menendez cassidy, introduce legislation to mitigate risks of el salvador, adoption of bitcoin, us senators, jim rich of idaho bob menendez, of new jersey, ranking member and chairman of the senate, foreign relations committee and bill cafferty of louisiana. today introduce the accountability for crypto currency in el salvador, the aces act legislation, requiring a state department report on our salvatore's adoption of bitcoin, a crypto currency as legal tender, and a plan to mitigate potential risks to the u. s. financial system. i'm going to read the next quote from one of the senators, just so you see the scale of the threat that big queen poses to the united states dollar because here el salvador is like a 2530 $1000000000.00 economy. and they're saying this about bit queen is legal tender here. el salvador, adoption of bitcoin as legal tender raises significant concerns about the economic stability and financial integrity of a mobile us trading partner in central america said rish, this new policy has the potential to weaken us sanctions, policy and powering malign actors like china an

the last room of the plot of politics gallery visitors find truman in the nation's capital as a us senator. visitors can follow his evolution from the senator from pendergast in the letters. he wrote home to best and margaret to the truman committee exploring the group's efforts in an interactive puzzle alongside artifacts political cartoons and documents from truman's 10 happiest years in the senate. for today's journey. it's my honor to introduce you to our conductor who once held the same senate seat as harry truman. claire mccaskill grew up political family and public service has defined her adult life versus a lawmaker in the state of missouri than as a county prosecutor and missouri state auditor in 2006 claire became the first woman elected to the us senate from missouri today. she's a political analyst for msnbc and nbc a visiting fellow at the university of chicago institute of politics and a long time supporter and dear friend of the truman library institute claire. the controls are all yours. nq cassie first, i've got to say i think this is one of the cruelest things that has ev

i need your help and the reporter was startled because he wasn't used to senators admitting any kind of vulnerability or any kind of hesitancy about whether or not they belong there, but harry wasn't afraid to let people see that he was not a blow hard. he wasn't sure of himself. so what did he do? he once again just worked harder. harry would walk a couple of miles to the senate every morning and he walked at a brisk pace he would get to the senate no later than 7 am every single morning and in fact, he was so early that they finally gave him a pass key so he could let himself in the building. they had never before had a need to give a senator a passkey, but there'd never been a senator who wanted to get to work. early is very truman did. he listened. he took his committee assignments very seriously. he studied the subject matter. he lamented that none of his fellow senators check library books out of the library of congress, but he did stacks of them when he was on the commerce committee. he would devour volumes about the railroads their management their business practices because

she was close friends as a youth with henry clay one of abraham lincoln's great idols in the us senate so she had a very political background. she would read the newspapers and talk politics with her father. she was extraordinarily well educated so when she met lincoln, i think she saw him kind of a rough version of what he could be and she realized that there was a leader that she was seeing a future leader there. so i think she prodded him along the way i think she pushed him a little bit. i think she's definitely supported him. they were really good political pair obviously issues particularly later in her life, but as you put that pair together, they won heck of a political pair. so as a lawyer abraham and made a name from self and central illinois, but also as a politician in the state legislature, but again, he aspired higher he had great ambitions and a couple times he ran for the us senate most famously in 1858 and we know that because of course the great debates for steven douglas his great political rival. there was seven debates held around, illinois that really encapsulated

so i said, as us senators threatened el salvador today for daring to take their own decisions on monetary and economic matters. it is worth remembering the past, which is not even past until bitcoin into kelly came along. i use an image of st. pasco romero. he's now a st. ask arrow marrow and it's just a beautiful mural actually right across the street from where he lived in san salvador. so i went there on the last day before we left and took that photo before we flew out. yeah, it's a remarkable photo. that's a remarkable place. in san salvador because it's the center of a total verb renewal project, a whole new library is going up. that's downtown is vibrant. there's a lot going on the chiva while it's got a huge dance set up. people are fully bitcoin fluent meant people in the street. i talked to they now because they love big coin. and i think, you know, putting all the hyperbole aside and it just comes down to one simple idea. the big coin is, incorruptible. el salvador is adopting bitcoin and in the united states is unfortunately become just a corrupt cesspool. but the pass was not

joining us senators marsha blackburn and todd young, drew ferguson and dan bishop, congressman mo brookss with us, former nypd lieutenant darren porcher. gop warning against new white house plan to de-escalate russia and ukraine. russia letting inside nato bases for absence of cruise missiles to reach russia. let the u.s. inside of russia's missile defense bases. gop said that is not going to work. china state media attacking democrat speaker nancy pelosi unusually harsh rhetoric calling speaker pelosi a parasite for pelosi's husband stock trading gains while she is on the job as democrats make a new push against china. media in disarray. cnn head honcho jeff zucker is out after failing to disclose his affair with a staffer. whoopi goldberg suspended from "the view" talking about holocaust was not about race. u.s. cities have turned into a free-for-all for criminals because they do not fear the police after progressives weakened laws and policing. a former kansas mom, arrested as an isis terrorist. she gave a top isis commander, al-baghdadi a plan in 2014 to break into the u.s. via the s

