing with ukraine maloney has also pleased the us with a policy toward china, italy had been the only major western nation to join china's signature belt and road initiative. maloney decided to pull out. this was seen as an undeniable sign o

that's really the big question, is whether they can get there or whether ukraine would be added to e.us a big, big step. considering the volatility in that region. stuart: last one for you, biden calls putin a crazy s.o.b. at a recent private fundraiser. listen to how putin responded. roll it. >> translator: president biden, the u.s. president pride, has made a rude remark about you again. rude, rude, yes. i don't want to quote with it, but he is the united states president. he called you a crazy [bleep]. listen, or we talked long ago, and i said that we would work with nip any president, but i suppose that for us, for russia, biden is more preferable. stuart: what's the domestic politics of that exchange, bret? [laughter] >> well, listen, i think the former kgb guy is always planting little things and little phrases and, clearly, he thinks maybe domestically for us that that helps trump and hurts biden if he says i'd like biden instead of trump maybe. you know, you never know with putin. he says a lot of things. and the question is whether he has aspirations beyond ukraine. and that's

has a close relationship with putin feels the eu treats hungry unfairly meloni used to be very anti-e.u. as well. but as come to embrace it and according to the new york times, she persuaded or been that it would be better for him to work with the european union. then again, instead, she pointed to her own success in securing billions from the eu and much needed funds for italy back in 2022 when meloni came to power, some actually saw her as an italian version of orban. or perhaps an italian donald trump she was anti-immigration, anti-abortion anti lgbtq. her coalition partners were close with putin and her own party had its roots in italian fascism joe biden described her victory as something for democracies to be worried about. but his staunch support for ukraine won him over within a year. biden was hosting her at the white house saying they had become friends and applauded her for standing with ukraine bologna has also pleased the us with a policy to china. italy had been the only major western nation to join china's signature belt and road initiative. meloni decided to pull out. th

and e.u., low-value products. on the industrial sector, the understanding is much less, but i will say and certainly in response to imbalancees that exist in industrial manufacturing capacity, the administration has just put out yesterday r.f.p. for increasing industrial biomanufacturing capacity in the united states. that is in the early stages but for industry that is a welcomed development a support in supporting biomanufacturing capacity. a it's an area we don't have good analytic data. but there is support on the industrial side and they have large public companies that aren't using these engineering techniques but fer mentation is an old manufacturing science. and they will have an advantage over ours. companies are facing difficult decisions between financing their own facilities or paying high fees to contract out that capacity. we had a funding program yesterday which we advocated for and we are in support of increasing that capacity in the united states. >> question for you, on page four of your testimon

and e.u., low-value products.e industrial sector, the understanding is much less, but i will say and certainly in response to imbalancees that exist in industrial manufacturin capacity, the administration has just put out yesterday r.f.p. for increasing industrial biomanufacturing capacity in the united states. that is in the early stages but for industry that is a welcomed development a support in supporting biomanufacturing capacity. a it's an area we don't have good analytic data. but there is support on the industrial side and they have large public companies that aren't using these engineering techniques but fer mentation is an old manufacturing science. and they will have an advantage over ours. companies are facing difficult decisions between financing their own facilities or paying high fees to contract out that capacity. we had a funding program yesterday which we advocated for and we are in support of increasing that capacity in the united states. >> question for you, on page four of your testimony, you

it avoids a contentious split with e.u. and marks a significant boost for ukrainian president vladimir zelenskyy. top silicon valley executives on capitol hill over online child safety. the ranking member says the social media giants must be rated. >> mr. zuckerberg you and the companies before us i know you don't mean to be sober you have blood on your hands. you have a product -- [applause] >> you have a product that's killing people. >> the senate judiciary committee wants meta, x, tiktok and snap ceos to endorse proposed bills for stronger protections for children using the apps. formula one champion lewis hamilton is on the verge of a shocking move for the 2025 season. according to reports. hamilton recently signed a new contract at mercedes what is able to leave at the end of the season. for our he wants to pair him with -- next year. jonathan: it's emotional i have no one to share this with. lisa: i was going to say. jonathan: it's the marriage, the partnership we've always wanted. lois what would lewis hamilton has

montezuma of mexico, ambassador liu of singapore, ambassador of costa rica, the appointed ambassador e.u our moderators are kristin silverberg -- >> thank you to karen and to wet a for having us here today. the ambassadors panel has become a tradition at weta. i am excited because the topic we are discussing is critical for the ongoing debate in the u.s. about our approach to trade agreements. there was a time not too long ago when u.s. administrations went unapologetically tout the benefits of trade. but that line of argument has gone out of fashion in parts of washington. you hear officials from the tone the biden administration talking about the connection between national security and trade. they are likely to be talking about the risks of trade, rather than the way that trade can be used to advance u.s. foreign policy interests. i am thrilled to have the opportunity to put the issue to our trade partners and ask them how they think about these connections, their trade agreements with us. ambassador moctezuma, i want to start with you and this issue of friend-shoring. and a lot of pe

and e.u. banks and take that $300 billion and give it to ukraine so they can fight for freedom and their people. i yield back. thank you. ism the gentleman yields. the chair recognizes the gentleman from georgia, mr. carter, for five minutes. mr. carter: i rise today to congratulate megan maroney for one of the best albums of 2023. born in savannah, georgia, she comes from a household steeped in musical talent ininfluenced by southern rock. after completing high school, she received a degree in university of georgia, go dogs. megan was provided with the opportunity to open at the georgia theater. this opportunity sparked in crafting her first original song. she shared that she never she would be a singer professionally. she came next to her audience speaking about the emotional experiences she has faced. congratulations, megan. i look forward to seeing your continued success in the future. mr. speaker, i rise today in future. i rise today in remembrance of yvanna a varsity cheerleader and stud

the problem is your two biggest e.u. economies at this point, germany and france, are not there.he germans have now had, going on 10 years -- over nine years since wales, since they pledged to get 2%, and they made some noises last year that were semi-encouraging, and then they were next -- they reneged on it and said we can't. no, you can. and who knows where the french are on all this. we should not see it as a monolith. there are countries that would belie that argument about europe , and that is where i would put my focus. justin: and we had the french ambassador here at the end of 2021, so i have to speak up for the french. the french have been trying to lead this debate in their own idiosyncratic way since the goal -- since de gaulle. you had the president of france saying nato was brain-dead, talking strategic autonomy, which my understanding is he got swatted down, because if you are autonomous, it means you are independent of the united states, we did not like that. but this idea of incipient european leadership on european security is -- has more currency in france than