NYC Mayor orders documents release showing city officials knew post-9/11 attack air was toxic; Canadian retaliatory tariffs take effect; UK bans imports from Israeli West bank settlements

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1:03protect our companies and our communities. Selection day in New Hampshire where voters are choosing Republican and Democratic nominees for an open U.S. Senate seat will get the latest from a New Hampshire Union leader, political reporter. Great Britain bars imports from Israeli West Bank settlement citing Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians is a move praised by some of the UK's allies, but opposed by Israel and the United States. They don't host another meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group to discuss Ukraine's needs for anti-missile defenses. And in the U.S., Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch is resigning, if disagreements with the Trump administration, but how to present U.S. history that in more coming up on Washington today. W-A-B-C-T-V in New York writes that Mayor Zora Mondani announced Tuesday that New York City has released more than 170,000 pages of air quality records from the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, shutting new light on what officials knew about toxic conditions

2:05around ground zero while publicly assuring residents and rescue workers that the air was safe to breathe. The records, which include air quality reports, contamination data, and correspondence among city officials, are now available through a public portal as the city prepares to mark the 25th anniversary of the attacks. Documents were stored in 68 boxes in the city office, and many were only discovered last year, according to city officials reporting from W-A-B-C-T-V. Mayor Mondani spoke today at a news conference in New York City. We are together this morning to stand steadfast alongside survivors and their families, and to deliver the kind of accountability around city governments response to September 11th that New Yorkers have been denied for years. I am proud to announce that our administration has settled two lawsuits between the city and 9-11 health watch, ending what has been a multi-year legal battle and restrictions on New Yorker's ability to access information that can shed valuable insight on air quality and health concerns.

3:08Administration after administration has ignored those calling for answers and clarity. Instead of choosing to bury them in legal arguments and in red tape, we will do no such thing. As we mark 25 years, it is time for this painful chapter to end. As part of our commitment to a governmental transparency that has too long been absent, City Hall has made a more than $34 million commitment to create a new public portal providing information about our city's response to the horrific attack. This will be a vast resource with hundreds of thousands of pages of documents from numerous city agencies, including sought after records like the Harding Memo, the 68 DEP boxes discovered a few years ago, and information about 7 World Trade Center. These are documents that show what the city knew about the toxic air around ground zero, when they knew it, and how they acted to limit liability. They contain details about DEP's response.

4:10They show how his bestis was found nearly everywhere that inspectors tested, and they will help New Yorkers access the health care they need. The 170,000 pages posted today are only the first release. More will be shared over the next 12 months. Every document on this portal will be accessible to every New Yorker free of charge. The only information emitted will be personally identifiable information and security evaluations of lower Manhattan buildings that if published today could still pose security risks. Nothing else will be redacted. New York City mayors are on Mondani, a Democrat at a news conference today in New York City. That portal website is SCPT11Documents.cityofNew York.us. Also at today's news conference was John Stewart, comedian and activist. He has been advocating for years for health care support for his responders to the 9-11 terror attacks. I want to be fair to the city.

5:10If you look at the harding memo, they didn't find out, they didn't recognize that the air that everyone was breathing in downtown Manhattan was toxic until October of 2001. So to be fair to them, they only buried that information for 25 years. But I just want to say that the people that made them uncover that and made it be released to the public are the people that are standing behind me. They're the ones on the till. They are first responders. They are families of loved ones that were lost. They are legislators. They are legislative aides. The city began covering their ass three weeks in in a memo. The memo is entitled legislative alternatives to the fiscal responsibility for 9-11. These people had to fight, sick and dying for years.

6:14And I'm not saying that the information may have changed the outcomes, unfortunately, for their families. But I guarantee you it would not have been the struggle that it was to get people to recognize that what they all knew and what we all knew who live in downtown Manhattan is that there was poison in the air and on the ground and in the window sills and in your air conditioners and covering your pets and your clothes. And it stayed there for months. Everyone knew. And now it's very clear that the city knew as well. And rather than take the steps to ameliorate the damage that that would cause to its citizens and to the people that were down there, they instead covered it up to get back to business as usual. But unfortunately, after 9-11, business will never be usual again.

7:17Like median and activist John Stewart at today's news conference in New York City with Mayor Mamdani. CNN writes at least 140,000 people from all 50 states have enrolled in the World Trade Center Health Program and 49,000 have been diagnosed with certified WTC-related cancers. According to the 9-11 Memorial, Mamdani said Tuesday that more people are eligible for assistance that are currently enrolled, including residents who live near the site but have not received outreach and those who live outside of New York, reporting from CNN. Article at Forbes Magazine, an online petition calling for New York City Mayor's Oramondani's exclusion from the 9-11 Remembrance Ceremony later this week has crossed 100,000 signatures amid a similar push made by several prominent Republican leaders from the state, including former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Governor George Pataki. The petition outlines eight grievances against the New York Mayor, including allegations of support or association with people who are, quote, dismissive of American institutions

8:19or insufficiently critical of extremist ideologies. That was from Forbes. Rudy Giuliani was on Newsmax on Sunday saying that Mayor Mamdani should stay away from the 9-11 attack 25th anniversary ceremonies. This ceremony is for the families and for America to remember historically. And frankly, whatever he'd like to say, he doesn't agree that September 11 was an Islamic terrorist attack on the United States of America. One that is in terms of a war or effort continuing today and maybe even worse today. So having lost friends there and being very close to many of the families, it offends me that he's coming. This is not a place for people like the Arab Prinsling who gave me $10 million so that he could say this was caused by American and Israeli foreign policy.

