mr. crane: thank you, mr. chair. today i rise before you with a critical amendment -- the chair: the gentleman will suspend. the committee will come to order. the gentleman is recognized. mr. crane: today i rise before you with a critical amendment that remedies the harm imposed by political and military leaders that emphasize social justice, progressive dogma, and climate issues against the dedicated men and women of our armed forces who joined to defend our country. my amendment specifically prohibits d.o.d. from considering race, gender, religion or political affiliations or any other ideological concepts as the sole basis for recruitment, training, education, promotion or retention decisions. i reserve my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves. for what purpose does the gentlelady from ohio seek recognition? mrs. beatty: mr. speaker, i seek time in opposition to this amendment. the chair: the gentlewoman is recognized. mrs. beatty: mr. speaker, this week republicans are choosing maga extremism over our military,

mr. crane: well, mr. chairman, though that mr. crane: that was unbelievably inspire but my amendment has nothing to do with whether colored people or black people or anybody can serve. any of that stuff. what we want to preserve and maintain is the fact that our military does not become a social experiment. we want the best of the best, we want to have standards that guide who is in what unit what they do, and i'm going to tell you guys right now the russians, the chinese, the iranian, the north koreans, they are not doing this because they want the strongest military possible. i hope my colleagues on the other side can understand what we're doing. mrs. beatty: mr. speaker. the spe.-- the chair: for what purpose does the gentlelady rise? mrs. beatty: i ask to have the words colored people strichen from the record, i find it offensive and very inappropriate. schoip the gentlelady asking for unanimous consent to take down the words. mrs. beatty: i am asking for unanimous consent to take the down of referring to me of any of my collea

in 1850, mr. crane, the act was nangted transforming into accomplices for the slairry system, a free territory was no longer a a hunting ground. and aiding the enslaved. a profound act of humanity was a criminal act punishable by fine and imprisonment. this didn't just target the enslaved but a shadow over the entire nation implicating all in the perpetration of this abhorrent institution. in the act of this act, mr. crane, 1757, the supreme court in the dred scott decision in freedom and human dignity. the court ruled that all plaque people regardless of their status of free or enslaved could not become citizens of the united states. this wasn't just a judicial ruling but a decision of the racial prejudice, that permeated our nation's highest court. we saw the light. the emancipation proclamation. freedom, after 246 years was finally within our grasp. and to keep human beings in bondage ended our nation's deadliest war and we dare to dream. yet as the celebration grows the shadows in a bitter twist, fr

mr. crane: well, mr. chairman, though that mr. crane: that was unbelievably inspire but my amendment has nothing to do with whether colored people or black people or anybody can serve. any of that stuff. what we want to preserve and maintain is the fact that our military does not become a social experiment. we want the best of the best, we want to have standards that guide who is in what unit what they do, and i'm going to tell you guys right now the russians, the chinese, the iranian, the north koreans, they are not doing this because they want the strongest military possible. i hope my colleagues on the other side can understand what we're doing. mrs. beatty: mr. speaker. the spe.-- the chair: for what purpose does the gentlelady rise? mrs. beatty: i ask to have the words colored people strichen from the record, i find it offensive and very inappropriate. schoip the gentlelady asking for unanimous consent to take down the words. mrs. beatty: i am asking for unanimous consent to take the down of referring to me of any of my collea

reporter: the concerns might be deeper than what mr. crane said last night. we had a whole week where you had a republican in the senate trying to define white nationalism and right there at the podium about a half hour ago, mr. good of virginia said he doesn't know what white nationalism is or if it's in the military. what do you make of all of this? this is people you serve with. mr. jeffries: you have individuals in this country and across the congress, including within the house republican conference, which clearly has been taken over by extreme maga republicans, and individuals like george santos and others, who have outwardly expressed sympathy for white supremacy. that want to turn back the clock. but as democrats, led by president biden, we're going to continue to move the country forward. recognizing that our diversity in every possible way, our racial diversity, our ethnic diversity, our religious diversity, our socioeconomic diversity, our cultural diversity is one of america's greatest strengths. it's an economic advantage for us in terms of our co

