guam after 1950.the us president appointed a governor to be the representative governor of guam and guam indians were still unsatisfied. and of course, because they wanted again the right to their own cratic elections. so they elected their first governor in 1970. and since then, guam has been represented to the united states as an unincorporated territory through through the governor that guam indian residents elect. so it became a territory in 1898 and remains a territory today. it does. so we've come to the philippines, which is where the first shots were actually fired in the war of 1898. tell us who this gentleman is. this is philippe agoncillo, who was an advisor to emilio aguinaldo. emilio aguinaldo was one of the two organizing. tagalog guys who resisted first against the spanish. so, like in cuba, filipinos were fighting a war against spain. and then when the united states intervenes, the us actually did not know sort of what to do. they had a number of soldiers, the nebraskan voluntary infan

united states, called the guam magazine. the guam magazine is the repository for naval ordinance that the u.s. navy uses to replenish a specific fleet. what is important about that is if anything happens in the south pacific involving taiwan or anything else for that matter, we may be involved in a problem trying to provide ordinance to our ships in a specific fleet because we are being taken on the island of guam. host: facebook at facebook.com/cspan

a military facility on guam, a facility to the united states, called the guam magazine. the guam magazine is the repository for naval ordinance that the u.s. navy uses to replenish a specific fleet. what is important about that is if anything happens in the south pacific involving taiwan or anything else for that matter, we may be involved in a problem trying to provide ordinance to our ships in a specific fleet because we are being taken on the island of guam. host: facebook at facebook.com/cspan and on x cspanwj. we have pictures from all around the states this is from cleveland where the total totality, this is the public square. people were watching through glasses in those public places in the indianapolis star shot a picture of people experiencing the eclipse from the motors eat way and if you go to the dallas news 150 travelers taking the plane out of dialysis love field saw these solar clips from the skies. you can add yours to the mix if you traveled or sought a home or want to tell us about that (202) 748-8000 for eastern and central time zones, (202) 748-8001

the guam chamber of commerce has and continues to be the voice of economic growth in guam. an advocate for enhancement of small businesses and organizations which promotes opportunities for employers and employees alike. an association of like-minded business entities focused on improving industries and a leadership which expands on professionalism. the guam chamber of commerce is an icon of commerce within the marianas and pacific region in general. on behalf of the house of representatives, i would like to congratulate president kathryn castro, chairman of the board, and board of directors of the guam chamber of commerce, along with hundreds of businesses and organizations who comprise of their membership on the celebration of their 100th anniversary. we thank them for fostering commerce activity in guam over the past 10 decades and look forward to decades more of their dedication towards our island's economic growth. mr. speaker, today i rise to recognize mayor melissa savares as she serves her final term as mayor in guam. for close to two decades, she has dedicated hers

officials at guam as they try to sneak across the border there to get entry into the knighted states. guam being as you mentioned the very strategic or strategically located islands that seems to be home to a u.s. military base with troops stationed there, here are the numbers. take a look at this for the last few years it seems the reporting or attended unlawful entries by chinese citizens at guam since 2022. senator ernst is concerned about the security of occasions. current chinese nationals are not required to get a visa that's guam even though the islands are a u.s. territory. the policy has made the islands vulnerable to a plethora of problems including drug traffic, illegal immigration, and organized crime. >> these are spies to drive into the military bases and test our readiness, test our security because they are planning for a future of actions against the bases in the war. >> pentagon officials say they are planning for a "one defense system" that will deter aggression and reassure our allies and partners and guam's customs agency right now tells fox news it is paramount t

