this outbreak comes about and it does 2 things 1st of all with the public there's a lot of support mr defense this isn't and you know it's always been he's always been seen by himself and by his supporters as mr defense by the state of israel and we also see political rival ways that are torn down everybody is saying now is on time for politics we see people like benny gantz he's the head of one of the leading opposition parties he's but he's also the minister of defense he's standing behind attorney now there seem to be united in this effort now so for him politically now is actually somewhat of a quiet front that gives him hope he can still remain state his authority and his leadership soon enough to say that this is a complicated conflict is the on the same and of the courts and we have to leave as a result of thank you very much. well the conflict in the middle east has brought people on to the streets in cities worldwide to protest against the violence here in germany thousands have marched in support of the palestinians. campaigners around the world organized rallies to condemn the viol

by his supporters as mr defense for the state of israel and we also see political rival ways that have toned down everybody saying now is the time for politics we see people like banning guns he's the head of one of the leading opposition parties he's but he's also the minister of defense he's standing behind attorney out there seem to be united in this effort now so for him politically now is actually somewhat of a quiet front that gives him hope he can still reinstate his authority and his leadership soon enough to say that this is a complicated conflict is the understatement of the year on foot and we have to leave as a result of thank you very much on the conflict in the middle east has brought people onto the streets in cities worldwide to protest against the violence here in germany thousands of marched in support of the palestinians. campaigners around the world organized rallies to condemn the violence in the middle east and to commemorate the displacement of hundreds of thousands of palestinians when the state of israel was created in 1948 most of saturday's events were peacef

been fired from gaza into israel since monday in a round house all of those were intercepted by mr defense system. throughout the week israel has been amassing troops along the gallons of border helping called up thousands of reservists raising the specter of an imminent ground invasion of a. strip israeli troops though haven't as yet. but artillery and tanks did join the units in firing into the strip speaking to r.t. today former israeli defense minister enough to tell the bennett says israel was attacked 1st and has every right to defend its. let me show you something this rocket over here landed this morning in a home next to the bed of a 9 year old child this real thing landed what is proportional if if this lender that your own family's home and killed your own family what is proportional not one israeli should die because of unprovoked must attacks that proportional if they want to stop this they can stop and disarm themselves stop fighting israel and they'll be peace period. no civilian death is acceptable and that's why we have bor the fact that hamas uses civilians as human shiel

amount of visuals that actually came you had the foreign minister the minister of interior the mr defense chief of staff of the military head of national security. political or political party members so you know just shows how how investiture key is and libya and how they want to grow their influence in the country and throughout africa and i think this this visit really shows that chad's military action to has formed a new transitional government with the opposition is rejecting it the new leadership includes ministers from the late president's cabinet and some opposition figures but the opposition critics say they want all members of the old regime out of the picture chad has been facing increased political turmoil since the death of the former president when he was visiting the frontlines last month. german prosecutors say they've busted one of the biggest online platforms for child pornography the site hosted on the so-called dark net had more than 400000 registered members already say users shared images of severe sexual abuse police arrested 3 germans suspected of being the site ad

mrs. hogan, secretary of defense austin, mr. superintendent reingold, distinguished guests, the families of the fallen, and most importantly the many veterans of the korean war who fought and guaranteed freedom in the republic of korea, welcome to this groundbreaking ceremony of the korean war veterans memorial wall remembered. >> as chairman of the korean war veterans memorial foundation, i'm honored to host this momentous event. the groundbreaking of the wall remembered addition to the korean war memorial which will add 100 panels with the names of 36,595 americans, and 7174 korean augmentation to the united states army who were killed in action during the korean war 1950-1953. 1953. it would be a physical manifestation of then strengthf the rok and u.s. alliance. it will educate over 4 million visitors here each year on the cost of freedom and the cost of war. and most importantly, it will honor and pay homage to those who paid the ultimate sacrifice, their lives, for freedom. i personally wish to thank president moon for his

mr. miller: i already requested that before i left the department of defense. mr. krishnamoorthi: i look forward to the report. thank you, sir. chair maloney: jaguars. the gentleman from louisiana, mr. higgins, is recognized for five minutes. mr. higgins. mr. higgins: thank you, madam chair. madam chair, constitutionalingses support peaceful assembly to redress grievance. we do not support violent protests. today we are discussing the forced occupation and violent protests of january 6. unfortunately, my colleagues across the aisle who hold the majority choose to present this hearing today through a 100% political prism. the founders were concerned about this. madison wrote in federalist 10 that liberty is defaction as air is to fire. that a dangerous or disturbing faction could, indeed, be born within this new republic based on the very liberties and freedoms that the citizens were being provided. and yet none would argue that liberties should be eliminated in order to control a dangerous or disturbing faction. madison and hamilton agreed that the answer would be

