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i'm from republic of moldova representing here jotavi. so mr. rutte, last night the space of the republic of moldova was overflown by russian drones. some of them even exploded. on the moldovan territory, which is very serious and endangers the lives of our citizens, what can alliance do to help moldova to protect its airspace because it's really dangerous right now and as we speak, moldovan citizens are in danger. sec. general rutte: well, as you know, many allies and i hosted maya sandu, the president of moldova here myself in late 2024, i think it was in december. so we are having a lot of talks and consultations, and many allies are also bilaterally supporting moldova, the european union is very much involved, uh, because we all care about your beautiful country, and to make sure that you prevail in this ongoing, uh, let's say, yeah, you would call it hybrid in the past, but this is really destabilization campaigns and sometimes even state sponsored terrorism. against your country, and this is what you're doing working together on this, cons

about the u.s.s.r., he's running russia right now, and he covets not only ukraine, but mol dovinga -- moldova. everyone knows that. and he's got his eyes on romania and armenia and if i were azerbaijan i wouldn't feel too comfortable about this little flirtation that they've had with putin recently. and of course georgia, part of georgia is now being occupied. this is a guy who is a war criminal, he's a brutal dictator, and the g-8 was correct to kick him out and europe is correct to treat him like the war criminal he is. >> should he come back into the g-8? sen. wicker: absolutely not. absolutely not. i don't hear anybody in europe saying that. >> we heard someone yesterday in washington say it. sen. wicker: i did hear that. >> you have tried talking to president trump about what putin's actually about? sen. wicker: no. >> why not? sen. wicker: ok. i don't get that much time. i'm not down at mar-a-lago a lot. but my goal -- >> intellectual prove your golf game, senator. get some more time there. sen. wicker: my golf game ended about 50 years ago. i made the high school team. it got me out of

and he covets not only ukraine but moldova, everyone know that is. and he's -- he's got his eyes on romania and armenia and if i were asker buy january i wouldn't feel too comfortable about this -- aserious buy january i wouldn't feel to comfortable with this flirtation recently georgia is part of georgia's being occupied. that is guy who is a war criminal. he's a brie brutal dictator. and -- and the g-8 was correct to kick him out. and europe is -- is correct to treat him like the war criminal he is. >> should he come back into the g-8? >> absolutely not. absolutely not. >> i don't hear -- i don't hear anybody in europe saying that. >> we heard someone in washington say it. >> i did hear that. >> have you talked to president trump about what putin is about? >> no. i don't get that much time. i'm not down at mar-a-lago a lot. >> improve your golf game, senator. >> my golf -- my golf game end i made the high school team. here what i talk toll donald trump about and i ran for re-election and delighted to be chairman of the armed services committee and

a gas applies to the region, political sciences under risk of falling off the leads. moldova is using energy blackmail as a means to control the republic, which broke away from cation of in 1990. so most certainly will clean the one hand ukraine has stopped the transit of rush and gas to europe. on the other hand, cheese the nose debt of $709000000.00. the gas problem remains unpaid cheese and now tried to strangle trans in history. but it failed. the european union played a role in provoking the energy crisis, but acted using the hands of cheese. so now it was cheese. and now that constantly stated that it did not like any gas supply scheme suggested by russia and said it could only be bought on european or romanian markets. therefore, no one here believes in the west peaceful intentions for trans in history. but they failed to break us trans and history and stand firm. the west wants to hurt russia in any way possible and make sure that trans and history and industry does not get stronger. they want to undermine our economy so that we fall to our knees and then they can dictate the

right across the hall from my twin brother, and he had the portfolio of russia, ukraine, belarus, moldovahe listened to the phone call, he heard the president's attempt at extortion and he reported directly to me. >> watch members of congress all this week starting at 9:30 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> up next, a hearing on how american broadcast frequencies or spectrum are managed and regular for the public.

i worked across the hall from my twin brother and he had the portfolio of the russia ukraine moldova, he listened to the phone call, heard the president's attempt at extortion and reported it to me. >> watch new members of congress at 9:30 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> iowa republican governor addressed medicaid in her condition of the state address from des moines. she has been governor since 2017 after being lieutenant governor and she is the first woman to be elected in the state's history. this is about 50 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you. madam president, mr. speaker, lieutenant governor, first gentleman, legislate leaders and members, justices and judges, my fellow iowans. it's my honor and privilege to once again report on the condition of our great state from this chamber in our beautiful state capital. we referred to this building as the people's house and for good reason. this is the place where their government deals with their business. everything that happens here begins and ends with them. and it's because of them, their energy and creativity, their re

