whitehouse: ms. sanborn, how long has the fbi coordinated with local communities regarding terrorism threats? ms. sanborn: i don't have the specifics for you, but the jc ps was stood up in 1980, so we have been partners for years. sen. whitehouse: that includes domestic terrorism threats? ms. sanborn: absolutely. jc ps was created out of a domestic terrorism threat we were dealing with. sen. whitehouse: all 94 u.s. attorneys offices were tasked with setting up a local group together situational awareness regarding terrorist threats, correct? years ago. ms. sanborn: my understanding, yes. i defer to mr. olsen to confirm whether i am correct. sen. whitehouse: tell me what predication is required to open an investigation of a domestic organization as a domestic terrorist group. ms. sanborn: we do not open cases on organizations. we open cases on individuals. obviously we would build out if they were conspiring with others as we went about our investigation, but we do not open cases on domestic groups. s

durbin: senator whitehouse? sen. whitehouse: thanks, and welcome to you both to the committee. i'm sorry we are so far apart and spread out here. that is the nature of the pandemic. usually it is a setting in which we can see one another better. i wanted to ask you both questions about fact finding at the appellate level. we had an interesting hearing in my subcommittee yesterday on this very question. it was my training in law school, my training when meant -- when mentored by appellate advocates and my mentoring when i was trying to bring along other appellate advocates to stay the hell away from the facts, because the only two ways an appellate court gets to look at facts is either to be asked to overturn a factual determination by the court below , which is heavily defended by the clearly erroneous standard, therefore not usually a great avenue for appellate advocacy, or facts that are not in dispute. facts which judicial notice can be taken, that christmas fell on a wednesday in a particular year, or whatever. what are your thoughts about the role of appellate courts engag

whitehouse. >> yes. >> mr. chairman. >> aye. >> mr. chairman, yeas are 12, nays are 8. >> next, jennifer sass of maryland to be a member of the chemical safety and hazard investigation board. i move to approve. report the nomination to the senate. is there a second? >> second. >> moves and seconded. clerk will call the roll. >> mr. bowman? >> no. >> ms. caputo? >> no. >> mr. kramer? >> no by proxy. >> ms. duckworth? >> aye. >> mr. graham? >> no by proxy. >> mr. inhofe. >> no. >> mr. kelly. >> aye. >> ms. lummis. >> no. >> mr. markey. >> aye. >> mr. padilla. >> aye. >> mr. sanders. >> aye. >> ms. stabenow. >> aye. >> mr. whitehouse. >> aye. >> mr. wicker? >> no, by proxy. >> mr. chairman. >> aye. >> yeas are 10, nays are 10. >> to expedite this meeting, we have agrees to consider remaining matters before the committee by voice vote. i would like to call up two presidential nominations. first i want to call up presidential nomination number 539, steven owens of arizona, to be a member of the chemical safety and hazard investigation board

please proceed. >> thank you, chairman whitehouse. ranking member kennedy, members of the subcommittee. my name is kimberly naranjo and i'm here asking for help in preserving constitutional rights and rights of so many others to pursue accountability in our courts. i have been diagnosed with taos mees thiel yoom caused by one thing and one thing only. sos yur to asbestos. i was given 12 to 16 months of life which puts my expiration date at march 2023, one month before my 50th birgs birthday. i'm a single mother with two of seven children still under the age of 18. angelica who is 14 ablives with a diagnosis of autism. and my son jace who is only 9. i would like to share my story with you. i was born into dysfunction. my biological mother was deep in her disease of addiction and experienced horrific abuse, in out of foster care passed from family members and on my own since i was 15. as a result of the trauma and abused i experienced in my early years, family, being a good mother and having stability was all i dreamed dreamed about tp

sanders: senator whitehouse. >> thank you, chairman. good afternoon, ms. young. thank you for being here. i want to ask you about health care costs and if we have a moment about climate costs. i am going to give you a copy of this chart. you may have seen this before, it charts the cbo projected health care spending of 2010. something began to change. actual federal health care spending began to trend lower and lower compared to what cbo has projected. even with covid we are still below those projections. if you extrapolate the cbo's projection forward, and extrapolate forward from the actual between now and the next decade, our budget period there is $6 trillion in health care savings that we have experienced. we don't exactly know why that is, but i feel that it has to do with clinical care organizations, that so-called triple aim reform the making of health care more patient centered, things that allowed doctors to keep patients healthier rather than taking money because the health care patient does not cost as much in health care spend. what i would like to d

