visit sends a strong signal, bipartisan support for ukraine. it s not clear whether the meeting took place today nor whether the delegation is actually still there in kyiv. this is the second visit by a group of u.s. lawmakers in two weeks time. cnn correspondents are covering the latest developments. what are you learnin ing about s delegation to ukraine? i was to emphasize what you said which is we re still getting a lot of details about this visit from mitch mcconnell, john cornyn. we re not sure if they are still in kyiv, still meeting with zelensyy. it s likely this took place already. pelosi led a delegation two weeks ago to ukraine. this is happening as the senate is trying to pass a bipartisan bill. the problem here, noticeably missing from this delegation is senator rand paul, republican from kentucky is holding up this legislation while senate minority leader mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer have worked with their party and most of the party in support. senator
a story about the power of kindness and on relenting courage in a time of war and it has been targeted for removal from school library shelves. the velshi banned book club convenes this morning with r. j. palacio author of the powerful graphic novel white bird. velshi starts now. good morning. i am ali velshi. it is saturday may 14th, day 80 of the invasion of ukraine and the war that is not going as putin planned or as anyone expected. the consequences of the war of choice on the neighbor, both intended and unintended, are now out in the open and on display for the world to see. there is a global economic toll and ramifications for the world food supply, ukraine being one of the largest producers of green in the world. we will dive into this later on in the show. other consequences are more direct and visual with ukraine being altered. entire cities, towns, villages, big and small, ruined and erased from the landscape. tens of thousands of people have been killed in th
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been chosen and are trusted to protect us, but let me say to you here today i do not feel protected. no citizen needs an ar-15. these weapons are designed to do the most harm in the least amount of time and on saturday may 14th it took a domestic terrorist just two minutes to shoot and kill ten people and injure three others. if after hearing from me and the other people testifying here today does not move you to act on gun laws i invite you to my home to help me clean zaire s wounds so that you may see up close the damage that has been caused to my son and to my community. to the families of ruth whitfield, pearl young, catherine hassy, hayward patterson, geraldine talley, aaron setter, marcus morrison and robert at that drury i promise that their deaths will not be in vain.
good morning. it is saturday may 14th. according to the latest survey, americans view inflation as the top problem facing the country right now. this is no surprise as the price of everything is rising. there s a lot more going on behind the scenes. i want to get in to it with gas prices. it rose averaging $4.42 a gallon, according to the automobile association. a top $4 per gallon in every state, well above $5 a gallon in california and hawaii. this leads us to the discussion of crude oil prices. the biggest factor that affects how much you pay at the pump. over the past 20 years, it s important to look at it overtime. the price of crude has had peaks and values. you can see the rise starting in 2002, then the fall after the 2008 recession, then another sharp fall in 2014, and then another in 2020, the