i'm sure that we will have normal relations with russia russia have a right to be sure. he's its. borders will be in their will not to bring is a straight forward for them and in today's situation we should take this into account because the world have been changed a lot and very seriously and i'm absolutely sure that if georgia wants to restore territorial integrity of georgia wants to be a. normal country and to develop the normal way georgia should be clear. georgia should not be member of nato first of all nobody will just allow georgia to be a member of nato when we have a two and solve conflicts one we have two russian military bases this is paul policy and they're very sad that today's georgian government they continue with this illusory declaration of sending georgian membership in nato and they are not brave enough to begin that dialogue and communication with the russian president and with russia to be for georgia nato membership is not acceptable either let me also ask you about crimea heard you say that you believe. crimea is a closed file for russia that it

with russia but we have to remember israel has the border with syria russia does not have a border with syria and if you are an army serviceman that from the israeli side you hear russian military on the army radio so there is a big question what is the russian is doing there i don't think every military operation that israel will have to conduct in order to protect itself and of prevailing previously heard it was decided in the meantime on the behalf of the syrian government we need to point out of course that on behalf of the government russia is there in the country. yes and that by itself would we were talking about the relationship between the two countries russia giving. russia didn't give one defense system to the syrians but they give a whole lot of others and i don't think it'll make israelis say will the russians are playing unfair we do understand that russia has its own interests and like we heard before russia is trying to be ok with all the sides and that's very very difficult very delicate work that has to be done there but i don't think israel can always tell every singl

confrontation with russia. but for us there's no contradiction between being firm, strong in our approach to russia as we are but at the same time seeking dialogue and try to reduce tensions with russia because russia would not go away. russia will remain our biggest neighbor and i know very well politician coming from norway, a small country bordering russia that it is possible to have a firm, predictable approach to russia but at the same time work with dialogue with russia, even during the coldest periods of the cold war, norway was able to have a working relationship with russia on defense and security issues. our military speak regularly with russian military up in the north. on energy and environment, we agree the borderline but that was not despite nato, despite norway's membership in nato but it was because of nato's membership in nato because the nato membership provided the strength and the platform to engage with russia. so i say this because we will all be losers if we move to cold war and arm's rac

we have had vladimir putin dominating russia, representing russia and guiding russia for a quarter of a century. he and will be in power until 202a. that would be a quarter. that‘s right. then, according to the constitution, he cannot run again. after everything we‘ve discussed in this interview, do you think russia after putin can continue with this mix of aggressive nationalist policies which have so soured the relationships we‘ve discussed in the course of this interview, or does russia need to go in a new, different direction? i think during the next six years and after, russia will pursue open policies, will work with all the partners who want to be on the same basis, rule of law, international rule of law inclusive. russia wants to pursue the policies that will feed russian people, russian population, increase the quality of life, raise talents, conduct in a way of policies and build institutions that are sustainable for the future. answer my question, does russia need a change of direction? we will welcome our partners to work with us together. i think on both sides, we n

for example given all the reasons for russia and china to be poles at kohls. military cooperation then today's action by the united states is a major boost in that direction definitely china will not step down china i think will have all the moral reasons to increase its military cooperation with russia and possible even important more airplanes and and high missile system sanctions by the united states against the chinese military will further review the incentive on the chinese product to improve its relations with these states and i think eventually turned on me completely this recopy that the states. much touted promote program was supposed to be the biggest women support initiative in afghanistan but according to a report by washington watchdog but i'm not a failure hundreds of millions of dollars of u.s. taxpayer money was spent the goals were huge but in reality only a few dozen women well. i mean. since two thousand and one the door has been reopened for afghan women they joined the police the army and entered politics and together we can help women an

could affect relations between russia and israel. whatever side you ask no one's guilty culpable or liable everyone blames someone outs israel holds the assad regime whose military shot down the russian plane fully responsible for this incident israel also holds iran and hezbollah a terrorist organization accountable for this unfortunate incident this regrettable incident is the result of the usual israeli impudence and rodimus who always use the filthiest means to achieve their unsavory goals and enact their hostility in our region was that the syrians who launched a missile while fending off a surprise on their country was at the arena and his by law who apparently had an arms factory that just had to be bombed or was it the israelis who reportedly hid behind russian aircraft because presented objective data testify that the actions of israeli fighter pilots which led to the loss of life of fifteen russian servicemen either a lack professionalism were an act of criminal negligence to say the least. russia holds israel responsible t

