Executive privilege to keep his files with robert hurt. The house committees were voting to start the process to hold Merrick Garland in contempt. Your reaction to the shielding of the audio and the response i got from capitol hill. Democrats 202 7488000, for republicans 202 7488001 for independents 202 7488002 text your thoughts 202 7488003 on facebook facebook. Com cspan and ask at cspanwj. Usa today takes a look at yesterday. Biden invokes executive privilege to seal robert hurt tapes he wanted to keep the recording of the deposition about storing confidential documents. The confrontation creates an election gear flashpoint between republicans who have threatened biden, garland with impeachment. At issue, the recordings of the interview that led him to report that mr. Biden is sympathetic, wellmeaning, elderly man with the core memory. The response from the white house yesterday garnered a letter. The absence of a legitimate ne for the recording to chop them up and distort them and
Major investis in our countrys history by the u. S. House and senate. Each week, writers and historians tell the stories and see historic footage from the periods and examine the impacts of key congressional hearings. This week we look at the investigation that followed the deadly 1993 siege at the Branch Davidian compound near waco, texas and what its meant in the years that followed. Watch congress investigates, 7 p. M. Eastern on saturdays, cspan2. Up next, state and local Law Enforcement officials talk about the challenges facing their local agencies. Some of the topics covered include gun violence, Work Force Recruitment and retention and the ongoing fentanyl crisis and shared by congressman mark greene. At the start of the hearing there was a moment of silence for donald payne, jr. Who died recently and who served on the committee. The committee on Homeland Security will come to order, without objection the chair may declare the committee in recess at any point. Before we have th
Next House Speaker mike johnson taking part in a ceremony unveiling a statue of the late rev. Billy graham at the us capitol area the speaker joined by Billy Grahams son and the North Carolina congressional delegation. Billy graham was a wellknown evangelical christian figurefrom North Carolina. He died in 2018. This is about 50minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, the hon. Mike johnson, speaker of the United States house of representatives. [applause] good morning everyone. Its a true honor to have you here and as speaker of the house it is my pleasure to welcome you here as we honor one of americas greatest citizens and enduring heroes. Our capital as you know is filled with monuments to our history. They teach us about where we were and where we are and where we are going as a nation. The statue of the oldest man in the capital is john winthrop, he was an english puritan lawyer and one of the leading founders ad of the Massachusetts Bay colony of 1630. He symbolizes how our country began m
Quite often in our most famous decisions are ones that the court took that were unpopular. Lets go to a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to landmark cases and 2 3 of the way of 12week series looking at Historic Supreme Court zigs. Brown v. Board of education and listen to linda brown on the roots of this case. My memory of brown began in the fall of 1950. In the quiet kansas town of topeka, where a mildmannered man took his 7yearold daughter by the hand and walked briskly to the allwhite school and tried without success to enroll his child. That parent in topeka child to enroll their children was long overdue. Many evenings my father would arrive home to find my mother upset because i had to take a walk like she did many years before and catch a school bus and debus two miles across town. I can remember that walk.
Officers to understand what we expect, we the community, expect them to do. Host will johnson, former police chief of arlington, texas, fromef 2 and fourth Vice President the national assothk you so much for joining us. Guest iq for having me. House Speaker Mike Johnson delivered a tribute to Fallen Police officers during a prayer vigil on capitol hill. Joining the speaker at the podium was the widow of Atlantic City Police Officer Thomas Mcmeekin and retired nypd detective thomas donahue, widower of lieutenant maure donahoe. [inaudible conversations] [inaud conversations] well, we want to thank you all for being here ons a somber evening. Theres a biblical admonition that we are to give honor where honor is and we take that very seriously. And during National Police w and head of peace officers memorial day, we give much lawrved recognition to our enforcement officers and in particular of courseallen in th. The men and women all of o enforcement are l the minimum ad to who pursue just