pavel fischer, chairman of the senate security committee, recalled that the orthodox church in the czech republic is subordinate to the moscow patriarchate, which is headed by patriarch kirill, who was included in the sanctions list by the czech government in april 2023. the european union expects kiev to respect freedom of religion, it sounds unbelievable. hypocritical after yesterday 265 deputies of the verkhovna rada out of 298 voted to adopt a law banning the canonical orthodox church in ukraine. let me remind you, this is the canonical orthodox church, this is true orthodoxy. this truly satanic action, sanctioned by zelensky, aimed at destroying canonical orthodoxy by any means and expanding the deepest, already existing schism. ukrainian society, now on a religious basis, is allegedly connected representatives of other faiths, hoping to serve the marinata regime. the independent organized the largest wave of persecution of orthodoxy in modern world history, this is blatant lawlessness, not only spiritual, but secular, you know, at different times there were persecutions of the chur

the senate security committee asks the secret services to investigate the threat of abuse, this is howocument by the orthodox churches in the czech republic spoke outrageously and'. aimed at destroying canonical orthodoxy by any means and expanding the deepest, already existing schism in ukrainian society, now along religious lines. this is flagrant lawlessness, not only spiritual but also secular, you know, at different times there were persecutions of the church, we remember the persecutions during the godless authorities in the twenties and thirties, but no one even then issued a law banning it, millions of believers, according to this law , must be left without a true orthodox church, without its sacraments, without prayers and... and the church in this situation, with the full implementation of this law, will have to go, there is such a church term, into the catacombs, yes, in the image of the first christians of the roman era. in estonia, at the second session of the council of the estonian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate , a new version of the charter was adopted, the

the czech lands, allegedly their activities are harmful to the country, the head of the senate security committee is quoted by the local press. freedom of religion cannot be abused for the sake of exerting illegal influence on the part of a hostile foreign power, it is also undesirable for the russian orthodox church in the czech republic or the orthodox church of the czech lands to use. to spread the influence of the russian federation, contrary to the interests of the czech republic, said the chairman of the senate security committee pavel fischer. and in estonia, the orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate removed the last two words from its name and edited its charter, completely removing all references to the russian orthodox church from the text. earlier, the country's ministry of internal affairs stated that the authorities' goal was to put an end to any ties between the church and russia. the share of national currencies. russia and china in mutual settlements has already exceeded 95%. cooperation was discussed today by mikhail mishustin, prime minister of the state council of the prc

czech republic - said the chairman of the senate committee on security. and in estonia , the orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate removed the last two words from its name and edited its charter, completely removing all references to the russian orthodox church from the text. earlier, the country's ministry of internal affairs stated that the authorities' goal was to put an end to any ties between the church and russia. share of national currencies.

google top executives must come before the senate homeland security committee. are litany of failures, time for accountability and top down subpoenas. congress is out until september, if there is a public hearing, it will be this fall. bill. >> bill: you did well on that. thank you. >> thank you. >> bill: hillary vaughn, thanks. >> dana: talks resuming trying to bring an end to the war in gaza. not everyone is at the table. hamas, the terror group that started the war on october 17th, is not at the talks. so at this point, if hamas says they will not come, does the united states continue to intn benjamin netanyahu to make more concessions? >> i think our hope for obta obtaining ceasefire are evaporating. u.s. has been applying pressure. if it result in survival of hamas, and complete withdrawal of israeli forces that cross israeli red linsey lines. >> dana: who would you trust to do a better job on foreign policy, trump 52%. i listened to hr mcmaster yesterday. you were there. do you think america has that right, 52-45? >> i think the 52 part makes sense, not su

this needs explanation under oath in front of the senate, homeland security committee.eming it about appellee as the department of justice considers breaking of the company. in your interview with president donald trump, former president earlier this month he addressed all of this, watch here. >> google has been very bad they have been very irresponsible and i have a feeling that google will be close to shut down because i don't think congress is going to take it. i don't think so. google has to be careful. >> that's one of the remedies on the table, the stock was hit harder earlier this week now is down two tenths of 1%. right here in the premarket. maria: we are watching this development. it was a big ruling and certainly did affect the stock as well. mark, your thoughts when president trump said that to me i thought shut down, what is he referring to and now -- respect, he got wind of the debate in congress around google. >> with google they control 92% of the global search market. everybody goes to google to search whatever the looking for. obviously there is a huge

