congressman mccaul. thank you so much for being here. the world is in a new era of great power competition. china and russia seem to really make the world in their authoritarian image, and are willing to take aggressive action towards that and, as can be seen but russia's brutal invasion of ukraine and china's recent military exercises near taiwan. moreover, china in particular, is positioning itself to lead in the development of the 21st century technology. beijing's increasing capabilities in the technology realm post significant risk for the united states and its democratic allies and partners. first, it is using its increasingly advanced technological capabilities to develop more sophisticated weapons systems. second, china's leadership on advanced technologies can help fuel its economic growth and render much of the world dependent on it for critical technologies. finally, beijing is an deploying new technologies in ways that are inconsistent with democratic norms such as facial recognition, technology, to ensure assert greater surv

congressman michael mccaul of texas has no self-respect. so he foldedlf-respe immediatelu and that matters because mccaul is the top republican on the house. tee.so jusforeign affairs commi. so just in case that you imagined that throwing outg nancy pelosi and electing a republican congress a huge victory would meancongress that somebody would pushan back against joe biden's lunatic and completely anti-american foreign policy priorities. oht , you were mistaken because michael mccaul just informed us that because we're good people and so was the leonski, we're going to be sending mr. zelenskyy and his pals in tracksuits. tracillions more of your money . >>ic watch. and i want to pick up wherelbur colonel milburn left off.le >> he believes that there should be longer range weapons sent to ukraine. >> would you approve o-range wf 100%? >> he's absolutely correct. i mean, my criticismhe's of this administration was before the invasion, we wouldn't put weapons in. process. >> since the invasion, we slowor walked this process. we are going to pr

paris, or whether it's tension on show today and not in to the cameras, but it certainly emmanuel mccaul made quite so to let everybody know that these issues will be raised and when the cameras are off, we are coming from a free ukraine war history of where in order for submarines was canceled in that in australia, had placed instead than buying and us submarines, so billions worth in contract. that's one amount of our call actually at one point pulled back his ambassador from the us, calling him in and call him back for consultation. so that was quite a rift between those 2 countries. no sign of that right now over arching it's showing that standing together. but when it comes to recovering from the pandemic, and also the question of how to counter the sawing fuel prices, which yet americans feel are soaring, but which really are saw in europe, which was so highly dependent on russia. that's where they don't see eye to eye, and there's a need to make it way from the european side, but not necessarily from the us side. so that's where they are. thank you for that . so we can, we could,

today we are delighted to be joined by michael mccaul, lead republican of the house foreign affairs committee and united states representative from the great state of texas, author of the recently passed chips for america act that has been a leading voice on national sick ready issues involving china. he is also chair of the china task force. congress and mccall, thank you for being here. the world is in a new era of great power competition. china and russia seek to remake the world and their authoritarian image and are willing to take aggressive action toward that end, as can be seen of russia's brutal invasion of ukraine. china in particular is positioning itself to lead in the development of 21st-century technologies. beijing increasing capabilities pose significant risk to the united states and its allies and partners. first, it is using advanced technological capabilities to develop more sophisticated weapons systems. second, china's leadership on advanced technologies can help fuel its economic growth and render much of the world dependent on it for critical technologies. finally, beiji

i'm very briefly, nick, because we also heard the french president manuel mccaul commented on possible negotiations between russia and ukraine and to put as so called security guarantees into play. what more can you tell us for now, there's very little detail on that. i think there's a sense here and key of that as always, a mental nicole wants to play the kind of intermediary and kind of show more openness to rushes demands than say, the americans or the brits. i mean, there's also a lot of worry that he is somehow willing to give them some kind of play, some, some kind of room to demand guarantees from ukraine in the past. that's been that the demand that ukraine wouldn't join nature. i think that is off the table now, but there is a sense here that he is wanting to give you put in a face saving way out of this war, potentially at the cost, at no cost to ukraine, interest in economy, their reporting of m, kia, thank you so much nick, at a time of hyphens. tensions between nuclear armed powers. the united states has unveiled its latest weapon at a ceremony in california. the multi 100

