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President Biden and first lady Jill Biden greeted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and first lady Olena Zelenska at the White House on Thursday.
The leaders are set to hold a series of meetings on U.S. support for Ukraine as its fight against invading Russian forces approaches its 19th month.
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The leaders are set to hold a series of meetings on U.S. support for Ukraine as its fight against invading Russian forces approaches its 19th month.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters he had a “great dialogue” as he left a closed-door meeting with senators on Capitol Hill.
He was escorted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as well as Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova.
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He was escorted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as well as Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova.
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After Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) suggested Attorney General Merrick Garland was in contempt of Congress for declining to discuss ongoing investigations, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) pointed out that the chairman of the committee, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), failed to comply with a congressional subpoena issued by the Jan. 6 committee.
“That is quite rich because the guy who’s leaving the hearing room right now, Mr. Jordan, is about 500 days into evading his subpoena,” Rep. Swalwell said Wednesday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing. “So if we’re going to talk about contempt of Congress, let’s get real. I mean, are you serious?”
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“That is quite rich because the guy who’s leaving the hearing room right now, Mr. Jordan, is about 500 days into evading his subpoena,” Rep. Swalwell said Wednesday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing. “So if we’re going to talk about contempt of Congress, let’s get real. I mean, are you serious?”
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Attorney General Merrick Garland became uncharacteristically animated when pressed Wednesday by Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) about an FBI field office memo written in January that raised red flags about “radical traditional” Catholics.
“The idea that someone of my family background would discriminate against any religion is so outrageous! So absurd!” said the attorney general, whose family is Jewish and includes members who were killed in the Holocaust.
Rep. Van Drew pointed out that it was the attorney general’s FBI that drafted the memo.
“Both I and the director of the FBI have said that we were appalled by that memo,” the attorney general said.
“Are they extremists or not, Mr. Attorney General?” Rep. Van Drew asked.
“Catholics are not extremists,” he replied. “No.”
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“The idea that someone of my family background would discriminate against any religion is so outrageous! So absurd!” said the attorney general, whose family is Jewish and includes members who were killed in the Holocaust.
Rep. Van Drew pointed out that it was the attorney general’s FBI that drafted the memo.
“Both I and the director of the FBI have said that we were appalled by that memo,” the attorney general said.
“Are they extremists or not, Mr. Attorney General?” Rep. Van Drew asked.
“Catholics are not extremists,” he replied. “No.”
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Attorney General Merrick Garland repeatedly told lawmakers Wednesday that he has not interfered with Special Counsel David Weiss’s investigation into the president’s son, Hunter Biden.
“Has anyone from the White House provided direction at any time to you personally or to any senior officials at the DOJ regarding how the Hunter Biden investigation was to be carried out?” Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) asked during a House Judiciary Committee hearing.
“No,” the attorney general replied, noting that Mr. Weiss was appointed by President Trump and retained by President Biden to maintain continuity in the politically sensitive investigation.
Rep. Johnson then asked whether Attorney General Garland had any contact with the FBI about the probe, to which he said he could not recall.
AG Garland said he pledged during his Senate confirmation hearing to leave Mr. Weiss in place and not interfere with his investigation.
“I have kept that promise,” he told lawmakers.
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“Has anyone from the White House provided direction at any time to you personally or to any senior officials at the DOJ regarding how the Hunter Biden investigation was to be carried out?” Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) asked during a House Judiciary Committee hearing.
“No,” the attorney general replied, noting that Mr. Weiss was appointed by President Trump and retained by President Biden to maintain continuity in the politically sensitive investigation.
Rep. Johnson then asked whether Attorney General Garland had any contact with the FBI about the probe, to which he said he could not recall.
AG Garland said he pledged during his Senate confirmation hearing to leave Mr. Weiss in place and not interfere with his investigation.
“I have kept that promise,” he told lawmakers.
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Attorney General Merrick Garland stressed to lawmakers Wednesday that the Justice Department makes independent decisions about who and what to criminally investigate.
“I am not the president’s lawyer,” he testified before the House Judiciary Committee. “I will add I am not Congress’s prosecutor. The Justice Department works for the American people. Our job is to follow the facts and the law, and that is what we do.”
The attorney general said his department welcomes oversight and public scrutiny but cautioned that singling out individual career public servants is “dangerous,” an apparent reference to Special Counsel Jack Smith, who has two ongoing criminal cases against former President Trump.
“We will not be intimidated,” Attorney General Garland said. “We will do our jobs free from outside influence. And we will not back down from defending our democracy.”
The AG’s testimony comes as Republicans accuse the DOJ of protecting the Biden family, a core argument for the House’s impeachment inquiry into the president.
David Weiss, a Trump appointee who was elevated by AG Garland to special counsel in August, indicted the president’s son, Hunter Biden, last week on three criminal counts related to his possession of a firearm.
