that represented the 40 nations that were in the united nations coalition fighting the axis powers. this represents the idea of what becomes the un general assembly. in the center, you have something marked executive committee, and this is really the full-time staff of what would become the united nations, the secretariat. then the last circle, marked four police, roosevelts conception of the four policemen or the security council of the united nations. the four police roosevelt had in mind where the united states, great britain, soviet union, and the fourth country was going to be china, which he felt was an up-and-coming power, and deserving of being among the four policemen. so, there in broad stroke, the ideas he is kicking around in his mind for this post war organization. i think it's very telling that roosevelt is thinking so far ahead. this is 1943. the war is far from over, but he is already thinking beyond the horizon and about what comes after the war. in 1944, in the midst of world war ii, fdr runs for an unprecedented fourth term as president in the united states. as yo

national guard came, what was the beretta sensor? >> you're talking about national guard that came on the. >> the one that stayed after. >> what was the threat assessment? why would they be here for months on end? >> my departure date was the eighth so the information i have was up until the eighth. for based on the mass insurrection we had on the sixth. i wasn't aware of additional ones, they were just concerned about violent extremists regrouping and staging another attack. >> you haven't seen anything that would give us the assessment now that we have a concern we need to help national guard present? you haven't seen anything? >> i've been not in the environment since the eighth. >> any others here, do have any threat assessment you seen that there's reason we have national guard here today? is not a no from everybody? any idea why we have the national guard here? >> my guess is in response that happened, to your question is typically about specific intelligence, i have not personally seen anything that suggests that. >> are you in

stenger and again requested the national guard. instead of approving the use of the national guard, however, mr. stenger suggested i ask then how quickly we could get support if needed and to lean forward in case we had to request assistance on january 6th. can you describe at more length those conversations with the two sergeant-at-arms on january the 4th? >> absolutely, sir, the first conversation occurred monday morning. i went over. i'd have to refer to my notes, but sometime maybe around 11:00 in the morning. i met with mr. irving in his office. that's where i made the first request for the national guard. he had indicated, i don't know if i really like the optics, you know, i don't think the intelligence really supports it. he had -- like we had said, recommended i talk to the senate sergeant-at-arms. later on in the day, i met with -- i'm trying to recall if it was in person or on the phone, i have to go back to my timeline where i reached out to him and they may have already talked because he had referred to me said, do you

if they tested positive, the d.c. national guard and their organization worked through the contact tracing to make sure the identified members that needed to go into restriction of movement. and they can and you'd that over the last month now. from the numbers i have seen, they have done a really good job and have continued to reduce that to be able to find where those positives are, and then do the contact tracing, do appropriate restriction of movement to assure they can minimize any impacts to the mission. representative: thank you. general taliaferro, if i heard correctly, one third of our service members are refusing the vaccination. what is the department doing to reach out to service members to encourage them to be vaccinated? and when i served in the marine corps, i don't think i was ever given an option about my vaccination. we got in line, they zapped us. everybody got it. that is the way it was. are you saying now, we have a new approach to vaccination for our service members? >> congressman, i wouldn't say we have

the national guard presence we have here now. as a result of the riot, the national guard has put up the fencing and all that. >> that began to be developed on the evening of the 6th. when we made the request, we got the national guard in, we started looking to the future of what was going to be next. we started talking about bringing in the first section of global fencing which basically went right around the square, that was constitution to 1st. we started talking about working with the national guard representative. that was developed with capitol police, working with, i believe, sergeant in arms at the time. in the evening going into the 7th that we developed that. >> okay. were you the only one involved or were the sergeant in arms involved? >> i believe so. i would have to go back and pull that information. we were working on a number of different aspects of it at the time, but i had my general counsel as well as my operations people working on the request in coordination with the national guard. >> what was the purpose of t

