And i will turn it over. Thank you very much mister chairman. I want to welcome you and its wonderful for me to say see a woman in charge so we can celebrate for a few moments at least that you are responsible for the care and custody of over 180,000 federal inmates and one of the Justice Departments largest employers and approximately 35,500 employees as may of this year. As the chairman mentioned there are two issues i hope we can focus on. One is the First Step Act which you mentioned and the second is applaud blooms with is problems with staffing conditions within your department. Im going to put most of this in the record. I think what ill do mister chairman in the interest of time is put the statement in the record. Without objection. Senator durbin . Thank you mister chairman. Last Year Congress came together to pass what i considered one of the most important criminal Justice Reform laws and the nation. The first stepped hacked from overwhelming majority signed by President Tru
Road map begins with teslas truck rollout, unveiling first all electric pickup. The cybertruck and it is nothing like youve ever seen before. Wall street looking to snap a threeday losing streak. Stocks seem to be set for a positive open as chinese president xi jinping says beijing wants to work for a trade deal and a roller coaster week for retail today it is gap, nordstrom, williams and sonoma and foot locker were going to start with tesla, unveiling first ever pickup truck last night elon musk says it will have a starting price of just under 40k. Production set it begin in late 2021 musk touts the futuristic design, the armored glass. As you might know by now, a demonstration to show how bulletproof the glass was did not go according to plan try to break the glass, please yeah sure . Yeah. Well, maybe that was a little too hard man, this is getting talked about a lot this morning stocks down, bernstein says it looks weird. Like really weird. What do we think well, i mean, since they
He wants to work out a trade pact with the United States and has been trying to avoid a trade war but he also warned china is not afraid to retaliate when necessary. Eunice yoon joins us putting in his comments du jour. There is always something for those who think it is going to happen and then a qualifier. What do you think . That is right it is interesting that president xi jinping weighed in. This is the first time weve heard those remarks. Unfortunately, the content were not anything different from the standard government line about the trade discussions. He was speaking with a group of International Visitors including henry kissinger. His point was that china does want to have a phase one trade deal however there does need to be an understanding that u. S. And china are seen as equals and it has to be done with mutual respect. Thats what we had heard repeatedly what was also interesting was how he hinted at some of the tensions saying when it comes to the financial opening, china
Along with questions about oversight of the president , she was asked about the death of Jeffrey Epstein. The good morning, everybody. We will get started just in a second. Welcome. I have a very brief opening statement. Thank youa for coming. We will get you sworn in here in a moment. Its important that we have this oversight hearing and there are a couple of areas of inquiry. One is Jeffrey Epstein and hopefully about the implementation of the act and where can we go from there, how can we buildst upon that, those are the three areas that i would like to talk about and they will turn over to senator feinstein. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. I want to welcome you. Its wonderful for me to see a woman in charge so we can celebrate for a few brief moments o at least. [laughter] you are responsible for the care s d custody of over 180,000 federal inmates, and one of the Justice Departments largest employers with approximately 35,500 employees as of may of this year. As the chairman me
Support that we have a oversight hearing i think there will be a couple areas of inquiry, all things Jeffrey Epstein. And hopefully about the implementation of firststepan a. And where do we go from there. How do you build upon that those are the three areas i would like to talk about. I will turn over to senator feinstein. E areas i would like to talk about at all tonight over. Thank you very much mister chairman. I want to welcome you and its wonderful for me to say a woman in charge so we can celebrate for a few moments at least that you are responsible for the care and custody of over 180,000 federal inmates and one of the approximately 35,500 employees as of may of this year. And as the chairman mentioned that are two issues i hope we can focus on your point is the First Step Act which he mentioned, and the second is problems with staffing and conditions within your department. Im going to put most of this in the record, but i think what ill do, mr. Chairman, in the interest of ti