of lyndon johnson and 1964 and the gulf of tanka and the war in vietnam. they were being recorded. >> johnson's secretaries knew because they were tasked with transcribing those conversations and they were the ones who made sure that the conversations were taped as johnson would signal to them. >> you will hear blunt talk. >> it people assigned to kennedy assigned to me now. and -- [indiscernible]

>> leaders from the u.s. intelligence community testify on the russian invasion of you contain and national security threats, live coverage begins thursday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> c-span's live store. books, home decor and something for every c-span fans. shop now or any time at c-spanshop. org. >> an update from house speaker pelosi to include funding which

has forced a house recess and discusses that and other issues. ms. pelosi: one of them is in the present, billie jean king and we bask in the dploa of billie jean king as we honor patsy mimpg and this will be the 50th anniversary of title 9 and and sports activities that were very important. patsy mink and weville a picture of her and more obvious display and first woman of color to serve this the congress of the united states. but today, we had our the all-out champions, their coach.

we had weaponedy mink, the daughter of patsy mirveg. dmink and take away pride in. when i spoke to president zellens ky and i said billie jean king sends her regards. and we have serious legislation on the floor today and the process that it is making and working its way. and have a bipartisan omnibus funding bill that includes 13.6 billion in funding for ukraine, humanitarian, economic and military. defense spending. a separate funding package to battle the coronavirus that we

are taking out of the omnibus and, of course, that i mentioned, the omnibus bill and banning russian oil and energy products into the u.s. and taking other steps to isolate russia and the world including a review of their position in the world trade organization. .

>> in in the bipartisan bill, there was money allocated and couldn't be spent until we unlocked it. and this is especially and establishes new cyber in addition, other bills, establishing new cyber protections against russia, but those are two different bills. the women violence act.

and we are pleased -- we had to make compromisees. on the covid relief bill, unfortunately, we had to have 60 votes in the senate and couldn't get 60 votes without taking money out of the state allocations that were in the rescue package and required that we pass, taking off this bill to separate legislation continued to the administration's request is essential for continuing the fight against the epidemic. it's really important because it's about our global responsibility, yes, but in addition to that, it's about therapies that are early interventions into covid with that stopping transmissions, transmissions as you well know are a place where new variants are created.

we fought to make sure they didn't take money out of the pockets of localities but they did insist that it be coming out of the state. in any event, we'll have our bill on the floor today as well, well, depending on how long this all takes. but that is the plan. the rules is about to meet. i don't know if they've gone in. about to go in. the rules committee. they gave notice that they were going in in an hour a while ago. i had over are 45-minute conversation with president zelensky earlier today. it is really an honor to just be on the call with somebody so courageous, so determined and so

strategic in his thinking about how to protect his country. the assault that putin has made on ukraine is an assault on democracy. the ukrainians are not only defending their country, they're defending democracy. we talked about a range of issues including the crimes against humanity that putin is committing today. the news was that they bombed a ma alternativity hospital, killing babies -- maternity hospital, killing babies, children, moms. this is the beast that putin is. what we'd like to do is for the people of russia to understands that and of course he's blanking out a lot of that. so in any event, it takes us to our other bill today which is the russian energy ban. a ban to import the russian oil in the u.s. cutting off a major source of

revenue for putin. this is about jobs and money there. explore how to further diminish russia in the global economy, strengthen the human rights accountability. you know that bill. that was started as a -- against russia, particularly for russia legislation. but then it was globalized. so tn so that massive human rights violators anyplace, including ukraine, can have further sanctions imposed upon them. again, the call with zelensky was for me a great honor, as i said. my colleagues who had spoken with him by phone over the weekend shared that view. view. we talked about that maternity hospital. we talked about weapons that putin is using weapons to --

prohibited in the geneva conventions including cluster bombs and vacuum bombs which cause severe suffering. the subject we talked about also was the nuclear power plants that the russians are -- have as a target. and that two million, two million ukrainians, and the number will continue to grow, are fleeing their country. we want to be as helpful as possible. one of the thing he is called upon, of course he wants plane he wants anti-missile weaponry, he wants armored cars. tanks. but he also wants the plane, the plane, the planes, you know that. but he also said we're going to need everybody's help in rebuilding ukraine as soon as we end this war. very positive about that. back home, just on another front, not only -- we talk about

these things, talk about lowering costs, increasing paychecks, cleaner government, but not all of us, not everybody here shares that priority of lowering costs for families. this week, a g.o.p. senator revived their party's plan to repeal the affordable care act. repeal and end protections for 150 million people. cut off access to more than 20 million. but end pre-existing condition protection, etc., for over 150 million families. a record number of americans have access to the affordable care act, more now under the rescue plan, democrats further lowered premiums saving some of these families an average of $2,400. but republicans wan to take those savings away, raise costs including another plan announced

by a g.o.p. senator which would in his words raise taxes on over half of americans. the grmt o.p. plan would raise taxes for more than 1,000 -- more than $1,000 on average for the poorest 40% of americans. democrats are for the people and we'll keep fighting for them. it's a busy day. we started celebrating that when women succeed, america succeeds. because this month is women's history month, march is women's history month. then into the legislation that is on the floor, historic call for me with president zelensky, but at the same time, staving off some of the assaults on america's working families that the republicans continue to be engaged in. any questions? reporter: on the omnibus, a number of your members said they felt blind sided about the covid relief offsets in there.

