u. s. senate returned later today at e debate on president trump's cabinet nomination senaill vote to confirm christopher right to be used energy secretary as most advanced the nominatio pam bondi to be attorney general and russell vought as white house budget dr. the house gavels in on tuesday at noon eastern. memb are expected t consider several bills under suspension legislative requite agriculture use of new aerial firefightinghe tegy to prevent and suppress wildfires. memorial a one-time gra to the 1 support its operations, security and maintenance. watch live coverag house on c-span, the senate on c-span2. l of our congressional the coverage is available on our free video at c-span now app and onne

u. s. senate has voted in favor of chelsea gilbert as the new director of national intelligence gab ard was president donald trump's nominee for the role. she faced tough questioning from politicians and her confirmation hearing last month. most of the questions put her passed into question, including support for whistle blower, edward snowden, and meeting the former president of syria ba side. and i said in 2017 john 100 and joining us from capital hill. so john, this was pretty much expected, but talk to us about how the vote, let's as it was expected. but it was also expected that this would be a very narrow party line vote, and that's exactly what happened. $52.00 to $48.00 was the outcome. not a single democrats voted for chelsea gabbert. and interestingly, republican senator mitch mcconnell, the former republican leader of the senate, voted against a chelsea, gathered saying that she had failed to prove that she was worthy of this job. he went on to say the nation should not have to worry that the intelligence assessment the president receives, are tainted by a director of nationa

u. s. senate has voted to confirm chelsea gabbert his director of national intelligence that happened during a party line vote of 52 to 48 voting against her. were every single democrat and the chamber. also, mitch mcconnell, former republican leader, who said the nation should not have to worry that the intelligence assessments the president's receives are tainted by a director of national intelligence with a history of alarming lapses in judgment. those alleged lapses are in the one hand, blaming the united states for rushers invasion of ukraine, and for visiting bashar al assad in syria. and telling the us government that he had no weapons of mass destruction. there were likely other republicans who might have voted against are many it expressed objections. chuck schumer, the democratic leader in the senate, said he believes that this were a silent vote, that only 10 people would have voted for. he called her a terrible choice. nonetheless, she went through largely with the support of republicans who wanted to make sure that donald trump got his nominees in however controversial. they are

u. s. senate congress approve, submits gilbert's nomination in a 5248 to vote. a close one, with just one republican opposing her nomination. now she's known for being a fierce critic of the us intelligence community. she's not upset to least galbraith of summer presidential candidates and iraq war veteran has also did not just us involvements in the middle east, on who crane complex from a director of intergovernmental affairs for the us trade representative. steve go, he was on the program earlier. he said, he's miss gilbert's position on american aid to kids. has proven to be correct as well, both for her and for many of us who been been jo screaming that we need to look at the reality of what's happening on the battlefield. look at the reality of, of, of what you brain has done to their own people as i've done to the folks in, in the past region for the last decade. those of us who were saying those things like policy, like me and others, were streamed for being russian spies and russian advocates in and in the pockets of food. and now the truth is coming ou

u. s. senate returned later today at e debate on president trump's cabinet nomination senaill vote to confirm christopher right to be used energy secretary as most advanced the nominatio pam bondi to be attorney general and russell vought as white house budget dr. the house gavels in on tuesday at noon eastern. memb are expected t consider several bills under suspension legislative requite agriculture use of new aerial firefightinghe tegy to prevent and suppress wildfires. memorial a one-time gra to the 1 support its operations, security and maintenance. watch live coverag house on c-span, the senate on c-span2. l of our congressional the coverage is available on our free video at c-span now app and online at our website c-span.org. >> democracy, it isn't just an idea here is a process, a process shaped by leaders elected to the highest office and entrusted to a select few with guarding its basic principles. it's what debates unfold, decisions are made, and the nation's course is charted. democrac

u. s. senate returns later today at 3 p.m.eastern to continue debate on president trump's cabinet nominations. send her to vote to come from christopher reich to the u.s. energy secretary as most offends the nomination of pam bondi to the attorney general and russell vought as white house budget director. the house gavels and tuesday at noon eastern. members are expected to consider several bills under suspension of the rules including legislation requiring the agriculture and injury departments to evaluate the use of new aerial firefighting technology to suppress wildfires. a bill to award the 9/11 memorial and museum in new york city and one-time grant to support its operations security and maintenance. watch live coverage of house on c-span, the senate on c-span2. all of our congressional coverage is available on our free video app c-span now and online at c-span.org. >> democracy, it is just an idea. it's a process, a process sheet by leaders elected to the highest office and entrusted to a select few with guarding its bas