9:23From day one, I've taken a very strong position against that because I knew that would be the propaganda the Islamic extremists would use because we fall for it. Too many Americans fall for that Islamic propaganda, which is the reason they're taking over certain parts of America and certain parts of Europe. Former New York City Mayor, Republican Rudy Giuliani on Newsmax TV on Sunday. CBS News asked the current New York City Mayor, Democrats are on Mandani, about this on Monday in Brooklyn. Mayor, I'm sure by now you're familiar with what former Mayor Giuliani said yesterday that not only should you not attend on Friday, but he said that whereas the high-chackers were open about their disregard for America, you're trying to hide yours. What is your response to that? I'm proud to be the mayor of the city. I love this city, I love this country and what I want this week to be a focus on is on the families whose loved ones were stolen from them 25 years ago in the horrific act

10:23of terror of September 11th and a focus also on the first responders who gave everything they could to this city and to the people who came together to try and help their fellow New Yorkers. And so in the days to come, my focus will be on attending events that memorializes that incredible courage and I will be there on Friday at the memorial just as I was last year. Did you see Giuliani's comments and did you have any thoughts? I don't have much more to add. New York City mayors are on Monday on Monday on CBS News, interviewed at the West Indian Day Parade Breakfast in Brooklyn. This is the C. Span Radio's Washington Today. Story from Spectrum News, a steel beam from the South Tower of the World Trade Center made a stop at the ellipse in Washington on Tuesday where President Donald Trump honored the 2,977 individuals who died during the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. Trump said at the 25th anniversary event where he was joined by first responders, members of the military and Trump administration officials. We gather on another Tuesday morning in September to reaffirm the sacred vow we made a quarter

11:26century ago. We will never forget. We say it and we mean it. That was some Spectrum News. President Trump during his remarks transitioned from the 25th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks to the current war with Iran. Now six months old. This Capitol had marked 25 years since a day that was etched forever into the memories of Americans. The 9-11 nearly 3,000 precious souls were stolen from us killed by evil terrorists at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and on flight 93. All of these years later we gather on another Tuesday morning in September to reaffirm the sacred vow we made a quarter of a century ago. We will never forget. We say it and we mean it. We will never forget. Those we lost and we will never forget the immortal heroes of September 11th, 2001. And I will tell you we're right now fighting because we have a certain nation that wanted

12:31a nuclear weapon. They were very close to getting it. And now they have no chance at getting it. They will never have a nuclear weapon Iran will not have a nuclear weapon. And they've been punished greatly. As you know, we've really taken it to them. I want to compliment our military. The job they do is unbelievable. The blockade has been so powerful. So effective. Nobody thought it could go so well. President Donald Trump on the White House ellipse. He said at the Twin Towers in New York City that day, September 11th, 2001, in just over 100 minutes, 175,000 tons of steel and concrete were reduced to ruin and 3,000 lives were extinguished immediately. One of those pieces of steel, 21 feet long, 16,000 pounds from the World Trade Center site.

13:32It's been touring the country since May. It's called the Steel Across America tour. And it was in front of the White House today. The 16,000 pound beam lifted from the records of the South Tower will forever testify to the courage and resilience and spirit of a city and a nation that's our homeland struck. Our tower is knocked down and stood back up stronger and more determined and more united than ever before. And I'll tell you, I have to give New York a whole lot of praise because they started that you call it demolition. The demolition had taken place, but you call it demolition. They had the best demolition contractors anywhere in the world. I know all of them from being in the business. And I've never seen such an unbelievable mass of steel and unfortunately bodies and everything you can imagine. The job they did on cleaning up the site, they wanted to do it fast. They wanted to get it done. And I don't think there's any other place in the world that could have done the job that

14:35was done by the people, the construction workers, demolition experts, the police, the military. Nobody could have done the job that was done. President Trump at a 9-11 anniversary program in front of the White House organized by the tunnel to Towers Foundation. New York Post writing about it. President Trump awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom Tuesday to Wells Crowther, the equities trader known as the man in the Red Bandana, credited with saving more than a dozen people from the World Trade Center on 9-11. Crowther's mother, Allison and sister Paige, accepted the Post-Germus Award, the nation's highest civilian honor during a ceremony on the ellipse, paying tribute to first responders who died in the terror attacks 25 years ago Friday. That was from the New York Post. Center for Strategic and International Studies, CSIS held a discussion today in Washington titled 9-11 and Immigration 25 years of lessons and unfinished business. Asking the question 25 years later after 9-11 is the United States a bit of prepared to prevent another terrorist attack.