why were they not looped in earlier in this process when this had been months and months in the making. ms. pelosi: it wasn't months and months in the making. when you're in a negotiation, when you're in a negotiation you don't weaken at the end. we had to be very strong to insist on having the covid funding. this covid funding, as i said before is about early intervention so we stop transmissions and therefore new variants. it's about honoring our responsibility we have to the rest of the world. very obvious for a listening time now that the republicans in the senate did not want to do covid funding. and then if we did it, that it would have to be paid for by state and local governments. we cut the amount in half, we cut in half what the -- would have to be covered by state and local and just had part of itoff

set one way, some by state, but not local. states have more opportunity to help cover this than local. local governments have not had the benefit of unemployment going down and so many other things that have given states a little more flexibility in all this. that's what the senators, republican senators insisted upon, that's what it was. any other questions? the speaker pro tempore: the white house supportive of the ways in which it goes further than the -- ms. pelosi: we have strong bipartisan support for the legislation. we want to do most favored nation, now what's it called, normal trade relations. so it is -- i think we're all pretty good. we're all petty good. it is, you know, again, people see -- we -- we want planes for

ukraine, you know, it's all about time. it's all about time. and we've been talking about doing the russian ban for a while and we're so pleased that the president has done that. these bills are not that incompatible. but you know, you're here to legislate, this is a democratic process. people have weighed the equities, expressed their views and the timing is what the timing is. the timing on this is march 11. so we had to move when we had an agreement. reporter: what is the plan, now that it goes to reconciliation. ms. pelosi: we have a bill that's going to be on the floor, hopefully today, we have a bill that i mentioned that will be on the floor today, it will be -- it will contain what the administration says that we need.

it's a separate funding package to continue the battle against coronavirus, largely focusing on the new therapies that are there. you know, now when we started this conversation about vaccines it was very subzero temperatures with a shelf life that was very short. now we have pills that have a long shelf life and an early intervention that can intervene and stop people having to go to the hospital, get sick further and most important keep them from transmitting which is the path to a new variant. we'll have that, we're momentarily they will be going in and that will be the rule brought to the floor and we hope in the course of the debate that it will be today. reporter: just to follow up,

blaming republicans with the covid relief and didn'tville votes in your -- didn't have votes in your own party. ms. pelosi: no. let's grow up about this. we are in a legislative process. we have a deadline for keeping government opened. we have a lively negotiation. it has to be bipartisan. we want it to be bipartisan, but in the senate, you need 60 votes. when i say blame, you say blame, i'm saying because you need 60 votes. they consider that a plus. i don't. they need 60 votes in the senate. they have to come to terms in the fact that it was greatly reduced and didn't do localities and did much less attributed to the states and we had

unfortunately less money. the republicans have wanted -- did you not know that romney sent around a letter with all the senators saying we have to take the money from state and local governments. this may come as news to someone is that, we need to subtract money, money is subtracted. don't even go there. we are in negotiations. rosa delauro. senator leahy as well and working with the republican leadership. a trillion and a half dollars that will be spent this year. and there has never been a bill that when it comes forward and usually wasn't the dark of night, it was sometime last night, came forth -- i didn't

get what i wanted in the bill. i didn't get what i wanted in the bill. i say to my members, yea that is the negotiation and look what is in the bill and what it does for american working families and ukraine and so much needs to be done as opposed to what you don't like about the bill. we will pass a bill that gets it done and we will continue to work on that. as long as we get 60 votes in the senate, there has to be compromised. >> do you agree with their qualms? ms. pelosi: i answered that question. you got something else on substance? this is process and what we are talking about is policy here. we are talking about policy here. and maybe if you are waiting around what is happening, you'll understand that every line in

the bill is a negotiation, that we are talking about the defense of our country and some people don't like we are spending so much much and how it is spent and measuring by health and education and well-being of our children and families and protection of our planet in terms of the environment. and with this president, joe biden, this president, environmental justice, economic justice, how much has been accomplished that some of the governors are complaining they are getting some of the money and some of them are enjoying slush funds in all of this. let me say this. who had all of the grief that you all had the handout from your station especially, table, that i was holding up the checks going to people in september and

