where senators keep their word. used an incredible staff who have been wonderful to work with. you have honored your family and your service and you have inspired a younger generation of senators to continue in the way that you led. while i know i will never cast 17,000 votes, it is only my hope that someday many years from now i can thunder at some very junior senator and share with him the story of this m

us. senator klobuchar: please, go ahead. senator lee: it's been a really helpful hearing. i appreciate each of your comments and insights. it is the first time we ever held an antitrust hearing with a band member rather than a lawyer, a company, or witness. and so thank you for coming as well. this is an importance issue and it relates to a lot of things that we confront on this subcommittee from time to time. it deals with the intersection of consumer rights, consumer welfare, and our antitrust laws. and so it's very important that we maintain fair, free, open, and even fierce competition in this as in every other space and the reason we focus on that, when there's competition, it does two things. both of which are very valuable to the average american. increases quality. and it reduces price. we want those things to happen. and so that's why we focus as we do on this. i have to throw out in renes, argue is a timing slot, inveeous for you it's not. that's all i got to say. thank you. senator klobuchar: thank you. i'll throw another one. i believe she said to you, if you d

interim government and of our cause is bob menendez, the head of the foreign affairs committee of the us senateand he worked closely with marco rubio and other senators. we were very determined to always keep our policy in a bipartisan perspective and we will continue to do that. we never fell for the trap of going into internal politics in the us, or in europe, for that matter. we go out to every free world, to every congress, to every parliament. we want to talk to the socialists, to the conservatives, to everybody, to engage in our struggle for freedom. right. i mean, i talked about the political tide turning against you. it's notjust in the united states. look at latin america. you know, you've lost the support of key allies in the recent past. we could talk about neighbouring colombia, which is hugely important to venezuela, where the government now is engaging with maduro, has opened the border, cooperating with maduro. look at mexico, look at peru. look at the election of lula in brazil. these are all now governments that do not want to isolate venezuela. they want to reach out to venezu

senate. she's interviewed by "politico" congressional editor elana schor. >> host: thank you so much f joining us today, senator, to discussion of boo that you thanks radley on. i'm excited toe here. >> host: i wanted to start,

by working with us senate republicans have an opportunity to make life better for the american peoplebipartisan farm bill that will support our farmers and families. you can continue to create good paying jobs by strengthening our national securities, support veterans in short seniors can retire with dignity. house maga republicans are creating chaos, playing chicken with american checkbook or proposing an agenda that will hurt american families from coast-to-coast% republicans have a choice. chaos or cooperation. we urge them on behalf of the american people to choose and bipartisan cooperation so we can get things done. cox welcome for the first time ever at the microphone. next up first time here but here we are. senator from minnesota for. >> thank you chuck and thanks for your leadership i spent the last few weeks at home in minnesota despite the vikings loss we lost to the giants he later went on but did not do well it was a great game it was a great game. i spent the last two accent home in the middle of a lot of snow and i sprint visited 23 counties for 2023 is on the canadian

us. senator johnson from wisconsin, so i guess i'm going to lead off thisd press conference. i will start by saying when i got here in 2011, we were in debt and spent about $3.6 trillion a year about 2.3 trillion that shows $1.3 trillion deficit. $1.3 trillion deficit. right now above $1.5 trillion in debt. we doubled that over the course. i don't think we are to blame, but it happened while we were here and we didn't like it at all. the day after the november election i wrote a column in "the wall street journal" and published it and it was just trying to lay out if we got the majority. how to return function and fiscal sanity obviously we didn't get the majorities in charge of this, but the house does have the republican majority and i was pleased to see in the speaker battle i know it looked a little messy but i think they accomplished some very good things because i think hopefully what they did agree to is restoring function. we are talking about passing a budget one that is as conservative as possible you can't balance it but we have to increase the debt ceiling. if we