amendment number 32 by mr. crane of arizona. amendment number 33 by mr. norman of south carolina. amendment number 34 by mr. norman of south carolina. amendment number 35 by mrs. boebert of colorado. amendment 41 by mr. waltz of florida. amendment 47 by mr. good of virginia. amendment 48 by ms. greene of georgia. amendment 49 by ms. hageman of wyoming. amendment 50 by mr. davidson of ohio. amendment 51 by mr. davidson of ohio. amendment 52 by mr. gaetz of florida. amendment 55 by mr. bigs of arizona -- biggs of arizona. amendment 56 by mr. perry of pennsylvania. amendment 62 by mr. burlison of missouri. the chair will reduce to two minutes the time for any electronic vote after the first vote of the series. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 32 printed in house report 118-142 by the gentleman from arizona, mr. crane, on which further proceedings were poafnted and -- postponed and the ayes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk: amendment number 32 printed in house report 118-142 offered by mr. crane of arizona. the chair: a recorded vote has

mr. crane: i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time the gentleman from minnesota. mr. phillips: i yield myself such time as i may consume for the purpose of closing. my argument is very simple we cannot and must not allow terrorists to obtain assets that could help them perpetrate attacks against their government, against civilians or against americans. i strongly oppose h.j.res. 71 and urge my colleagues to do the same. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time the gentleman from south carolina is recognized. mr. wilson: i am grateful for the bipartisan effort with the ranking member dean phillips of minnesota. the immediate lifting of sanctions on terrorists who threaten america is unconscionable. these national emergency economic authorities are scoped to economic sanction authorities and are effective of preventing terrorists from accessing the networks they need to carry out atrocities. am

. -- and gentleman from arizona mr. crane. gentleman from wisconsin, gentleman from indiana, gentleman from texas mr. gonzales. gentleman from iowa, mr. nunn. without objection, so we're. there are a lot of folks from the military they want to speak to you all. >> other members of the committee are reminded that open states are submitted for the record. we're pleased to have with us the panel of witnesses. important topics reported hearings. the answers to many questions. former chief of staff for the special operations command central. also bring in those capacity. strategic planning initiatives to protect -- and violent extremists. involved in the withdrawal planning for afghanistan in 2021. he was previously deployed in afghanistan. during the initial invasion. as part of tax force -- from the literal beginning of the war in afghanistan to the literal end. colonel chris burr, the -- as a west point graduate and combat leader and a retired army colonel. he's also the founder of the safer six foundation which he founded to hon

congressman eli crane used racist language >> my amendment has nothing to do with whether or not colored people or black people or anybody can serve, okay it has nothing to do with -- >> mr. speaker -- >> reporter: crane later saying he misspoke after a backlash including from his fellow republicans. meanwhile, in tuberville's alabama, a disabled vet reacting to how the military is being used as a political pawn. >> knowing this now, there is no way i would join the military. >> reporter: as for the defense bill, it stands no chance of passing in the democratic-led senate setting up a potential showdown ahead of the september deadline, tom. >> kristen, thank you for that >>> in the battle for the republican presidential nomination, the first contest is just six months from tomorrow in iowa. many of the candidates were campaigning there today, though, as dasha burns reports, there was one very notable exception. >> reporter: six months from the first in the nation iowa caucuses, republican presidential candidates today making their pitch to evangelical voters candidate after candidate sitting down with former fox news anchor tucker carlson except for the front-runner [ cr

chairman i yelled backwards as gently as i recognize mr. crane from arizona. >> think you mr.hairman bray thank you all for coming here today. i continued to have the same thing i want to echo what my calling was saying. i cannot help but notice this is a sham of her as homeland security committee. for nothing but this i do not know what else were going to be talking about. when charge of leadership accountable wish you joan simone were here yesterday my colic on the other side were trying to undermine pharaoh effective effective walls andbarriers are. it is insecurity understand security systems for lapping deterrents we talked about barriers intelligence all these things together to secure whatever you want to secure print said to my colleagues on the other side of thou could not even acknowledge the barriers for those around their house, their schools these complexes whatever it is are affected. mr. jones i want to ask about that, sir. you understand security a lot better than the average individual. do you find individuals that isolate barriers and walls that say they are

crane. what -- [indiscernible] -- mr. mccarthy: that's not acceptable. i'll take him at his word that he misspoke. i've never heard him use that before so you'd have to ask him about that. i hope you all have a great weekend. i look forward to your question on monday. i think we'll pass a bill next week as well. i look forward to you asking me questions about policy next week too. take care. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2023] >> read up on the bill. don't just come at me the day that it passed. i love how you underestimate every single time. [indiscernible] i think we can find common ground on that. there's an ability -- that is a heavy used runway but only three certain times during the day. you have to focus on when you bring the other ones in. but i think -- [indiscernible] -- we've got a shortage in there. we have to get that situated. they're not going to do the job, we will. but i do hope you