i'm joined now from brussels by our nato, corresponded terry shult. terri, though, bitin whitehouse seems to believe at this point that outright conflict is where this crisis is likely heading. or they sharing the intelligence behind their thinking with the nato alex, they are michael. the vitamin ministration has been very careful throughout this crisis to bring allies along. i'm to make certain that no, when considered this, like the trump administration, where things were taken, decisions were taken without the european and nato allies. so what we saw last night was nato ambassadors called into a special meeting at 7 p. m. to learn more about this intelligence that was coming out of washington. and, and then michael, we saw something quite alarming to, to me because this is something we had not seen european governments do. and that is that they started advising their citizens to leave. the european union had said specifically in european governments individually, that they did not see a reason to do that at this point than yesterday. we saw country by country this advice coming out ju

please proceed. >> thank you, chairman whitehouse, ranking member kennedy and members. subcommittee. my name is kimberly naranho i ask you for helping for my constitutional rights and rights of others to pursue in court. i've been diagnosed with mesothelioma which is caused by one thing and one thing only, caused by asbestos. i've been given 15 to 18 months of life, one day before my 50th birthdy. two of my seven childrenen under 18. angelica 14 and lives with a diagnosis of autism and my son chase is only nine. i would like to share my story with you. i was born into dysfunction. my biological mother was deep in her disease of addiction and i experienced her abuse. i was in and out of foster care, passed around from family members and on my own, since i was 15. as a result of the trauma and abuse i experienced in my early years, family, being a good mother, and having stability was all i dreamed about. at the age of 19 i became pregnant with my eldest daughter maria. and then gave birth to four additional daughters, adriana, mona lisa, fabiola, and katrina in the next

senator whitehouse. >> i am actually here mr. chairman. >> thank you, i was with my turn dashcam are turned off. it is wonderful to see the two nominees in front of us. wonderful qualified nominees. i do need to say something to correct the record from my colleague who just spoke about the american rescue plan. and of every democrat voted for every republican voted against, their public inside wants to make it look like it is the worst thing ever, but the reality is this. when president biden took office, 18 million -- 18 million people were on a blemish transparent now it is 2 million. we helps businesses create 6 million jobs. the greatest year of job creation in american history. we've seen the fast economic growth since 1984. we have seen the biggest single year drop in our unemployment rate in our nations history. we know because of covid related challenges anti--- supply chain breakdowns, there is so much more to do. the record is very clear about the robust economy and what is happening right now. we need to keep it going.

sanders: senator whitehouse. >> thank you mr. young for being here. i want to ask you about health care costs and if we have a moment about climate costs. you may have seen this before, it charts the cbo projected health care spending of 2010. actual federal health care spending is lower than projected. even with covid we are still below those projections. between now and the next decade, our budget period there is $6 trillion in health care saving.. we don't exactly know why that is, but i feel that it has to do with the making of health care more patient centered, things that allowed doctors to keep patients healthier rather than taking money because the health care patient does not do much in health care spending. what i would like to do is in the years ahead that you keep your eye on the ball of how we do more of whatever it is that has saved us to $6 trillion, while also providing healthier patients, and doctors who feel more rewarded in their practice. ms. coloretti: senator whitehouse, we talk a lot about debts here but the main drivers are the

senator sheldon whitehouse is a democrat from rhode island. he is a member of the judiciary committee and he joins me now. senator, i wanted to get your thoughts as someone who has been around the law, most of your adult life, and your former prosecutor. the significance of the revelation that you have rudy giuliani being asked by the president as a kind of cut out to call his own sub cabinet officials of the department of homeland security to investigate the seizure of machines. what that says to you deep down? >> i think it would certainly add color to any prosecution, the hand ripping of documents and the weird giuliani election machine errand. but i suspect that at the heart of any case will likely be down in georgia. where the effort by the fulton county grandeur really will be proceeded. and to which the jeffrey clark, the doj guy who wrote the letter to georgia, whatever is being looked at or suspected up -- points down to georgia. and you have these electors who fall -- filed false electoral ballots which is a pretty straightforward, i

