mr. nichols: it was it it's perfect. you think about going back to 2020 the pandemic, where our region was in terms of lack of access to education online, collapse of commerce, dramatic start -- bike in poverty, among other things. be on that we have big challenges with things like delivery of public services, addressing issues of crime and insecurity in the region. so, you started talking about the summit of the americas in los angeles of 2022. i would go back one event earlier, the oas general assembly the year before where we started to really incorporate a digital agenda into our goals for the western hemisphere. and then we built, we had five pillars there and we built on that in the summit of the americas in los angeles. i would just note that we are building on it further with aipac in san francisco and in lima. even though the asia-pacific economic cooperation doesn't make you immediately think of latin america, a number of countries in our region are in aipac and we are talking about how to deliver forever citiz

mr. nichols says that didn't happen. lester holt (voiceover): i asked ron kuby about that.tion that johnny's lying. he never gave him money. how do you respond to that? well, that friend also told ms. busby, admitted on the stand he told ms. busby that he just didn't remember. lester holt (voiceover): hurley argued to the court that hincapie was lying about something else. he says the escalator that hincapie says he ran down was working just fine. and it was moving up, not down. he made the ridiculous claim he went down the up escalator. lester holt (voiceover): but perhaps the most dramatic part of the hearing was prosecutor hurley's cross-examination of johnny hincapie himself. hurley argued that hincapie was making up the whole story about falsely confessing. and it is the first time that you have ever alleged to a court that your confession was coerced by detective casey physically abusing you and making you memorize a story. is that correct? - correct. lester holt (voiceover): the detective wasn't called to testify, but we tracked him down, and he denied ever abusing h

nichols also pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer. he was one of the j six choir. he sprayed officers with pepper spray. is he a political prisoner? mr. patel: same answer. sen. blumenthal: how about another member of the j six choir? james mcgrew? mr. patel: i do not know who that is. sen. blumenthal: he pushed and struck officers and launched a handrail toward them and you glorified him and promoted and produced a song to raise money for them and you now want us to believe you do not know who they are? mr. patel: no part of that song or anything i have done in my years of government service glorifies were advocates for violence against law enforcement during the fact you be willing to say that in front of these people but the american audience, shows how much of a divide we actually have to restore a law enforcement that is constitutionally based and d politicized. you have my commit to do that. in your office, we had a lot of common ground. i'm committed to working with you on section 230 and making sure citizens of connecticut are not pillaged by chinese fentanyl. sen. blumenthal: i welcome your statement, mr. patel, but it does