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let's go to moldova. in moldova, documented russian interference efforts targeting election. usaid was there providing cybersecurity and critical attribution of russian election interference methods. let's go to africa, where the u.s. operates continuously against isis targets and other terrorism threats. there. the u.s. was operating out of a base in nigeria until last year. why the nigerian new government that took over in a coup kicked them out? what supported that russian disinformation efforts? usaid supports independent journalism all across these places to highlight some of those interference efforts, let's go to latin and south america, where again, the people's republic of china is attempting to curry influence corrupt public institutions, corrupt public officials in order to decimate u.s. influence in the region. usaid supports independent journalism and fact finding that reveals those efforts to the people of those countries. so there's really not a part of the globe that you can look at and pick where usaid isn't having an effect that is direct to national securit

process strengthening including $22000000.00 for inclusive and participatory political process in moldova and $21000000.00 for voter turn out in india. but why we're giving $21000000.00 to india. they got a lot of money. they're the one of the highest traction countries in the world in terms of us, we can hardly get in there because their tariffs are. so i have a lot of respect for india. i have a lot of respect with the prime energy just left as you know, 2 days ago, but were given 21000000 dollar voter turnout. it's about a turnout in india. what about like the voter turnout here? we've done that. i guess we did $500000000.00 didn't waste go the lockboxes $20000000.00 for fiscal federalism in ne paul listen to these numbers. these are, this is all fraud. $19000000.00 for bio diversity conservation. in maple $1500000.00 for vote of confidence. we want to give them confidence in the library of $14000000.00 for social cohesion in malley. $2500000.00 for inclusive democracies in south africa. $47000000.00 for improving learning outcomes in asia. he's just doing very well. doing a lot better

george in election and they're still contesting it to the usa id does not believe in democracy, not in moldova, not in georgia, not in romania or maybe i'll nato country and a new country. they don't believe in democracy there, which is really and then you look at ukraine. 90 percent of there's what they're independent media is funded by the u. s. government. i mean this is what i find. this is the manufacturing of consent and if we can get rid of that, and i, i want to give it, have tipped to margaret populace movements on the left and the right. we're being crushed by this organization and they're massive budgets here that getting rid of that will let democratic views bloom. this was talks and this was poison tyler as well. i say get what we've expect. mean, it's more shock and not so much for the international, which is, you know, of course, like you said logic, i really knew that this was the sort of the deep state. uh, you know, military intelligence in, excuse me, military intelligence, industrial complex slush fund. what i think its shocking is the domestic split. i mean, you're talking

it invaded trans eastern in moldova, in the early ninety's. and it was doing as well before anybody in brussels, washington, or anywhere else was advocating, or even talking about nato enlargement. so if your argument is that nato enlargement causes russia to invade its neighbors, or you need to explain the fact that russian was militarily intervening in invading its neighbors beforehand with argument was ever on the table as even an idea. i will leave it there. thank you. so much for your thoughts on the analysis. robert hamilton, thank you. the mass is outlined is vision. so phase 2 of the cease fire agreements in gaza is propose releasing all remaining is ready to capt as a palestinian prisoners and the tiny these in a single swamp. in a statement how my spokesman has an awesome side. we're ready for a 2nd phase and weighs the prisoners will be exchanged in one go. that would be need to be within the criterion of reaching an agreement that leads to a permanency as far as the complete withdrawal from the strip. the how much analysis will rel

process strengthening, including $22 million for inclusive and participatory political process in moldova. and $21 million for voter turnout in india. why are we giving $21 million to india? they have a lot of money. one of the highest taxing countries. i have a lot of respect for india, i have a lot of respect for the prime minister. we are giving $21 million for voter turnout. that's voter turnout in india. what about voter turnout here? i guess we did that. it is called the lockboxes. $20 million for fiscal federalism in nepal. listen to these numbers. this is all fraud. $19 million for biodiversity conservation in nepal. $1.5 million for voter confidence. we want to give them confidence in liberia. $14 million for social cohesion in mali. $2.5 million for inclusive democracies in south africa. $47 million for improving learning outcomes in asia. asia is doing very well. they are doing a lot better than we do in the schools. $2 million to develop sustainable recycling to increase socioeconomic cohesion among marginalized communities in kosovo. and in egypt. we are talking about hundred