three of those years she was very active in the united states senate on the homeland security committeewas not helpful at all in trying to secure that border. so, i have some history with her. i know exactly where she stands on these issues. it's not for more border security. it's not for immigration enforcement. it's to continue the disastrous policies that we have seen over the last three and a half years. >> lawrence: this is all a campaign ploy to get votes and go back to the same old policy. i think voters are smart. chad wolf, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> lawrence: so anti-israeli protesters already restarting on college campuses. some of them are being funded by terror groups. and we will explore that plus trump indicted a second time in his election interference case. the effect it could have on november. but, first, we leave with you this beautiful shot off the coast of north carolina. brought do you by inspire sleep. ♪ ♪ going fast in a one lane town ♪ take a look ♪ never seen a brighter green in those eyes ♪ put my jacket on your shoulder ♪ wasn't getting colder hi guy

you bet samiti, given at the house and senate homeland security committees and your recently at nsc as chief cyber response this policy. one thing is going to ask you, and you can clear for anything i might've just mentioned. so you're at cisa and epic you at the nsc. paint a picture may be in nutshell. what's the similarity may be difference between those two roles as you know it? >> i thought you were asking why can't keep a job. during that, like wow. so the nsc generally should be coordination, oversight, steering. cisa we're setting policy. what is talking to eric when it was possible, eric alstyne, my predecessor who as you all know is an amazing come did a a grt job at the agency. he was saying best job is ever had, really operational. i didn't quite understand what he meant. but on the day today, i cannot thinking about policy the way i was at nsc were on the hill. when implementing it. we're talking about what we're doing to secure the asset. we are looking at red team reports. we are taught about working with laura and others across, talk of working with our private sector pa

tried to suppress information in covid as well. >> a yeah, so i am on the homeland security investigation committee on senateing chairman a democrat from michigan to allow us to bring in google, explain this to us i any like your job our job to shed lighting on wrongdoing, then bring that hopefully to the sec whatever, may be fec as well we needs number one shed light get to bottom of truth shame them from doing this again. >> wow. all right. we will watch your work good thank you, sir. >> thanks, maria. maria: all right. senator roger marshall joining us you are watching "mornings with maria" live on "fox business" we'll be right back. . >> this week on "mornings with maria" tomorrow former border patrol chief scott on shockingly will limited cake had with the biden-harris administration. thursday republicans hoping to build on majority in the house steve scalise is here. and friday the final day of the democrat convention kamala harris accepts the democrat nomination for president leo terrell reacts, all right here on "mornings with maria." . ... (♪) you know, you only get one body. it might be the perfect

you bet samiti, given at the house and senate homeland security committees and your recently at nsc as chief cyber response this policy. one thing is going to ask you, and you can clear for anything i might've just mentioned. so you're at cisa and epic you at the nsc. paint a picture may be in nutshell. what's the similarity may be difference between those two roles as you know it? >> i thought you were asking why can't keep a job. during that, like wow. so the nsc generally should be coordination, oversight, steering. cisa we're setting policy. what is talking to eric when it was possible, eric alstyne, my predecessor who as you all know is an amazing come did a a grt job at the agency. he was saying best job is ever had, really operational. i didn't quite understand what he meant. but on the day today, i cannot thinking about policy the way i was at nsc were on the hill. when implementing it. we're talking about what we're doing to secure the asset. we are looking at red team reports. we are taught about working with laura and others across, talk of working with our private sector pa

