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Here to describe some of the events from those months is air force colonel thomas schaefer, the senior ranking military hostage who was performing duty as Defense Attache at the time of the takeover. Col. Schaefer thank you, claude. It is indeed a pleasure to be here today with you, for me to tell you about my experience, to share with you some of the major items that i have gone through to possibly help you in a future situation. Either as a hostage or captive. Doesrobably would ask, how one cope with this type of experience . All, initially after it happened, as we were taken forgot, purposely, i forgot about how it happened. I got rid of that, accepted the fact that i was a captive and did not dwell on it. Disciplined in this type of a situation, in this environment, to establish a take us purposely to every hour of the day while you are awake. 12 to 14ns maybe a hour schedule. Faith inmaintain the his country and in his government, his or her that they are doing as much as possible
Continues. Host according to gallup, more americans than ever before say immigration is the top issue facing this country and we will spend a gross the rest of this program talking about that topic. We are joined by Washington Post immigration reporter were rhea. Ic eddie Maria Sacchetti federal Detention Center for immigrant families and children. Why were you there and what did you see . Guest immigration and Customs Enforcement runs family detention. A lot of what viewers cr Border Patrol jails. You see little girls sleeping on the ground. They have recently crossed the border, jails where nobody is supposed to spend more than a few days. The family Detention Centers are hold very few people right now. They could hold more and the Trump Administration wants to expand them. They opened their doors to the media, they have never had this many cameras before and they let us take our own photos. They want to show people how they want to expand family detention and how comprehensive they
the senate does not have. so is this going to get done today, tomorrow, or certainly before june 5th? reporter: we re hoping before june 5. senators are trying to haggle if they can do this today or if they can do this tomorrow. there is a real desire here to not have to work the weekend, and it s probably a combination of that desire, some jet fumes, the need to get out of town, and then also an agreement on amendments that s likely to get us there. one of the things that s holding this up is people like senator lindsey graham who are unhappy about the way they see defense spending capped in the current bill. he s upset with his own party for negotiating this. here s what he had to say about this. watch. i blame myself for not being more involved and more active because in my wildest dreams, i never believed that the republican party would take the biden budget that they ve attacked for a year and celebrate it as fully funding. reporter: and look, graham is not the onl
republicans. this is a big deal, that would be enough to reach the 60 votes necessary to pass. if successful, it could be the most significant federal action on gun violence in nearly three decades. but it doesn t include many popular proposals like raising the age to buy an assault weapon to 21. the washington post, leigh ann caldwell, walk me through what s through the framework and this? bell yeah, what s in this bill some are calling very significant even from the gun safety group say that this is a great first step. what this bill does, it creates incentives for states to implement stronger red flag laws. that s where someone can say that a person is dangerous, should not have a gun. it also closes the boyfriend loophole, which is interesting because domestic partners, spouses can raise a red flag, the domestic partners can t. so, it closes that. it also enables people to go to purchase an assault weapon from ages 18 to 21, it requires a call to the police station, whe