, the national guard is on the way, yes, the national guard is being restaged from traffic post to respond. the response was more asking about the plan that, you know, what was the plan for the national guard. the response was more focused on, in addition to the plan, the optics of how this looks with boots on the ground on the capitol. my response to that was simply, i was just stunned, that, you know, i have officers that were out there literally fighting for their lives and we're kind of going through an exercise to really check the boxes and it was not an immediate response. when i asked specifically steve sund, chief sund was he requesting the national guard and was that request being denied the response was no, we're not -- from the u.s. department of army was no, we're not denying the request, but they were concerned, they did have concerns. i was just again, stunned at that response. >> thank you. >> senator blunt? >> thank you, chairman. chief sund, if i have your testimony correct this morning, i think what i'm hearing you say is based on the intelligence you saw on january the 3

sergeant-at-arms to request the assistance of the national guard and mr. irving said he was concerned about the optics of having to deploy, is that right? am i remembering that correctly? >> yes, sir. on the 4th, it wasn't a phone call, it was an in-person visit to his office where i went in and requested the national guard. >> mr. irving, when you used the term optics, and maybe you didn't, do you recall being concerned about the optics of the national guard and could you just elaborate on what you meant by that? again, this is monday, january 4th, now. >> on monday january 4th, senator, safety was always a deciding factor in making security plans. the issue on the table was whether the intelligence warranted troops at the capitol. and the conversation with mr. sund was not -- i did not take it as a request, he was merely informing me that he had received an offer from the national guard. then when we included mr. stenger, the three of us discussed the specific issue on whether the intelligence warranted the troops and the answer was no. it was a collectiv

they're being begged to send in the national guard. the response as the chief just said, was not an immediate yes. yes, the national guard is responding. yes, the national guard is on the way. one thing that did not come up in today's hearing but has still not been explained about that desperate phone call the d.c. police described, that the pentagon initially lied about one of the military officers who was on that call. the "washington post" reporting last month that after trump's disgraced national security adviser mike flynn told president trump he should use military force and martial law to seize election results, mike flynn's brother was at the pentagon and on that call. the call where the pentagon allegedly slow walked approving deploying the national guard. mike flynn's brother, lieutenant general charles flynn, has denied that his relationship with his brother was any sort of factor in the response to the capitol attack. but the army hand explained why they repeatedly lied when they insisted multiple times that general flynn's

the national guard presence we have here now as a result of the riot but the national guard has put up the fencing and all that. >> okay. so that was that began to be developed the evening of the 6th when we made the request. we got the national guard in. we started looking to the future, what was going to be next. we started talking about bringing in the first section of global fencing, which basically went right around capitol square, constitution, independence, first. we had that in place and started looking at what national guard resources working with the national guard representative. that was developed with capitol police working with sergeant at arms at the time, in the evening going into the 7th that we developed that. >> okay. were you the only one involved or was the sergeant at arms involved? >> i believe so. i'd have to go back and pull that information. we were working on different aspects of it at that time. i had my people working on the request and the coordination with the national guard. >> what was the purpose of the original -- the national guard that came and put

and so, however, they knew they needed the help of the national farmworkers association. he union of says are indoors, which was mainly mexican and mexican american. and so, they asked them to join the strike and on september 16th, 1965, which is the mexican national day, the national farmworkers association was convened, all of membership was convened. in a sort of town hall. and the members voted to join the filipino strike. so they all walked out of the grape fields of deadly no. well, the growers responded quite violently, spraying the workers with pesticides and in order to call the attention of the governor of california, scissor travis decided to launch a big long march from delay no to south america, which was over 300 miles. that march was called the -- the movement had quite some religious, served as an element of cultural cohesion for, in particular for the mexican, american union. so, as we see here, this is a photograph of that march which started in the lane with a few hundred farmworkers. and when he got to sacramento california, it was 10,000 people. we see

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he is joined by the head of the national world war i museum and memorial in kansas city, home of the nation's existing national memorial. the museum hosted this discussion and provided the video. >> we were given the mission of establishing monuments to commemorate and honor the service and achievements of american armed forces in world war i. our first chairman was general john pershing, who was commander of the american expeditionary force during the war. one of his early assistance was -- assistants was dwight eisenhower, who helped write our guide. that proved to be of use to him in world war ii. our next chairman was george marshall. the commission erected eight memorials across france. in 1933, we also designed the chapels were established at the permanent american cemeteries in europe. president roosevelt transferred those cemeteries to ask. -- us. our brand is our cemeteries. most people are familiar with the normandy cemetery. that was part of the larger world war i program. the focus was on the establishment of american memorials overseas. we primarily had a focus on state a

