Theres a couple areas of inquiry, all things Jeffrey Epstein and hopefully about the implementation of the First Step Act and where could we go from there. How could you buildyt upon that . Those of the three areas i would like to talk about and altered over to senator feinstein. Thank you very much, mr. Cha. I want to welcome you. Its wonderful for me to see a woman int charge, and so we can celebrate it for a few moments at least. You are responsible for the care and 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 mentioned, there are two issues i hope we can focus on. One is the first 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, i think what ill do, mr. Chairman, in the interest of time is just put the statement in the record. Without objection. Se
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
Welcome to power lunch. Weve got the s p and the nasdaq just above the flat line here in the green. The dow is down by. 1 of a percent. Brent crude back above 50 bucks a barrel. Wti crude up close to 11 over the past week. Both are in bull market territory right now. Take a look at oil stock, a fresh 2016 high. Heres what else is happening at this hour. Twitter suspending 235,000 terrorlinked accounts since february. Twitter says daily suspensions are up 80 since last year. Shares are down over 4 right now. Walmart beating expectations last quarter, thanks in part to groceries. Walmart shares also higher at this hour. Team usa continues to lead the medal count to the rio games. 94 in total. And 31 of those gold. Welcome, everybody. Theres a lot to get to today. We begin with the big breaking news on americas jails. The Justice Department planning to stop using private prisons. That is sending stocks lower, down more than 40 . Scott cohn joining us now by phone. Scott, what do you make
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We are following breaking news on the dayton shooting massacre. A friend of the gunman has been arrested on federal weapons charges. Authorities say he admitted to buying items used in the attack, that includes the high capacity 100 round magazine that allowed the shooter to kill nine people, wound 27 others, in less than 30 seconds. Also tonight, President Trump is lashing out after his response to the dayton and el paso shootings cost him support of a once loyal aide. Former White House Communications director Anthony Scaramucci tells cnn he no longer supports mr. Trumps reelection, and thinks republicans should consider replacing him at the top of the 20 2020 ticket. I talk with David Cicilline who is on the Judiciary Committee, and our correspondents and analysts are standing by. First, lets go to justice correspondent jessica snyder. What more are you learning about the raearrest of the dayton gunmans friend and his role in the attack . Reporter wolf, prosecutors say this friend f