Ukraine for tion help. And that the white house e tried to cover it up. On thursday, the acting director of national intelligence, joseph mcguire, testified before congress about the complaint which he called quote unpreced ted. It centers phone call the president held with the ukraine president in july where he asked him repeatedly to open a torruption investigation his 2020 president ial rival, joe biden. On tuesday, House Speaker nancy pelosi announced the start of a formal impeachment inquiry against the pepresident accusin him of betraying his oath of president tr called the p fice. Impeachment inquiry quote a witchhunt and attacked the credibility and charactetlof ujoining us now via skype from washington dc is political reporter jessica taylor. And here in studio the editor politics and government, scott shafer. Jessica taylor and scott shafer, thank you for bein here. Scott, of course given californias representation and congressional leadership, we are playing a prominent ro i
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Hearing. And topics are farm bill, and trade relations with china and the status of the disaster aid programs. This is about 2 15. This joint hearing of the subcommittees on the general farm commodities and Risk Management and livestock and foreign agriculture in order to review the title of Disaster Relief will come to order. Thank you. And thank you for coming to the joint committee on farm commodities and risk committees and farm agriculture. I am pleased to be joined by my chair mr. Acosta and the esteemed Ranking Member mr. Thompson and mr. Rouser. Welcome to the chairman Collin Peterson and my texas Ranking Member mike conaway. This is coming at a important time for farmers. The usda and the food conservation area, and the farm agency is in the middle of a huge job. The fpac and other needs of farmers and ranchers and Rural Communities that is meant to assist the farmer most harmed by the administrations trade war and the expanded wildfire and Indemnity Program or w. H. I. P. Plu
From their platforms. This is a matter of serious importance to the safety and wellbeing of her nations communities. I sincerely hope we can engage in a collaborative discussion about what more can be done within the jurisdiction of this committee to keep our communities safe from those wishing to do us harm. Today we welcome representatives from the Worlds Largest social Media Companies and on line platforms. We hear from ms. Monika bickert, head of the local policy management for facebook. And mr. Nick pickles Public Policy director of twitter. Mr. Derek slater global director of information policy at google and mr. George salim Senior Vice President of programs for the antidefamation league. Over the past two decades the United States has let the world in development of social media and other services that allow people to connect with one another. Open platform like Google Twitter facebook and instagram and youtube have dramatically change the way we communicate and have been used p
Leaving a trail of destruction and devastation of the bahamas for at least five people have been killed. More than 2 million americans and florida, georgia and carolinas have been warned to evacuate, the category two storm makes landfall is still unknown. For the latest on Hurricane Dorians path, Senior Correspondent rick joining us tonight life from Atlantic Beach florida. There are still long sections of the 40 coastline that could be bondable as dorian makes his way north, we are told is further east from the coast in the worst the residence could be spared the worst. We could get brushed by Tropical Storm just possibly even hurricane just as the storm makes its way north. Theyve taken a lot of precautions across the cours coe and lotto schools remain close and shelters to open, several air force close, more than 1800 flights were canceled alone, 650 flights are already canceled for tomorrow, the coast guard has moved assets in and out of position trying to protect ships and other e