after i left the cia, i became the chief investigator for the us senate foreign relations committee.tand it, it was hillary clinton who started the policy of church schism during her tenure. continued under the republican administration of donald trump and the democratic administration of joe biden. the split was seen as a way to weaken russia and spoil its relations with ukraine, although previously such a problem did not exist between the two countries. to be honest, i say this not as an american, but as orthodox, these machinations did not promise anything good at all. this was a serious mistake. i have no doubt that the cia carried out analysis and work. russia in the event of a split in the orthodox church. once the cia has prepared this document, they weigh the pros and cons and give approval accordingly. i know from a senior official of the greek orthodox church that there was corruption and then a schism was committed. to be honest, i don't know what the cia's role was in infiltrating others. sect or belief in ukraine, but i can say that this organization likes chaos because

after i left the cia, i became the chief investigator for the us senate foreign relations committee. document, they are weighing all the pros and cons and give the appropriate permission, i know from the elder, after which the split was made. to be honest, i don’t know what the role of the cia was in introducing other sects or beliefs into ukraine, but i can say that this organization likes chaos because in chaos it can flourish, which happens with a culture that has been orthodox for a millennium, christian. in which suddenly mormons or seventh day adventists or scientologists or representatives here in the usa appear, they roam freely around the country with a thousand-year history orthodoxy. not only the cia, but the white house, the pentagon, and the state department believe that it is necessary to inflict so many different blows on the other side that it simply loses the ability to react and respond; subsequently, such a course weakens the other country. so in 2004. during the first maidan , he was often heard on the streets and denounced the refusal to associate with the moscow

us denounced the icc�*s decision. speaking at a senate foreign relations committee hearing, us secretary of state antony blinken was critical. the extremely wrong—headed decision by the icc prosecutor yesterday, the shameful equivalents implied between hamas and the leadership of israel, i

us denounced the icc�*s decision. speaking at a senate foreign relations committee hearing, us secretary of state antony blinken was criticalmove, and said the decision will only draw out the war in the middle east. the extremely wrong—headed decision by the icc prosecutor yesterday, the shameful equivalents implied between hamas and the leadership of israel, i think that only complicates the prospects for getting such an agreement. we will continue to forge ahead to do that, but that decision, as you've said, on so many levels, is totally wrong—headed, and we'll be happy to work with congress, with this committee, on an appropriate response. those comments from the us secretary of state came as he faced criticism from democrats and republicans over the administration's israel policy. as he began his testimony, mr blinken was interrupted by protestors, who called him a war criminal, and accused him of being involved in genocide. meanwhile, in the middle east, israel has pledged to return broadcast equipment that it seized from the associated press. the equipment was used by the american news agency to show the shot you see

us denounced the icc�*s decision. speaking at a senate foreign relations committee hearing, us secretary of state antony blinken was criticalheaded decision by the icc prosecutor yesterday, the shameful equivalents implied between hamas and the leadership of israel, i think that only complicates the prospects for getting such an agreement. we will continue to forge ahead to do that, but that decision,

weigh in on the israeli crisis nebraska republican senator pete ricketts he sits on the foreign relations committee. senator, thank you for being with us your assessment of this position of the biden administration they are going to withhold some weapons shipments to israel if israel goes a fullbore into rafah progressive demonstrates her incompetence the administration said they had an ironclad with now they're demonstrating that does not mean too much b. secretary blinken was talking about how we have got to offer them a better way of better way like afghanistan. how well did that work out question ricketts looking for credible plan for protecting civilians. they would not know a credible plan if it came up and bit them on the behind these people are completely incompetent they are actually mismanaging this the long and short of it is, israel has to destroy hamas. hamas is a terrorist organization started this war in october 7. hamas is responsible for every single death since october 7. what hamas should do a straight or if hamas surrenders this is all over and aid can begin flowing to the civilians but the fact of the matter is eve

