Subcommittee will come to order without objection declare recess at any time. We welcome everyone to todays hearing on the federal bureau of prisons. I ask our friend florida ms. Lee to lead us for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flagr which it stands, one nation under god and indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, ms. Lee. Without objection the gentleman from maryland mr. Ivy will be able to participate for the purpose of questioning the witness if the gentleman yields him time for that purpose, i see no objection. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. I thank director peters for coming today and the audience, we appreciate you being here. This hearing is oversight of the bureau of prisons. The federal bureau of prisons is component of the department of justice. Bop to protect society in confining offenders in controlled environments of prisons and communitybased facilities that are safe, humane, cost efficient and properly secured and
country s rejection of donald trump in the 2020 election and became a critical battleground in the campaign by trump and his allies to overturn his defeat. a letter today from fulton county d.a. connie willis to judges and her fellow county officials saying in essence, clear your calendars. the new york times reports this, the georgia prosecutor leading an investigation into the former president and his allies has taken the unusual step of announcing remote workdays for most of her staff during the first three weeks of august. asking judges in the downtown atlanta courthouse not to schedule trials for part of that time, as she prepares to bring charges in the inquiry. the move suggests that the fulton county d.a. is expecting a grand jury to unseal indictments during that time period. thanks to court filings and reporting, we know that willis has cast a very wide net, with everyone from state gop officials to the ex-president himself, under scrutiny right now. the new york
democrats who participated in a gun violence protest inside the general assembly we ll talk to one state lawmaker what calls the move a very dangerous precedent. a violent start to the holiest week in the middle east. new air strikes in response to dozens of rockets fired from the gaza strip in lebanon. we re going to bring you a live report from jerusalem. plus, classified documents detailing u.s. and nato plans on ukraine posted to social media we ll talk to one of the reporters who broke the story about how the pentagon is responding and it has been six months since hurricane ian decimated parts of florida we go back and see how communities there are rebuilding and we begin this hour with that extraordinary move in tennessee where the republican-led state house voted to expel two democratic lawmakers for an alleged rule violation for the first time in the state s history. people were removed from elected office before there, but never for violating decorum rules. j
i m going to talk to a city council member who said the shooter may have been looking for a specific doctor at that campus. as we get you up to date on what happened in tulsa this evening, we re not going to forget for one moment what s going on in uvalde, texas. how can we? and we re going to look at all the important questions that we re asking there tonight later in this hour. but we cannot turn away from the reality that this is happening all across this country. gun violence, as an epidemic, only seems to be growing. and tonight, it is throwing yet another american city into mourning. and right now i want to bring in katherine richard nealen berg of the tulsa police department. captain, thank you for joining me this evening. it s really stunning that here we are again and perhaps for many people not stunning of the state of affairs today because no one believed it would happen in their town. and here it is in tulsa. what is the latest? what do you know about what s happe
it s investing 101, reimagined. i m laura coates this is cnn tonight. frankly, our breaking news this hour is awful. we re still trying to find answers what happened in buffalo and get answers to questions in uvalde and now we ve got another mass shooting in america tonight. this time in a medical building on the campus of the st. francis hospital in tulsa, oklahoma, at least four victims are dead, the shooter is also dead. here s video of the early moments of the police response, officer s pulling out their long guns and women who saw emergency vehicles racing to the scene and rifles pulled out couldn t help but get emotional. frankly, it s hard to not be emotional from yet another mass shooting in this country. talking to a city counselmember said the shooter may have been looking for a specific doctor at that campus. as we update you on tulsa we re not going to forget for a moment what s going on in uvalde, texas, how can we? and we re looking at all of the important que