senator whitehouse. >> thank you very much chairwoman. ms. elias, i would like to talk about plastic waste recycling and where we are on that. we've put considerable effort into plastic waste recycling. a great many americans have a blue bin that they fill with recyclables to take out there. there's a lot of noise and talk about recycling and the industry likes to talk up recycling to help create the general apprehension or the general appearance that plastic gets recycled. but the information that i have is that on the input side, when particularly single-use plastics are being manufactured, 98 or 99% of the input is virgin plastic, leaving less than 2%, maybe 1%, one in 100, to be sourced as recycled plastic. i mean that rounds basically to zero. so when the plastics industry is manufacturing plastics products and in this case particularly single-use plastics, the disposable stuff, there's essentially no meaningful recycled contribution. so to me, that's kind of a significant measurement. if you go to the takeup side, the so-called recyclin

thank you for that. top whitehouse correspond chimney. how could that for us? well, as we was saying, the diplomatic push to ease the standoff between ukraine and russia will continue this evening in berlin with the german charles, the hosting by the president of france and poland. and to get more on the role that poland is playing in this crisis. on joined by mark, mark russia, he's chairman of c e. c group of political defense and security consultancy in central europe. he joins us now from war. so thank you for your time. it's interesting that the poland president, the polish president, was the only e leader to attend the winter olympics in beijing, apparently because he was king to get on judging things. good side is the polish president came to play a more prominent diplomatic role in this crisis. while total overall is replaying other very strong, fanatic walpole and views the future of ukraine and the fate of ukraine overseeing existential terms. it feels that the primacy of ukraine, independence of storage is absolutely crucial for the polish security a

whitehouse: mr. president, i have 12 requests for committees to meet during today's session of the senate that have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. the presiding officer: duly noted. mr. whitehouse: and i ask unanimous consent that upon disposition of the nomination, the senate vote on confirmation of the coffey nomination. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: thank you, mr. president. i am here again today to discuss the scheme by big republican donor interests to capture and control our supreme court. today i'm going to put a little spotlight on ongoing scheme operations. as we all know justice stephen breyer will retire at the at thf the supreme court term. as the biden administration selects a nominee, the scheme is shifting gears to attack her even before she has been named. a dark money front group called the judicial crisis network has already announced a multimillion dollar ad blitz against justice breyer's unnamed replacement, and its first ad is alrea

save our seas two point oh, i think that is an example with senator whitehouse and all of us really working together, where you have key states -- a lot of you guys were critical and important in getting this over the line. and working on both the executive branch, congress, industry, key conservation and environmental groups all work together on this. so, and you don't get everything you want -- that is just the nature of getting things done here. so, i think this issue is really a unifying issue. you can get democrats and republicans in industry and environmental groups all on board. we want to keep the momentum. so, let me ask miss elias and mr. johnson -- you may have seen in the infrastructure bill -- that as a domestic international component. what would you say as important steps that we can take kind of the on the implementation side of the legislation to make sure we continue this momentum? >> thanks, senator sullivan and thank you again for your leadership on save our seas and save our seas two point oh. i was in the -- room. you had a greats -- that was about to be reintroduced a

game starting on thursday, are aimed at training to repel an attack on russia's southern borders. whitehouse national security advisor said negotiations with russia still an option. the time is running out. we believe that there is a very interesting possibility that vladimir putin will order an attack on ukraine . it could take a number of different forms. it could happen as soon as tomorrow, or it could take some weeks yet. he again reiterated that the u. s. won't negotiate with russia on nato expansion, including crane, but the russian president has some tactful friends, show of unity between china and russia. when vladimir putin was welcomed at the opening ceremony of the beige in winter olympics, china says it supports russia and demanding that nato stops expanding into eastern europe. basing has implied hell before nato lead is worn, would be the heaviest sanctions yet, are imposed on russia. if someone invites ukraine, there was a different milder tone from the crating government, ukraine's foreign minister tweeted, do not believe the apocalyptic predictions. different capitals have d

