Ladies and gentlemen, could i ask you to take your seats please . The 2020 Vice President ial debate here at the university of utah. Im janet brown, executive director of the commission on president ial debates. We are delighted you are here. In the next few minutes, you are going to hear thanks that her own a lot of people for making tonight possible. We will also cover some housekeeping rules for this evenings debate, which start with please make sure your cell phones are turned off on all functions. Cannot make any noise, and please open your programs and take a look at some of the many people that we owe a huge debt of gratitude to for this evening. I would like to start with pentagram, which is of thoughtful which is responsible of the new book of s andommissions name cover. With ankle for the support of our work for years and the state of federal communications, which has just come on board this year. We thank you all. As we speak, there is a washington Filing Center being hosted
Theres a red flag warning so we have to watch out for more fires threats as we go through the weekend more bad air in the bay area and were looking at more damage the entire city of calistoga has been evacuated calistoga still okay but everybody had to get out your kron fours will tran has been driving around there for us this morning giving us boots on the ground, a first person perspective and will what are you seeing this morning. I see the flames are right behind the same house that ive been showing you since 5 oclock in the morning. We have a location the firefighters tell me this is tucker road off a highway 29 about a mile from calistoga so this is your home. It is fine for now they have dozens of firefighters and i just stepped out you can clearly see there your backyard. Right now theyre actually laying down some Fire Fighting fire with fire creating a line and how hunting is this james and darya theyre saying right now the fire is playing nice so theyre keeping a close eye on
Live now to hearing on White Supremacists infiltration of Police Department. The House Oversight and reform subcommittee on civil rights and Civil Liberties is hosting. This is live coverage on cspan2. Good morning to the chair of the committee, ms. Maloney has joined us. Good morning to our Ranking Member mr. Roys whos with us and good morning to the vice chair and all of our wonderful members who joined us. I want to take a moment to extend a special welcome to rashida to leave of michigan come to our subcommittee. This is her first hearing with our subcommittee and were delighted to have her choice. Welcome, ms. Tlaib. I wanted show a video to set the stage. Please play the video. White supremacy permeates every corner of society and our institution. Please agencies to the fbi to department of justice, all of them. The Southern Poverty Law Center combover is engaged in those groups wherever that might lead. We have outed a number of Law Enforcement officers who have connections to w
First of all, neither one of us is going to take any questions or atleast im not. I think that shes an excellent candidate for the supreme court. I congratulate you very much on the honor that you have but more importantly everything youve done up to this time in your life to get you prepared for it as youve done a lot of work and established a good reputation. Shes highly respected in the Legal Profession asyou know. I dont think theres any doubt about her color qualifications, not only as an academic now as a seventh Circuit Court judge. Shes had an outstanding as i said in academia but shes also wellknown for mentoring women in the law and thats something you could certainly say you followed Justice Ginsburg on. She was that sort of a role model for everybody. And you referred to that in your Opening Statement on saturday so i was glad to hear that. And in that nature. What im looking for and i think she stands for is the rule of law. I think following congressional intent, the pres
Rosa. How the fire started still unclear, we know that it obviously broke out during red flag warning conditions on sunday now raging out of control yeah and so its grown now to more than 65 square miles. Part of that fire zone is the city of calistoga theyre concerned about it. It hasnt burned and they dont want it to and with the way the fire can and the wind can travel the entire town was evacuated yesterday for good reason crawfords will trend of fact choosing an example now of homes that are getting pretty close to the fires will. You can i get any closer than this home and ill quickly show to just a few moments, but you can see the fire burning right behind me this is a hillside that was intentionally set by the firefighters they came out here they take advantage of the overnight conditions. High humidity. No when they walked from the top of the hill down set it on fire they had their fire trucks ready to go just in case it got out of hand so they can pounce on it with their wate