On the issue. Other witnesses include the sheriff of Dallas County florida was also the chair of the marjorie was actual Public Safety commission. From yesterdays, this is two hours. Morning, i want to call this hearing order. The title of this hearing is examining state and federal regulations for an against violence. I want to welcome everybody to the hearing room. I should surely want to thank our witnesses for taking the time for your testimony. And in particular i want to give a shout out to max and tom and their families and the other families of the tragedies or attending here and for just your unbelievable dedication, turning your tragedy into hopefully some positive action that temperament tragedy or other families, its just remarkable what so many of the families have done in reaction to so many of these tragedies which really back to 1998 is where we really had, so the first elected. Members of 56, i know in your testimony, if youre talking about 710 shootings at columbine i
Share with you just some of the lensky comments made behind closed doors. That the us kind of gone an intel sources have already intercepted. Let me take you through some of these. So pete proposed occupying rushing villages to gain leverage over moscow and negotiations. He was overheard arguing for more long range missiles so that he can use them to get targets inside rushes, borders. And get this in a meeting and mid february with his deputy Prime Minister. Mister sa lensky made what may be his most worrisome threat when it comes to your p and nations. You see, when he discussed attacking a country, which is a member of nato. So in this conversation, soleski suggest blowing up a pipeline that provides oil to hungry quote. This is what he said, just blow up the pipeline and destroy victor or bonds in the street. For ben, as you probably know, is under his Prime Minister. Regardless, these comments, by so wednesday, taken at face value, are bound to give some western leaders heartburn
The. The hi, everybody. Im rick sanchez. Ive been doing news for 30 years now and 2 different languages all over the world here in the United States. Ive interviewed for us president s, ive worked at 4 of the Largest Television networks in the United States. And after all that, you know what i can say, i believe news should be honest, it should be direct and it should be impactful. This is direct impact. The so let me start with this. Recently weve been seeing ukrainian president watermark zalinski out on what appears to be a very well orchestrated Public Relations tour are meeting with the leaders of several countries. Why . Well, what were going to get to that in just a moment. You stay right there. Dont go away. Because i want to get to that, but 1st i want to examine some of these uh, recent visits that mr. Zalinski has been taking. He dashed off to berlin, where he met with german leaders, including transfer all of charles and roland. He met with the Prime Minister george m o. Me
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Dont go away because i want to get to that. But 1st, i want to examine some of these uh, recent visits that mr. Zalinski has been taking. He dashed off to berlin, where he met with german leaders, including transfer all off shoals. In rome, he met with the Prime Minister george im only at the vatican. He met with the boat, francis and parents who reportedly had a 3 hour meeting with president monro. Im a chrome that he was off to saudi arabia to meet with our leaders and eventually to the d 7 summit. If you throw in that g 7 invitation and what you have is on the honest to goodness world tour, that members of the western media had been lapping up, covering the former comedian as if he were eldest himself. But failing to analyze along the way, it seems, must be on that in terms of both the mission and the ban. So lets do this. The president ial lensky has assured all of the countries that hes received assistance from in the form of funding or weapons that he would never ever use their w