Hello. As speaker of the house it is my privilege to welcome you all to this celebration of courage and patriotism 75 years to the day since the uss indianapolis met its fate while sailing through the Philippines Sea toward the end of world war ii. Today, despite the unprecedented circumstances, we come together as the United States congress bestows its highest honor, the congressional gold medal on the crewmen of the uss indianapolis. Thank you to the entire indiana delegation, indiana governor, and secretary of the navy for your efforts to make this momentous event possible. Thank you as well to leader mitch mcconnell, leader Chuck Schumer and leader Kevin Mccarthy for helping to ensure that this virtual ceremony would be such a wonderful success. And thank you to all of those joining online to recognize and pay tribute to the american heroes of the uss indianapolis. Ladies and gentlemen, at this time, please stand as you are able, for the presentation of the colors and the national
A step in the back. New zealand extends the lockdown on its biggest city as it tries to work out how coronaviruses made a comeback. And we meet the black americans who say theyve left racism in division behind to settle in west africa. An apology from the interior minister and the release of hundreds of protesters from prison isnt coming anger in the los crowds are gathering again in the capital minsk over last weekends disputed president ial election 7000 people were rounded up during demonstrations over the past few days instead. They told of torture and abuse inside cramped Detention Centers due to the lack of space detainees who are often forced to lie on top of each other young women say they were forced to undress they were beaten and threatened with rape. The Violent Police crackdown on mainly Peaceful Protesters has left deep scars on many belorussians it has also angered many of president alex on the local shankars former support us the call for him to step down has resonated
A groom is killed outside his own reception. The suspects described as wedding crashers. What the newlywed was doing just before the attack. Plus, the breaking news affecting the u. S. Auto industry. The megamerger just announced. Caught on video, the jawdropping moment at this safari park and one hungry giraffe. And a first in the world of sports. A woman doing something no woman has ever done before against a man. Good wednesday morning, everyone. We begin with history unfolding on capitol hill today. President trump is on the brink of impeachment. We learned overnight that lawmakers have agreed to six hours of debate in the house today before they take their historic vote around 7 00 tonight. The president sent a fiery letter to House Speaker nancy pelosi comparing the impeachment process to the salem witch trials but democrats believe they have enough votes to approve the articles of impeachment. Meanwhile overnight protesters held rallies across the country from new york and michi
Naval battle in history and was a decisive victory for the United States and their allies. Up next, six panelists participate in the 75th befallingy discussion the panel, a retired admiral discusses the legacy of the battle. All, i would like to put in a little plug for a marvelous new book written by our first speaker or edited, tom cutler has edited this retrospective published by the Naval Institute. Recently it was put out and in fact filled with interesting new and old assessments of the battle, including some japanese testimony. Also a number of the panelists have written for this as well. I wanted to at least give that a plug. Second, what i wanted to do was this,ould not resist namely for a couple of reasons. Thanks to wikipedia i discovered the fact that it has become the basic Foundation Source to go , which then says you cannot cite it. I did have one person who used it for his entire paper, which is another story. But i discovered some different points. If you search this b
Which was a Foreign Policy read story. Alex is an editor of the georgetown journal of International Affairs and former officer in the British Royal navy and holds a master of arts and Security Studies from georgetown university. Also with us is brent sadler, who after a 26 year navy career with numerous operational tours on Nuclear Powered submarines was assigned to chief of Naval Operations staff at u. S. Pacific command and the Senior Defense official in malaysia. As the Heritage Senior Research fellow he focused on Maritime Security and the technologies shaping our future Maritime Forces in the navy and is the recent author of the book naval power in the 21st century, what he describes as a contest in the chinese designs to reorder the world to its interests by playing to u. S. Strengths and chinas weaknesses. We will start on stage by asking the experts some questions and after a bit of that we will go to you the audience for your russians, both online and the ones in the auditoriu