For some time. Now there are questions about staffing and what role that plays for officers on the street kron fours dan kerman is live at Police Headquarters tonight with our top story. Dan. Well the police union is coming forward saying despite the fact that the Police Department has a 122 funding positions they have never fill those positions all at once not placed in the last 10 years and they say that is requiring officers to work overtime and that is putting citizens lives at risk. And understaffed police force is a threat to those that live in vallejo. So says the Vallejo Police union which says citizens are endangered by the citys failure to hire police specifically they say there are not enough cops to cover all beats on a regular basis. The says for 10 years the city has had open positions and because the forces consistently shorthanded there are generally no more than 6 officers on the street at any given time in a city of over 120,000. The says that puts filet o well below
On cspan2 at 9 30 a. M. The Dc Circuit Court of appeals heels oral arguments in the perjury case against Michael Flynn and at 1 00 a virtual townhall with virginia senator mark warner and representative gerry connolly. Next a look at efforts to combat fraud and exploitation during the coronavirus pandemic with officials from the Justice Department, fbi and us secret service. They testified on price gouging, the hoarding of personal protective equipment and the filing of fraudulent applications under the paycheck protection loan program. The Senate Judiciary hearing is just under two hours. Good morning, thank you very much for attending the hearing and more will come in throughout the morning. Mister craig carbonito, phil hughes, associate attorney general, assistant director of the criminal investigative division, fbi, the assistant director of the office of investigations of the United States secret service. We are talking about this before, fraud related to the cares act, scams agai
Hygiene. Thank you for coming. I hope everybody has disinfectant that they can use. We spaced out the room to be as safe as possible to my staff and minority staff, thank you for working together. We are back, we spent 40 something days since the senate has been able to meet. The committee has a lot to do related to the coronavirus but we have other things for the good of the nationlike filling judicial vacancies or getting comments throughout the country about the vacancies and how they are impacting the ability to deliver justice in various states it will be as prompt as we possibly can. My democratic colleagues are requesting hearings on the effect of the virus in Detention Centers for immigration purposes and we will try to Work Together to have those hearings. Im curious myself about safely in the nations prison. Next week we will hear about liability issues related to the virus. What can we do as a congress to safely open up and minimize legal exposure for those to reopen the ame
Has disinfected they can use. We have spaced out the room to be as safe as possible for my staff and minority staff , thank you for working together to set up the room. It has been 40 something days since the senate has been able to meet the committee has a lot to do related to the coronavirus but we also have things that are necessary like filling judicial vacancies we are getting comments throughout the country about the vacancies and how they are impacting the ability to deliver justice in various states that we will be as part to that as we can. My democratic colleagues are requesting hearings state and federal and Detention Centers and for immigration purposes we will try to Work Together to have those hearings i am curious myself about our nations prisons and immigration Detention Centers so we are working as quickly as we can hopefully we will have a hearing about liability issues related to the virus and what we can do as the congress to safely open the country to minimize lega
Order. Order. This is a meeting room set up differently to deal with the reality we all face as a nation trying to practice social distancing and good hygiene. Thank you for coming everybody has disinfected they can use. We have spaced out the room to be as safe as possible for my staff and minority staff , thank you for working together to set up the room. It has been 40 something days since the senate has been able to meet the committee has a lot to do related to the coronavirus but we also have things that are necessary like filling judicial vacancies we are getting comments throughout the country about the vacancies and how they are impacting the ability to deliver justice in various states that we will be as part to that as we can. My democratic colleagues are requesting hearings state and federal and Detention Centers and for immigration purposes we will try to Work Together to have those hearings i am curious myself about our nations prisons and immigration Detention Centers so