he had the portfolio of russia and ukraine, belarus, moldova. he listened to the phone call.e heard the president's attempt at extortion, and he reported directly to me. we talked about it briefly and we knew we had a duty to report that call, to report it up the chain. the rest is history. >> what did that episode teach you, and especially teach you about washington? >> i think there are some lessons still to be learned. but for us, that phone call, the report of that phone call, was a form of our duty. had we not reported the phone call, i think we would have been derelict in our duty. but it taught me is that there is no place in washington, even if it is national security, that politics does not come into play. that is what i learned from that episode. >> long experience in the army and at the trump white house for a time. how did that prepare you for this particular new role? >> the experience in the army was the best preparation. every two or three years, you have a new assignment. you are thrown into a pot where you may not have done the job ever before. i had the priv

process strengthening, including $22 million for inclusive and participatory political process in moldovafor voter turnout in india. why are we caring about india turn out? we've got enough problems. we want our own turnout, don't we? can you imagine all that money going to india. i wonder what they think when they get it. now, it is a kickbacks scam. they kick it back to the people who said in many of these cases, any time you have no idea what we are talking about, that means there is a kickback, because nobody has any idea what is going on. 29 million dollars to strengthen the political landscape in bangladesh. nobody knows what they mean by political landscape. what does that mean? 20 million dollars for fiscal federalism and $20 million for biodiversity in nepal. 47 million dollars for improving learning outcomes in asia. what the hell do i care about? we've got enough problems. and all of this is terminated. we terminated this stuff. by the way, so many others. i could read all night long. but so many were so terrible, and some were actually disgusting. i know you are eating your di

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let's not forget the underwater basket weaving grant to moldova for $5 million. just made that up but that's how silly it is. jimmy failla, great to have you here, so little time and so much material. have fun with this one. >> i'm kind of beat up about this crackdown because i was getting ready to sell one of the transgender comic books called bat person and robin, you know. look up in the sky and it's a bird, it's a plane, no it's super them. i thought they're building the hills and then doge comes in and crushes it. there's no defense for this kind of spending and the reason you know, ash, there's no spending is the democrats are -- no defense, the democrats are playing the percentage game. look at u.s. aide, it's only like 1% but you're not justifying what happened. if my wife comes up to me and said you lost $5,000 at blackjack table and i go, oh, but it's only 1% of what i lost in the casino. it's not going to make her happy because i'm down 35 grand at blackjack table. the point s this is bad spending, okay. to be clear, the blackjack spending is better th

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he had the portfolio of russia-ukraine-belarus-moldova. he listened to the phone call. he heard the president's attempt at extortion and he reported it directly to me. >> watch members of congress all this week starting at 9:30 p.m. eastern on c-span. looking to contact your members of congress? c-span is making it easy with our 2025 congressional directory. get essential contact information for government officials in one place. this compact guide contains bio and contact information for every house and senate member of the congress, contact information on congressional committees, the presidential cabinet, federal agencies and state governors. the congressional directory costs $32.95 plus shipping and handling. scan the code on the right or go to c-spanshop.org to preorder your copy today. s s. officials continue to engage with ss on a possible end to the war in ukraine, prident trump has openly criticized ukrainian president zelenskyaneurope's efforts on truthocl, claiming the united states has spent20 billion more than europe and europe's mey is guaranteed while the

he will go for moldova and georgia. he is going to go for the former nato states, the baltics.guess who is watching all this, his partner, they are closely allied, there is no way to split the china-russian threats from one another. china's watching, china will make a move on taiwan and china will not stop. china has disputed territories in japan, the philippines. we have alliances with those countries. i can go on. but the reality is that it is very dangerous if we leave the security guarantee to the europeans. >> john, does this further emboldenn putin, and if you are a nato ally, does this say that the u.s. is no longer a reliable partner? >> well, i think with regard to your first question, putin has no interesting conquer all of ukraine, much less conquering countries in used eastern europe ear he never said he had an interest in re-creating the soviet union. furthermore, he simply does not have the capability to do that. you can see how much trouble he has had just conquering the eastern one fifth of ukraine. the idea it's highly poised to overcome europe is not a serious

putin pulled troops from syria from africa, from caucasus, even from some parts of moldova.faces a shortage of fighting forces. and if this war ends the wrong way, he will have a surplus of battle tested soldiers who know nothing but killing and looting. and that is yet another reason why this war cannot be decided by just a few leaders, not by trump and putin, not by me and putin, not by anyone here in munich. sitting down with putin alone. we must apply pressure together to make real peace. putin cannot offer real security guarantees, not just because he is a liar, but because russia, in its current state, needs war to hold power together. and the world must be protected from that. so first, the armed forces of europe has now agreed to nato. second, a common european foreign policy sought a level of european cooperation that washington has to take seriously. fourth international law. and fifth, keeping all pressure on russia, because that pressure is what guarantees peace, not putin's wars, not just some papers. putin lies. he is predictable and he is weak. we must use tha

