. >> good evening welcome to the h annual christmas tree lighting ceremony at united states capital. the architect of the capital. i can tell you i cannot think of a better evening to have the ceremony with the sunset to be amazing earlier this evening. i'm honored to be here is speaker nancy proceed lights the capital christmas tree. we are honored to host this year's youth christmas tree lighter and a citizen of the eastern band of cherokee indians first judicial 1964 and it was amir glad to continue to host the red spruce tree nicknamed ruby it comes from the national forest and north carolina. american force tree can be traced back to this region. in this area known as the cradle where gil fred pinchot was hired to manage the estate in the late 18 eighties. he later became the chief of the forest service was recommended by vanderbilt by olmsted, the father of american landscape architecture and the designer of our capital grounds. it is fitting that a tree from this region graces the west front lawn of the us capital grounds. i like to think u.s. forest service for finding and pr

with the oath keepers guilty of serious crimes related to the january 6th, 2021 attack on the united states capital. two defendants were convicted of seditious conspiracy against the united states for conspiring to oppose by force the peaceful transfer of presidential power. those two defendants and the three other defendants were also convicted of obstructing the certification of the electoral college vote and very stiffens were also convicted of different additional felony counts ranging run conspiring to prevent members of congress from discharging their duties to interfering with law enforcement officers attempting to guard the capital during the attack to tampering with relevant evidence after the fact. these convictions were the result of tireless work by justice department agents, attorneys, analysts, and support staff beginning in january 2021 with a methodical collection of evidence and continuing through the presentation of that evidence during the seven-week trial that begin in october 2022. their skill and dedication are in the very best tradition of the justice department, and we are a

leading up to that fateful day and thousands of donald trump's supporters descended upon the united states capital with the intention of overturning the 2020 election. during its last public hearing, the committee took the unprecedented step of recommending criminal charges for former president trump. now, it will be up to the as the attorney general and the justice department, whether the evidence presented by the committee is enough to bring formal charges against him. with a stark chapter coming to a close. eyes are now on the 2024 election. and whether trump's political career will survive. russia's president vladimir putin has said he's not trying to absorb his neighbor and ally beller. roost well at the same time, blaming their enemies for wanting to stop their integration. routed, made the comments during a meeting with been recently de alexander lucas, england. it's christians 1st visit him in years, mean rock, he is warning of a new assault on ukraine from deliveries. after the talks, putin and lucas shanker held the joint press conference. we asked the w, russia analyst konstantin agate

leading up to that fateful day and thousands of donald trump supporters descended upon the united states capital with the intention of overturning the 2020 election during its last public hearing the committee took the unprecedented step of recommending criminal charges for former president trump. now it will be up to the attorney general and the justice department, whether the evidence presented by the committee is enough to bring formal charges against him. with his stark chapter coming to a close. eyes are now on the 2024 election, and whether trumps political career will survive. in his poll in washington, no, russia's president vladimir putin is preparing to meet for the leaders of illegally annex regions of ukraine. russian appointed that leaders of the didn't ask enhance g regions are set to be honored at a state awards ceremony at the kremlin. mister pershing will sound the ceremony after returning from belin bruce where he's been meeting with his counterpart, alexander lucas shanker. it was his 1st visit to the country for years and came amid the warnings from ukraine that russia may be

she said it was flown over the united states capital today. it was quite a speech. he typically speaks in his own native ukrainian language. he spoke in english. let's listen. >> the house will continue in recess subject to the call of the chair. >> that is nancy pelosi calling the session to a close. after about a 25 minute worth of remarks by the ukrainian president. i'm joined by our guests. he had a 35 year career in the army. and a professor at columbia university. and a senior fellow on the council of foreign relations. i was taking notes during the speech. it drew numerous interruptions with applause from both sides of this varied divided congress. we are used to seeing the members in opposition but they were very much together applauding the representation that president zelenskyy made. and his expressions of thanks to the u.s. >> for sure. he was addressing a friendly audience. he had a strong message. i'm sure that a textual analysis will show that the single most frequently spoken word in his speech was a victory. he wants the support of the congress and