i'm a citizen of that nation where the largest native nation east of the mississippi a population means that we're about the fifth largest tribe in the country. um, i was a military brat and spent much of my life traveling at reservations, but they were native reservations. they were military reservations, but when i got into college, i began to read the works of vinder laurie jr. who was the most powerful intellectual thinker of the time and if not the century and wound up studying under him for my master's degree and he was the one that convinced me that we needed more indigenous people studying the political affairs of our nations and intergovernmental relations as well. and so that's what led me back to chapel hill to get my phd and i began my teaching career university of arizona for nine years and then the desert heat finally drove me away from there. up to the cold viking country in minnesota where i spent when he winters and had a wonderful run there in both native studies political science and the law program as well as you noted my work really focuses on how indigenous peoples

crystal shank is on his way to the national parks headquarters. during the drive he's struck by the extent to which human activity has changed the environment. the many cows are just one indication. the once clear water is stained brown by this oil it's washing away. it's in your confused we don't see human influences here hold large numbers of livestock massive over use of the land on which their ocean caused by trample and grazing over there is also erosion caused by the water behind me are non-native eucalyptus trees the landscape is totally changed and in very poor conditions especially to stop this. ethiopia's wealth of nature disappeared from here a long time ago many children don't know their country any other way. as often happens the weather in the mountains is about to change. a hailstorm in the ethiopian highlands. little. the landscape has been consistently damaged by humans and extreme weather like this only makes things worse. just visit as you just read people's future is being washed away on foot we associate ethiopia with drought a

the national capital was weakened [inaudible] u.s. capital police, sergeant at arms and rising security of the capital complex and its population. there is a shared responsibility with other law enforcement. sharing the resources are paramount for success [inaudible] overworking the relationship between the office and capital police have been a priority. i'm a proponent of the concept. this methodology can be used to assess the individual members. it's only as good as the analyst assessing it and that assessment is placed in the proper hands to accept or mitigate any threats. we have to be careful of returning to a time when the events of january 6th started to reveal return to the concept of the possibilities of the security operations the result [inaudible] this is because the give and take of security planning. we had an opportunity to learn lessons from the events of january 6th. [inaudible] should be considered in conjunction with these investigations. the coordination and national capital should be reviewed for what can be done.

she spent 24 years at the u.s. national archives, including more than two years as the acting archivist. after retiring from the u.s. government she was the founding executive director of the society archives in budapest, hungary and directory of archives and records management for the united nations high commissioner for refugees. she is a past president of the international conference of the roundtable on archives and society of american archivists. she has also chaired the international council on archives human rights working group and the working group on the standard for access to archives. she currently advises the aah's committee. gary stern has been the general counsel of the national archives and records administration since 1998 and is career member. he is the senior agency official for privacy, senior agent for unclassified information, and resolution specialist. he earned his law degree in 1987 from yale where he served as editor in chief of the yale journal of international law. for today's webinar we would li

ambassador to the united nations. also on the agenda, annual meeting of george washington's farewell address. now, live senate coverage here on c-span2. ******************** the chaplain: let us pray. eternal god, as we cross the grim milestone of 500,000 lives lost to the coronavirus, we continue to look to you for strength, guidance, and wisdom. lord, use our senators to bring healing to our nation and world. give them the creativity and wisdom needed to do what is best to end this global pestilence. inspire them to permit their out this, words, and -- their thoughts a, worded, and actions to please you. may they receive the smile of heaven's approval because of their faithfulness. and, lord, we thank you for the life of our first president of the united states, george washington. we pray in your marvelous name, amen. the presiding officer: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god

chosen for the national world war i memorial in washington dc. they wonder when it will open. >> i will touch on both of these questions. if any of you have ever built a house or remodel the house, they have been delays in construction. we hope to oc it this year. back up pushed to december. because of covid related considerations, we lost a couple of days because of protests in washington. we are one block from the white house on pennsylvania avenue. all of those factors, the main memorial site will be complete by around march 1. we will have an opening ceremony on april 16 when the weather is a bit nicer. we just went to -- through an exercise to see if we could grow poppies in a hothouse. they are a fragile flower. temperamental. we could not guarantee we would have them grown and blooming. the sculpture will take another three years. we are talking about a four-year sculpting process. the site will be open to the public april 16. few obvious which over to the slides? let me share my screen. i had it a minute ago. laura: you did. i was talking