is going to go from moldova dover, georgia, the former nato states, baltic states, guess who is watching of this? his partner. they are closely allied. there is no way to split the china-russia threats from one another. china is watching. china will make a move on taiwan and will not stop there. china has disputed territories were japan, the philippines. i can go on. you don't have time but the reality is that it is very dangerous if we leave the security guarantee purely to the europeans. >> if you are a nato ally listening to these remarks, it does this say to you the u.s. is no longer a reliable partner? john: well, i think with regard to your first question, putin has no interest in conquering all of ukraine much less conquering countries in eastern europe. he has never said he had any interest in conquering all of ukraine much less re-creating the soviet union or anything like that. furthermore, he simply does not have the capability to do that. you can see how much trouble he has had just conquering the eastern 1/5 of ukraine. the idea that this is the where marks -- -- it is not a

right across the hall from my twin brother, and he had the portfolio of russia, ukraine, belarus, moldova. he listened to the phone call, he heard the president's attempt at extortion and he reported directly to me. >> watch members of congress all this week starting at 9:30 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> up next, a hearing on how american broadcast frequencies or spectrum are managed and regular for the public. scholars and analysts also spoke -- testify on the technological race with china. this hearing is about two hours. chair cruz: the senate committee on commerce, science and transportation will come to order. the committee will construe the adoption of the budget for the 119th congress. we will move into the hearing to examine the critical role of spectrum policy in driving the u.s. economy. the budget resolution authorize the expenditures from march 1, 2025 until february 28, 2027. we were given this allocation by the rules committee -- for a two-year budget. that is the end of my extensive remarks and since this is a ministerial task, that will hopefully be adopted by unanimous conse

argument about crimea, but if you move further across the border of ukraine, independent nation in, the moldova and transnistria so the united states and its allies are reserve the right to respond in whatever way they with the use of military force as obviously a possibility. i think the warning of our using our own military forces be maybe excessive. i'm not to tell president obama what to say. i hope i can say this three or four times. i'm not trying to give advice, but i think that it certainly would be legitimate and maybe advisable for president obama and nato's forces as well as many countries as possible to say we are going to make sure that the ukrainian military, they are fortified and we'll give them whatever weapons they need to defend their own country. my guess is knowing about putin and knowing about russians, as i was there earlier, i think that putin is not going to do this. i watched we break with attention last week when he gave his speech and he said specifically are not going to take military action in eastern ukraine, as you well know. i think what or putin is going to do

give himself time to pursue other offenses and invasions, whether it's ukraine again or georgia, moldova and so on. so that that said, that's not to argue against a negotiation altogether. right. if there's a settlement that both sides are happy with or that ukraine is most importantly ukraine and europe are happy with, then that's great news. the way to prevent that from happening again is that you have to say that if russia were to ever invade ukraine or any other country, that ukraine, and that if it's an eastern european country, triggers automatic membership into nato, because the fact is that it's not about not provoking putin anymore, you have to stop him and make sure he doesn't do it again. >> so then where. >> are. >> you looking for these talks about potentially talking more? where are you looking for them to go? >> well, at this point, if now the u.s. has met with russia and technically if the u.s. is really if the administration is really serious about pursuing this negotiation deal, and i assume that they are they've lived up to their what they've been promising throughout

for dictators and autocrats the world over, not only for putin in countries like ukraine, ukraine, moldova, georgia, perhaps the baltics, but also president xi in china, who is looking closely at taiwan, who is looking closely at other u.s. allies and partners. >> president trump, of course, says that he wants to see a return on u.s. assistance to ukraine so that americans don't feel stupid. he's proposed this rare earth mineral deal. i do wonder about another claim that the president has made that president biden never tried to negotiate and end the war with russia. he makes the case that you can't have peace without a dialog. what's your response? >> boris? my response is predicated on the front row seat that i had to the effort in 2021 and 2022. in the first instance, to prevent this war in the first place. the diplomacy that was conducted at hypersonic speed in european capitals in kyiv, in conversations with russian officials, i was there at the table the last time the secretary of state, secretary blinken at the time, met with foreign minister lavrov. the foreign minister was clearly