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thank you so much for being with us senator. you were just in ukine. it feel to you as though it is on the brink of a russian invasion as the white house's warning that it could happen any day? >> thank you for the opportunity. it is impossible to see the type of buildup occurring along the ukraine russia border without thinking it could happen any day. a lot of the intelligent sources tell us it could be any day. there are munitions and staging areas that give us great concern. in ukraine itself, the people don't feel the eminence we see through intelligent sources. i don't know if that happened or if we have been at war so long. as long as there has not been a shot fired yet, i remain hopeful and optimistic there could be a diplomatic way out of this. >> germany's chancellor was here in wasngton and interestingly he would not say publicly that german -- that germany would pull out of that pipeline with russia. what did you make of what chancellor schulz had to say? >> they have been a little soft on that issue. what the chancellor had to say today wa

if they had collected a couple more us senators they were going to pack the us supreme court. make dc estate so that have two radical left-wing senators for life. they were going to abolish the electoral college so california can elect a president and federalizedonce about practices . what you want about that. that's not an agenda many american families are sitting across the dinner table saying i wish we could make dc estate or tax the supreme court. that's not what people have on their mind. their concern about gas prices, all the disorder around the world . that's what they're concerned about. the left wants to do that because their goal is not to make our country great. it'sto marginalize the conservative half of the country. they want us to be,. they want us to be second-class citizens and what are these ideological aims ? the woke is the new religion of the left. that's why they want crt because they want todivide the country . that's why they remove statues of thomas jefferson and abraham lincoln and teddy roosevelt. take george washington's name all schools because they

it and there are full time us and there are sitting us senators, the p. r and communications department of facebook. spinning their image is now bigger than the newsroom at the washington post. relations between silicon valley and washington are close. we are in the middle of the whirlpool was a top donor to barrack obama's 2012 election campaign with united states corporations can essentially by elections the system is corrupted. so the system itself has to be transformed as well on the level of who influences are publicly elected politicians. the aged belgium alibaba. china's answer to amazon plans to open a distribution center here in november 2021. but the project is facing resistance from some logo. so could you hold the book to truth aggression internship? chris also shiner is the superpower that he'd advocates for its interests on a global scale, including through companies like alibaba in strategic sectors. it don't. if it's more we looking at a chinese expansion project here, don't push an expulsion or she what the edge is, the stop on the new si

it sounds like the democrats, chuck schumer and the other senate democrats are using the confirmation of justice amy coney barrett as a precedent. right before the election the senate republicans confirmed a supreme court justice in what was probably far shorter of a time than many of us thought you could get a supreme court justice through the confirmation and so maybe that is now the new normal. i think the question will kbe obviously there will be plenty of people who will want to debate as long as they possibly can. there are certainly several senate republicans who are thinking they're running for president in 2024 who will have thoughts there will want to expound on at length even if it ultimately won't change the outcome of the coming nomination battle. >> will just add that niels is right. in all of 2020 we saw an extremely quick confirmation of justice amy coney barrett but there are still steps to the process and particularly in the senate time that has to elapse to certain steps of that process. i do expect democrats to move quickly but we're obviously not looking at a situ

menendez cassidy, introduce legislation to mitigate risks of al salvatore's adoption of bitcoin. us senators, jim, rich of idaho bob menendez, of new jersey, ranking member and chairman of the senate, foreign relations committee and bill cassidy of louisiana. today introduce the account ability for crypto currency in el salvador. the ace's act legislation requiring a state department report on our salvatore's adoption of bitcoin, a crypto currency as legal tender and a plan to mitigate potential risks to the u. s. financial system. i'm going to read the next quote from one of the senators, just so you see the, the scale of the threat that between poses to the united states dollar. because here el salvador is like a $2530000000000.00 economy. and they're saying this about bit queen as legal tender here, el salvador, adoption of bitcoin as legal tender raises significant concerns about the economic stability and financial integrity of a vulnerable u. s. trading partner in central america said rish, this new policy has the potential to weaken us sanctions, policy and powering malign actors like

menendez cassidy. introduce legislation to mitigate risks of al salvatore's adoption of bitcoin. us senators, jim, rich of idaho bob menendez, of new jersey, ranking member and chairman of the senate, foreign relations committee and bill cassidy of louisiana. today introduce the accountability for crypto currency in el salvador, the ace's act legislation requiring a state department report on our salvatore's at da.