everybody's gonna remember mr defense. k, stuffs him the rejection from the two time defensive player of the year the final 1 41 1 29 that serious is not 11 the knicks even their syria's with atlanta and the 76. there's a drubbing the wizards two games to none. yesterday we told you about the 49ers quarterback situation is the whole group is together and tonight, talk a little bit about the quarterback. of the defense. that would be fred warner, quite possibly the most talented linebacker in the nfl may soon be the most highly compensated linebacker and football. he led the 49ers and tackles this past year. in fact, all three since he was drafted out of byu first team all pro. last year of his deal. sounds like the niners plan on keeping him around forever. i kind of feel like i'd save saying about him as i did about kiddo. we would talk about it. i just see that kind of as a matter of time. friends a guy that i plan on being here forever. um and who has earned that? and i'd be surprised if, um, that doesn't start sooner th

just the amount of vishal that actually came yet the foreign minister the minister of interior the mr defense chief of staff of the military head of national security. political of political party members so you know just shows how how invested shirky is and libya and how they want to grow their influence in the country and throughout africa and i think this visit really shows that. thank you but that update from tripoli prosecutors in france so there are no grounds to pursue legal action against the country over the rwandan genocide this is after all one has government published a report last month and france was aware that genocide was being prepared ahead of the massacres in 1904. from paris in 2005 a number of human rights groups here in france including an organization that represents the community here filed a legal case against a number of. unnamed members of the french forces who were serving in rwanda at the time of the genocide in 1904 under a u.n. mandate now in this legal action the human rights groups queues the french forces of complicity in the genocide of crimes against humani

mr. chairman for having this hearing and for your service and thank you for being here today. i appreciate the department of defense zero trust concept is a holistic approach to security. i noted mr. joyce once said , "to protect your network you have to know your network"which makes sense. it is an important shift of mindset. and it is a change in the way to be doing business. and i have become alarmed it is very common sense and important approach art to be adopted elsewhere i'm alarmed it hasn't been adopted and other civilian agencies of our government where cybersecurity with the department of justice where confidential secret information could be compromised and may have been in the microsoft exchange and solarwinds hacking. so to what extent can civilian agencies make use of this model? do you plan to share those lessons? >> senator, thanks for the question. absolutely we will share lessons learned. nsa has been embarking on a zero trust pilot. we have worked with the elements in dod and cybercommand to bring in the best of industry to practice to find out what is real. from that we have published a number o

i think that would be the greatest use of a defensive weapon. >> mr. mondale you've been critical of the president strategic defense initiative. but what is wrong with a major effort by this country to try to use its best technology to knock out as many incoming nuclear warheads as possible? >> first of all let me sharply disagree with the president. on sharing the most advanced and most dangerous and most important technology in america with the soviet union. we have had many years, understandably, a system of re-strengths and high technology because the soviets are behind it. and any research or development along the sars star wars scene would inevitably involve our most advanced computers, most advanced engineering, and the thought that we would share this with the soviet union is in my opinion a total nonstarter. i would not have the soviet union get their hands on it at all. so it's wrong with star wars? there's nothing wrong with the theory of it. if we could develop a principle, that would say both sides could fire all the missiles and no one wou

if this wasn't caught, almost shame on the defense team, but even beyond that, whatever mr. mitchell brought to that trial, there are a couple of other issues to look at. he was 1 of 12. so the question is not the having a predisposition or thought about this. if you remember in his cross-examination -- in his examination as a potential juror, he said that he believed in the black lives matter event and movement. and that was vetted through by counsel. so brianna, we know that motions are always standard. this is one of those facets a judge has to look at. remember, a judge is going to protect his trial and protect his jury as best he can at this stage of the proceeding. >> mark, do you think that ultimately this picture is going to change anything in this case? >> overall, a judge and the court's review of everything, including that picture is looked at through a lens of what we call harmless error. if there was an error, let's say that for argument's sake there was an error, that should have been looked into. then you look at the overall picture of the trial and if it's ha