supporters of palestine waylaid the us secretary of state for hearings in the senate foreign relations committeeony blinken has arrived there to tell him why the state debt was asking for another 60 billion dollars, but he was interrupted. the need for american global leadership and cooperation with our allies and partners has never been greater. people's republic of china, brother was 6 years old, you are israeli. the demonstrators were indignant that the us authorities supported the operation in the gas sector, although the protesters were taken out of the hall by the police, but not all of them turned out to be as soon as blinken again uttered the phrase chinese people's republic, as if behind the back of the public sector, shouts were heard again, you are a war criminal. western countries are outraged by the decision of the international criminal court in connection with the arrest warrant for the prime minister and minister of defense of israel. they are accused of war crimes due to the operation in the gas sector. details from natalia solovyova. the humanitarian crisis in the gas sector ha

senator bob menendez goes on trial monday in federal court in manhattan. >> he's accused of using his authority as chairman of the senate foreign relations committee to peddle influence with the governments of egypt and qatar. he's also suspected of accepting gifts for helping new jersey businessman john menendez has stepped down as chairman of the foreign relations panel, yet he has refused to resign from the senate. this has disappointed some of his colleagues. >> should there be a formal ethics investigation against him and should he be expelled? >> the senate has standards as to proper behavior, and senator menendez behavior has fallen way below that. >> menendez isn't ruling out testifying at the trial. jury selection begins monday, followed by opening statements. the trial could last more than two months. rapper and producer sean diddy combs, filing a motion to dismiss a decades old sexual assault lawsuit filed against him. the filing filer accuses combs and others of sex crimes against a then 17 year old as fox's claudia cowan shows us, he's denying all wrongdoing and now wants the case thrown out. >> sean diddy combs says this latest lawsuit against

senator bob menendez of new jersey is set to start tomorrow. prosecutor saying menendez and his wife need dean used his position as chairman of the powerful senate foreign relations committee to help associates in new jersey, as well as the governments of egypt and qatar in return prosecutors say they received items like what you're seeing here, a hundreds of thousands of dollars. mercedes benz and gold bars. the couple has pleaded not guilty and are being tried separately. are manu raju, consonant, or menendez and halls? congress ahead of the trial your trial starts next week. >> if you're convicted, we resign. really? >> if you're convicted, what he was really i mean thoughts about the trial as we head into next week, i'm looking forward improving my innocence menendez has already stood trial and another option case that was back in 2017, it ended in a mistrial with the jury deadlocked now, like then, menendez has refused to step down, even as some fellow democrats have pushed him to get anyone wish mid-end is good luck for next week for that sleaze ball. what if he is acquitted and runs? >> for real actually, i guess i guess we'll see but what's clearly happened. he got

dollars in bribes in exchange for political favors, as senator menendez is accused of using his power as chairman of the senate foreign relations committeeypt and qatar, both he and his wife pleaded not guilty. >> the prosecution is going to prove at trial that menendez had hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and gold bars in his closet, and they're also going to present evidence of a cooperator who is going to testify that he met with menendez and his wife, nadine, and provided them money in exchange for influence. >> now, this is the senate democrats second corruption trial. a jury deadlocked on the verdict in 2017. federal prosecutors eventually abandoned the case. this trial is expected to continue for weeks. >> oakland police say a family narrowly escaped injury in a frightening weekend shooting. investigators say several bullets crashed through the front window of their home. a young child was inside the house at the time of the shooting. it happened yesterday afternoon on east 32nd street, just one block south of interstate 580. one neighbor was working at home when she heard the sound of gunfire. then first we can heard the

the secretary of state anthony blinking when he appeared before the senate foreign relations committee a few days ago. the need for us global leadership and for cooperation with allies and partners has never been great in the people's republic of china pursuing the people's republic of china the to that happened like 9 times wilmer maintenance for what's interesting thing is the interesting thing. as i see it, and pardon me for giving my opinion here before yours, but he's never going to be criticized by the media because they're afraid if they do, they'll be fired. he's never going to be criticized by or politicians because they're all corrupt as hell. and he'll always kind of be doing and saying the things that are necessary for military contractors. so my thinking is these folks don't get up and say that to him. nobody else. well, you're absolutely right. we're seeing this play itself out on our college campuses . let me make a quick point about victoria newman. it's also important to remember that she was the cookie lady in 2014, during the my down. yeah. so a lot of a lot of what we're seeing play, it's a about