this one last thing an hour has failed to reach any breakthrough on ukraine. whitehouse released this picture of joe biden on the whole thing. he repeated warnings of severe consequences if vladimir putin goes ahead with an invasion. you were secretary of state and the blink and says, it's not too late to avoid conflicts, a diplomatic path to resolving this crisis. a crisis created by the unprovoked massing of russian forces all around you train. that diplomatic path remains open. the way from moscow to show that it wants to pursue that path is simple. it should the escalate rather than escalate. and it should not only talk about seeking a diplomatic outcome, but actually work toward one kremlin, describe the fruit in bod and coal as business like. but added that the russian side received no substantial answers on its concerns. like nato is potential expansion and to ukraine. russia also wants nicer to replace refrain, rather from deploying weapons near its border and other consignment of us military equipment. and ammunition has arrived in kiev to talk about the joins us now live fro

while things came to ahead after the whitehouse weighed in on the disputes with press secretary jim saki urging specified to get even sulphur on so named coven misinformation. so our hope is that all major tech platforms and all major new sources for that matter, be responsible and be vigilant to ensure the american people have access to accurate information on something as significant as cove in 1900. that certainly includes spot to fly, but ultimately, you know, our view is, it's a, it's a, it's a good step. it's a positive step, but there's more that can be done. now, in terms of how this all started, joe rogan was rounded on after he was accused of airing, false claims about cove, it and vaccines. that in turn prompted a handful of high profile musicians on spot. if i quit the platform in protest saying they wouldn't be on it if rogan was in response sports, if i said it would start labeling shows, which discussed cove it comments in on the controversy. spotify. c, o is said, the streaming giant does not close the monitor rogan's podcasts which can last hours and involves free wheeli

right now . overnight jo biden's called to vladimir putin failed to reach any sort of breakthrough whitehouse as president biden repeated warnings of severe consequences if russia invades you crime more with mike hannah in washington d. c. i guess we will get some sort of read out on that call a little bit later, but what we know going into it is that biden and zalinski are coming at this crisis from very different sort of angles. it would appear. so what we are told the call started about 15 minutes ago. we'll wait for a official white house read out of the cool. but as you say, yes, they may be coming up slightly different positions. the bite in administration has repeatedly insisted that the russia is moving to a war 14. it insist that and prepare preparations for an invasion of ukraine or well on the way that's the queue structure of conducting cyber attacks up full splash operations as it puts it. we've understood from reports out of ukraine that this degree of confusion about this that some believe that the u. s. is overstating the situation, creating a very difficult situation for ukra

a dig fox news by the whitehouse spokesperson has joined the ire of america's largest police union. jenny saw he marked the channel of coverage as being from an alternate universe as it focused on us crime rates rather than intentions. abroad so right now, just to give you a sense. so cnn pentagon, as many as 8500 yes. troops on heightened alert. okay. trail. same on m. s and b. c . cnbc is doing their own thing about the market. and then, and fox is janine pier talking about soft on crime consequences. i mean, what does that even mean? right? said there is this alternate universe and some coverage. what scary about it is a lot of people watch that. i think it's wrong, very wrong for miss saki to suggest that violent crime in our country is of no concern or to just laugh it off. she may feel safe in the white house, one of the most protected buildings in the united states. but on every one, feel safe in their workplace pretending violent crimes are part of some other reality will not help victims. miss saki owes them an apology. and crime rates are on the old. throughout america, re

there was another moment, there was little bit awkward in washington, and that was when whitehouse spokesperson gen saki was forced to admit the term eminence, which was used by us officials to describe this allegation that russia is planning to invade ukraine. i is no longer being used, jenn, saki was grilled on how the biden administration said russia was, was having an imminent invasion of ukraine. and she essentially abandoned the use of the term. she said that they used to think it was eminent, but now they have stopped using it because it sent a message. they were not intending to sad. so one wonder is if the united states wonder backtracking these allegations about this false flag fabricated video. we shall see what develops, but at this point, we've just heard these rather extreme allegations from the united states not really backed up with any evidence. yeah, thanks for taking us through all vos or us corresponding. caleb martin. the pentagon and how's acknowledged down at least 3 civilians were killed in a raid on terrorists in northwest or in, while eunice said at least 6 children di