russia is country with. very serious strengths in the region and we have lots of problems with the russian federation so but these were important from my point of view we have to discuss these issues and problems ways of russia when you have problems you have to discuss and only the people are calling me a suppression politician but was out a day or so you are here on your show russia as much as you're willing to talk to russia i want to speak with russia i want to find solution was the russian and georgian no problems i want to go establish friendly relations with russia because i'm sure that this is important for my country let me ask you specifically about friendly relations because the political relationship between the two countries is still very tenuous but this year we have witnessed a significant increase in bilateral trade and in tourism the number of russians visiting your country so far this year has exceeded a million and that's from what i understand. a quarter more than last year so it seems th

notified israel when israel bombed syria russia never shot down. an israeli jet saw missiles even when they posed a danger to russian personnel at israel's request russia tore up a deal to sell syria s three hundred ad defense systems which would have made israeli air raids much more difficult a war. israel expressed its concerns as soon as the s three hundred deal with syria was signed. israel concluded that with these new air defense systems syria would have been able to cover all of israel's airspace that means that damascus could have shut down israeli military planes just seconds after takeoff the israeli said they cannot let that happen they expressed their alarm and asked moscow to break the deal russia's answered israel's concerns by first suspending the contract and then withdrawing from it completely and returning four hundred million dollars that it already received from the syrian government. russia helped broker a deal to keep iranian and hezbollah forces in syria away from the golan heights from the israeli border at israel's request

russia to limit. the west when it criticizes russia is not big but they haven't. basically tried to undermine russian self-esteem and i think russia has looked at us we have our own problems we have our own disputes we have to deal with for example gender equality we have to deal with the way we treat option the really really old. particularly the way we treat homosexuals because i think for homosexuals there is still a very big future about being russian and it shouldn't be that way but it's not my place and it's not the west good place to lecture russia about these things well i know you're very reluctant to criticize russia openly but you just mentioned this attitude towards the community and if you actually look at the polls you will see that russians by and large. homophobic they for example if you ask people do you mind homosexual couple living in the apartment next door to you they would usually say the majority would say no i don't care and yet in the political. environment these days you hear a lot about the traditional values the patriarchy and so on and

and europe and russia and the united states and sanctions on russia that's really pushed russians in particular to look further east something they've done reluctantly gradually over time and the chinese have welcomed that but again there's also been a lot of mutual suspicion from the chinese side as well so what we're really seeing is jus a political circumstances driving these two political leaders to move their countries closer together and a lot of that has started with top level political rhetoric and language lots of leader level meetings but step by step it is being underpinned by initiatives the two have agreed for example after a lot of debate and concern that there are two eurasian economic union and the silk road economic belt initiatives in central asia they would try to make them cooperate and work together we've seen increasing cooperation and investment into through central asia and particularly building on the energy relationship and then from china's perspective the military cooperation is very important not only in this kind of exercise in training but also in chine

and russia separated. these comments can be added to a very long list of ways the president has gone out of his way to cozy up to putin. i wish this resolution work necessary but here we are 60 days after the helsinki summit and we still don't know what president trump said or committed to. we area coequal branch of government . indeed, in theconstitution, we are the first article. the executive is the second . it is time that we take off our red hats for our blue hat and put on our red white and blue hats. as fellow americans and members of congress, we have a responsibility to do our job. let's get answers. let's pass positively this resolution. thank you and i yield back. >> thank you. we go to lewis frankel of florida's thank you mister chair and i urge the support of this resolution by my colleague that directs the trump administration to send the house copies of all documents and communications between trump and putin during the helsinki summit. the american people deserve to know the truth of what w

russia helped. goes from there is is what remains to be seen. the world anti-doping agency voted in the week to reinstate russia's anti drug body thursday a decision ended in a three year suspension for alleged state sponsored doping. the great majority of the world anti-doping agency's executive committee decided to reinstate the russian anti doping agency and is compliant with the world anti-doping code one hundred given russia a list of commitments to be reinstated one point was access to data and samples stored in a moscow lab russia's agreement to do that it seems was enough for one furthermore the main sticking point had been that report by the canadian dr richard mclaren which alleged that russia run a state sponsored doping scheme the list called for it to acknowledge complicity in the doping moscow denies such a program ever exist but in a letter to russia's sports minister admitted that there were issues when the country's anti-doping agency the reinstatement was widely met with dissent though as a sports correspondent jeff ski reports

