[applaus [applause]. Thank you all very much. Thank you. Thank you. Jay, thanks for the nice introduction and ed macer, thanks for the kindness youve shown to me and my family. This is my First City Club without paul green and i miss him, we all do, a fantastic person and great resource and all the had a little jab for every speaker with the tough question, i looked forward to it and im sure you will in his tradition make sure i face the music, too. And donna is one of my faves. And i remember saying would you go to a cubs game with me because she wears cubs earring and we went to opening day, you never know what to expect. Well, it was a snowstorm and we ended up in the box and we were there with Billy Williams and she got her picture taken and i was sitting there watching the game and look around, darned if she wasnt weighting on everybo everybody waiting on everybody in the box. You dont have to do that, youre a guest. And as i told the people at the table, with your permission, she
Government. Coequal. Our president is not above the law. Justice serves the people. It doesnt protect the powerful. Justice is blind. What we saw yesterday in plain view, was another violation of this nation. Not only do we see the failure to protect one of the three branchs of government, but we saw a clear failure to carry out equal justice. They used to say in the senate excuse a point of personal privilege. An hour and a half after the chaos started i got a text from my granddaughter who is a senior in her last semester at university of pennsylvania. She sent me a photo of military people in full military gear. Scores of them lining the front of the lincoln memorial. No one can tell me that if that had been a group of black lives matter Group Protesting yesterday that they would not have been treating very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the capital. We all knee is true. It is totally unacceptable. The American People stay in plain view. I hope it sensitized ev
Lets see, i think it has gone from one extreme to the other. We are going to get started if you can hear me. Okay . All right, on september 14th, ukrainian president Vladimir Zelenskyy walked into a can only be described as on earth it was just days after Ukrainian Forces recaptured the city of is e president elect he wanted to assess the damage personally the once picturesque riverside city was now unrecognizable mass graves were filled with hundreds of unidentified bodies, including children. Bodies with crushed skulls. Victims hands tied behind their backs. Faces mutilated beyond recognition. Many showing signs of torture. It was the same sickening scene we saw in bucha, and other towns that have been, socalled, liberated from Russian Forces. We must not look away. We must face this squarely. We must bear witness to these heinous acts. This is why we have images of these crimes around the hearing room today. I met with ukrainian prosecutor, general andrej costa last week. He told me
Lets see, i think it has gone from one extreme to the other. We are going to get started if you can hear me. Okay . All right, on september 14th, ukrainian president Vladimir Zelenskyy walked into a can only be described as on earth it was just days after Ukrainian Forces recaptured the city of is e president elect he wanted to assess the damage personally the once picturesque riverside city was now unrecognizable mass graves were filled with hundreds of unidentified bodies, including children. Bodies with crushed skulls. Victims hands tied behind their backs. Faces mutilated beyond recognition. Many showing signs of torture. It was the same sickening scene we saw in bucha, and other towns that have been, socalled, liberated from Russian Forces. We must not look away. We must face this squarely. We must bear witness to these heinous acts. This is why we have images of these crimes around the hearing room today. I met with ukrainian prosecutor, general andrej costa last week. He told me
The meaning of the Senate Judiciary committee will come to order. Are we having audio issues . Yes. Sit tight for a minute. [inaudible] andre r. If this better . Lets see, i think it has gone from one extreme to the other. We are going to get started if you can hear me. Okay . All right, on september 14th, ukrainian president Vladimir Zelenskyy walked into a can only be described as on earth it was just days after Ukrainian Forces recaptured the city of is e president elect he wanted to assess the damage personally the once picturesque riverside city was now unrecognizable mass graves were filled with hundreds of unidentified bodies, including children. Bodies with crushed skulls. Victims hands tied behind their backs. Faces mutilated beyond recognition. Many showing signs of torture. It was the same sickening scene we saw in bucha, and other towns that have been, socalled, liberated from Russian Forces. We must not look away. We must face this squarely. We must bear witness to these h