between the u.s. and saudi arabia hitting new lows over the opec decision to cut oil production. there is more bad economic news with only 26 days before the midterms. for the second straight day we received worse than expected inflation numbers and that has the white house scribbling for an explanation. jacqui heinrich starts us off from the north lawn. there is no timeline on when the consequences for the saudis that the president biden talked about might come. he might want to consult with congress and they are out of session until after the midterms but officials here are starting to paint a bit clearer of a picture of what it all might look like. the white house getting vocal about how seriously the president is considering calls from congress to scale back arms sales to saudi arabia after opec plus rejected white house please and slashed production. that is going to be on the table, that will be an option the president looks at. the spate and the scale, the size, th
on a very busy wednesday morning i m todd piro. carley: carley shimkus and marianne rafferty covering all the keys this morning, marianne, good morning. good morning carley and todd appear in primary starting in new york where jerry nadler won decisive victory over congresswoman carolyn maloney after redistricting three term democrats and powerful committee members against each other. meanwhile, the patrick ryan winning a special election and an important swing district. ryan focused his campaign on the supreme court recent ruling of overturning roe v. wade sending clear message to republicans using deceit to flip the house. the newly redrawn 17 congressional district, democratic congressional campaign chair sean patrick maloney defeated progressive challenger state senator alessandro biaggi. he will face g.o.p. assembly member mike waller this november. now to florida s former orlando police chief and current democratic val demings wins her primary and will take on repub
Their patrol cars. Vigilant has created a large private collection of license plates. Reporter the atlantic magazine reported the vigilant has more than 2 billion images of license plates and recently immigration Customs Enforcement contracted with Vigilant Solutions to use the massive database. Weve got cities that have prohibited Law Enforcement from working with immigrations and Customs Enforcement. Then immigrations and Customs Enforcement will have to think of other ways, other methods to get what they need. Reporter but cagle said local governments should have more say how their data is used. Communities should be able to decide whether their local systems become part of trumps hitech deportation machine. Reporter now this is a copy of the privacy protocol that i. C. E. Is going to use when it comes to license plate data and technology and according to this document, the agency plans to use license plate data only to find what they call priority Illegal Immigrants and that means
Testified on capitol hill recently regarding budgets for 2017 and 2018. Modernization and cybersecurity efforts from the Top Priorities for all these agencies. This House Administration Committee Hearing is about an hour and a half. I now call to order the committee on House Administration for the purpose of starting todays hearing on the operations and priorities of the house officers and legislative branch entities. Aquorum is present so we may proceed. I would like to start off by thanking my colleagues and our witnesses for your attendance today. I know how busy everyone is and we appreciate your flexibility and willingness to appear this afternoon. I would also like to thank our witnesses for hard work and assistance during new member and a smooth transition for staff into the 115th congress and especially for the incredible amount of work that went into securing and hosting the president ial inauguration. We know many months of preparation went into insuring our government carrie
Can you even we have not ended the scourge and the threat of home violent extremism. People ask me what keep you up at night. Thats thing number one. The prospect of another home grown or home born, violent extremists acquiring a weapon or a tool of Mass Violence and carrying out an attack some place here in the homeland. It cannot be quantified. It is difficult to detect and given the nature of it. In my view, what we and Homeland Security needs to do in addition to all the they thinks we are doing is to continually to remind the American People of all the things we are doing and 10 or 12 things we are doing and constantly securing our homeland but to also say to them there is a role for a public of awareness and vigilance. You cannot eliminate all risks whether it is a terror attack or a mass shooting or gun violence. We cannot end it tomorrow. We can and reduce it as much as possible, consistent with our values and laws. But, the prospect of an hbe attack is still there and we need