us tonight. >> out front. now, democratic senator jeff mercury from oregon, he's on the senate foreign relations committee and it's also one of the few members of congress to have visited rafah. he was there in january, senator, a good to have you with us tonight. this new report from the state department, which was just released a short time ago, finds it is reasonable to assess is really forces did use us weapons in ways that are inconsistent with international humanitarian law. your colleague from maryland senator chris van hollen says the administration, quote, duct, all the hard questions here that they quote, don't want to have to take any action to hold the netanyahu government accountable for what's happening? >> would you agree with his assessment yes, i think it's very accurate. it's a massive diplomatic dodge on the one hand, it says it's very reasonable to conclude that there's been restriction of aid. it's very reasonable to conclude that our weapons had been used in violation of international law, then it proceeds to say, but we just don't want to give answer on that yet clearly politics come int

senator goes on trial tomorrow in federal court in manhattan. he faces 16 criminal counts of corruption. chad program has more. >> bob menendez is accused of using his authority as chairman of the foreign relations committeeal influence with the government of egypt and cawdor. helping new jersey businessmen. the senator says he is innocent. >> all i can ask is to withhold judgment until justice takes place. >> alleging menendez also scored a mercedes-benz. the senator relinquished his gavel as chairman of the foreign relations panel and is running for reelection as an independent some democrats may ignore the trial. >> i will be waiting for the verdict. >> have you talked to them lately about the trial? >> i've not discussed it in any detail. >> disappointing many of his colleagues. they claim to a narrow senate majority. chuck schumer gives the same answer when pressed about menendez. >> should he be expelled? >> the senate has standardized to proper behavior and senator menendez behavior has pulled way below that. >> this is the second federal corruption trial for menendez. indicting the senator nine years ago for failing to disclose gifts. a jury could not reach a verdict >> giving it my all every day.

their own problems, hearings for a minute, just a minute, in the senate foreign relations committee, someone, ted cruz, is interrogating usten to the tone of the questions and answers, you should probably, well, it becomes clear why... why, in fact, the current world order needs to be changed, just listen, please, the state department issued a statement expressing condolences in connection with the death of lynx, but the secretary of state , isn't the world a better place after his death, given the terrible acts he was involved in both as a judge and as president, and the fact that he can no longer be involved in them, then yes, to the people of iran, apparently got better. talking or about something completely different, which is the most important thing to understand, in order to understand in general how it works, this whole freak show, what is it for, what is it about? here we see senator from texas ted cruz, who was once even a republican, respectively, who was once even a candidate for president of the united states of america, in america he is treated as a lawless man, but he is absolutely indifferent to what is ha

the speech of us secretary of state antony blinken in the senate foreign relations committee was literallyre chanting slogans, shouting down the head of the us foreign policy department who was speaking. he was also called the gas butcher. some chose a silent form of protest, sitting on in the back rows with raised palms smeared with red. i give the floor to ekaterina strizhanova. good morning to everyone who is starting a new day with us, along with the first channel. on the calendar today is wednesday, may 22, in the studio of ekaterina strizhenova. already woken up, those who haven’t woken up, wake up quickly, because a new day has already arrived. we don’t waste a minute, we don’t put anything off until tomorrow, we live here now. and to make it easier to wake up, we run together for a morning warm-up. with master of sports in street lifting margarita kuznetsova. let's stretch our shoulders back. good morning, if you sit for a long time at the computer or in the car, the muscles of the shoulder girdle and back become tense. i'll show you how to stretch them, and at the same time we'll

so joining us right now is democratic senator chris coons of delaware are key member of the senate foreign relations committee. thanks so much for coming on. so let's talk through this norway, ireland, spain, and quick session. they announced these plans to recognize a palestinian state. hamas comes out with a statement of plotting the announcement saying, we call on countries around the world to recognize our legitimate national rights support. the struggle of our people for liberation and independence and the end of the zionist occupation of our land. that's a statement from hamas and israel. obviously they are condemning this every way they can recalling embed passengers and saying that this shows the world that terrorism pays what do you think of this? what do you want to hear from president biden well, i expect what we'll hear from president biden is a continued strong stance of support for israel's right to exist and for the ongoing effort to try and resolve the arab-israeli conflict by reconciling saudi arabia and israel something that president biden and his senior team and a group of us here in the s

