attacking mariupol. lloyd austin and secretary of state anthony blinken are set to visit the region today, according to the ukrainian president. another hour of velshi begins right now. good morning to you, it is sunday, april the 24th. it is day 60 of russia s unprovoked invasion of ukraine. i m ali velshi, live in new york city. 4700 miles away, in kyiv, ukraine, the united states defense secretary lloyd austin and the u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken are set to be the highest ranking american officials to visit the country since the start of the war 60 days ago. that is according to the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelenskyy, who announced his visit. it s not been confirmed by american officials. so lewinsky says he plans to discuss, quote, the military assistance we need, and quote, with the u.s. officials. then, secretary austin is heading to germany for pronounced meetings on ukraine with foreign counterparts. today s orthodox easter sunday, the holiest day for
but obama wants to take yours, as in obama wants to take your gun. maybe you could elaborate on that subtitle and tell us what you mean and what evidence there is to show that obama wants to take my gun or the gun owned by someone in the audience? request well, in 1996 president obama said that in a questionnaire when he was first running for office if he wanted to ban in 1996 president obama said in a questionnaire when he was first running for office if you want to ban all handguns and he said yes. he expanded on that four years ago four years later when he was running for statewide office and said although it might not feasible with the principle still support banning all handguns then as recently as 2012 after the horrendous tragedy in newtown president obama and mike bloomberg who funds the bloomberg school which daniel works for came out within the solemn same day and said we should start banning rifles. so when they start talking about banning rifles and bannin
systemility, the questioned how the benefit the responsen that the american legion told me from the staff at the baltimore facility was that there was the v.a. way of doing things and then there was the baltimore way of doing things and we are doing at the baltimore way. that is a concern that i have. even though the secretary might say this is the way it is systemwide, you have different regions doing things differently because that is weighted the way they have always done that. it gets back to the metrics. think that definitely needs to be looked at. what other performance measures and metrics. i think regions and facilities may be different. there may need to be some flexibility based on what you need to achieve at that facility. thank you. i yield back. i thought i was supposed to yield back. [laughter] i yield back to you. i yield back. any further statements? ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your interest. thank you for appearing. the subpoena will n
most cases are going to plead. i find it strange that the cooperation was the one that was totally dropped. let me ask one that is not in here that i think ought to be considered. that is age of the offender. nowhere in these guidelines does it talk about age of the offender. i think that is one of our biggest problems. an 18-year-old or a 19-year-old is quite different from a 23-year-old or a 30-year-old is tremendously different, his judgment. particularly, i have five children, and the boys mature a little later, in most cases. i hope i do not hear about that. but i can say my 18-year-old at 30, after four years in the marines, had much better judgment. anybody want to comment on whether we ought to take that into consideration? yes, i will. i absolutely agree. and i think most states are moving in that direction, where they are reintroducing age as an important factor in a particularly in you talk about when you talk about drug conspiracies. these kingpins look fo
and a fascinating mystery. how does $20 billion get lost from a nation s treasure. that is what is being alleged by the head of the central bank of an oil rich african country. $20 billion that has not come back. the result, he gets suspended from his job. i will ask the country s finance minister to explain what s going on. then, the olympics reminded us of the agony of defeat. but is failure actually good for you? that s what a new book says. i will talk to its author. first, here s my take. the crisis in ukraine was produced by two sets of blunders. neither emanating from washington. the european union s vassilations and most significantly, of course, russia s aggression produced the problem. but it will now be up to president obama to show the strength and skill to resolve it. for years now, the european union has had an ambivalent attitude towards ukraine which produced instability in that country and opposition from russia. ukraine is the most important country in t