talking point down joining me wisconsin senator ron johnson members of the senate homeland security budget finance committeesw you're s s speaking about that today in chicago your reaction to what you heard from kamala harris on economic agenda. >> good morning, maria. . it is a fantasy unfortunately i have been saying on your program for years, that we have a media that is leftist itself, they are corrupt will provide no accountability to the insanity of her economic policy they won't point out dpak she had a plan, that resulted in your dollar worth on only 38% going up 23% kamala harris admitted cost too high cost up 50% happened on her watch so now report now has a plan to stabilize prices bring them down without really evaluating without a scrutiny that is the problem that donald trump is up against the media, not really running as kamala harris but see tonight the democrats are going to kick joe biden to the curb throw him under bus get rid of him a coup a formal other taking of the coup completion of it, going to crown kamala harris i predicted quite sometime whoever going to replace joe biden with, go

the moscow patriarchate, in the czech republic, members of the senate called for an investigation into the activities of the security committee, recalled: the orthodox church in the czech republic is subordinate to the moscow patriarchate, which is headed by patriarch kirill, who was included in the sanctions list by the czech government in april 2023. the european union expects kiev to respect freedom of religion sounds incredibly hypocritical, after yesterday 265 deputies of the verkhovna rada out of 298 voted to adopt a law banning canonical orthodox. aimed at the destruction of canonical orthodoxy by any means and the expansion of the deepest, already existing split in ukrainian society, now along religious lines, allegedly representatives of other faiths, in fact servants of the marinate regime, are involved. organized the largest wave of persecution of orthodoxy in modern world history. this flagrant lawlessness is not only spiritual, but secular. you know, at different times there were persecutions of the church, we remember the persecution during godless power in the twenties and thirties, but no one even then issued

senator, gary peters of michigan. he is also the chairman of the homeland security committee and the democratic senate congressional democratic senate congressional committee. thank you so much, senator for being here on that front. i mean, your responsible for the senate majority. that's where the would be senate majority. what you're what you're most vulnerable members need to hear from vice president harris this week when she takes that stage well, i think you all she has to do is just talk about who she is and let the american public see what she's about and her vision for the future. >> there's no question. there's a hunger out there for a fresh face it's on the ballot, someone to vote for who is young and energetic and cares about the future. and i know she's going to do that. i've had the privilege of serving with camila. we were seatmates in the senate. we sat next to each other when we came in and i got to know her sense of humor, but also her passion for public service and that's going to help everybody up and down the ballot have to distance herself from president biden and how he is viewed on some key issues like

to go in depth on senate bill 1047, the safe and secure innovation for frontier artificial intelligence models act. that's what it's called. it cleared the senate appropriations committee today with some significant amendments. now, supporters argue that something needs to be done to prevent harm from ai systems before they happen. opponents though, had criticized the original bill, saying it would hinder innovation and prevent progress in the industry. state senator scott wiener authored that bill and joins me now live. scott, always a pleasure to see you. i mentioned that the bill now includes some changes. so what are some of the biggest adjustments that were made today before it cleared that committee, >> well, just to be clear, we've been engaging with folks in the industry with startups and with large tech companies, with folks in the academic world for months now and have made a series of significant amendments to the bill in response to really thoughtful and constructive feedback we've received. i made it clear from the beginning, we want to get this right. so today it was really tightening up some of the language around liability and some of the specific respo

and the national center cyber center of the in cco e and symantec in the house and senate homeland security committeend your recently at the nsc as chief cyber response and policy. one thing i was going to ask you and you can clarify anything i might've just mentioned. you were at the nsc, paint a picture in a nutshell what is the similarity mab difference between the two roles as you noted w. >> i thought you were going to ask me why i can't keep a job. hearing that i am likee wow. the nsc generally should be coordination, oversight, storing, and either were setting policies and when i'm talking to eric it was possible eric was my predecessor and i know he was amazing and didn't great job at the agency will. he was saying was really operational, i didn't understand what he met but on the day-to-day i'm not thinking about policy the wayod i was at nsc or on the hill, we are implementing and talking about what were doing to secure this in what team reports in working with laura and other in working with her private sector partners among them. very much get done to reduce risk to the nation on the day

