Mayorkas appeared before the House Homeland Security committee to testify on President Bidens 2025 budget request. The secretary stressed the need for the house to pass the senates bipartisan bill as he faced criticism from republicans through his handling of the crisis at the southern border. The hearing ended shortly before the house delivered impeachment articles against the secretary to the senate. This is about three hours. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Without objection the committee may recess at any point. Good morning, secretary mayorkas, and thank you for joining the committees budget that you and President Biden put forth the department of Homeland Security. March 1 the department celebrated its 21st anniversary, and i want to thank the Public Servants throughout hhs that dedicate their lives to securing the homeland. This work is vital to the nations safety and security. Mr. Secretary, when you took the oath of office use for two, quote, suppor
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A short break both the government and the opposition are present and due to meet the u. N. Special envoy staff under my stora hes urging russia to convince the Syrian Government theres no time to lose on the ranging new elections. Thousands are gathering at a rally in gaza city to mark thirty years since the formation of hamas the palestinian Political Party with an armed wing was formed in response to israels illegal occupation of the west bank and gaza strip now israels Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has rejected a declaration by Muslim Leaders that East Jerusalem is the capital of palestine Muslim Leaders met in istanbul and called on the world to follow in its footsteps and reject the us Jerusalem Move for the Prime Minister says hes unimpressed by the stumble declaration. Google for the student it would be best for the palestinians to recognize reality and act for the sake of peace and not for the sake of extremism and to recognise another fact when it comes to jerusalem not ju
Before per filing confrontation ended. Alicia live at the scene in south philadelphia, with the latest developments, good afternoon, alicia. Reporter good afternoon, jim, rahel, were told this whole ordeal played out here on 730 this morning, you can tell, just behind me, hours later, investigators are still out here mapping out how this happened and why. Were told investigators are currently interviewing the officer involved along with several witnesses, some of whom were amongst those nearly hit and had to dodge the driver of that black honda this morning. Irradic driver in south philadelphia shot this morning by an offduty cop. Just heard pop, pop, pop. I knew something was going down. Police believe the driver of this black honda was targeting pedestrians, trying to hit them as they walked down broad street. The driver succeeded hitting at least one pedestrian, but thats when police say a concerned citizen blocked the erratic driver with their suv then an offduty officer approached
To 10year bond market. Yields moving down by six basis points. There were concerns. Those have dissipated and the rally is pretty strong. Sterling down. 5 of 1 . Three week low. Serious shade being thrown at theresa may today. Jonathan its one of the cruelest things ive ever had to watch from a politician for quite a while. David it was an important speech. Jonathan the letters dropping off the wall behind. Couldnt have gone much worse. Alix david . David time for the morning brief. Coming up, weekly initial jobless claims and trade balance will be released. And at 10 00, factory orders and durable goods and were going to hear from several members of the fed starting with jerome Paul George John williams and patrick arker. Bond markets trying to sort out the aftermath that President Trump might wipe out the puerto rican debt. Something they tried to walk become. And overnight, the puerto rican treasurer say theyre going to run out of money and had to shut the government down if congres