the state department is leading the u.s. government's diplomatic engagements with key partners to ensure broad international counterterrorism support and assistance. state engages with foreign partners and leverages multilateral organizations such as the global organization to defeat isis. state in coordinate with interagency and international partners is using foreign assistance to build partner capacity to enable them to address terrorist threats. we are strengthening these partner nations' capabilities to secure their borders, investigate and disrupt terrorist plot, track terrorist financing, prosecute and incarcerate offenders and prevent and counter violent extremism and rehabilitate former terrorists. state is using terrorist designations to disrupt terrorist financing. on november 22, we designated three isis leaders as specially designated global terrorists. state is also working with our interagency and international partners to prevent terrorist travel we actively encourage partner governments to nominate terrorist

the u.s. government deploys many tools and resources from ongoing technical support to public and private advocacy and financial support in times of crisis. i'm sure we'll hear about some of those strategies and their effectiveness over the course of today's discussion. i was glad to see the state department updated guidance on how to best support the work of human rights defenders around the world. on capitol hill, support for this work has already gender -- has always generated bipartisan support. we are honored that we will have two numbers of congress to address today's event. later we will hear from a senate -- later we will hear from a congressman burr from delaware but we will kick off today's calm -- conversation with a congressman from texas who worked as the making member of the house foreign affairs committee and a longtime supporter and advocate for pro-democracy and human rights advocates around the world. we appreciate him taking the time for us today. >> thank you for allowing m

one caveat based in serving the belarus confident u.s. -- belarus-u.s. relations. there were successful attempts of the belarusian resume -- regime to persuade that the sanctions should be postponed temporarily and exploit loopholes and vulnerabilities and bring the sanctions and make them eventually insignificant. i think i will stop here. also with the understanding that the issue is so complex that it is hard to say there is one easy fix and if we introduce this particular strategy it would work today and mitigate the risks. michael: great, thank you so much for that really rich and textured context. it envelopes the entire region just how broad this crisis really is and that it is well beyond just ukraine. i want to move on to some us chins, but first i would like to recognize marc veasey representative -- recognize representative marc veasey , who has joined us. want to give chairman cohen the opportunity to ask some questions and then we can go to representative veasey. >> unless they are nostradamus i don't think they can answer my questions. i yield to marc

he talks about u.s. policy toward iran during a forum hosted by the jewish institute for national security of america. this is about one hour. >> thanks ambassador dermer. many of you know on the call, ambassador dermer joined us in july, distinguished fellow, after having some other equally important roles as ambassador for the united states to israel for about seven and a half years, before that, or a half years as senior advisor to prime minister benjamin netanyahu. he has really been in the middle of the middle of the arena when it comes to u.s.-israel relations, including on the iran issue, which is the subject of today. as many of you know, iran is -- i wouldn't say it is coming to a head but it is certainly reaching some sort of point that is becoming extremely serious. the iranians are getting very close or about that to what some defined as a nuclear threshold where they have enriched enough uranium to 90% for a bomb. people have different redlines over the years about what they wanted to preven

., now we are seeing it in the u.s. that is much faster than delta, which we thought was already really bad. but this is going to be potentially the dominant viral strain in the u.s. in just two to three weeks, at the rate it is going. >> i guess we should add [indiscernible] what is your concern about these two things searching together? >> your right to mention delta, even though we have a lot of focus written on the new kid, omicron. the old could, delta, is still causing a great deal of trouble in the u.s. and elsewhere. we are seeing more than 100,000 new cases every day in the u.s.. most of those are delta. we are seeing hospitalizations going up again. saddest of all, we are seeing deaths every day come over 1000 in the u.s. -- and those are mostly delta and mostly unvaccinated people. those were potentially preventable. omicron is a bit of a mystery. while we know it is incredibly country just -- incredibly contagious, it might not be as severe in terms of putting you in the hospital or the icu. but the data is

i will promote u.s. commercial interests in pakistan and encourage pakistan to promote more transparent investments in sustainable financing with a focus on the environment till and social impacts of investment projects. pakistan is a partner in the covid-19 pandemic. in may of 2020, pakistan donated 100,000 face masks, 25,000 protective suits to the u.s. to safeguard the health care workers in the early stages of the pandemic. united states donated to pakistan 26.7 million doses of the pfizer and moderna vaccine's, as well as 200 ventilators. on climate, pakistan has signed onto the global methane pledge, announced a moratorium on new qualified power generation, and renewables provide 60% of energy generation by 2030. it is if women get 10 billion treeplanting campaign. -- it is implementing a 10 billion treeplanting campaign. i will never shy away from human rights on pakistan. religious minorities have long faced discrimination, including accusations of blasphemy. these accusations have undermined the

