Jordan: 20 FBI agents showed up at your door, why did they do that? (Reads from FBI memo targeting Catholics and pro-life)
This attitude is at the highest levels of our gov't.
Houck: my children were downrange of many FBI guns.'
Jordan: Federal gov't made an example of you This is what is so scary.
Houck: my children have a fear of law enforcement now.
Jordan: the only way we can begin to stop this is to look at the money. We have a constitutional duty to look at the Justice Department Funding.
Escobar: End the charade. [Republicans] Bully women. We are here because we are chasing another conspiracy theory put out there by my Republican colleagues.
Has the FACE Act helped to protect abortion providers.
Absolutely. This violence and intimidation against abortion providers has become pervasive.
Escobar: It has been run-of-the-mill. We need moar programs to protect abortion providers.
Bishop: They used a SWAT team. Then a jury trial.
Houck: Correct.
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Bishop: Most grievous crisis in this country.
Hank Johnson: calls it Bull Durham Report
What relevance does violence against churches have? These 420 acts of violence against churches & 57 were abortion related.
Roy: Have you ever said the quote attributed to you about crushing the skull of the baby during an abortion?
Camp: (weasels out of answering question)
Hageman: Are you aware of FBI Domestic Violent Extremist DVE threat tags?
Camp: No
Hageman: Can you think of 1 example where a pro abortion rioter or protestor is similar to how FBI treated Mr Houck?
Camp: …
Hageman: DOJ has just returned 1 indictment against pro abortion violence. DOJ has a PRO ABORTION task force.
Are you aware of any DOJ task force for PRO Life protection.
Dys: No
Scanlon: "abortion care" kek
1:15 PM EDT
Department Press Briefing with Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel
Department of State
https://www.state.gov/todays-briefing-schedule/
https://www.dvidshub.net/webcast/31972
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z5Jeru7AlA
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Principal Deputy Spokesman Vedant Patel briefs reporters at the State Department on a range of foreign policy issues confronting the Biden administration.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?528139-1/state-department-daily-briefing
I think this is cancelled - WH no longer has it listed and youtube video is gone
1:20 PM ET
Young Men of Color Small Business Roundtable: Vice President Harris convenes a roundtable with young men of color small business owners and entrepreneurs.
The White House
https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhUaIzNzXJQ
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TBD
Vice President Harris Roundtable Remarks
Vice President Harris delivers remarks at a roundtable in the White House Indian Treaty Room.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?528126-1/vice-president-harris-roundtable-remarks
1:45 PM EDT
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre
The White House
https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EoEacXFCh4
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White House Daily Briefing
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre briefs reporters ahead of a second round of talks on the debt limit between President Biden and congressional leaders this afternoon. NSC Spokesman John Kirby also joins the briefing.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?528130-1/white-house-daily-briefing
Russia Charges Former U.S. Embassy Employee With Helping a Foreign State
Arrests signal a broadening campaign against Western influence inside Russia
May 16, 2023 11:52 am ET
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-charges-former-u-s-embassy-employee-with-helping-a-foreign-state-ff9d5b09
Ex-US consulate worker detained in Russia for ‘conspiracy’
May 16, 2023 1:03pm
A former employee of a long-shuttered US consulate in Russia has been jailed in Moscow on a charge of “conspiracy.”
Russia’s FSB security service arrested 62-year-old Robert Shonov in the far eastern city of Vladivostok and transported him to the capital to face a criminal count of illegal covert collaboration with foreigners, state news media outlet TASS reported Monday.
The report cited a law enforcement source as saying Shonov has been accused of committing “a crime under Article 275.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (‘Cooperation on a confidential basis with a foreign state, international or foreign organization’),” punishable by up to eight years in prison.
https://nypost.com/2023/05/16/ex-us-consulate-worker-robert-shonov-detained-in-russia/
>>18855749 pb Revisiting the Implications of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act
House Judiciary Committee
>>18856223, >>18856279, >>18856317, >>18856386, >>18856441 Revisiting the Implications of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act Bun
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2:00 PM EDT
A Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 24 Budget Request: Investing in US Security, Competitiveness, and the Path Ahead for the U.S.-China Relationship
Senate Appropriations Committee
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WITNESSES:
The Honorable Lloyd J. Austin III
Secretary
Department of Defense
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The Honorable Antony J. Blinken
Secretary
Department of State
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The Honorable Gina M. Raimondo
Secretary
Department of Commerce
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https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/senate-event/334089
https://www.defense.gov/News/Today-in-DOD/date/2023-05-16/
https://www.defense.gov/News/Live-Events/
https://www.dvidshub.net/webcast/31959
https://www.dvidshub.net/webcast/31973
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmKcLeVK-4g
https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/a-review-of-the-presidents-fy-24-budget-request-investing-in-us-security-competitiveness-and-the-path-ahead-for-the-us-china-relationship
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Secretary Antony J. Blinken, with Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, testifies before the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations on “A Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 24 Budget Request: Investing in U.S. Security, Competitiveness, and the Path Ahead for the U.S.-China Relationship."
Capitol Hill
https://www.state.gov/public-schedule-may-16-2023/
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Secretaries of Defense, State & Commerce Testify on China
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo testify on U.S.-China relations, competitiveness, and national security investment before the Senate Appropriations Committee.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?527863-1/secretaries-defense-state-commerce-testify-china