Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is matt miller. I service the president and ceo here at the national War One Museum immemorial it is my pleasure to welcome you here to what i think its going to be an extraordinary couple of days to thing together and learn at the symposium. We are delighted to be house need networking with so many partners to create yet another, i think, exceptional opportunity for us. Whilst you are here, i hope that you take time to spend some time in the galleries. The special exhibition, piece 1919, certainly fits with this theme and he will enjoy that as well as our main galleries where we are preparing for the opening of a new exhibition this week on the vietnam war, 1945, 1975. That is not open until next weekend so its a teaser for you. But we invite those of you who are able to come back through the next several months 30 memorial day weekend of next year to come back and take in really quite exceptional exhibition that also provides the links and
Political charges. We are here on honor to have the chief of staff of the United States army general james mcconville. I have been lucky to know you for a number of years and we have had you here at brookings and as super prepared to complete the chore as tour as chief of staff, it is a privilege to host you and it is an opportunity to honor you and thank you for your service and i will think everyone asked everyone to join me in a round of applause ask any everyone to join me in a round of applause. [applause] i would like to say more words about this soldier. He has been in uniform for four 46 years if you count all four years at west point and grew up in quincy, massachusetts near another young man, a promising future american named joe dunford. And Amazing Group of visuals an Amazing Group of individuals on that same town in the boston reason and he went to west point and studied science and a master of science degree from georgia technology. He served in Operation Iraqi freedom an
that is testimony from mike pence s former adviser regarding former president donald trump s repeated efforts to get pence to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. we will hear much more of the key moments from yesterday s january 6th hearing, including the vice president s close call with the mob, very close call that day. and the pardon request from the architect of the president s election scheme. plus, new reporting that the house select committee now wants to talk to conservative activist ginni thomas. she is, of course, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, june 17th. along with joe and me, we have white house bureau chief at politico and the host of way to too early, jonathan lemire. washington post s jackie alemany. host of politicians nation and host of the national action network, reverend al sharpton. and nbc legal analyst joyce vance. good morning to everybody. joe, anothe
combatting china. president biden will spend the next days in south korea before heading to japan to meet with leaders there. before returning home to d.c. on tuesday, he ll attend a meeting of the quad leaders. which includes japan, india, and australia. and in ukraine, russian forces are stepping up attacks on the eastern donbas region. at least 12 people were killed and 40 injured after russia unleashed new rounds of shelling in a key city in luhansk. one of the few ukrainian strong holds standing in the way of russia seizing full control of the don bass. the attacks could be a precursor to a larger drawn out battle. president volodymyr zelenskyy called the strikes, quote, brutal and completely pointless. willie. meanwhile, the u.k. ministry of defense has released new information reporting the battle for mariupol has left the russian military weakened. the fierce fighting against ukrainian troops who held out inside of that steel plant has depleted russia s ranks and re
[background noises] [inaudible conversations] the subcommittee on oversight will come to order. The subcommittee on oversight will come to order. Without objection the chair may declare a racist at any time. Also that objection the meeting record will remain open for five legislative days so members may submit any materials they wish to be included therein. Thank you Ranking Member tours, members of the subcommittee are courageous whistleblowers for joining us for todays oversight hearing. These whistleblowers are coming forward today to share for the first time under oath, the firsthand account related to National Guard deployment on generous six. None of todays whistleblowers were interviewed under oath by the department of defense Inspector General or the select committee. Generate sixth, 2021 highlight a culmination of failures at many levels. For todays hearing we are examining the department of defense d. C. National guards response to the violent breach of the capitol. So we wil