they're spending 4 billion u.s. dollars per year, basically nonexistent economies -- if you can extrapolate that to the territory of ukraine. occupying two cities does not give them any strategic advantages but with the sanctions in resistance and everything, essentially there is no point for them to have a war. the only way it would matter is if they started full-scale invasion of the whole country. then we are talking about a major war in europe, probably the biggest since world war ii. in this case we would have a substantial economic crisis, millions of refugees and so on. how the russian economy would be able to withstand that pressure from the world is very difficult to imagine. certainly, ukrainians can promise russians to return back many body bags and wounded soldiers in a short time. thousands and thousands. it is not welcome in russia. then they would have to explain what they are doing in ukraine. we have 16 scenarios of what they can do without a full invasion which will get the west to be scared, ukrai

>> we can't expect the u.s. business community to ignore the huge market that is the people's republic of china. but as we both said, we need to be attentive to what is being invested in china and what we are not. we are not making our building here in the united states because of the vulnerabilities that covid-19 has exposed. that's why this bill takes a rather modest approach into visibility into a rather narrow set of capabilities so that we understand exactly what is happening. i think there is some apprehension by some in the business community about what we are trying to do, but as we explained, the rather modest objective of this system, i think the people let down their guard a little bit, that doesn't sound so bad, it sounds like something that we do. but this is not just an economic issue, this is a national security and public health imperative. i will just tell you, when i talked to my governor when covid-19 hit i said, what do you need? he said i need testing and i need ppe, and the fact of the matt

the u.s. economy. c-span.org. no there have been 270 million infections and over 5.3 million deaths. more tragically, or than one third of these deaths --worldwi. even more tragically, more than 1/3 of these deaths have occurred since the vaccine became widely available to those of us in the united states and most other highly developed nations. nearly 40% of people around the world have not yet received even a single dose of a coronavirus vaccine. that's 3 billion people who remain at far higher risk than they should be. some of these 3 billion are those who have been unwilling to get the vaccine. the select subcommittee held a hearing on vaccine hesitancy earlier this year and we continue to examine its causes and seek solutions to increase vaccine uptake. many others who remain unvaccinated, however, have been among those who have been unable to get the vaccine because it is unavailable in the countries where they live. many countries around the world have received an inflection of those in

. >> the u.s. secretary of state antony blinken held a news conference to outline the work of his agency over the past year, including efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic. in addition, he answered reporter's questions concerning the u.s. withdraw from afghanistan, the russian military buildup near the ukraine border, and iran nuclear negotiations. this is about 30 minutes. negotiations. this is about 30 minutes. sec. blinken: good afternoon, everyone. good to see you all. i suspect that most of you are looking forward to what will be a well-deserved break. it's been quite a year. when i walked into the state department on my first day as secretary, we had covid-19 lockdowns around the world. less than 1% of the united states was vaccinated, compared to more than 60% today. we were dealing with the worst economic crisis since the great depression. the climate crisis was accelerating. our relationships with our allies and partners were badly strained. and many questioned whether america would

u.s. house. jayapal has made her case to be pelosi's successor. it says, the house's passage of the infrastructure bill and the build back better legislation is another example of nancy pelosi's legendary ability to keep her caucus united. the difference was the emergence of a new force in the house, the progressive caucus. the cpc had its chair, representative pramila jayapal, forced conservatives in the house caucus to pass the expensive bbb, and got the prima donna joe manchin to embrace a framework that gives hope for surviving in the senate. he writes that progressives came out of the 2020 election with new confidence and new members with a clear agenda, largely defined by senator bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. to their surprise, president biden seemed open to much of that agenda. in cincinnati, tonya on our democrats line. good morning. caller: good morning, good morning. i do appreciate c-span. and i just really want to talk about the damage that is being done to this country,

the u.s. declined. this is something that you have been focused on. given where we are, we thought it was important to delve into a lot of detail with ron about these issues. let's go with a little history before we get to today. there has been a lot of reporting and israel, here in the u.s., that given where the state of iranian nuclear escalation is, a number are claiming that it was a mistake for president trump to withdraw from the jcpoa a few years ago -- and this is something when you were ambassador, this was prime minister netanyahu's priorities, to persuade the u.s. to do that. why don't we address that issue and then we can move up to today. ron: sure. thank you. welcome to everyone on the call. when i was ambassador at the time, i said that president trump's decision to withdraw from the nuclear deal with iran was the single most important decision that any president has made for israel's national security, and i still stand by that. i think it was a critical decision for israel. it

