The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. The presiding officer madam president , last week the Judiciary Committee held its hearing on judge Amy Coney Barretts nomination and it was easy to see why judge barrett is held in such high regard by her colleagues, students, and peers and why the American Bar Association gave her its highest rating of well qualified. We knew well before the hearing that judge barrett possesses an extraordinary intelligence and comprehensive command of the law. After three days of testimony americans got to see her qualifications for themselves. They saw why she has been described as a jurist, a formidable intellect, a brilliant and conscientious lawyer and staggering academic mind. Even the democratRanking Member on the committee couldnt hide the fact that she was impressed. Judge barrett understands the proper role of a judge in our system of government. As judge barrett made clear, she understands the job of a judge is to interpret the law, not
Backed is the misuse coronavirus to propagandize against the west we speak to the author of a new book about the rise of the u. S. U. K. Backed islam is a true one of its lesser known figureheads the anti communist firebrand of donna has another place to be in the 1980 s. If you saw terror around the world theres new york texas and california all the civil coming up in todays going underground the 1st u. K. Prime minister baraks johnsons 1st full day back in downing street was marked by revelations his government has been deliberately inflating the amounts of life saving equipment available to doctors nurses and cleaners on the front line against corona virus a pair of surgical gloves was considered to be 2 items of p p and this came just as johnsons Health Secretary matt hancock offered 60000. 00 pounds pay off for dead frontline n. H. S. Staff joining me now from cumbria in the north west of england is the former president of the u. K. Faculty of Public Health president ashton john t
The committee will come to order. Without objection, all members have five days to visit made statements and questions for the record subject to the limitation of the rules. Ambassador wells and ms. Friedman, welcome to the members of the public and the press as well. We are glad to have our friends from cspan here as well. We need this mornings of the committee conduct oversight of the administrations policy towards afghanistan and iran now recognize myself for an opening statement. For months weve been attempting to get some visibility into the ongoing peace negotiations without success. We all want peace and the fighting in afghanistan do and do. Congress needs to know what the potential deal looks like and members need the chance to ask questions and offer views and in the last few weeks, weve seen the reconciliation process go off the rails in a spectacular fashion area to be learned from a president ial message that the administration was planning to host the caliban at camp davi
A war with iran isnt that what will your president s doing now i the guy i did a tour in our usa today on this im not going to dispute you on the deep state i think theres a constant hole to push countries are our 2 countries by the white think were very closely affiliated in a military conflict and i think its very dangerous the current chairman of the joint chiefs by the way an obama appointee general Joseph Dunford is i think been very effective in mitigating in creating an understanding of what is realistic remember it was general dunford by with and through strategy working with our regional allies not putting a large land army back into into iraq which actually was able to defeat isis and we have to and you know present trumpton want to set a serious so i think that iran there are truly issues of mutual interest between our 2 countries because the iranian. The mole is the ocracy rich runs it does hate the west and they hate by the way the sunni the sunni arabs so its not just us
police after firing a nail gun into the fbi s cincinnati field office. while on saturday, armed protesters gathered near the fbi s office in phoenix, arizona. and in the last 24 hours, just checking the ex-president s truth social account, he is still releasing statements criticizing the fbi and justice department, just as his explanations for why he even had classified documents at mar-a-lago keep shifting. as the new york times lays out, first, he says that he was working and cooperating with government agents, who he claimed had inappropriately entered his home. then, when the government revealed that the fbi had recovered nearly a dozen sets of documents that were marked classified, he suggested the agents had planted evidence. finally, his aides claimed he had a standing order to declassify documents that left the oval office for his residence and that some of the material was protected by attorney general/client and executive privilege. the evolving arguments are ex