Document. it is calling for a so-called offensive information campaign against a, quote, coalition of unfriendly countries. in order to stoke anti-ukraine sentiment, quote, kremlin linked political strategists and trolls have written thousands of fabricated news articles, social media posts, and comments that promote american isolationism, stir fear over the united states is border security, and attempt to amplify u.s. economic and racial tensions. now, here s the thing. republican lawmakers are actually falling for it, and amid the battle over wartime aid, some members of the house gop have been turning on their own colleagues. gop congressman michael mccall, head of the house foreign affairs committee, said in an interview with puck news, quote, russian propaganda has made its way into the united states, and it is infected a good chunk of my party s base. republican congressman mike turner, the house intelligence committee chair, added to the course and watch. we see directly coming from
Republicans of turning what is usually a bipartisan bill into a culture war. the legislation is now headed to the senate where it is certainly expected to fail. here is what house speaker kevin mccarthy had to say about that. just focus on the military. stop using taxpayer money to do their own wokism. a military cannot defend themselves if you train them in woke. we don t want disneyland to train our military. we want our men and women in the military to have every defense possible, and that s what the bill does. the money focuses directly on their quality of life and, more importantly, on the investment. now, republicans are specifically defending an amendment passed in the house s annual defense spending bill last week that blocks the pentagon from covering the expenses for women in the military who need to travel out of state to have an abortion procedure. here is what republican senator tom cotton of arkansas, as well as congressman michael mccall of
Principals. that a war of aggression and territorial conquest is never, ever acceptable. reporter: all right. well, also before he arrived in new york to attend this security council meeting, sergey love l lavrov was absolutely critical of the united states not to delegate everybody in his party a visa. a pair of journalists were denied a visa to travel alongside sergey lavrov. he said that was unforgivable. he would not forgive, and he would not forget, threatening unspecified consequences in response. ginning us now the republican congressman michael mccall of texas. mr. chairman, thanks for joining us. i want to start with this worsening violence in sudan right now. we just heard kylie atwood break
And in fact, when asked a question at the news conference, kevin mccarthy pointedly rebutted the questioner s presumption that the white house and president biden disagreed with the arms plan that they were announcing yesterday to send more weapons to taiwan. he said he disagreed with the presumption of the question, that s not what he s hearing from the white house and, courtney, what is the reaction there so, everyone here is still waiting to see what the chinese reaction is going to be to this meeting with the speaker of the house kevin mccarthy yesterday in l.a. and to this delegation that is here now there is a bipartisan delegation here as well, led by congressman michael mccall, he s the chair of the house foreign affairs committee, notably they are the ones who deal with foreign military sales so the weapons that the u.s. is selling and approving to come here to taiwan, he s the head of that committee but as andrea mentioned, so far this is what we have seen and heard out of china has not been
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