it is a violation of ukraine's sovereignty, and it is a violation of the agreements. whitehouse has issued a statement in which it says, joe biden will issue an executive order, prohibiting any kind of human face and trade and financing by the united states of these 2 provinces. at the same time, we have heard from the nato secretary general saying that the recognition of lucas and the neighbors undermines settlement efforts and is a pretext for russian invasion. we have in fact heard that claim from several countries. european commission and the european council have issued a joint statement. take a listen. the recognition of the 2 separatist territories in ukraine as a blatant violation of international law, the territorial integrity of ukraine and the minsk agreements. the e u in its partners will react with unity firmness and with determination and solidarity with ukraine. the latvian prime minister has said that probably what the sing now is a continuation of what was started in 2014 with to quote russia's changing of borders. and later today, the latvian government will be delivering

we know who the foxes, in this case, the strife between the kremlin and whitehouse comes in midwestern insinuations, rushes planning to invade ukraine, moscow's repeatedly given assurances. it has no such designs. it accuses the west of using war rhetoric, an attempt to contain russia and by neglecting the welfare of ukraine itself. my colleagues don't cauffron. kevin didn't discuss the issue. paul, vladimir putin definitely had some strong words for the west of that press conference. he flat out accused washington and nato of deceiving russia with their refusal to stop the military alliance from further eastward expansion into countries, specifically ukraine and georgia. this is something that nato actually promised to the soviet union, back in 1990. they promised that the, that the military alliance would not move an inch eastward of the older river in europe actually, and put, and specifically pointed out that there is nothing actually in nato's charter that concerns a sort of open door policy. that a lot of western officials have been pointing to with relation to potential nato exp

warnings of a possible war of so widespread confusion and when quizzed by a journalist outside the whitehouse prison by the monies to dodge the issue. ah. 6 and while joe biden was enjoying valentine's day, ukrainian leader has an even bigger occasion planned. but he may zalinski said he's not expecting a russian invasion, bought another less. he's promising a day of ukrainian unity to counter that supposed threat nam, guthridge. we are told that the 16th of february will be the day of the attack now, but we will make it a day of unity. the subsequent decree has already been sideline. on that day, we will raise national flags on blue and yellow ribbons and show are you in the world. we will let your neighbor worry well as zelinski just mentioned the us as pinpointed the 16th of february this wednesday, the dates when russia supposedly going to attack ukraine. although joe biden has also said it might not be before the end of the winter olympics. and the u. s. national security adviser said it could happen any day. earlier southgate taylor roy, sushi discuss the ongoing hysteria, has almost be

agreed in principle to hold a summit on the ukraine. crisis of the meeting is far from a done deal. whitehouse as joe barton, will only take part in russia doesn't invade ukraine. she had tons, reports from washington, d. c. we have reasonably, the russian forces are planning to attend to attack ukraine on friday. joe biden stump, many of the u. s. as allies like catholic oracle, stating that love him a fusion, had made up his mind to invade ukraine. in the coming days. and on sunday, the president convened a meeting of his national security council to discuss the situation ahead of that meeting. the us secretary of state reaffirmed that despite the president's announcement diplomacy was still an option until it settled until we know that the, the tanks rolling, the planes are flying and the aggression has, has fully begun. we're going to do everything we kind of prevented, but we're prepared either way and we're prepared with a response. it will have massive consequences for russia. it actually carries the through. lincoln said he hoped, a forthcoming meeting this week with his russian counte

kimberly thank you very much and do that. whitehouse coma responded. triple hawkins. us president joe biden signed an executive order to unfreeze $7000000000.00 in afghan reserves off of that is going to go to watch humanity and efforts in afghanistan. now, the hop towards relatives of victims of $911.00 other attacks by on groups. the 7000000000 was deposited by the african central bank in new york and it was frozen prior to the taliban takeover in august. kristen said him is lifeless now in new york question. tell us more about the cache and what's gonna happen to it. so this is money that belongs to the afghan government. some of it may have come from international donors, but it was intended for the afghan people and it's been frozen an account here in new york. now the last thing that the united states wants is for any of this money to get into the hands of the taliban, and that's why the assets, the money were frozen. but the humanitarian situation in afghanistan is getting worse. we've been hearing warnings from the united nations about an economy that is collapsing, people tha