and in 2014, when putin rolled in to georgia and moldova and then took crimea and then moved into the donbas. the lack of deterrence back then, in no small part, led to this additional aggression three years ago. and if we fail to deter and to stop putin here, i think there's no end to how much of the former soviet empire he will intend to take back. >> senator chris, thank you so much for joining us. i know it was loud there. appreciate you taking the time. and still ahead, the nation's top law enforcement position will be run by a staunch donald trump loyalist. senator sheldon whitehouse is here with a warning for republicans on their votes for kash patel. plus, how elon musk is now extending his reach into state politics and how the trump justice department is chilling the free speech of elected democrats. one of those democrats, congressman robert democrats, congressman robert garcia, ever feel like a spectator in your own life with chronic migraine? 15 or more headache days a month, each lasting 4 hours or more. botox® prevents headaches in adults with chronic migraine. in a surv

inclusive participatory political process in moldova and $21 million for voter turnout in india.lion for voter turnout in india? well, $21 million, i guess they were trying to get somebody else elected. well, we ought to tell the indian government, because when we hear that russia spent about $2 in our country, it was a big deal, right? they took they took some internet ads for $2,000. this is a total breakthrough. $21 million for india elections, $29 million to strengthen the political landscape in bangladesh, $20 million for fiscal federalism, and $19 million in addition to the $21 million for biodiversity conversion in nepal, $1.5 million for a vote of confidence in liberia. we need voter confidence, too. when you read this list, $14 million for social cohesion in mali, $2.5 million for inclusive democracies in south africa, $47 million for improving learning outcomes in asia. asia is doing very well. we don't need to give them money. and in another program, $50 million, plus another $50 million for condoms for hamas, you know about that $100 million for condoms. condoms. does

he will come into moldova. lithuania, latvia, estonia. >> that is why trump is trying to do the deal. there needs to. be throwing. me under the bus. we have sent 12.8 billion to the ukraine. we are going to be this endless war. but it needs to be stopped. even my friends who are ukrainian want this peace deal. they don't. everybody wants peace. they surrender, not surrender. they need a peace deal surrender. they need a peace deal. the difference? we need a peace deal. we need this war to stop endless supplies, billions and billions of money and the lives that are lost. this war needs to be stopped. we all want peace, but it needs to be stopped. >> we could have stopped in 1939. we could have surrendered to nazi germany, and we could have saved all that money. that's not about that. it's about defending our rights, our european rights, our rights as a free country and free citizens. putin is a threat to europe. yes. >> i know he is, but we've got. >> i know he is, but we've got. >> what are you doing. >> what a

process strengthening including $22 million for inclusion inclusive participatory political process in moldova and $21 million for voter turnout in india. why do we need to spend $21 million for voter turnout in india? i guess they were trying to get somebody else elected. we should tell the indian government. because russia spent about two dollars in our country and it was a big deal. they took some internet ads for $2000. this is a total breakthrough. 21 million dollars for india's elections. $29 million to strengthen the political landscape in bangladesh. $20 million for fiscal federalism and $19 million in addition to the $21 million for buyout diversity, conversion in nepal. 1.5 million dollars for a vote of confidence in liberia. we will need voter confidence too when you read the list. 14 million dollars for social cohesion in mali. 2.5 million dollars for inclusive democracies in south africa. $47 million for improving learning outcomes in asia. asia is doing very well. we don't need to give the money. in another program, $50 million, plus another 50 million dollars for condoms for ham

. >> to go through moldova. >> to go through. >> the. >> balkans, to. >> ultimately go to the baltic states and send the. signal to china that. >> now is the time. >> that they can take. >> action in the south. >> china sea. >> that's what this is about. >> and that's what we as members have to communicate. >> you've seen dictators? >> i didn't hear that. i'll let other people. >> use their words. >> it's not a word. >> i would. >> have used. >> i used to be a divorce. >> lawyer, so. >> and i did. >> it. >> for about a year. >> the last thing. >> you do is you get the antagonistic. >> couples in the room at the end, not the beginning. i am okay with talking with russia. about what? where's your. >> head. >> space and relaying that to the ukrainians. >> there will be no deal. >> without ukraine being consulted. >> and on. >> board because it won't work. i talked to zelensky today. >> nobody is going to do. >> anything that that you're not. involved with. >> but talking to the russians separately, i'm actually okay with that. then go back to ukraine and see what they think. and keep wo

i worked across the hall from my twin brother and he had the portfolio of the russia ukraine moldova, he listened to the phone call, heard the president's attempt at extortion an