foundation for the defence of democracies, a former national security adviser to members of the us senateg us. russia has put its strategic nuclear forces on alert. how significant is that? thank you for the introduction to the question. it is quite significant. there are growing questions regarding the mental condition of vladimir putin. when you try to analyse them psychologically, i will not try to do that, but obviously he is feeling perhaps upset with the lack of progress in ukraine. he is seeing the growing unity of nato, and he is lashing out in the ways we have not seen in years. so, when one moves nuclear forces to a higher state of alert, well we don't know for sure what that means, it will become clear in the coming days, it is for the purpose of achieving a lunch more quickly, obviously that is deeply concerning and increases the risk of miscalculation and your correspondent got it right. the us response has been to reiterate that the united states and nato present no nuclear threat to russia and that this is a deeply irresponsible and destabilising step and a part of a strate

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they receive a name so many tree weapons, cutting edge weapons because the us senate child eyes are pursuing the pain and policy for russia. and for us, it's an existential threat. and she'll get dial lays about invested in the us as a nation with the duration. it's a real friend to our interest to, you know, the very existence shipping to our sovereignty stance of ours. you know, that's the red line that i mentioned earlier. it is very often no cross line. and this regards now and don't boss. but if you look at the real good, because what we're seeing is that the forces with their day to day in 2014 power. and they've been doing a through some to tar to and just they don't want to have any peaceful resolution on us or asia as long as years. we've done every year to address the situation through peaceful, political forces. it's all being in vain. as i said in my previous company, we cannot just see the i live by and watch the tragedy on. so we can just be patient. we had to stop that acknowledgement and janet denied against millions of people in the hopes entirely on russia on us, even if it

joining us now senator bill cassidy from senate energy. your reaction to this report, senator? d to have you on. thanks for joining us. is a cyberattack a prelude to invasion? will we see aerial strikes out of russia on ukraine? >> we don't know what we will see but they will continue to impose psychological warfare even if they don't directly attack but let me build on what edward said earlier. they are strong because of the high price of energy. this administration rationing the production of u.s. energy contributes to that high price. if we want to undermine the russian economy, undermine their war machine, undermine their kleptocratic leaders let's start producing u.s. energy. that will help us, it will hurt them. it's a better way to go. elizabeth: that is an important point you're making even during the cold war the soviet union never shut down its gas exports. the cyberattack, russia wiped out estonia same way in 2007. took out estonia banks, media websites. russia has had 20 years of cyberattacks, pentagon, doe, colonial, pipeline. are you worried about that? >> i'm worr

leave it there, but so really nice to see tonight that was pretty st. mark's lawyer and former us. senator, thanks for coming on to our to my best stuff. sandra. take care i political science lecture, john loveland told us that the west does appear to be doing exactly what it's accusing moscow off. what is going on in ukraine at the moment is an attack essentially, is a provocation. while the western media have been telling us now for many days and weeks, not only that they will be a russian invasion of ukraine, but also that russia will stage full flag attacks in order to justify such an invasion. i've long suspected and unfortunately, as i say, your report seem to confirm this, that actually it's the other way round. that in fact ukraine doesn't tend to attack the separatist republics in order to either regain them all to provoke a russian response. and they're by twos, trigger the sanctions which everybody seems to want. that does indeed imply that ukraine is spoiling for a fight. it would be the perfect cover, wouldn't it? because we've been told now for weeks that russia is about to y

this is a 170 member us senators that are going to make this decision shortly. and from what we feel hearing, most of them are very much in favor of approving this request by the president. i want to also say, mentioned that the defense minister surgeon chicago has now said in the past few minutes. that the situation in the region of a don, don yaks and the guns is tense and that russia needs to protect the local population. this is a, for, of course, in reference to the nearly 800000 people there who hold russian passports in dumbass frederick. ah, we also condemn the further russian incursion into graham moscow. her sir, now moved from covert attempts to deep stabilize sir ukraine to auction of an national law. it further undermines to cranes sovereignty and tended toil integrity . it damages efforts to find the piece was resolution to the conflict, and as grave consequences for you to p and security. this is the crisis created by russia alone. we command ukraine for its restraint in not responding to russia's repeated provocations. we stand insulted either wi

