Trapped by floodwaters. See how total strangers put their lives on the line to get them out of danger. First, we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. This is a flood economically and healthwise of biblical proportion, and our republican friends are lookin like they just want to fix a leaky faucet. Reporter with stimulus talks collapsing in congress, President Trump says he is prepared to take executive action. If democrats continue to hold this critical relief hostage, i will act under my authority as president to get americans the relief they need. Reporter the u. S. Has broken yet another unthinkable record. More than 160,000 people in the u. S. Have now been killed by the coronavirus. We have to remain vigilant. Were doing very well, but we have to remain vigilant. Reporter warning of a humanitarian disaster in lebanon with widespread medicine and Food Shortages after this weeks explosion. Reporter a u. S. Top intelligence official is warnin
This full Committee Nomination will come to order. This morning the committee will consider four nominations to key transportation positions. The nominees before us today are eric soskin, nominee for Inspector General for dp of transportation. Robert pmbing rimus, nominated to be a member of the Surface Transportation Board. Sara feinberg, nominated to be a director of the amtrak board of directors. And chris coose, nominated to be a director on the amtrak board of directors. The Inspector General of transportation oversees audits of the d. O. T. s programs with the end goal of ensuring our national frppings system is safe, efficient and effective for the american people. Eric soskin has been nominated for this Important Role. Hes a senior trial counsel in the federal Programs Branch at the u. S. Department of justice where he has served since 2006. During his tenure at the justice department, he hasing mored complex litigation an was chose fn a detailed assignment as policy counsel in
But first, lets take a lookback on the top newsmakers in this weeks edition of the weeks talkers. First, lets get your thoughts on this big admission, comey going rogued. She got rolled by jim comey, and it was the third time that it happened. Remember now its january 24th with the interview of michael flynn. January 5th with the briefing of president obama, and the third time was in connection with the announcement of the conclusion of the Hillary Clinton investigation. Maria parents are suing the popular videosharing act in illinois. Those parents allege that tiktok collects information about their children, sends it to servers in china. Its designed to vacuum up all the data op your phone, your emails, text messages, your photographs, even your browser history and key strokes. Its all sent back to china where it is subject to access by the Chinese Communist party. Maria where are we right now in terms of this, in terms of this virus . Are you expecting a second spike in the fall . I
This hearing will look at a range of violent antigovernment actors, movements, and organizations, highlighting recent threats from militia extremists and accelerationists, including the Boogaloo Movement, who seek to accelerate society toward violent collapse. Anything that is threatening institutions, we also look at it. That is what we are doing today. It is incredibly irrelevant to me which groups we look at so long that we are looking at the principal ones that threaten peoples lives. Some of these Extremist Movements stream from ideologies that are decades old. Others are both having new. Others are relatively new. These threats range from decentralized and leaderless accelerationist networks to more structured militia groups. Antigovernment extremism is one of the Common Threads, but we often see overlap with antiimmigrant, antisemitic, antiblack, antimuslim ideologies as well, bringing these extremists into common cause with others who are extremist in nature. We have an opportu
More than 100 days ago, i urged Speaker Pelosi to institute a safe, clear, and effective plan to reopen congress. House republicans even provided the framework. In the plan, we specifically called for implementing Rapid Testing capabilities for congress. Testing regime should be scaled as test availability increases nationwide. The plan should progress to implement asymptomatic randomized testing and eventually fda authorized rapid antigen tests. June, house administrations rodney davis, wrote toer, and barry the speaker echoing the same need for protocols. The Trump Administration offered to help with the test but the House Majority refused to accept them. In march, we saw a democrat and a republican to come the first members of Congress Test positive for covid19. And we have seen a total of nine members now test positive. The House Majoritys reaction posture has proven inadequate for the institution of our size and unique responsibilities. This is not just a campus. The country expec