senate foreign relations committee. he has known prime minister netanyahu for 50 years. he is about usinger of diplomacy to bring about a resolution. he's done a lot of things on the world stage that domestically have her 10. -- have hurt hhim. the withdrawal from kabul and how disastrous that was. i thing the president doing what he is doing, from carrots and sticks with netanyahu, he is doing it because for him, the resolution is a cease-fire deal. however he can get it. amna: it is worth pointing out previous u.s. presidents, including republican presidents, reagan, h w bush, w bush as well, have all withheld weapons from israel at some point. why shouldn't this one? it is a couple of things. this is a little different. some have said that what happened on october 7 is the worst thing that has happened to the jewish people since the holocaust. i think qualitatively this is different. i would also say from a political standpoint, someone like ronald reagan was seen as a strong, tough leader, and he was someone who, if anything, the perception was maybe he is a little too lycos. with joe

chair of the senate foreign relations committee and at turns, also the ranking member, the top democrat when republicans control the committee he had a big say over billions of dollars in us military aid to egypt in this case, egypt is the country that he is alleged to have been a foreign agent for as he was taking bribes from a businessman who was a co-defendant in this case, who had connections to that government. >> it's an interesting point you raised. in fact, want to bring you in here because there's a codefendant, but also nadine, his wife. there tried separately because her attorney says that she is suffering from medical issues. >> you're an attorney. tell me about the impact of these separate trials and why you might want to do that if you're hoping to point the finger. >> well, traditionally, the defendants often argue prejudice and in a case like this, you probably would've seen that kind of an argument, but she apparently is recovering from some kind of surgery, so as. a practical matter, if she's gonna be out of the courtroom even though apparently she's going to be thrown under the bus for almost all of the counts in the indictment, this case reads and sit

the senate foreign relations committee for 12, where he was at the forefront of the fi against terrorism and weapons of mass distraction. in his speech a few years ago, president biden reminded us of the onty of the u.s. as the oldest and largest democracy on earth. heaid, and i paraphrase, america is an idea. an idea stronger than any army. ean. more powerful than any dictator or tyrant. it gives hope to the most desperate people on earth. guaranteeing that everyone is treated with dignity. those words are a reminder of our role in the world, sken by a man who has lived the standard. 2008, joseph biden made history once again, this time, as vice president to the country's first black president, barack obama. together -- [applause] together, president obama and biden changed the way americans experience health cahe aordable care act. [applause] reduhe nber of uninsured americans by 20 million people by the time they left office. when the country was hit by a gripping and deadly pandemic, it was president biden who steered the country to recovery. [applause] president of the united states in 2020. and sworn into office in january of 2021. since then, he has remained steadfast in

using u.s.-provided equipment. u.s. assessed israel could do more to avoid civilian harm. so it doesn't say they aren't doing it -- >> secretary linken's own record said they can't reach that conclusion. ben carden, from the senate foreign relations committeeed that it said no evidence and said that joe biden was wrong to impose this defact or arms embargo on israel. they are doing more than any military in history to prevent civilian casualties. if hamas did not hide behind under civilians, but for that matter if hamas surrendered and pulling over the hostages, there would be no more suffering in gaza. >> you went to army law and you deployed to iraq and afghanistan. it has to trouble you when the israeli prime minister said himself that they killed more civilians than terrorists. thousands more civilians thar tastes. >> it troubles me deeply that hamas is using them as human shields because that is their strategy. >> so should -- but to that point, because the united states provides billions of dollars in weapons to israel, should it have a say in how those weapons are used? because the needle blinken seemed to be trying to thread here was to say it was very specifically tailored in terms of with holding these large bombs. the 3500 bombs

senate foreign relations committee. he had been one of the first public voices of dissent in the united states senate about us vietnam war policy. and he was someone who really wanted to take on these issues. the issues related to national intel, the national intelligence commune ity and the ways in which it may have the ways in which it may have violated american's constitutional liberties. what was uncovered by these hearings? well, the hearings uncovered a few important things. they were meant in some ways to be a second watergate investigation. in that the watergate committee had revealed that national intelligence agencies, specifically the cia and the fbi, had been used by the nixon administration for political purposes. and so church was interested in investigating those prior allegations in addition to now digging into these questions of, well, what was the intelligence community really doing? what the committee confronted was a kind of black box because congress had never provided effective and ongoing oversight of the national intelligence agencies, especially the cia. but even some agencies, the nsa, for examp