russia's s. three hundred the air defense system that's russia has held off from supplying to the syrian military until now. within two weeks a modern surface to air missile system the s three hundred will be handed over it's capable of intercepting air assault weapons on a range of more than two hundred fifty kilometers and at the same time can hit multiple aerial targets having an advanced facility and high fire rate the system will strengthen syrian air defense combat capabilities significantly defense minister sure you gave little doubt why the russians have changed their position but you're going there digital has them going to let me make a point at the request of the israeli side and twenty thirteen we halted delivery of the s three hundred which was ready to be shipped to syria while syrian service personnel were given appropriate training today the situation has changed not by our fault the defense ministry holds israel responsible for the deaths of fifteen military personnel a week ago

russia russia means no i agree and i think that this this replacement of facts with this emotional rhetoric kind of demonstrate that in the obviously building this case anything but pure evidence i guess overall i would be a bit concerned about the state of journalism as you opened up with because. this is just emotional rhetoric about every time they do put forward evidence we often find that you should this new evidence. but also several occasions we see that it's been disproven be it that the for example russia hacked the electric grids or the voting booth but what happens after these journalists obviously got a completely wrong. or very early start yeah but i'm not a journalist. accountable are the new selfless how we can get people been fired ok c.n.n. fired a couple of people but overall the recall the rush overall i think. it's this sense they get a lot of their clicks and at the end of the their efforts in terms of mobilizing international opinion construction of steel succeeded and trump yeah mark you know first of all i want to equate us to march for fox there was i don't want to

russia's s. three hundred the air defense system that's russia has held off from supplying to the syrian military until now. within two weeks a modern surface to air missile system the s three hundred will be handed over it's capable of intercepting air assault weapons on a range of more than two hundred fifty kilometers and at the same time can hit multiple aerial targets having an advanced facility and high fire rate the system will strengthen syrian air defense combat capabilities significantly defense minister sure you gave little doubt why the russians have changed their position but you're cool it is you that has them going to let me make a point at the request of the israeli side and twenty thirteen we halted delivery of the s three hundred which was ready to be shipped to syria while syrian service personnel were given appropriate training today the situation has changed not by our fault the defense ministry holds israel responsible for the deaths of fifteen military personnel a week ago

russia and the united states have access to sites in russia. we have a hologram system so we can cap the war has and what they can do. we can catch them and they can catch us. if we insisted at the table with the iranians, we have a treaty on nuclear weapons, with russia, the two largest nuclear powers in the world, we want to put those verifications in our agreement with iran. we want to come in and expect yours. it was the perfect predicate to do that. secretary kerry decided not to but it would have been a great way. when you get worried about compromising your future by talking about what you might get not like it, do you run the risk of letting them think they can get out from under responsibility and they would be more willing to take it manage of it than we would. point, both of you asked this question. when the vice president announced the space force and the president announced the space force, and experiment stations the russians have done, the defensive nature but potentially offensive, would you equalize the space force enthusiasm y

has to offer they were designed with the intention of russia selling them abroad so now with russia being one of washington's main competitors when it comes to arms exports well it just looks like that one washington is targeting these particular areas of russia's economy what it is really doing is just trying to squeeze one of its main contenders out of the market especially if you take into consideration what previously had been said by the state department you know it goes against our policy to have a nato ally such as turkey use an asse four hundred system part of the problem with that it is that it is not in iraq robel with other nato systems and so we are against the having some of our partners and allies around the world potentially purchase us for hundreds it would trigger carrots is not going to get into that but we have made very clear what could trigger sanctions for other countries and entities around the world now the united states insists that china just happened to be sorting this pleasure damaged on that it was not the target of these new sanctions while beijing as w

russia trying to lure china closer to its and since twenty fourteen the least but russia has always been ego on on sort of forcing this alliance china was usually very reluctant to do so because it's all russia's being too images and of too cui cricket so if proactive now it is a signal that the can also go with the russians on weekends it is. false that these days of the discontent ones which is of course a message to washington and coalition of the discontent in the past these drills is important you know they were seen as preparation for possible confrontation with china but now for the first time chinese troops are taking part in them and this is a major rule change in which to keep that in mind while we take a look at what the head of russia's national guard had to say he's a staunch putin supporter and this is what he had to say about putin's outspoken critic alexian of all these take a listen. i would poor you know connie i want to understand who you are where you come from and why you are clearly the product of an american test tube but you still it is clear that they have s

