To Committee Rule 7c, Opening Statements are limited to chair and Ranking Members. This allows us to hear from witnesses sooner and provides all members time to ask questions. Id like to thank secretary betsy devos and thank her to hold enough time to allow all of the members present and have five minutes of questions pursuant to house rules. I am especially thankful pause in this chair i am exercising my prerogative to go last in the question order. So if she were to leave early, i wouldnt get to answer questions. I thank you for agreeing to stay with us the full time. I recognize the opening statement. We are here to examine the department of educations implementation of the baar defense rule. I want to thank you, madam secretary, to discuss this important issue. The bar defense rule is grounded in basic fairness. Students face severe financial and emotional consequences and it is, therefore, cruel and counterproductive for the federal government to compound their misfortune by colle
The barr defense rule pursuant to Committee Rule 7c, Opening Statements are limited to chair and Ranking Members. This allows us to hear from witnesses sooner and provides all members time to ask questions. Id like to thank secretary betsy devos and thank her to hold enough time to allow all of the members present and have five minutes of questions pursuant to house rules. I am especially thankful pause in this chair i am exercising my prerogative to go last in the question order. So if she were to leave early, i wouldnt get to answer questions. I thank you for agreeing to stay with us the full time. I recognize the opening statement. We are here to examine the department of educations implementation of the baar defense rule. I want to thank you, madam secretary, to discuss this important issue. The bar defense rule is grounded in basic fairness. Students face severe financial and emotional consequences and it is, therefore, cruel and counterproductive for the federal government to com
school. we should look forward to a very different school year. we should look forward to a school year where every child is in school, in person, full-time, for the whole year. the changes the cdc hopes will keep kids in the classroom. dire warnings from scientists who say the arctic is warming at alarming speeds. we re joined by one researcher who is seeing the changes firsthand. and the disturbing new testimony in vanessa bryant s case against l.a. county, allegations that gruesome photographs were shared at a social gathering. newsroom starts right now. good morning and welcome to your weekend. it is saturday, august 13th. we re grateful to be a part of it. i m boris sanchez. grateful to be with you as well, boris. i m amara walker. you re in the cnn newsroom. this morning, growing t controversy about the fbi raid at former president donald trump s residence. some material was marked as top secret/sci which stands for sensitive compartmented information.
hello again, everyone, thank you so much for joining me. i m fredericka whitfield. this just in to cnn, sources confirm a lawyer for former president trump signed a letter in june asserting there was no more classified information stored at his mar-a-lago resort in florida. but when the fbi executed a search warrant on monday, agents recovered 11 sets of classified documents with at least one marked as top secret/sci which is one of the highest levels of classifications. the newly unsealed court documents outline three potential crimes that are being investigated. so far, the doj has not filed any charges. plus new today, the department of homeland security and the fbi say they are investigating violent threats made against federal law enforcement, courts, government personnel, and facilities in the wake of the fbi search warrant. the fbi says the number of threats against the bureau are, i m quoting now, unprecedented. cnn s katelyn polantz is here with more details on the s
of government records. as of now, we should note no one has been charged with a crime. trump s first line of defense was to baselessly suggest the fbi may have planted evidence while in his home. plan b, trump had declassified documents before the fbi seized them. so they re both declassified and planted. does that make any sense? the espionage act does not hinge on whether documents are classified. the trump team s latest move is to blame a government agency for moving boxes of classified information to mar-a-lago claiming, quote, that s not on the president. now, new this afternoon, the democratic chairs of both the house intelligence and oversight committees have written a letter to the director of national intelligence saying they want a damage assessment and briefing regarding these documents recovered from mar-a-lago, whether they posed some sort of national security risk to the country. joining me to talk about this is the former director of national intelligence, jame