we've got senator bob menendez, i'm hallie jackson, mike memoli, courtney kube.r simmons in moscow, and andrea mitchell and hager shamali, a former spokes spokesperson for the treasury department. we just heard from the president. we're about to hear from the secretary of state. and mike, the president, he was done with vladimir putin, it seems like. he left that door of diplomacy open a crack, but he was tough. >> listen, hallie, this is what we've been talking about for three months, how the white house was cal lating what they describe as swift and skweer sanctions should russia invade ukraine. there are questions in the last day why it took the white house to officially call it an invasion. you had the president very clearly calling it the beginning of an invasion. as far as the sanctions that the president just announce third among the very severe that have been talked about for months. significantly, though, the president saying just the beginning. this the first tranche of sanctions, you referred to what he said at the beginning of his speech, hoping there

i believe senator menendez will be next. senator menendez, are you out there online? sen. menendez: [no audio] sen. wyden: we may have lost senator menendez. senator portman is next. sen. portman: i appreciate the testimony and the fact that you are in the trenches doing great work every day with our young people. dr. hoover, you talked about telehealth and i want to make sure we are focused on broad, behavioral health and specifically substance abuse. intimated telehealth is one of the few silver linings in a dark cloud of covid. with regard to subsequence -- substance abuse treatment, there has been improvement. dr. hoover: i would agree with that. an opioid crisis has brought tension that has been exacerbated during covid. the funding provided by the federal government to states and communities to support the opioid crisis has been tremendous and there has been an improvement in care with improvements in tele-mental health. sen. portman: we have to continue to have reimbursement under medicaid and medicare for substance abuse, a time when we had 100,000 drug overdose de

we may have lost senator menendez. senator menendez? senator portman is next then. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate it. i appreciate the testimony and the fact you are in the trenches every day doing great work with our young people. dr. hoover, you talked about telehealth. i want to be sure we are focused on the broader behavioral health and substance abuse. telehealth is one of the few silver lineings with regard to covid and with regard to substance abuse treatment there have been some real improvements. would you agree with that? >> i would. the opioid crisis has brought attention and that has been exacerbated during covid. the funding provided by the federal government to states and communities to support the opioid crisis has been tremendous and an improvement in care. telemental health has improved that. >> that's why we have to continue the reimbursement under medicare/medicare for substance abuse at a time when we had 100,000 drug overdose deaths in the period from april this year to last year. in one year a record leve

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what do you say to bob menendez over there, with him using your quote?ll, obviously, we have a lot of demonstrations, and i work very closely with melendez on all issues. we know that he was a opponent of the jcpoa, we continue to talk to him about this and respected. but as i said at this pace, if we continue, we will soon reach the point or trying to revive the jcpoa would be tantamount to trying to revive a dead corpse. president biden still wants us to negotiate, going back next week. that is a signal or sign of our continued belief that it is not a dead corpse that we need to revive, because it is in our interest, it is the best way that we have to continue to put iran's nuclear program back into a box to make sure that we could put that problem to the side, as we do with so many other issues that iran presents to us. so no, we have not yet reached that point, but i think that it is very clear that if we do not reach a deal soon, that point will have been reached. then, we will have to think of other ways to address iran's nuclear program. as of tod

ji joined by senator bob menendez. what's your reaction to sanctions announced today.n from escalating the crisis? >> well, they give putin, should give putin a lot of cause to deter from ultimately escalating. look, i mean, when you take one of the largest banks in russia and do blocking sanctions, the most severe sanctions you can do, you take russia's sovereign debt, they won't be able to borrow in the west and you sanction that, when you take the military bank that operates and does financing for military operations of russia and you sanction that, and when i look at the five oligarchs that have been sanctioned, who are they, director of the federal securities service, the president of the state owned, deputy president of the state owned bank, the deputy staff of president of russia, the ceo of their most significant top social media platform, and others, you're now finally going after the oligarchs that hold putin's money and help him do what he does. and for them, these are serious consequences as well. >> and let me interrupt, it is not just the oligarchs, it is

