of mar-a-lago for classified documents. but also since he launched not one, but two special counsel investigations into both former president trump and president biden. we just saw garland walk into the hearing room moments ago. he didn t answer any questions on the way in. we are live on the hill. also, congress intensifies its scrutiny of china. one lawmakers even warning of a, quote existential struggle with the nation during the very first meeting of a house select committee dedicated to china. what we learned. plus, the warning from the head of the fbi about china s efforts to hinder investigations into the origin of covid. we are also following breaking news in greece, a devastating head-on collision between a freight train and a passenger train carrying 350 passengers. officials saying dozens were killed with reports of people being thrown out of windows from the impact. the desperate search this morning for survivors in the wreckage. and an extraordinary moment
mexican drug cartels, should they be designated foreign terrorist organizations under u.s. law? yeah, i think it s the same answer i gave before. they are ready designated in any number of ways and sanctioned by the treasury would you oppose some of us trying to make them foreign terrorist organizations? i wouldn t oppose it. there are diplomatic concerns. we need the assistance of mexico in this and designating is mexico helping us effectively with our fentanyl problem? they are helping us, but they could do much more. there s no question about that. if this is helping, i would hate to see whatnot helping looks like. the bottom line for me is they re not helping and we knead to up our game when it comes to fentanyl. git mo, are you familiar with the gitmo prison. i haven t been there if that s what you re asking. you know that we have foreign terrorists housed there, right? i certainly do. do you agree with me that
publicly supporting your nomination and michelle childs has been nominated by president biden to be a circuit judge and she ll be considered by this committee ads quickly as possible. on the issue of guantanamo, there are currently 39 guantanamo detainees remaining and annual budget $540 million per year, which means each of these detainees is being held at the expense of $12 million or $13 million per year. if they would be incarcerated in florence, colorado, the max prison amount would be dramatically, dramatically less. since 9/11, nearly 1,000 convicted in the united states on terrorism charges. since 2009, with the beginning of the obama administration, the recidivism rate of guantanamo detainees released is 5%. mr. chairman, according to director of national intelligence, it s 31%. somebody s wrong here. if you re going to talk about what i said, i m going to
church? what is your religion? she talked about being a protestant, nondenominational. he was there harkening back to questions about now-justice amy coney barrett s religion but those were in the context of how she might vote on reproductive rights, what she had already said about her opposition to abortion and religion and it wasn t as he was characterizing it as if the senators at the time were just asking about whether she was going to church. i wanted to make clear that context as well as the context on gitmo. context seems to be key through all of this. let s jump back into the hearing. they re starting back in with republican senator john cornyn. well-established now that the cases that overruled dred scott and pleasey were correctly decided. yeah, i mean, there is the means by which the courts can
respond to what you said. if we close git mo and move the to colorado, do you support indefinite detention under detainees? i m giving the facts. the answer is no. the 31% you referred goes back to the year 2009. what does it matter when it goes back to? we had them and they got loose and they started killing people. if you re one of the people killed in 2005, does it matter when we released them? your own party released them the system failed miserably and advocates to change this system like was advocating would destroy our ability to protect this country. we re at war, we re not fighting the crime. this is not some passage of time event. as long as they re dangerous, i hope they all die in jail if they re going to back to kill americans. it won t bother me one bit if 39 of them die in prison. that s a better outcome than letting them go and if it cost