u.s. clement defenses and should the u.s. this and if so, how? >> i don't think the chinese nuclear expansion is driven by the desire to penetrate u.s. missile defenses. projections are that they would have 1000 strategic nuclear warheads by 2030, the estimate is up from 400 a year ago. why are they doing this? i think because we've seen across the board, change in policy by xi jinping, china is asserting itself and clearly believes it should be a dominic, if not the dominant power in decades ahead. having a strategic nuclear program comparable to that in the u.s. and russia, i think part of that agenda is clearly where he is having. the capability they are developing could overwhelm antiballistic missile defense capability. we have a right, the chinese and russians know that so it driven by other reasons and we are already in the business of deploying defenses to counter the missiles as we talked about earlier they have medium range and intermediate range target against friends and allies in asia and we are helping friends and allies develop bal

today the u.s. missile defense system focused for example on north korea has a track record in testing not a perfect, it certainly. for its efficacy we might expect we would want one missile fired at a time and optimal conditions . what would be a reflection of the extent to which the benefits of withdrawal are an extension of technological defense? >> is a technological progress but also a change in the mission. so star wars, my recollection is the star wars vision ronald reagan promulgated as interpreted and applied by the defense department was to use the strategic defense initiative to mitigate the leading edge of the soviet ballistic missile act -- attack. it was an anti-soviet conception and an effort by ronald reagan to sort of say we should not base on our security on threatening to obliterate each other, but we should agree that we will defend against each other's system. at that is a more humane and more away as a space -- moral way as a base for a deterrent. the bush 41 hundred different

20 years ago december 13 u.s. pulled, where going to be on this discussion and supreme court justice in california empire was the director of the spending institute at stanford which is the cutting edge research and other related issues. in that capacity in developing programming with the foundation, he is quite versed in the policy. therefore eager as one of his first public items as new president to address this topic with the honorable rose so i'm going to get out of the way and turn it over. >> thank you, george and thank you everybody for joining us today. it my pleasure to host this event and moderate this event. we are lucky to have giants in the field from a former national security advisor and rose from one of the most nuclear negotiators in history. i've had to work in the past with them but just to get a bit of context, it's not unusual to find us engage people when i had a chance to work with others in the stand, it struck me that difficulties facing up to the nuclear threats in the world, not only wit

but we have a u.s.-e.u. council that met in pittsburgh where technology discussions were a big part of it. same thing with a quoted. we don't have anything like that that i know of with our own hemisphere. and whether that's a missing piece. brazil is pretty technologically advanced country. it's got a lot of things that we probably ought to be talking with them about. would that be a good idea, do you think? >> i think it would be a good idea. and you know, if you don't mind, i would -- talk briefly about one the proximity of this. david, you said back yard. i would like to use neighborhood because neighborhood resonates with our allies and partners in latin america. and they -- the proximity to our homeland here in the united states, folks don't realize how close the south com a.o.r. and all of these 31 countries in the caribbean, central america, south america, i can go to 83% of the countries in the south com a.o.r. in a shorter time distance than it took most of you to come from d.c. here to this forum.

it is highly likely the u.s. government were to voluntarily bring these individuals to the united states, even for limited purposes, a trial or detention, they are going to get rights they would not have otherwise had at guantanamo bay. the question is what is the scope and how broad? does the fourth amendment attach? the fit amendment? how much? what context? what about the right to confront witnesses? remember, as mr. stimson described, there is evidence on the battlefield. there is no chain of custody. not the usual things you would need in a federal trial or even a commissions trial or other alternate procedure that has some additional constitutional protection. that is problematic about bringing these detainees to the united states at this point in the ballgame. >> the only thing i would add is, you recall since you waited through the decision handed down in 2008 was the whole discussion by justice kennedy on dish ore versus defect of jurisdiction. there is no doubt once they are here on terra firma that any