here is the headline rish menendez cassidy. introduce legislation to mitigate risks of al salvatore's adoption of bitcoin, us senators, jim rish of idaho bob menendez, of new jersey, ranking member and chairman of the senate foreign relations committee and bill cassidy of louisiana. today introduce the accountability for crypto currency in el salvador. the ace's act legislation requiring a state department report on al salvatore's adoption of bitcoin, a crypto currency as legal tender and a plan to mitigate potential risks to the u. s. financial system. i'm going to read the next quote from one of the senators, just so you see the scale of the threat that big queen poses to the united states dollar because here el salvador is like a 2530 $1000000000.00 economy. and they're saying this about bitcoin as legal, tender here, al salvatore's adoption of bitcoin as legal tender raises significant concerns about the economic stability and financial integrity of a vulnerable u. s. trading partner and central america said rish, this new policy has the potential to weaken us sanctions, policy an

adoption of bitcoin. us senators, jim, rich of idaho bob menendez, of new jersey, ranking member and chairman of the senate, foreign relations committee and bill cassidy of louisiana. today introduce the account ability for crypto currency in el salvador. the ace's act legislation requiring a state department report on our salvatore's adoption of bitcoin, a crypto currency as legal tender and a plan to mitigate potential risks to the u. s. financial system. i'm going to read the next quote from one of the senators, just so you see the, the scale of the threat that between poses to the united states dollar. because here el salvador is like a $2530000000000.00 economy. and they're saying this about bit queen as legal tender here, el salvador, adoption of bitcoin as legal tender raises significant concerns about the economic stability and financial integrity of a vulnerable u. s. trading partner in central america said rish, this new policy has the potential to weaken us sanctions, policy and powering malign actors like china and organized criminal organizations. our bipartisan legislat

here is the headline rish menendez cassidy. introduce legislation to mitigate risks of al salvatore's adoption of bitcoin. us senators, jim, rich of idaho bob menendez, of new jersey, ranking member and chairman of the senate, foreign relations committee and bill cassidy of louisiana. today introduce the accountability for crypto currency in el salvador, the ace's act legislation requiring a state department report on our salvatore's at da.

joining me is bob menendez, chair of the foreign relations committee. senator, great to see you. lot of big developments on the ukraine situation. reports of shelling in eastern ukraine, the white house saying russia is actually increasing its troops on the border, not decreasing them. what are you hearing? >> jose, from all accounts, it seems that vladimir putin is headed towards conflict instead diplomacy. it seems not only has he not removed troops from the ukrainian border, but added several thousand troops to it. he's built a bridge over one of the rivers that is abutting ukraine. in addition to all of that, it seems his troops are being put into attack positions. so what happens in the eastern part of ukraine appears to be another false flag operation where russian troops or troops given a different status in terms of what they look like, but they're russian troops, ultimately create an attack against ukrainians in that part of the section to draw ukrainians into a conflict and then to have the russians respond to it. we've seen this picture several times. this is putin 101

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here is the headline rish menendez cassidy. introduce legislation to mitigate risks of al salvatore's adoption of bitcoin, us senators, jim rich of idaho bob menendez, of new jersey, ranking member and chairman of the senate, foreign relations committee and bill cassidy of louisiana. today introduce the accountability for crypto currency in el salvador. the ace's act legislation requiring a state department report on our salvatore's adoption of bitcoin, a crypto currency as legal tender and a plan to mitigate potential risks to the u. s. financial system. i'm going to read the next quote from one of the senators just so you see the scale of the threat that between poses to the united states dollar because here.

. >> senator menendez from new jersey is recognized from his office. i believe. senator warner is recognized from virginia from his office. >> think it mr. chairman you caught me a little bit quicker there. i appreciate again having this hearing mr. chairman it's an issue i think we all need to learn a little more about i have got a twofold question. one is, i'm going to reiterate a bu in the ranking member, can we check on a real-time basis that there is sufficient backing on the stable coins? and let's assume for a moment there is but i would like to get to the reiteration of that from the undersecretary. but the bigger question i have is assuming theirs is backing and you've got potentially billions and billions of assets having that one -- one at matching, how is there a viable business model here for stable coins unless they are charging exorbitant amounts of fees and other add on costs. the idea behind oftentimes stable coins is there is less restriction. you can transfer these resources from commerce to currencies that may be unstable and second and third