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u. s. by ukrainian government interest for criticizing it. so, you know, one good, one thing that, you know, republican senators are the trump administration could do is finally cut off this data list. i mean, to be clear, the mean fantasy, i would name a brave john list are like you were exposing the october 7th re pokes the amnesty international. and some other of those thoughts of groups uh, sometimes on kind be referred to as kind of doing this is work for them. and most of the time you didn't get any support from reporters with that board. is there any of these sorts of organizations for the death threats against you? because presumably they're funded by the same channels of funding that occur and that may end under trumps judicious ending of usaid. well, our, my colleague at the grades on jeremy laredo was jailed by israel for his reporting on iranian missile strikes on israel. his reporting covered the same areas that credentialed mainstream reporters are covered and he was picked up at of westbank checkpoint. few, it was, it was obviously political. he was subjected to really harsh conditions, abuse, taunted by soldiers, and accused by i

u. s. involvement in hurling and i did investigate the cultivation of hair when pop. ready scanned the stand for the senate foreign relations committee, a i actually flew to afghanistan helicopter into the poppy fields and interviewed a poppy farmer. i asked him not easily in retrospect why he didn't grow crops that had to growing seasons instead of poppy. something like tomatoes or onions, or pomegranate, it's an express great frustration and said in 2001, the americans told me that i could grow hair when poppy, if i told them where the error of this were hiding. and when i said what americans told you, you could grow hair when poppy and i was pulled back into the jeep and driven quickly back to the helicopter. now the bottom line, when i got back to washington readable and reported, this was that we wanted ask you understand to grow hair when poppy, because that her, when went to russia into iran and we wanted them to be addicted to heroin. you put your findings forward all of your investigation and that was the response that yes, were allowing her when to grow because it's going to hurt moscow. correct?

senator, i cannot answer that question. okay, so what are the operational limitations of a pilot? flying under basic med center? i'm not a pilot overcharge. u. s. army general pul, valley folks done for us the disastrous legacy. he says, of the democratic work era policies. i have written articles on this, i've done many tv and radio shows on how detrimental this critical race theory and the d e. i. social programs have been laid on our military and other people in different organizations within our government. we have to get back to putting people in these key positions based on mirrored based on qualifications and based on their ability of what we call competency, to be confident in that very critical position of being a pilot or being an aircraft controller or whatever. and we have to get back to that in our military and throughout our government that we train people to the highest standards. we are holding the standards. and then when they perform they will perform it. those nice standards and some people will not make it, they won't be qualified. but the pass administration, they've just been hiring people based on color, doesn't depend o

u. s. 12 trains, natural riches, and exchange for ongoing support as president trump pronounce has plans for a new deal with cio following up on an idea of from a senior republican senator and china, his washington with retaliatory care ups, minutes after us levies on chinese goods. come into effect as the trade disputes between the world stop economies enters a new states, the lie from our headquarters in moscow. i'm rachel ruble. this is our t international of the west is trying to prevent russia, china and ron, from helping to settle the rocky leadership transition in syria. after the fall of summer, president bush or assad's suppression foreign ministry ministers target law prop provided those revealing remarks during the vault discussion clubs, middle east conference, cd technician at the motion both of my duty in syria. of course, there are the big problems that including the problem with the government that is now embodied by the leader of high out to free. it was from sharra. and those groups that were part of the structure between which off to the change of power in syria, dialogue and understanding has not been found. because there is still a need to promote n