october and isn't that a shame because something is better than nothing. i don't go there. i said to president trump, you do state and local and do the other things we have to do for america's working families, you have your checks. but i'm not giving your check for nothing and every step of the way in this new budgeting and it wasn't until joe biden became president that we got the state and local. and that was my fight, as a daughter of a mayor and sister of a mayor, i insisted we have and governors. but we cannot depend on the states that distribute money especially in some of the states. i hold no -- i can compare myself to anybody and standing

for every dollar that those governors and mayors got and the mayors we did not subtract from. i know one person said he was going to vote against the bill, he didn't vote for the bill. we have a war going on in ukraine and we have important legislation to bring to the floor for humanitarian -- by the way, on the president zelensky and relatively knew -- new in the discussion, he wanted planes and anti-aircraft missiles and tanks and all of that. he wanted the sanctions to be tough, but what he did ask for is for help of rebuilding of ukraine and we will all help because putin is destroying hospitals, striving to put out

nuclear facilities, the source of like that in the country. we have important work that we are doing here. and i'm disappointed. and the chairman said, i know some of don't like the way this went and don't like me. well, i don't like either. you don't like. you think i could have gotten something into the bill? no. it takes 60 votes in the senate. that's it. that's all i'm going to say about that. if you are going to talk about policy. i thought you were busier people than to have one, two, three, four questions the fact we are moving with our bill and not wallowing what some governors are complaining about not

getting. reporter: does it come up to president disep lens sky a new -- president zellens ky no fly zone? ms. pelosi: and i spoke with the correspondence and has always been one of the things. they know we can't go there. putin is trying to bait the trap so we go in and that's that could be the beginning of world war iii. and he is using weapons that are not allowed under the geneva convention and use of chemical weapons nuclear and the rest. they know we can't. now, this morning, he was more -- if we can't have a

no-fly zone let us need our own. and what is that that there are planes that the ukraine pilots are trained on and some of the planes that are in poland and poland said they would do it if america would say yes and america said yes and we go to ukraine -- but the point is less on the ask for the policy, more on let us do it, help us get the planes. there is a school of thought that thinks the anti-i aircraft missiles and the rest are an important way. myself, when i see those tanks, 40 miles of tanks, i would like to take out those tanks.

them having more planes might be more useful. but i'm not a military strategist. we hope we will be able to get up to a place where the migs which are the kind of planes they have been signaling can go to ukraine and the teams, incompetents of them. i'll take one more. reporter: regarding your conversation with president of ukraine. is that beyond the $14 billion? are you talking about additional? ms. pelosi: what we have right now, $14 billion, defense, humanitarian assistance and economic assistance could be

loan guarantees and all that. the two million refugees have to see what we have to do working all together, the nato and other countries, it's beyond nato wanting to be helpful and we'll sea what it is in the rebuilding of the country, the loan gar ann tease will be helpful, but all of us will have to do more. when you are talking about rebuilding, talking about winning the war and moving on from there. when i was in school, i attended the inauguration of john f. contendy. were you there? you were too young to be there.

i was in school. and in his speech, all of you know that he said to citizens of america, ask not what america can do for you but what you can do for our country. remember that? the very next line, majoring in political science and all that, the very next line is what i took away, to the citizens of the world, ask not what america can do for you but what we can do working together for the freedom of mankind. and that's what president biden has been doing, working together, working together. and some of the initiatives that go forward, others take the lead from, but we are all on the same

page and we were in the security conference a few weeks ago, we met with heads of state, heads of this, heads of that, so complimentary of our president and how collaboration, working together, not con dyingson. i'm very proud where the president has gotten on this. we are very sad about the brutality of the beast, putin, and he has committed war crimes and i'll close on this, what he's doing with messaging and i told you this before, the president of moldova, they are communicating a bad message of ukraine and president of kosovo,

the serbians and/or though docks and russian propaganda and the russians have been trying to paint ukraine as the villain in all of this. can you imagine that? can you imagine that? we are at a very difficult time because democracy is under assault by a heroin who -- person who has knoll values, whether it is e sanctions and cutting them off in other ways and supplying ukraine with what they need. forgive me for my impatience and you have four questions about shouldn't have told somebody about something sooner? ok. i have the greatest respect for each and one of my members, they

represent their constituents. we are in a battle. and what has come out of this legislation, this omnibus for america's working families is something quite remarkable and will be bipartisan and means it needs 60 votes in the senate. happy women's history month. i'm sorry you didn't see billie jean king and bobbie scott who was on the program, he turned to me when the program was starting and said i know we had billie jean king because she was the top tennis player. she is so great. she cares so much. thank you all.

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