senator bob menendez. it's good to see you.for being back on the show. >> good to be with you, hallie. >> it sounds like the senators are close to a finalized package. do you agree with that assessment? is that accurate? >> we have been working diligently around the clock to get to a bipartisan package. i'm cautiously optimistic that we will, and i think that what we heard today at the briefing dictates the urgency of now. >> explain that. why? >> well, without getting into the specifics of the, you know, the intelligence briefing, the picture that i can develop overall from it is that, in fact, and we see from the public facts of 130,000, maybe 150,000 russian troops assembled, not only the troops that are assembled, but all the backup to those troops that, in fact, this is a moment in time in which the european continent is going under the greatest threat it has ever had since, you know, the 1940s. so the reality is, is that us coming together with a strong, bipartisan package that would provide crippling sanctions to russia

senator menendez visual aid this week seemed that it was reminding of a similar 1:10 years ago. say to bob an end as there and him using his quote. >> we have a lot of respect and worked very closely on chairman menendez with all issues. we know he was unemployment. we respect that you. we continue to talk to him about it. and the quote was, that at this pace, if we continue, we are trying to revive it would be tantamount to reviving that corpse. president biden still wants us to negotiate in vienna. we are going back next week. that is a sign of our continued belief that it is not a dead corpse. that we need to revive. because it is in our interest. it is the best way we have, to put iran's nuclear program back in a box. and to make sure, that we can put that problem to the side. as we do with so many other issues that iran presents to us. so no, we have not reached that point, but i think it is very clear that if we do not reach a deal soon that point will have been reached. and then we will have to think about other ways to address iran's nuclear program. it is our european p

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i'm alicia menendez.ferred to another location. but the conditions in detention centers are still vulnerable to the spread of covid, putting thousands of people in i.c.e. custody at risk. joining me now, seth freed wessler, director of "the facility," an investigative reporter at pro publica. immigration attorney monica glicken whose client andrea manrique was featured in the documentary. along with nilson barahona who was continued his advocacy for immigration rights since his release, finding the group the i.c.e. breakers. seth, i want to start with you. your film offers a rare glimpse into what life is like inside these detention facilities. what did it take to tell this story? >> you know, when the pandemic began and our whole world was sort of turned on its head, i began trying to report on what was happening in immigration and customs enforcement detention centers, places i knew where it would be incredibly difficult to stop the spread of covid-19. and i wanted to figure out what was happening insid

the senate foreign relations r committee chairman and ranking member senators menendez continue their efforts to find a bipartisan path forward and i'm sure senator portman would agree with me that when we say we are committed to doing our part to forge a path forward on the legislation, that's what we want to do. this is an opportunity for us to show the rest of the world that we are united and that's why we are here today to send a strong bipartisan message to putin, to ukraine and our allies. we must lead by examples. we must not leave any space for further discord therefore the senate doesn't really have a choice we must send a message of strong unequivocal bipartisan resolve. foror many years we've worked closely to support the ukrainian people. we've traveled to ensure the u.s. resolve for our ukrainian partners is absolute. we've teamed up to increase military assistance to ukraine and be spoken to insured on the topic of ukraine that the senate speaks with one bipartisan voice. so today we stand united on the floor of the senate to send a message to putin you will not divide t

we don't often agree, but i was grateful to hear chairman menendez concur this week that, quote, thest guarantee of a sustainable diplomatic agreement with iran and its international community to build one that garners bipartisan political support. so, look, i'm still hopeful that president biden will finally recognize how uninterested tehran is in negotiating in good faith. it's certainly not too late to start heeding good advice. it's not too late to start ratcheting up the pressure on tehran and imposing serious costs when its proke sis dare to challenge the u.s. it's not too late to try craft a bipartisan approach to the middle east. it's not too late to have plan is that can test russia and chinese influence in the middle east. it's not too late to start nurturing the historic abraham accords and reassssuring partners like israel and the u.a.e. that their engagement is backed by pa rock-solid u.s. commitment. a year ago i said iran was the biggest threat america and its partners face in the middle east. unfortunately, a year of the biden administration foreign policy has made th

hello everyone, i am alicia menendez.velopments as russia's invasion of ukraine enters a fifth night. the un security council responding, just a short time ago, that vladimir putin's extraordinary announcement, that he is getting his nuclear forces ready. >> president putin put russia's nuclear forces on high alert. even though he is invading a country