elizabeth: thank you senator ron johnson. >> now joining us, andrew mccarthy. what was your reaction to what we were talking about? >> i think it is a couple different stories, the burisma thing, i think. is the biggest scandal in the country is the millions of dollars from actors who were connected to foreign regimes that went into the biden family coffers, cashing in on joe biden a plate influence, i have been saying for years, i salute when senator johnson and grassley have done in reporting on this. if this was a republican, forget about trump, i know trump makes everyone's head explode, but if it was pick your republican, this would be the only story we would be talking about and it would not have taken two years, there would have gone something decisive done. elizabeth: donald trump jr. doing this, selling u.s. natural gas millions of -- tons to china out of louisiana, let's move on. your reaction to fbi former top spy hinte hunter. what is your reaction? >> the interesting thing is the contortions that fbi and government did with respect to him. i wrote

i read the resolution of the us senate on russia in scriptum and understood why i was leaving russia war against my country. when i leave. and where are you going to the iss? there and to those, they are just imposing sanctions against your country, which you would like to protect and do not want to take part in this war against your country, and you cannot accept your country, because it is putin's aggressor and not at all right. how to live? when i read it, i asked you to pay attention to two phrases. one ends with the fact that although i understand that for those who continue to uphold their principles in russia with my departure will become harder, a terrific idea and amazing. a strange delusion for a smart person, that is, you think that principles are only for those who think, like you all and everyone else who protects russian culture russian art, they are unprincipled, they kind of do it for money for gingerbread, like georges, and you write ah. they they are simply they are bought by putin amazing conviction that everything we think and say, we are immutable. everything els

including russia today , had significant spending on advertising, such a result did not suit the us senatorshreatened to pass a law that would limit the company's income from political advertising. after that, the leadership of twitter allowed the deletion of the account of any user simply at the request of the us intelligence community. in particular, they were sent by the fbi's special department for working with social networks. it's completely outside of their legal authority that these guys are supposed to investigate terrorist attacks , bank raids, and drug fraud and money laundering crimes. and these people are clearly not in the field work. they sit in a cozy office in washington, interact with large social media companies, and censor. directly violating our constitution, the secret services, as well as many other structures from the congressional government and even individual the states sent the leader, twitter lists, users who were allegedly sponsored by the russian state, the closer the presidential elections of 2020 were, the more often such lists came, no reason to block accoun

before the start of the special operation , a draft law on lending with ukraine was introduced in the us senateion was made in a few months. pumping weapons to ukraine we had no other choice, the president said, handing the star of the hero to the father of the deceased commander of the sparta battalion vladimir zhoga. if there was even one chance, to solve this problem by other peaceful means. of course, we would have used it, but we were not given this chance. there was simply no other choice and now, when all this happened, but you can be absolutely aware of what is happening, but in order to soberly assess what is happening. truth is needed. must speak. to tell the truth and we are ready to listen officials cultural figures leadership of the regions people who came from the nineties or brought up by those who came from the nineties they are ready for the truth, because the truth is a cruel thing. truth requires sacrifice. in comfort in convenience in violation of habitual relationships, and so on and so forth. due to this. i want to quote another one of our wonderful writers of our classic

us as a comment for today. i want to welcome my friend shelley moore capital as our vice chair, and we have senator steve daines as well joining us as the chair of the interesse. so exciting times. a lot of changes coming forward. but folks, , the last three wees i've had some great quality time in the state of iowa, and i have continued on visiting my counties. i was able to visit 33 different counties doing roundtables with farmers and those engaged in agriculture as we prepare for the upcoming 2023 farm bill reauthorization. i was able to meet with school groups and he did a number of open public town halls, hearing from iowans about all different topics. and what i find that is consistent with all of those meetings, all of those discussions, iowans are really concerned about what's going on with this administration. the things that i heardde floor today to talk about need for more american energy. we're approaching the end of january. winter storms have been covering the country. colorado to connecticut. we're seeing it everywhere, temperatures drop, energy prices go up. in a typical year cold actually kill

and a us senator harring dedicated to the situation and ukraine, americans that senior diplomat, victoria newland couldn't hold herself back from celebrating the gnawed stream to pipeline blasts, as well as washington's longstanding interference into the domestic politics of east european countries. as he contributes to rachel, marston takes a closer look at newland so called achievements. the u. s. senate foreign relations committee held a hearing on thursday that kind of slipped under the radar in the mainstream press . but it's really a classic example of how washington decision makers get drunk on their own nonsense . and then just start trying to change the world. the subject of this hearing was countering russian aggression, ukraine and beyond. and. and despite being with the democrats right now and victoria f e u newland, we'll get to that. the 2nd who's now serving at the state department as under secretary of state for political affairs in the biden administration, new and can't help but side with republican senator ted cruz. when it comes to being relieved that the nord stream t

