Committee will come to order. Mr. Deputy attorney general, welcome to the commerce justice and science appropriations subcommittee which we will be hearing in department of justice fiscal year 2018 budget request. Im pleased to welcome you here to your first hearing before this subcommittee and im grateful that you and attorney general sessions have brought new desperately needed leadership to the doj. Youre input is helpful and necessary as we review the present Spending Priorities in order to ensure the countrys National Security and Law Enforcement needs are funded appropriately and sufficiently. This is a challenge in budget climates as you know. As Violent Crime has risen, the president proposes to decrease funding to the department of justice by 637 million in 18 for a new total of 28. 3 billion. Since the start of the new administration and during the early days of your tenure as the Deputy Attorney general im pleased that the department is refocusing on these core mission of en
Afternoon. The fbi secretly arrested an nsa kr contractor for stealing contract materials. He worked just like Edward Snowden. Another black eye for the firm and shares are moving slightly lower. We have details on what was allegedly stolen and the potential fallout here coming up. Meantime, salesforce. Com is reportedly getting more serious about this bid for twitter. Shares of both stocks moving in opposite directions, although there has been a comeback of sorts for twitter. Jim will get more on this. A possible bid for twitter by it sales force. The weaponization of finance. Thats when countries like the u. S. Use the power of banks to impose its will on other countries. Ian bremmer will explain the risks of this strategy. Its a lot to think about. Hes calling it after the gzero. Youve got the imf meetings tomorrow. This will help get us in the mood for global conversations. Lets start with western crude at 50 a barrel. Plus this discovery, more oil off the coast of alaska. Jackie d
Clarifying when some of the timelines would be for compliance. Just to quickly go over that we are adding into our definition section advisory body, city boards and city commissions. We are giving formerly tier 2 departments until next fiscal year to comply with the parts specifically regarding interpretation and translation. We recognize they may need to make some budget asks to comply so we want to encourage them to do so. We are clarifying telephonic messages do not include employee mailboxes. We are including for complaints received through city boards, city commissions and advisory bodies they will be part of the complaint process. We are adding Additional Information that ocea will provide specifically on complaints to the irc, and so again i know that supervisor yee has additional comments but we really want to emphasize that our goal is not to overburden our departments with these requirements. Many of them exist already but we want to make sure that everyone has the ability to
Projects left and right, ton night for the first time cosby on camera dodging questions. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. Lets get right to our Chris Oconnell whose life is temples campus tonight. Cosbys alma mater. Chris. Reporter iain, as more women come forward accusing bill cos beef Sexual Assault the fallout continues. Tonight the legendary comedian talking about the scandal. No, no, we dont answer that. Reporter business bee on the hot seat in a just released Associated Press interview broadcast tonight on inside edition. He sat down to talk about his Art Collection with his wife camille. Cosby wasnt talking about the renewed allegations that he sexually assaulted more than 15 women. Theres no response. Can i ask you with the persona that people know about bill cosby should they believe anything differently . Theres no comment about that. The latest alleged victim former super mold Dell Janice Dick Ken son. She claims cosby drugged and assaulted her the lake tahoe reso
Edition. He sat down to talk about his Art Collection with his wife camille. Cosby wasnt talking about the renewed allegations that he sexually assaulted more than 15 women. Theres no response. Can i ask you with the persona that people know about bill cosby should they believe anything differently . Theres no comment about that. The latest alleged victim former super mold Dell Janice Dick Ken son. She claims cosby drugged and assaulted her the lake tahoe resort back in 1982. The next morning i woke up and i wasnt wearing my pajamas and i remember before i passed out i had been sexually assaulted by this man. Reporter dickinson is the third woman to come forward with similar claims against cosby, renewed interest was fueled by an october routine by comedian Hannibal Burris where cosby was called rapist. Cosbys lawyer call the latest allegation a complete lie. These are allegations. Innocent until Proven Guilty much thats what american is all about report roar mixed reaction at Temple U