So families can get the tools they need to be ready for anything. Comcast supports cspan as a public service, along with these other television providers. Give your front row seat to democracy. Officials from the state department and usaid testified about the ongoing conflict in sudan. They discussed diplomatic efforts to encourage peace, talks humanitarian aid and the evacuation of american citizens. Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee also questioned the witnesses about the conflicts impact on surrounding countries such as ethiopia and egypt. This is about 90 minutes. Hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Since fighting erupted in sudan almost a month, ago ceasefires of demigod with no appreciable reduction in fighting. Alice has left the area in the capital thick with dust and smoke, food and water shortages have resulted in looting and attacks on citizens by armed groups in search of provisions. The former strongman head of state who is
with israeli officials saying there s no timetable for slowing the pounding of gaza, a cabinet member comes to washington where pressure is growing and it soon. also, does he think it s festivals? the former president airs his grievances, makes a list and tells the people on it what to do and where to do it plus alexei navalny fear death, he resurfaces bringing a christmas message of courage, hope, and yes, good cheer from one of the coldest corners. good evening, everyone. we begin with u.s. officials trying to steer israel toward a less intensive, less destructive phase of its campaign in gaza and israeli officials signaling they are in no hurry. one of the officials is in washington tonight, we will have the latest on those meetings which wrapped up about six minutes ago. first, though, the fighting itself, which included more than 100 airstrikes today on hamas targets in gaza according to the idf, and 241 killed on the ground according to unverified claims by the hamas -c
From china . Its a bit like cotton. Producing 90 of cotton. In so its a very High Percentage its a very high risk that anything related from china is implicated. One strategy or the strategy to go for draw out its staff were citizens before the violence began. The United States cannot be blindsided like this. I want to understand what is being done to prevent this in the future. Now, i realize that if the views of some ends up being the reality, our ability to predict and prepare for situations like we are seeing in sudan will be dramatically affected of the potential cuts that are being talked about in discretionary domestic spending. Everything we do at the state departments domestic discretionary spending. So i dont know how we are going to get better with less. Undersecretary newland, i want to hear a clear articulation of our short, medium and long term goals in sudan and the horn of africa. As well as the administrations strategy for achieving them now that we dont have any diplo
we are following breaking news this hour. a verdict has been reached in the seditious conspiracy trial against five members of the proud boys. this trial really considered the center piece, the marquee of the prosecutions brought by the justice department surrounding the actions leading up to and on january 6th. cnn s katelyn polantz is outside the courthouse. she s joining me once again. katelyn, what s the latest you re hearing from inside the room? reporter: kate, we really are moments away from knowing what the result of this long, long trial, this long prosecution by the justice department is at this moment in time the jury is reading the verdicts that they have reached in the courtroom. we have a team watching this right now. and what is happening here, what is at stake here is that this is the case against the five leaders of the proud boys, people that the justice department have accused of not just wanting to have a war against the u.s. government after the 2020 el
donald trump in jail since 2015. today, democrats have gotten them closer to that goal. let s be very clear, the white house is the key player in the game of political vengeance. joe biden bears the ultimate responsibility for what this will do to america. our nation s chief executive has the inherent duty to do everything he or she can to preserve america s standing in the world as the world s leading democracy. that means whether through back channels or public speeches, biden should have made it clear that his party would oppose any local prosecutor who uses trumped up criminal charges to punish and humiliate a former president. of course, biden didn t do this. instead, he bowed to far left which has been salivating over the prosecute of trump in a mugshot for years. a lot of democrats spouting off saying they think trump should go to jail. president trump could end up being prosecuted. once he become a civilian, donald trump may have to go to court and could go to j