and one argued that it would go through the defense and his bill instead. here is the debate. mr. president, i rise today for the need to reform our military justice system. just this month the department of defense released its annual report on sexual assault in the military. that report and more than a decade of data on sexual assault in the military shows a clear and disturbing trend. reports of sexual assault have increased every single year and remain at record highs, while prosecution and conviction rates have declined, including a shocking 10% point decline in the prosecution rate from last year. by every measure that you can imagine, we are moving in the wrong direction. congress has given the military more than a billion dollars. 500 million dollars in fiscal year 2019 alone. enacted hundreds of provisions and chartered special panels, commissions and advisory committees to address this problem. not one of these steps has reduced the prevalence rate of sexual assaults within the ranks. we are still getting reports like the one we got from fort hood which found that the wor

mr. miller, you were the acting secretary of defense of january 6th. did president trump as the commander-in-chief of the u.s. med forces call you during the januy 6th attack to ensure the capitol was being secured? mr. miller? >> no. i had all the authority i needed from the president to fulfill my constitutional duties. >> did you speak with president trump at all as the attack was unfolding? >> on january 6th? >> no, i did not. i didn't need to. i had all the authority i needed and i knew what had to happen. >> did you speak with vice president pence during the attack? yes or no. >> yes. >> according to a defense department timeline it was vice president pence and not president trump who called during the siege to say the capitol was not secure and to give you the direction to, quote, clear the capitol. what specifically did vice president pence say to you that day? >> the vice president is not in the chain of command. he did not direct me to clear the capitol. i discussed very briefly with him the situation. he provided insights based on his presenc

mr. ludwigson. it is a great honor to represent the people of the national recognizance office. we launch and operate the nation's recognizance satellites as a member of both the intelligence community and department of defense. mr. chairman, please allow me to share a reflection on the past year. while addressing the covid health and safety protocols to protect our workforce and families, nro ensured that the mission continued to meet our commitments to intelligence analysts, war fighters and policymakers. through the incredible effort of our people and partners, we maintain through the pandemic. during a challenging time we accomplished six successful launched many with first ever capabilities. most nro launched in a single year since 1984. we achieved our second achieved [ inaudible ] . last year we also began our nro coterie internship program. turning to today, we are bridging the innovative legacies of our past with cutting-edge vision for our future as we celebrate our 60th anniversary. since its inception if 1961, nro has taken leaps in overhead recognizance and space and ground systems. our success to be traced to the nro end to end mission capability and launching and operating missile systems. we

mr. miller, you were the acting secretary of defense on january 6, correct? mr. miller: yes, sir. rep.omer: in that capacity he authorized in national guard deployment as requested by the mayor of d.c. prior. mr. miller: yes. rep. comer: your testimony states you discussed this with the president for less than a minute on january 3 and the president said to give the mayor the support she requested is that correct? mr. miller: yes. rep. comer: your testimony also states that president trump had no role with respect to the department of defense's efforts on january 6, to respond to the capitol. is that correct? mr. miller: yes, that is what i got paid to handle. rep. comer: can you confirm that on january 6 the white house did not at any time order the national guard to stand down or impede the deployment of the national guard to the capitol? mr. miller: without equivocation or hesitation, that is correct. that did not happen. rep. comer: will that is the headline of this hearing. much to the disappointment of my colleagues on the left. you have confirmed that there was no white house in

mr. vargas. the defense production act of 1950 provides the president with wide range authorities to enhance the domestic industrial base to shift towards the production of goods and materials essential to the defense of our country. at the time, this -- at the time this law was written, they did not anticipate that personal protective equipment, vaccines, and other medical supplies could be essential to the defense of our country. this pandemic has made abundantly clear that medical materials to ensure our public health is absolutely essential to the defense of this country. this bill would ensure that our nation has access to medical materials necessary to respond to covid-19 -- to the covid-19 pandemic by allowing certain medical materials to qualify for purchase and increase production under the d.p.a.'s authority. it would also amend the d.p.a. to ensure that the d.p.a.'s authority could be used to address preparation for the next public health emergency to help get the united states ahead of deadly fut

mr. hill, maybe what the department of defense is doing in that regard. >> mr. hill? >> yeah, a little -- so we in 2019, the united states government updated our orbital debris mitigation standard practices that goes well beyond what the united nations practices are and in fact, they drew from a lot of department of defense and existing regulations, providing much clearer statements of the hazard risk, more options for how to get debris out of orbit, particularly for higher orbits over final. the -- but there is absolutely an as general whiting said, concern, and particularly in the low earth orbit region where things get crowded in some of the polar orbits in particular. the emergence in the commercial sector and some government support, some places of potentially active debris removal is encouraging, but i think there's a lot of work to be done in this respect. >> thank you very much. general whiting, in your testimony you write that some discussions of the mill to mill level can be challenging and more often than not what constitutes responsible behavior. the messa