he believes that now is the best moment for this yesterday about the us senator said the same.am beerbock phasie says they are at war with russia and not against each other ukrainian press. this morning, it reports about another massive strike on the military and energy infrastructure of ukraine, these are objects located in kiev, kiev , cherkassy, ​​vinskoe, dnepropetrovsk zhetonovsk, nikolaev, lviv and ivano-frankivsk regions. the british newspaper the guardian writes sending tanks to ukraine clears up one colon now this war of the west against russia is very frank statement. although western politicians continue to argue that the situation is impossible. consider it as a conflict between russia and nato, that's how hmm talked about the shop, look. europe is at war not far from here in berlin. it's against a big country like ukraine. so whatever we do. we must always clearly understand that we are doing everything possible to support ukraine, but at the same time , we are preventing the escalation of the conflict into a war between russia and nato, and this principle will alw

operation and after the operation or the desert, we emphasize that at this time in december, the us senatelready transferred the clinton case to bill clinton himself, in principle, during this period he was under the criticism of his opponents, who tried to impeach him. uh, basically in american history the case of impeachment. it's called nothing, and that's why. uh, the procedure itself, it's very complicated. she is very multi-layered. yes, but he was very close to losing his position at the sinan hearings. about impeachment began on january 7, 1999 and lasted until february 12, only a miracle really saved clinton from resignation, really. miracle guide. it is hard to imagine that this was iraq's fault . iraq was afraid. uh, full, as it were, providing e information to the international community on the preparation of delivery vehicles for weapons of destruction using chemicals . in particular. there they even talked about nuclear weapons and, after all, subsequent events. here is the famous episode. uh, colin pao, when he shook this vial, uh from the podium to the united nations, all t

russian aggression against ukraine was also discussed today in the foreign affairs committee the us senate, in particular the legislator, was asked by representatives of the administration why it only now decided to provide ukraine with abrams tanks first. i think most of us here are happy to see that the administration finally agreed yesterday to provide abrams tanks and we have been calling for this for some time, but over the months we have been repeatedly they said that sending tanks to ukraine is impossible or undesirable or it will be some kind of escalation and suddenly everything changed yesterday what and how did it happen it is inconvenient well how did it change what happened as you know are very complicated tanks and they require serious training so even if we approved them yesterday it will take some time to get them to the battlefield so it's not something that will appear before the spring offensive kind of underlines what i said we asked for this six months ago and if you they started 6 months ago, they should have already by spring, so what happened here , who is to blame

stents on war, but then a strong disapproval came from the drills, close ally, washington, and us senator. one of the republican party's pho most talks and pro israel advocate scene as close to these rarely new prime minister benjamin netanyahu called israel's decision to stay quiet on ukraine. unnerving. i'm glad to see mr. cole, when the news rarely foreign minister is prioritize in the us. israeli strategic relationship and support continue humanitarian a to ukraine. however, the idea that israel should speak less about russia criminal invasion of ukraine is a bit unnerving. the same senator graham was the one who last february, strongly criticized israel for not selling weapons for ukraine form israeli prime. it is still a p repeatedly spoke out against russia can damage more. so open the actively and publicly accused and his forces of committing war crimes in ukraine, but he rejected numerous ukraine and request for arms reports also say that early december and then yahoo and a phone conversation ask to coordinate president zalinski to vote against the un general assembly resolution

that's how one us senator labels a washington decision to send ukrainian soldiers to oklahoma. the patriot missile defense system training.