The charges came after the dramatic collapse of a plea deal reached in June that likely would have allowed the president’s son to avoid prison time.
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“I am not the president’s lawyer,” he testified before the House Judiciary Committee. “I will add I am not Congress’s prosecutor. The Justice Department works for the American people. Our job is to follow the facts and the law, and that is what we do.”
The attorney general said his department welcomes oversight and public scrutiny but cautioned that singling out individual career public servants is “dangerous,” an apparent reference to Special Counsel Jack Smith, who has two ongoing criminal cases against former President Trump.
“We will not be intimidated,” Attorney General Garland said. “We will do our jobs free from outside influence. And we will not back down from defending our democracy.”
The AG’s testimony comes as Republicans accuse the DOJ of protecting the Biden family, a core argument for the House’s impeachment inquiry into the president.
David Weiss, a Trump appointee who was elevated by AG Garland to special counsel in August, indicted the president’s son, Hunter Biden, last week on three criminal counts related to his possession of a firearm.
The charges came after the dramatic collapse of a plea deal reached in June that likely would have allowed the president’s son to avoid prison time.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned Russia’s alleged kidnapping of Ukrainian children, calling it “clearly a genocide” in his address Tuesday at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
He said Kyiv has the names of tens of thousands of Ukrainian children and evidence of hundreds of thousands of others who have been taken by Russian forces in occupied territory in Ukraine and brought to Russia.
“What will happen to them? Those children in Russia are taught to hate Ukraine, and all ties with their families are broken. And this is clearly a genocide,” President Zelensky told world leaders. “When hatred is weaponized against one nation, it never stops there.”
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He said Kyiv has the names of tens of thousands of Ukrainian children and evidence of hundreds of thousands of others who have been taken by Russian forces in occupied territory in Ukraine and brought to Russia.
“What will happen to them? Those children in Russia are taught to hate Ukraine, and all ties with their families are broken. And this is clearly a genocide,” President Zelensky told world leaders. “When hatred is weaponized against one nation, it never stops there.”
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President Biden called on world leaders to remain united in defending Ukraine against Russian aggression as he addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.
The president warned that Moscow is counting on countries to grow weary of the war, now in its 19th month, and pull back on support for Kyiv.
“I ask you this: If we abandon the core principles of the United States to appease an aggressor, can any member state in this body feel confident that they are protected? If we allow Ukraine to be carved up, is the independence of any nation secure?” the president asked the assembly.
“I respectfully suggest the answer is no. We have to stand up to this naked aggression today and deter other would-be aggressors tomorrow.”
President Biden said the blame for the war rests solely with Russia, and that only Moscow can bring about an immediate end to the fighting.
“It’s Russia alone that stands in the way of peace, because Russia’s price for peace is Ukraine’s capitulation, Ukraine’s territory and Ukraine’s children,” he said.
The president’s address comes as he urges Congress to approve $13.1 billion in military aid for Ukraine as well as $8.5 billion for humanitarian support.
Hardline Republicans are pushing for deep spending cuts, and some in the GOP conference are explicitly calling for the U.S. to cut off all funding for Ukraine.
It was President Biden’s third time addressing the General Assembly since taking office in January 2021.
Several notable leaders skipped this year’s gathering, including the four other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, French President Emmanuel Macron, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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The president warned that Moscow is counting on countries to grow weary of the war, now in its 19th month, and pull back on support for Kyiv.
“I ask you this: If we abandon the core principles of the United States to appease an aggressor, can any member state in this body feel confident that they are protected? If we allow Ukraine to be carved up, is the independence of any nation secure?” the president asked the assembly.
“I respectfully suggest the answer is no. We have to stand up to this naked aggression today and deter other would-be aggressors tomorrow.”
President Biden said the blame for the war rests solely with Russia, and that only Moscow can bring about an immediate end to the fighting.
“It’s Russia alone that stands in the way of peace, because Russia’s price for peace is Ukraine’s capitulation, Ukraine’s territory and Ukraine’s children,” he said.
The president’s address comes as he urges Congress to approve $13.1 billion in military aid for Ukraine as well as $8.5 billion for humanitarian support.
Hardline Republicans are pushing for deep spending cuts, and some in the GOP conference are explicitly calling for the U.S. to cut off all funding for Ukraine.
It was President Biden’s third time addressing the General Assembly since taking office in January 2021.
Several notable leaders skipped this year’s gathering, including the four other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, French President Emmanuel Macron, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
#potus #joebiden #biden #warinukraine #ukrainewar #russia #unga #unitednations #cspan
Five U.S. citizens who had been imprisoned in Iran for years arrived on U.S. soil Tuesday morning.
