The president founded Nyus Furman Center for urban policy which has become one of the nations leading Research Centers on housing. Welcome to the committee, president. Thank you. Our second witness is the president of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, new jersey. The next witness is the secretary and ceo of this society located in washington dc. The fine witness. The chancellor of ucla and los angeles, california. We thank you for being here today and look forward to your testimony. We will remind the witnesses that we have read your written statements which will. In full in the hearing record. Pursuant to Committee Rule 8d the Committee Practice i ask each limit your oral presentation to a fiveminute summary of the written statement. I also remind the witnesses to be aware of the responsibility to provide Accurate Information to the committee. I will first recognize this president for five minutes. Thank you. And also thank you to the representative for the kind introduction. I agr
How resilient we are as a city as we continue to move forward today. A day of reflection, 118 years since San Franciscos great earthquake of 1906. Now its my turn to step up. And i know with our staff and our team, we all have each others back and were excited about doing what we do which is to roll up our sleeves and get to work. Big shoes to fill. New Womens Basketball head coach kate paye is ready for the challenge at stanford. And you might call it a dream job, an opportunity fit for an ice cream lover. Im sure thats going to spark a lot of interest for a lot of people. Im gianna franco. If you want to eat ice cream all day that might be the job for you. I love that idea. Good morning, everybody im reed cowan and two scoops of all of you. Did somebody say ice cream . I feel like as soon as my 5yearold wakes up shes going to be like ice cream, you get that for breakfast . A good day to do that as we take a live look outside on this thursday morning. Maybe you can grab yourself a sof
[ banging gavel ] this hearing will come to order. Good morning. We are meeting today to consider the nomination of kirstjen m. Nielsen to be the next secretary of the United States in Homeland Security. I want to thank her, her family. Our senators making introductions later on. I certainly want to call out mrs. Karen kelly, general kellys wife. Shes here also. Showing her support for the nominee. And i know ms. Nielsen will introduce her family in her Opening Statement. Americas facing enormous challenges. Our National Debt exceeds 20 trillion and theres no serious effort being made by either party to significantly reduce the 30year projected deficits that are currently expected to exceed over 100 trillion. Our enemies are on the rise. Russia continues to destabilize its neighbors and is partnering with iran to increase both countries influence in the middle east. The Iranian Nuclear agreement did modify irans behavior. For the worse. North Korea Remains determined to develop the cap
Of jerusalems story. 70 years ago, the state of israel was formed, but not accepted by all of its arab neighbors. In september of 2000, ariel sharon made a visit to the temple mount that inflamed the palestinians. It was called the second intifada. Now, some believe, President Trumps decision to move the u. S. Embassy to jerusalem might trigger the third. Is that the biggest fear . Tzipi livni there is no excuse for terror, there is no excuse for violence. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] sharyl welcome to full measure. Im sharyl attkisson. This week, democrats demanded President Trump be investigated for alleged sexual misconduct. Republicans demanded the special counsel on conflicts of interest. Meantime, new Sexual Harassment probes started up in congress in the past few weeks against congressmen Blake Farenthold and trent franks and senator al franken before he announced his res
Worth 123 billion. Hes up 6 billion overnight. Look at apple, it posted the best quarterly profit of any company in history, it now has the largest cash pile in history. 285. 1 billion. That. 1 is a hundred million dollars. Apple is now down two bucks. How about that . Next case, 200,000 new jobs in january, i will call it solid. Listen to this, wages up nearly 3 in the last year. Thats a definite improvement. This comes after a remarkable forecast from the Federal Reserve bank in atlanta. It expects Economic Growth at annual rate of 5. 4 . Yeah. Deep breath, ashley. How about that . Politics dominated by the memo. We are waiting for it. When its released, here is what to look for. Simple question, was a document paid for by the clinton president ial campaign used as excuse to spy on the president ial campaign of donald trump, thats what its all about. That question will be answered, we think, by the end of the day, yes, it is a very big day. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart al