Hearing will come to order. I welcome everybody to this hybrid hearing. Both Ranking Member mister heiss and myself have wanted to have hearings resume in person. Especially when we are in session i made a promise to mister heiss that i would fight for that and today is the fruit of that effort i believe when we were in session, to the extent possible, protecting everybodys health and safety, we can and should be meeting like this. At least in hybrid form those members who are not comfortable or who physically cannot join us in the hearing room are more than welcome to join us through the web. We are happy to have them. We ask everybody, when they are not speaking, to wear a mask that is the guidance and the capitol hill position. That is the guidance of the chairwoman of this committee. It protects everybody i really appreciate that cooperation. Let me see. For members appearing remotely, just a few reminders before i get my Opening Statement. House rules require that we see you so pl
Do we ask everyone to turn on their cameras . Were getting ready to get started. The hearing will come to order. I welcome everybody to this hybrid hearing. Both ranks member mr. Hysse and myself have wanted to have hearings resume in person especially when we are in session. I made a promise that i would fight for that, and today is the fruit of that effort. I believe when were in session protecting everybody, those who are not comfortable or physically cannot join us in the hearings room, are more than welcome to join us through web i no noor. We ask everybody when they were not speaking, to wear a mask. I really appreciate that cooperation of for members appears remotely. House rules require that we see you, so police have your cameras turned on at all times during the course of the hearing. If they can let us you can use the chat function to send a request. And if that doesnt work, you can unmute and seek recognition. These arent ideal circumstances, but we are in the midst of a pa
Your excellencies, secretarygeneral, your excellencies, members of the Security Council may the peace, mercy and blessings of god be upon you. I have come to you on behalf of 13 million palestinians to call for justice. For a just peace. That is all. I have come to you today ladies and gentlemen, to reaffirm the palestinian position that rejects the israeliamerican proposal supported by the results of the meeting of the league of arab states and the oic and the a. U. They all concluded that this must be rejected fully in addition to statements issued by the eu, russia, china, japan and other countries around the world. I mention specifically the position of the secretarygeneral of the United Nations that this commitment the to the resolutions. The rejection of this plan is reaffirms or is the result of the unilateral steps and the fact it violates International Legitimacy and the Arab Peace Initiative. And the legitimacy of the palestinian rights to selfdetermination, freedom, and inde
white house is expected to brief shortly and will likely face a lot of questions about hunter biden s art dealer who is right now speaking behind closed doors. that is happening with lawmakers today. the deposition before the house oversight committee is part of a larger investigation into the biden family business dealings. john: they came to hear from the soho gallerist, who has featured things from the first son in at least two shows. we will ask what was learned today coming up. this indictment of the administration s attitude toward public disclosure and toward full transparency. there s just a lot we need to know and frankly, there s a lot that our enemies are noticing about our lackadaisical attitude toward the chain of command. i can t find anyone to tell me what was wrong and how ill he was. was he sedated, was he under was he unconscious. sandra: key questions at this hour as just a short time from flou we will now we will hear from pat ryder, the first br
and countries around the world to address that. post counterisis campaign you know, the active operations when isis was defeated essentially in syria, what we ve seen is isis essentially look to we have been watching a news conference at the pentagon regarding defense secretary lloyd austin. the pentagon said moments ago the defense secretary has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and that was the surgery he had in december and it was why he was back in the hospital for complications late december into the new year. they re explaining why there was a breakdown in communication. why the white house was not informed. saying repeatedly that they have to do better. joining us now from outside the white house is aaron gillcrist. in talking about breakdown and the timeline he have we can put up on the screen e timeline of when he was in the . when he started eing complication when he went back into the ital. january 4th is when they told the white house he was inhe for severe