dedicated to sharing the story of the capital and those who work there in a manner that inspires informed patriotism. today as we celebrate three significant events all related. the 200th anniversary of ulysses grant s birth. the 100th anniversary of this grant memorial and the dedication of the incredible restoration of this monument that was finished in 2020. we have a distinguished group of speakers. senator roy blunt our hero who i m going to introduce first architect of the capitol brett blanton who oversaw the restoration and oversees the capital and distinguished historian ron white. so now you know, what s going to happen. let me present to you our first speaker. senator roy blunt built on his background as a public service servant a university president and history teacher. and the people of missouri elected him the united states senator in 2010. he shares the senate republican policy committee. he s the ranking member of the senate rules committee. he s on the senat
[ no audio ] the idf carrying out st strikes, targeting the hamas commanders. The humanitarian crisis in gaza is getting worse. Some of the images coming in are disturbing. This new video that we will show you is a fresh view of the crisis. You can see very clearly what it is. Its a massive burial of gazans killed. Body bags in rows, as you can see. Row after row after row. This morning, we are hearing a new urgent plea from the mother of one of the hostages that hamas is holding. This mother. This is mia shem. We will bring you what the weathe mother is saying after hamas put out a video. New Rocket Attacks on israel. Those were targeting ashkelon, five, ten miles from the gaza border. This morning, we are getting new information about u. S. Military deployments. There will be two u. S. Carrier groups in the mediterranean. We are also learning this morning that some 2,000 marines are headed to the region, possibly the red sea. They are part of the marine expedition unit. 2,000 marines
The jordan forces wanted him to do. They wanted him to vote present but he voted for mccarthy. That is essentially a no vote on jordan. The next vote that were going to be dipping in for will be Congressman Ken Buck, another nay on jordan. His issue also different, kasie hunt, again, not a moderate against jordan, ken buck a very conservative republican from colorado, his issue is elections and whether or not joe biden actually won the election fair and square. Big picture, jake, i just think we are watching the formal installation of donald trump. There have been so many ways in which this has happened, but this is a moment crystallizing it for me, as the current Singular Entity republican the Republican Party, this is an institution whose glass doors were broken. There were gun shots fired outside this chamber. The members had to evacuate in gas masks on january 6th of 2021, when a protrump mob stormed the place and as we were discussing before, jim jordan was and jamie reported abou
In the meantime, lets talk about the price of bitcoin. It has been volatile. Shot up yesterday in a big way and pulled back after blackrock denied the report, becky. Coin telegraph saying u. S. Regulators approved the application for the spot etf. Everybody cheered and went crazy. Coin telegraph later retracted the story and conducting an internal investigation into the inaccurate report. Blackrock reported the application is still under review. Crypto markets have been waiting news for spot coin etfs which are expected to drive investment in the sector if approved. If because we still dont know. Just because blackrock and fidelity are asking for it, doesnt mean the s. E. C. Has to give it. Do i think there is momentum . Sure. It doesnt lead to the situation. The company that put out the story is now conducting an internal investigation which makes you wonder if they suspect somebody was doing this and making trades based on the story. It wasnt how it happened. Was somebody feeding the
Hamas is a bunch of cowards that are hiding behind the civilians, they put their their headquarters where civilians are and buildings and the like, but to the extent that they can separate out and avoid im confident the israelis will do everything in their power to avoid the killing of innocent civilians. Lets get straight to israel where cnns Nic Robertson is. Nic, what is the latest on the ground at this hour . Reporter its been a relatively quiet day in terms of rocket strikes, missiles, artillery going into gaza and not many missiles coming out of gaza, either. It creates the impression that there is not a pause but at least diminution in the amount of Military Activity to perhaps give some space to some of the political discussions. I said that and you heard the explosion behind me. Yes, the afternoon has become increasingly punctuated by heavy explosions. That does sound like a Missile Strike landing on gaza there. And perhaps as we go into darkness i think we are beginning to se