this is the leahy law. the way he law says no assistance shall be furnished to any unit of the security forces of a foreign country. if the secretary of state has credible information that such unit has committed a gross violation of human rights. so if you just did a deep dive into the late he law on it's and it's practice and the use of it as applied to israel. what did you find as well generally, my findings were that, um, the way he laws many experts have said to me is not being really followed or executed in terms of israel. and that somehow, even though it applies to many countries, including you know, us allies are especially, was allies that if not for some reason, even though though there are significant reports of gross and allegations of gross violation to human rights. and that somehow it's not affecting israel, and my reporting really took me um, you know, i spoke to a lot of former officials and i saw state department documents and i really concluded that there are special policies in place. r

in fact, we do have a system in that leahy law has mattered in many, many, many cases. can you give us a sense of the application of the law, the scale of it, and has it applied to israel in the same way as it is applied to many other nations? sure, well 1st we need to distinguish a little bit between arm sales and military assistance. right? we're really talking about here is tax pay or us taxpayer funded dollars being given to other countries, not their purchasing weapons here. and what senator leahy said, uh toward the end of the 9 days when other human rights laws just didn't seem to be coming in to force, they just weren't being put in place or actually implemented was you said, well, if we have to be in these countries, and if you think and gauge meant in these countries is so important, and you tell us there's just a few bad apples in the barrel, then let's agree to a minimum floor. and that minimum floor has 4 parts. if we have credible information that a specific unit of a battalion a uh, a company division is committing the worst human rights abuses and nothin

and there were $129.00 units that were found in eligible into the leahy law. in that one year, a $129.00 units. there were 994 units that were suspended from getting a better. so we didn't, we didn't necessarily find them ineligible and put them on the pariah list. but we just said there's enough here that we shouldn't go forward. so that's $1123.00 cases in one fiscal year, where the lady last stop tax period from going forward. the units that were credibly alleged to be involved in gross human rights violations. that's not nothing. you can go on the us on, on the state department website right now, and look at the list of countries over the last 5 years. you know, bangladesh believes breaking a fast. so burundi, cambodia, georgia, you know, the list goes on where the law has been applied, but then you come to israel and clearly there's something going on there. there are cases with credible organizations, clear documentation, gross violations never been found to fall under the way he law. and i think you get in terms of the question of a sense of impunity. y

famous of those laws, is the lacy law of 1997 named after it's lead sponsor, former senator patrick leahy. and just this past february, after months of israel's war and gaza, the by the administration published the national security memorandum that's known as n s. m 20. and it requires the state department to report to congress or whether it finds it is real, is credible when it makes assurances that it's uses of us weapons do not violate us law or international law. so what are the requirements of those us laws when it farms other countries and are these mechanisms applied equally across the world, especially when it comes to israel. today we're speaking with stephanie curse gessner, deputy head of investigations for the guardian, u. s. and steven record, a distinguished fellow in the human rights institute at georgetown university law center. let me read something to you. this is v lahey law. lahey law says no, assist in shelby, furnished to any unit of the security forces of a foreign country. if the secretary of state has credible information that such unit has committed a gross viola

connor reached out to leahy just days after the titan implosion, telling the wall street journal, i want to show people worldwide that while the ocean is extremely powerful, it can be wonderful and enjoyable and really kind of life changing if you go about it the right way. safety in the industry has been under intense scrutiny. >> this is a rare opportunity for you to explore titanic as an actual member of the expedition crew. >> ocean gate ceo, who was also killed, often spoke about his sub defying industry standards. i'd like to be remembered as an innovator, i think it was, general macarthur said. you're remembered for the rules. you break and, you know, i've broken some rules to make this. >> but since the tragedy triton and its european competitor have claimed their subs are safer because they're classed, meaning they're certified as safe and up to code by a third party. other billionaires have been intrigued by tourism into the deep sea business mogul ray dalio owns a 285 foot research boat, which has two submersibles attached. he and james cameron, director of the titanic movie,

connor reached out to leahy just days after the titan implosion, telling the wall street journal, i want ocean is extremely powerful, it can be wonderful and enjoyable and really kind of life changing. if you go about it the right way. safety in the industry has been under intense scrutiny. >> this is a rare opportunity for you to explore titanic ocean gate ceo, who was also killed, often spoke about his sub defying industry standards. >> i think it was general macarthur said. you're remembered for the rules. you break and you know, i've broken some rules to make this. >> but since the tragedy, triton and its european competitor have claimed their subs are safer because they're classed, meaning they're certified as safe and up to code by a third party. other billionaires have been intrigued by tourism into the deep sea. business mogul ray dalio owns a 285 foot research boat, which has two submersibles attached. he and james cameron, director of the titanic movie, both have stake in triton. fascination with the titanic continues far beyond submersibles. australian billionaire clive palmer

