Gentleman from florida. Mr. Diazbalart madam chairwoman, thank you so much. I am proud to speak on the fiscal year 2024 department of state, foreign operations, and related programs appropriations bill for Floor Consideration today. Anybody who has read the bill you know that its pretty straightforward. If you are a friend, an alley of the United States an ally of the United States, this bill supports you. But if you are an adversary or cozying up to the adversaries of the United States, frankly, you are just not going to like this bill. I am extremely proud of this legislation which was carefully and thoughtfully developed over many, many months. In my judgment, it reflects the values and interests of most americans. We carefully reviewed all the organizations and programs that receive u. S. Taxpayer dollars in this bill. Among the key factors, let be be very blunt, its whether investments advance our National Security interests. Whether they can samoa demonstrated results can show de
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the spe speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. September 28, 2023. I hereby appoint the honorable Glenn Thompson to act as speaker pro tempore on the day. Signed, kevin mccarthy, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by chaplain kibben. The chaplain would you pray with me . Let all who believe in you, o god, offer their supplications, their prairks their intersessions and their thanksgivings on behalf of our leaders and all who serve in positions of authority. Let us each pause to take advantage of the privilege you have given us to pray for the men and women of this congress. Lay on us the American People, the awareness of our responsibility to raise our voices, not to condemn or cajole, but to pray to you, that you would intercede for our lawmaker, and to give thanks to you, showing our deeper gratitude for th
bbc verify has geolocated the video to here. the north east edge of the al shifa hospital complex. we can see what looks like a muzzle, which we think is the muzzle of a dog that the israeli military lowered down into a tunnel with a camera. this is the footage they got back. as the camera moves along the tunnel, it looks very similar to this hamas tunnel, filmed by the bbc back in 2014. at the end it is what the idf says is a blast proof door with a firing hole in it. we have asked the idf if they ve managed to get through the door yet but haven t had an answer. the idf has also released what they say is cctv footage from al shifa on october 7th showing hostages taken from southern israel. you can see a person in blue shorts there who seems to be dragged in against his will. and then these three men we have circled have guns. the video then moves further inside the hospital where you can see an injured person on a trolley whose face has been blurred by the idf. bbc verify ha
former president trump back on the campaign trail in new hampshire and once again he is praising dictators around the world. listen to how he characterized chinese later on xi jinping earlier today. president xi is like central casting. there is nobody in hollywood that can play the role of president xi. the look, the strength, the voice. it s good to have a good relationship with putin and xi. they have lots of good reopens. and kim jong-un. the former president showing some confusion over who is the current president. the head of hungary, a very tough, strong guy. victor orban. they were interviewing him two weeks ago and they said what would you advise president obama? the whole world seems to be exploding? trump tipped his attacks on special counsel jack smith, talking about smith s wife and family. the former president repeated his accusations that smith is deranged and a trump-hating prosecutor, tipping his wife and family despise me much more than he does. turn
welcome to the beat: weekend. i m ari melber. let s get to the headlines. we begin with breaking news today out of the spring court and is feeling concerns about the increasing partisanship, credibility crises, and corruption on display in this court. let me tell you what s going on. conservatives now reversing one of the only measures for gun safety that was actually passed and the recent era, and again you can put all politics to the side, as a measure of how extreme the support supreme court is today with his ruling. this was one of the things that got through the broken, hyper partisan washington we hear so much about. it even had centrists and moderate and republican support to try to deal with one part of our gun crisis in america. today the court reversed a ban on something called bump stocks . and the opinion was 6-3 meaning the conservatives and all three trump justices are making it easier to get deadly weapons in america. the other three justices from democratic