demandas de los estados de misuri texas se espera que la corte se pronuncian respecto >>> los senadores menéndez criptomonedas, darío lópez nos dice de qué se trata este tipo de proyecto de ley >>> busca básicamente mitigar riesgos para estados unidos por la adopción del bitcoin en el salvador, el país centro americano no adoptó con moneda de curso legal el año pasado >>> a nivel global. cuando no hay regulación de lavado de dinero >>> la semana pasada la agencia calificadora de riesgos rebajó aún más el crédito del salvador frente a la luz de su adopción del bitcoin en el fondo monetario internacional incitó a abandonar las criptomoneda diciendo de que podía presentar riesgos para su integridad financiera y de mercado >>> el salvador tiene 1391 bitcoin y pudo haber perdido aproximadamente 10 millones de dólares en medio de la caída en enero, las remesas en ese país no han aumentado considerablemente desde estados unidos, utilizando el disco en >>> contrario de lo que dice nayib bukele, si uno quiere enviar por bitcoin tiene que comprarlas primero. entonces hay un costo que incurre se puede ser

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. >> [inaudible] senators menendez and reisch are working close to come to an agreement. there's a couple of outstanding issues that they are working on. but i am hopeful that we can get a strong bipartisan sanctions bill to the floor relatively soon. >> especially in light of the former president's comments [inaudible] are you in favor of updating the electoral [inaudible] >> i've encouraged our democratic side to discuss and set up these bipartisan meetings with of the republican side. we will have to see what they come out with. there's another bill that was introduced today i believe that was senator king's bill on the eca. look, reforming the electoral college is a good thing to do but it sure doesn't replace the need to deal with voting rights dark money and reapportionment. next. >> leaders schumer, [inaudible] as i said, we are continuing to have discussions, and we will be moving forward on build back better. you will see how we do that as we move forward. yes, ma'am, and then jonathan. [inaudible] >> as i said, build back better, we want to get as much of build

i'm alicia menendez. first up this hour. fury. name of another black man shot to death by police in minnesota. not george floyd. this man's name amayor lock. remember it. aamir locke. he was sleeping on his couch in his cousins's apartment. police executed a no knock warrant in a homicide investigation. in which he was not named. what you are about to see is disturbing. >> the swat team quietly unlocked the door. and entered the room. shouting. they say amir locke who has been

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senator menendez spoke about the global threat a nuclear iran poses and called for more intervention beyond the original agreement as the us and its european allies try to negotiate a new deal. >> madame president. >> senator from new jersey. >> for 30 years, as a member of the house foreign affairs committee and as chairman of the senate foreign relations committee i have the privilege of engaging in the most pressing national security issues facing the nation. while we are rightly focused on the crisis around ukraine, we must not lose sight of how dangerously close iran is to becoming a nuclear armed state. we know the nuclear armed iran would pose an unacceptable threat of national security interests come into our allies in europe and overall stability in the middle east. as someone who has followed iran's nuclear ambition for three decades i'm here to raise concerns about the current round of negotiations over the company and plan of action in iran's dangerously and rapidly escalating nuclear program that put it on the brink of having enough material for a nuclear weapon. 3 to 4

senator menendez: i didn't come here to talk about salt. i will say, if i was pennsylvania, i'd like the way things are. pennsylvania gets $15 billion more from the federal treasury than it contributes to the federal treasury. so we could do that. i'd be happy to make a deal with all my colleagues who have a problem with salt, we'll just get back whatever we sent. new jersey would be very happy. because there are maker states like new jersey that invests in suggest and research and development and infrastructure that helps drive the economy and sends billions to the federal treasury more than it gets in return. so it's a maker states. there are moocher states that gets a lot more than it sends to the federal treasury. so if you want to have continues that are maker states, that are blue chip states, that make money for the federal treasury, then continue to ox the state and local tax reduction, which is the longest serving part of the federal code in terms of a reduction, and you will see those states be less of maker states so that you can

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hello everyone, i am alicia menendez. we are following major developments as russia's invasion of ukraine enters a fifth night. the un security council responding, just a short time ago, that vladimir putin's extraordinary announcement, that he is getting his nuclear forces ready. >> president putin put russia's nuclear forces on high alert. even though he is invading a country with no nuclear weapons, and is under no threat from nato. this is another escalatory and unnecessary step that threatens us all. we urge russia to tone down its dangerous rhetoric, regarding nuclear weapons. >> putin seems to have underestimated the result of the international community, which is working minute by minute to tighten its screws on russia for its illegal invasion of a sovereign neighbor. the european union has closest airspace to russia, prompting warnings from the u.s. embassy to moscow to americans, let flights out of the country will soon be hard to come by. meanwhile, ukrainian president, volodymyr zelenskyy, has agreed to send a

