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Additional economic sanctions on russia. This is just over two hours. Go. The committee will come to order. Twant to welcome our panelists and thank them for taking time co to or to share their perspective with committee on developments in ukraine, which appear only slightly less ominous than they did in act one of this crisis. Now, were in the beginning of t act twhao with the successful election of a president by the ukrainian people, intion of pren internationally certifie certifd elections, ...

Reasons. Laces we cannot deport people to, like cuba, for example. And our job is not to house these people, to house people strictly for criminal violations. That is our role. So if they have completed their senses through the u. S. Their sentences through the u. S. Criminal justice system, there is not much we can do. They focused on people who committed recent crimes. Unfortunately we are tight on time. We have been speaking with alan gomez from usa today. That is all the time we have today o...

Thanks to our colleagues and witnesses for working with the staff to enable us to put this hearing together fairly quickly. The purpose as you know is to examine 1691 the Border Patrol act of 2014 introduced by senator tester and mccain and this bill would make the badly needed reforms to the system of the Border Patrol for discourtesy too complicated and difficult to manage. I want to talk about what is happening currently along the borders over the past few years have seen a surge in the unaut...

The Obama Administration is looking for congressional approve. To launch a limited attack on syria in response to the use of chemical weapons. The secretary of state made his care to the Senate Committee today, and will get to that story in just a moment. But we begin with an al jazeera investigation. Documents obtained by al jazeera reveal that the state department knew of Systematic Security problems at u. S. Diplomatic posts including benghazi and failed to correct them. Some of the key findi...

Nations. This is a difficult problem for president obama. A lot of energy was focused when it came to combating terrorism. And what i can say with confidence is that when it comes to our domestic operations, the concerns that people have back home in the United States of america, that we do not sur veil the American People or persons within the United States, that are surveil c, that there are a lot of checks and balances to avoid a surveillance state. That a lot of times human endeavors have no...

Mohyeldin and louse burgdorf. The republicans are out with the plan to replace obamacare. The proposed bill called the american Affordable Act was released last night. The gop plan would eliminate a requirement for individuals to Purchase Health care. And it sets a 2020 deadline to restrict the Affordable Care act, Medicaid Expansion and being able to use the socalled Health Savings account. It will provide tax credits to encourage people to provide insurance. Thats a change from obamacare where...

Conservatives arent thrilled because the plan falls way short of a full Obamacare Repeal. Moderates are mad because among other things the senate plan slashes medicaid funding for the elderly and poor. And at the moment, contains no money to help with the opioid epidemic. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell calls the new framework a good start. While he says changes are welcome, he wants to fast track a final vote next week. Through dozens of meetings open to each and every member of the conf...

And others are on the fence. Does the bill have any real chance of passing . Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Breaking news, President Trump finally comes clean on want subject of secret white house recordings, six weeks after he tweeted a warning that fired fbi director james comey better hope there are no tapes of their conversations. Today, in another tweet, the president admitted he did not make any recordings and does not have any recordings. That com...

Being on the planet having fun at the expense . Reporter when President Trump said, james comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversation he waited over 59,000 minutes, 341 days, nearl six weeks to declare, quote, i did not make and do not have any such recordings. The president was asked early on about his claims. I wont talk about that. All i want is for comey to be honest and i hope he will be and im sure he will, i hope. Reporter no elaboration from the president about why he w...

Theyre the real victims in the death of Otto Warmbier. And Dennis Rodman is just back from his visit is north creek. He says people dont see the good side of north korea. It involves karaoke. Lets get to it. Breaking news now on fox news channel. Another republican has just sent word that he will vote no on the new republican healthcare bill. The senator is dean heller of nevada. He says hes out. Unless compromises change things, the bill cannot pass without democratic support and its not coming...