illegally through guam, a u.s. territory in the pacific home to a strategic military base. also home to about want to make sure i get this right just over 20,000 u.s. troops. there is this new reporting, take a look at this that shows the numbers over the last couple of years. there are 118 unlawful or attempted unlawful entry from chinese citizens at guam since 2022. senator is so concerned she flagged it in a letter to dhs. currently certain chinese nationals are not required to obtain a b-one or b2 visit to enter guam even though the islands are a united states territory. this policy has made the islands vulnerable to problems including drug trafficking, illegal immigration and organized crime. >> they've been doing it for years, use their spies to drive into the military bases to test our red' niese and security and planning for a future actions against those bases in a war. >> they are working on plans for a guam defense system that will deter aggression, reassure allies and partners and have the flexibility to defend against adversaries in the theater. a chinese natio

present to protect the people of guam. my final amendment supports unfunded priorities for the guam national guard. this amendment, like my others, is focused on security for the americans who lived in the indo pacific, and to directly defend american homeland. so, i encourage my colleagues to not back down, to support my amendments, and to directly protect the american homeland and the indo pacific. thank you, mr. chairman. i yield back. >> thank you, the chair yields back. thank you for your amendments. >> thank you, chairman. congratulations on your chair and i would like to say a special thank you to all members. >> i'm going to ask you hold your applause until the end of the week. >> well, my condolences. well, i just want to say for the members, thank you. i know it is an enormous amount of time, but it is important, and i recognize that, i think most of the members wreck nice that. thank you. this is in no way a promotion, for me being on the committee. i offer today an amendment to the israel security supplemental

his history of service dates back to his time working for the government of guam. a lifelong public servant, the mayor was previously the youth center supervisor with the department of parks and recreation. and held several positions at the public defender's corporation. a few of his accomplishments during his tenure included over 200 new corrupts at the cemeterm at the. completed long awaited land exchange for 32 families for the landless program. repairing the community center, dedicating and renaming the pure part as the malsu veteran sons and daughters pier park. .. the president is known for his leadership abilities, generosity and his tenacity in advocating for the people. he and his team are and continue to commit their time to ensuring there are programs for the elderly and sports activities for the youth. i will certainly remember him as a gifted public servant who can make a village a family and carry out the spirit. i would like to personally thank the mayor for his unwavering dedication and commitment to the area and its residents. i wish him the best i

to protect the people of guam. my final amendment supports unfunded priorities for the guam national guard. this amendment like others is focused on the security for the americans who live in the indo pacific and to directly defend the american homeland. i encourage my colleagues to not back down, to support my five amendments and to directly protect the american homeland and the indo pacific. thank you, mr. chairman. i yield back. >> anchored to the gentleman. >> congratulations on your chair. i would like to say a special thanks to all members. >> want to ask you to hold your applause until the end of the week. [laughter] >> my condolences, but i did want to say for the members, thank you. i know it's an enormous amount of time but it is important. and they recognize that and most of the members recognize that. thank you. and this is not in any way a promotion for me being on the committee. i offered today an amendment to israel's security supplemental appropriations act 2024, reading through it, i know who wrote

troops are stationed, guam. they have reportedly been 118 unlawful or attempted entries by chinese citizens since 2022. here is senator joni ernst to the daily mail. >> we're so concerned about what china is doing and how they continue to exploit the united states of america. they have found a loophole where they do not need visas. we feel by having that access, they can really take a hard look at what we are doing militarily in guam and then use that against us. so we are really pressing the department of state to look into this and try to close those loopholes. >> harris: it is mind-boggling how the biden border crisis is mush rooming. >> chinese nationals are coming to the united states and we have had more than 100 incidents where those military-age males are trying to get on u.s. military basis. one happened last night trying to go to a marine base. yeah, tell me that's just an accident. thanks, biden, we appreciate it. >> harris: jason, wow. i got to tell you, the fox news cameras now have captured the rea

. >> ayuduguan i do guam i do g guam, en cara a cabo elecciones nicolas i do one en caraqueno. >> siero. >> reconocio que algunos de los acuerdos de barbados se han cumplido como le establecimiento de un calendario electoral pero al mismo tiempo se ha bloqueado a candidatos de la oposicion. >> hay indignacion en puebla, mexico, nino dentro de una m maleta. >> aqui esta vanessa oc con los detalles de esta esto. >> vanessa, ¿que tal? >> una historia muy triste, julio. >> precisamente fueron los v vecinos del lugar los que escucharon el llanto del bebe y abrieron la maleta en plena calle. >> de acuerdo con las aut autoridades, el pequeno tenia aproximadamente dos anos y mostraba senas de violencia. >> los primeros en proporcionarle ropa y una cobija limpia. >> esta noche a las 11 y 35 tenemos detalles de como se encuentra el pequenito y por supuesto todos la investigacion de este triste incidente, julio. >> y esa imagen del pequenito en la maleta, fuertisimo. >> gracias vanessa, nos vemos por la noche un incendio devasto parte de edificio mas antiguo de dinamarca. >> la bolsa de copenha

biden and his administration are defending their china [inaudible] guam after republicans called it outwhite house says allowing chinese nationals to enter guam, where we have military bases, is appropriate because it is good for territories economies. joni ernst not agreeing and scolding joe biden saying the biden administration shamefully defends this policy while our national security is on the line. it shows how seriously this president takes the threat of china. your thoughts, doctor? >> i think the visa exemptsion exemption is sham bollic. if they are a threat, we need to stop people from going to places like this. the ultimate issue is -- open borders, 20,000 chinese men crossed the border in the last year, we have no way to vet them, no idea if they are with local gangs, it is insane. these are people who would be in different parts of the country like sleeper cells. if you don't vet 20,000 military-age men coming into your country, then you don't have a country or border. >> todd: they are not hanging out at california beaches, they are here for a reason. fact our current admin

they are overdue for statehood, guam, virgin islands. many areas don't get enough air time and people don't know that we have these colonies that are now territories all over the world. host: how many times have you been to american samoa? guest: i have never been there. that is probably one of the biggest surprises. i did for zoom town halls and spoke to a class of the school children, hired three people on the ground who did a fantastic job. i basically took the people there seriously and i think we should take all people seriously from disadvantaged backgrounds. host: again, (202) 748-8000 for democrats to call in. (202) 748-8001 for republicans. independent, it is (202) 748-8002. jason palmer is our guest. this is jordan, california, independent. caller: good morning. i haven't gotten a chance to look at your campaign website. i did want to just right off the bat ask if you are in favor of an immediate cease-fire in gaza and hope shipments of any weapons, bombs, plans to israel. guest: that is an easy question. i have been in favor o

united states, called the guam magazine. guam magazine is the repository for naval ordinance that the u.s. navy uses to replenish a specific fleet. what is important about that is if anything happens in the south pacific involving taiwan or anything else for that matter, we may be involved in a problem trying to provide ordinance to our ships in a specific fleet because we are being taken on the island of guam. host: russell finishing out this open forum. thank you to all who participated. with the election in november, concerns about election security. our guest joining us is nick penniman with the group issue one talking about his own concerns about security of elections this november. we will have that conversation when washington journal continues. >> do you solemnly swear that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you god? >> saturday watch american history tv's "congress investigates" as weeks were major investigations of our country's history by the u

in guam, there's a coalition of faith-based organizations, volunteers, foundations and local personnelhat came together to form guam strong and helped reconstruct homes and build resilience after the typhoons. or look at the work from the walmart foundation. they are really doing some amazing work in this space. they regularly find resilience --fund resilience hubs in communities to help them navigate power, housing and communication challenges stemming from these types of severe weather events. the foundation is even referencing our newly released community disaster resilience zones to help inform them on where they should build these new homes in the future. these are the partners we need at the table, partners who understand that for every dollar that we invest in mitigation, in resilience saves six dollars in recovery. partners who are ready to pull up a chair, help us connect the dots, and extend our reach into the corners and committees that we have had a hard time reaching. we need partners who can help us meet people where they are at instead of making them come to us. we need