and russia over the poisoning of a former spy. hello from doha everyone i'm come on santa maria with the world news from al-jazeera it is the question on everyone's lips in washington who is the senior administration official who turned on trial in the pages of the new york times also the ugandan opposition leader bobby wine takes his fight against his country's government to washington d.c. and rebuilding syria will top the agenda when leaders from iran russia and turkey meet in just twenty four hours. or. so there's been a united nations security council meeting to discuss the nerve agent attack against a former russian spy and his daughter the attack that took place in the u.k. six months ago bridgend called for the meeting after challenging two russians with the attempted murder of scriptural and his daughter yulia insoles vary the russian government continues to deny any involvement in the case let's start with our diplomatic editor james space has been following events in new york james talk us through what's happened. well

bad fantasies about russia the real russia is not what we're being told about. i want to go and i want to see what it's like and my process of disenchantment from the western propaganda machine against russia it really began pretty much in interest thousand and fourteen with the events in ukraine and the way in which they were being reported now i hope we will go into the ukrainian events a little bit later on into the program but. you mentioned the this negative image of russia and russia is definitely no other easy country it's a very complex society is that sometimes a very contorted country and i think we the russians are the first to you know and experience that and i think that actually goes to the very notion of russian patriotism it's loving russia is it's a bit like caring for the disabled loved one you know the disability you hate them but you love the person all the more because of that and that is actually i think the most moving part of your book for me that you accept disability rather than the typical western scolding that russia is not good enoug

all to cover the world anti-doping agency reinstates russia is. a major step toward seeing many of the countries. competing on the world stage. the confirmation hearing for president gerald ford stagnates. with brett kavanaugh proving to be one of america's most divisive nominees ever. with the big stories from the past seven days on right up to the moment. well this is the weekly on r t international law and welcome. russian military plane on monday night's off the syrian coast the blame game has been intensifying between the main parties directly or in directly involved in the incident our senior correspondent the of breaks down the mouth it's a bad really bad situation there's the tragedy fifteen people dead to friendly fire . and then there's the fallout everyone's blaming everyone i meet on the jets deliberately created a dangerous situation for the war ships and aircraft located in that area while it may have been a syrian missile that down the plane it was israel that set the stage says russia israel bomb syria again the syrians defend them

bad fantasies about russia the real russia is not what we're being told about. i want to go and i want to see what it's like and my process of disenchantment from the western propaganda machine against russia it really began pretty much in interest thousand and fourteen with the events in ukraine and the way in which they were being reported now i hope we will go into the ukrainian events a little bit later on into the program but. you mentioned the this negative image of russia and russia is definitely not an easy country it's a very complex society it's sometimes a very contorted country and i think we the russians are the first to you know and experience that and i think that actually goes to the very notion of russian patriotism its lobbying russia is it's a bit like caring for the disabled loved one you know the disability you hate them but you love the person all the more because of that and that is actually i think the most moving part of your book for me that you accept disability rather than the typical western scolding that russia is not good enough bu

russia are back in the game. the world anti—doping agency voted today to lift the suspension of russia's anti—doping agency. it ends their three—year suspension which followed a major doping scandal. leading athletes and anti—doping bodies had opposed the move but at an executive meeting in the seychelles earlier today wada decided russia would be re—instated on the proviso that they met certain conditions set out by them. dan roan our sports editor has been following this story for us. dan, how surprised are you by what happened today? i wasn't surprised because it was coming. ever since the compliance review committee at wada recommended this decision was taken, it has been on the cards. it is unquestionably one of the most controversial decisions it has made. it is in defiance of an unprecedented outcry of athletes in the west and senior figures in anti—doping and uk sport as well, all of whom were asking at the very least for a postponement of this decision. the reason for that is twofold. one is