in may, the first high-level meeting of the you-u.s. dialogue was held in brussels. both the u.s. and european union acknowledged relations with china are multifaceted. since then, president biden met virtually with president xi jinping and the e.u. adopted a new indo-pacific strategy. it is my pleasure today to welcome the two co-chairs of the second e.u.-u.s. dialogue on china which took place this week in washington, d.c. wendy sherman is the u.s. deputy of state. her long career in the state department includes serving as undersecretary of state for political affairs from 2011 to and serving as undersecretary under secretary madeleine albright. she's been a senior fellow at harvard center for science and international affairs. stefan sannino is the secretary general of the european action service. prior to this position he had an , extensive career in the italian diplomatic services and in the european commission and from 2013 to 2016, he served as italy's parliament representative to the european union. from february-december 2020, he served as assistant secretary general for

u.s. customs and border protection agency. at 10:00 a.m. on c-span3, u.s. capitol pop police inspector michael bolton -- u.s. capitol police inspector general michael bolton will testify. everything is also available at c-span.org or our free video app, c-span now. coming up this morning, maryland democratic congressman anthony brown, a veteran and member of the armed services committee, is on to talk about foreign policy and military issues. then a look at the debate over the role of parents in education with russ vought, president of the center for renewing america. and we will talk to chad berginnis on proposed changes to the national flood insurance program. "washington journal" is next. host: good morning, it's tuesday, december 7, 2021. to mark pearl harbor, flags are half-staff on u.s. federal buildings around the country. also today, president biden is set to host a high-stakes call with russian president vladimir putin. later this week, the biden administration hosts a summit for

a u.s. district judge stated that you expressed, and i'm quoting, skepticism and apparent disdain for any religiously motivated exemption request. what we are finding out, and i represent the state of tennessee , that there are individuals that were denied, that all of your religious exemptions were denied. we are also finding out about their pay having been cut at the time that that exemption was filed. before they filed the exemption, did you inform these workers that they were not going to be paid, even if they applied for a religious exemption? >> thank you, senator. we did implement a vaccine requirement. we did in august before there were any requirements one direction or the other. we did it as the right thing to do for safety and i'm happy to explain why if you would like. we did it purely for safety and did it before any federal requirements. i think you got some incorrect information. we accepted 80% of the religious requests. 80% of the religious requests were accepted. >> so the

at the moment the u.s. is preoccupied with china and the u.s. has not used its collaboratives to block the nord stream 2 project and has indicated they are open for dialogue with russia on strategic stability and other crucial issues. recently there has been a number of areas analyzed, including in the u.s., on what the west or u.s. should do to address this russian growing belligerence. naturally, those discussions have deteriorated in ukrainian policymaking and civil society. to translate some of the passages here, it has been that rare -- it has been reassuring to ukraine of course to hear from washington that no discussions will take place a grout -- about ukraine without ukraine and that ukraine will not be pushed into some kind of pressure to advance a dialogue with russia and this is of course this very important signal it seems around the apprehensions that ukraine and many other central europe states might have or have had based on their historical experience of being left out of these great power conversations about their state. it has

that happens whether or not the u.s. sells weapons. if u.s. is in selling the weapons, u.s. is not attached to whatever conflict those are going to be used in. you see this with saudi arabia, uae, turkey. it is easy for them to say that if you don't give us weapons, we will get them from somebody else . that is true, but the alternative is we won't be part of your war. as a libertarian, the biggest threat to freedom is the state going to war. >> any other questions in the audience? getting a blinking light saying we are technically overtime. i think i will take one more question. >> to go off that last question, with this supply dependencies that these arms sales bring, what sort of reforms would you like to see congress enact to ensure that the weapons are not being used in ways that they don't approve of? >> that's a great question, thank you. i think it -- this is a great first step. my fear is that this first step doesn't happen. i'm fairly pessimistic on the arms sales and this being able to pass. generally speaking, democratic congresses don't want to restrain a democr

the way the u.s. approach it is to counter negative messaging with positive messaging, to build long-term resistance to terrorism messaging, for example, compared to controlling content. the gec is the lead for the department in that effort. ct bureaus and coordinators work as special envoys, working closely with our partners to do counter messaging and have expanded those efforts. >> thank you. mr. chairman, if we are to counter the threats that exist today, we have to work fully with our international allies and partners to ensure they cannot spread their hateful messages and inspire others to commit violence, not just in foreign countries but against the united states as well from within. i yield back the balance of my time. >> we are thankful for her participation. chernow recognizes the gentleman from florida five minutes for his questions. >> i appreciate you holding this important hearing today. thank you to our witnesses for being here. it is unfortunate that the logistics didn't work out to h