why did you president mccaul, for your birth date? visit my room? the biden's have been hosting them across for the 1st white house visit since being elected last year, putting on a strong show of transatlantic unity against the backdrop of russia's invasion of ukraine. both leaders expressing unwavering support for keep with bite and signaling a change in stance towards russian president vladimir putin and prepared to speak with mister boone. if in fact there is an interest in him to sign, he's looking for a way to end the war. he hasn't done as the case in consultation was my friendship, primitive friends. i'll be happy to sit down with food to see what he once has in mind. biden has resisted talking to potent since russia launched its invasion while micron has kept communication lines open. but the french visit hasn't all been smooth sailing on wednesday president, a chrome one that knew you were subsidies could drive a wage and european american trade relations biden enacted the subsidies to boost to mystic energy production and clean energy. th

one of him with mccaul and taking in i believe leading teen 61. then a single portrait a little bit later. if pope was certainly the anti mcmullin. in 1862, almost everybody was anti mcdowell. he was, as was often written, one of the most unpopular man in america. he commanded an army that had had a lifespan shorter than the army of virginia would be. 59 days versus the 70 plus states that copes army existed. he bore mcdowell did the omnipresent weight of defeat at manassas, at first manassas. for years with stoicism and endurance. john -- in army artillery men encountered mcdowell and san francisco in 1866 after the war. and he recorded that boys on the street as mcdowell passed would who'd at him yelling full run of, bull run. just to torment him. he wrote of a despairing clumsy man, citizens laugh at him. all because he strains too hard to be popular. while he makes one doubtful friend, he creates a dozen enemies. one virtue of mcdowell that's interesting is that he accepted a reduced command. in fact, from -- not for being the only commander o

mccaul. >> thank you, chairman. i want to thank all three of you for your service, as mr. katko mentioned. i know it's not an easy job. i chaired this committee back in the day, and in my position, being a leader now in foreign affairs, with the collapse of afghanistan, what i've seen is a rise in foreign nation adversary states. the threat, quite honestly, the way it was done with the taliban in charge of the evacuation, in charge of hkia, a suicide bomber coming in and killing 13 service men and women, leaving americans behind, leaving afghan partners behind, getting afghans on the planes, they shouldn't have been on the airplanes, that got into the united states, because it was so chaotic. that doesn't really fall on to either of y'all's jurisdiction, perhaps, secretary mayorkas to the extent of the screening coming in from the planes. but then we saw putin invade ukraine. now, we see a rising china, communist china, threatening taiwan. we see iran and the ayatollah close to a nuclear bomb, and kim jong-un is firing rockets off. again, now over japan. argue the world is

gosar and mccaul and flores, i inform the house that they will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new hampshire the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman rise? >> as the member designated by mr. moulton, mr. o'halleran, mrs. trahan, inform of this these members will vote yes on s. 989. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina rise? for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina rise? >> as the member designated by mr. hice of georgia, i inform the house that he will vote no on s. 989. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from pennsylvania rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by ms. houlahan of pennsylvania, mrs. fletcher of texas, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on s. 989. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee rise? >> thank you, madam speaker. as the member designated by mr. loudermilk of georgia, i inform the house that mr. lauder milk will vote nay on

joining me for more, republican congressman michael mccaul of texas. thank you for coming on.e in the chamber last night. what was it like for you? what did you think of his message? >> you know, i think the word historic has been used quite a bit. i was part of the official escort committee, met with him in a back room in the capitol. he's very -- very strong man. very inspiring. you know what i appreciated about his speech, a couple of things. one were the aparallels that he made to world war ii. that would be my father's war. when go to poland, they talk about 1939 and hitler, and had we stopped him at that point in time we would have saved so much blood and treasure from occurring and what we're see right now is a struggle for the global balance of power in the world and that is russia, china, iran and north korea. and chairman xi in china looking at taiwan and the putin in ukraine, you cannot bifurcate these world powers and they're all against freedom and democracy. i was worried that it would be politicized, i thought he gave a tremendous speech that was inspiring to no

when we considered, particularly president mccaul said that nato is a brain dead. and suddenly, nato is dominant. and we have decided to shoot ourselves not in the foot, but also in the head with the booming effect of the economic crisis. that is a thing. and the inflation due to the sanctions that we, our settled, had decided to impose on russia. and these turning against us, so we have taken our decision to step aside and stand behind the united states again, russia. yes. now even before the north stream disaster, there was still a lot of anger and disapproval of this project with several groups. citing that this pipeline would cause masses, c o, 2 emissions of up to $100000000.00 tons per year, and methane leaks. so how do you balance the global goals, like the paris agreement and limiting global warming with geo political needs and europe growing demand for gas? what is laughable? because we are back to using the or the factory that produce code. and we back to the nuclear energy we back to the dirty energy that we said we putting on the side . and we have work

