Automatic sequester cuts. Kentucky senator rand paul will offer an amendment to lower spending caps over the next decade. We expect final votes later this morning and we may also see more work on President Trumps judicial nominations. Now live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, who has created humanity in your image, look upon us and hear our prayers. Today, give our lawmakers the desire to do your will and the energy to complete the tasks that will glorify your name. That which they dont know, reveal it. That which they lack, supply it and that which they doubt, confirm it. Keep them blameless in your service, so that their lives will be living letters causing people to exalt your name. Lord, strengthen their minds for your service, so that your wisdom will permeate their endeavors. We pray in your mighty name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in re
that was part of a video posted on twitter this morning by ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy marking one year of war inside his country. we ll have much more coverage on this somber anniversary in just a moment. also ahead the latest on the train derailment disaster in ohio as federal investigators appear to have identified a cause for the crash. plus mike pence gives some legitmous criticism of another potential republican presidential candidate. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, february 24th. i m sam stein. i m in for jonathan lemire. we begin in europe where it s been exactly one year since russia launched its unjust war on ukraine. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy recognized the day writing, quote, on february 24th many us made a choice, not fleeing but facing, resisting and fighting and this year we remained invisible invincible, sorry. we know that 2023 will be the year of our victory. here in the united states the biden ad
president trump to fight as commander in chief. also, former president trump making an emergency request to the supreme court asking the high court to intervene in that dispute over materials the fbi seized from mar-a-lago over the summer. they request the 100 or so documents become part of the special master s review. and next hour, president biden and jill biden will head to florida to var the destruction in the wake of hurricane ian so far claimed 109 lives. the president will meet with florida governor ron desantis. also he ll speak with homeowners, business owners, people that have been wiped out by the storm. we ll get to that in a moment. first, let s begin with our cnn law enforcement correspondent on this on what was a secret reporting played in this second day of the oath keeper s trial. what more can you tell us? this is a huge moment very early on in the trial. the doj is passing this audio recording as proof that these five people on trial for conspiracy be
a lot of coverage about princess anne here in the uk and the way she s risen to this occasion. the vigil is now over. you can see the king leading the siblings away now. so that s the end of that. there s princess anne and her full ceremonial uniform. so an extraordinary moment for those members of the public as they file through. princess anne accompanying the coffin throughout this whole process. we re hearing earlier how all of the siblings were close to the queen in their own way. princess anne s was through horses and country pursuits which is what they shared in balmoral together and where anne was with the queen for the last 24 hours of her life. so the siblings now leaving westminster hall. they ll go away in private. try to decompress what they had there, and members of the public will decompress what they just experienced. quite extraordinary moment in british history there, and it will be repeated again tomorrow with the grandchildren of the queen, including prince
united front against russia s war. we are live in germany and austria for the updates. this is cnn center with michael holmes. we begin in germany where day two of the g-7 summit gets underway soon. it is a meeting, so far, of course, not surprisingly, being dominated by russia s war on ukraine. missiles hit kyiv. one person killed, six more wounded after a strike hit an apartment building in the capitol. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is set to address the nation in few hours. [speaking in foreign language] what are these missiles about today? what are yesterday s 62 missiles? for only one saturday? for 24 hours or about? they are about the russian method escalate every time international events take place. they are about determination, about, forexample, the fact that the leaders of the g-7 who gather inside germ no today for a summit have enough common potential to stop russian aggression against ukraine and against europe as a whole. it is possible. ukraine