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We go live now to capitol hill. This is live coverage from the Senate Judiciary committee on cspan 3. The hearing will come to order. Ill make an Opening Statement. Senator feinstein and senator corbyn and durbin would like to make a statement. Then well swear in the witness. Before i make my Opening Statement, there was a meeting last night with senator shelby and senator mcconnell and the republican members on the Appropriations Committee. Theres a lot of talk about the disaster at the border ...

Everybody for joining us. Thank you for the council on Global Affairs. We will be Live Streaming this evening. For those of you that cannot stay off of twitter. During the discussion, we have a few hashtags that we can use tonight. Also, hashtag at 70. With that i would like to welcome my panel. Lets just jump right into her. We have with this the last close to two decade experience covering and handling some of the biggest issues in world affairs. I am sitting with for the people that i would r...

Be here. Thank you all. There is a spirit in this place. Am i right . More with youree mission, and i have some bad news for you, which is that your work is more vital than even you know. A study came out recently that projected median africanamerican net worth would be zero by 2053. You have to ask yourself, how is that possible . Thateason its possible is the most common jobs in our country are being automated away. We have automated factory jobs and now we are going to automate retail jobs, c...

Families. Frankly were a community that cares, we are an organization that provides education, support and advocacy around Mental Health dare in this country. As we have this discussion, our phone lines are a bit different, split up regional. In the tern time zone, or the mountain or pacific time stones, as folks are calling in, some stats on the state of americas Mental Health from namis latest fact sheet in a given year, and almost nearly 60 of an adult with Mental Health illness didnt receive...

Of 2016 as the u. S. President ial race was getting underway, an individual was linked to the russian government reached out to the Truck Campaign for mr. Trump. In july of 2016 the russians began dumping the emails in the same fannish fashion. It was at this point informed of the russian outreach to patent jobless and aware that the russians were meddling in our elections through the anonymous release of information that the fbi opened up this investigation. As james comey would explain in his ...

Authorized to declare a recess at any time. Pursuant to Committee Rule 4 and 2h of rule 11 the chair may postponefurther proceedings today when a recorded vote is ordered on the question of approving a measure on adopting the amendment. Ms. Lofgren we will consider the securing americas federal election act, a targeted bill to modernize our nations infrastructure and respond to the ongoing attacks in our democracy. As we all should know and appreciate, our country suffered as special counsel mue...

Hotel room overnight. Apparently they dont. Thank you for doing this. I appreciate it. So ive been at events like this wall street journal executive events in london, tokyo and now here in the last three weeks and everybody wants to talk about trade. So lets start with trade. Lets start with mexico. Big deal over the weekend. Immigration agreement with mexico that stopped the president from imposing tariffs this week on all goods coming from mexico. Is this a done deal or is there something yet ...

Season and waves new technology reduce heatrelated deaths. Child who died after being left in a hot car. This is about 40 minutes. Ms. Schakowsky the chair now recognizes herself for five minutes or for an opening statement. Good morning and thank you for being with us today during todays hearing is about promoting auto safety and raising awareness about the threats families face on our nations roads and off the roads as well as we enter summer driving season. Threats ise vehicular heatstroke, w...

Lets please give a warm welcome to former Vice President joe biden. [applause] joy we got you your own chair, just for you. Mr. Biden reverend anyways, never mind. Joy great to have you here. We are going to jump right in. Reverend, are you going to start it off, or bishop barber . Sorry, you have an opening statement. I just violated our rules. Four minutes for you, mr. Vice president. Mr. Biden i thought you made a mistake. Does it count getting to the podium . Hey, everybody. Thanks for being...

Good morning. The committee will come to order. We are here today to discuss the outlook for the 2019 wildfire season. As we know, its underway, certainly underway in my state. I know its underway in washington state, california most certainly, and weve all received [inaudible] yeah. West virginia, youre okay right now. But if you look at that map, that red in the southwest is something to Pay Attention to as well. Excuse me. Last week the National Interagency fire center released its monthly wi...