than a 100000 have been evacuated because of flooding, and then slides part of the same many pots of guam. don't provence, broke records for monthly rein for european union foreign ministers meeting in lock. some book have agreed to extend sanctions on iran. it will, it involves tightening restrictions on iranian weapons deliveries the new materials, single out ms files and drones, and the potential fonts for to russia and groups. acting on a ron's behalf the toil of 2 men jailed for being accomplices in the 2016 nice federal tech that killed 86 people house begun in paris. the fab was sentenced to 18 years for providing support of the 2. ha, this who drove a truck into a crowd celebrating basil day as the hush money twyla formal president donald trump has opened a new york prosecutor's laid out the case accusing crump of election fraud by falsifying business records to cover up big money to an adult film. so it's the 1st of a criminal trial, awful form where he was president donald trump loves the specialized, but maybe not this one. the former president arrived in quotes for the 1st day

the australian strategic policy institute asks an interesting 1 -- leaders in american samoa and guam have expressed desires to participate in the new zealand countries and french territories. what is the administration's position on native american desires via all the pacific islanders more generally and the possibility of the u.s. as a pacific country joining? amb. thomas-greenfield: i think right now we are partner with them. that means all of the territories are partners. they are engaging on a regular basis. i stopped in hawaii on the way to the forum and heard from the governor that he was very actively engaged. and i was encouraged samoa and other u.s. territories to be actively engaged. and part of what we are doing as the united states on dealing with pacific island countries, i think there is a commitment for all of these territories, hawaii, and others to be directly engaged in what is happening in the pacific islands. they also have the same challenges. they should know that we are absolutely working to ensure that their concerns are being brought to the table as well. kat

you're engaging at all with the congressmen and women from our territories such as from american samoa, guam, and some of these issues who may have brought her expertise on the pacific region? >> i have engages with them at a factor group of them came to new york before i went off on the visit and then met with them. when i returned i met with some individual congress members to share what i learned on that visit. but also it's my belief that we have to always engage with members of congress on a regular basis. i am on the hill. i answered their calls. i answer their letters and i actually proactively engage with members from that region as well as other regions of the world. >> based on what you hearing from pacific leaders and what you heard last year at the leaders summit, obviously we been wrapping up engagements, lots going on as you said. where are we still falling short, the u.s., and where should we be doubling down our effort? >> i think we have to double down our efforts just having high level, my visit can be a one-off. we've that other members go, and we need to ensure that with

the department continued velvet of a 360° layered missile defense capability for guam.we after construction of the joint command center six radar site and launch site will begin in fiscal year 2025. by the end of this year we'll execute a flight experiment with the block to wait against a medium-range ballistic missile target controlled with the initial aegis guam system using the first transportable unit. looking forward we continue to pursue into nccic of those to defeat the sears challenge posed by hypersonic maneuvering threats. today our sea bass and treble defenses is protect assets at sea and forces ashore from hypersonic threat reporting with the need to anticipate delivering follow-on intimate three capabilities in fiscal year 2025. the interceptor program will enable layer defense against hypersonic life threats. by the end of fy '24 incarnation with our future international partner japan in the able select single interceptor designed to complete development. we looking to develop mature capability and support the plan cooperative development of that glide pha

that is in micronesia and 450 miles from guam. days later, they got a distressed call saying that her three uncles were missing. they launched a search and rescue helicopter, which spotted the sign. they dropped food and brought me to pick them up. the coast guard credits that signed for being the one to be able to rescue them. >>> up next, big star stepping behind the camera to direct tonight's new law and order episode. we are back in a moment. >>> the promo that just aired told you about the law and order on nbc. >> nbc star is stepping behind the camera to direct the episode for the ninth time. >> how was it to be on the first one she directed? >> this will be my ninth. >> i have watched her growth and she is so comfortable. when directors get better, they get faster. >> i love her luck as a director. it begins tonight on prime time at 8:00. it is directed by mariska hargitay at 9:00, then the law and order organized crime is at 10:00. >>> you can watch our newscast 24/7 on every streaming platform. here is what's coming up at

