Subcommittee on Border Operations will come to order. It is meeting today to receive testimony on the adequacy of dhs efforts to prevent child deaths in custody. Without objection the jurors authorized an endpoint. It has unanimous consent there would be permitted to sit and question the witnesses. The chair asked with unanimous consent dissent as the witnesses. Without objection, so ordered. Jacqueline hall mccain. Seven years old. In the big gomez angel. Darlene valley, ten years old. One areas, 15 years old. Will mayor two years old. Carlos hernandez frescoes, 16 years old. They used to six children died in the custody of the United States government just in the past 18 months. They used to children were migrants from Central America who died of preventable conditions that went untreated. Three of they used to children since the spent the last hours of their lives in detention facilities on the southern border. We must never forget their names, their suffering, their terrible losses
The hearing will come back to order. And for the outstanding work you have done, thank you this has to be one of the hardest jobs in government to be the impartial watchdog and with those Government Agencies as important as department of justice and fbi i want you to know how much we appreciate your work and your teams work likewise it is important even though we are critical of the leadership of the fbi during the last administration the way they mishandled this counterintelligence investigation and the colleagues need to know that we are there for them and support them in the faithful discharge of their responsibilities. I served that there is no more ardent supporter. And i believe that general hayden when he wrote his book had it right it is called playing to the edge not over the line but up to the edge so that also makes it important for us to root out the illegality and the exercise of those that are given to the Intelligence Community. So let me ask you about that. Because i ca
This is for an argument in the case of versus truck. Nice to see you again. Thank you. Thomas byron on behalf of the government defend it with is ecker for the department of Defense Office of general counsel. This case is about an internal transfer of funds among deities accounts. In the internal transfer itself, didnt harm plaintiffs in fact they contend otherwise for the content that their interests will harmed by the subsequent downstream use of those funds for construction of border barriers and roads. But the transfer itself was authorized by a provision in the appropriations act. In that provision was not designed to protect the kind of interest that the plaintiffs here assert against quote recreational a set environmental that they face. This zone of interest requirement which is the universal requirement, so weather they are seeking a review of the ata or on an equitable overviews, claim, and applies in any event and it asked this quote to determine whether those kinds of inter
Again back in business. And excited to welcome doctor chris fourmac. And for those of you in the know, is of course secretary of state for international. It previously done a tour on President Trump. He worked previously in capitol hill brent naval reserve, but most important link all around great guy. And through these conversations going to be a lot of fun. He held from cincinnati. Home of finley market i might add. Not bad. [laughter]. Will give a few framing remarks and then give you a little time to ask clarifying questions. That went out, chris, welcome back. [applause]. Thanks ryan, its great to be back here. I applaud your assistance. After last time in rescheduling this of the explosion. Its actually not that bad. Those of you have been around washington the long remembered there was a series of exploding mantles in georgetown in the mid 1990s are so afraid thank you for cheaping at it and thanks to all of you are wheeling to come back. It is been nearly ten years since the la
Betray them on brexit. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Police in new zealand say they dont expect to find any more survivors after a volcano in new zealand erupted without warning. At least five people have died and several more are missing. The volcano on on white island to the north of the country is a popular tourist attraction. The sudden eruption happened just after 2pm local time. Its feared passengers from a cruise ship were looking at the volcanos crater when it started spewing ash thousands of feet into the air. Police say more than 20 people are still unaccounted for and Officials Say it is currently too dangerous for Emergency Services to travel to the island to establish exactly what happened. Our news correspondent Richard Lister has been following developements and has this report. A boiling ash cloud fills the sky. These day trippers had a lucky escape. They had been on that island just minutes before. They left behind a sightseeing helicopter, destroyed by t