15:37All 9-11 hijackers were citizens of other countries, Saudi Arabia, United Emirates, Egypt and Lebanon who entered the U.S. legally on temporary non-immigrant visas. Jeff Sessions, former U.S. Senator, Republican from Alabama, at the time of the attack and later Attorney General in the first Trump administration gave opening remarks. Trump says correctly that they are sending a lot of criminals to us. Well, Alabama, I used to tell my Texas friends when a person got in trouble in Alabama in 1800s, we ran them to Texas. The sheriff would say, get your butt out of town. They didn't care where they went, where they raped somebody else or shot somebody else. He just didn't want them eating their room in his jail form and they weren't going to hang him so they sent them out to Texas. So we are getting a lot of that. So we need to be sure that we are on the right path. America, I hope we all know, is not just an idea.

16:39America is a nation. It has laws that apply in our country, not outside the country. And we decide what those laws are and we decide who gets in and who not. You mentioned vetting, Mark, the vetting deal is very important. When Obama and John McCain and the bunch of money get involved in the Syria battle with Assad, I'll pose that after supporting all the other adventures. But then we had refugees. In Europe decided it had to take all these Syrian refugees and the United States was going to take a whole bunch of Syrian refugees. And I remember at a hearing I asked the witnesses, well, can we, do we know what their criminal record is? Can you access the criminal record of some Syrian before you admit him to the United States? No.

17:39Well, can, can, does anybody know, have a list of terrorists in Syria? Well, no. So we were expected to admit large numbers of so-called refugees that there was no way could, we could ascertain whether they were friend or foe. That's not necessary. If a country can't provide us, that country is insufficiently able to provide us with a background information. I don't think we should take them except in extraordinary circumstances. Jeff Sessions, former U.S. Senator, Republican from Alabama and former U.S. Attorney General in the first Trump administration at a CSIS program today focusing on the 25th anniversary of the 9-11 terror attacks and immigration. This Friday, the C-SPAN networks will offer a live all-day national coverage of events marking the 25th anniversary of September 11, 2001 attacks starting at 6 a.m. Eastern on Washington Journal. More calls are archival material and first-person accounts.

18:41And then during the day, live at the Pentagon, ground zero in New York City and the flight 93 memorial in Pennsylvania and other places holding ceremonies throughout the U.S. Live Friday on the CSIS band network starting 6 a.m. Eastern. This is Washington today. From the Wall Street Journal, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Karney said his government will do whatever it takes to backstop regions and industrial sectors targeted by U.S. tariffs as a trade conflict between the neighboring and closely integrated economies enters a precarious stage. In a dress posted on YouTube, Karney said retaliatory tariffs on about $20 billion in U.S. goods that kicked in on Tuesday were necessary to protect domestic sectors and workers. He said, I don't believe in escalating the conflict. The harsh reality is the American tariffs will hurt some Canadians or others. And that was by design, reporting from the Wall Street Journal. Here's more from that video. A mutually beneficial trade agreement between Canada and the United States is possible. One that respects our sovereignty.

19:42One that builds on our complementary strengths. One that lowers costs for families on both sides of the border. One that creates good jobs for our workers. Canada has always worked towards these goals, even while America's attention and dedication to them has wavered. Canada has consistently proposed long-term partnerships, while the U.S. is too often demanded short-term transactions. At the eleventh hour, they were still pursuing restrictions on our ability to protect and promote the French language and our culture. They wanted to say in our future trade agreements with other countries, and they were offering terms that would, over time, undermine some of the most important industries in our country, including automobiles, steel, and forest products. In short, they were asking far too much and offering far too little. We worked in good faith to reach a fair deal, but since a fair deal wasn't on the table,

20:47we made the right choice to walk away from a bad one. The most fundamental issue is that the cumulative U.S. demands revealed that they wanted us to become even more reliant on them, not less. In too many areas, they wanted dependency, not a true economic partnership. In the spring of last year, I warned that America is trying to break us so they can own us, and I promised that that will never ever happen. Because just like in McDonald's Day, our future won't be decided in Washington, but right across Canada. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Kerney, part of the video, he posted today. New York Times writing about the Canadian tariffs, the duties apply to a variety of U.S. goods, including clothing, cheese, metal parts, and wood products. The approach is meant to mimic the taxes that President Trump imposed on Canada after trade talks between the two neighbors collapsed in Acrimony last month. For now, the economic effects of the tit for tat may be limited because the tariffs encompass

21:51only a small portion of the annual trade between the U.S. and Canada. The more pressing concern is a potential cycle of retaliation, one that results in even higher and more exhaustive duties that harm families and businesses on both sides of the border. That was from the New York Times. Congressman Dan Muser, Public and a Pennsylvania, was on Fox News today, asked about how the Canadian tariffs will affect the U.S. and his district in particular. It's going to have minimal impact. It really is. Pennsylvania, for instance, ships $13.4 billion to Canada. We import $13.9. So, you know, it's 1.3 percent of our state GDP. Look, this is just a terrible situation, however. Our negotiators, Howard Lutnik, Secretary Lutnik, as well as James and Greer, our U.S. TR, negotiated in good faith right up to the 11th hour. They had an agreement. I spoke to both of them directly about this. And at the very end, they started asking, they mean Canada about heavy trucks and mid-sized

