[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] this subcommittee will come to order. Welcome everybody to todays hybrid hearing. Pursuant to house rules members will appear remotely via webex. A fact i may be the only member appearing in person, although all three of her witnesses are here in person. We appreciate that. Since many members are appearing by webinar let me remind everyone that pursuant to the latest guidance come all individuals attending in person must wear a face mask. And i am wearing mine except to make this statement. Members who are not wearing a face mask will not be recognized. Let me also make a few reminders to those members appearing in person. Well, actually they are not. I time is visible in the room directly in front of you. For all members appearin
When he found out about the briefing. I was told it was happening. I was told a week ago. They said, you know, theyre trying to start a rumor. Its disinformation. Reporter President Trump this week ousted navy veteran Joseph Maguire as acting director of national intelligence, replacing him with u. S. Ambassador to germany richard grenell, a vocal trump supporter with no previous intelligence experience. Grenells new deputy is another trump loyalist, cash patel, who h pateen told to clean house. Just today, the fifth top official since August Announced he was leaving. If you have somebody at the top who is overly responsive to the president , youre not going to get that kind of unbiased information, and its very, very, very dangerous for national security. Reporter today, Bernie Sanders revealed that he has been briefed on russian efforts to boost his campaign, and this is nothing new. The Mueller Investigation found that the russians also worked back in 2016 to boost the theers campai
A 4 year ban of from all major sporting events including the tokyo lympics and football world cup in qatar. Paulo we begin in syria where russian and Syrian Government forces are escalating their assault on the last rebel held province and strikes have caused a mass exodus in observers say 18000 people have been displaced by the ongoing bombardment in just 24 hours dozens of civilians have been killed with mostly small villages in the countryside targeted so far this is all happening despite a truce being in place since august it was announced by russia but it has been continually violated in recent weeks but to smith begins our coverage now with this report on a live look there was a market here in the southern italy village when the strikes began. Did you know they were russian jet. Its according to the syrian observatory for human rights. Volunteer white helmet how medics are there within minutes to do what theyve done thousands of times during the civil war trying to save the lives
Thank you all for swrojoining u today. The subcommittee will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. The decision to deport children with critical illnesses, a decision that was recently reversed following public outrage and pressure from the subcommittee. I will now recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement then turn to the Ranking Member. We are here to get to the bottom of the administrations mysterious campaign to deport critically ill children and their families. It appears that this policy has thankfully been reversed. They rose up in an outcry at the cold humanity on display. Im going to treat this hearing not only as an honor to Elijah Cummings, but as a hearing in direct pursuit of a policy objective that was close to his heart. The threatened deportation of Sick Children was such an outrage the to chairman cummings that his last official act before his death was to issue subpoenas to hold the administration to his account.
Its about 2 30am. Now its time for a look back at the day in parliament. Hello again, and welcome to monday in parliament, as borisjohnson tries and fails to force an early general election. The electorate will, im afraid, have a sense that we are all like charlie brown, endlessly running up to kick the ball, only to have Parliament Take it away. The lib dems want an early poll too, but its not their first choice. If there is not the support for a peoples vote in this parliament, then we need to look at the other way to do that. And in john bercows last week as speaker, an mp finally discovers how to impress him. He really is an encyclopaedia of arguably useful information. But first, Boris Johnsons latest attempt to persuade mps to vote for an early general election has failed. 0n the very day the Prime Minister had to accept a delay to brexit. We are not now leaving on thursday. Mrjohnson wants to hold an election on december the 12th, but under the law to thirds of mps, 434 of them,