he has arrived to the joint chamber of congress in the united states capital washington, d. c. behind him. there you see you are speaker the house. you are speaker of the house. nancy pelosi, as well as us vice president, common harris, looks like president lensky is about to start speaking. he arrived in washington d. c. earlier today, he held a joint press conference with us president joe biden, just a couple of hours ago. this is after there was a new $1800000000.00 assistance package announced by the us president that would include patriot missiles. and let's go ahead now and listen n to president zalinski his remarks. in honor of presenting to you his excellency borrower zalinski, president of the ukraine. thank you so much. damien. it's too much for me. all this for our great people. thank so much. d, r americans in all state serious and communities. all those who value freedom and justice could cherish it as strongly as we ukraine. else in all our cities in each and every foul him. i hold my wars of respect and gratitude or is an aide in each american heart. madame vi

united states and all around the world. welcome. the panel investigating the capital riots in the u. s. has recommended charges be brought against former president donald trump, for in signing an insurrection and obstructing an official proceeding, the democratic lead committee said trump intended to disrupt the peaceful transition of power offer you lost the 2020 election favor panels. recommend ations are non binding and will now go to a special council appointed to find the attorney general 5 or he or die when a violent mom stormed the capitol in a bed to keep tremble in power. we knew that dozens of state and federal and our washington bureau chief, sent us this assessment of today's january. thanks, committee recommendation and what it could all mean for donald trump. it's been 17 months since that january 6th committee started investigating the events leading up to that fateful day and thousands of donald trump supporters descended upon the united states capital with the intention of overturning the 2020 election during its last public hearing the committee took the unprecedented

as speaker of the house it's my privilege to welcome you to the united states capital as we award the congressional gold medal of the -- we honor their extraordinary service and sacrifice for courageously interanswerring the call to our nation's democracy in one of our nation's darkest hours. now at this time please stand as you are able to presentations of the colors, the national anthem, and the prayer. >> ♪ o say can you see by the dawn's early light what so proudly we hail at the twilight's last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rocket the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say does that star spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ♪♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please remain standing for the invocation delivered by house chap win dr. margaret kibben. chaplain kibben: would you pray with me. almighty god, our protector against all evil, our sure defense in the face of all danger, you in your divine

because rob and i spent more time together pouring over spreadsheets in the basement of the united states capital than i ever spent with anybody. i couldn't be more grateful for every one of those minutes. in addition to being incredibly smart, incredibly focused, incredibly committed to outcomes, is a delightful human being. i consider him one of my closest friends in the world. i'm going to miss you so much. and i can't wait to ride bikes together. i don't want to come to the support group, no interest in that. i do have an interest in spending time with you for many years to come. you are an incredible friend. you've got an incredible team, i couldn't be more honored and privileged to consider you a lifelong friend. i yield back. >> madam president. i am sure some people tuned into c-span thinking they are watching an alternative universe, all of these democrats coming to the floor to say something nice about a republican and it is rob portman, a special friend. we worked on many things together over the years that the highlight of it is the work we have done in the past year in the ukrainian

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court's shall designate the report. >> final report to investigate the january 6 attack on the united states capital. >> without objection the report will be considered red and open to amendment at this point. i now recognize the gentlewoman from virginia for a motion. >> i move that the committee report to the house the select committee final report which includes the committee legislative recommendation and criminal referral of donald j. trump and others in section four a of house resolution 503. >> the question is on the motion to favorably report to the house. those in favor say aye. those opposed say no. the 'ayes'have it. the clerk will call the roll. >> liz cheney? >>aye. >> mr. schiff? >>aye. >> mr. regular? >>aye. >> misses murphy? >> aye. >> misses gloria? >> aye. >> mr. kissing her? mr. kissinger? >> aye. >> mr. chairman? >> aye. >> on this vote there are nine aye's and zero no's. >> staff is authorized to make any technical informing changes to the report to reflect the actions of the committee. the chair instructs the committee to remain seated. there will be no further hearings without