22:53trucks. And frankly, they said, where is this coming from? And they asked, are you trying to blow up this deal? And my information tells me that the comment was the Canadian correspondent said, or negotiator said, I can't answer that. So this was done deliberately for political reasons in Canada because they've created such an anti-American sentiment there that in order to win politically, they couldn't do a deal with the United States of America and trade. So this is completely self-inflicted on Canada's part. And look, they have not been a good trading partner when it comes to milk, when it comes to aluminum, when it comes to some of our other, you know, exports to Canada. And guess what? Their economy is going to suffer because their politicians want some political gains. Not unlike what our Democrat party does here creates economic issues or tries to for their own political gain. And I mean that sincerely.

23:53Congressman Dan Muser, Republican from Pennsylvania today on Fox News, CNBC writing that Bombadier pointed out its footprint in the U.S. after President Donald Trump said the Canadian airplane manufacturer must build in America to access the local market. Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday, no more selling Bombadier in the United States. If they want our market, they must build here and stop treating America like a piggy bank. Bombadier in a statement to CNBC said that its workers are based all over the U.S., which direct employment in more than 20 states and sites in 10 states, including California, Texas and Arizona. Company also added that its aircraft are built with American-made components, such as engines, avionics and many more key systems provided by American companies. In a separate statement, Senator Jerry Moran, Republican of Kansas said the company had a presence in Wichita, Kansas, and support the local workforce of more than 1,000 employees, that from CNBC. Wall Street today, the Dow down 628, Nassau down 85, S&P down 45.

24:55Campaign 2026, it is primary election day in three states, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Delaware. And in New Hampshire, there's an open U.S. Senate seat that is one of the handful around the country, considered close enough between Republicans and Democrats, based on polls, that it could decide which party ends up in the majority after the election. C-SPAN spoke this morning with New Hampshire Union leader senior political reporter Kevin Landrigan. U.S. Senator Jean Chahine is retiring. She's 79 years old. This is the first time in 16 years that both a congressional seat and a Senate seat are open. So with Senator Chahine's departure, two former U.S. senators are running on the Republican side, Johnny Sanunu, who served for one term before James Chahine retired him in 2008. And Scott Brown, who lives in Ryan New Hampshire, but represented Massachusetts for a abbreviated term following the death of Ted Kennedy before Elizabeth Warren retired him from that seat. On the Democratic side, four term congressman Chris Papis is running against first time candidate

26:01exeter scientist Karishma Manser, who's been very vocal against the Netanyahu government, and has been very critical of Chris Papis for his position on supporting weapons to Israel. So how are those races looking? Is there a clear winner on either one of those? Yes, it was certainly on the Republican side. Johnny Sanunu early on got the endorsement of President Trump, which is somewhat ironico because Johnny Sanunu was not a supporter of President Trump's runs for president. But I think Trump assesses Sanunu as having the best chance with a famous family name to take back the seat on the Republican side. So Sanunu throughout this campaign has enjoyed a lead over Scott Brown and his manager trying to stay out of the fray in terms of campaigning. He didn't debate Scott Brown on television.

27:02They've had a few joint appearances, but not many. So Scott Brown to really challenge tonight would be a big surprise. I think Johnny Sanunu should win, not a comfortably necessarily, but he should win. On the Democratic side, Chris Papis from Pillar to Post has led in this campaign, but in recent polls, Karishma Manser has risen in those polls as we've seen in other states across the country. The progressives are very restless on the Democratic side, and some of them are not pleased with Chris Papis's kind of moderate position, particularly when it comes to foreign affairs. So that race has become closer than it was expected to be, but this still looks very much like a Chris Papis Johnny Sanunu contest in November. And if it, if in fact, it turns out that way, what is that looking like in the general election? That's very competitive. This race, all the polls have been showing this a neck and neck race.

28:05You're talking about a dynasty family and the Sanunu family that two governors, one senator, one host chief of staff. It's a brand and it's a popular brand in New Hampshire. His brother Chris Sanunu just finished four terms as governor tying a record for service. So it's a strong name in a year which clearly favors Democrats. Chris Papis has not lost a race in 20 years in politics. He lost one county race for county treasurer, but other than that has been a success story on the Democratic side and they feel very confident that he can hold the seat that Jean-Chéin Nau Health. Kevin Landtrigin, New Hampshire union leader senior political reporter on C-SPAN's Washington general program this morning, Cook Political Report says this New Hampshire Senate race is a lean Democrat. Writing Republicans are bullish on New Hampshire after a recent Emerson college survey showed

29:05the race in a statistical tie between Democratic representative Chris Papis and former senator John Sanunu. They maintain that any member of the Sanunu family polls just as well in the race, even though it's the former senator's brother, popular former governor Chris Sanunu, who would have put the most fear into Democrats. And this is shaping up to be a difficult midterm cycle in a favorable Democratic environment. We have a hard time seeing Republicans pulling off the upset in the Granite State. That was from the Cook Political Report. WLWT writing the man accused of lunging toward Ohio's Democratic candidate for governor Amy Acton at the Canfield Fairs, expected in court for the first time Tuesday. Patrick Havis, 38 years old, is facing two counts of assault and one count of disorderly conduct. One day investigators say he was recording Acton on his phone as she spoke inside the Democratic Party tent authorities say he then started pushing his way forward, Acton's security detail stepped in and he was taken into custody after his arrest.