senate foreign relations committee. he had been one of the first public voices of dissent in the united states senate about us vietnam war policy. and he was someone who really wanted to take on these issues. the issues related to national intel, the national intelligence commune ity and the ways in which it may have the ways in which it may have violated american's constitutional liberties. what was uncovered by these hearings? well, the hearings uncovered a few important things. they were meant in some ways to be a second watergate investigation. in that the watergate committee had revealed that national intelligence agencies, specifically the cia and the fbi, had been used by the nixon administration for political purposes. and so church was interested in investigating those prior allegations in addition to now digging into these questions of, well, what was the intelligence community really doing? what the committee confronted was a kind of black box because congress had never provided effective and ongoing oversight of the national intelligence agencies, especially the cia. but even some agencies, the nsa, for examp

. >> joining us is democratic member of the foreign relations committee, senator murphy of connecticut of the lead negotiators of the border security and foreign aid legislation. senator, good morning. it's great to see you. i'll let you address your colleague's criticism there, sen forlangford. senator lankford. republicans needed something on the border, they said, before approving aid for ukraine. you gave it to them, and then they turned their back on it. where are we now with this? >> listen, let's remember the history. republicans said, let's come together. republicans and democrats, do something about border security. they appointed james lankford, a hard-line, conservative senator on the border to be their negotiator. i was in the room with kiersten senator. lindsey graham was in the room for the negotiations. we produced the toughest, bipartisan border bill in a generation. would have allowed the president to shut down the border when crossings get too high. it would have reformed the asylum system so it never takes ten years for somebody to have their asylum claim processed.

senate foreign relations committee chair. this is the stuff he believes in. his bone, in his bones, that he knows more than most people. one person on israel's usedin the senate, said he would always ask aides counsel, but never on israel. on israel, hew me now as i think it's very clear that most of his staff are to his left. let's say whatever our vernacular is on israel, it takes it took a long time for that to permeate through. he was steadfast. ■obviously he went there literally of bibi. but we have to sort of go back and if you're and if you're here or, you're watching this, then you already heard him tell us go my your story 30,000 times. and like that is so near and dear to him. but it matters to him that israel be protected that alliance matters a lot to what's going but he's also over the years started to care a lot more about the human rights stuff and the civilian casualties. so now we cannot deny, of course, there are political and political concerns with why the administration might be changing its tune has been changing its tune. you know, correlation isn't causation, but it's been close to the michigan stuff, right? so that's clea

us aid to israel for the first time. is he isolating himself from both sides of the middle east debate. you're with me now to discuss that, is senator chris murphy, a member of the foreign relations committeea critic of the way israel has been carrying out its war in gaza. thank you so much for being here. do you support what president biden told erin burnett that he is blocking some military aid to israel and won't support them will block more if in fact israel goes into rafah more aggressively. >> i do support president biden's decision. let me tell you why president biden is learning the mistakes of us military campaign in iraq and afghanistan. what we learned in both of those efforts was that you can't and not defeat a terrorist ideology. you're not cannot defeat a terrorist movement with military force alone. and afghanistan, we spent 20 years there and ultimately we were so cavalier about civilian casualties that we made the taliban stronger. and we ultimately lost that engagement to the taliban. and so in israel, what joe biden is telling the israelis is we we'll be partners with you, but you have to understand that the pace of civilian casualties, the amount of humanitarian disaste

senate foreign relations committee will come to order. secretary blinken, welcome. we very much appreciate your being with us today, back in the committee room that you are very familiar with. we thank you for your extra ordinary effort on behalf of the united states. we know that you have been doing a lot of traveling. a lot of talking, promoting american diplomacy based on our values, and we thank you for all of your service. we look forward to this hearing every year. as we go over particularly the fy25 budget. i often speak of the importance of adhering to our values and our foreign policy. that is because i believe are values are the core of our american power and key to achieving of our -- our foreign policy goals. this country was built on a unique basins on in the words of our declaration of independence, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. we have sought to live up to these ideals at home and abroad. i think there would be bipartisan agreement that we don't always ask -- succeed, but her aspirations better, knowing where our northst