He met to learn abandon trends across the globe and hear about possible solutions. Please come in and take your seats. We are ready to begin our hearing. Good afternoon, everyone. And thank you for attending todays hearing on global efforts to counter antisemitism. I would like to this our distinguished witnesses for joining us to offer their expertise and recommendations and i would also like to thank senator manchin and his office for securing this room for us today. The International Commission on religious freedom is an independent bipartisan u. S. Government advisory body created by the 1998 religious freedom act. Or irfa. The commission monitors the universal right to freedom of religion or belief abroad, using International Standards to do so. And we then make recommendations, policy recommendations to congress, to the president of the United States, and to the secretary of state. Today as were gathered here for this hearing, ucerf is exercising its Statutory Authority under the
Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 a skinhead who shop lifts a beer, why would you ever end that case without requiring that person to undergo a tolerance program. So ive had the great privilege of sitting down with prosecution and Law Enforcement leaders, in jersey city, in tea neck, in new york and now by the way also in germany, i met with prosecutors and justice officials, from seven separate german states, to coordinate our efforts, and specifically to talk about dealing with hate crimes, even when the conduct is very low level. Because if we intervene, early, in an alienated angry kids life, not only are we protecting the Jewish Community from future violence, but we are doing the best thing we could do for that young man, by intervening and correcting their path. And so this is a critical point. Commissioner bauer . Always great to see you, sir. And i commend you for the work that youre doing. I dont want to invite you to get into an area of American For
the senate? no, we made very clear what the requirements of the house were. that is to solve the problem at the border. is donald trump calling the shots here, mr. speaker? of course not. he s not calling the shots. i am calling the shots for the house. that s our responsibility. of course not. but trump did tell them to do nothing about the border this year because republicans can t afford to give it up as an election issue. also tonight, how trump managed to delay, delay, delay his criminal trials. something no regular citizen would be able to do. plus, as trump openly roots for a crash, joe biden presides over what even trump advisers admit is a whopper of an economy. but we begin tonight with an emergency. a crisis, a catastrophe, at least that s what republican lawmakers have spent the last few month calling the situation at the southern border. one thing is absolutely clear. america is at a breaking point with record levels of illegal immigration. it is an u
skate in. the rest of us have to go home because eugene has upstage us all. congratulations of the further review. you re all separately great friends of mine and i love that this has come together so beautifully. we will be watching tomorrow and every weekend. congratulations and i will see while later. thank you. have a good night, ali. good morning to all of. u.s. saturday the 13th. i m ali velshi. we are two days away now from the iowa republican caucuses. the first in the nation khamenei to contest that kicks off the 2024 election season. caucuses, as you may know, originally from that old school political tradition that demands that participants physically attend the meeting in order to participate. caucus goers have to sign in, they report to the respective precincts on monday night. beginning at seven pm, local time, representatives for each candidate to brief speeches in each case caucus candidate for choice in a secret ballot. there s no early voting, ther
good evening. we begin with the closing arguments in the historic first ever criminal trial of a former u.s. president. arguments that are still under way as we speak. in fact, the 12-member jury in donald trump s hush money election interference trial is hearing its seventh hour of summations right now. nearly three hours for the defense followed by four hours for the prosecution with the clock still running. it appears they will continue tonight until the prosecution finishes. over the last four hours the prosecution has been arguing that the case comes down to three things. that they claim they have proven. one, that there were in fact false business records that the false business records were intended to cover up conspiracy related to the 2016 election. number three, that donald trump was personally involved. prosecutor joshua stein glass has been taking them through it, starting with the meeting with trump, michael cohen, and the former national enquirer publisher dav