that they had over the republican party, their fear of entering into a primary that ultimately because more competitive because of this issue. tell me for more use it as a legislator, as someone trying to get things done, what is your experience of working with their fellow legislators? would be perceived to be the issue? you saw yesterday, talking about how somebody broke their eye glasses here in the state government can help them pay for that, that is why i went over there. i was here at the time. i ran over there to demand this special session because we have a fecklessly or that is at the begging of the feet of the nra for more money. that is what this is about. they are beholden to the nra and their financial donations, simply for the sake of staying in power. that cannot be anymore. we need change in the state. we need change in the country.
been in very close touch with congress, with speaker pelosi in particular about her trip. as you saw yesterday, joe biden had the opportunity to speak with speaker pelosi once she safely returned to poland. it was an opportunity for her to give her read out of president zelenskyy. the president sent a supplemental request to congress. we appreciate all the funding they have given us for ukraine. and we look forward to continued conversations with the hill in the coming days to hopefully get additional financial resources that will enable the united states to continue supporting president zelenskyy and his government. the speaker is the highest ranking u.s. official to go to ukraine. so far not president biden. is the white house making plans for him to go? so nothing to announce on
cryptocurrency in sort of smaller ways in order to evade sanctions. the entire sanctions, u.s. sanctions, global sanctions, is predicated on the fact that the u.s. dollar is the global reserve currency. and crypto lives and moves outside the traditional u.s. financial system. you saw yesterday, for example, a laundry list of oligarchs and putin s inner circle, sanctioned. those individuals may try to use cryptocurrency in order to evade sanctions. i will say that when you look at sort of where most of the liquidity is, in the crypto market, you re looking at large, what i would call compliant cryptocurrency exchanges, the ones we sort of all know coin base and ftx and those have, those companies have robust compliance controls like any other financial institution. so russian actors will be looking to go outside of those sort of larger exchanges, to
meantime they will inflict a ton of damage, missile strikes will continue pressuring the ukrainians to make more concessions. this is how bloody and nasty wars get. what we hear from the u.k. ministry of defense about their strategy and tactics going forward. you saw yesterday, robert, ukraine presenting negotiators with a framework for peace under which they ll remain neutral with a security guarantee by third party countries. do you think this would be something putin would accept at this snaj. it s an important concession to russia. and it s probably a sensible compromise. neutrality, formal neutrality so putin can claim a win and save face but at the same time ukraine says it has to come with
organized gang is behind this? and what are they stealing? so what they do, the individual you saw yesterday, he had a garbage bag, went to a specific area of the store. they primarily target cosmetics, over-the-counter drugs, and they take them and sell them to a middleman. then the middleman then sells it on the international market, markets in the united states, at flea markets. this is a multimillion-dollar industry. and because they know that they can recruit people that can hit one, two, maybe ten stores in a day according to the representative from cvs that came to my hearing, they will walk away with thousands of dollars in merchandise that will then be resold at a discount, and there s a great demand for these products. and why can t the police stop this? so what i ve asked for is in my hearing we had a district attorney, we had the police department, we ve now followed up with a letter of inquiry. the thing that was shocking to me that it was organized retail