the u.s. trade representative made protection of u.s. intellectual property a cornerstone of our trade agreements. when america's ingenuity is protected and able to flourish, america can compete and win. american pharmaceutical companies have led the world in both research and development and introduce more lifesaving drugs. the covid vaccines are a great example of this. we're the world's leader because we have strong ip protections and because we prohibit the u.s. government from setting prices like the socialized healthcare systems abroad. now, president biden wants to take a sledge hammer to innovation by removing protections for u.s. intellectual property, stripping innovators of their intellectual patents will weaken international competitiveness and only help communist china, the country that spread the pandemic in the first place. even if the u.s. government was successful in forcing companies to give away the vaccine recipe, it would take years to store material to see produce these v

beyond the u.s. we are likely to see more interference in foreign political systems in europe and elsewhere, and likely to see more cooperation to pollute the information environment, both collectively undermining trust in institutions of democracy that are already benefiting from one another's digital communication platforms, sharing the same messaging on certain topics. they declared plans to cooperate more on alternative information platforms and that has the potential to create a separate information ecosystem attractive to a lot of democratic countries around the world. in those two areas, cooperation and defense and undermining democracy, it is clear ties are not only deepening but there is a lot of room to grow. those are more than enough to form the foundation of adorable -- of a durable entente. >> thank you. harley says there is a range of views on the russia/china partnership. how did those in china view the relationship? >> thank you. it is a pleasure to join this illustrious panel. that

u.s. and around the world hosted by the washington post. this is 50 minutes. >> thank you for joining us. the cover story in the atlantic monthly this month showed a line of leaders striding forward in the headline was, the bad guys are winning. last week, president biden convened a virtual summit to rally support around the ideals of democracy, urging like-minded countries to support one another . we will talk about those issues this morning with an extraordinary lineup of guests. my first guest today is the deputy administrator for policy and programming at usaid, which is the organization that reaches out to other countries on all sorts of subjects, including democracy. isabel, welcome. >> thank you for having me. >> let's start with last week's summit for democracy. i will ask you a basic question. what was the message? especially for the two big countries that were not invited, russia and china? >> well, i think in your intro you captured part of the message. there is a strong narrati

u.s. and around the world, hosted by "the washington post." this is 50-minutes. >> thank you for joining me. the headline is "the bad guys are winning." last week, president biden convened a virtual summit to rally support around the ideals of democracy, urging like-minded countries to support one another on human rights on the right to free press. we will talk about all those issues this morning with an extraordinary lineup of guests. my first guest today is isabel coleman, deputy administrator of policy and programming at the agency which reaches out to countries on all sorts of subjects, including democracy. welcome. isabel: thanks for having me. david: let's start with plastic summit for democracy. i want to ask, what is the message, especially for the countries not invited, russia and china? isabel: i think in your intro you captured part of the message. there is a strong narrative that democracy is losing. i think that the message of this summit is actually not true. there is a group

sullivan: the u.s. position is clear because it is a position rooted in the one china policy, the taiwan relation, and the taiwan relations act is a unique instrument. we don't have it with other countries or ukraine. it talks about american commitments to support taiwan in various ways. the whole purpose of american policy toward taiwan is fundamentally designed to ensure we never face of circumstance in which we need to directly answer the question we posed. that is how we have approached things in the biden administration and to the extent we see china diverging from the policies that could maintain peace and stability, that they are keeping actions that undermine peace and stability across the taiwan straight, we will call them out and we have called them out because we believe there is a formula that works to maintain the status quo, to not have unilateral changes to the status quo. that is what the biden administration is pursuing. we think that is well understood by our partner ands should be und

the u.s. has responsibility here. countries in the region, neighboring countries also have a responsibility. they should be asked to do their part as well. richard: do you think that pakistan which played a damaging role, do you see any evidence that pakistan is playing a more responsible role now? mr. sullivan: there is a lot in terms of the engagement between islamabad and the folks in the taliban and haqqani network that we do not see. it's difficult for me to characterize the nature of their role. from the point of view of allowing humanitarian access and allowing other forms of relief, the pakistani government has also been worried about the crisis there and has wanted to be engaging with us on trying to address some of the fundamental elements of the humanitarian situation. on the broader politics of afghanistan, it is difficult for me to characterize. richard: you mentioned around. -- iran. it is your preference that we get back into the 2015 jcpoa. two questions. how is it going? [laughter] and on the off chan

caller: we are joint -- host: we are joined by anthony brown, a retired u.s. army colonel, and in the first hour of the program we were asking viewers their view of the top foreign-policy challenge facing america right now, i would you answer that question? guest: i would probably say china, but of course we know that our challenges abroad are not really just limited to china , although it percent -- it presents the most challenging case economically and a human rights standpoint and projecting values of democracy, freedom and liberty around the world. what we are seeing on the eastern border of ukraine with the soviet build up, it is more important today than ever before that we show that our relationships with our nato allies are strong. we have to demonstrate support to ukraine and the people of ukraine and europe, so that certainly is a top priority, and i would also include in that iran. their unwillingness to come back to the table to negotiate a deal that would limit if not eliminate their ability to develop nuclear grade warheads and capabilities which