well, in the us senate minority leader, mitch mcconnell says sanction should be imposed on russia before an invasion happens. the ones that really could bring the russians to their knees related to the banking system. i know the president, according to what he said publicly, has been discussing the possibility of that happening with burden. to go back to the initial statement. i think what we ought to be doing right now before the invasion occurs, send the ukrainians weapons. they can fight with the us just calling for an emergency un security council meeting on thursday to discuss north korea as a recent massage lodge. it comes after young young confirmed a, tested an intermediate range, ballistic missile, which is capable of reaching the u. s. territory of guam sundays test was the north most powerful since 2017 and the 7th month in the year. since mammals qu many opposed to military rule have joined the ranks of ethnic groups. fighting with government care states in the east has seen some of the heaviest fighting as the decades old conflict escalates its forced and estimated 170000 pe

staying with events in munich — the bbc�*s chief international correspondent, lyse doucet, spoke to us senatorm who was at the conference. lindsey graham, you heard president biden last night saying that he was pretty confident that president putin had made the decision to invade ukraine. do you agree? yeah, i think president biden�*s assessment is pretty much spot on. and the question is why would putin do such a thing? he believes it would make him stronger. it dismembers a democracy — ukraine on his border — reconstructs a little bit the old soviet union, but he believes it makes him stronger. i think it will make him weaker. but the biggest mistake we've made as a western world is not to tell putin in writing, "if you do this, here's what comes your way in the energy sector. all of your oligarch buddies are going to lose their ill—gotten gains. we're going to take the yachts and, you know, the lavish apartments we're going to come after your oil and gas economy". the biggest mistake we've made is not to give putin clarity, because the lack of clarity in his world means that you're weak. bu

he previously served as a national security advisor to members of the us senate armed services and foreignaced to speak to us. you are very welcome. we were hearing a little earlier from the pentagon spokesperson john kirby, very clear to say that troops, the us troops, will not be deployed in ukraine. how much of a threat to do you think troops being deployed to places like germany, romania, poland will be for russell?— be for russell? thank you for the opportunity _ be for russell? thank you for the opportunity to _ be for russell? thank you for the opportunity to join - be for russell? thank you for the opportunity to join you i the opportunity to join you and the question. i think they zero threat to russia. nato is a collect of defence alliance. nato is not napoleon threatening russia, it is not nazi germany threatening russia and let bluenoser. as the chairman of the joints she just mcgreejoint chiefs of staff said, this is fabricated by the kremlin to try to coerce kia. it is based on a model where vladimir putin says they are more powerful than ukraine, can tell you what to do and

rap with this and which is i, i tweeted just as we were about to leave el salvador about these us senators who submitted this thing to the committee on foreign relations and they're demanding some sort a report on what our salvador, a sovereign nation who is nobody's backyard, you know what they get to do with their country, right. so i said, as u. s. senators threatened el salvador today for daring to take their own decisions on monetary and economic matters. it is worth remembering the past, which is not even past until bitcoin, and kelly came along. i use an image of st. pasco romero. he's now a sate romero. and it's just a beautiful mural actually right across the street from where he lived in san salvador. so i went there on the last day before we left and took that photo before we flew out. yeah, it's a remarkable photo. so remarkable place incense on the door because it's the center of a total verb renewal project. a whole new library is going up. this downtown is vibrant . there's a lot going on the chiva while it's got a huge stance set up. people are fully bitcoin fluent meant pe

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menendez cassidy. introduce legislation to mitigate risks of al salvatore's adoption of bitcoin, us senators, jim rich of idaho bob menendez, of new jersey, ranking member and chairman of the senate, foreign relations committee and bill cassidy of louisiana. today introduce the accountability for crypto currency in el salvador. the ace's act legislation requiring a state department report on our salvatore's adoption of bitcoin, a crypto currency as legal tender and a plan to mitigate potential risks to the u. s. financial system. i'm going to read the next quote from one of the senators just so you see the scale of the threat that between poses to the united states dollar because here.