you've been speaking to you cranes before and then mr. james was helping saying yeah, the credit score minutes, the demitria calais but has been speaking in the un security council. and there's a security council meeting continuing on the situation in ukraine. this was a plan, the security council meeting before the news on the black sea deal coming to an end of. but it's certainly that's who's the top top subject that each of the delegates is, is discussing, is that they addressed the security council. in fact, the punish 4 minutes that speaking. but right now is a say of the foreign minister of ukraine was speaking of the security council just moments ago. but the full that before the start of the meeting, he addressed her pauses. and i asked him, as you claim was also a signatory to this deal. did they now believe it was totally dead? so there is a deep age in this, in the room. some is building, whether it's whether the russian move is a suspension or termination of the, of the agreement. and the russia itself is, you know, avoiding c

mr. prighozian was able to say things about the russian military, the attack on crane, about the russian commanders that no one else in russia was able to say. indeed, if anyone else had said this, there are no laws in russia that would enable the russian federation to prosecute these people for up to 10-15-20 years. the importance of the per goshen incident -- of the prighozian incident is it allowed a russian and gave him a platform to basically criticize putin's invasion of ukraine. i think putin has responded by dismissing prighozian, whether he decides to change his mind and prosecute prighozian is an open question i think. i think the important part of the prighozian affair was that prighozian actually connected with this segment of the russian population that is concerned about how the war is going in the origins of the war. host: does it foster other people to do the same or is there nobody in that position? guest: there is nobody in that position today. prighozian was unique in the sense he had access to vladimir putin and the media. he was perceived at least as part of the syst

the korean for mr. reese recently said that it would be suicide, not to let you crane into nato. yeah, commit to me, or else i'm going to kill myself. is always a really good foundation for a relationship that's totally not dysfunctional or tactic at all. this comes ahead of next week's nato summit unless you and yeah, where the book is expected to approve additional minutes for support for kids or that you credit the session bid through. the lines will not be on the agenda. best buy gives the funds for roadmap. you claims president has been pushing for a 16 jets, but it's open data and most as they won't come anytime soon as the rest of the 1st months go to unless march the boldest, as the kid may be disappointed by the summit efforts to things that won't happen is obviously ukraine will not receive either immediate admission into nato or a membership action plan, no roadmap. it will not receive f sixteens or promises a concrete promises of f sixteens with a timeline. it will receive more vaguely worded promises about is rarely style security guarantees, which simply means they

here is what one eli crane, representative out of arizona, had to say about that today. >> well, mr. chairman, that was unbelievably inspiring. my amendment has nothing to do with whether or not colored people, black people or anybody can serve. it has nothing to do with color -- >> mr. speaker -- >> -- any of that stuff. >> yeah. so that happened in the year of our lord 2023, david. your thoughts. >> joy, unsettling i think for all of us who just heard that. eli crane, a freshman member of congress endorsed by donald trump, an election denier who tried to get his home state to decertify the biden election. congresswoman beatty from ohio asked to have those words stricken. as someone who has worked with the house for about 25 years, i did wonder when was the last time in the congressional record the term colored people actually appears? you would hope it would be 70 years ago, 50, a long time ago. congresswoman beatty tonight succeeded in having those words stricken from the congressional record. they will not appear, but i wonder if they should because it's a time stamp on eli crane

mr. speaker. >> any of that stuff. >> arizona congressman eli crane asked to amend what he said to people of colord later said he misspoke. his words were stricken from the record. nbc's sahil kapur is on capitol hill. and former chair of the new york democratic party, democratic party, basil smikle. what is the latest on the defense bill and the fallout co comments? >> reporter: the house today did what congress almost never does which is make the military authorization bill partisan. house republicans passed it narrowly with the inclusion of controversial provisions to restrict funding for abortion, to restrict gender affirming care, as well as restrict diversity programs within the military. this is something that's not going to pass when it gets to the senate, and house democrats who normally put up a big vote from their side on the military authorization bill, almost all of them voted against it this time for the reason of those controversial provisions. have a listen to what minority leader hakeem jeffries said about that. >> now, our view of the national defense authorization act is that it

