know this will be a different fight in the east. it will be a more consolidated russian forceful one where they have more fire power, more raw strength focused into a specific geographic area. but they ll be going up against ukrainians, the most experienced ukrainian troops. and they are confident they can hold out if they get the support they need from western allies. the military weapons and such. today putin met with the austrian chancellor, carl, for 75 minutes in moscow. he says it was not a friendly visit. he is not particularly optimistic from the talks. what do you make of the face to face meeting? he is the first to meet since the start of the war. austria is militarily neutral. but as the chancellor says, not morally neutral. this is a chancellor only yesterday was talking with streets of bucha, seeing for himself the aftermath of russia s occupation. so his messages to putin were blunt. effectively, this is on you. there must be accountability for war crime. th
of course, like donald trumping he said he would march with them and then needily marched right back to the safety of the white house and watched what went on. two different takes on january 6th from republican presidential candidates yesterday. it comes amid new reporting on how donald trump s legal troubles are draining resources from his 2024 campaign. plus, florida governor ron desantis taking heat on the campaign trail for his state s new standards on teaching black history. we ll explain the new guidelines and show you his response. also ahead, more looming labor strikes could have a tremendous impact on the economy, putting notoriously pro-union president biden in a tough spot. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, july 24th. i m ali vitali in for jonathan lemire. a date is set for the first federal trial of a former president of the united states. on friday judge aileen cannon announced donald trump will be due in court on may 20th, 20
mr. speaker mr. speaker, you may agree with this, but we are back here 22 days into this republican manufactured chaos and house republicans have brought us to the exact same position that we were back then. all of the infighting, all of the disarray, just to end up where we were three weeks ago. these past few weeks we have been left wondering if republicans were truly intent on solving our issues, reopening the house of representatives and rallying around someone to lead this chamber, or has this been about something else? has this been about a focus of house republicans to find the person who can pass their extreme litmus test to oppose marriage equality, enact a nationwide abortion ban without exceptions, gut social security and medicare, and support overturning a free and fair election. it s a fair question. it s a fair question. [ applause ] nowhere nowhere in that candidate questionnaire is it about growing the middle class, helping our communities, keeping the
the jordan forces wanted him to do. they wanted him to vote present but he voted for mccarthy. that is essentially a no vote on jordan. the next vote that we re going to be dipping in for will be congressman ken buck, another nay on jordan. his issue also different, kasie hunt, again, not a moderate against jordan, ken buck a very conservative republican from colorado, his issue is elections and whether or not joe biden actually won the election fair and square. big picture, jake, i just think we are watching the formal installation of donald trump. there have been so many ways in which this has happened, but this is a moment crystallizing it for me, as the current singular entity republican the republican party, this is an institution whose glass doors were broken. there were gun shots fired outside this chamber. the members had to evacuate in gas masks on january 6th of 2021, when a pro-trump mob stormed the place and as we were discussing before, jim jordan was and jam