it cost us two u.s. senate seat it cost us the majority of the senate.t caved in and we would not be in this mess and most people in georgia know that. we have a divideded party. i did not want to watch this train wreck happened in georgia and turner governorship over too stacy abrams i. >> this is really important what you mention this morning and i want to o drill down on i. the country is needing and wanting evidence in terms of what went down in the election of 2020. what have you found in way of evidence in terms of cheating and that 2020 election in georgia. >> that lead you has misled the american people i've given it my life and last year in november during the runoff i filed felt three lawsuits i asked foror special sessions of the governor to get at this and have forensic audits we get at the bottom of this toi no avail. i even asked for the resignation or secretary of state in an unprecedented move to make a point. they just were not listening to us they were not investigating pretty saw what happened in the run up almost 800,000 people had re

joining us senator ron johnson, the chair of the senate homeland security committee. senator, good evening to you, good to see you tonight. >> jackie, hope you're doing well. jackie: thank you. start with this, "usa today" reporting that 10 officers, most around major u.s. cities were shot or killed in about a week in january. criminal justice reformed a very cats and police unions describe it as a by-product of national violent crime crisis in our country. i want to get your thoughts on this as we are preparing for that second funeral here in new york city tomorrow. >> first of all they're all tragedies. we had three officers shot in milwaukee in the span of a couple of weeks. i believe this is basically the result of the soft on crime policies of democrat governance. low bail, no bail. we have catch an release not only on our southern border we also have catch-and-release in our criminal justice system as well. and you will notice, you know, the rising murder rates that we had a record number of murders in milwaukee last year at 197. these are primarily occurring in

so again thank you that senator tester thank you for joining us and other senators on this call.especially you as a residence and thanks for your courage for speaking out. thank you for organizing in our own communities and making a difference. what you have said to us will really matter i will call this meeting to an end but thank you so much for joining us today, best wishes to all of you. >> hope healthcare professionals testify on children's mental health on the barriers to finding care before senate finance committee watch live tuesday morning at 10:00 a.m. eastern once he's been through online@c-span.org or watch full coverage on our free video app, c-span now. >> i can report to the nation, america is on the move again. >> live tuesday march 1 the state of the union president biden addresses a joint session of congress and the nation reflecting on his first year in office and laying out his agenda for the year ahead, by the covers from us at 8:00 p.m. eastern's president speaks at nine fold by the republican response and we will take your phone calls and social media react

a very prominent us senator here in the u. s. just over the weekend floated one possible solution. he said, of course president joe biden. camps bought him, bowed to rushes, demands when it comes to nato and ukraine. but that the ukranian president could say, agree that they will even attempt to join nato for the next 10 years. so diplomats continuing to talk, which they will tell you is always a good sign. we'll see if anything productive comes out of the meeting tomorrow. but we now know that the russians have responded, and we know that that will probably be the agenda for this very important phone call between secretary state and his for counterpart. okay, puffy. thank you for that update. patsy call. hey, now for a live in washington. all members of the united nations security council have also for the 1st time discussed the russian troop build up on ukraine's border. but there were deep divisions over who is to blame and whether the meeting should even take place on diplomatic edison. james base has more from the un headquarters in yoke. the security council heard 2 very diff

now things don't look so good for the democrats, and we actually have prominent democrats in the us senate and other figures in the democratic party speaking up about the problems that lay ahead for their organization. the national democratic brandy. and i think in rural america generally is toxic, and it's because, quite frankly, we don't show up what we're doing here in congress. i think it's no great secret that for 5 months, with the exception of the infrastructure, we have not been addressing the needs of the american people. now, the congressional poll trackers that predict election results are indicating that if the vote were taken today, the democratic party would go down in flames. the republican party would take back control of both houses of the u. s. congress. both the senate and the house of representatives, the public is unsatisfied with the job. the biden administration is doing on a number of issues, but the biggest of which is the economy. the u. s. public does not approve of biden's handling of the economy and for good reason. at this point we've got the highest rate of i

we cannot allow one country to increase the security at the expense of another country in the us senate minority leader, mitch mcconnell says, sanctions should be imposed on russia before an invasion happens. the ones that really could bring the russians to their knees related to the banking system. i know the president, according to what he said publicly, has been discussing the possibility of that happening with. but to go back to my initial statement, i think what we ought to be doing right now before the invasion occurs, send the ukrainians weapons. they confide with what was the news now where the u. s . is calling for an emergency un security council meeting on thursday to discuss north korea as recent miss our launch that comes after appealing, young confirmed it tested an intermediate range, ballistic missile, which is capable of reaching the us territory of guam. sundays. tests was the north most powerful since 2017 and the 7th in a month in the earth. since near malls, qu, many opposed to military rule have joined the ranks of ethnic groups fighting. the government can stay in