. >> last week president harrison i stood at the united states capital. >> kat: yeah, plenty of people see a female president, but he is the only guy who already does. and he can see ghosts too. >> god bless you all. [applause] ♪ ♪ >> kat: everyone always complains about how the democrats nominated an old white guy, but they did it, they nominated the first jewish/latinx commander in chief. >> and jill and i were vice president and first lady, we honored to host the first rosh hashanah service, i probably went more than many of you did. [laughter] you all think i am kidding. i can tell you i'm not. and i was sort of raised in a puerto rican community at home, politically. >> kat: aye dios mio. meanwhile the most transparent president we have had and don't let anyone tell you otherwise, i mean, who lets us see behind the scenes that joe biden does? >> believe it or not without electoral or political power, that the percentage of women who registered to vote and cast a ballot is consistently higher than the percentage of the men who do so. repeat the line. women are not without electoral

court's shall designate the report. >> final report to investigate the january 6 attack on the united states capital>> without objection the report will be considered red and open to amendment at this point. i now recognize the gentlewoman from virginia for a motion. >> i move that the committee report to the house the select committee final report which includes the committee legislative recommendation and criminal referral of donald j. trump and others in section four a of house resolution 503. >> the question is on the motion to favorably report to the house. those in favor say aye. those opposed say no. the 'ayes'have it. the clerk will call the roll. >> liz cheney? >>aye. >> mr. schiff? >>aye. >> mr. regular? >>aye. >> misses murphy? >> aye. >> misses gloria? >> aye. >> mr. kissing her? mr. kissinger? >> aye. >> mr. chairman? >> aye. >> on this vote there are nine aye's and zero no's. >> staff is authorized to make any technical informing changes to the report to reflect the actions of the committee. the chair instructs the committee to remain seated. there will be no further hearings without o

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d'arnaud circumstances do you tear the city hall of or the courthouse up and god forbid, the united states capital i think for most americans it was beyond imagination. >> are their conclusions that you will have reached that are new since the last public hearings? >> there are some findings that we found to, be very honest with. you the january six had not been for the encouragement of donald trump would have never occurred. which would have been a normal transfer of power that we do every four years when there is a presidential election. but, as we started looking at the work, a pattern developed of individuals not individuals per se who were working in government. these were outsiders being manipulated by former president trump and encouraged to do what they're doing. >> so, there is a direct line, a very clear line in your estimation, the committees estimation from the axe on january 6th to the former president donald trump. there is no gray area there. >> but we also, understood you are. right there is no gray area. but we also understood, we also know that what limitations are of our committ

and hees currently servesn the select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the united states capital. prior to his election toat congress, representative raskin was a well-known constitutional law scholar at american university washington college of law, and he wrote leading articles on the voting rights of noncitizen aliens and electoral college reform. congressman raskin has also written several books, one of which he just told it was banned in taxes -- [laughing] and he himself has also recently been banned from russia. so i will leave it to him to tell you more about being banned, but i t will say that we here at georgetown law are honored to have congressman jamie raskin here with us today. andd please -- join me in welcoming him to georgetown law. thank you so much. [applause]ki >> thank you, willy. i have been banned in texas. i've been banned in russia but in making it a georgian university law center with acs. thank you for having me here. i am delighted to be here to salute joy and willie for the important book, and i'd like to thank my friend for helping them facilitate th

