Before the aid happened. That is true, but only after congress began an investigation. Only after the president s lawyers learned of a whistleblower complaint. Reporter both sides aiming to persuade a nationwide audience while the man at the center of the storm its a witch hunt. Its a hoax. Reporter says hes not even watching. Alice barr, nbc news, washington. And that really is the concern for republicans that this is just a partisan attack against the president. Today we saw two of our bay area democrats, the representatives Eric Swalwell and Jackie Speier in action. Representative speier asked one witness about his concerns that ukraines president was being pressured. Yes, maam. I wrote a memo to the file on august 16th. But we dont have access to that memo, do we . I submitted to it the state department subject to the subpoena. And we have not received one piece of paper from the state department. The president tweeted multiple times about this hearing, and he put in all caps, neve
Reporter you may remember nghectober meeting there was a heavy police presence. Tonight police were here but out of sight while protesters took over the meeting. Tonights Oakland School Board Meeting packed with people protesting School Closures. And they came to express anger over what happened at the Board Meeting last month. On october 23rd parents and teachers angry over the districts plan to close and merge a number of schools because of declining enrollment got into a violent clash with police after a protester jumped over a barricade. A number of people were injured. Tonight at least one person demanding an apology. Your cop took me to the hospital strapped to a gurney in handcuffs. Ive been coming to school Board Meetings most of my life. Weve never had it like this where the police have been used against us here. There will be an outside investigator coming in to look at what happened, fully analyze if things went wrong, why they went wrong, whos responsible. Reporter as prote
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For seniors and people who are disabled or blind. Benefit levels were last updated in the 1980s. I call this meeting to order. Senator young, thank you, Ranking Member of the subcommittee, for working with us to schedule this hearing. I appreciate the professionalism and confidence of your staff and my Office Working with all of you is really helpful. Thank you to chairman whiting for being part of this, the efforts to protect and strengthen this critical part of our Social Security system. Todays hearing on supplemental security income, ssi, is long overdue. This is the first hearing in the finance committee since 1998, before i was in the senate, for sure. That would be almost a quarter of a century. Theres not been a hearing in congress specifically about increasing benefits and eligibility since the reagan administration. In fact, that 1987, the last year or so of the reagan administration, in 1987, ways and means hearing called ssi, quote, the forgotten safety net. It was a fittin