from russia. cctv and other evidence records their travel to and from salisbury and crucially there are images which clearly place them in the vicinity of the skripal house at 11:58 a.m. on sunday, the 4th of march. this was moments before the attack took place, which involved placing the substance on the skripals' frontdoor handle. madam president, should any council wish, we can share copies those images. further, testing of the hotel revealed the presence of traces of the novichok substance in their hotel room. based on the thorough analysis of our intelligence, the u.k. government has concluded that the two individuals named by the police investigation are in fact officers from the russian military intelligence service, also known as the g.r.u. this is a body of the russian state. madam president, we previously, when we briefed the council before, atrnted -- attributed responsibility to russia on the basis of technical means, operational experience, and i recall the case of litvinenko here, an

turkey and russia will both patrol this territory to ensure compliance. the gist of it is getting radical islamists al-qaeda in syria for one away from the front lines withdrawing heavy weapons artillery tanks to make sure the fingers don't spark anymore escalations opening up the routes allowing travel through contested territories for civilians and russian turkish troops would oversee it all patrol this demilitarized zone but there are concerns the initials abortions to the future of a main concern is that the militants pose a threat to lepper province the city of aleppo and to military compounds in syria tartus and may mean the problem is the hardest who are bent on spoiling any peace effort they have everything to lose if it falls it will mark the end of the syrian war their final defeat assad knows it wouldn't be easy or clean it seems to be for this deal it looks like the military operation has been shelved for now probably draws the best military and diplomatic solution to the the decision is very important indeed be worth was looking for a militar

and russia out all day over al-qaeda affiliates there on the anniversary of the nine eleven attacks. coexistence with maybe you want it to but i'm going to disappoint you i'm sure we will achieve results. now it looks like history might repeat itself but we can only hope for the best and look forward to a liberated terrorist free syria ok breaking developments at the u.n. security council thank you very much similar account in washington d.c. . russia's military also say's terrorists have started their final preparations for a possible faults flying attack r t w hawkins join kevin on earlier in the studio to discuss the developments. about accusations and counter-accusations the russian m o d has been warning about this for quite some time today we've got news coming in from the russian reconciliation center in syria that things are actually on the move according to them camera crews are on site in the ad lib in the town of jews that should good of their filming this alleged incident a false flag operation according to the russians at least based on intelligence from residents from l

you know russia reserve totally different situation russia is a superpower in the world so i think that this latest development just the might at least for a certain time might push his world to quiet down it's a pretty in syria what we've seen recently from israel in is the escalation against what some what it calls iran and iranian backed forces in syria we have seen such escalation in israeli strikes and what happened today i think a might put the brake on the israelis for the time being because as i said now it involves russia and i don't think that it will be in israel's interest and in any way whatsoever to you know enter into some kind of escalation with the russians either. and speaking of escalation of course up until recently up until today russia israel had managed to avoid any direct confrontations any such incidents in syria despite them having very polar starts is on our side on the syrian civil war now that that plane has come down now that lives have been lost and there is a direct involvement here do you think that's going to change somehow that interaction on syria. we

public criticism of russia put its policy in syria for example when it was in. that province because at the same time because at the same time turkey had this all of branch operation not syria we're also going. smoothly it went so also with the collateral damage and with. civilians it's so it's kind of tit for tat and i want to say that indications that erdogan is quite critical of syrian regime and bashar lots of it doesn't mean that he blames russia for that and also doesn't mean that he supports russia on its policies well alexi we have to take a very short break now but he will be back in just a few moments stay tuned. you accuse russia of launching such an attack. i think it's quite unrealistic scenario. and i would have said you think it's unrealistic and yet apparently on the turkish media there are already some fears that i being broadcast on to a large audience of russians supposedly preparing something like that i think that would go i mean if that happens there was a position that will go way beyond a current. kind of constellation of powers in the re

by russia, actually. according to tech crunch, the event at facebook deleted had been taken over by a handful of real d.c. activist groups. they included black lives matter, black lives matter charlottesville and other local groups so this left many of them really disgruntled and really feeling badly let down by facebook. one of the organizers was quoted by one of the tech magazines as saying it's really -- so if me of us knew, as many of my colleagues have said, no. but this is following the soviet playbook, the kgb, for example, is very, very well known that it tried to pose itself as a member of the kkk at one point. it also fabricated evidence that linked the cia to the assassination of john f. kennedy. it wasn't just ted cruz's father. it passed the material off to n unwitting conspiracy theorists in the united states. what the soviets did, a letter from low harvey oswald to a very little known cia operative. so, and the letter sate, any steps taken by me or anyone else. took plats ce in the 1970s. m