protection efforts of these facilities to work closely and have strong relationships with united states capital police and senate armed step to ensure the safety of all members. established over 50 years ago fps is made remarkable progress as organization and is an integral part of the department of homeland security's mission to save hard the american people. our law enforcement officers administer lifesaving medical treatment conducting year-long investigations and can be injured in line of duty protect teen federal employees. our officers are among those who responded to the law enforcement january 6 of 2021 to help secure the capitol. fps aesthetics rarely successful when called to defend the protect various institutions of our government to function in first with a sincerely appreciate the subcommittee holding this important hearing and asking me to testify in fps' important role in i'd be pleased to answer any questions you may have. >> please summarize your statement for five minutes. welcome sir. >> members of the subcommittee. the structure security agency and infrastructure security d

hear the explosions from artillery near his location and then 24 hours later he is in the united states capital and he delivers this powerful speech, has a very productive meeting, bringing back big help for the men and women who are fighting on the front lines, the families struggling here to just live when they do not have electricity or heat sometimes for days on end or maybe for 40 minutes a day. there are people here in the capital, kyiv, who are telling us they have electricity for less than an hour a day so they can't really watch and frankly people don't have a whole lot of time to celebrate because they have to fight this war. they are fighting this war with their own blood. they are getting weapons. they're getting money from around the world but it is ukrainians who are dying every single day fighting this war and so that's what they have to focus on is how are they going to survive tomorrow. how are they going to hole the lines to the east and the south? how are they going to fortify their defenses to the north with a russian troop buildup in bell rust and potential for hundreds of

united states in the arctic front routes, the region and the snow and blizzard conditions and disruptive. one of your busiest travel periods, nearly 6000 flights of in capital, most of the united states under some kind of weather warning. members of the kurdish community of clashed with police in paris during a 2nd day of protest over an apparent racist attack that killed 3 curts there. on friday, thousands of people gathered in central paris to demonstrate police fire tear gas after violence broke out. a gum in carry out the fatal attack on friday, firing on a kurdish cultural center and in nearby cancer. earlier we have you correspond as sonya fennic are in paris, the cause of the anger we've seen spill onto the streets there. the demonstration to today was called by the kurdish democratic council of france. this is an umbrella kurdish body that is headquartered in the control center that was attacked here. slaten that shooting at that shooting of course, killed creek oddish political activists. anderson. those killings have really incense members of the goodish community here. many of them feel like the being targeted yet again, because this attack comes

capital and i will be there with you. a lot of these people, people that are armed, they thought that they had been given a blessing by the president of thm united states. stormed the capital. we have a right to be here. the constitution allows us to take over. i think that we began to realize just how much then-president, his words, he intended destruction with something only he could answer. >> after january 6 and in the wake of these efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election with the false charges that it was a stolen election, do you think that our democracy is in some peril? >> yes. i say that unequivocally. i had this book pretty well finished. notess i have taken almost daily for 48 years. january 6 happens. we delayed it. if, putting limits on education so you could only know certain things, limits on what reporters can honestly say whether we may disagree with them or not, put limits on all of this and we do not study what is going on, yes, i really fear for democracy. >> have you ever felt that way before? >> no. ii was there right after watergate. therefore the wrap up of the vietnam war. trying to bring that about. i worried abou

the upcoming will be from the united states, but also upcoming from capital. and pretty much any, any supply around the world that has capacity to send to germany. that will mean prices will remain high, and there is, of course, a dependency emerging here on a, on a ship market. the germany product prior to this class is didn't have. but of course, in this situation that you can choose, this is a necessity now. and that is graded a new reality, but it's again, it's been, it's even for now. but it's a lot of money and it isn't really cold in germany right now. and there been some warning that the country is using up in ga storage too fast. is that legitimate concern? it is gold, it's even cold here in the u. k. so it is a bit of a concern, but for this to become a major problem for germany, friends the it would have to stay pretty much cold as it is now. so around minus 10 degrees centigrade for the rest of winter, that is until march next year. if that happens, then german storage will be depleted to level the grid agency, the net they're going to will have to