30:06Investigators say they recovered two handguns, a taser and brass knuckles, from WLWT. Amy Acton spoke about this Monday at a Labor Day Parade in Cleveland. I'm in for this right. I'm a scrappy kid. But they're making a big mistake when they make a mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness is not weakness. Kindness is not weakness. It is a fierce commitment to justice and not looking the other way. When we see our neighbors struggling, see I learned that they were too in Ohio. We all know better than this. Yes, we had a rough day yesterday. I'm so thankful to our first responders and our stay high made patrol and everyone so help out with people who are in here. I don't care what they're saying. Let's see. I am a fierce warrior in this fight. That's exactly why I'm running.

31:07I refuse to look the other way. People didn't look the other way when I was a struggling kid against Ohio. I won't look the other way. And you are refusing to look the other way. We refuse to look the other way. Well, bad ideas and especially tricks that I'm taking us backwards. It is time for change in Ohio. It is time. It is time. It is time. It is time. Amy Acton, Democratic Ohio gubernatorial nominee at a Labor Day Parade in Cleveland on Monday. Washington Post writing as news of the incident began to spread right wing influencers led by provocateur Laura Lumer were already claiming on social media that it had been a hoax. Also on Monday, Acton's Republican opponent, Vivek Ramaswami, was asked about it at a Labor Day Parade in Toledo, Ohio. Political violence has no place in America, period, full stop.

32:09The threat of political violence has no place in America, full stop. I don't care what party you are. I don't care what your partisan beliefs are. That's a hard line, hard principle. Vigorous debate? Yes, that's important. And I think we do need to have vigorous debate in a civil way. That's the way we demonstrate who we are as leaders. And it's up to us to set that example for the rest of the state. And I hope the rest of the country to follow. Vivek Ramaswami Republican nominee for Ohio governor on Monday in Toledo from WKYC TV. Washington today continues in a moment. Van Dool is now available everywhere in the U.S. So you can get in on the sports action no matter where you are, including these places. They've this year most rewarding season ever with Van Dool. Age and location restrictions apply. Product availability varies by market.

33:10CFANDool.com for eligibility. Gampling problem called 1-800-Gamber. Welcome back to Washington today available as a podcast wherever you get your podcasts. And on the free C-SPAN now, mobile app. Storf Mouches Zero, the United Kingdom has announced a ban on the import of all goods produced by illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. And the country's most significant policy since London's historic recognition of Palestinian statehood last year. In a speech department, UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband accused Israel of carrying out ethnic cleansing in Palestine and affirmed that it is the official UK policy that the Israeli settlements rapidly expanding across the occupied West Bank are unlawful. Miliband also announced tougher new restrictions on arm sales to Israel. Israel announced four countermeasures, including banning 12 British MPs from entering Israel and closing the British consulate in Jerusalem following his speech, porting from Al Jazeera.

34:10Secretary Miliband spoke in the House of Commons in London. The British government agrees that there is ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in areas of the West Bank, perpetrated by settler terrorists. And all too often, the Israeli government has turned a blind eye to this. The worse members of it have made statements and taken actions to support the forced displacement of Palestinians. Now, Madam Deputy Speaker, I recognise the gravity of saying this, but the truth is, the least the people who face such, it is the least the people who face such such such suffering deserve. And it should be the prelude to justice. Now, for a long time, the British government has rightly said settlements are illegal, but we have remained silent on the question of the legality of the occupation as a whole, which in 2024, the international court of justice concluded was unlawful. Today I announce that the official view of the British government is that the occupation is unlawful. Because of Israel's entrenchment of its control, its intention to extend permanent sovereignty

35:14and its expansionist agenda via illegal settlements. Madam Deputy Speaker, our position is not just an overdue statement of reality. The government believes the unlawfulness of the occupation should be reflected in the economic relationships we choose to have with the occupied territories. I do not believe the British people want us supporting the occupation by accepting products from settlements in our shops and supermarkets. So I can announce today that we will introduce an import ban on goods from illegal settlements in the occupied territories. To do so, I will introduce a new comprehensive sanctions regime working with my right hon. Friend, the Business Secretary, with appropriate religious exemptions. And as part of this regime, we will go further. We will take action against specific companies and individuals who provide services, such as construction, infrastructure, financing or real estate for settlement expansion. So to those who finance or facilitate illegal settlements, let me say this, you will face the full force of UK sanctions.