i have questions about the national guard. the secretary mentioned we are trying to prioritize the vaccine for those service members who are on the front lines or performing functions in which they might have exposure. are the members of the guard being appropriately prioritized who are serving their communities in the covid response, such as serving and food banks, serving in vaccine supply, assisting communities in ways in which they are part of the covid response? are they being a properly prioritized -- appropriately prioritized? >> first, yes, we are in lockstep. we have been fully integrated in the dod priority schema for vaccination. we receive our allotment of vaccines and follow down the list. in that top list of the one a are guardsmen serving in covert operations, so they have the ability to get the vaccine. we have been pushing it out weakly to the states so they can get vaccinated. rep. turner: i have one more follow-up. this question is based on information i have in other states besides ohio. could you please tel

why would we allow partisanship to get in the way of national security? i've urged my republican colleagues on the judiciary committee, current chairman graham, and incoming ranking member grassley, to consent to start the hearing for merrick garland as soon as possible. i proposed february 8, next monday, as a hearing date in part to accommodate senator graham's request to avoid holding a hearing during the impeachment trial. a february 8 hearing date gives the committee sufficient time to review judge garland's record. it would follow the same timeline, the very same timeline that senator graham used for judge amy coney barrett's nomination to the supreme court last year. remember, the committee has already received the vast majority of judge garland's record, including his speeches, interviews, and publications that less than five years ago were presented when he was nominated to the supreme court. we have had this material in the committee for years. senator graham claims that important paperwork for judge garland is still missing. the only thing that

from this base came the national farm workers association under caesar chavez. began a new chapter in the history in the little valley in december 1965. the grape strike began for union recognition on a pay scale of $1.40 an hour became much more than that as the strikers themselves were to declare in their own manifesto the plan of delino. >> we're conscience of the significance of our pilgrimage. we knowáa!bty all of these soun becauseé road in this very same valley the mexican race to sacrifice itself for the last 100 years. our sweat and our blood have fallen on this land to make other men rich. this pilgrimage is a witness to the suffering we have seen for generations. the penance we accept symbolizes a suffering which we'll have in order to bring justice to these same towns, to this same valley. the pilgrimage we make symbolizes the long, historic road we have traveled in this valley alone and the long road we have yet to travel with much penance in order to bring about the revolution we need. >> the delino strike again protected the plight to farm workers

since 2011, we have been to more than 200 communities across the nation. our staff is staying close to home due to the coronavirus. next, a look at one of our cities tour's. >> there it is. the 60 foot head of george washington. theodore roosevelt to be honored in an unveiling ceremony. >> when i look at the president, the first thing i think about is some individual achievements from each of those people. but really, what they do for me and what this whole memorial does for me is it reminds me about what they stood for. standing for freedom, democracy. i get to think about that every day and share that with people every day. and meet people from all over the world who may not know who those professionals are. but they understand what freedom means. the original idea was by joan robinson. he is a state historian. joan had conceived of carving statues. there were giant granite fighters in custer state park. he was going to carbon and have people like lewis and clark, fremont and when he hired his artist, he said you are not thinking big enough. selecting the

the nation needs us to workio together. members of the committee, if confirmedge i would bring to the challenges a professional life spent committed to the defense and bring inside knowledge of the action and outsiders drive for reform. i would bring the commitment to restore healthy, civil military dynamics and establishing regular order and i would be proud to put another crack in the glass ceiling in the department i've spent most of my adult life serving. ti look forward to your questis and i'm grateful for this time here today. >> thank you very g much, docto, hicks. i'm going to cover four questions quickly toer kind of t this off. first of all, on the document that we've referred to in the national defense strategy commission that tells the whole world the significance the 12 people that put the document together thatt we have adhered o some people are saying that it's may be already outdated since it was put together back in 2018. i would askop the question first of all there are a lot of things people keep talking a