congressman mccaul and i ask have furthered this as has senator menendez and we need to open that space over china so these people have a way to communicate and get their message out. speed was an incredible apple had to respond that they wanted to take twitter off the app store and there is no conversation about taking tiktok off the app store. now we see and do report that china used tiktok to go after politicians ahead of the midterm elections. probably republican politicians last month. forbes is reporting tiktok accounts run by the propaganda arm of the chinese government unmask millions of followers and tens of millions of use of videos mostly criticizing republicans with no clear labels disclosing that they were actually coming from the chinese state controlled media. the ccp is playing the united states anyway it wants. it got its guy joe biden and their and now once again, there trying to interfere in elections. elon musk said twitter has interfered in elections. >> yes i'm so pleased elon musk is going to make these files and e-mails available so people can see the extent to w

burgess, hartzler, mccaul, rice, they will all vote yes. as the member designated by -- he will vote no. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. brown of maryland, mr. brown will vote yea on cob curing in the senate amendment. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mrs. steele of california, i inform the house that mrs. steele will vote yea on h.r. 1917. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. mike thompson of california, sean patrick maloney of new york, bobby rush of illinois, and jimmy gomez of california, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on concurring in the senate amendment. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from minnesota seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. stauber from minnesota, i inform the house that mr. st

a french president's m l u l mccaul is in washington for state visit. he began his trip with a dinner with president joe biden earlier. he criticized us subsidies towards european companies as super aggressive. and independent panel in south africa has found president cyril remo fossa violated his oath of office. the panel was set up after millions of dollars in cash was found and a sofa at his private farm. the president denies any wrongdoing. at least 2 palestinians had been killed during an israeli ride in the occupied whist bank. several others were wounded. palestinian factions calling for a general strike in response. there have been protests in india's southern state of carola against the construction of a multi $1000000.00 port. it's being built by the a donnie corporation which is owned by asia's richest man, opponent say its cause and coastal erosion and destroying livelihoods. those are the headlines. the news continues here on al jazeera, after witness lonely lives the the no to glean with my thoughts. but i had to learn it now. i know what

mister mccaul, the gentleman from arkansas, mr. hill. the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. fitzpatrick. the gentleman from indiana miss sparts met. i was that you said the president of the senate at the direction of that body appointed the following senators as members of the committee on the part of the senate to escort his excellency, blood, mar, zalinski, president of ukraine into the house chamber. the senator from new york, mr. schumer, the senator from illinois, mister durbin, the senator from washington, mrs. murray, the senator from michigan mas stabenow, the senator from minnesota. as clover char, the senator from new jersey. mister menendez, the senator from maryland. mister kardon, the senator from kentucky. mister mcconnell, the senator from south dakota. mister soon. the senator from iowa. miss ernst, the senator from missouri. mister blunt, the senator from mississippi. mister wicker, the senator from idaho. mister ish and senator from ohio. mister portman, the members of the escort committee will exit the chamber through t

people like michael mccaul, he's probably going to be chairman of the house foreign affairs committee. there is jockeying for other powerful panels, like the ways and means committee, between congressman adrian smith and others. that should get worked out. there is a set of house republicans that include top leadership as well as rank and file that basically hear arguments over these coming days from these republicans that would like to share these committees and they will make those decisions and that will be up to a vote of the full congress. while certainly a lot of the work gets done on the floor and in the leadership offices, committees are where a lot of these nitty-gritty details get worked out. we are seeing this in the appropriations process, tate granger is likely to be the chair of the appropriations committee. it will be the first time where all four house appropriators, house, senate, will all be women. these will get worked out. all of them will have a say. host: what is the house judiciary look like? guest: congressman jim jordan likely. i've was talking to the current

