Law enforcement following the militarys involvement in recent protests around the country. They were asked about alleged russian bounties against u. S. Troops, and the debate over military bases named after confederate soldiers. Military bases named after confederate soldiers. Chairman smith i call the meeting to order. I welcome our witnesses, secretary of defense esper and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff milley. We appreciate you being here today. I do have to read an Opening Statement here about procedure in light of the fact that we do have members who are participating remotely in his hearing, in accordance with house rules. So i will do that and then a couple other programming notes and we will get started. I would like to welcome members who are joining todays markup remotely. Those members are reminded that they must be visible on screen within the Software Platform for the purposes of Identity Verification for maintaining a coram participating, and voting. We will not be
The deferred action for childhood arrivals, or daca program. On thursday the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration cannot immediately and daca, the Obama Era Program has allowed roughly 700,000 young immigrants who were brought to the u. S. By the parents, to live and work without fear poof dertation. The recipients must pass background checks, and reapply every two years, to continue anticipating in ogthe m. Conservative chief Justice John Roberts sided with the courts liberal members in the 5 to 4 decision. Joining me now from skype is santa tyclara univer school of our professor, professor gula sacrum, thanks for joining us. California is home to the largest number of dreamers. Even though this is a federal progm, are there difference in how states treat dr. Opportunities that ar available to them . There is certainly a huge variation across the uned dates about the types of protections states gave to undocumented people, generally. And then specifically, policy h relate
Pres. Trump p nice to see you. Nice to see you. Thank you very much. Everytything good . Farmers doing good . Thank you, President Trump. Think you very much, all. We are here to announce dramatic action to support our nations open. S as we it is happening fast and with better numbers than anyone would have thought. I want to express our gratitude to the producers across the country who have kept our nation fed and nourish as we have battled the invisible enemy. It is an invisible enemy. It is tough, but we are going to win and we are going to win very big. We can never forget all the people who have been left behind that have died, for some reason that should have never happened. Should have never happened. You know that, i know that. And the e people that caused the problem, they know that too. Thats too bad. You remind us that the American Farmers, the backbone of our country, they are really a great friend of mine and i appreciate all the support and i know they appreciate our supp
Trump. This took place earlier today in albany. Good morning. Lets talk about where we are today, in terms of the data. Total hospitalizations ticked down again. That is good news. We will take it. It is better than going up. Again, this is one day, but it flattening, reducing slightly, depending on your point of view. Are you an optimist, a pessimist . A pessimist would say we are basically flat, optimist would say we are starting to trend down. It is a personality test. Net change in total hospitalizations is on decline. The three day average, which is more accurate than any one day number also says the same. The icu admissions is down. Thats not that telling to me, because the entire hospital is now basically an icu ward. The number of intubations is down. That is very good news. Intubations 80 of the time wind up in a person not recovering. So that is really good news. And the counter narrative, counter fact, number of new cases that walked in the door of a hospital is still about
Its a 2 trillion score. Or something. Its a 2 trillion bill. And so the bottom line is, its expensive, but it would have been more expensive to do nothing or do very little crisis is so all enveloping so much of america. Make is, weoint id laid out what we wanted in this bill on monday. There was a great deal of public debate. That public n debate. People didnt want a Lending Facility with no accountability. Wanted much more money for our hospitals and our nurses and our equipment. Workers nted to put first. So there was a great deal of the issues, and i that o my caucus the day we voted not to proceed, this to its very important move quickly but its also important to move well. Will be with us not bill will not be with us ot just tore days or weeks but for years so we better make it right. Theres a lot in the bill that i ont like, but its a muchimproved product, and i hink everyone was proud of the bill our Democratic Caucus was proud of the bill produced nd proud of the unity that we