the big thing is declaring a senior defense official for guam.at's one of my bosses with a specific task of hey, this is strategically important but we have to make executable programs. it's an island, there's a limit, there are constraints on getting people there to do the work. he's got the tasks to make sure that they marry the people up and we can goose that if you get the supplementals requested through congress this year. 25, i'm not sure if you are aware of this, it is an election year. if you will forgive me, a budget joke, my standard for giving appropriations is never on time. my standard is -- did i get it before the next congress? that is a long-standing problem, just making sure that we engage in the geeky ness of the congressional act of 1974 when congress was having a hard time getting bills passed. we said maybe what they need is a little more time. until 1976 -- through 75, july to july, congress appropriated it three months later. what if they just need more time and remove the fiscal year two october 1 from september 30? surpri

which ambrose finnigan was flying passengers, made an emergency landing on water near the island of guamved. three, including joe biden's uncle, were unable to get out of the plane and drowned. these fantasies or biden’s deliberate lies are already frightening not only the voter. so polish president andrzej duda chose to meet with trump in new york. they have good relations with the former president, and together they make plans for the future. we respect poland very much, we respect the president very much. as you know, we had a very good relationship and never had any problems, even minor ones. practice, there is nothing extraordinary in this, in the meantime in washington they are preparing for saturday's vote in congress on foreign aid, they promise to sit until the last minute, possibly until late at night; starting monday, congressmen again go on a week-long vacation. but congressional democrats in the white house now fear that speaker johnson's bill-splitting stunt may turn out to be just a cunning republican ploy. voting for aid to israel and taiwan, funding. they can fail ukrain

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that when he headed the pacific, well, the air force, in fact, there was already a big scandal in guamofficers have already begun to impose all sorts of gender pronouns there, the transgender agenda and so on, that is , all this has already happened, but i think that of course there will be much more in the future, the main question is, they are destroying their own army, there is no logic in this, well, from our point of view, of course, this is how we understand how the army should develop, they don’t have any logic, but in principle they have a logic lately... that such a movement is unfolding here, that black lives are important, but white lives seem to be not so much anymore, he took the percentage composition of the population as a tracing paper and said: “let us have army cross society" in any sense of the word, this is complete nonsense, because you can’t do that, and excuse me, please, if people are african-american, well , they prepare a little worse. so their level of education is completely different, our hero, so to speak, this is not , of course, that’s why there are simp

shells produced. was flying as a passenger and made an emergency landing on water near the island of guamived, three, including joe biden's uncle, were unable to get out of the plane and drowned. these fantasies or deliberate lies it's not just voters who are already scared of biden. so polish president andrzej duda chose to meet with trump in new york. they have good relations with the former president, along with no, i’m not afraid, because presidents meet with their colleagues, especially with those who once held presidential positions in their countries, this is normal practice, there is nothing extraordinary about it, in washington meanwhile, they are preparing for saturday’s vote in congress on foreign aid, they promise to sit until the last minute, perhaps until late at night, with on monday, congressmen again go on a week-long recess, but now... congressional democrats in the white house fear that speaker johnson's trick of splitting bills may turn out to be just a cunning ploy by the republicans. having voted for assistance to israel and taiwan, they may fail to finance ukraine,

which ambrose finigan was flying as a passenger, made an emergency landing on water near the island of guamcrew member survived, three, including joe biden's uncle, could not get out... the good ones make plans for the future together. we respect poland very much we respect the president very much. as you know, we had a very good relationship and never had any problems, even minor ones. we discussed the middle east, ukraine and the future of europe. they no longer hide the fact that the old world is preparing for trump. in early april , the head of the british foreign office, david cameron, had dinner with the republican candidate at the maralago estate. they are no longer shy and act. but now congressional democrats in the white house fear that speaker johnson's bill-splitting stunt may be just a cunning ploy by the republicans. having voted for assistance to israel and taiwan, they may fail to finance ukraine, which means that going in circles with the allocation of money to kiev may continue for an indefinite time. dmitry melnikov and pavel kostrikov, news from washington. new rules: lea

