the hearing will come to order. the hearing is to discuss a very important issue and one that hopefully will get some important answers to. this issue could not be more urgent. a dangerous white supremacist group called the base was arrested. they aren t your parents neo nazis. they are paganistic, anarcic group. they hate jews and african-americans but they don t like president trump or the united states either. their goal is to use terrorism to start a race war and collapse the united states. it s claimed more lives than international terror since 9/11. last week fbi director wray told the sjudiciary committee he was elevated, rationally motivated, violent extremism to a national threat priority. the same ban with home grown violent extremism and isis. unkwoets. our enemy, especially russia exploit these racial tensions to divide and weaken american society. the head of the base lives in russia. russia likely supports white supreme assist groups in the united states and e
Im justine waldman. Jr stone is off tonight. Kron fours Hermela Aregawi is headed to the scene now. We will go live to her as soon as she arrives. We have chp on the phone now. justine it is dry now. But take a look at this. We are expecting rain in the bay area tomorrow. This is a look at stormtracker four radar for tomorrow morning. Im here with meteorologist Lawrence Karnow with more on the timing of the storm. Lawrence karnow it was a very mild start to the weekend with some near record temperatures. There have been plenty of clouds moving overhead but no rain yet. That is all about to change as a significant storm is headed our way. We are seeing a few raindrops off the coast on our Doppler Radar but the bulk of the storm isnt expected until late tonight and early tomorrow morning. The timing of the storm has slowed about and hour or so. On the satellite picture you can see all of the clouds streaming our way. The first storm will move in tomorrow morning and will be warm. Then ne
4 30 eastern. Live coverage of the conference should get underway shortly. [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen, take your seats, please. Good morning, good morning, everyone. It is my high privilege to stand here and welcome you all to the United States department of justices Human Trafficking summit. My name is patrick hovakenian. A federal prosecutor, serving in the office of the associate attorney general in the headquartersment ive had the privilege of working on issues that were here to discuss today and hoping that this summit can be used to combat further Human Trafficking. If youd please join me m welcoming our department of justice leaders. The attorney general of the United States, jeff sessions. [applaus [applause] the Deputy Attorney general of the United States, rod rosenstein. [applaus [applause] the associate attorney general of the United States, rachel brand. [applause] the acting assistant attorney general john cronin. [applause] and the acting attorney gen
Shop. If there are any questions, you can ask me for the doj staff here, we have folks standing in the back with badges and name credentials and theyre here to help you, please feel free to make use of us. We will wait for a few minutes until the stage is reset, and then well begin with our panel. Thank you all very much. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen, if you will please take your seats we really begin our first panel of the morning. Session one this morning as a panel on effective Law Enforcement. Weve assem
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] it appears i will be a moment or two before this conference on Human Trafficking continues. Live coverage right here on cspan2. This conference including attorney general Jeff Sessions and dhs secretary nielsen who will speak life later this afternoon at 4 30 p. M. All of this will be at tonight starting eight eastern on cspan. Welcome back. If we can come and take our seats. I hope you found the coffee downstairs as delightful as i do on a daily basis. Welcome back. Welcome back. Ladies and gentlemen, i am joined but very annoying sound. But beyond that im here with Richard Downing the acting Deputy Assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division here at the department of justice and he is going to introduce our next speaker, abuse attorney for for the district of minnesota. Thanks very much, and thank you very much for the invitation to be part of this next session. We are ver