joining me to discuss this is criminal defense attorney mr. joey jackson. joey, thank you so much.good to see you. what a year, huh? what a year, what a year. and one year ago today, that's the death, george floyd's death, shocked the world. we beth know so many other black people who have died at the hands of police, but talk to me about the impact of his death and what it's had on racial justice or injustice in this country. >> yeah, don, good to see you. i think certainly it's been a reckoning. let me explain why. there is a lot of talk about legislation. i think legislation is important, don, as it relates to the george floyd bill, banning chokeholds, of course, banning no-knock warrants, absolutely, looking at the issue of qualified immunity which protects the police from civil lawsuits and other things. but you can't legislate good judgment. you can't legislate morality. you can't legislate discretion being used in a way that favors de-escalation. let me tell you what it means to me. i think the fact that it went to trial, right, was really bold. why? it's interesting, don. y

. >> they would help leon israel's i am doan, the defense system credited with limited casualties mr. biden also promised to send humanitarian aid to gaza. >> we will do this for full partnership in a manner that does not permit him to simply restock its military health arsenal. >> both sides claimed victory despite the death toll. in gaza, palestinians took to the streets to celebrate the end of the fighting. a statement from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu hailed it as significant >> there are no agreements about the future, nothing. >> the government of egypt brokered the cease-fire deal. diplomats will head to israel and gaza to make sure it is enforced and to work on more durable solution. laura podesta, cbs news. >>> a murder and hostage scare prompted a police response and a quiet neighborhood in pleasant hill, but the emergency call turned out to be fake. authorities received a 911 call at around 9:00 yesterday morning, supposedly from a child saying his father had just shot his mother. officers then swarmed into an area off gary road with guns drawn and a neighbor s

would help rearm israel's iron dome, the missile defense system credited with limiting casualties. mr. biden also promised to send humanitarian aid to gaza. >> we will do this in full partnership with the palestinian authority, not hamas, authority, in a manner in does not permit hamas to simply restock its military arsenal. >> reporter: both sides claimed victory despite the lopsided death toll. in gaza city, palestinians took to the streets to celebrate the end of the fighting. a statement from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu hailed the operation against hamas as significant and unprecedented. >> i don't think israel has achieved much. i mean, there are -- no agreements about the future, nothing. >> reporter: the government of egypt brokered the cease-fire deal. egyptian diplomats will head to israel and gaza to ensure that it's enforced and to work on a more durable solution. and this round of violence began on may 10th when hamas militants began launching rockets at israel following weeks of tension over ramadan restrictions and evictions in east jerusalem. anne-marie? >

mr. miller, you were the acting secretary of defense on january 6th. during the january 6th attack to ensure the capitol was being secured? mr. miller? >> no. i had all of the authority i needed from the president to fulfill my constitutional duties. >> did you speak with president trump at all as the attack was unfolding? >> on january 6th? >> yes. >> no. i did not. i had all the authority i needed and i knew what had to happen. >> did you speak with vice president pence during the attack, yes or no? >> yes. >> according to a defense department time line it was vice president pence and not president trump who called during the siege to say the capitol was not secure and to give you the direction to, quote, "clear the capitol." what specifically did vice president pence say to you that day? >> vice president is not in the chain of command. he did not direct me to clear the capitol. i discussed very briefly with him the situation. he provided insights based on his presence there and i notified him -- or i informed him that by that point the district of

defenses and a jury might have more sympathy for them. two of the officers were rookie cops. officer thao says that he never put his hands on mr. floyd. e aren't technical defenses, but jurors are often sympathetic to police officers in difficult situations. they weren't for chauvin, but again, these are different cases. >> you know, i want to talk about the laundry list, as we well know, of misconduct complaints from 19 years of experience or serving in the force for derek chauvin. you think about this most recent second indictment involving the assault of a 14-year-old boy back in 2017 for derek chauvin. how important is it to have these instances made public, and does this make the case even stronger when we talk about police reform for having misconduct and complaints made public of all officers? >> absolutely. yasmin, according to the indictment, in 2017, chauvin hit a 14-year-old child with a flashlight and put his knee on the child's neck. the child complained that he could not breathe and the mother begged chauvin to stop, but he wouldn't. you have to wonder whether george floyd would still be alive if chauvin had faced consequ