36:18Settlements are illegal. They should not be promoted in our country. The British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband today in the House of Commons in London, more from the Al Jazeera article after. The speech 12 countries shared a joint statement supporting the two-state solution announcing their own intentions to impose restrictions on trade with illegal Israeli settlements. France, the UK Canada Denmark Spain, Finland Ireland, Iceland Norway, Poland Portugal and Sweden called on the Israeli government to immediately halt the expansion of settlements that was from Al Jazeera. And this from associated press, the economic impact is likely to be limited since the Israeli settlements produce only a small amount of large agricultural exports. But the move is a symbolic expression of displeasure with Israel by some of its closest allies and it offers a new sign of the Israeli government's growing isolation. As a result of the Gaza war and that was from AP. In Jerusalem, some reaction from Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sar. We have nothing against the British people.

37:18We know that we have many friends in Britain. Unfortunately, a hostile labor government is in office, systematically acting against the state of Israel. And it has left us with no choice but to finally respond to its hostile actions. The decision by the labor government in Britain to initiate a series of severe sanctions against the Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria as well as additional sanctions concerning arms was announced by Mr. Millebend immediately after he spoke about Israel's right to the defend itself. A bit of self-contradiction. They chose to do this on the eve of the holiest days in the Jewish calendar for the domestic political reasons ahead of the Labor Party conference taking place this month.

38:21The British move is morally distorted and constitutes blatant interference in their affairs of a sovereign state and its electoral process. The attempt by the British labor government to impose measures in the style of the white paper carries echoes of the anti-Semitic words of British Lieutenant General Barker, commander of British forces in the land of Israel during the mandates. To say then, I'm quoting, punish the Jews by striking at their pockets. The Jewish people have the right to live throughout the land of Israel. The connection and right of the Jewish people to this land are documented more extensively than those of any other people in human history. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sard, a news conference today in Jerusalem.

39:23Do a Secretary of State Marco Rubio was asked by reporters about Great Britain's restricting trade with Israeli West Bank settlements? Secretary Rubio was at the airport in Miami about the fly to Central and South America. Mr. Secretary, do you have anything to say about the British decision on the imports from Israel from? Well, they alerted us to it. We don't have any announcements. Obviously, there's a decision that they make. And the President has expressed this in the past. We don't want to see anything destabilizing going on right now on the West Bank with so much going on in the region. We think it has implications as well on our ability to make progress with regards to Gaza and the 20-point plan and the board of peace that we're very committed to. Obviously, we're not going to do what the UK did. We saw their announcement today, but I don't have any comment on it right now. Is it like the best or not to be said that you've met the bridge will suffer because of that with the U.S. that needs to get there? Well, I would say that the President has not commented on this, as I said, neither have I at this point. We were made aware that they were going to make this decision. We heard their argument as to why, but look, we share the goal of stability.

40:25We don't want to see some uptick and violence or an uptick and conflict or tensions in the West Bank at a very tenuous time in the region. There's always tenuous times. But beyond that, I don't think as at this moment we don't have any further comment on the UK decision that I think was announced just a few hours ago. Secretary of State Mark Rubio speaking to reporters at the airport in Miami before starting the trip to Columbia, Ecuador and Peru. This is Washington today, as he's been radio. Reuters reporting that Donald Trump told the Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone on Tuesday that he wanted a swift end to the war in Ukraine, which would allow U.S. Russia ties to be fully restored, the Kremlin said, adding that Putin had supported the U.S. President's view. The call which the Kremlin said lasted an hour followed a weekend visit to Moscow and Kiev by U.S. envoy Steve Woodcoff and Jared Kushner were trying to revive Stahl talks designed to find a way to end the fighting, reporting from Reuters. The Ukraine Defense Contact Group met today virtually to discuss Ukraine's urgent defensive

41:26needs. Secretary General Mark Ruta was at NATO headquarters in Brussels. Ukraine's fight shapes the entire Euro-Atlantic Security Environment. It directly impacts, as we all know, on our own security. And as we work on modernizing the alliance and building a stronger Europe and a stronger NATO, we must continue to support Ukraine's security and help them defend from Russia's brutal attacks. That means supporting Ukraine with the utmost urgency. And here, let me say that delays simply cost human lives. Today, the number of civilians killed is the highest recorded since May 2022. So right at the beginning of this terrible war. Today I will be urging all nations to step up their support. Allies, as we know, pledged 70 billion euros in Ankara and this will require more bilateral

42:28support to achieve. Nations must dig deeper. We do not have a choice, I believe. A detailed package of priority requirements is in front of you. It's air defense, Ukrainian drones, extended range ammunition. I also want to make clear that the pearl mechanism, so US weaponry paid for by NATO, allies and partners, continues. It continues to flow critical equipment, including air defense into Ukraine. And this is uninterrupted and absolutely essential in helping Ukraine to defend its cities and to hold the front line. I do want to highlight that over the past year, allies have now allocated 10 billion dollars to pearl and US formality sales for Ukraine. This is crucial and to be warmly welcomed and includes $3.5 billion from the Ukraine support

