laila, i know you and your husband, going back to the days of sadat and then mubarak, were campaignersivists for democracy, for freedom, for an end to human rights abuse in egypt. so you're familiar with the techniques of campaigning against the government in your country. but i just wonder whether there's a limit that you are now prepared to cross that you've never crossed before. yes, there is, because this government has crossed so many limits that were never crossed before. and the ultimate limit, of course, in a hunger strike is using your own body as a sort of...a weapon. and, you know, again, this is difficult to talk about, but you have to confront the possibility of death. i do, i confronted it before i even started this hunger strike. you see, many years ago, my husband was imprisoned for five years. but at that time, we knew that five years meant five years. he came out of prison. he built a completely new life. so i know it's possible to build a new life after you come out of prison. but it's not possible if you're in prison indefinitely. and that's what's happening now in

has born true which was a regime change war in syria, much like in iraq, toppling of qaddafi and mubarak, would likely result in the rise of islamist extremists like al qaeda taking power. i shed no tears for the fall of the assad regime, but today we have an islamist extremist who is now in charge of syria, as i said, who danced on the streets to celebrate the 9/11 attack, who ruled over idlib with an islamist extremist governance, and has already begun to persecute and kill and arrest religious minorities like christians in syria. why that should be acceptable to anyone is beyond me. sen. kelly: it shouldn't be. i appreciate your answer. my concern has to do with the tendency to repeat russian and syrian and even in some cases i think we will get into in the closed session iranian information and to discount what comes from our intelligence community. ms. gabbard: every american deserves to know that people in our own government were providing support to our sworn enemy al qaeda. that should not be acceptable by anyone. chair cotton: in conclusion, senator warner. sen. warner: one of t

if egypt we gave it to the mubarak family. when he was ousted, he had $20 billion on him. not all on him, a lot was in swiss banks, but he was word 20 billion. that's noting each of his kids -- that's nothing. each of his kids were worth another 5 billion. he stole 30 billion of the 60 billion american taxpayers sent to egypt. that's the story of your foreign aid, you've been being ripped off decade after decade. while elon musk and doge are doing their job working overtime to late at night, finding us those savings from foreign aid, send them back. we spend 40 billion in foreign aid. could you could -- you could send 30 billion back, america would be safer. you could put it to the military or border. your choice. there's money that can be saved and moved around, but it has to come back. ultimately, all the talk of the savings is ephemeral. it isn't real until congress votes on it. it has to be certified by a vote. if couldn't doesn't vote, it sort of wishes and washes around in the ether, and it may or may not wind up being savings. ultimately, congress has to do their jo