i certainly anticipate that the defense would try to use mr thompson's prior interactions with mentallth service providers as a defense, we're gonna be prepared for that defense and any other defense that they may throw at us with a suspect in this case was ordered to remain in custody without bail. he's scheduled to be back in court on thursday. christien kafton ktvu fox two news, a man trying to stop his truck from being stolen was run over and seriously injured by his own vehicle in san francisco 65 year old richard meat is now out of the hospital and at home, but his family says he is recovering from severe brain injuries. it happened at about one in the morning on april 7th near san francisco's union square. family members say me jumped onto the hood of his own truck when he saw a man trying to drive away with it. the assailant, then sped up, stopped on the brakes sound on the brakes and richard fell off the front of the vehicle and then was proceeded to be ran over by the truck. san francisco police released this video. take a look from shortly before that incident showing the s

and i think nathan, you know, and his defense minister, mr. guns where we're very clear eyed about about trying to implement those recommendations and the 2014. and i think they failed miserably on 2 fronts. succeeded on a 3rd front. they did succeed, and that's, that is not shocking, nor surprising. us just quite predictable. the fact that israel is such a superior military force, it was able to pound guys not stop for 11 days, and creating huge death and destruction. so that was normal and they did take on a good part of how much is so called optional. but it's military victory, did not lead to a political victory or a strategic victory. and that's what these drain is concluded in 2014. they concluded from that war that is, needs to, to finish the war with certain pluses, with certain games. one that how much will not data again, attack, israel did not get that to that house would be paralyzed, decapitated, and so on, so forth. i would not dare declare victory that did not happen. the fact that how much would not have the liberty, the freedom in order to rebuild it. arsenal, that appar

defense attorney bob rubin -- >> mr. over the course of his lifetime and, as a result, he got progressively worse. >> and the defense made a bold allegation to the jury that hemy's violent act against rusty was triggered by none other than rusty's wife andrea. >> she had planted the seed, she had stoked the fire. and she knew that what she set out to do with somebody who was sick, that she had accomplished. >> his psyche was so fragile, the defense argued, that it hadn't taken much from andrea to send hemy over the edge, and if the defense could prove hemy neuman was not guilty by reason of insanity, that he didn't know right from wrong when he pulled the trigger, there was a chance he would escape prison, if not a hospital bed in a psychiatric unit. their first witness was hemy's younger sister, monique. she painted a picture for the jury of hemy's painful childhood. >> monique, would you describe for the jury your household at 6:00 in the evening when your father was coming home? >> anxiety. >> monique explained that th

it is my honor to introduce the 28th united states secretary of defense lloyd jane austen the , third. >> mr dr. biden, madam vice president, mr. emhoff. general milley, distinguished guests, service members, goldstar family members, my fellow veterans, ladies and gentlemen. thank you for joining us on this solemn day in this solemn place. we come together to remember and to renew our sense of common purpose. and to reach out to those who have long warned and to those who newly grieve. mr. president, in thinking about joining you here today i reflected upon a meeting i held a few days ago with some of our goldstar and surviving families. one of them was shannon, a wife of a marine reservist. they have three children. her husband, chris, was killed by a suicide bomber on april 8, 20 and afghanistan. the first thing she said in our meeting was, i'm going to try not to cry. and she told us that before her husband left on one of his deployments, she sat him down and said god forbid something happens to you. but if it does where you want me , to bury you? and he told her, i do not care. i just wa

defense budget, defending against cyber threats and maintaining the militaries aircraft fleet. >> let me call the hearing to order. the committee met this morning to consider the nominations of mr. frank kim bro to -- kendall to be secretary of the air force, heidi hsu to be secretary of defense and susanna bloom for program evaluation. on behalf of the committee i want to thank each of you for your willingness to return to public service. mr. kendall, welcome to your wife and also, know that each of the nominees have additional family members who would like to have been here this morning but because of pandemic restrictions, they are watching from home. we thank them all for the continued support they have given to you as you continue to serve the nation. i think ash carter for joining us. he will introduce esther kendall and ms. hsu. i think bob work who will introduce ms. bloom. as we consider mr. kendall's nomination, he has a wealth of experience in aerospace and defense policy, spanning several decades including his most recent role with government as under secretary of defense for acquisition technology and logistics. you will leave the service during a major transformat