stinker and requested the national guard. instead of approving the use of national guard he suggested i ask how quickly we can get support if needed and leaned forward in case we had to request assistance on january 6. can you describe that link those conversations with the two sergeant and arms on january 4th? >> the first conversation occurred monday morning i would have to refer to my notes for somewhere around 11:00 o'clock in the morning event with mr. irving in his office making the first request to the national guard to say i don't think the intelligence supports it if we needed them on wednesday is there a way to beep report on - - prepare for a request? at that .125 national guardsmen supporting if we needed a response quickly he could repurpose them to get them to the armory and to get them to us as quick as possible the next day i met with mr. stinker he came for the video call i posted with those officials and we spoke about it briefly there as well as i passed on to mr. irving later that afternoon. >> i understand

and again, we see the nation and all the activity going on. and the development of legislation all deeply embedded with flavoring. we also look at the human story of african-american men, women and children finding ways to go around black codes and slave codes. but we also have a deeper understanding of that very personal experience, of being sold away on the auction block and also that juxtaposition of profit and power also associated with that experience on the auction block. it's important to note that one of the design features we have in this exhibition is that we have a wall filled with excerpts from bills of sales and broad sides. so, you will see a young boy sold for $5. $5 for a young black boy is what the excerpt says. understand that $5 is the monetary value, but the value of that young boy to his mother, to his brother or sister is immeasurable. that gets us to the story of life, work and enslavement and looking at the many complexities of this human experience during the antebellum period. we're fortunate enough that we were able

this hits with real power across the nation. we see it reflected in film and photography of the public mourning that occurs in the days and weeks after his death on april 12. ♪ herman: at the very end of his presidency gallery, we present the most important architect -- artifact. it is what the president used throughout his presidency. in the aftermath of fdr's death and public mourning, his successor harry truman did not feel right keeping the desk and chair used by fdr, so he gave them to eleanor roosevelt, and she donated them to the roosevelt library. they were put on display in 1945 and have been on public display ever since. in addition, we have many of the items the president had on the desk at the time of his death. we have it arranged as close as we could get it to the way it looked in march of 1945, the last time he sat here. you see a wide variety of things. some serious items, whimsical items. fdr had a sense of humor. he liked having ceramic figures, stuffed animals and toys on the desk. many serious items, things he

to the united nations and rep. of the united states and the security council u-n ambassador nominee linda thomas-greenfield. it linda thomas-greenfield is currently serving on the biden transition team and was previously the head of the practice for the albright stonebridge group. the investors career has been one of the distinguished as a member of the diplomatic corps of the united states. she is held high-level positions in the state to develop right answers abroad as well. last position held was the assistant secretary of state for african affairs . she's best experiences as a foreign service officers with numerous publications and distinguished fellow the georgetown university . and proud to say that she graduated the louisiana state university. and also of wisconsin which might be - investor linda thomas-greenfield has dedicated her career to serve our nation. in addition to the four accomplishments, she holds numerous honors and awards in 2016, even a school named after her. the linda thomas-greenfield prepar

and it's just a wonderful opportunity for the national firearms museum to be the temporary custodians of these national treasures, literally from our nations -- in fact, a number of firearms and that his six children enjoyed using. his elder son, theodore jr., who earned the medal of honor utah beach. second serve kermit, major in the british expedition forces during world war i and the united states in world war i and world war ii. tied at fort richardson in 1943. so number three, archie roosevelt, was given 100% disability from wounds received twice. the only soldier in american history to have earned 100 percent disability in both world war i and world war ii and of course,, the youngest and the first to past, young lieutenant quentin roosevelt, a fighter pilot shot down by the germans over friends in 1918. the firearms that they used both in the service for recreation around sagamore hill as well as are the facts that we can reach back, touch, that is one of my favorite stories. the wind chester model 34, 30 30, if you look closely there there is a muzzle at the end of that. roose