n i >> guest: i agree with my fellow republican senators that i think a commission would be useful, but it's good to be truly bipartisan and it ought to be done on the framework, on the style of the pattern of the 9/11 commission, which is sin notrn with the democrats proposed, not with nancy pelosi proposed. she wanted a stacked commission which is why it bogged down because there was no reason to further introduce partisan politics into this. we ought to have a clear look at the security. you know, we've had several rounds of hearings in the senate on the security failings of the day. those are pretty significant. we know for instance there was major a controversy about activating the national guard. we know that some did not want the guard activated on the day because of, they thought it looked too much like president trump's activationke of the guad against the riots. we saw early in the summer that was a mistake. there's a lot of controversy about who asked for g it to be activated and when it was activated, et cetera. i think wewe probably should hae a full accounting of all of th

after five us senators published books during the 2022 calendar year, two more members of congress upper chamber are set to roll out their books in the first half of 2023. in may, missouri senator josh hawley will release manhood the masculine virtues america needs through the conservative publishing house. regnery senator hawley published his book, the tyranny of big tech through regnery back in 2021. in early june, florida republican senator marco rubio will release decades of decadence through broadside books, an imprint of harper collins. it's senator rubio's third book since coming to congress. he wrote american dreams back in 2015, shortly before running for president in 2016. broadside has also snagged another high profile florida republican for its 2023 lineup. florida governor and potential 2024 presidential candidate ron desantis. we'll release the courage to be free. florida's blueprint for america's revival on february the 28th. also in february, climate activist greta thunberg will release her handbook on combating climate change. it's called the climate book in march. socio

after the operation of the face in the desert , we emphasize that at this time in december, the us senate referred the clinton case to bill clinton himself , in principle, during this period was under, as it were, the muzzle of criticism from his opponents, who tried to impeach him. uh, in principle, american history has a case of impeachment. it's called nothing, and that's why. uh, by myself procedure is very complicated. she is very multi-layered. yes, but he was very close to the fact that he could lose his position, the sinan impeachment hearings began on january 7, 1999 and continued until february 12. only a miracle really saved clinton's resignation, really. miracle guide. it is hard to imagine that it was iraq's fault. iraq was afraid of providing complete information to the international community on the preparation of delivery vehicles for weapons of destruction using chemicals. in particular. there they even talked about nuclear weapons and, after all, the subsequent event. this is the famous episode. e, colin pao, when he shook this test tube, e from the rostrum of the united

new payments for families with children support for entrepreneurs and other important areas the us senate transportation committee intends to investigate a large-scale failure in the pilot notification system, according to local media, more than 4,000 flights were delayed across the country, and 750 flights, including international ones, were canceled by the us federal aviation administration stated that the failure affected the air traffic control system on there, which sends real-time information to the pilot about the restrictions and dangers associated with flights now and management. here is a solution to the problem, and by now most of the functions of the system have been restored. french journalists expert adrian bouquet covering the conflict in donbass asked for russian citizenship and political asylum in our country bouquet was one of those foreign journalists. who told the truth about the provocation in bucha bouquet was the victim of an attack in istanbul by two men. they stabbed him in the area of ​​the hands of the abdomen and the face of the journalists managed to escape. h

bill clinton said. batman fried was arrested just days before he was due to testify in front of the us senate where it is rumored that he was ready to spill the beans on just how close f t x was to the powers that be. one thing is for sure. grab some popcorn because the show goes on. i'm sorry, that's the biggest thing to up and should have done better. and before we go, 2022 was filled with global events that are shaping the future of the world, but also numerous lips of the tongue and trash talk by world leaders. even though most of them were not meant to be seen or heard by the public. we present to you our best picks of political hot. mike's mm mm mm mm. 2 mm mm mm mm mm mm. ringback mm mm hm. with that's a wrap on the hour's top stories from around the globe for more up to the minute. use updates, head over to r t dot com. and up next, puerto rico told through the eyes of ones that are up. we're just the islands relationship with the u. s. ad pushes the independence movement on our team. the last american colony c a new with .

achieve their goal of pushing the russians out of ukrainian territory with a statement in kyiv, us senator democrat jack ritt , together with his colleague, independent senator angus king, visited the capital of ukraine, where american lawmakers met, among others, with president zelensky, sonaturgin, however, noted that the provision of machines does not mean harm that ukraine will automatically receive abrams tanks, according to him, the united states and other countries are trying to find the right combination of armored vehicles that could be used most effectively ukrainian armed forces the united states celebrates the second anniversary of the storming of the capitol on january 6 and commemorates the five people who died as a result of these events that almost 140 were injured today against almost a thousand people open criminal proceedings some of them have already been convicted meanwhile the congress continues to be paralyzed by the absence of the speaker of the house of representatives, disputes within the republican party continue for the fourth day, the leader of the republicans,