yesterday perhaps 36 hours ago as well when he said that israel has the right self-defense that was perceived initially when mr biden said that this time yesterday as being a slight misstep on the part of the still relatively new u.s. president it was not a misstep he knew exactly what he was saying of course he did because mr biden. former vice president he once said to paraphrase what he once said he said if israel didn't exist we would have to make it we would have to create a state of israel he said 40 years of being a friend of israel the white house press secretary there calling hamas a terrorist organization perhaps worth reminding ourselves that hamas did win the 2006 palestinian legislative election and became the de facto governing orthography in the gaza strip the gaza strip garza of course ground 0 what's going on right now between israel and gaza the press secretary there not being drawn on any potential diplomatic breakthroughs or where that may come from we have heard from and to a new terrorists the u.n. secretary general we've had 2 closed door sessions of the u.n. security council calls for a

i certainly anticipate that the defense would try to use mr thompson's prior interactions with mental health service providers as a defense. we're gonna be prepared for that defense and any other defense that they may throw at us. a suspect in this case was ordered to remain in custody without bail. he'll be back in court on thursday, reporting live. christien kafton ktvu, fox two news, christian before we let you go. how unusual is it for a district attorney to actually come into the courtroom to try a case? yeah frank, actually, right before he went to where i was on the phone with the head of california's district attorneys association. all of the district attorneys in the state are a member of this professional organization. he tells me that it's not uncommon for a disc attorney to actually be in court on actually argue a case in court, he says. it's much more common in smaller counties. it's ah little bit more unusual to see in big counties like, say, san francisco or alameda. but remember back to chasing boudin's first day in office. he was in court, and he pointed it out today

investigation and prosecution of sexual assault and related crimes under the ucmj in the annual defense bill. mr. reed: i believe that the committee must start from a base that reflects the broadest consensus possible among our members on how best to move forward and on the recommendations of secretary austin's 90-day independent review commission. i understand some members would prefer there be nothing in our bill on this topic while others will feel that the i.r.c. recommendations do not about far enough. this is the nature of compromise and why i intend to include the i.r.c. recommendations on accountability in a base markup of the f.y. 2022 p defense bill subject to amendment. i believe we'll have a robust debate and commit to ensuring that every idea and amendment brought by our committee members is given due consideration and receives a vote if that's what the member wants. mr. inhofe: mr. president, i thank the chairman, chairman reed, that this important issue deserves a robust debate as we consider this year's national defense authorization act. i'd also like to thank senator gillibrand

mr. brown did so in self-defense after his vehicle made contact with them during his arrest.laim his family refutes. can you explain the disconnect between the county and your city tonight? because it seems like it's going back and forth of who is responsible, who can investigate, who can do what. when a reported autopsy of the family, shot in the back of his head. >> thank you, reverend al, for having me this afternoon. but there are two law enforcement agencies in this area, elizabeth city police department and the county sheriff's department. the city police department was not involved in the shooting death of andrew brown. they were not part of executing any parent to him on that day, april 21st. they were not called for assistance. so the only reason that my department, my policemen, got involved is when they heard a 911 call dispatch that says shots were fired. and when they arrived on the scene, they found that it was the county sheriff department who had done the shooting. so we're not involved. as far as andrew brown's both is concerned. unfortunately, we have been t

mr. jugiuliani's potential involvemt in a defense contracting firm., a lot of people are reporting on it. in terms of what you know, have heard or believe is credible as a suggestion, the idea that giuliani may have been engaged in undisclosed, foreign lobbying, either for officials in ukraine or business interests in ukraine at the same time that he was seeking the ouster of the u.s. ambassador, yovanovich, do you believe those are questions worth pursuing? do you have any reason to believe that? >> well, i definitely think they're worth pursuing. i wouldn't go as far as to evaluate them. i don't have, you know, enough legal background for the legal profession to assess it. but definitely that episode needs to be pursued further. as are a couple of other episodes. so the defense contract acquisition needs to be looked at. the infamous derosh tapes need to be looked at. that was a definite attempt to get ukraine once again, another attempt to get us involved in u.s. domestic politics. and thank god we contain ed tha threat as well. >> are you open to

mr. perry: that's the fundament duty of those who take the oath of the constitution. defense of your narkse defense of liberty. it can't be defended if it's under attack from a foreign nation. absolutely israel has the right to defend itself and respond to attacks. again it is jab hornet. it is completely insulting to refer to it as they do and to take the side of the aggressor in this regard and say that, well, the response is disproportionate. what is the proportionate response when your innocent family is killed under the barrage of an unwarranted, unprovoked missile attack from across the close board her what is the appropriate response? if it were your family, i guarantee you would want a very robust response to stop, to stop the missiles coming in. mr. roy: the gentleman is welcome to stay as long as he wants, i think he has other places to go. i appreciate the gentleman joining me, i think he agrees with me that an america-first plan is much better than the america last agenda in which we abandon ally arkse ban don our national security, have wide-open brders, inflatio

mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator inhofe. now it's my privilege and pressure to introduce former secretary of defense chuck hagel to introduce wormuth. mr. secretary. >> good morning, chairman reed, ranking member inhofe and members of the committee. i appreciate the opportunity to introduce christine wormuth in support of the president's nomination of here to be secretary of army. as start inhofe just noted, a few of us have had some experience with the army and as an old army sergeant, it's truly a privilege to introduce the president's nominee for secretary of army to the armed services committee. you all have miss wormuth's bio, impressive work record over many years and varied national security positions. so i'm not going to repeat what you already have. instead, i'm going to tell you a little about how i know her, how i worked with her, my experience with her and my knowledge of ms. wormuth. i've known and worked with christine wormuth since february of 2013, during my time at the pentagon and secretary of defense, but i've known who she was through my previous positions as a united states senator, co-intelligence advis

mr. rittenhouse had a case for self-defense. and when i was fired, he came out of nowhere.g this firing with the city. on what grounds? >> first and foremost, first amendment, free speech. police officers have a right to free speech. and the law is very well established on that. if a police officer is speaking as a private citizen, which he was, on a matter of public concern, which he was, then the police department and the city have to have a pretty substantial reason to punish him for that speech, which they don't. also, they completely deprived him of due process. they gave him -- they handed him his notice of his opportunity to respond and his chargers and simultaneously terminated him, which is completely unheard of. >> laura: lieutenant, the norfolk to police department not surprisingly declined our requet for additional information regarding your termination. but he did challenge them filing this grievance. and n/a, you allege that city of norfolk and particularly the police chief terminated your employment because of your donation and your message was perceived by t

to repair those communities because we have to put an equal amount into the defense budget, whether they want it or not. now, mr. president, i can say this as dhairm of the senate -- chairman of the senate appropriations committee, i understand some annual increases in the defense bill, but that should be considered as the defense bill, just as we should consider our health care bill, just as we should consider infrastructure bills, education, all those. we can easily do each one of these appropriation bills that make some sense to the american people. in the past many times we've been able to get bipartisan agreement. let's do that. let's stop playing like children with some arbitrary you give me this, i'll give you that kind of rules. we're united states senators, we should be above that. we should be the conscience of the nation. there's only 100 of us. the country looks at us, we ought to respond to the country. and i don't see others seeking recognition at the moment. i'd just add another thing. the house of representatives did the right thing. they passed in a bipartisan vote to have an independent commis

mr. congressman, i'm . nothill aware of any discussionh the chinese but i would defer to mr.do hill. >> congressman, if you like, we do not in the defenseartmen have direct engagement with china regarding space.acti there are some very clear statutory limitations on d.o.d. interactions with china as with russia these days. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i yield back. >> i back.apologize. on this is jonathan more, i have ar bit more of an, answer for the d ranking membero if i may offer a it, mr. chairman. th okay. go ahead. >> we do engage with china on outer pace through both a bilaterally and multi-lateral en channels. our primary goal isng to ensure safe flight safety and we've been working to try to encouragt china to improve communications between our perspective satellites in orbit and we've naen coordinating to ensure that their navigation satellite system bedu, does not cause radio frequency interference with our gps satellites and we're trying to encourage interer operability for civil users. we do havecords, discussions, not part of the artemis accord, but we do however expect them ts follow the norms and standards. we have been

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mr. secretary, not only for the introduction, but for your distinguished service to the nation and now it is another pleasure to be able to recognize former deputy secretary of defense bob ward to introduce ms. bloom. mr. secretary? >> thank you, chairman reed. ranking member inhofe and distinguished members of the committee. it is always an absolute honor to appear before the sask, and today i'm doubly honored to introduce to you an enthusiastic honor to endorse the pentagon's next director of the office of cost assessment and program evaluation with susana bloom. the position of the weapons system acquisition reform act of 2009 and assigned cape the mission with the secretary and the department with timely, insightful and unbiassed analysis on resource allocation and estimation problems and kate's ultimate role was to deliver the optimal portfolio of the department of defense and military capabilities for the most efficient and effective use of each taxpayer dollar, and in my judgment there's absolutely no one more qualified to fill this vital role than susana bloom. i first met susana when i was underciting of the navy in the first obama administration. as part o

mr bennett i greatly appreciate you coming on r.t. thank you so much for your time. and it is my guest former israeli defense minister we have to wrap it up i'm afraid of that back with updates and often. are.

