Take executive action that could lead to the reopening of secret overseas cia prisons. He is also moving forward on building a wall on the u. S. Mexican border. The secretary of Homeland Security, working with myself and my staff, will begin immediate construction of a border wall. Amy we will look at trumps executive actions and the growing resistance to his policies. Then to a sundance exclusive. Here in park city, as jay z premieres his new docuseries, time the Khalief Browder story about a teenager jailed who ultimately commit suicide after being jailed at rikers for three years without trial, most of that time in solitary confinement, i ask him whether rikers should close. If that happens to one kid, anyplace that can happen to any good should be closed. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President trump has begun a sweeping crackdown on immigration and against undocumented immigrants currently
Liz breaking news. President trump just followed through on that campaign promise. He just signed executive orders putting in place extreme vets for visa and refugee applicants from terror hot spots. Another one to rebuild our armed forces. We have all the details tonight. Welcome to risk and risk reward, im Liz Macdonald in for deirdre bolton. This is just the first week. Im establishing new vetting measures to keep radical islamic terrorists out of the United States of america. We dont want them here. We want to insure that we are not admitting into our country the very threats our soldiers are fighting overseas. We only want to admit those into our country who will support our country, and love, deeply our people. Liz most sweeping changes in four decades. They have not been changed like this since the Vietnamese Resettlement Program in the 1970s. The president spoke to fox about why extreme vetting was necessary now. Were going to have extreme vetting. Well have extreme vetting for
Good morning everyone. Welcome to the american enterprise. My name is mark and thank you for being here today. Were 15 years after the attack of September September 11, 2001. For those of us who live through it feels like yesterday. I think everyone of us remembers where they were on september 11, 2001 and how stunned our nation was at the ability of terrorists to penetrator defenses and reeked distraction. What do they want, most important like, what else are they planning. Today we take for granted the fact that we know the answers. We know they were attacked and taken out by al qaeda and Osama Bin Laden and in the early days after 9 11 we didnt know that. We knew nothing about the enemy who hit us. For the operational commanding or who the accomplishes were. On pronounced us there is to terror there that were waiting wavearry out the second way. There is the case im not work and then the humbling network which was a network of Southeast Asia terrorists who was recruited because they
Good morning everyone. Welcome to the american enterprise. My name is mark and thank you for being here today. Were 15 years after the attack of September September 11, 2001. For those of us who live through it feels like yesterday. I think everyone of us remembers where they were on september 11, 2001 and how stunned our nation was at the ability of terrorists to penetrator defenses and reeked distraction. What do they want, most important like, what else are they planning. Today we take for granted the fact that we know the answers. We know they were attacked and taken out by al qaeda and Osama Bin Laden and in the early days after 9 11 we didnt know that. We knew nothing about the enemy who hit us. For the operational commanding or who the accomplishes were. On pronounced us there is to terror there that were waiting wavearry out the second way. There is the case im not work and then the humbling network which was a network of Southeast Asia terrorists who was recruited because they
If that comes with the general, ill take it. If it comes with civilian, ill take it. There are too few leaders in either strike. We leave this program now and take out to Dirksen Senate office. There is a confirmation hearing for dan coats, nominee for director of National Intelligence. Dan coats is former u. S. Senator from indian. The chairman of the Intelligence Committee is richard burr of north carolina. This is live coverage on cspan 3. I call this hearing to order. I would like to welcome our witness today, senator dan coats, President Trumps nominee to be the next director of National Intelligence. Dan, congratulations on your nomination and welcome back. Im sure you didnt expect to be walking these halls so soon after your retirement. I would also like to welcome back your wife and my good friend, marcia, and i want to thank her for her support for you and her willingness to share you with the rest of the country. Ive known both of you for many years and ive seen firsthand the