yes, the national guard is on the way. yes, the national guard are being restaged from traffic posts to respond. the response was more asking about the plan, what was the plan for the national guard, and the response was more focused on in addition to the plan, the optics about how this looks with boots on the ground on the capitol. and my response to that was simply, i was just stunned that i have officers that are literally fighting for their lives and we're kind of going through what seemed like an exercise to check the boxes and there was not an immediate response. when i asked specifically, steve sund, chief sund, was he requesting national guard and was that request being denied. the response was no, we're not -- from the u.s. department of army, was no, we're not denying the request, but they were concerned, they did have concerns so again i was just stunned at that response. >> thank you. >> senator blunt. >> chief sund, if i have your testimony correct this morning, i think what i'm hearing you say is based on int

in response, the national apprenticeship act of 2021 invests $3.5 billion in our national apprenticeship system, ensures consistency and quality across apprenticeship programs, increases opportunities for diverse groups of workers who have not traditionally been included in the apprenticeship system, and expands registered apprenticeships in emerging sectors, such as health care, manufacturing, finance, and technology. this investment alone will create an additional one million apprenticeship opportunities. i'm so excited to say that. and it was yield more than $10 billion in benefits to taxpayers through higher tax revenue and decreased spending on social safety net programs. there's no better policy, mr. speaker, than helping people get great training for great jobs. construction training -- excuse me -- construction trades and their industry partners have long proven that registered apprenticeships work and that the registered apprenticeship model works. that's why trade groups, industry associations, labor unions, and other stakeholders supported both democrats and republicans in ove

capitol police, the national guard and the department of the army. i was surprised at the reluctance to immediately send the national guard to the capitol grounds. in the meantime, by 2:30 p.m., the district had requested additional officers from as far away as new jersey and issued notice of an emergency citywide curfew beginning at 6:00 p.m. from that point it took another three and a half hours until all rioters were removed from the capitol. 90 minutes later at 8:00 p.m. congress was able to resume its critical work and fulfill its constitutional duty. over the course of january the 6th and into the early morning of the 7th approximately 1,100 mpd members responded to the capitol. at least 65 mpd members sustained injuries. five people lost their lives on january the 6th. as we reflect on that dark day we offer our condolences to all of the grieving families. in closing, i appreciate the opportunity to highlight the heroism of mpd officers who put their lives on the line to protect the capitol, congress and our democracy, but to ensure the contin

from the space came the national farmworkers association undersea jean chavez. rs organizing committee, we begin a new chapter of long farmworker industry. in the little town of delay know in september of 1965, the delay no grape strike began for union recognition on the pay scale of a dollar 40 an hour, became much more than that. it was the strikers themselves were to declare, their own manifesto. the plan of delay no. >> we are conscience of the historical significance. it is clearly evident that their path travels through a valley well-known through mexican lawmakers. we know all of these towns of deadly know, mud as to, stockton and sacramento because along this very same road, in this very same valley, the mexican race has sacrificed itself to for the last hundred years. on our sweat and our -- has fallen on this land to make other men rich. this pilgrimage is a witness to see the suffering we have seen for generations. dependence we accept symbolizes the suffering which will have to bring justice to the same towns, to the same valley. the pilgrimage we mak

one year ago tonight the pandemic landed on our nation's shores just a few miles from where i sit. from the beginning that the deck was stacked against us pointing to the lack of infrastructure and capacity to claim alaska words suffer the same as the third world countries and health experts warned us of the over 10000 dead. i would be lying if i said that tragedy covid-19 18 wait on me and i was played by the stories of the elders that survived this compelled me to make sure there was no repeat on my watch. from the first night we committed to handling the virus without partisan bickering. we are one in the battle. today and against all odds alaska leads the way in vaccinations we enjoy the third lowest mortality rate in the nation. and to predict utter devastation they were wrong because not just americans or alaskans. scheinman others expect us to fail and we create opportunities from calamity alaskans are a different breed. we are cloned by a close proximity to nature. this ability to rely on ourselves and our each other will get us to everything from earthquakes to floods to vo

crystal shank is on his way to the national parks headquarters. during the drive he's struck by the extent to which human activity has changed the environment. the many cows are just one indication. the once clear water is stained brown by this oil it's washing away. it seems you are confused we don't see human influences here large numbers of livestock with massive over use of the land all bushed erosion caused by trample and grazing over there's also erosion caused by the water. behind me are non-native eucalyptus trees the landscape is totally changed and in very poor conditions especially to stop this. ethiopia's wealth of major disappeared from here a long time ago many children don't know their country any other way. as often happens the weather in the mountains is about to change. hail storms in the ethiopian highlands. the landscape has been consistently damaged by humans and extreme weather like this only makes things worse. the visitors you just read people's future is being washed away on foot we associate ethiopia with drought and air a