this is defense secretary lloyd austin taking the podium now. >> mr. president, dr.uished members, gold star families, my fellow veterans, ladies and gentlemen. thank you for joining us on this solemn day in this solemn place. we come together to remember and to renew our sense of common purpose, and to reach out to those who have long mourned and to those who newly grieve. mr. president in thinking about joining you here today i reflected on a meeting i held a few days ago with some of our gold star and surviving families. one of them was a wife of a marine reservist. they have three children. her husband, chris, was killed by a suicide bomber on april 8th, 2019 in afghanistan. the first thing she said in our meeting was simply "i'm going to try not to cry." these told us that e she told him god forest bid something happens to you, but if it does, where do you want me to bury you. he tolder her i don't care, i just want to be near you. today he is in section 60 alongside so many brothers and sisters in arms that made the ultimate sacrifice in this longest of america

mr. mcconnell: yesterday was the deadliest day yet in the continued fighting between the terrorist forces attacking israel and israel's measured, precise and defensive response. hamas unleashed another round of rocket barrages intentionally targeting civilian areas all across israel. israel intensified its campaign to, among other specific military objectives, destroy the terrorist groups underground networks of weapon storage and command and control. last week hamas rocket attacks took the life of a 5-year-old israeli boy. and because hamas, in stark violation of the laws of war, intentionally -- intentionally colocates its terrorist facilities in civilian buildings and neighborhoods. israeli strikes have regrettably led to civilian casualties in gaza. no one is glad to see the fighting, but we're already seeing some push push the fault's narrative that this conflict is a tragic dispute between two legitimate combatants where both sides share blame that is roughly equal. what nonsense. this yield calls for blanket cease fires and people wagging fingers at both sides. this camp also includes some of our own senate colleagues. to say that both sides

mr. wales: sure, so four primary lines of effort. first is beginning to expand our cyber defensive teams so that we can spend more time doing persistent hunt activity inside of federal agencies. second, is the deployment of new technologies and sensors inside of networks, and point detection and response tools that will give us better visibility for agencies and better visibility for cisa into what's happening on those networks. three, the deployment of pilot-secure, threat-hardened cloud environment for business systems to allow us to test the most effective ways to secure and defend those and then promulgate a reference architecture across the dot gov. sen. portman: that would be focused primarily in the private sector and their ability to use a hardened cloud? mr. wales: well it's primarily focused on testing a private cloud for the federal government civilian agencies that more federal agencies can then use. right now i would say there is, i'd say, a variety of different kind of cloud security environments that federal agencies have adopted and we want more consistency. sen. po

mr. smoot two roane county on that evening. >> the defense sought to prove the evidence the state that have gun that shawn owned. yes, it was the same caliber as the murder weapon, but -- >> there are how many many million people in this country who owned, guns in this was a very common weapon. >> the defense argued the ballistics report looking shell casings from the crime scene to a bullet at smoot's home had no actual science behind it. >> there is no scientific evidence of that or any standards that show that. >> there is not currently a standard that shows every firearm makes-y unique mark. >> as for the volatile relationship described in the order of protection, the defense pointed out smoothes never admitted to any of the allegations, and he was never charged, much less convicted of assault on brooke. >> the order doesn't mean mr. smoot ever did anything, it doesn't mean mr. smoot admitted he ever did anything. >> and the order of protection didn't prevent them from seeing each other, which they clearly did. >> miss morris told the judge that she wanted to have social contact with mr

here's why. >> extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. >> yeah. that's mr. conservative, barry goldwater, the 1964 nominee, the defender of joe mccarthy, darling of the birchers. his gop opponent that year was new york governor rockefeller who was labeled a moderate. rockefeller said, look, i'm a hawk on foreign policy and defense. what more do you want of me. conservatives wanted all or nothing. he spoke at the convention, condemning extremism. he said there was no need for hawkers of the kkk. he lost in landslide to lyndon johnson. reagan said, my 80% friend is not my 20% enemy. newt gingrich wanted to purge moderates from the party. the inflauns of right wing media amplified these divides. listen to this now ironic 2009 interview with former gop dick cheney choosing rush limbaugh over colin powell. >> if i had to choose in terms of being a republican is rush limbaugh. my take is colin powell is no longer republican. he left the party. >> republican leaders like eric cantor tried to harness their power, but each he fell to a tee party value. the lesson was