Under 90 minutes. The subcommittee on oversight and management and accountability will now come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare the subcommittee in recess at any point. Im going to start by thanking everyone for joining us today. We are here to discuss the topic that is becoming all too familiar to many of us in every part of this nation. That is domestic terrorism. The hostage situation in the synagogue in texas earlier this year, to the radically motivated shooting at a Grocery Store and buffalo, new york, to just last month, many, many attacks that have devastated our Community Across the country. Responses for Public Security from state urgent review and assess the departments capability to address this rising threat. We are here today to discuss one of those capabilities in depth. Department of Public Security toolbox, have been the targeted violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program since 2011 the department has identified the need to partner w
That is becoming all too familiar to many of us in every part of this nation. That is domestic terrorism. The hostage situation in the synagogue in texas earlier this year, to the radically motivated shooting at a Grocery Store and buffalo, new york, to just last month, many, many attacks that have devastated our Community Across the country. Responses for Public Security from state urgent review and assess the departments capability to address this rising threat. We are here today to discuss one of those capabilities in depth. Department of Public Security toolbox, have been the targeted violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program since 2011 the department has identified the need to partner with local communities to address the growing domestic terrorism threat. On 2016, dhs launched a countering violent extremism Grant Program, a predecessor to current program. However, weak management of that Early Program undermined Homeland Securitys ability to determine the effectiveness of t
And allowing some businesses to begin reopening. Now, that is not the case in california. Breaking overnight, the cnn has learned that the states governor will order all beaches and state parks to close starting tomorrow. Thats after he and everyone saw these images of crowded beaches last weekend. People clearly not social distancing there. Now, 31 states will be partially reopened by the end of this week. New information about florida. It plans to open some businesses next week, except a giant exception, the states most heavily populated counties in the south. There are now more than 60,000 reported deaths in the United States. More than 2500 reported yesterday a lolone. As so many people talk about turning a corner, the number of new deaths isnt dropping. At least not significantly. John, in morning there are encouraging signs for a coronavirus treatment. The experimental drug remdesivir is showing promise in speeding up the recovery of patients. The New York Times reports that the
The United States. That happened just three days before a man with a knife in his pocket jumped the fence at the white house and got inside. Serious questions today. Is the team hired to protect the president putting his life at risk . And in california, a mayor shot dead by his wife. Authorities are calling it a domestic dispute, but the wife was not charged. In fact, shes been released. Hello, im john berman. And im michaela pereira. Faced with the first ever ebola diagnosis on u. S. Soil, Health Officials in texas are now scrambling trying to track down every person who came in contact with the person of the man who brought ebola here. This could be days and days worth of interaction. It is a big job and time is critical to prevent this virus from spreading. This is what we know about the unnamed patient. He left the ebola hot spot of liberia on september 19 arriving in dallas texas the next day. He did not feel sick until four days later. A couple days after that he sought treatmen
Your world. Kathy lee taylor is the only candidate who has mishandled intelligence, and democrats steve seigman calls political nonsense. She was criticized for handling classified information with extreme carelessness, and she was she was she deleted 33,000 emails. Isnt that a good enough reason to deny her access to intelligence . No this is august politics. She was the secretary of state, had access to hundreds and hundreds of good pieces of classified information, including the singlemost top secret operation of the century in the assassination and killing of obama sin laden and kept all of that secret. I also dont agree trump shouldnt get classified briefing. The bottom line is these are the nominees and the nominees get classified briefings. Im much more concerned about Donald Trumps policy positions as a threat to National Security as are 50 leading gop Security Experts who all say he would be the most reckless president in american history. Youve got all of your points in right