capitol police, the national guard and the department of the army. i was surprised at the reluctance to immediately send the national guard to the capitol grounds. in the meantime, by 2:30 p.m., the district had requested additional officers from as far away as new jersey and issued notice of an emergency citywide curfew beginning at 6:00 p.m. from that point, it took another three and a half hours until all rioters were removed from the capitol. 90 minutes later at 8:00 p.m., congress was able to resume its critical work and fulfill its constitutional duty. over the course of january 6th and into the early morning of the 7th, approximately 1100 mpd members responded to the capitol. at least 65 mpd members sustained injuries. five people lost their lives on january 6th. as we reflect on that dark day, we offer our condolences to all of the grieving families. in closing, i appreciate the opportunity to highlight the heroism of mpd officers who put their lives on the line to protect the capitol, congress, and our democracy. but to ensure the continued

capital with details on how this will help the nation faisal. >>good evening, yes, earlier today, president biden met a bipartisan group of lawmakers to discuss the best approach going forward to strengthen the u.s. supply chain and to see your secure jobs in communities around the country. >>american people should never face shortages in the goods and services they rely on wednesday president biden signed an executive order directing a 100 day review of the u.s. supply chain. >>and met with a bipartisan group of lawmakers about ways to work together but we had a very good meeting the president the vice president talking about the. >>importance of. having dependable supply chains texas republican senator john cornyn so the need to address the issue is something both parties agree on we all understand this is important not only to our economy but also to the to our national security white house press secretary jen psaki says the executive action will protect the country against shortages of critical supplies. grow the economy and maintain america'

the nation needs us to work together. members of the committee, if confirmed, i would bring to these challenges a professional life spent committed to improving the nation's defense. i would bring an insider's knowledge of the levers for action, and an outsiders drive for reform. i would bring commitment to restoring healthy civil military dynamics and establishing regular order and i would be proud to put another crack in the glass ceiling of the department i have spent most of my adult life serving. i look forward to your questions and am grateful for this time with you today. sen. inhofe: thank you very much , dr. hicks. i will cover four questions real quickly to set this thing off. first of all on the document we have referred to, the national defense strategy commission. to me, that tells the whole world that the significance of the 12 people who put this document together that we adhere to, some say it may be outdated since it was put together. i would ask the question -- first of all, there are a lot of things peop

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it was important during world war ii as it was for the nation's independence. but that only works if those of us in the private sector bring the public spirit to our work. i always like to say you don't need to work for the public sector to engage in public service. and i think each of us has a responsibility and that's been part of this unique culture of the united states and now here we are in the 2020 a new generation of challenges, but in some ways an age old answer to help us meet them. >> how does the private sector engage in solving some of the biggest questions we face as a nation today and in the world, global health, immigration, what is the role in how we solve those challenges? >> i would say two things, we always need clarity to do anything important in life that involves lots of people so in the first instance i do believe that the public and private sectors have distinct roles in a democracy to address public challenges, we look to the government to lead and make decisions by people that are elected by the citizens and act pursuant to the rule of

this prayer breakfast gives us a chance to share in the national fellowship. he greater good and lifting up the truth, and collectively we can make a , difference in defeating the pain around us. jesus tells us not only to be the light but to reflect the light. let your light shine before others that they may see the good deeds and glorify your father in heaven. scripture spends a great deal of time describing what is good deeds are, feeding the hungry, clothing and housing the homeless healing the sick, , helping the marginalized. so let us commit today to a different path. one where god's wisdom is a lamp for our feet, a light on our path. we can start by loving our neighbor. and if you don't know, everyone is your neighbor. all of humanity. loving your neighbor requires working for social justice, investing in the most marginalized communities, protecting and extending civil rights those communities still are not guaranteed and making , opportunity universal. as we gather as a faithful community, we are grateful for the grace that gives us the humility to un