the us. presidents zalinski has discussed the provision of international assistance who ukraine, whitehouse will address americans about this situation shortly. will be bringing back to you or stones and has said the person on the line will respond decisively to the criminal actions while germany, france, and the european commission was strongly condemned. the kremlin decision to start a military operation saying moscow must be held to account nato chief un stalsen, but the military operation is a violation of international law under threats to euro atlantic security. while ukraine's permanent representative to the un said president putin had declared war on ukraine. while it responds to russia's recognition of the dumbass republic, the e u. sanction the number of individuals. these include russian and peas, who backs the decision and includes a number of other prominent russian figures. let's find out who they are and what they still main sunny. armstrong joined me in the studio. donny, thanks for coming in. i can tell is what the west has done so far. who's on this is sanctions list and w

next senator inhofe will be followed by senator whitehouse. >> thank you, mr. chair man and before you start the clock, i want to experiment with something i haven't tried before. i have two questions. the first question has four parts. rather than the position of having to write it down fast i'm going to ask my staff to hand her the written copy of those four questions, which i will read now. first of all, ms. johnson -- >> the time is expired. [laughter] >> i didn't do that to you. >> okay, go ahead. >> denial of the small refinery exemptions which we have in oklahoma to drive the prices up and does the data support the assertion that the exemptions lower the blending and please describe your understanding of the stakeholder engagement regarding the proposed rule and is there data to support the claim the epa refineries would contribute to the closure of the refineries and lost jobs? anything that's already been answered we can go over that fast. >> thank you, senator and thank you for the list of questions. so, with respect to the first question of whether d

next senator inhofe will be followed by senator whitehouse. >> thank you, mr. chair man and before you start the clock, i want to experiment with something i haven't tried before. i have two questions. the first question has four parts. rather than the position of having to write it down fast i'm going to ask my staff to hand her the written copy of those four questions, which i will read now. first of all, ms. johnson -- >> the time is expired. [laughter] >> i didn't do that to you. >> okay, go ahead. >> denial of the small refinery exemptions which we have in oklahoma to drive the prices up and does the data support the assertion that the exemptions lower the blending and please describe your understanding of the stakeholder engagement regarding the proposed rule and is there data to support the claim the epa refineries would contribute to the closure of the refineries and lost jobs? anything that's already been answered we can go over that fast. >> thank you, senator and thank you for the list of questions. so, with respect to the first question of whether d

they whitehouse those as it doesn't recognize the group as an adjustment power and is therefore withholding the funds. director of the afghan association in london believes the washington may grow to regret that decision. the not nation is predict and that nearly 90 percent people are just living on $11900.00. and that is the salvation of to more than a 1000000 children defending the right of the money to hold people. this money is not for spending to be honest, this is a federal reserve to be a whole. that's a, it doesn't mean we probably recommend this money to behold right now, not to be even given. the thought of this is the money that every county has a federal deserve this one backlash, which of those other countries holding the money and not just a bank that blended these things happen to them as well. despite being at the central doping scan, let the winter olympics rush in figure skating progeny camila believe a lot of side to top lead his board following the started with singles event on tuesday. she'll be competing again in the frisco program on thursday. and i believe was clear

the way the way it has to set up any email center received on an official whitehouse email account is automatically preserved. it requires no action whatsoever on the part of any white house official. but yes, the problem is use of unofficial devices and it goes on a lot and we're trying to get the law tightened up on that. but the obligation is on the white house official who gets that email from you if it pertains to official business. they're supposed to put it into an official record keeping system. but, you know, again, when we're talking about this, you see how much you give there isn't the law. you see that, you know, with no enforcement how easy it is to circumvent it. and now we know the president himself, who is the most significant person in the white house, whose records are of the highest value was and you know, what i've been thinking about is, you know, you can go to the present the j f. k presidential library, or even at the archives, and they have doodles from as it in kennedy that he created at the height of the cuban missile crisis when our country was facing extinc

next senator inhofe will be followed by senator whitehouse. >> thank you, mr. chair man and before you start the clock, i want to experiment with something i haven't tried before. i have two questions. the first question has four parts. rather than the position of having to write it down fast i'm going to ask my staff to hand her the written copy of those four questions, which i will read now. first of all, ms. johnson -- >> the time is expired. [laughter] >> i didn't do that to you. >> okay, go ahead. >> denial of the small refinery exemptions which we have in oklahoma to drive the prices up and does the data support the assertion that the exemptions lower the blending and please describe your understanding of the stakeholder engagement regarding the proposed rule and is there data to support the claim the epa refineries would contribute to the closure of the refineries and lost jobs? anything that's already been answered we can go over that fast. >> thank you, senator and thank you for the list of questions. so, with respect to the first question of whether d

on al jazeera, ah, whitehouse warns the russian invasion of ukraine could start at any time, but all sides agree, the crucial window for diplomacy is still open. ah, hello welcome. i'm heated over you're watching al jazeera alive from our headquarters here and do are also coming up. canada invokes emergency powers for the 1st time to and protest against vaccine mandates. anger in mexico is the u. s. suspend.