last year, poverty mccaul has more it's been a bumper season for saffron grew a said, the weather conditions in western have gone astray on our ideal for cultivation. international agencies have trained farmers for years and it's paying off many switch to saffron off to the taliban band. their crops. he said he would, michelle, so we see a lot of farmers who earlier drink, bobby, don't to suffer. and this is one of the reasons for the increase in production. also suffering needs less water. farmers have worked very hard to increase the quantity and the quality of cetera. saffron is the most expensive spice in the world. a kilogram can fetch nearly $2000.00. and if garner style is a leading exporter, inherit province, it's a major source of employment, especially for women who make up most of the workforce. but this year traders are struggling to move their produce most country sever ties with the finest on when the taliban took over in august 2021. cutting off access to traditional markets. receiving payments has also been challenging. if there is limitation is then recon to receive our mone

the sour, french president, a menu al mccaul is in washington for a state visit. he began his trip with a dinner with president joe biden. earlier. he criticized us subsidies towards european companies, saying they were super aggressive brushes. foreign minister says previous relations with the west will not be restored at a news conference. so gay leverage said western powers had a real chance to avoid conflict in ukraine. but dave rejected russian proposals to halt nato expansion. an independent panel in south africa has found presidents several remo further violated his oath of office. the panel was set up after millions of dollars was found in a sofa at his private farm. the president denies any wrong doing and has not been charged with any crime. at least to palestinians have been killed during an israeli ride in the occupied with bank. several others were wounded. palestinian factions, a calling for a general strike in response to the incidents the you in says the number of people who will need humanitarian aid next year has climbed by milly a quarter. it's

mccaul of texas, mr. rice of south carolina, mr. williams of texas, they will all vote no on this bill, a.k.a. the grimple that stole christmas. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from -- >> as the member designated by congress members chuy garcia, eric swalwell, grace napolitano, john gare mean dee, juan vargas, julia brownley, lieu kill roybal-allard, marie newman mr. kahele, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 2617. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mrs. miller, west virginia, and carter of georgia, vote no on this bill. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida seek reck thition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mrs. joyce beatty, gregory meeks, shontel brown, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 2617. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the mem

will be one committee that's going to be focused on china issues and have representative michael mccaul expected to be the chair of the house foreign affairs committee focused on china and there are a number of strings they will pull whether it's tiktok or investment, u.s. investment in china, whether it's covid origins something that republicans really want to investigate likely on the house oversight committee. so there are a lot of different threads they want to pull and i think this select committee is going to be one of the convening committees for some of those investigations. >> yeah, let me just ask you one follow-up to the tiktok. the committee is urging people to delete the app. i know there's been an effort for government workers to delete the app from their phones. how much focus do you think is going to be on that and what sort of danger do you think it poses as we go forward? >> well, yeah, i mean, the ban on use of tiktok on government phones is actually included in the omnibus which was a last-minute surprise, of course, there are some agencies in the government includin

this is from coal michael mccaul's son who had about his teachers being accused my favorite teacher atw like he did for hundreds of thousands of students over the course of his career. mr. fogel challenged my assumptions, broaden my understanding of the world we live in an encouragement to pursue my passions. mr. fogel has served this country many times over teaching the children of what diplomatic corps brought. this is a story about a random american in the wrong place at the wrong time. mr. fogel is an american patriot who is dedicated last 35 years of his life teaching the children of the state department, the department of defense, u.s. government personnel as well as children of the double biotic core of our allies. brought # free marc fogel. obviously the wonderful testament from one of his students. your sense of marc and what our viewers can do? >> anybody that can reach out to secretary of state anthony blinken to let them know that you support the freedom of marc fogel would be greatly appreciated, his students have been absolutely outstanding and stepping up and creating fa

mccaul, the gentleman from arkansas mr. hill, the gentleman from pennsylvania mr. fitzpatrick, the gentlewoman from indiana miss boards. >> you say that. >> the president of the senate at the direction of that body appoints the following senators as members of the committee on the part of the senate to escort his excellence e volodymyr zelenskyy president of ukraine into the house chamber. the senator from new york mr. schumer. the senator from illinois, mr. durbin. the senator from washington, mrs. murray. the senator from -- the senator from minnesota, miss -- senator from new jersey mr. menendez, the senator from maryland mr. cardin, the senator from kentucky mr. mcconnell, the senator from south dakota mr. -- the senator from iowa miss hurst, the senator from missouri mr. blunt, the senator from mississippi mr. wicker, the senator from idaho mr. -- and the senator from ohio mr. -- >> the members of the committee will exit the chamber through the lobby doors. >> ambassador michael mcfaul, i apologize, a cap catapulted you into that sound clash with speaker of th