Following two years of negotiations, the Americans were allowed to leave Iran after the U.S. agreed to unfreeze $6 billion in Iranian assets and free five Iranians accused of violating U.S. sanctions.
Each of the five Americans was greeted by family and friends when they stepped onto the tarmac at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
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Following two years of negotiations, the Americans were allowed to leave Iran after the U.S. agreed to unfreeze $6 billion in Iranian assets and free five Iranians accused of violating U.S. sanctions.
Each of the five Americans was greeted by family and friends when they stepped onto the tarmac at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson urged Americans to acknowledge and learn from painful moments in history while speaking Friday at a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, a racist attack that killed four young Black girls in 1963.
“If we are going to continue to move forward as a nation, we cannot allow concerns about discomfort to displace knowledge, truth or history,” Justice Jackson said in Birmingham, Alabama.
“We cannot forget because the uncomfortable lessons are often the ones that teach us the most about ourselves. We cannot forget because we cannot learn from past mistakes we do not know exist.”
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“If we are going to continue to move forward as a nation, we cannot allow concerns about discomfort to displace knowledge, truth or history,” Justice Jackson said in Birmingham, Alabama.
“We cannot forget because the uncomfortable lessons are often the ones that teach us the most about ourselves. We cannot forget because we cannot learn from past mistakes we do not know exist.”
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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson was asked Thursday to respond to the sworn public testimony in July from former Defense Department employee David Grusch, who alleged that the government runs a secret unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) recovery program and is in possession of “non-human” spacecraft along with their “dead pilots.”
“Where’s the evidence?” the NASA chief replied.
Administrator Nelson’s comments came as he announced that his agency is appointing its first director to lead research on UAP, better known as UFOs.
He made the announcement after an independent panel of experts recommended that NASA increase its efforts to gather information on UAP and play a larger role in helping the Pentagon detect them.
Administrator Nelson said his agency has not seen any evidence so far that UAP are connected to extraterrestrial life but said there is a lot more to learn.
(🎥: NASA TV)
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“Where’s the evidence?” the NASA chief replied.
Administrator Nelson’s comments came as he announced that his agency is appointing its first director to lead research on UAP, better known as UFOs.
He made the announcement after an independent panel of experts recommended that NASA increase its efforts to gather information on UAP and play a larger role in helping the Pentagon detect them.
Administrator Nelson said his agency has not seen any evidence so far that UAP are connected to extraterrestrial life but said there is a lot more to learn.
(🎥: NASA TV)
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Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) vented his frustration during a closed-door Republican Conference meeting on Thursday as hardline members of his party prevent a spending bill from reaching the floor and threaten to oust him as speaker.
“If you think you scare me because you want to file a motion to vacate, move the f***ing motion,” the speaker reportedly said.
Republican leaders were forced to punt consideration of the chamber’s first spending bill, one that funds the Pentagon, after members of the Freedom Caucus held up a procedural vote on Wednesday.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) also explicitly threatened to try to oust Speaker McCarthy in a speech Tuesday afternoon on the House floor if the speaker didn’t bow to hardliners’ demands.
“I showed frustration in here because I am frustrated with the committee, frustrated with some people in the conference,” Speaker McCarthy told reporters after the party meeting. “We had the DOD appropriations bill yesterday, couldn’t put it on the floor. I don’t have one complaint by any member of what’s wrong with this bill.”
When asked about members threatening to remove him from his post, the speaker said, “Threats don’t matter.”
“I don’t walk away from a battle. I knew changing Washington would not be easy,” he said. “I knew people would fight or try to hold leverage for other things. I’m going to continue to just focus on what’s the right thing to do for the American people. And you know what? If it takes a fight, I’ll have a fight.”
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“If you think you scare me because you want to file a motion to vacate, move the f***ing motion,” the speaker reportedly said.
Republican leaders were forced to punt consideration of the chamber’s first spending bill, one that funds the Pentagon, after members of the Freedom Caucus held up a procedural vote on Wednesday.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) also explicitly threatened to try to oust Speaker McCarthy in a speech Tuesday afternoon on the House floor if the speaker didn’t bow to hardliners’ demands.
“I showed frustration in here because I am frustrated with the committee, frustrated with some people in the conference,” Speaker McCarthy told reporters after the party meeting. “We had the DOD appropriations bill yesterday, couldn’t put it on the floor. I don’t have one complaint by any member of what’s wrong with this bill.”
When asked about members threatening to remove him from his post, the speaker said, “Threats don’t matter.”
“I don’t walk away from a battle. I knew changing Washington would not be easy,” he said. “I knew people would fight or try to hold leverage for other things. I’m going to continue to just focus on what’s the right thing to do for the American people. And you know what? If it takes a fight, I’ll have a fight.”
