There is a good deal of complicated scheduling going on in the senate, which is particularly busy right now. So we may or may not be joined by Ranking Member, kennedy, i see as other obligations. But ive been cleared by his team to proceed with the hearing, if you can make it here i will give him the chance to make an Opening Statement at a convenient juncture. But, in the meantime, the witnesses are ready and im cleared to proceed. So we will go forward. Two weeks ago, in a speech to the american law institute, chief justice, roberts, said he wanted to assure people he was committed to making certain that the Supreme Court would adhere to the highest standards of conduct, more important, the chief justice acknowledged the court has more to do, that justices are continuing to look at things they can do to give practical effect to that ethics commitment, and that he is confident that there are ways to do that. Ways to do more. The chief justice is right. There are plenty of ways. The co
Possibly happen. And suddenly, bang, what an aboutface. Although the family are clearly celebrating, and i havent spoken to them in the last half hour, i imagine because theyre on the way to the border to meet natalie and judith. They havent got time to talk to me. What you know . What a moment. But i just need to emphasize its not over for this family. Theres they have i mean, i didnt know this, but while my family also buried somebody who was killed in that attack, october 7, that guy was killed and buried today, his wife is now still a hostage in gaza, so its another hostage and its not only my family. Its every family involved, because its such a tiny country, one or two degrees of separation, and everybody who was caught up in that attack was from a certain kind of people, if you like, people who settled on the border with gaza, mostly farmers or working locally, a certain kind of person answered the call from the Israeli Government in 1967 when the government said, go settle arou
Were clearly journalists here, we have our cameras and everything, and they were still firing towards us, so this has not stopped yet, and people are still angry, of course, yeah, its quite intense to see their anger and for them to come out, uh, but uh, on the negative side of things for the way that these Security Forces handled them and uh, incurred some injuries on them, that is the unfortunate side of what were saying, uh, looking at the bright side of things, i dont know if you agree or not, obviously it highlights the fact that uh are rising up uh around the world on the civilian side of things in terms of uh residence of countries like in uh beirots which is probably in a more heightend state of awareness um and more compassion if we can say that because of obviously the presence of hezbollah and the way they feel about palestinians but this will highlight what is going on which is nothing short but massacre and war crime um this particular protest seems to have take many by su
Secretary of state Antony Blinken making that big announcement from israel. He announced that President Biden is coming to israel on wednesday. He said this which itself could be a very big deal. The United States and israel have agreed to develop a plan that will enable aid from multilateral organizations to reach civilians in gaza and them alone, including the possibility of creating areas to help keep civilians out of harms way. To have the u. S. President heading there himself and then to have what Secretary Blinken just announced. The u. S. Government announcing they have a plan with israel to get aid into gaza. These are very big developments. Well be talking going what this could mean for the course of this war. For israel, for hamas, for civilians in gaza who have been put in such an impossible situation. Well be talking about the potential riskiness of the president s Mission Abroad and what his mission might be able to change. Might be able to shake loose in terms of diplomat
Theres a ton to get to. On israelhamas, this is huge Breaking News within the past hour, that President Biden himself will travel to israel The Day After Tomorrow on wednesday. Secretary of state Antony Blinken making that big announcement from israel. He announced that President Biden is coming to israel on wednesday. He said this which itself could be a very big deal. The United States and israel have agreed to develop a plan that will enable aid from multilateral organizations to reach civilians in gaza and them alone, including the possibility of creating areas to help keep civilians out of harms way. To have the u. S. President heading there himself and then to have what Secretary Blinken just announced. The u. S. Government announcing they have a plan with israel to get aid into gaza. These are very big developments. Well be talking going what this could mean for the course of this war. For israel, for hamas, for civilians in gaza who have been put in such an impossible situation