mr producing moving to be around. they're not going to many didn't with the it isn't that sue crane and miniature canada say that troops are making small advances in the account are offensive against russia. meanwhile, must goes defense ministry says it's troops of repelled ukraine that attacks around done yet. killing an engine dozens of soldiers. i'll just say it was said, bank reports on the front lines and the don't ask region victories enough to zip the same. this trail of destruction and individuals, documented the bodies of russian soldiers to named across the smell of the decomposing corpses of yeah, but there's no time to hang around here. the russians are just 1.5, cuz i'm because of weight and constant and shifting. only 10 people remain here. you know, he's one of those who refuse to believe that the example when the russians entered the world, most of them it was very scary. but when our guys liberated us, then i became comma, all the family homes have been destroyed, but we will rebuild. we will do it gradually when our boys advance and these shells don't full on our hits. getting this close to russian po

a message about uh, what about the west, the crane on about uh uh, a lot more to, to where they essentially just whatever refreshing us with the marketing mr. person to start. but he will consider the, the piece proposals from african leaders. i'm but i think it's been more than a month since he met fair, that the delegation from the countries involved what 111 does, why he hasn't already considered the back proposals and ways that we talk about it now. a weird. there's a bit of hope that negotiations, the speaking that there could be some sort of negotiated solutions with or not because necessarily it would be the most just wait around the war. but because it would, it, in the way many people believe it would be the fastest way to buy. well that the war now is not brand new. where us create the spoken resolution might be faster. all right, that sounds like everything very interesting that i get vast, but the delegation of african leaders, i met with mr. persian back in june. and he is today saying that he will come say to the proposal. so that was a month ago if he was serious about this, wouldn't be over ready, hopkins, say that and resp

crane's nato membership becomes a horizon. the more you get closer, the more it moves forward from you. find out more from all correspondence. what i mean, mr. do my each on how many, thanks for coming into my so we know that ukraine has really high hopes for the summit, but those expectations seem to have been down puns now, especially over the past week or so. so what this thing stands for, you explain this with guns to is potential nato membership. so as we've heard from b, like when present in horizon, is quite a funny way to put it. yeah, sure. ukraine might become a member of nato, but only the very far future from now. and yes, although the current conditions for you claim to joining the alliance are not met, your queen will keep on following and begging the alliance to join it to no avail. and from the looks of it, it really looks like a needle membership can only be considered if the war is won by ukraine. but it's not just the american presidential by that he's saying this because now we have the nato secretary general, who, who was also emphasized that ukraine should win the war. so let's take a listen in the message will be post

mr. brewton without wages for august. it also comes hours after a series of explosions on the cash bridge that links crimea and russia. the kremlin has blamed you crane, but says there's no connection to the cancellation of the grain deal a little bit, but we'll have reaction from a stumble besides this cost over to you, the shop of oliver, it must go with the very latest. uh, new rush. it says that it sort of doesn't want to renew this deal. it's on polls for the basement because it's demands have not been met. what demands is it talking about? a absolutely about sized spoken, gather the latest statements from the russian foreign ministry. and russia was tools guarantees for the safety of navigation and the black sea, and he's with a termination of the greenville the joins coordination center. and this symbol will be disbanded and russia castles, the maritime humanitarian cord, or in the north western block. see, since the times of the deal of the agreement, which most consisted on were not met. so russia's initial requirements were to reconnect. so they are both sitting host binds to the swift payment system that was done actually then russia was a

from mr. victor, oregon from great who has been skeptical about basically all things relating to your brain and, and in terms of sins and sanctions. and that, that she would try to block you cranes from participating as optically a member of nato in this council. and so they created it to sort of do an end run on it will be meeting for the 1st time today president. so escape n, as in his delegation, will be there. and does it have an ability, you know, let's say to vote on things and where ukraine gets of both. and the answer is absolutely not. but it, it is, it's, it's nato leadership trying desperately to craft a deliverables and diplomat. ukraine can be seen as coming out of here with something and nato allies can feel good about doing something. and most importantly, these heads of state and heads of government from go back to their countries, go back to their tax payers. what funding? all of that, look like we accomplished. having set all of that. all of this is within the context of the success for the failure of ukraine's defense, which began last month. and there's going to be, i don't know if i would call in a reckoning, but there's going to be a time where the european