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Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) said Wednesday he would be surprised if the House ultimately votes to impeach President Biden, citing a lack of evidence.
“I haven’t heard any allegation of something that would rise to the level of a high crime or misdemeanor,” he told reporters. “I think it would be very unusual to actually see a referral of impeachment. I don’t expect that to happen.”
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“I haven’t heard any allegation of something that would rise to the level of a high crime or misdemeanor,” he told reporters. “I think it would be very unusual to actually see a referral of impeachment. I don’t expect that to happen.”
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Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) said Wednesday there is “no question” the Republican Party is beholden to former President Trump.
“He is the leader of the greatest portion of the Republican Party. It’s a populist, I believe, demagogue portion of the party,” he said. “I represent a small wing of the party. If you will, I call it the ‘wise wing’ of the Republican Party.”
The Utah senator, who just announced he won’t seek reelection in 2024, said he believes his wing of the party will eventually see a resurgence.
“My wing of the party talks about policy and of issues that will make a difference to the lives of the American people. The Trump wing of the party talks about resentments of various kind and getting even and settling various scores and revisiting the 2020 election,” he told reporters.
“My party is only going to be successful if we’re talking about the future, and that’s not happening in the other wing.”
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“He is the leader of the greatest portion of the Republican Party. It’s a populist, I believe, demagogue portion of the party,” he said. “I represent a small wing of the party. If you will, I call it the ‘wise wing’ of the Republican Party.”
The Utah senator, who just announced he won’t seek reelection in 2024, said he believes his wing of the party will eventually see a resurgence.
“My wing of the party talks about policy and of issues that will make a difference to the lives of the American people. The Trump wing of the party talks about resentments of various kind and getting even and settling various scores and revisiting the 2020 election,” he told reporters.
“My party is only going to be successful if we’re talking about the future, and that’s not happening in the other wing.”
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Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk said Wednesday he thinks it’s “very likely” there could one day be a federal regulatory agency for artificial intelligence (AI), along the lines of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) or Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
His comments to reporters to came after a closed-door meeting on AI, organized by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), that featured prominent tech executives, including Mr. Musk, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg as well as Google CEO Sundar Pichai and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
“I think something good will come of this,” Mr. Musk said. “I think this meeting will go down in history as being very important for the future of civilization.”
Mr. Musk, who runs Tesla, SpaceX and X, has been a strong proponent of placing guardrails around the emerging technology, which he views as a “double-edged sword.”
“The reason that I’ve been such an advocate for AI safety in advance of sort of anything terrible happening is because I think the consequences of AI going wrong are severe, so we have to be proactive rather than reactive,” he said.
The forum was one of several Sen. Schumer is organizing on Capitol Hill as lawmakers consider how to best regulate AI.
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His comments to reporters to came after a closed-door meeting on AI, organized by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), that featured prominent tech executives, including Mr. Musk, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg as well as Google CEO Sundar Pichai and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
“I think something good will come of this,” Mr. Musk said. “I think this meeting will go down in history as being very important for the future of civilization.”
Mr. Musk, who runs Tesla, SpaceX and X, has been a strong proponent of placing guardrails around the emerging technology, which he views as a “double-edged sword.”
“The reason that I’ve been such an advocate for AI safety in advance of sort of anything terrible happening is because I think the consequences of AI going wrong are severe, so we have to be proactive rather than reactive,” he said.
The forum was one of several Sen. Schumer is organizing on Capitol Hill as lawmakers consider how to best regulate AI.
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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Wednesday called House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into President Biden “baseless.”
“They have spent all year investigating the president … and have turned up with no evidence that he did anything wrong,” Ms. Jean-Pierre said at the White House briefing. “And that’s because he didn’t do anything wrong. Even House Republicans have said the evidence does not exist.”
The spokeswoman said Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is only going through with the process due to pressure from his far-right flank, noting that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) threatened a government shutdown and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said he would oust the speaker if he didn’t move forward with impeachment.
She also pointed out that Speaker McCarthy opted to not hold a vote on the House floor to open the inquiry.
“He didn’t even put it up for a vote because he knows even his own members weren’t going to support this,” Ms. Jean-Pierre said.
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“They have spent all year investigating the president … and have turned up with no evidence that he did anything wrong,” Ms. Jean-Pierre said at the White House briefing. “And that’s because he didn’t do anything wrong. Even House Republicans have said the evidence does not exist.”
The spokeswoman said Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is only going through with the process due to pressure from his far-right flank, noting that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) threatened a government shutdown and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said he would oust the speaker if he didn’t move forward with impeachment.
She also pointed out that Speaker McCarthy opted to not hold a vote on the House floor to open the inquiry.
“He didn’t even put it up for a vote because he knows even his own members weren’t going to support this,” Ms. Jean-Pierre said.
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