The First Amendment, I really believe, is our pressure release valve as a country to speak your mind.

The First Amendment, I really believe, is our pressure release valve as a country to speak your mind.

The FCC ensures that our Nation maintains the principles of freedom of speech and freedom of expression.

The First Amendment, I really believe, is our pressure release valve as a country to speak your mind.

Thank you, Chair. I also want to just preface this by saying it is an honor to serve on this committee.

Thank you, Chair. I also want to just preface this by saying it is an honor to serve on this committee.

The State of Missouri has had for nearly 50 years someone on this committee to ask important questions and advocate for the people of the state.

It is an honor to serve on this committee.

We have obviously been very focused on what happened with Southwest, but there was more disruption in travel in January.

It's a 50-50 Senate, right. So the path the majority for Republicans runs right through the show me state we can't lose Missouri. You know, the former governor is a quitter and would certainly jeopardize this race.

Well, certainly, Ali, that was the warning that President Biden seem to integrate today in Brussels, that if there was -- were to be those kinds of weapons use against civilians in the campaign in Ukraine, that there would be some sort of…

the fierce resistance they met from the Ukrainians, as your report has documented right now. The other is that they overestimated their own capabilities going into Ukraine, serious logistic problems, shortages of fuel, food and spare parts.

the Ukrainians know the terrain, and they`re fighting on the home turf, and they`re highly motivated to defend their homeland.

It can be very hard pill to swallow I think for the rest of the world to be lifting sanctions at a time when Putin is basically destroying this country before our own eyes.

The cruelty can bring even more resistance, and resistance any form of compromise at all.

This very brutal campaign that he thought was going to go very quickly. Instead, it has been bogged down.

Most average Russians are still on the side of President Putin right now.

There's a lot of questions that were left unanswered when he left and so that's going to be his job in the campaign.

It’s about control. And people have had enough.