i believe south dakota has been an example for the nation. e government respected people's rights and freedoms. [applause] we are working together to create new opportunities in a better future for our kids. we took the american path. let me close with this, as conservatives we often forget that stories are much more powerful than fact adsnd statistic -- facts and statistics. educate to the texas -- educated to the tactic liberals might use, but sure in our motives. this is not about us, it is about our children and their future. it is about telling the stories over again and over that remind us why america needs conservatives now more than ever. thank you for all that you do, america is blessed to have you on her side. god bless every -- god bless each and everyone of you, and god bless america. >> day two featured panels on china, energy policy, the biden administration and speakers senator bill hagerty of tennessee, representative devin nunes of california and senator cynthia lummis of wyoming.

his new team with the impeachment trial just a week away >>> plus, who doesn't love a snow day the national zoo's panda sliding through the storm. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with kate snow >>> good evening the northeast is bracing for a major nor'easter tonight not just snowfall, but high winds that could make for blizzard conditions and lead to power outages. the chicago area already picking up at least nine inches, causing treacherous road condition an there. winter weather alerts are in place across 11 states this new system fueled by a storm that came from california and crossed the entire nation over the past week we'll get to the forecast in a moment, but we begin with kathy park in philadelphia >> reporter: tonight a monster winter storm is making a mess in the midwest. snow burying chicago, cancelling more than 250 flights. motorists stranded as conditions went from bad to worse >> it is what it is. this is what happens when you live in chicago. you have to be ready for anything >> reporter: with the snow piling up, this delivery truck got stuck on a side street overni

big wider question here is that the national security legislation ultimately the interpretation is left in the hands of the national people's congress or the standing committee so that's the concern if that's going to be used if they're going to change interpretations by our highest court again that would be a further erosion of the independent of the judiciary in hong kong what do you make of these reports of the 1st trial to the national security law to be held without said during. yeah looking at that you know when when the national security law came into being that was one of the provisions we were concerned about to you know basically the use of that and any of those provisions that to take away nibble away at fairness of the hearing for the for the person concerned so watching that very closely ok many thanks for taking time to join us from hong kong thank you. so has hair on al-jazeera. i'm in the ground i'm in northern india where rescuers are attempting to free dozens of people trapped in a tunnel since a catastrophic f

the national guard is responding. yes, the national guard is on the way. the response was more asking about the plan, what was the plan for the national guard. the response was more focussed on in addition to the plan the optics about how this looks with boots on the ground on the capitol. and my response to that was simply, i was just stunned that, i have officers that were out there literally fighting for their lives and, you know, we're kind of going through what seemed like an exercise to really check the boxes. and there was not an immediate response. >> let me be clear, optics as portrayed in the media played no role whatsoever in my decisions about security. and any suggestion to the contrary is false. safety was always paramount when making security plans for january 6th. we did discuss whether the intelligence warranted having troops at the capitol. that was the issue. and the collective judgment at that time was no, the intelligence did not warrant that. >> there's so much to go through there, mika, but i just want to go back to the staggering nu

the nation pausing tonight to pay respects to the families forever changed.president biden leading the country in a moment of silence. bells at the national cathedral tolling 500 times in memory of the 500,000 who have now died. nearly one american dying from covid every minute for nearly an entire year. tonight, drment anthony fauci calling it a stunning figure and recalling last winter when health officials were accused of exaggerating, when they predicted a death toll as high as 240,000. we have now more than doubled that. the highly

at the moment he's accused of fraud taking part in an illegal assembly and now 2 violations of the national security law it's worth remembering daryn that you know next year is the 25th anniversary of hong kong's handover from britain to china president xi jinping is almost certain to come to hong kong and i think the authorities want to ensure that there are no just scored invoices you know on the sidelines i mean the authorities have been framing this as a national security issue one of the broader implications of this case for the people in hong kong. well the thing is this national security law is very vaguely worded but it's being very broadly defined for instance if i did a report about what was president xi jinping a favorite meal let's say that could be construed as a state secret and therefore a violation of the national security law as journalists we're having to sort of navigate red lines without knowing what those red lines are the only time you will know if you've done something wrong is if you get a telephone call from the office of safeguarding national security inviting you