43:28long. This is a believable sign of EU NATO cooperation in support of Ukraine and also another example of Europe stepping up. But again, we must continue also when it comes to the bilateral pearl funding going forward. Our collective support will enable Ukraine to seize the opportunities. It is creating now across all fronts and to defend itself in the skies. We are seeing Russia at that. We see more North Korean missiles. We see jet power drones. So Ukraine needs our support to tackle these old and new challenges. And is that I look forward to hearing all your pledges today to help Ukraine? NATO Secretary General Mark Ruta with an opening statement at the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, the alliance of more than 50 countries, including all NATO members supporting Ukraine militarily

44:31against Russia. Today was the 36th meeting of the group in the three and a half years. It has existed. US Under Secretary of Defense or Policy, Elbridge Colby spoke for the US. In recent months, Ukrainian forces have sustained a stout defense, holding the frontline and denying further Russian advances while continuing to defend against aerial attacks. This provides an important lesson. Europe's greater assumption of responsibility for its own defense is fully consistent with a strong and viable Ukrainian defense, provided that Europe continues to act with requisite seriousness and urgency. In particular, the denial defense approach that forms the core of our military strategy for Europe has proven effective. Ukraine's ability to deny Russia the gains it seeks is not only critical to Ukraine's self-defense and to the prospects for a lasting peace. It is also an important example for Europe of how combat credible conventional defense can deny territorial gains. We should, however, be clear-eyed about the outlook.

45:34As President Trump has stated, our goal is a lasting peace. We are supporting every effort in that direction. From the standpoint of the Department of War, however, we cannot predict when this tragic war will end. As you all well know, Russia is reconstituting its forces and its defense industrial capacity. We must be prepared for a protracted conflict and for Ukraine's requirements to persist in the months and years ahead. And we must also be prepared for other plausible contingencies as well. That reality makes it all the more important for Europe to sustain support for Ukraine while also accelerating its own rearman and reindustrialization. Fortunately, this is happening, but we must not be complacent. First, Europe must continue and where necessary increase support for Ukraine's immediate battlefield requirements through Pearl. The continued flow of emissions and critical capabilities is effective. It remains essential to enabling Ukrainian forces to hold the frontline and deny further

46:34Russian advances. Second, Europe must plan now for sustained procurement that supports both Ukraine's long-term force reconstitution and Europe's own defense requirements. As allies, we must ensure that needed European investment in its defense industrial base are integrated with and complementary to America's. US Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Elbridge Colby joining today's Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting virtually. Associate of press writing their Russian President Vladimir Putin assured US President Donald Trump in a phone call Tuesday that Moscow doesn't harbor aggressive intentions towards Europe. A senior Kremlin official said, after European officials blamed Moscow for sabotage campaigns on their soil. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said meanwhile that US envoys who visited Kiev presented some very good worthwhile ideas for ending Russia's foreign half-year-old war, adding he hopes to meet with President Trump within two weeks. But Russia remains determined to accomplish its military goals and it believes it is close

47:35to winning Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that was from AP. Starting from the New York Times a day after summoning the American ambassador for formal rebuke, Iceland's leaders on Tuesday publicly condemned a social media post from President Trump showing the American flag covering their nation along with Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and Caribbean states. The Prime Minister of Iceland told reporters on Tuesday it's an insult to Icelanders, Canadians, Greenlanders referring to Mr. Trump's Monday post which did not include any written commentary. She added there is nothing funny or normal about making fun of the sovereignty of states. That was from the New York Times. At the website CIA.gov slash careers slash artificial hyphen intelligence, hyphen and hyphen data, hyphen science, hyphen careers, it reads our world is driven by data. It drives all sources of intelligence and powers the artificial intelligence tools to make the intelligence work for us to make that happen.

48:36CIA needs the expertise of data scientists and artificial intelligence specialists to exploit, study, and manage it all. The CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis spoke about AI and intelligence at the 17th Annual Billington Cybersecurity Summit in Washington, D.C. today. The agency recently produced its first fully AI-generated intelligence report and you have described a future where CIA officers manage teams of AI agents as autonomous mission partners. How do you think about this in terms of the balance of the speed advantages of AI-driven analysis against the risks that exist from adversaries exploiting these tools, data poisoning, model manipulation, and how do you think about how this changes the nature of the intelligence trade craft? Right. So, obviously AI brings a host of advantages and you describe some of them. In cyber operations, it brings speed and scale that would be unimaginable without these

49:36AI tools. But it also brings tremendous advantages to our ability to collect intelligence, to our operations. It brings advantages to our analysis, enabling our analysts to identify patterns, to draw out trends that would be impossible for a human being to just us out manually. Right. At the same time, as you mentioned, there are risks. We are building around making sure that we are always secure, right, to make sure that we have the appropriate safeguards in place to make sure we have a human in the loop. We are also building out with a variety of approaches. We want to avoid any one lock-in to any one model, any one cloud vendor. This is important to make sure we have that kind of redundancy and resiliency and how we use AI. But we fully expect, Director Rackliffe, and I fully expect that AI will permeate how CIA is doing its work and it will change every aspect of intelligence. So our officers have to be positioned to do that, right? They have to have the mindset and enthusiasm to embrace AI tools.