. >> michael mccaul actually told me they may start to condition any future ukraine aid on nato steppingnd pitching in. john. >> john: and we were hoping to have him on today but apparently some weather issues and could not join us. >> everybody does. >> jacqui: retired four star general jack keane, also fox news senior strategic analyst and chairman at the institute for the study of war. general, ask you, picking up where john left off. talking about funding and how much the u.s. has provided compared to some other nations, we are above and beyond, you know, providing to ukraine what our allies are doing, and the question is, you know, is it possible to get them to do more and in the interim, can you do something like condition aid or would that be a risky condition to make? >> well, first of all, i don't think we are actually beyond. if you look at the giving as a function of gdp, which is the amount of funds that are really available in a country, we have eight countries that give more than we do as a percentage of gdp. latvia, poland, lithuania, czech republic and canada is above us,

other thing i would say is that the predecessor to this, the china task force led by chairman mike mccaul tried to get democrats to participate in it. kevin mccarthy opened that up to democrats. they refused for partisan purposes. we want this to be a bipartisan effort. we want the democrats to nominate serious, sober people to participate because defending america from chinese communist party aggression should not be a partisan thing. >> bret: you mentioned that speaker elect mccarthy is obviously not there with the votes yet. you're confident he is going to get there. >> i am confident. kevin is doing the remarkable job in terms of reaching out to members who aren't committed to vote for him yet and asking, okay, what are your concerns? where can we meet in the middle in terms of rules changes? and so i think we will get there. we're going to have a couple weeks here to make sure we continue to advance down that road. i think the fact that he is choosing to elevate the issue of china, and substantiate a select committee on china is something the entire conference can get behind. is he g

we had the china task force led by chairman mike mccaul. tried to get the democrats to participate.fused. we want them to take this seriously. defending america from chinese communist party aggression should not be a partisan exercise. to do that we need to reduce our economic dependence on china, need to make sure we're surging hard power west of the international date line and defending taiwan in particular and need to understand how china is trying to corrupt and subvert our domestic institutions and make sure they aren't allowed to do it going forward. an important effort. we want the democrats to participate. the chinese communist party is our foremost threat in the world today. >> dana: we'll be following that as well. have a good weekend. >> thank you. >> social gaming platform that lets you spend virtual money is exploding in popularity with kids. oh dear. after the fdt crypto collapse, is this a good or bad thing? you might think the suspect in the brutal baseball bat attack on a new york city street would be kept behind bars. think again. the stunning details next.ow ner,

make it more difficult for the ukrainians to get funding, but you look at the words of, say, mike mccaul, who's going to be running, gregory meeks is chairman right now of the foreign affairs committee, actually the future chairman of that committee is a republican is critical of the biden administration for anything, it's for not going far enough. i really do -- i understand that there are the outliers, there are the people, the isolationists, the surrender caucuses, as republicans use to say of democrats at the beginning of the iraq war, well, here's the real surrender caucus to vladimir putin, you have a group of people who don't want continued support of zelenskyy and ukraine, but i really do think that's the exception and not the rule. anybody that doesn't believe me, they should just see what the future republican chairman of the foreign affairs committee is saying about what he thinks we need to do to support ukraine. and it's usually more, give them more. >> joe, i wonder, though, who is going to prevail in this fight just because the republicans who do support giving more aid to

mccaul. this program at the national institutes of health is integral to the fight against childhood cancers and also helps inform how best to care for those who are childhood cancer survivers -- survivors. the act enacted in 2018 has been fully funded each year and has led to new standards of care, childhood cancer survivors, increase the ability for new childhood cancer research at n.i.h. and help collect better data about prevalence of childhood cancers. this straight re-authorization at currently re-authorized levels also includes a report to congress to make sure that researchers outside of n.i.h. are able to capitalize on the work facilitated by the star act. this bill passed the house by unanimous consent and has over 100 co-sponsors in the house. i plan to support it today. i urge my colleagues to support this bill. i'm supposed to have one other speaker but -- do you -- may i inquire if the -- if my friend from new jersey has any other speakers? i'm supposed to have one but he's not

