sniping at them is one way to give a bloody nose to the russian army and it s a way to massively cause casualties among the civilian population. will zelenskyy declare kyiv an open city as macarthur did with manila, or will they fight street to street? the jury is out. our ability to influence events inside ukraine now is duh minimus. nato is standing to the task, and i am very proud of the announcement today to activate the response force, and u.s. troops is flying to europe, and the third infantry decision is deploying today, and the 137th airborne, so a strong support by nato. what do you think of vladimir putin saying that he wants to talk about de-escalation? well, you know, we used to count on the russians being
of her decisions, whether it s addressing the rights of workers in government service, but she cares about making sure the democracy works for the american people, and she listens and looks people in the eye and she strives to ensure that everybody understands why she made a decision, what the law is and what it means to them. she strives to be fair, to get it right, to do justice. that s something all of us should remember. it s something that i have thought about throughout this process. as a matter of fact, i thought about it working over here with her. one floor below, we have several displays celebrating black history month. one of them includes a judicial oath of office taken and signed by justice marshall himself, an oath that will be once again administered to a distinguished
my life has been blessed beyond measure, and i do know that one can only come this far by faith. among my many blessings, and indeed the very first, is the fact that i was born in this great country. the united states of america is the greatest beacon of hope and democracy the world has ever known. i was also blessed from my early days to have had a supportive and loving family. my mother and father who have been married for 54 years are at their home in florida right now and i know that they could not be more proud. it was my father who started me on this path when i was a child, as the president mentioned. my father made the fateful decision to transition from his
teachers, and a proven consensus builder, a distinguished jurist on one of the nation s most prestigious court. my nomination for the supreme court is ketanji brown jackson. a couple weeks ago, a friend of the court, a friend of mine, we used to work together in the senate, justice breyer announced his retirement. i promise the process to be vigorous, but i would select a nominee worthy of his legacy and decency, and the utmost character and integrity, which is equally important. i would bring to this decision my perspective as a lawyer, a
kharkiv? we started around midnight your time and i went about the business of telling our audience how quiet the seats of kharkiv are, and in the midst of that we heard very loud, very close, five or six successive explosions that we later learned were grad class rockets that landed close to that city where we were. we heard after that the rat atat response of anti-aircraft fire and that was closer to our position right in the center of that city. then we went down into the basement, in the parking garage below the hotel with a bunch of hotel guests and other journalists and made the decision it was not safe. we decided this was a warning shot, a shot over the bow for the whole city. remember, our colleague, courtney kube said from an official just this evening, that russia has not taken any