>> i am alicia menendez. this hour, live coverage of the latest in ukraine. it's now 2 am inside kyiv, and the battle for control of ukraine's capital is underway. ukrainian forces still control the city, and have largely slowed rushes advance. today, fierce gun fights on the ground, and a russian assault from the skies. a rocket caught on camera, slamming into a high rise inside kyiv. at this hour, the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyy, remaining defined and fighting alongside his people, telling u.s. officials, no, thanks, when offered a way out of kyiv. saying, quote, i need ammunition, not a right. also tonight, the global squeeze on the kremlin. the u.s. and allies tighten the grip on putin's ability to move cash around the world. europe's strongest power, germany, takes its own vital stand against russia. here at home, the right wing fringe shows support for the dictator. as cpac largely condemns russia's attempt to power grab why the disconnect, and where will trump stand where he speaks at cpac this hour. this is american voices. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> puti

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also work on what would be really tough legislation with senator menendez, foreign relations committee chairman has called the mother of all sanctions bill. and so far this support for ukraine appears to extend to most of the media which has been covering this unbelievably to analysts and i think to the american public, although i would caution that there are voices who seem to be willing to concede to russia's sphere of influence, and a few what one might call pro-russian cheerleaders. for those of you old enough to remember the soviets used to call people like that useful idiots. one final thought, even if we manage to avoid some form military invasion in the coming weeks, you can be sure of one thing. given not only potenza leaf that a democratically successful ukraine could serve as an example to the russian people posing a threat to his power, but also given putin's imperial ambitions and especially his frankly pathological obsession with ukraine, x-ray nationhood, separate identity. putin will continue to do whatever he can to destabilize and undermined ukraine. he and ultimate a

in for alicia menendez. tonight on "american voices," we are following breaking news on the ukraine crisis. and the fight to prevent a war in europe. moments ago, we learned president biden is staying in d.c. tonight. instead of traveling to delaware. earlier biden held a rare meeting with his national security counsel. where they discussed the latest developments of russia's military build up on ukraine border. this as united states officials continue to assess whether russia could invade ukraine at any moment. >> it looks like everything we said was likely to occur in the lead up to the actual invasion is happening. we're seeing false flag operations taking place. in eastern ukraine. the manufacturing of provocation and justification for russia to go in. >> united states intelligence has learned russian military officials have been given an order to go ahead with an an vaccination of ukraine. vice president o ahead with a vice president harris laying out the stark reality of what the tension could lead to.

from the house to the senate, where we have incredible champions, in senator cortez and senator menendezcause garcia espiat and luka rao refused. jose, the rest were silent. we didn't see them. they were as invisible as our poor immigrant community is invisible today in america. and so what we are saying is, we're happy you're fighting for more covid-19 relief, but guess who's dying in the meat packing plants today? guess who's in jail dying because of covid-19? in private jails. 25,000 immigrants whose only crime is to come to america and plead for asylum. that's not because they're -- they're pleading for asylum. you know what we say to the hispanic congressional congress, you have to take those words and make actions. jose, you remember, you're a student of this movement. first we use the hispanic congressional caucus and we force the democratic leadership to take action. and when we couldn't take action, we declared barack obama barack obama deporter in chief we were arrested. we stood up for our community. and you know something? barack obama changed. he involved and became a champi

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menendez says quote i think we've hid an impasse.een a lot of good faith, a lot of good work, a lot of coming together but there are some final points that just seem difficult to broach even though we're still sharing creative ideas how to broach it. he added negotiations are still on but there's no secret that both sides have little different ideas about how to proceed. meanwhile, the senator said this, it is at an impasse, but there are other ways forward. he said that there are talks of introducing separate versions of the sanctions package and then having both side by side. according to menendez, the latest deadlock is over a secondary sanctions over all russian banks which could have a broader impact across europe, and how to deal with the nord stream 2 gas pipeline connecting germany and russia. there had been real bipartisan momentum on sanctions and they stalled and disappointed the process. >> president joe biden met with members of senate judiciary committee last night to discuss potential supreme court nominee, people with