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northern marianne action guam and many parts of the united states that don't get enough air time andeople don't know that we have these colony that is are now territories all over the world. >> how many times have you been to american samoa? >> that was the biggest surprise for people, i have never been there. >> also from this week's "washington journal" some of our conversation with lee drutman. he talked about the impact of robert f. kennedy jr. on this race. >> it's going to be a >> close election between trump and bind. and kennedy seems to be pretty accidently poling around 10% 12%. probably some of that support will drain as we get closer to the november election. but he's going to be a factor. and a chaos factor because we really don't know whether he's going to take more votes from biden or from trump or bring in some other part of the electorate that typically doesn't vote it's creating a high level of uncertainty about what the outcome is going to be this november. >> when you say he's polling at 10%? what do we know about that? who are the people that are saying i'm votin

. >> ay, hay guam hay yu du i do the one, i do the ayuduguan en i do one en caraqueno. >> si tu quierestu no quieres, yo no quiero. >> punto final pues ahi las reacciones. >> es este jueves cuando termina el plazo y el departamento de estado confirma que no va a eliminar las sanciones contra venezuela. >> del puente francis corky. >> se trata del mexicano carlos daniel hernandez, que estaba atrapado en el interior de un vehiculo de construccion. >> el hallazgo ocurrio poco despues de que el fbi confirmara el inicio de una investigacion criminal sobre la tragedia au no han sido localizados. >> senado los articulos para someter a juicio politico al secretario de seguridad nacional alejandro mayorkas. >> se le acusa de negarse a implementar leyes migratorias de manera intencional y sistematica. >> se preve que los democratas desestimaran o suspenderan los cargos esta misma semana antes de la presentacion plena de los cargos. >> solo un ano atacado, escuche esto, por tres sueltos en el patio en el que tambien estaba el pequenito. >> los perros se abalanzaron contra los criatura y lo dejaron

they were stranded about 400 miles southeast of guam. earlier this week the coast guard was flying by and saw that word help spelled out in the sand. when rescuers found the men, they were almost out of food and slightly dehydrated. thankfully, though, they were all okay. >>> meanwhile, the search is on for an unusual suspect in an attempted car break-in. we are talking about, yep, that right there, black bear. florida highway patrol said the bear attempted to get into a police car that was parked at a trooper's home. you can see if you take a look there the bear claws and bites at the door handle, but the bear didn't get very far. he actually gave up after the handle broke off. >>> the usgs is trying to solve a mystery surrounding the earthquake that rattled new jersey and other parts of the northeast. seismologists say they've recorded at least 50 aftershocks since the 4.8 magnitude quake hit last friday. what they don't know is the fault that ruptured in new jersey. to figure that out, researchers are installing new monitoring equipme

this point was chief of staff the 77th infantry division, which is fighting in the battle of guam that late 1944. so a little less than two weeks after general mcnair was killed by friendly bombs, colonel douglas mcnair, whom you see in the in the image, was killed on august six, 1944, as he was as he was want to do, sort of like his father. he was no stranger to the danger. and he at the at the the front trying find a good spot for new division command post because the division was constantly the move at that point in the battle of guam he and two other soldiers end up encountering some bypass japanese soldiers who had who were holed up like in a like a or a small kind of small structure. they have this sort of brief firefight. and colonel douglas mcnair was shot right through the throat and and killed instantly. so in that two week period, claire loses husband and her only son. and so lest we think this is just a story about, you know, high people in high places who don't pay the price or whatever, i mean, this is a very human story of what mcnair contributed. certainly organizationa