and i think this could be just mr. poo using wagner to try to change the narrative. a way for me is failures or your cranes defense ministry is warning against the navigation in the black sea, it says ships traveling to russian controlled ports will be considered potential carriers of military cargo. it's a day after russia announced a similar move, not follows. russia's withdrawal from a un broker deal on green shipments. it had a lot of ukrainian grain to pos, safely along the colorado in the black sea. i can also be shipped overland, either by truck or by train, but the train option to poland and other e u. countries has got its own challenges because different countries use different sizes of train tracks. another route is through constant ports on the black sea in romania, but these journeys are time consuming. complicated, they're congested, the costs, they rubber brian more from keys, a. this warning from ukraine does seem to be in direct response to russia's threat against much and ships in the black sea. ukraine says that from midnight on thursday, local time, it will treat any ships sailing towar

mr. barton is doing is making sure everybody knows that's united states is locked in to supporting ukraine as much as is required short of a direct, military confrontation with russia to help your crane do as much as possible in this war. it's not really about your current joining nato. it's about solidarity by the lions to push back against russia. have no idea that it stays, being firmly committed on that. there is really no further doubt that that's going to happen. it is the water. they've been muddied by the question about whether a ukraine or when ukraine would join nato. but the solidity of us a part for ukraine has been made clear by the president of the united states. and that is the thing that matters at nato mats. it keeps accept that it will not be able to join nato while at war with russia. but how much consensus is there right now, my nato members, that ukraine would be able to join when the war ends and what are the hurdles to that happening? well, i think uh uh there are various divisions within they do on that. this has been publication reported with the us and you, i'm going to taking a more cautious line and i think we have a lot to read that will be statements und

crane was under debate when this happened. >> my amendment has nothing to do with whether or not colored people or black people or anybody can serve, okay? it has nothing to do with -- >> mreaker! >> any of that stuff. >> i would like to be recognized to have the words colored people stricken from the record. i find it offensive and very inappropriate. >> that rebuke came om ohio congresswoman joyce beaty. and then crane later apologized and offered this, when he said, in a heated florida debate on my amendment that would phit discrimination on the color of one's skin in the armed forces. i misspoke. every one of us is created in the image of god and created equal. end quote from the congressman. more from a democrat and chair of the congressional black caucus, congressman, thank you for being with us. what did you make, first, the congressman from arizona making that remark on the house floor during this debate over the defense authorization bill, appropriation bill. and then his apology afterward. what did you make of all that? what's going on? >> well, jim, thank you for having me on. i'm here in orlando, florida, in a democracy for the people event talking to constitu

mr. prighozian was able to say things about the russian military, the attack on crane, about the russianthat no one else in russia was able to say. indeed, if anyone else had said this, there are no laws in russia that would enable the russian federation to prosecute these people for up to 10-15-20 years. the importance of the per goshen incident -- of the prighozian incident is it allowed a russian and gave him a platform to basically criticize putin's invasion of ukraine. i think putin has responded by dismissing prighozian, whether he decides to change his mind and prosecute prighozian is an open question i think. i think the important part of the prighozian affair was that prighozian actually connected with this segment of the russian population that is concerned about how the war is going in the origins of the war. host: does it foster other people to do the same or is there nobody in that position? guest: there is nobody in that position today. prighozian was unique in the sense he had access to vladimir putin and the media. he was perceived at least as part of the system. his supp

crane, but -- to ukraine, but acting like they will travel around the world iss unrealistic. host: benjamin friedman and brett sadler are with us. our next caller is from tuscaloosa, alabama. caller: mran just said that the u.s. strength through power is what dominates our ability to to defend the country. who, what, and when was responsible for denying the ukrainians their nuclear weapons? there was a reason why somebody did that. it was quite a while ago. i was hoping you wouldn't mind addressing that problem. if they had nukes, i don't think there would be a war right now. guest 1: the nukes were the soviet union's which were stationed in ukraine. i'm not sure they could have gotten around that problem, but there was a big diplomatic effort to get them to return the nukes. it was a time when we wanted to control nuclear weapons and keep them bottled up, and they signed an agreement, the good pest memorandum, ukraine did along with the u.s., russia, and the u.k., which said that no one will invade ukraine, and they will give their nukes back to russia. if somebody invades it will be bad. it was called security insurances. we agreed to go to nato and complain if someone violated it.