An opening statements. In five weeks time the dhs Inspector General has released two management alerts detailing dangerous conditions at u. S. Customs and Border Protection facilities in texas. According to the ig some of these facilities conditions are so bad that they require immediate attention and action. The first alert focused on the detention of single adults and detailed quote, the dangerous holding conditions at the El Paso Processing Center but unfortunately this report was not a surprise to me and my colleagues and along with vice chair and chairman after i visited the same facility just a few months ago. Even then the conditions we observed were on acceptable and women, children and families were either outside waiting to and the facility jump into overcrowded shells and hallways. Prior to our visit we understood hundreds of families have been housed aside for days behind the Border Patrol facility and we expected to meet with them but to our surprise the tent was empty and
Washington, d. C. I am jen psaki. Chris hayes has the night off and will be back tomorrow night. Donald trump is back in court this morning for day 10, if you are counting, of his criminal trial. Todays proceedings began with another hearing on the ex president s repeated and i mean repeated violations of his gag order. We will talk about that later in the show for sure, but things really got interested once davidson returned to the stand today. He is the former lawyer for both of the women trump is accused of paying off. Karen mcdougal and Stormy Daniels. From the witness stand, davidson pulled back the curtain on a statement he wrote on behalf of daniels, seeming to deny her affair with trump. He admitted with trump sitting in front of him in the courtroom that the Stormy Daniels statement was designed to look like a denial. Basically a nondenial denial, you could say. The statement wrote i have recently became aware that certain news outlets are alleging i have a sexual or romantic
And the debate over campus debates in a moment. But first, heres whats happening right now. Columbia university is trying to clear the encampment on its main lawn to prepare for graduation ceremonies. It gave students a 2 00 p. M. Deadline to leave or risk suspension. So far they have not left. With columbias president saying in a statement, one groups rights to express their views cannot come at the expense of another groups right to speak, teach and learn. Let us get right to the campus. Joining us now is nbc news correspondent guad venegas. No, its antonia hylton, im sorry about that. Also nbc news digital senior white house reporter, peter nicholas. Sorry. Antonia, talk to me about what you have seen. So far it doesnt look like anybody has left . Reporter they have not left, and if anything, theyre emboldened at this point. As you can see behind me here, the encampment is still very much in tact. I have not seen a single tent come down. And actually, there arent that many students
Welcome to bloomberg surveillance bloomberg surveillance. Im mark barton in london. Festival of Central Banks, we have the ecb to come, the bank of england, the fed here. Down 1 5 of 1 . Uro, little change unchanged since the last ecb season, october 26. Hasnt fallen to one dollar 1587 on November November 7. Sterling up by 1 10 of 1 today. Today, but its politics thats affecting sterling today, having risen since fps last night. Theyre changing their governments planned legislation, so they guarantee they will get a meaningful vote on the final deal to leave the eu in negotiations for 2019. Coming up today on bloomberg surveillance, we will discuss markets with paul donovan, hear from the s p governor thomas jordan. But get to bloomberg first word news with Sebastian Salek sebastian the fed has raised rates by 25 basis points as widely expected. We also have a growth forecast next year, but maintaining projection of hikes 3 hikes in 2018. Saiding chair janet yellen this underlines tha
[inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Good evening and thank you all for being here and joining us. Its a somewhat unusual for the committee to meet in the evening hours. Tonights topic is one worth staying up late for. I want to keep our work this evening laser focused on the future on how we can all Work Together to create a better, brighter, healthier one for our veterans and for the Health Care System that weve built to serve. Rather than rehashing the mistakes we made long ago. As we begin to move forward this evening we mustnt lose sight of where we started. Three years ago next month in this very room, the Committee Heard testimony from a veteran who spoke about waiting almost a year for care from the department of Veterans Affairs medical facility in south carolina. When he was finally seen long after he should have been, he was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer that had spread to his liver and his lungs. He passed away in january last year. It was hi