Starting on washington journal followed by the oral argument on cspan, cspan now or our f mobile app or cspan. Org. Venezuelan Opposition Leader and president ial candidate maria spoke about the upcoming venezuelan election and push for democracy. This is 45 minutes on the roundtable. Why dont we start the conversation. If you need some type of translation, im here to translate for you. I do this every day. Going from spanish to english sometimes is difficult but i want the world to see, to hear and to be able to understand to the fullest what youre trying to say. So im more than willing, humbly using giving you that opportunity if you were to need it, all right. So there are no rules. Im not going to have opening remarks but just ask you a couple questions and give the opportunity to the other members that are here. You stayed in venezuela when other political leaders left. Were not blaming anybody. Its very hard to live under a regime that follows the rules of fidel castro, very hard
And we have our representative who is also part of the subcommittee. We have representative zelf who is part of the committee and others will be joining. Why dont we start the conversation. I want to tell you something. If you need some type of translation, im here to translate for you. I do this every day. I know going from spanish to english sometimes is difficult but i want the world to see and hear and to be able to understand to the fullest, what you are trying to say. So i am more than willing, humbly giving you that opportunity if you needed it. So there are no rules. Im not going to say im not going to have an opening remark. Im just going to ask you a couple of questions and i will give the opportunity to the other members who are here. You state in venezuela when other political leaders left. We are not blaming anybody. It is very hard to live under a regime that follows the rules and it is very hard. The question is, why did you stay and how much did it cost you personally .
This issue in the forefront of peoples minds. The lack of transparency provided by the Biden Administration changes to title ix and other aspects of the social agenda is concerning. Particularly for parents. Ms. Gaines, how did your parents find out you would be changing clothes in the same locker room as a biological male . I had to call my parents. As mentioned in my testimony, we were not forewarned. We would be changing we will break away to take you live to capitol hill where a venezuelan leader and president a candidate is testifying about the fight for democracy in her country and is appearing before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee. Live coverage on cspan three. When it comes to venezuela, finding freedom and democracy for the venezuelan people. And we have our representative who is also part of the subcommittee. We have representative zelf who is part of the committee and others will be joining. Why dont we start the conversation. I want to tell you something. If you need
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Gaza themselves as being hostages of hamas, the, the civilians there give us some more of the nuances that came through in the transfer of speech regarding whats happening in the middle east. Yes. Well, he clearly and differentiated here, and i would expect he did so also in the talks that he held with opinion and this in yahoo, these really Prime Minister, but also present, ill cc of egypt. He clearly distinguish between the palestinians on time us. Hence describing the palestinians as a hostage of this terrorist organization and which is also listed as such, here it within the european union. And he made it very clear that you monetary assistance is in imperative essentially is something that must take place. At the same time, we had the german chancellor pledged in israel, but also in parliament to previously that the security of israel is reason of state. And that means that its a fundamental principle of state action of state policy here in germany. So that is something that is no