-u.s. dialogue on china which took place this week in washington, d.c. wendy sherman is the u.s. deputy of state. she served as undersecretary of state for political affairs from 2011 to 2015 and she served under mad gin albright. she's been a senior fellow at harvard center for science and international affairs. stefan sanino is the secretary general of the european action service. prior to this he had an extensive career in the italian diplomatic services and from 2013 to 2016, he served as italy's parliament representative to the european union from february to december20, 20, he served as assistant secretary general for economic and global affairs of the european external action service. today, deputy secretary sherman, secretary general are with each other in person. i'm sorry i can't be there with you, i've joined virtually. they'll each offer brief introductory remarks followed by moderated discussion. we're very much on the record today, streaming live. please send your gers deputy secretary cher han and the secretary general via email, and at this point we have to 25 exc

and he points to the u.s. stepping up its support for taiwan as one of the good things that wyden did 2021. -- that president biden did in 2021. caller: i support taiwan, and i think we should jump in on this ganged up in the schoolyard and that is what russia is doing. pushing and pushing and pushing and along with china. in these to start shaking hands and they start, he's a bully. as a bully on the playground and he needs to be stopped. i think all the people we lost due to this virus, it's a sin and biden, we should do something. -- that's why i'm in the that that's why i'm an independent. the biggest thing i would like to talk about is the john lewis voting right. without that, we've got nothing. all that that's everything else can be put on the back burner. we have to take care of that immediately when they get back in session, immediately. host: michelle out of staten island. out of that column looking into u.s. support for taiwan, praising the president for inviting to -- invited taiwan to share expert

do the u.s. dollars that we spend on russian oil contribute to russia's ability to engage in abuses at home and malign activities throughout the region? >> senator, thank you for all that. i think you know that the united states doesn't, and our suppliers don't buy -- we are not engaged in contracts with countries. we buy oil on the open market. there are certain kinds of heavy and dirty oil we need in certain parts of the u.s. that russia is a major supplier of. so i think your question is well put whether in the context of where we know this revenue goes those independent free market purchasers of that particular source might want to, how shall we say, purr vey their oil with a conscience. >> well, again. my concern is that while we talk about natural gas going into europe, we actually import at least as much oil from russia as well and the revenues are going into the very same oligarchs' pockets and ultimately to putin. so my concern here is we understand this and start to think about how we c

u.s. and its allies are at a dangerous moment, perhaps more dangerous than many americans realize. president biden seeking to head off one of those challenges with that call, as we noted, a high-stakes call with russian president vladimir pickup town today. the front page of today's "hill" newspaper, up here on capitol hill, biden to offer a warning to vladimir putin. it was yesterday that white house press secretary jen psaki talked about that call and had questions about what president biden would say. >> the focus of the meeting, as was announced when we announced it this weekend, is an opportunity for the president to underscore u.s. concerns with russian military activities on the border with ukraine and reaffirm the united states' support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of ukraine. it's also an opportunity to discuss a range of topics in the u.s. and russia relationship, including strategic stability, cyber and regional issues. you can certainly expect that our concerns

the u.s. attorney for massachusetts. on c-span3, the supreme court hears oral arguments about a tuition payment program in maine that excludes religious schools. in the afternoon, the ceo of instagram testifies on the social media platform. coming up this morning, nebraska republican congressman don bacon , veteran and member of the armed services committee, on the annual defense bill, and the challenges facing the biden administration. and then the bloomberg law supreme court reporter kimberly robinson, talks about the findings of a white house commission report examining the potential changes to the supreme court. and arizona democratic congressman ruben gallego on his book, "they called us lucky," the life and afterlife of the iraq war's hardest hit unit. washington journal. ♪ ♪ host: in a call to the russian president, president biden warned the leader that the u.s. is prepared to protect the ukraine, telling him things we did not do in 2014 we are prepared to do now. good morning, eve