Has been taken, has been shifted i should say. Dont want to say it was taken away. Resides within dea. Dea will have i believe six additional heroin based tax forces. While they pull in state and local law enforce Law Enforcement officers was a great support for local Law Enforcement. Targeted have, very efforts, mikulskis efforts. Murkowski actually, of alaska. I think Barbara Mikulski also so we have a good team. The last thing i wanted to mention, i wont ask a question. Im out of time, just on opioid bill and we know how important that is. We look forward to continuing to work with the Justice Department. Thank you for your efforts in that regard. Thank you. Senator sessions. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you attorney general lynch good morning. Thank you for your courtesies and tempered leadership we appreciate that. The number of questions are important that we dont have time to go into fully today but i would like to raise some of them. First, in response to my colleague, senato
I want to have a conversation about recent policy changes and an approach that i have long called for i would explore with you a host of issues relative to the department including my reit recent fbi i also want to discuss with you at another example of stonewalling at the administration and using the department as a tool for its resistance. The people are now aware that they have used nongovernment service for official business over 2000 emails containing classified information with some containing with what we describe as topsecret, sensitive, compartmented information and other related to special access programs. The department and the fbi have refused to officially confirm basic information about the scope and nature of the investigation to this committee. Apparently the fbi is conducting an investigation relating to the mishandling of that classified information. Given the politics involved, the potential for improper influence over the work of the investigators and career prosecu
Detainer to answer to state charges which we do take very seriously, in situations where those jurisdictions have indicated they would not return the person to us at the end of a state proceeding or would not provide us information, in fact we madam attorney general my time is winding down. First refusal there. One last statement. I think if you read the policy words matter, and its laid out in black and white in clear words, that thats absolutely wrong, part of it says the nop about. D, Police Department, shall not engage in assist or support Immigration Enforcement except as follows, in response to an articulated direct threat of life or Public Safety or when services are required to safety execute a criminal warrant or court order issued by a federal judge, close quote. That means that routinely as im describing they will not tell i. C. E. When they have a arrestee or convicted criminal who is an illegal status they will not tell i. C. E. When they are releasing that person from a l
America is to pay 17 billion over its part in the 2008 financial crunch. Hello. In the past few hours, hamas military wing confirmed it fired a rocket toward telaviv airport. 26 people have been killed in gaza overnight. Hamas said three of its commanders are among the dead. We have more from rafah. This is in the sights of the gaza strip in rafah, struck close to 1 00 a. M. Local time on thursday morning. You can see that the entire building has been absolutely destroyed. The neighborhood has been very much so affected with homes that are pretty much uninhabitable surrounding this collapsed building. Locals heard six explosions in the early hours of thursday morning, whenever israeli airplanes hit the site, as well as the three hamas commanders killed, we know seven civilians were also killed, believed to be in this building at the time. This is going to be a significant achievement for the israelis from their perspective. They will be able to tell this to the public to be able to say
Finding. It started under george w. Bush and was completed under president obama. There was a National Climate assessment that is required i law every four years. Republicans voted for that in 990. It calls out the dangers of Carbon Pollution and says it will increase ozone and asthma and hospital admissions. Climate change is projected to Harm Human Health by increasing groundlevel ozone. They specifically cite more Carbon Pollution as increasing Global Temperatures and increasing premature deaths and ozone and particle pollution. Is there any one of the four of you that has a problem with that analysis . Ok. Hey agree with that. I want to talk to my friend from alabama. I want to ask you this question. I have respect for your office and your opinion. Isnt it true that alabama lost all recent major Clean Air Act cases . They lost their legal challenge in the Supreme Court. In the White Stallion case they lost to the epa endangerment finding. Isnt that a fact . I dont doubt what youre