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security information. his numbers are fresh. republican senator rick scott of the great state of florida is right here today. member of the homeland security armed services and budget committeesood to have you. we have been talking about this and i want to know where it stands in your mind now with the most liberal ticket we've ever seen on the left running for the white house. >> look at what harris did when she picked walz. she believes in defunding the police, she believes in allowing children to mutilate their bodies without consent of parents. believes that you can forcefully take away weapons, guns from people. she confirmed she believes in the green new deal and completely open border. what i don't get is don't the democrats care about the people dying of fentanyl? you think it happens to republicans? don't they care about little girls being raped by illegal immigrants that should never be here? don't they worry about a terrorist attack against democrats? because it doesn't make any sense. there is no logic. it is the most radical ticket we've ever had in this country's history. we all have to do what trump said. we need to swamp them in november. we need to get out an

senate foreign relations committee, senator ben cardin. senator, thank you for taking the time. i know you were personally involved in trying to secure release of russian opposition leader and journalist and green card holder, vladimir kara, you met his family, and while you haven't had a chance to speak with him yet, i understand, what do you think our viewers need to know about this man, and why it is so significant that he was among those freed? >> first of all, it's good to be with you. it speaks to american's foreign policy, wrapped in our values. we bring americans home. we do everything we possibly can. that's the principle purpose of our foreign policy. we deal authoritarian countries that have no concern about the individual. i want to applaud the biden administration for putting this together. it involved several countries. navalny was originally part of it. of course as you know, he passed away. it's a complicated situation. kara-murza is a hero. putin has tried to kill him twice. i had a chance to meet with him. he testified before our committees. i know his family is so relieved he's safe now, and i can't wait to give hi

security committees all doing their different things. we were routing them to different committees and it's still the same way on the senate side. they have to focus their oversight evers -- efforts. what is more important is that they have to have the political will to do whatever it is they come up with to enforce that on the secret service. i think that will have the biggest impact, whether the outside panel digs up additional recommendations, that's great. but whether d.h.s. implements them is the million dollar question. >> certainly that is the million dollar question. right now we don't -- how can we trust mayorkas' alt to ex-- act to -- ability to execute change. we did have the director -- i got a copy of the report, he said a lot of good things. he talked about the technology. they're going to get more money for agents. they're not going to ask them to do more with less. they're not going to overwork. wait a second. it feels like a big aircraft carrier. how are you going to turn this thing around quickly? you are not. who was responsible for those management decisions? ron row is director cheedle's right hand man. mayo

the director of the national security law and policy program at george mason university and former chief counsel and senior advisor of the senate foreign relations committee, jameel jaffer, so great to have you with us, professor. we certainly appreciate your time this morning. thanks for having me on, kevin shanley. thanks, kevin. so now let's turn to another expert joining us now, irish independent researcher doctor rebecca grant. doctor grant, thank you for joining us. right now, the israeli security council is meeting discussing the preemptive attacks. and now hezbollah saying they completed phase one of a retaliatory attack. what do you think they're discussing now as far as next steps? it could be anything. and i think we're going to see israel engaged in with two main missions, one is trying to keep up their defenses against any potential future missile attacks, and they'll also be looking closely for more indications of hezbollah massing and other places for potential strikes. you know, israel has made really clear that they're not looking for war here. but on the other hand, they've said that they are ready to respond and israel's air force is ab

the safe and secure innovation for frontier artificial intelligence models act cleared the senate appropriations committeeay with significant amendments. supporters argue something needs to be done to prevent harm from ai systems before they happen. opponents had criticized the original bill, saying it would hinder innovation and prevent progress in the industry. for more insight, earlier, we spoke with state senator scott wiener. >> here is that for very the largest, most powerful ai model, before you release them, do basic safety testing to figure out if there is risk of catastrophic harm, like shutting down the grid or creating a chemical or biological weapon. >> state senator wiener goes on to say that he's been working with people in the ai industry on the bill, and amendments were made in response to their feedback. >> the city of san francisco is taking legal action against ai generated. city attorney david chiu announcing what he says is the first lawsuit of its kind targeting deepfakes. chiu says there are more than a dozen websites that allow users to create nude images of someone without their

