Oscar Hightower

The US delegation is now meeting with the dictator of Belarus, a country with a GDP smaller than the US state of Vermont. Putin needs the US to take sanctions off Belarus to use it as a conduit for western technology for the Russian war machine. The US gains absolutely nothing, but surely the Trump family will make billions from the coming arrangement.

Odd that Sen. Britt literally objects to funding Coast Guard, Secret Service, and TSA, when ICE and Border Patrol are fully funded.

QatarEnergy’s Ras Laffan Industrial City to the north of Doha, Qatar's main site for the production of liquefied natural gas and gas-to-liquid, as well as the largest export terminal for LNG in the world, has been heavily targeted tonight by ballistic missiles fired by Iran. Extensive damage to the site and several facilities are being reported by QatarEnergy.

Trump is criticized for his inconsistency in nearly everything, flip-flopping sentence to sentence even about a war he started. But on one thing he is incredibly consistent: never criticizing Vladimir Putin and promoting Russian interests.

Ossoff: So the assessment of the intelligence community is that Iran's nuclear enrichment program was obliterated by last summer's airstrikes? Gabbard: Yes. Ossoff: Your statement stated: there has been no efforts since then to try to rebuild their enrichment capability. That's the assessment of the intelligence community? Gabbard: Yes.

Powell: These elevated readings largely reflect inflation in the goods sector, which has been boosted by the effects of tariffs. Near term measures of inflation expectations have risen in recent weeks, likely reflecting the substantial rise in oil prices caused by the supply disruptions in the Middle East.