Journal, live at 7 00 eastern thursday morning. Be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. Announcer the House Foreign Affairs Committee Held a hearing on the implications of chinas new National Security law in hong kong, which has led to arrests and clashes between police and protesters. The new law coincides with the 23rd anniversary of the handover of hong kong between the United Kingdom and china. This is almost 3. 5 hours. Forum. E have a and before i go forward i understand the speaker of the house, ms. Pelosi, will be stopping by, and i ask unanimous consent that she participate at any point she arrives. And there she is. Madam speaker, would you like to make some remarks . Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. I thank you and mr. Mccaul, mr. Eliot engel for having this hearing today. It is with Great Sadness that i come here because we had such optimism and such hope. The u. S. Congress has always spoken in a bipartisan hous
I see that we have a quorum. Before i go forward, i understand the speaker of the house, ms. Pelosi will be stopping by. I must consent that she participate at any point she rise during the hearing. There she is. Madam speaker, would you like to make some remarks . Speaker pelosi thank you very mr. Chairman. For having this hearing today. It is with Great Sadness that i come here because we had such optimism and such hope. The u. S. Congress has always spoken and the bipartisan house and Senate Democrats and republicans with one voice and defense of those being oppressed by beijing in support of freedom, justice and real autonomy for the people of hong kong. We continue to urge president to hold chinese officials abuses,ble for including taking steps under the hong kong human rights and democracy act. We must consider all tools available, including economic penalties. Here today i am very honored to join the general secretary Hong Kong Confederation of trade union. Carl peterson, law o
Rep. Sherman the committee on Foreign Affairs will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess in the committee at any point, and all members will have five days to submit statements, extraneous materials, and questions to the record subject to the length and limitations of the rules. To insert something into the record, please have your staff email the previously mentioned address or contact the full committee staff. I see we that have a coram and before i go forward i understand the speaker of the house, ms. Pelosi, will be stopping by, and i ask unanimous consent that she participate at any point she arrives. And there she is. Madam speaker, would you like to make some remarks . Rep. Pelosi thank you very uch, mr. Chairman. I thank you and mr. Mccaul, mr. Eliot engel for having this hearing today. It is with Great Sadness that i come here because we had such optimism and such hope. The u. S. Congress has always spoken in a bipartisan house and senat
Deny. A spring that has been dominated by Public Health cries thats still very much with us. Were facing now also a social crisis that is as old also our country in some ways, the struggle for racial equal and human equality. But then also is very much of this moment, and forces us to confront challenges our society has had trouble with in recent years. This is a time that makes us wonder how strong our institutions are going to prove to be, how were going to rise to a challenge like this. I think you cant help but see it as a time of crisis but because it is a time of testing, its also a tame for us to think about americas strengths, what were good at as a country and how to build on that to address the enormous problems. Host how did we get here . Guest well, thats an awfully complicated question. Our country has always tried to strike a balance between the dignity and equality of the individual on the one hand and some form of strength of community on the other. Every free Society F
The country listening to demonstrates. We dont have to retaliate with anger we retaliate with love. Signs of hope. Take the helmet off, laid the batons down. I want to make this a parade, no the a protest. The efforts to find peace and the worries about what mass protests means in the fight against the pandemic today june against the pandemic today june 1st, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, 1st, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today, america in crisis, with Savannah Guthrie from new york city and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody welcome to today. Its nice to have you with us on a monday morning were glad youre with us. Hoda back in the studio. Im here in new york city just a few miles south of where you are in union square, hoda. Normally at this time of the morning, this would be a busy, crowded place. Its quiet now because of the pandemic and a lot more quiet than it was even as recently as a few hours ago. This ha