security risks, correct? r >> yes, i believe so. >> and your pane is currently being reviewed by this interagency committee of the -- at the treasury department for potential national security risks. >> senator,it this review is ona acquisition of musically which was acquisition done many years ago. >> are you actually providing information to the treasury department about your -- how your platform operates for evaluating a potential national security risk? >> senator, it's been many years across two administrations and a lot of discussions around how our plans are, how our systems work, we have a lot of, a lot of robust discussions about a lot of detail. >> 63% of teens i understand use tiktok. does that sound about right? >> senator, i can not verify that, v we know we are popular among many age groups, the average aging for user base is over 30 but we are aware that we are popular. >> and you reside in singapore with your family, correct? >> yes, i reside in singapore and i work here in the united states as well. >> and do your children have access to tiktok to singapore. >> my children are below the age of 13. >> my question is if singapore do they have access to tiktok or is that restri

senate judiciary and budget committees. senator, good morning to you. >> good morning. good to be with you. maria: your reaction to the agenda here and kamala harris' new promises of securingould she be elected. >> look, it's hard to lose 3 20,000 children. you know, i'll note with a degree of cynicism here that the department of homeland security has acknowledged that these children have a higher than average risk of being subjected to the trafficking. yeah, you think? look, that's the whole way they came into this country. that's the one thing they all have in common, they were all trafficked. they lost control, lost awareness of their whereabouts. and that is unforgivable, as is the fact they've allowed 10 million illegal immigrants into this country over the last 3 and a half years, and they've done so in a way that has inured to the benefit of international drug cartels to the tune of billions of dollars a year. this is absolutely criminally reckless, what they're doing. they're acting with conscious disregard to the fact that we're undergoing a type of invasion. maria: yeah. >> it's not a formal one, but it is an invasion money theless because they're refusing -- non

four hour a day security operations in the committee's staffing space so that people could not enter or exit without the proper credentials. that was a new operation in the united states senate. no senate had ever had that kind of security operation before. they also when there were there were two incidents on senate staff where people were thought to have shared some information with outside individus. and those people were immediately dismissed, promptly dismissed. so the word among staff the staff who i've talked to was we absolutely will not tolerate leaks. this is very sensitive. we're going to deal with it with the utmost care and respect and sense of responsibility. so i think that for the people who worried that congress couldn't do this safely and effectively, i think that that the church committee investigation proved them wrong. they really did a very good job of maintaining that sense of need to protect information and resources and also help the american public understand some of the egregious abuses that the national intelligence community had committed on their behalf over the course of four or five decades. there were other critics who, you know, politically

four hour a day security operations in the committee's staffing space so that people could not enter or exit without the proper credentials. that was a new operation in the united states senate. no senate had ever had that kind of security operation before. they also when there were there were two incidents on senate staff where people were thought to have shared some information with outside individus. and those people were immediately dismissed, promptly dismissed. so the word among staff the staff who i've talked to was we absolutely will not tolerate leaks. this is very sensitive. we're going to deal with it with the utmost care and respect and sense of responsibility. so i think that for the people who worried that congress couldn't do this safely and effectively, i think that that the church committee investigation proved them wrong. they really did a very good job of maintaining that sense of need to protect information and resources and also help the american public understand some of the egregious abuses that the national intelligence community had committed on their behalf over the course of four or five decades. there were other critics who, you know, politically

with the senator mark warner, chair of the senate intelligence committee and representative brad wenstrup. they consider disinformation campaign, election security, and how social media is being used to influence potential outcomes. in the event was hosted by the ronald reagan institute in washington, d.c.. >> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the reagan institute. we are honored to cohost of the event today with freedom house, a group that does outstanding work around the world promoting and defending democracy and freedom. the reagan institute and foundation recently launched our new center on civility and democracy with a recognition that the decline in civility and respect for fellow americans threatens our democracy. divisiveness and lack of trust are damaging our political process causing americans to lose faith in institutions and their leaders. a functioning democracy requires trust in our system, trust in our institutions, trust in each other, and even when we disagree. in fact, especially when we disagree. there is nothing our foreign adversaries would like more than to undermine that trust. one way to do that is to use false inform

security, fbi, secret service. the task force and congress and committees in the senate. and so we got to get to an answer and we got to tell the public information as soon as possible to stop these theories that are both on different sides of the spectrum. that one it was an inside job or the other that the whole thing was staged and that's the agencies are not sharing information in real time while i was going to ask you about that because there's just been a lot of rhetoric flying around about who the shooter was and what his motivations might have been. have you gotten anywhere in terms of that no we've not been provided that information. >> and i get why people are using their imagination because it also want to imaginable that someone could get on a roof, have a clear line of shot. two are former presence so close to the stage. and sometimes jim, 20 test these areas of government, like in my high school but marjorie stoneman, douglas in the shooting, we saw a multitude of failures that day that led to that horrific event. at my high school, there wasn't one thing th

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now, the director of national security law and policy program at george mason university and former chief counsel and senior advisor for the senate foreign relations committee, jameel jaffer jameel from the sounds of what trey is describing, would you suspect that much of the, you know, the fireworks, if you will, of hezbollah's attack have been blunted that that the israelis managed to, get some of these rockets before they got off the ground? well, it's hard to know. you know, hezbollah has such a huge rocket force there in the northern part, aimed at the northern part of israel and the southern part of lebanon. and so it's hard to know how much we do know that what admiral hagari has indicated was they hit about 70 targets inside of lebanon, killing about 20 fighters, hezbollah fighters in the last few days. this, this this attack. but we also know that, you know, in the last just since october 8th alone, we've seen over 6700 rockets, missiles and explosive, unmanned aerial vehicles fired at by hezbollah at at israel. so we know that they have used a portion of their, of their artillery capabilities, but not nearly all of it, we note that you're the dire

background and decided that they a security risk because their sexuality or their gender presention. the reason for given this was stated here this us senate committee was those who engaged in overt acts of perversion, as they call it, lack the emotional stability of normal perso and that one homosexual can pollute governmenoffice that they were vulnerable to blackmail and that becausehey were allegedly perverted they were molly weak and could be put to use by the soviets. all right. so that's in effect, is that these people are then purged from the federal government. the final point i want to make about communists and government is the way that the issue was weaponized by one particular. the us senator who gave his name to this era, joseph. joseph mccarthy. this is often called the mccarthy era. mccarthy because he was the most reckless proponent of these, he was pretty late though to the to the party, to the conspiracy theory he was elected to senate, to the senate, from. in 1946 and for first four years that he was in the senate. he did not make anti-communism big issue. but then in 1950, right after hiss was convicted and realized that this was

senate is making important progress drafting a.i. legislation already. just yesterday, on the -- under the magnificent leadership of chair cantwell and chair peters, both the commerce and homeland security committeesarked up and improved important bipartisan a.i. bills. these bills will help american workers to be a.i. ready, while helping innovation lead the way in new technologies. yesterday, senator klobuchar also brought two bipartisan bills to the floor to protect our elections from deepfakes and political advertising. sadly, these bills were blocked. i hope we can find a path forward. last week, the senate unanimously passed the de-fayans act, a -- the defiance act, a bill to combat the spread of sexually explicit a.i.-generated deepfakes, an awful thing afflicting so many americans, particularly young kids and young girls. in the last two weeks there are at least five very good a.i. bills that have seen some movement in the senate. all of them have bipartisan support. together, they represent a good mix of the two approaches. i've always said we need -- what we need with a.i., two things, to promote safe innovation, on the one hand, but instill commonsense guardrails on the other. this is t