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we then learned other senators had been targeted, including senator leahy.etter sent to me may contain enough spores to kill well over 100,000 people. a letter like that could hold certainly billions of spores. and a billion spores could kill hundreds of thousands of people if distributed properly. it was pure chaos. i just talked to leader daschle. his office received a letter and it had anthrax in it. i saw the news report about daschle's letter. we knew that it had to come through our building. all of the official mail, mail that went to congress, the supreme court would come through brentwood. so we knew that this possibility that we're in trouble. brentwood was open 24 hours a day. that moves thousands and thousands of letters through the system on a minute by minute basis. and it never stopped. thomas morris worked in the government mail section. joseph curseen. joseph worked directly on the machine that processed daschle's letter. those letter sorting machines, the lsm 17, those rollers go like 35 miles an hour. they're pressurized machines. all these

that is conor leahy, ceo of conjecture, an ai safety company, who is warning that al is on a trajectoryity to control it. and nowhere is that more concerning than in defence and robotics. we will be right back. welcome back to ai decoded. we are joined now by conor leahy who's the founder and ceo of conjecture, an ai startup working on controlling ai systems and aligning them to human values. i got the right, have i? your not into features. you spoken out quite a bit about the threats coming from al. in fact, a bit about the threats coming from al. infact, you a bit about the threats coming from al. in fact, you were in dabbles ai. in fact, you were in dabbles earlier this year armed with an array of policy solutions to control the advances we're talking about. what did you hear that interview with the chief executive or vice president of palantir? what alarms you about what he was talking about? it was definitely nothing i didn't expect. what we're seeing now what you've said accurately is an arms race bows on the battlefield and off. an arms race, no winner and there's only one loser

to the wall street journal, larry connor, a real estate and tech billionaire from ohio, and patrick leahye founder and ceo of triton submarines, are planning to make that same expedition to the titanic wreckage. they say they're going to travel in a $20 million vessel built using cutting edge materials and tech. a date for that trip hasn't yet been set. you'll remember in june of last year, ocean gates titan submersible imploded on descent, killing everyone on board. the tragedy exposed the unregulated deep sea tourism industry. well, up next, microsoft getting hands on with a group of high school students the unique computer science program in a sanose classroom. a slow network is no network for business. that's why more choose comcast business. and now, we're introducing ultimate speed for business —our fastest plans yet. we're up to 12 times faster than verizon, at&t, and t-mobile. and existing customers could even get up to triple the speeds... at no additional cost. it's ultimate speed for ultimate business. don't miss out on our fastest speed plans yet! switch to comcast business an

administration's part, from official spokespeople, when you ask them about alleged violations of the leahyr concerns, they seem to think israel has been giving a satisfactory or adequate assurance bid we are three days out. what do you think will happen? >> i'm glad you lifted up my letter regarding incursion into rafah and i have signed on to jason crow and krista lou seal's letter around the assurance is we are supposed to see what the secretary of state says about the use of military force. i am gravely concerned that angela netanyahu has been in violation and that the assurances are not great enough, so i believe, and you asked about the white house, i talked directly with the white house, directly with jake sullivan and others in the white house, to say, continue everything you can diplomatically for cease- fire, to bring hostages home and make sure that this war has been prosecuted justly. what our letter says that if somehow, benjamin netanyahu pursues rafah , we ask for the withholding of offensive weapons. >> congresswoman dean of pennsylvania, thank you for joining us. >> thank y

billionaire real estate larry conner and patrick leahy planning to use two-person submersible. >>> andy of baseball. the mlb has officially incorporated sta tis ibs from so-called negro lesion into its statistics. black players weren't integrated into the majors until jackie robinson joined the brooklyn dodgers back in 1947. under the amended records joshua gibson has become the all-time leader in multiple batting categories. >>> some breaking news from the criminal trial of former president donald trump. >> jury deliberations began to today and the jurors just delivered their first note to the judge requesting a recap of witness testimony. let's get right to dasha burns outside the courthouse and with us in studio is danny cevallos. dasha, what do we know about what's in that note? >> reporter: so, four requests from the jury in that note, number one, they're requesting david pecker's testimony, the publisher of the enquirer regarding a phone conversation with donald trump while pecker was in an investor meeting. the trump tower meeting with cohen in 2015 and they want cohen's testimo

