To move pub lekly an confidently with the importance of issues of the president and the United States, and that is going to hopefully break the logjam, but at this point in time, the issues of importance to the president of the United States were what . That the two investigations. But nothing to do with Vice President biden, right . Again, i didnt make the connection there. I want to pivot briefly to the president s concerns about foreign assistance. Undersecretary hale who will be with us here later today testified that during this relevant time frame, there was a real focus to reexamine all of the federal aid programs. Are you aware of the interest of the president . I am aware of the president s skepticism of foreign aid and conditioning it on certain things. I am generally aware of that, yes. And ambassador hale testified and his testimony has been public. Almost a zerobased concept. Each assistance program, and each country that receives the assistance is evaluated. We avoid nati
Meeting will come to water. We will proceed to the five minute questioning. I want to recognize myself for five minutes. First, i want to clarify something for the record. Wanted to clarify something for the record with respect to witness who testified on saturday, and that is mr. Sandy, he is a career official with the office of management and budget, and he is today reviewing his transcript, an opportunity that we give all of the witnesses before their transcript is released to make sure that it is accurate and correct. As his deposition was only taken on saturday, and this the soonest that we could arrange this. And we did inform the minority yesterday that if they wished to use any of the questioning from mr. Sandys deposition, we would do sond a take the excerpts even prior to the witness going through it, and they chose to not take advantage of that opportunity, but this is the far more significant point, and that is he is not the top official at the office of management and budg
Good afternoon. Im martha maccallum. This is a busy afternoon on the story. We are about to hear from President Trump at the border. Were also waiting for an update on President Bidens travel to brownsville, texas. So weve got a lot of activity, a lot of things popping. These two individuals obviously very serious about this issue with regard to the campaign. They both want to win the 2024 president ial election. Former President Donald Trump would like to be president again. President joe biden wants to keep his job. Theyll have to find their way through this issue in order to do it. Its a big issue on voters minds in this country. Its a crisis as we heard from the former Homeland Security secretary this morning on Fox And Friends. Obviously all of this has a huge impact on cities across the country and small towns as well as migrants have flooded in to all of these areas. For example, athens. Athens, georgia. The tragic death of laken riley at the alleged hands of this man who was he
Full control of its territory . And go with a search for answers takes you Anderson Cooper, 360, weeknight today on cnn welcome to the whole story. Im Anderson Cooper last week, former President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to take up the issue of president ial immunity further delaying his federal criminal trial related to the 2020 election in the january for six attack on the capitol now the claim was already heard and rejected by a federal Appeals Court. Its now up to the highest court to decide to take the case or to let the ruling stand clear the way for this trial to begin. Now the timing is crucial because the former president is likely to become the republican nominee and he wants to delay the trial until after voters head to the polls in november charged with four counts of obstruction and conspiracy. But what exactly is he accused of doing to subvert the election . And is it his actions that matter or his intent . Over the next hour, cnn anchor and chief legal analyst
Subcommittee. He request for the department before the Senate Appropriations subcommittee. He was also asked about the delayed rollout of the fast application for School Financial aid and pulling federal funding on that from federal universities that failed to respond to antisemitic acts from students. He also talked about the revisions to title ix, which provides new protections for transgender students the hearing runs just under one hour and a half. The appropriations Sub Committee on labor, health and human services, education, and related agencies will come to order. We will start by recognizing myself for an Opening Statement, followed by Ranking Member senator capito, before turning to you, secretary cardona, for your testimony. Good morning. Today, we are having a hearing on the by the year 2025 budget request for the department of education, and im happy to welcome secretary cardonas to our subcommittee once again. Mr. Secretary, im looking forward to working in a bipartisan m