Of the Trump Administrations muslim ban, i would like to welcome the members of t the subcommittee and oversight and investigations to this hearing. We are happy to be working on this important issue with you all today. Id also like to thank all of the majorityminority members in staff of both subcommittees for coordination and flexibility while planning this joint hearing particularly given the cancellation of yesterdays vote, i want to note that because of the cancellation not every member is able to be here today, but i did make a point of talking to mr. Columns and mr. Buck to be assure that they would be okay with proceeding and they assured me that they were since mr. Bigg and zeldon will be here, we do appreciate that flexibility and our opportunity to learn more and to probe issues about this matter. I really do think the hearing in many ways is overdue for 2 and a half years the administration has been allowed to arbitrarily ban from predominantly muslim countries and no overs
They suffered. On next peiser good to have you with us we begin in austria where project projections show that the party of conservative leader is about in quotes has clearly won todays snap parliamentary election the Peoples Party received about 37 percent of the folks far ahead of the social democrats who garnered 22 percent kurtzs former Coalition Partners at the far right Freedom Party received around 16 percent a sharp drop from the previous election the conservatives will probably need a Coalition Partner says is clear a stable majority todays snap vote came out after a Corruption Scandal and may involving curses far right Coalition Partners and led to the collapse of the government. Our correspondent max hoffman is at the headquarters of the people party in vienna sebastian course has done very well it would seem how much of a surprise is this. It was always ahead in the polls but not this far ahead to sort of a certain gamble because the whole campaign was focused on him some s
Captivity after hundreds of boys are rescued from an Islamic School in nigeria some are speaking out about the horrific abuse they suffered. A mixed by sir thanks for joining us austrias conservatives have won a resoundingly big 3 in the countrys snap parliamentary election early results indicate former chancellor sebastian cools and his Austrian Peoples Party have taken some 37 percent of the vote its a clear show of strength for quotes and comes just months after being ousted as chancellor amid a scandal involving his far right Coalition Partners. The recent scandals that triggered the governments collapse apparently didnt hurt sebastian courts at the ballot box. The former chancellor is poised to return to power the results show his Peoples Party is the clear winner support for the conservatives jumped more than 5 percent i was thank you thank you very much my dear friends i lost the confidence vote in may. The past 4 months were difficult and today the people voted us back into pow
Difficult to ignore the topic of refugees. This is an image of a refugees experience fleeing communist vietnam in 1975. In many ways, it reminds us of images that we might see on the news today. Its hard to ignore the human stories of families perishing at sea. Refugees are suffocating in meat trucks. Theyre crowding onto leaky boats. Theyre drowning the bodies of those unable to cross to safety are washing up on mediterranean beaches. Refugees have been in the news for the past few years, particularly related to the crisis in syria, but refugees are being uprooted by conflict all around the world. So were not just talking about refugees coming from syria, but from other wartorn regions. Especially in the last couple years, it has been very difficult to ignore the public response to refugees. Refugee resettlement has become a polarizing topic. On one hand, opposition to refugees has been fierce and even hostile. Politicians at the local, state, and federal level have linked refugees to
Might see on the news today. Its hard to ignore the human stories of families perishing at sea refugees are suffering and suffocating in meat tracks, crowding onto leaky boats and rounding the bodies of those who are unable to cross the safety are washing up on mediterranean beaches. Refugees of been in the news for the past few years, particularly related to the crisis in syria, but refugees are being uprooted by conflict all around the world. So, were not just talking about refugees coming from syria but from other wartorn region. In the past couple years its been very difficult to ignore the public response to refugees. Like so many other topics today, this is become a polarizing topic on one hand, opposition to refugees has been hostile politicians at the local state have linked refugees to terrorism and pursued antirefugee policies in the name of National Security the most famous is Donald Trumps executive order which ground the federal refugee from to a halt in january 2017. Spir