including the arms export control act, the leahy law, the executive branch policies, including the conventional arms transfer policy and the national security memorandum 20. so let me repeat. president biden paused one arms shipment, one, and the president continues to focus on freeing the hostages. put the onus on hamas to reach a deal and supports israel's right to eradicate hamas. that is the position of president joseph r. biden. let's be clear about it. so in conclusion, consider the facts. and the context. we should oppose this bill moving forward because it is not good for israel and it's not good for the united states of america. and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. mccaul: thank you, mr. speaker. let me just say first, with respect to the first president, i had the honor to vote for ronald reagan. in 1982 it was concluded that israel was violating u.s. and international laws by their use of cluster ammunitions. in this case, the biden administration actually concluded in a national security me

my predecessor, senator patrick leahy asked detailed questions about her case, including why the leahy law was not applied to stop u.s. assistance to the unit, the particular u nut -- unit responsible for shireen's death. his questions were never answered. since then there has been no credible investigation. i'm disappointed that israeli authorities have failed to fully cooperate with u.s. efforts to determine what happened. and nobody has been held accountable. shireen abu akleh's case has become one of many unsolved shootings in the west bank of gaza. since the hamas attack, the terrible attack on october 7, more than 140 journalists have reportedly been killed in gaza. none of those cases have been investigated. no one has been held accountable. we have not and we will not forget shireen abu akleh. she was an american citizen. more importantly she was an innocent civilian doing her job for which she was -- she has paid for with her life. she, her family, and her colleagues in the press deserve justice. on may 3, world press freedom day, secretary blinken said, in their pursuit of tr

he told me when he recently came to the senate replacing senator pat leahy that this was an issue near and dear to him. i told him there would be a hearing on the subject. i've been watching all these drug ads day in and day out like everybody else. it is thyme that we have the facts put in front of the american people instead of just the advertising and jingles. our committee work is far from done. tomorrow's hearing will shed light on additional obstacles to reducing drug prices and how our committee can help solve this problem for the american people. madam president, i yield the floor. i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the clerk: ms. baldwin. biden and president donald trump. the state of michigan for the president was not evening he trails 49% stake in georgia at the commencement address and showing the former president 4949% new york times poultice mike showing underperforming his performance : the constituency our president of economic. stifle and fix polymer spaces within georgia biden support 60% of black voter

judiciary committee on which i served that came together, with senator grassley's support, senator leahy's, and reached an agreement, passed it through the senate, then it failed over in the house of representatives. time three was when senator rounds, senator kaine, many of us came together. i remember senator collins' office was the place of the meeting. i believe the presiding officer was part of that too, and we reached an agreement. we had enough votes. then, unfortunately, president trump gut punched the team in his own party and came out against the bill, again, significant funding for order at the border. significant work that would have been done to allow people to seek citizenship, who have been here for years, many who know no other country like the dreamers. this bill that was negotiated came with incredible headwinds that they were up against. it would have fixed the asylum system. it would have given the president emergency powers to shut the border down when needed. it also would have invested in hiring more border patrol agents and immigration judges, while giving law enfor

that is why the leahy law advocated by our former colleague from vermont are important to securing cooperationn our foreign policies. it is why i am proud that congress has enacted and the executive branch has implemented the human rights act. the department has at times opposed values driven human rights proposals when they surface in congress. we recognize there is competition between the executive branch and the legislative branch. i think we all agree that we are stronger when we were together, and when we can coordinate our activities and work in unity, it is a lot better for our nation. and i think your training here as the director of this committee has served you well, as i applaud your efforts to try to coordinate as strong as we can, the actions of the legislative and executive branch in the best interest of our nation. secretary blinken, right now, we face many serious world crises. some of these conflicts are in the headlines. the war in ukraine, the hamas attack on israel, the humanitarian situation in gaza. otherwise only get passing met -- mentioned like burma or sudan. whether

including the arms export control act, the leahy law, the executive branch policies, including the conventional arms transfer policy and the national security memorandum 20. so let me repeat. president biden paused one arms shipment, one, and the president continues to focus on freeing the hostages. put the onus on hamas to reach a deal and supports israel's right to eradicate hamas. that is the position of president joseph r. biden. let's be clear about it. so in conclusion, consider the facts. and the context. we should oppose this bill moving forward because it is not good for israel and it's not good for the united states of america. and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. mccaul: thank you, mr. speaker. let me just say first, with respect to the first president, i had the honor to vote for ronald reagan. in 1982 it was concluded that israel was violating u.s. and international laws by their use of cluster ammunitions. in this case, the biden administration actually concluded in a national security me