the us senate committee on transportation intends to investigate a massive system failure in the pilotccording to local media, more than 4,000 flights were delayed for 750 departures across the country , including international ones canceled the us federal aviation administration said that the failure affected the air traffic control system , but there, which sends real-time information to pilots about the restrictions and dangers associated with flights. now the management is working on a solution to this problem. by now, most of the system's functions have been restored. in the u.s. state of illinois, a fire at a chemical plant led to it, according to local media, a series of explosions over the city of molosal, caustic food hanging from residents, they are asked not to leave their homes, or offices tightly close windows and doors on the spot firefighters are working, he managed to partially knock down the flame, and the victims not reported. install open watch russian channels and all series movies and cartoons

but then a strong disapproval came from israel's close ally, washington, and us senator, at one of the republican party's foremost talks and pro israel advocate scene as very close to these rarely new prime minister benjamin netanyahu called israel's decision to stay quiet on ukraine. i'm nervous. let's take a listen. i'm glad to see mister cohen, the news railey foreign minister is prioritize in the us israel, strategic relationship, and support continues humanitarian aid to ukraine. however, the idea that israel should speak less about russia's criminal invasion of ukraine is a bit unnerving. the same senator graham was the one who last february strongly criticized israel for not selling weapons to ukraine. israeli former prime minister, a law peed, spoke out repeatedly against russia openly actively and publicly condemn in moscow and accusing his forces of committed war crimes in ukraine. but he repeatedly rejected numerous ukrainian requests for arms. high report say also that early in december, netanyahu in a phone conversation asked you credit president zalinski to vote against t

bill clinton said buckman freed was arrested just days before he was due to testify in front of the us senate, where it is rumored that he was ready to spill the beans on just how close f yes was to the powers that be. one thing is for sure. grab some popcorn because the show goes on. i'm sorry, that's the biggest thing to up and should have done better. and before we go, 2022 was filled with global events that are shaping the future of the world, but also numerous slips of the tongue and trash talk by world leaders. even though most of them are not meant to be seen or heard by the public. we present to you our best picks of political hot mike's mm. mm hm. mm mm. mm. mm. mm mm. mm mm. a, [000:00:00;00] a, a, a with, that's a rob on the hour's top stories from around the globe for more of a minute. news updates had over to r t dot com. and don't forget to follow us on odyssey rumble and gab, thanks for tuning in. we'll see you back at the top of the hour. ah ah ah ah sang aka is convicted and sentenced to 55 years. so ours was the 2nd largest robbery in the us at the time, and the people from

some us senators, claim no audit of money provided to kev is needed. one of the things that i really was focused to punch. in fact, i raised it was present zelinski himself. i said look, if you have a scandal, if you miss of mr. misuse these, these resources, it's gonna, it's going to saint cloud who supported in the us and he got that. and then we had a later meeting with a lot of their defense officials in and government officials. they're doing detailed software, they're keeping track of every spare part that comes into the country. we're sending over at an inspector general from the pentagon this month. so i came away very impressed by the level of accountability dallas cross lived to and the lady chief editor, janice proponent to learn more on the matter. welcome janice b. u. s. senator king highlighted the high level of accountability in the ukrainian government when it comes to the money you have received from washington. yet we've seen investigations launched to account for various funds and contracts within the defense sector. what do you thin

us. senate , the us. house. how dare senate, the us. house. how dare go against him.he is coming out for kevin mccarthy . coming out for kevin mccarthy. and yet these 20 say, no, it is you are wrong. donald trump as lauren boebert , the lauren boebert, the congresswoman from colorado, said yesterday. so it's interesting to me that for the first time, they feel not only defiant towards their other colleagues, but they're willing to say to donald trump as lauren boebert did on the house floor, you're wrong . quite you're wrong. quite extraordinary. sure, they i think that in the republican party, great harm. we're going to follow this saga as it develops. and we thank you. we you for joining develops. and we thank you. we you forjoining us develops. and we thank you. we you for joining us this evening here in london. thank you . quick here in london. thank you. quick thought one what the farage moment, if i was to mention national service. oh my goodness. may people have fits of apoplexy . surely you couldn't of apoplexy. surely you couldn't expect the woke generation t

