The committee will come to order. Without objection, all members have five days to visit made statements and questions for the record subject to the limitation of the rules. Ambassador wells and ms. Friedman, welcome to the members of the public and the press as well. We are glad to have our friends from cspan here as well. We need this mornings of the committee conduct oversight of the administrations policy towards afghanistan and iran now recognize myself for an opening statement. For months weve been attempting to get some visibility into the ongoing peace negotiations without success. We all want peace and the fighting in afghanistan do and do. Congress needs to know what the potential deal looks like and members need the chance to ask questions and offer views and in the last few weeks, weve seen the reconciliation process go off the rails in a spectacular fashion area to be learned from a president ial message that the administration was planning to host the caliban at camp davi
Have been killed, including a mother and her ten year old daughter. Almost 70 have been injured and around a dozen are trapped under rubble. It is a familiar yet still horrifying sight where you have a residential block with a chunk missing smoldering debris and rescue teams frantically trying to save who they can. And when you have wave after wave of missile strikes, there is always a place in ukraine that is the most acute, acutely hit, and it is the turn of kiev. But alongside this, ukraine is desperately trying to seize the initiative in its counteroffensive, which is coming up to two months old. The gains it has made have been modest and they have been intensely contested. We are seeing an increase in fighting. It is true to say that they are concentrating men and machinery, notably in the southeastern and eastern parts of the front line. But we are getting comments from the kremlin alleging that the counteroffensive is not going according to plan, in their words, saying that all
We know six people have been killed, including a mother and her ten year old daughter. Almost 70 have been injured and around a dozen are trapped under rubble. It is a familiar yet still horrifying sight where you have a residential block with a chunk missing smoldering debris and rescue teams frantically trying to save who they can. And when you have wave after wave of missile strikes, there is always a place in ukraine that is the most acute, acutely hit, and it is the turn of kiev. But alongside this, ukraine is desperately trying to seize the initiative in its counteroffensive, which is coming up to two months old. The gains it has made have been modest and they have been intensely contested. We are seeing an increase in fighting. It is true to say that they are concentrating men and machinery, notably in the southeastern and eastern parts of the front line. But we are getting comments from the kremlin alleging that the counteroffensive is not going according to plan, in their word
bolduan starts right now. hello, everyone. at this hour we ll begin with breaking news, the fbi is searching president biden s home in rehoboth beach, delaware right now. this is part of the ongoing investigation into his handling of classified documents. biden s attorney put out a statement saying the search was planned in advance and that the president is cooperating. today s search now makes it the third known location that federal agents is gone through to look for classified material at the properties associated with president biden. paula reid is joining us with much more. this all started really unfolding just a little while ago. what are you learning? reporter: that s right. pool cameras captured the federal agents. and we had very much sxelgtsed t expected that there would be a search of that property. and it is in cooperation with the president s attorneys. but to explain why we expected this, let s go back to the beginning of the situation. they uncovered class
for america plan. when it comes to public safety in this nation, the answer is not defund the police, it s fund the police. brian: that s like three years too late but it s about time. since taking office, crime biden s america has gotten completely out of control. think about it, shooting, murders, robberies all spiking in cities across this country. in fact, since january of 2021, crime in new york, where we are, has gone up 36%. i m safe in the studio, i think. in chicago, it s gone up 37%. that s what happens when you create a system that vilifies cops. emboldens criminals and that s exactly what the left has done in many cases president biden ignored all of that today. the way he sees it. criminals aren t the problem drum roll, please. my plan also takes common sense action to reduce gun violence. we are not stopping here! i m determined to ban assault weapons in this country! time to hold every elected elected officials are you for banning assault weapons? no.