Hello. Mr. Bob woodward, congressman chavez, Michael Horowitz, good afternoon to you all. My name is Camille Nelson and i have the great privilege of serving as the dean of American University Washington College of law. It is pi great pleasure to welcome you to this beautiful campus for such an important conversation on government oversight and accountability in conjunction with the launch of our new student publication, oversight project. Org. This project is yet another example of the stellar work of our student leaders in creating a go to source about the work of federal oversight, accountability and ethics wash dogs. We do not be more proud of our students, their effort and enthusiasm here at Washington College of law. And our law Cool Community is a especially gracteful that the launch of this project is made possible and elevated with the cadre of leading experts who will share their insights on oversight and accountability with us today. So my warm welcome to all of you, again,
Mr. Morgan good morning and thank you all for being here today. As the commissioner of customs and Border Protection, im pleased to announce the official release of cbps southwest Border Migration statistics for the month of august. And ive said this many times, since congress has failed and continue to fail to pass meaningful legislation to address the crisis at the border, which would ultimately stop children from being used as passports and end the cartels ability to exploit this population, as well as our laws, the Trump Administration has taken a number of unilateral actions, unprecedented actions, that were going to discuss today. But, first, lets discuss the results of the administrations incredible efforts. During the month of august, cbp apprehended, or deemed inadmissible, a total of 64,000 individuals. For july, if you recall, that number was just over 82,000, which represents a decline of 22 . Moreover, the august numbers reflects and this is critical the august numbers ref
The u. S. Southern border. Good morning, everybody. The hearing will come to order. Ill make an Opening Statement and then senator feinstein and i think senator cornyn and durbin would also like to make a statement. Then well swear in the witness and get on with the business before us. Before i make my Opening Statement, there was a meeting last night with senator shelby and senator mcconnell and the republican members of the Appropriations Committee. And theres a lot of talk about the disaster at the border in terms of humanitarian assistance needed yesterday. So i think the game plan is that were going to take the 4. 5 billion that was in the disaster package that was unfortunately taken out and mark it up next week as a standalone proposition to get money flowing to the border to deal with the Housing Conditions and take some stress, not only off the agents, but the migrants. I think it would be money wellspent as 3. 3 billion for humanitarian assistance increases in the shelter cap
secret service leadership scratching their heads. first, there is the issue of how did an agent trained to drive the most precious cargo in the country have a one car accident on a cleared roadway. the president and the vice president travels in a motorcade, the streets are empty. so that part is weird. and the other red flag is with the secret service agents did immediately afterwards. when they sent a message alerting senior leadership about what had happened, the agents reported that a mechanical failure forced agents to trance harris to another vehicle. the secret service director who is just one month into the job after being appoint bid president biden, secret service director had to learn from other agents that a mechanical failure is not what happened. the post reports the incident concerned both the secret service director and the vice president and revived worries about the agency s history of concealing its mistakes. the secret service is having a heck of a few mon
on the asteroid. i was telling alex before when we were talking about this, when i kept hearing this incredible story yesterday about smashing into the asteroid, come on, what was i thinking. i was thinking aerosmith i don t want to miss a thing, hear the news story i don t want to close my eyes it was incredible. willie, stop him. a sappy summer movie. they tried to do this last night. you got bruce. you throw affleck in there, mika, if you don t know what we re talking about, this was a huge movie 25 years ago, with the plausible plot they trained oil drillers in a matter of days to become nasa astronauts and effectively do what we saw yesterday in real life, they knocked a rocket with a ship the size of a refrigerator, they knocked an asteroid off its course yesterday, nasa did this in real life. no liv tyler, now they know if something is barrelling toward earth, they have a decent chance of knocking it away. scientifically, the movie, i don t think it w