the mainland mccaul, anti one do not have to do mandatory p c r test when they arrive at hong kong. instead, rapid engine test will be required all the way through the 1st day, while the jumping infections in china and the potential regional impacts have been keeping investors on edge floor. and 3 has more nat from hong kong. if you look at the performance of the stock indices in hong kong, i think it mirrors how people feel about this decision. bouncing index rose 1.6 percent. and i think that the business community is largely, i'm happy and also confident about hong kong ability to cope with rising coven cases. remember when hong kong had the very strict rules, it was seen as something that affected the cities reputation as an international financial center. now it's a rather different story in china. however, it's main induces the c as i 300 index, as well as the shanghai composite index, both recorded minor loss losses. and i think this overall reflects just how investors feel about china's ability to cope in the short to medium term with the explosion. in coven cases on the mai

just yesterday at the scowcroft center, we hosted mike mccaul, ranking member of house foreign affairs committee. he's very focused on export controls and securing supply chains. tasked with the intelligence -- look at those issues. supply chains and how export controls are affected china's ability to acquire these sensitive technology is trying to get from the united states. so, i think these are some of the major issues that you should be thinking about as we think about your role in providing resources and oversight. and authorities to the intelligence community. >> good point. we need different skills when we are facing russia and china. carey, what do you think we should be highlighting? >> first, if i can thank the atlantic council and thinking in particular, i have the good fortune -- house armed services committee. so, everything when i think strategic thought, when you think about, you know, going out to the field and learning what you can and absorb what you can, applying, it i learned that for you. so, thank you. >> i always reverse. that i believed i think for our work for

. >> congressman mccaul, who is the incoming house foreign affairs committee chair, made a comment about the cost of the war. >> watch out for ukraine. >> i think with the amount of investment we've had is very small relative to destroying the russian military. and that's what we've done without one american soldier being attacked, killed in country. >> to me, that's a pretty good investment. what what forgotten for this? i'm still asking the question, what have we actually accomplished in this hundred billion dollars which we will have spent by the end this year? we've destabilized vladimir putin and we've we've shown his army to be the the hollow army that it has been for decades and decades. the question is to what end? it's just like when we went in and knocked out gaddafi or potentially went in and almost knocked off assad or knocked off saddam hussein. what is the end goal for the gop, which is in on this, as you mentioned as well? do they want someone to take over from putin? do they think that a dove or a democracy activist or an lgbt activist is going to take over for vladimir p

ambassador to russia, now the director of the institute for international studies at stanford, michael mccaul, and the aforementioned white house reporter for politico, "morning joe" senior contributor eugene daniels and white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire also with us, u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay. a full house for the fourth hour. ambassador, let me start with you and your reaction to what you've seen here. you've been talking with us for months about brittney griner and paul whelan, securing the release of both of them. what's your take and your view about this deal? >> it's a great day for america when an american is freed. i agree exactly with what joe was saying. it's tragic that paul whelan was left behind. it's tragic, by the way, mark fogle, somebody i know personally, is also sitting in jail unjustly in russia. he was a teacher at our high school when i was the ambassador. he taught my kids. he taught the kids of diplomats and soldiers in moscow. he's in jail too. that is tragic. but we can have those same two thoughts at the same time, right?

just yesterday, at the scowcroft center, we hosted mike mccaul, ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee -- i think these are some of the major issues that you should be thinking about as you think about your role in providing resources and oversight. and authorities to the intelligence community. >> matt, good point, we need different skills them are facing when we're facing russia and china. carey, what do you think we should be focusing? on >> first i want to thank atlantic canada a council and thanking you -- when i think about going out to the field and learning which you can and observing what you can and applying it which i learned that from you so. thank you. -- >> -- >> i >> like to echo what others of setup here, which is very much, not encourage the laser committee the committee to be laser focused on >> china, competition, and technology. -- and really that fundamental question on how do you maintain a competitive advantage? -- unless we work at it and stay laser focused on it a recess atrophy thing. a couple of areas and that hit well, looking at our posture, our c

reaction from republican congressman michael mccaul of texa he wrote this.im relieved miss griner will be returned home. trading viktor bout, a dangerous arms dealer who conspired to kill americans will only embolden vladimir putin to ntue his evil pra of taking innocent mickens hostage for use -- americans hostage for as political ponds. my heart breaks for paul whelan and others in russia. they must not be forgotten." michael mccaul is a wrecking number right now in the 117th congress on the house foreign affairs committee. he's in line to be chairman republicans take the majority in a few weeks during the new 118th congress. simoen in spring valley, california. we will hear from you next. caller: thank you for taking my call. i used to be a republican. i became independent on january 6 because i didn't like what happened. that is the most support and thing. she is an american. i don't care what people say. viktor bout had already served half of his prison time. it's more important for an american to come echo. -- come back home. i don't like her lifestyle

house foreign affairs committee ranking member mike mccaul spoke about how the u.s.