us. senate , the us. house. how dare senate, the us. house. how dare go against him.he is coming out for kevin mccarthy . coming out for kevin mccarthy. and yet these 20 say, no, it is you are wrong. donald trump as lauren boebert , the lauren boebert, the congresswoman from colorado, said yesterday. so it's interesting to me that for the first time, they feel not only defiant towards their other colleagues, but they're willing to say to donald trump as lauren boebert did on the house floor, you're wrong . quite you're wrong. quite extraordinary. sure, they i think that in the republican party, great harm. we're going to follow this saga as it develops. and we thank you. we you for joining develops. and we thank you. we you forjoining us develops. and we thank you. we you for joining us this evening here in london. thank you . quick here in london. thank you. quick thought one what the farage moment, if i was to mention national service. oh my goodness. may people have fits of apoplexy . surely you couldn't of apoplexy. surely you couldn't expect the woke generation t

some us senators claim no audit of money provided to kev is needed. one of the things that i really was focused upon, in fact, i raised it was present zelinski himself. i said look, if you have a scandal, if you miss of mr. misuse these, these resources, it's gonna, it's going to sink the, the support in the u. s. and he got that. and then we had a later meeting with a lot of their defense officials and, and government officials. they're doing detailed software, they're keeping track of every spare part that comes into the country. we're sending over an inspector general from the pentagon this month. so i came away very impressed by the level of accountability. and the lady chief editor janice, the conan says that kids and now thing of probes into corruption is their way of showing western allies that ukraine can be trusted. this is a beautiful night burgundy trying to whitewash their, their problems. of course, the western propaganda uses this as an example that there is some kind of monitoring system and it should be you doing some investigation. th

evan recently ran for the us senate as a pro—democracy independent candidate.igued to get your view on the shenanigans of the last 48 hours. they certainly show a division within the republican party and what we are witnessing is a power struggle in the absence of leadership. donald trump is no longer in the white house, is influence i believe is waning influence i believe is waning in the republican party and in that vacuum you now see a struggle for who will truly guide the party. i think today we saw a very interesting concession that kevin mccarthy's side made to the far right, and that is that a superpac, political organisation empower, to spend on elections, to influence the outcomes of course through a legal process has made the concession to a superpac aligned with the far right that if kevin mccarthy's superpac will not play in republican primary elections in safe republican seeds, that's all to say that kevin mccarthy has essentially given up his ability in making that concession to shape a party that he would lead as a republican speaker of the house

ticketmaster has apologised to taylor swift and herfans during a us senate hearing, months after its e. first bettiza is here. of all, just remind us what first of all, just remind us what happened when this tool is available, tickets were available, tickets were available to buy, what went wrong? available to buy, what went wron: ? ., . , available to buy, what went wron: ? ., ., , ., wrong? you are right, this all started in _ wrong? you are right, this all started in november- wrong? you are right, this all started in november when i started in november when tickets for a taylor swift to went on sale on ticketmaster, it caused chaos, the website kept crashing and within a few hours, tickets were being resold elsewhere at much higher prices. you are talking up to 22,000 us dollars and people say they waited eight, nine hours to try to get tickets and of course, taylor swift is one of course, taylor swift is one of the most famous singers in the world and this was the first to in five years so her fans were hugely disappointed and that's why some of them are now suing ticketmaster. t

because and this is to us as senator blunt referenced, a president was us as. we know a member of the united states senate, but we feel very close to him in the house of representatives as the story was told. senator blunt. there's something called the board of education rooms. at the end the day, that's sam rayburn and some of his colleagues said, you know, story very well would to a room and so they didn't say we're going to go play cards and have refreshments. they said we're going to. the board of education. and that was the room in the capitol which is a very beautiful place. while president the vice president and was in the he received a call from the white house from eleanor roosevelt and. that was the call. that made all the difference in world. he was called to the white house and he would, as a senator, said others not to see the president, but to become the president of the united states. so we feel very close. we still call it the board of education. we don't play cards there, have refreshments anymore. but it is a place of history for us. again, whe

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