capital. it is my great honor to lead the united states department. >> >> >> before world war i, america gavey family refuge from persecution. my grandmother was one of five children born in what is now belarus. three made it to the united states, including my grandmother. two of them did not make it. those two were killed in the holocaust. if not for america, there is little doubt that the same would have happened to my grandmother. this country took her in and under the protection of the laws, she was able to live without fear of persecution. live without fear of persecution. that protection is what distinguishes america from so many of the countries. the protection of law. the role of law is the --rule of law is the foundation of our government. i will never stop working to guarantee that protection to everyone in our country. all of us at the department of justice will never stop working to confront and combat violence and other unlawful acts fueled i hate. that is our legal obligation. but now more than ever, all americans have a moral obligation to stand up against such hate. together,

why does china behave so often in europe, in the united states, as if they're a, they're going to summer persuade. western capitals of their argument. nice in that is very a ironic and also sometimes even lockable for people who stated a gun. china is no more ending. of course are longer people here in washington and in the west in china is a number was said in that regard and indeed seems to be a number. and but on the other hand, we say that you by the persons are by then, sir. just a few weeks ago, united nations assembly is that when that is phase, as a nation, does nasty conflict with china when non kind of in a cold war, which china, a se corporation, because 3 sees by them. institution policy goes, china, of course, no more is computation. number 2, of course is confrontations and i to a number 3 is a corporation in the areas as they come into come interests. you wanted to use the c to so we sent for her to forces fighting against each other in washington dc and the in the west in general. on the one hand, the china rise as a threat to them, we optimize. and on the other hand, this is a, it's a necessity. a

europe united states and i think that he's truly understandable on political studied and of course, economic under you. i mean, as for that military display wasn't much covered in european capitals anyway, and in the united states. and you think those arguments will be persuasive to antony, blinking samantha power. that whole edifice of the military industrial complex, when they have $400.00 basis circling china, they have proxies, arguably, in terms of south korea, japan new zealand, australia, around china. they have warships, routinely, britain fans, warships routinely around there. meanwhile, those intellectual arguments are being made that all joiner is interested is mutual prosperity and progress. i do not see that there will be people in washington who say no, there has to be a red line here, and they won't be able to buy oil in currencies other than the dollar from saudi arabia. oh, i'm sorry. i said not a. it's is a piggyback people in washington dc. it will not make a final choir in some of these days or sorry, stay so, so, so it's china, it's a decision made by china. so these are the 2 countries decided they want to have a study exchange and nobody really kind of in

we have seen the united states is faring better than the rest of the world even though there is some painful inflation stats out there. does that create an environment of more capital flows entering the united states simply because europe is worse off relative to the united states and china is still a big question as well as japan? does that create the fact that there is no alternative to the united states? >> it's a classic example of the u.s. being the has -- the best house on a bad block. can't argue that the growth outlook is particularly good. i can't say the fed is doing a bang up job of managing policy but when you compare it everywhere else, it doesn't seem so bad. with infrared -- with interest rate differential sting wide and there is -- and is more encouraging here than anywhere else in the developed world, that will be a positive for capital flows into the u.s. and is one of the reasons why i have a hard time believing we will see material depreciation in the dollar next year. i think that will be a headwind for a lot of these large cap multi-nationals that have exposure to non-us markets. kriti: if they see the deterioration in the dollar, maybe gettin

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today is about whether inflation eats up family capital, how it stimulates the birth rate in the united states and why do we need other people's children to go from the new year in belarus, family capital will grow, this is the name of the amount that the state gives to large families to help put children on their feet, it has been paid since 2015, then the president signed a decree stating that the families where the third and the next children receive 10,000 dollars from the state. at that time, they could only be used when the child turned 18, but in 2020 this capital was allowed to be spent ahead of schedule not on chips and iphones, of course, but in cases where a large family not enough to buy housing, tuition fees and medical care later added to this list the purchase of accommodation for people with disabilities. then, in the twentieth, the amount was untied from the dollar. in 2022, the family capital amounted to 25.995 rubles. that is without five 26.000. and in november, the minister of finance announced that in the new year this payment would increase to 30.36 rubles. and this amou