all the stories of going to the world anti-doping agency reinstated russia's anti drugs body a major step toward saving many of the country's top athletes competing on the world stage. but us looking like maybe a no deal now the u.k.'s breck's it would go c.h. and still with the e.u. as the bloc project st amazing can only plan. just a framework for economic cooperation will not work at this late stage in the negotiations it is not acceptable to simply reject the other side's proposals without a teacher have an explanation and counterproposals. hello welcome this is not international live at the weekend from moscow with me kevin now in for the next thirty minutes around of the big stories of the last seven days then starting with this earlier russia's defense ministry today said israel bowl full responsibility for the downing of the russian aircraft off syria's coast this week which killed all fifteen servicemen on board in a statement to the media the russian military presented a detailed timeline of the incident as they saw it concluding that the actions of the israeli air force le

on the us is warning russia about deploying its missile defense system in syria russia sending the s. three hundred missiles a week after one of its planes was mistakenly shot down by syrian anti aircraft fire syrian air defenses were responding to raids by israeli jets in the province of latakia rory chalons has more. russia's s three hundred the air defense system that's russia has held off from supplying to the syrian military until now. within two weeks a modern surface to air missile system the s three hundred will be handed over it's capable of intercepting early sort weapons on a range of more than two hundred fifty kilometers and at the same time can hit multiple aerial targets having an advanced facility and high fire rate the system will strengthen syrian air defense combat capabilities significantly defense minister sure you gave little doubt why the russians have changed their position but you're going there to. let me make a point at the request of the israeli side and twenty thirteen we halted delivery of the s three hundred which was ready to be shipped to syria while s

grant that russia. was a big russia with russia was weak competitions and i'm pretty sure that things were not take much longer than you have big events again in russia you know we talked about you being somewhat something of a person on a non grata in russia russia denied a visa to the world cup last summer you have talked about the dangers journalists in russia who try to report on doping they are what does today's decision me for our ability to try to get to the truth about athletic sports and there being in russia it's very complicated for independent journalists for people from other countries to really dig in and to investigate and russia this week we tried again to try to get a visa to russia this week and they rejected it again so it's very obvious that they have no interest. to support journalism and to be honest it's it was possible in two thousand and fourteen because we have been under the radar at that point under the radar but now. it's computer defense so to be honest to get more informat

public criticism of russia put its policy in syria for example when it was in. that province because at the same time because at the same time turkey had this all of branch operation not syria we're also going. smoothly it went so also with the collateral damage and with. civilians it's so it's kind of tit for tat and i want to say that indications that erdogan is quite critical of syrian regime and bashar lots of it doesn't mean that he blames russia for that and also doesn't mean that he supports russia on its policies well actually we have to take a very short break now but maybe we'll be back in just a few moments stay tuned. and there are some was someone said all of them mama. i don't mama. i'm going to have a little old woman you're going to. be old a little frisky. i'm not critical of what if they are going to be chilcote you know don't you but. he said to. me now you come with that he's going to get so for us we. will yes the chest. here for everyone that is for you. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the worl

public criticism of russia put his policy in syria for example when it was in. that province because at the same time oil is good to because at the same time turkey had this all of branch operation not syria we're also going. smoothly it went so also with the collateral damage and with. civilians it's so it's kind of tit for tat and i would say that indications that erdogan is quite critical of syrian regime and bashar lots of it doesn't mean that he blames russia for that and also doesn't mean that he supports russia on its policies well actually we have to take a very short break now but maybe we'll be back in just a few moments stay tuned. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each dish. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to be rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and one rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion do

ambassador to russia. is it possible that the president jeopardized our national security when he was alone in the room with putin? without these documents, we may never know. i just want to conclude by repeating that congress has the authority and the oversight duty to demand this information that is critical to our national security. i urge we use this responsibility and adopt this resolution. i yield back. mr. royce: do any other members seek recognition? mr. beaks. >> thank you, mr. chairman. the camera of history is rolling. we do not live in a time where congress can just sit back. in fact, we live in extraordinary times. we cannot fool ourselves and say this is ordinary times, because it is not. and history is looking to see what is the united states house of representatives, what is the congress, going to do to make sure it is utilizing its oversight power of the executive branch, an equal branch of government? and so we cannot pretend that this is a normal circumstance. in fact, a number of my rep