i know senator whitehouse said you would like to see a return. if you look at justice ginsburg's hearing, justice ginsburg spoke candidly about her views on how different presidents were reasoned on the merits of legal doctrines. these are things we haven't seen in recent years. there are lots of posturing and the committee will vote on the nomination and we have a tied senate, a tied judiciary committee and if there's a partyline vote it will get discharged to the floor and there is a floor vote and several procedural votes and a final vote and that is how we should expect it to proceed. how much friction is introduced at various stages of the process is what remains to be seen. you can see in real time republicans and those on the river -- on the right time to come up with what their narrative is to impose a nominee who hasn't been named yet. >> having worked in the senate for a few years, you are jaded, cynical, you know how it works but somebody watching this process, getting to know this nominee. what do you think people could expect to lear

a training to hell and the check on russia's some borders. whitehouse, national security advisor said negotiations with russia is still an option. the time is running out. we believe that there is a very interesting possibility that vladimir putin will order an attack on ukraine . it could take a number of different forms. it could happen as soon as tomorrow or it could take some weeks yet. he again reiterated that the us won't negotiate with russia on the nato expansion including rain. but the russian president has some tactful friends, show of unity to china and russia. when vladimir putin was welcomed at the opening ceremonies of the beige in the winter olympics in china says it supports russia and demanding that nato stalked, expanding into eastern europe. site won't. evasion, has implied held him. gosh, if what nato lead is worn out, i would be the heaviest sanctions yet. are imposed on russia. if you and invade ukraine, there was a different milder tone from the crating government, ukraine's foreign minister twisted. do not believe the apocalyptic predictions. different capitals

between the 2 presidents take a 3rd and let's start with the discussion between the 2 presidents. whitehouse as issued a read out of that phone call between president by that and it's ukrainian counterpart, very short term lease some 6 lines, reiterating the u. s. a support for ukraine and also support for its nato allies. the previous read out of a call between the 2 presidents that was back on january the 27th. what several paragraphs. so this was a lot shorter than that and protect the perhaps indicative of the fact that there is less to talk about as the time goes by. now, u. s continues to insist in various morning shows here in dc and around that the invasion is perhaps eminent warning bells continue to sound from the national security adviser spokesman for the pentagon. all of them reading from the same sheet, saying that there is an attack eminent that russia is continuing to carry outside operations, false frag operations about when challenged as to exactly what this information is based on. and when challenged on reports that the us believes that the invasion may be as imminent as

and now we're going to take you to washington on whitehouse. corresponded kimberly elkin, is that, kimberly ukraine says the u. s. president joe biden has been invited to key of the big question i suppose is will he go yeah, that is the big question and we're still waiting for an answer. yeah. during you might see this valentine that is over my shoulder there. this is valentine's day in the united states, and it's a tradition of the 1st lady did decorate the lawn behind the reporters. this time it says a verse from the bible. first corinthians, 1313, that is, 3 things will last forever, faith, hope and love. and the greatest of these is love ukrainians. not really feeling the love right now though, because they haven't had an answer to their invitation and they're still waiting, and there is nothing on the president's schedule that seems to indicate that we are going to get that answer, at least in the very near future, the fact, the president isn't even here at the moment. he has been away for the weekend. he will be returning it about 2 and a half hours time. he will be receiving his dail

with roy challenge with 1st let's say kickoff with a whitehouse correspond, kimberly hallett and company, 7 years president deploying his troops and lots of questions being asked about why he felt the need to do this now. yeah, because it, on the one hand, it certainly appears to be an upping the ante given the fact that obviously these numbers are no match for the 10s of thousands that russia has positioned along the border of near ukraine. this is really just 3000 us troops that are being positioned not in ukraine, but in the eastern flank nato countries. as you have to ask why now, and in fact, that is a question that was asked repeatedly by reporters. in the pentagon briefing as this announcement was made, the pentagon insisting this is because of escalating activity by russia. but, but many would argue that this is escalating activity by the united states, even as it continues to argue that the best path forward for resolving security differences is diplomatic. and so as a result, there is certainly a concern on the part of many here in the united states that this is continuing to e

