I will start with some good news well, first of all, i will start with thinking our witnesses for being here and thanking them for their service to our country. Further service to the country. Both served their country in various capacities for a long time, not an easy thing to do. I appreciate that and look forward to continuing to work with you. Unlike last year, we have a budget agreement, and last year we spend a lot of time talking about how difficult it is to run while anything in the government but certainly the department of defense without Appropriations Bills in a timely manner. Last year we were off by 3. 5 months, Something Like that thats better than drifting into the next year. We did get appropriation bills done by december of last year which gives some predictability to the department i think that is enormously important. This year we hope to come a little closer to october 1 certainly on the authorizing bill that also the appropriation bill but most importantly, we hav
My count there were 60 or 70 people out here tonight. The police are out here on the scene but so far everything has been peaceful. Now, the folks out here protesting accuse the city of wasting millions on a problem that they say keeps getting worse. Critical of the citys policy of tearing down encampments and throwing away personal property. The city of course says the encampments are a health and fire danger so they have to do that. Now, as we talked about earlier the protests began earlier today ask ktvu was out here talking to some of the people involved. Reporter a collection of encampments and individuals pitched tents outside of Oakland City Hall on sunday. It is a protest of oaklands handling of new housing and growing homelessness. They point to the millions in funding to support the home tphaols it homeless. That was to provide people with portapotties and water and solar powered hand washing stations. We believe the city wasted the money. The mayor has not followed the direc
Enclosures in the best way forward and handling payment disputes. This is two hours and 20 minutes [inaudible conversations] the committee on Health Education labor and will come to order. Senator murray has an important meeting right now and she has asked me to proceed with the hearing because we have six excellent witnesses and we want to make sure that we hear from each of you. We want the senators to have a chance to ask questions of each of these so patty should arrive around 10 lock. When she comes we will enter and let her make her Opening Statement and then we will resume the hearing. Good morning senator murphy. Nearly a year ago after brent james from the National Academy testified before the Senate Health committee with a startling statistic. Up 21 2 of what the American People spend on Health Care May be unnecessary. Let me repeat that. Up to half of the 3. 5 trillion the United States collectively spent on health care in 2017 was unnecessary according to dr. James and many
It looks like bidens legal team is going to try to force the government to abide by the original and totally ludicrous deal. Their statement said that hunter will continue to follow the conditions of that agreement on july 20th, 20233. That the Probation Office had agreed to and had recommended put into effect. If the Court Upholds whether as called this pretrial Diversion Agreement. I think its unlikely, hunter would skate charge or any other tax evasion charges that stem out of that same time period. Here to break this all down. Other breaking news Sol Wisenberg former deputy independent counsel, Fox News Contributor and david schoen former trump impeachment lawyer. Explain to us what is going on here. I think this came as a surprise to some people today that indeed the walls may be closing in and not on trump this time. It shouldnt have been a surprise because he is under, you know, there is a criminal investigation filed against hunter on the gun charge, and so Speedy Trial Act com
[ cheers and applause and now, Seth Meyers Seth good evening. Im seth meyers. This is late night. We hope youre doing well tonight. And now if you dont mind, were gonna get to the news. After the white house announced last week that the construction will resume on the border wall, President Biden told reporters, quote, i was told that i had no choice oh, man, i have a bad feeling were going to find out this was all the work of one really good telemarketer [ laughter ] they said if i build a border wall i get three months of spectrum internet. I had to do it. according to a new analysis, over one third of Supreme Court decisions are decided unanimously. The other two thirds are decided by whoever took Clarence Thomas on his last vacation [ laughter ] the irs last week placed a lien on a florida property owned by Rudy Giuliani. Im guessing the haunted mansion . [ laughter ] its all yours. Those ghosts wont let me sleep. [ laughter ] after leaving the white house, former President Trump r