Americas elections. I will now recognize myself when Opening Statement. Yesterday the director of National Intelligence testified that, quote, the greatest challenge we have as a nation is making sure to maintain the integrity of our election system come close quote. Excuse me. I agree. Our democracy was founded on a government elected by the people, for the people and free and fair elections. They are elections very core of our democracy under a aa tactic special counsel most report in no Uncertain Terms detailed how reform government attack on her 2016 elections. The russian objectives were clear, deep in distress and discord in a society come secure the election of one candidate of president over the other, and in so doing undermined confidence in the integrity of our elections and damaged our nations standing in the world. There is no evidence russian affected the actual vote count of our elections but russia did successfully steal thousands of documents from american citizens that
To the invention of supersonic aircrafts the push for whats possible, revolutionized travel. What was once novel yes even dangerous has become commonplace bordering on monday. And is year over year the safest way to travel the world, in 2018 along the, u. S. And Foreign Airlines kara come by one billion passengers, roughly one ace of the entire global population. Right now i can fly from d. C. Texas in last than 100 dollars. We have democratized transportation in the way the right brothers, could never imagined. This evolution has not without challenges, from deadly often preventable crashes to, simply setting up a system that managed to traffic, we have had ingenious safer machines, crashing, inland new system to meet our really neat. In short, we have to adapt as the landscape changes. Which brings us to the topic of today, improving and modernize air Traffic Control for the American People i. Want to make clear from the start that i am sure the air Traffic Control, efforts from prev
Thats a significant contrast to where the Democratic Caucus is and the extent to which you have had particularly the democratic members and seats who have a huge disconnect between what their constituents wnat and why those voters sent them to washington and whats happening here with the Democratic Caucus and where youve got members who went home who are democrats who promised that they would bring jobs back and who promised they would work across the aisle and who promised that they would find Common Sense Solutions to problems their constituents were facing and instead what weve all seen is a terribly radical, dangerous agenda coming out of the democrats and one that were going to see continue certainly. We are already seeing that now. Both in terms of the kinds of substance that theyre focused on. Their efforts to kill fossil fuels and their efforts to fund the american citizens and their determination to go down the path of impeachment and on impeachment, what were seeing is and th
A buffer zone of the United States doesnt cooperate and do it with them so it undermines u. S. Efforts to destroy isis and to destroy hideout in this it liber area Hurricane Dorian remains a notch category 4 storm its currently east of the bahamas and remains at threat to the u. S. East coast in florida dorian hays also seen as a test of new nursing home regulations were put in place have to 12 people died when at conditioning failed during 827000 storm and to get a half a story. Now a category 4 storm with sustained winds in excess of 230 Kilometers Per Hour or again dorian is edging closer to the u. S. The southeast coast in florida a state of emergency has been declared in dozens of counties as people board up their homes fuel their cars and brace themselves in case a hurricane makes landfall after 12 residents of a nursing home died from heat exhaustion during Hurricane Irma in 2017 the states and acted strict guidelines for floridas many assisted living facilities Hurricane Dorian
Though it remains unclear where or if it will make landfall. Troops will join thousands of volunteers from across south america to battle wildfires in bolivia fires along the amazon has been burning out of control for weeks doubling in size since thursday or latin america and its here in the c. N. N. Has gone from san ignacio in eastern bolivia. Soldiers arrive in sunday to help combat wildfires. Settled by missionaries in the late 6900 is being converted into an Operations Center for the firefighting effort. Night in the wildfires spreading out of control fanned by strong winds a prolonged drought and extremely high temperatures. And see how the animals in the forest are burning but we are proud to be able to help these soldiers are going off again to fight the fires but as you can see theyre not very well equipped they dont look like firemen they dont have the equipment of firemen their boats have rubber soles that can easily melt in the flames and in the intense heat and they also d