michael mccaul of texas, who was set to board the chair committee next year, says it will push more aggressiveocus from the u.s. on military assistance, but critics of ukraine aid showed little openness to changing their minds because of the speech, walking into the address, warren davidson of ohio said he did not think zelenskyy should be speaking from the house floor. "we should be focused on trying to contain the work, not expand the war. this kind of sends the message we are kind of ok with expanding the war." a group of republicans in november called for auditing are spending in ukraine. here are some of that news conference with republican members. [video clip] >> we are talking about billions, not millions. i have been fact checked, so don't bother fact checking it now, it survived the fact check. we have spent more in ukraine, the u.s. congress has, than we spent on all of our roads and bridges in an entire year. the entire infrastructure of this country, the roads and bridges, the real infrastructure. we don't spend as much on that here as we spent on ukraine in nine months. i think t

mccaul says the border is wide open. director wray testified about an elevated threat of guns and money. drugs across the border. mr. guest laid out a lot of the details about the record breaking numbers. he ended up having to talk more than you get an answer for me on something. i just want to ask you -- i've heard you in the judiciary committee recently in the summer testifying that the border is secure. secretary mayorkas, do you continue to maintain that the border is secure? >> yes and we are working day in and day out to enhance its security, congressman. we have -- >> i'd get it. i just want to make sure that still is your assessment. director wray -- >> it's very important, if i may -- >> there's just not enough time for a lot of the explanation. you've got a written testimony. i just want to understand that's your position still. i think it is a physician that denies reality. respectfully. i wanted to give you an opportunity to say no. i think the situation is change or something like that. director wray, do you

chairman, your ranking member michael mccaul has i believe been a steadfast champion of aid to ukrainet chairman of the committee? if so will you keep working together to guarantee support out of your committee for funding in ukraine? >> i know that we will continue to work together. i do have concerns about other republican members. we just had a mark-up in the economy tee with the other 50 hearings and briefings about crown and oversight and making shire the dollars are spent and marjorie taylor greene had a request of inquiries and wants to end support to ukraine. no one challenged her. mike tried to a degree saying to give ukraine everything that he needs but in the beginning give them everything they need and criticizing the biden administration and we were doing our oversight responsibility. in fact it is unprecedented the oversight done on the committee and now saying that wait a minute. we can't give them this money as president zelenskyy said that this is not a blank check given to them. it is an investment in democracy and the stabilization of european and all democratic coun

people like michael mccaul is probably going to have the -- to be the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee. there's jockeying, however, for the ways and and means committee enbetween congressman buchanan and congressman smith. there's something called the steering committee, a set of house republicans that include top leadership and rank and file that basically hear arguments from these republicans that would like to chair these committees. and they'll make those decisions, and that'll be up to a rote of the full conference. and -- a vote. and while, certainly, a lot of the work gets done on the floor, committees still are a place where a lot of the nitty-gritty details get worked out. we're seeing this in the appropriations process. congresswoman kay granger is likely to be the chair, it'll be the first time in american history where with all a four top appropriators are all going to be women, which is interesting. and so all the decisions will get worked out, and the people who are going to have the greatest say on really the stance of policy issues, that's going to get worked

people like michael mccaul, he's probably going to be chairman of the house foreign affairs committeeere is jockeying for other powerful panels, like the ways and means committee, between congressman adrian smith and others. that should get worked out. there is a set of house republicans that include top leadership as well as rank and file that basically hear arguments over these coming days from these republicans that would like to share these committees and they will make those decisions and that will be up to a vote of the full congress. while certainly a lot of the work gets done on the floor and in the leadership offices, committees are where a lot of these nitty-gritty details get worked out. we are seeing this in the appropriations process, tate granger is likely to be the chair of the appropriations committee. it will be the first time where all four house appropriators, house, senate, will all be women. these will get worked out. all of them will have a say. host: what is the house judiciary look like? guest: congressman jim jordan likely. i've was talking to the current chai