with us. coming today is not easy and i recognize that you each had the option of respectfully declining the invitation to be here. but you didn t. and i hope that you understand that your presence here is not just so important to the members of this committee, to the senate as a body, but also speaks volumes for the countless victims of abuse that are out there listening or watching or will listen. or will watch. i appreciate the conversation about mental health prompted by the questions from senator booker. my wife is a very active mental health advocate and so she has trained me well to be cognizant of those issues and ask important and timely questions as well. and ms. biles, i hope you might have heard about some of our amplification of your courage from the most recent olympics to take care of yourself first. that took a lot. i ll just offer a few comments. i think most of the questions that i would raise have been raised by my colleagues. but i want to make it clear th
its covid lockdown. it s eight in the morning in singapore, and 9am in tokyo where the czech republic and poland have offered to help a belarusian sprinter who was ordered home from the games by her country s 0lympic officials. this is her krystsina tsimanouskaya. she had been due to compete in the women s 200m event on monday. but after posting a video complaining about being entered into another race at short notice, she says she was told to pack and taken to the airport. she then contacted police, and uploaded this video on social media, appealing for help. the flight took off without her on board. tsimanouskaya has said she believes she s now safe i m joined now by sarah mulkerrins in tokyo. the international olympic committee says it has asked the belarus authorities to clarify what happened. it comes of course against a backdrop of ongoing protests against president lukashenko of belarus who the opposition accuse of stealing the election, and repressing any dissent
antony blinken, about mr. biden s promise that democracy can deliver. and this week s high stakes sit-down with russian president putin. then we ll get reaction from former trump secretary of state, mike pompeo, blinken and pompeo, only on fox news sunday. plus, vice president harris hits the global stage with a message to migrants to rethink dangerous travel to the u.s. border. do not come. chris: we ll ask our sunday panel about the blowback she s getting from the right and left. and our power player of the week, an olympic gold medalist, on the debate over transgender athletes in women s sports. all right now on fox news sunday. chris: and hello again from fox news in washington. president biden continues to meet with american allies in europe, hoping to rally them to join the u.s. in countering russia and china. he s trying to engage them on trade and human rights, on covid and climate change. pledging america is back as a better partner than it was under presiden
it is wednesday, june 2nd. it is 5:00 a.m. in new york. good morning, everyone. president biden starting to pull off the gloves, slowly but forcefully. he is beginning to push forward on several fronts where his restraint until now has frustrated his party, racial inequity, infrastructure, arctic drilling, the remain in it mexico policy. all in just the last few days. and, of course, voting rights. sfwh at an event commemorating the 100th anniversary on a white mob massacres hundreds of residents in tulsa, biden said he is tapping kamala harris to lead the fight against republican efforts to make it harder to vote. the president vowed to fight like heck to protect voting from gop assault. this second right is under assault with incredible intensity even though i got started as a public defender and civil rights lawyer. with an intensity and aggressiveness that we have not seen in a long, long time. it simply unamerican. democrats fear biden s low key approach on voting
for an update on the vaccine race. a disturbing video from the january 6th insurrection. it showed a man wielding a flagpole in the direction of police officers. the doj has a stunning detail about who he is. a former new york city police officer. we will get an update on the case in a few moments. we start with the new hurdles and passing the president s agenda. garrett haake has the latest from the hill. nbc s mike memoli is standing by for us at the white house. garrett, i will start with you. set the stage for us. where are we right now in this infrastructure negotiation process? we don t know a lot about the bipartisan proposal. some democrats seem to be pressing forward on going at it without republicans. what about that $6 trillion plan progressives are floating? reporter: the infrastructure effort is still proceeding on two parallel tracks. bipartisan negotiations about hard infrastructure, what potentially enough senators from the two parties could agree to,