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hello, im abby philip in washington. thank you for being here today. the holiday travel nightmare is inflicting more misery across the country. more than 2900 flights in or out of the u.s. have been canceled today already. and just one airline is responsible for 90% of them and that is southwest. passengers stuck in one city, their baggage somewhere else. >> i am traveling with my son trying to go to a family wedding in miami. the next flight offered was in january, and they couldnt ev...

shoulders, the small of my back, my waist. often enough by late 2014 i didnt want to go to the holiday party he was hosting for the albany press corps at the executive mansion." >> john: some top democrats are joining the list of the lawmakers demanding cuomos resignation including house judiciary chairman jerry nadler among several prominent new york lawmakers issued statements saying that the time has come. >> sandra: yeah. yet still silence from vice president kamala harris on this....

Are awaiting a lawful determination of their claim can wait in a place thats safe. the other thing is theyre messaging very clearly that this is not the time to try to come across the border giving the weather and the cold and theyre also targeting the smugglers groups deliberately trying to encourage a mass migration because they make money by trafficking in people who come to the u.s. >> there is a 1.6 million person backlog in the asylum system right now and meanwhile, where i am here in wash...

Face of collin all red who said what would happen and kabul fell and it was pompeo who said im directing it. youre talking to the person and thats not going to happen. well brief you. it was pompeo that refused to include turning over al qaeda as liz cheney mentioned. it was pompeo and the trump administration that sand bagged the state department to help get some of these afghan allies out through that special immigrant visa program. theres an 18,000 person backlog because it was that administr...

Consequences. what the administration has said in its defence is when it came into power, it inherited a programme that had been basically put on hold under the trump administration, very few of these afghan nationals had been vetted and it had been put on ice for a year because of code red. there was a 17,000 person backlog in this process and then when president biden decided to go ahead with the withdrawal, the urgency became greater. but then the afghan leadership at the time asked mr biden ...

This problem. whats frustrating is my friends on the other side of the aisle voted against funding. they voted against increasing -- 900,000 person backlog in our immigration court. they refused to vote against additional funding. i tried to take care of care of unaccompanied minors. they voted against that. you cant vote against everything and then be outraged when you go to a facility that everybody says is not prepared to handle the load. thats why -- >> bill: thats pretty much how they were ...

Joining me now, ranking member of the house appropriations committee. thank you for being here. >> my pleasure, ronan. >> you described this as truly outrageous, how important is this legislation to you? sfwl surviving sexual assault is one of the most traumatic experiences in a womans life. and to think that there were 400,000 and counting kits with evidence sitting on a shelf is as tounding. new york had a 17,000 person backlog. and they increased the arrest rate from 40 to 70%. this is essent...

Today he can say and probably take an executive order, he can allow every single one of those veterans in a waiting list allow them to go to an active duty military hospital or clinic. he could ask each branch of the service to august meant those clinics today with personnel who just left the service to help clear the backlog. >> give them other options right now. >> and do it within the military. if we say lets send them over to local hospitals. im not trying to say or dispairage local care, bu...

Something? well, i never. this time it could actually be a game changer for ending americas backlog of rape kits. in the we small hours this morning, they voted to approve the 2015 fiscal year commerce and science appropriations bill. that bill includes tens and millions of dollars in grants to finally test the 400,000 rape kits sitting on shelves ignored nationwide. down to the wire amendment proposed by tennessee congressman steve cohen added an additional $5 million, bringing the total to $41...

Call upon veterans who just came off active duty still in the reserves. he can bring them back on active duty in something call tem act, i left active duty in 1988. i stayed with the military, wore my uniform for in the next four years under temporary orders, back and forth speaking for the military, going around and talking to kids an recruiting them to go into the service. if they can do that then -- we can do that today with a stroke of a pen and clear the backlog. were going to wait for anot...