mistakes, that no one is operating in the same area at the same time. but also there is disagreement that exists that if israel is going to carry out some sort of a strike or an attack, that could have negative repercussions back when the u.s. and u.s. personnel in the region, that they will give them a little bit more of a heads up in advance of that so that the u.s. can shore up any defenses or do whatever they need to do that is one of the reasons that the strike in damascus really caught a lot of people here by surprise and frustrated some u.s. officials we spoke with israel to tell them when the planes were in the air that they were carrying out the strike, they didn t give them much of a heads up on something that really proved toh be very, potentially very escalatory. including for americans in the area in the region. this order, deconfliction is one word you will be hearing about an awful lot in the next few days, as everybody in the region tries to figure out, for a technica
given the funding in fact, they voted to cut funding to dhs that s been requested from the biden administration. when the numbers of people crossing the border are so high, as we know record highs last month, they have to keep releasing people because they don t have enough beds in i.c.e. detention. the biden administration has asked for more beds in a supplemental. right now that hasn t been given to them. we ll see what happens as negotiations continue on the hill. but we also did hear from one democrat witness who s an expert, a legal expert on impeachment, who said there are no grounds here for impeachment. there s nothing even that looks like high crimes and misdemeanors. sometimes we ll hear republicans talk about dereliction of duty, that s a military term. it s never been used in the context of an impeachment. another important piece of this to remember is that they re having this inquiry, these hearings in this committee because they couldn t get enough votes to go ahead a
scotland s present, first minister humza yousaf, is already inside with alison johnstone humza yousaf, is already inside with alisonjohnstone presiding officer alison johnstone presiding officer of alisonjohnstone presiding officer of the scottish parliament, oliver dowden deputy prime minister of the uk government is here, and of course alisterjack the secretary of state for scotland. they are already in st giles awaiting the beginning and the arrival of the honours of scotland when they emerge in a few minutes from the signet library where they ve just been taken. here where they ve “ust been taken. here come the where they ve just been taken. here come the household where they ve just been taken. here come the household cavalry, a magnificent site as they come up the royal mile to st giles cathedral, preparing the way for the king s procession. preparing the way for the king s procession- preparing the way for the king s rocession. ., . , procession. proving the rate is the o
happening with the ukrainians, with the russians, and if they are having any success. yeah. so where we are is the russian offensive, this is their third offensive that began early february. it culminated, despite some local attacks, i mean it failed. and it failed just like the other two that they have conducted. so, obviously, what we have all been talking about is ukrainian counteroffensive. shaping operations, military term, which means preparing battlefield and setting the conditions for a counteroffensive to be successive began, we think, last week around 9 may. and what we have seen is a number of attacks made in russia and also crimea dealing with fuel, munition sites. close to the battle field, command and control centers. they are using the british storm shadow cruise missile that they gave them. the brits didn t admit that they had given that to them until it was well in hand and maybe also