so i'm whitehouse. corresponding kimmy hall. kids whose life for us in washington. so how is michael's visit to buy moscow and keith being viewed in washington? well, i can tell you according to the white house press secretary, there has been close coordination between the u. s. president and the french president emmanuel macro. and that didn't just start in the last 24 hours as these meetings have been taking place. but in fact, has been going on throughout these tensions between ukraine and the russian troops that have built up a long it's border. in fact, we know. 2 for some time, there have been of meetings that have been taking place the other virtually or over the telephone. we also know that there have been various phone calls between the 2 leaders that have been happening for some weeks. and according to the white house press secretary as recently as over the weekend now, according to the white house, what they are pursuing. and this would be consistent with the tactics, is this dual track that we heard reference repeatedly as the u. s. president was meeting

senator whitehouse. >> i am actually here, mister chairman. but thank you. i am sorry the camera was turned off. thank you for the hearing. wonderful to see you in front of us. wonderful qualified nominees. i need to say something to correct the record from my colleague and friend who just spoke about the american rescue plan. this was everything every democrat voting for it every republican voted against. i understand folks on the republican side want to make it seem like the worst thing ever but the reality is when president biden took office there were 18 million people on unemployment insurance and now it is 2 million. 18 million, to 2 million. we helped businesses create 6 million jobs, the greatest year of job creation in american history, the best economic growth since 1984, the biggest single year drop in unemployment rate in our nation's history. we know that because of covid related challenges and supply-chain breakdowns there's so much more to do but the record is clear in terms of the robust economy and what is happening now. we just need to keep

the whitehouse while still pushing diplomacy now saying in the wake of artillery strikes, moscow appearsbe setting the stage for an attack. richard engel joins frustrate ukraine. good morning. >> good morning, hoda. president biden will hold yet another call with major u.s. allies as the kremlin says that starting tomorrow, vladimir putin will personally oversee russian nuclear readiness drills, firing cruise missiles and intercontinental ballistic mills missiles without nuclear war heads. russia holds the exercises every year but this year they have been moved up. as russian forces remain in attack position around ukraine with troops to the north and east and its warships in the south conducting live fire drills in new images russia released this morning, president biden warnings ms. cow could attack within days russia says it has no intention to attack but moscow issued what sounded like an ultimateem, writing unless the kremlin security concerns are addressed and barring ukraine from ever joining alliance, russia may take what it vaguely describes as a military technical response mosc

the whitehouse signaling an invasion o ukraine could happen within days. and president biden signaling talks over the weekend with vladimir putin and ukraine's president. and americans are urged to leave the country. this morning richard engel joins us live from the front lines. >>> breaking overnight. read to roll. police clear the final protesters from the ambassador bridge, reopen trade route from the u.s. and canada. but is the movement now headed to the u.s.? we'll have the latest. >>> one two finish. >> it is cold for team usa and kayleigh humphries. >> americans take cold and silver in the first ever olympic monobob event. while u.s. ice dancers grab bronze just edging out another pair of americans. >>> and overnight the figure skating scandal heating u. the ruling allowing a russian star to compete despite testing positive for a performance enhancing drug. craig has coverage from beijing. >>> all that plus legend lost. tributes for ivan wrightman, we'll written the influential film maker behind ""ghostbusters"," animal house and a string of other c

last year the senate passed a bipartisan bill that i introduced with senator whitehouse, the senator from rhode island, called the residential substance abuse and disorder treatment act, in order to help incarcerated individuals break the cycle of addiction and transition safely and productively back into society. this legislation updates the residential substance abuse treatment program and expands access to treatment in jails and prisons across the country. the program already provides incarcerated individuals with access to treatment for substance use disorders. that treatment is coupled with programs to prepare them for reentry and provide community-based treatment once they are released. the changes included in this current legislation will give incarcerated men and women the best possible shot at living healthier and more productive lives once they are released. i'm sure it's no surprise that this bill has strong support both here in the senate and among outside organizations that do a lot of good work in this area. more than two dozen organizations have endorsed this bill, inc