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Live now to hearing on White Supremacists infiltration of Police Department. The House Oversight and reform subcommittee on civil rights and Civil Liberties is hosting. This is live coverage on cspan2. Good morning to the chair of the committee, ms. Maloney has joined us. Good morning to our Ranking Member mr. Roys whos with us and good morning to the vice chair and all of our wonderful members who joined us. I want to take a moment to extend a special welcome to rashida to leave of michigan come to our subcommittee. This is her first hearing with our subcommittee and were delighted to have her choice. Welcome, ms. Tlaib. I wanted show a video to set the stage. Please play the video. White supremacy permeates every corner of society and our institution. Please agencies to the fbi to department of justice, all of them. The Southern Poverty Law Center combover is engaged in those groups wherever that might lead. We have outed a number of Law Enforcement officers who have connections to w
Let me thank all of you for joining us here this morning. I particularly would like to thank my colleague from texas who was my classmate in the congress. We first met that the Democratic National convention in 1972. We have maintained a friendship. We had no idea that they would end up getting elected to congress the same year and i owe a great deal to her. I thank her so much for being here today. Several other of our colleagues wanted to join us today but when we decide to make this announcement on this day because we have are to book flights back home to washington and could not change the flights but they could have but theyd never get out in time to make it this afternoon. I have joining with me today several members of the state legislation. Two state senators Molly Simpson and gerald malloy. Gerald malloy and i spent as much time together as i have spent with some of my brothers mostly on the phone talking about state that we love so much and the future of the state and i thank