5, 4, 3, 2, 1. The committee on foreign affairs will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare recess of committee at any point and all members will have to submit statements, Exchange Material and questions for the record. Subject to the list of limitation of the rules, to insert something is a directive, please have your Staff Email the previously mentioned Address Or Contact committee staff. As a reminder to all members, please keep your Video Function on at all times. Even when you are not recognized by the chair. Members are responsible for muting end on meeting themselves. Consistent with house rules, we will only mute members as appropriate when they are not under recognition to eliminate background noise. We are now waiting to bring up the secretary. I am here, mr. Chairman. I am here. Before i make my opening remarks , mr. Secretary, thank you number one for being here. This is important given this topic into the importance of this topic into this committees constituti
,, the. Journalist is roman predecessors. He got a pat news channel and. Belarus let s go to matt bradley. Hey, matt. Yeah joshua, there is a reason why belarus is so commonly referred to as the last dictatorship in europe. s of it s because of stuff like this. And what we saw during the presidential election, and immediately after the election lofty last year. Horrible police brutality, mass arrests, protests in the streets and many called a rigged election. That s exactly why this young man in russia he was detained on the flight from greece to lithuania. The authorities have said they are going to be prosecuting a lawsuit against the russians for essentially stopping this plane in mid air. They actually scrambled a fighter jet, and told ryanair that they needed to ground this flight in belarus and maybe there was a bomb on it and they need security. Using their military to get a commercial plane to arrest a political that s exactly what just happened. That s why so many european di
Welcome to the week. On june 19th, 1865, union soldiers informed slaves in galveston, texas, that they were free. They were among the last ones to get the news. This was two months after the confederacy had surrendered and more than two years after the emancipation proclamation. Juneteenth is a reminder that our history is full of both progress and pain, progress usually takes a long time but its time does come. I will have more to say about this in the hour. On thursday president biden signed into law a new federal holiday recognizing juneteenth. He recognized the importance of confronting the difficult moments in our history. Great nations don t ignore their most painful moments. Great nations don t ignore their most painful moments. They don t ignore them, they embrace them. The house voted overwhelmingly in favor of the bill. 14 republican members voted against it. The senate bill passed by june of yu man must consent. Republican ron johnson dropped his objection to the bill. He bl
On june 19th, 1865, union soldiers informed slaves in galveston, texas, that they were free. They were among the last ones to get the news. This was two months after the confederacy had surrendered and more than two years after the emancipation proclamation. Juneteenth is a reminder that our history is full of both progress and pain, progress usually takes a long time but its time does come. I will have more to say about this later in the hour. On thursday president biden signed into law a new federal holiday recognizing juneteenth. He emphasized the importance of confronting the difficult moments in our history. Great nations don t ignore their most painful moments. Great nations don t ignore their most painful moments. They don t ignore them, they embrace them. The house voted overwhelmingly in favor of the bill. 14 republican members voted against it. The senate bill passed by june unanimous consent, meaning if someone objects, it passes without having a formal vote. Republican ron
in mykolaiv. accusing russian military of disguising russian tanks with ukrainian flags and then opening fire on civilians. nbc news though, is not yet able to independently confirm this. russian military officials, meanwhile, claim they struck 26 military facilities just in the last few hours. destroying warehouses, destroying resources and to ukraine by western countries. nbc news, again, not able to independently confirm that. also this hour, some advice from a former president on how to handle putin s frequent references to nuclear weapons. i would say we have far more than you do, far more powerful than you. and you can t use that word ever again. you cannot use the nuclear word ever again. joining us now, nbc s kelly cook from ukraine and from the white house. kelly, we ll start with you here. what are you hearing from people there in odessa after this latest round of missile attacks? well, alex, once again, odessa, after being somewhat quiet of the past three w