50:39We also have to make sure we put the AI tools in their hands and to do so quickly so that they have the cutting-edge tools they need to be able to succeed in this competition. Sorry. I think from to echo what you're saying there from an industry perspective, I think access to the technology and the environments where mission actually requires them is the first step. And there you can see the quick uptake of the adoption of the technology, but that access is critical. Absolutely. And that's one of the reasons I know I think Director Rackliffe was here in this same convention center just a couple months ago talking about our new reorganization, the new Directorate of Mission Systems that we have established. Really the guiding principle behind that Directorate is to make sure that we are able to deliver tech to our workforce to enable mission rapidly and efficiently and that we are best positioned to prevail. Michael LSCAA Deputy Director at the Annual Billington Cybersecurity Summit in Washington, DC, their 17th Annual, interviewed by Event, Cesario, Amazon Web Services National Security

51:42Director. NBC News writing an airline cleaning company was mourning the loss of five employees who were identified as those killed Sunday when an Amazon branded cargo plane over and the runway at Miami International Airport striking the company's van and a passenger SUV. Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office said that the National Transportation Safety Board is leading the investigation to the crash. NTSB Chair Jennifer Hammondy said Monday was too early to release much information about the factors that contributed to the crash, but said the plane's flight data and cockpit voice recorder have been recovered. That was from NBC News. Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero stood provided more on the investigation today at news conference in Dorao, Florida. Before providing today's update, I want to begin with what matters the most. The people whose lives have been forever changed by this tragedy. Our prayers remain with the families of the five individuals who lost their lives as a result of this tragic incident.

52:42We are also praying for those who were injured and wish them a full and speedy recovery. Five victims were transported to the hospital following the crash. The two pilots were treated and have since been released. Three victims remain hospitalized. Two are in critical condition and one in stable condition. We continue to keep all those affected by this tragedy in our thoughts and in our prayers. Now that all of the next of kin notifications have been made, we are able to release the names of those who tragically lost their lives. We do so with the utmost respect for their families, for their loved ones as they continue to grief this unimaginable loss. The victims are, Prolando aleman león, 55 years of age. Yoel Prorigues Naranjo, 53 years of age.

53:44Julio Cepineda, 75 years of age. Carlos Agosta Pajardo, 53 years of age. Javier Quis, Reyes Geverdo, 47 years of age. From the moment this tragedy occurred, the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office has maintained a continuous presence on scene. Our mission remains clear. Protect the scene, support the families and follow the facts. Miami-Dade at Sheriff Rosie Goudero stood set up news conference today in Dorao, Florida. AP, writing that Lonnie Bunch is stepping down from the leadership of the Smithsonian Institution following a tumultuous year in which President Donald Trump tried to remake the portrayal of U.S. history by the Smithsonian Museum's and other cultural entities. Bunch said in the news release Tuesday he was departing the position he had held since 2019 with very mixed emotions and heartfelt gratitude. The Smithsonian said he would leave the post at the end of the year. Bunch's departure comes two months after a White House report branded the leaders of the

54:45Smithsonian Institution, especially at the National Museum of American History as radical activists who could not be trusted in indication that President Trump could be preparing to install his own team, reporting from AP. Secretary Lonnie Bunch spoke in April about controversies over how to present American history at the Organization of American Historians' Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, part of America's 250th anniversary celebration. Is this particular moment different? I mean, history has always been contested. There have always been history wars. Does this feel different to you? Or is this different? I mean, I think that there has always been contestation. But this is a moment where it is bigger than history. History is just a tool. A tool to kind of craft an America that is really an America with blinders on. America that only tells certain stories. An America that runs away from the most difficult and in essence the most important stories.

55:48I think in some ways what I think this period is for me is that I was raised in a family that always talked about how brave Americans were, how they fought against the fascists and all of this. And it was really hard for me to understand how America, if it's so brave, is so afraid of its own history. And so for me, it really is a need to be able to say even if people are in comfort with it, this is really the only way we'll understand ourselves. And if we don't understand ourselves, we're not going to understand our present or our future. Smithsonian Institution, Secretary Lonnie Bunch in April in Philadelphia, the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians from Seaspan's American History TV, archived at Seaspan.org. Lonnie Bunch announcing today he'll resign by the end of the year. He is the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the first African American and first historian to hold the position. He was the founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History

56:51and Culture. Congresswoman Shelley Pingri, Democrat from Maine, ranking member on the Appropriation Subcommittee that oversees Smithsonian's budget, writing, Secretary Bunch has guided this Smithsonian through a period of unprecedented political interference, while remaining committed to scholarship expertise and the public trust. Under his leadership, the Smithsonian continued to do what it does best, tell America's story truthfully and completely, the good and the bad, the tragic and triumphant. I'm deeply grateful for Secretary Bunch's service and wish him well in his next chapter. His departure comes at a consequential moment for this treasured American institution that was from Congresswoman Pingri and from Congresswoman Brandon Gill, Republican of Texas. He writes on, X, the days of using America's museums to teach Americans to hate their own country are coming to an end. I'm glad to see Lonnie Bunch step down. New leadership must tell America's story accurately. Thanks for listening to Washington today. Remember that C-SPAN brings you news throughout the day, Monday through Friday, the top of each hour with Associated Press updates.

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