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the middle of national security and foreign policy throughout the past three and a half years, just as she was in the middle of it when she was on the senate intelligence committee. she's extremely accomplished in these areas. she has played an active role here, in ukraine, in gaza, in helping to contain china around the world and dealing with issues like a.i. and next generation threats. and this is just one of a handful of why, in my estimation, the vice president is not an accidental candidate. the vice president is the best qualified person in america to be the next president of the united states. >> david, i want to thank you. ali velshi is going to stay with me for a minute. i always like to be as transparent as i can with the viewers. i've tried to get you in here to do a fall back to talk about your book for a minute. there's been a lot of news. you've been a little busy. we've been a little busy. >> yes. >> so now i've got you on foreign policy, let's take a minute. >> thank you. >> we're still going to do this. this has been in the works. the book, it's "small acts of courage." it looks at migration across the country. do we embrace this? is that the a

senator is getting at. what the fbi, the secret service and every agency who was involved in what we see as catastrophic security failure needs to be open and transparent can we had several house committeesenced investigation this task force will have the information coming into one place. we have one of the most important things to make sure that we do here not just from the fbi and secret service but local law enforcement and people who attended the rally that day. that's how we will ensure the validity and accuracy and thoroughness of the information we are getting. we do need all of that. we need to understand who this person was, what was going on with him, who if anyone was he talking to in the day leading up to this in the months leading up to this and the other thing i will tell you, i've been to butler, pennsylvania and for those of us who have walked that site, it is all the more inexplicable. this is not a large area come something a lay person can walk up and see these are the four buildings we need to be concerned about. all the more impossible to understand how this could have happened when you go there and see this site. we are working hard around the clock to make sure we

senate confirmation process is not just a good government initiative. it is a national security public health and economic imperative. after moments of crisis. we look forward to working with you to find solutions. members of the committee, my name is sean i am a legislative attorney and the american law division of the congressional research service. i'm honored to testify here today on the appointments clause of the u.s. constitution and the senate's advice and consent function for the appointments clause in article two section two. it begins by stating this president shall nominate with the consent of the senate shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and counsel, judges of the supreme court all other officers in united states whose appointment is not provided for elsewhere in the constitution. writing april 17, alexander hamilton argues given the president the sole responsibility to pick a nominee would instill in the president a livelier sense of duty. to confirm a nominee when restraint the president choice. does not need to confirm all officers and fear officer with them sent advice and consent is a default method of appointment but not the only method the clause says congress may by law vest the appoin

security advisor responding to that criticism. >> we're not giving up on that. >> i have personally worked on the marc fogel case. >> joining me now, democratic senator bob casey of pennsylvania, a member of the intelligence committeeed marc fogel. you have been working with the family to bring him home. his family says there's a glaring injustice here. the fact is, he was not declared wrongfully detained. that's a legal status by the state department that begins the process of negotiating. now they say they are negotiating for him, for humanitarian grounds, that he is in prison so long and is not well. talk to me about the letter that you sent to secretary blinken, uring the state department to designate him wrongfully doe tan -- detained. >> it's important to remind folks, as ambassador and mcfaul has, that mark is a teacher who has health problems that have grown a lot worse in the time he has been incarcerated. we have to make sure that we continue to focus our attention on his case. his family is heartbroken that when this major deal came together marc wasn't part of it. i met with jake sullivan the other night and urged him strongly to do two things. to continue to aggressively pursue marc's release and secon

race to bring our country together in the senate to get a position on the intelligence committee is very coveted because it is about protecting our nation's securityand kamala hit the ground running. she would not let a witness off easily. >> did you have any communications with russian officials for any reason during the campaign that have not been disclosed? >> i don't recall it. i need to be correct as best i can. >> i do want you to be honest. i'm not able to be rushed this fast. it makes me nervous. >> the questioning of attorney general sessions was was historic, and she earned the respect of colleagues on both sides of the aisle kamala, as a senator was a truth teller. >> she was there to expose what some of these guys were and what they intended to do. can you think of any laws that give government the power to make decisions about the male body uh i'm not a i'm not a thinking of any right now senator. >> they didn't know what hit them. >> and in those moments. so many people saw her for the first time. and saw how tough she was. >> would you accept them recommending a charging decision to you if they had not reviewed the evidence? well, t