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[indistinct conversations] [indistinct conversations] [indistinct conversations] [indistinct conversations] [indistinct conversations] today, the committee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of the Trump Administrations response to the covid19 endemic pandemic. Due to the Public Health emergency, members can participate in todays hearing either in person or remotely via video, and. Theart of this hearing, microphones will be set on mute, for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Remotelyarticipating will need to unmute your microphone speak. Participating in person, please wear your mask when not speaking. Dr. Monahan extract expressed in the updated guidelines that the use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case the wearer is unknowingly infected. When we are not speaking, each of us is playing a vital role in tech and all members and staff in attendance, as well as leaders of the covid19 response will be testifying before the committee. Due
Live and we will get to audience questions with the governor before we wrap up the conversation. We also want to hear from you watching on politico. Com. What we are asking is what should congress be doing to respond to National Unrest and protests against Racial Injustice and why. You can type your answer on politico. Com. At the end of our interview, we will check out your responses. Before the governor joins us again, i want to talk about a few things we are watching this week. Number one is a state of Police Reform. That we couldint be surprised in the coming weeks and months, that Police Reform could pick up some momentum. His hopeful signs from republicans who believe congress should ban choke holds. They should be fun statutes that allow cops to escape liability liability limitations, in other words, and frankly, i think a lot of politicians right now have reached a moment where they believe there has been a National Reckoning on Police Violence and racially targeted Police Viol
Nursing homes. We are joining this hearing in progress. Youre watching live coverage on cspan3. As one basis for work authorization. U. S. Cis has used deferred action in medical and humanitarian cases for decades. The idea is longstanding, and, in fact, customary. In one data set i received in 2011, nearly half of the cases i could identify involved serious medical conditions. And many of the cases involved more than one factor. For example, deferred action was granted to a 47yearold schizophrenic who overstayed his visa, was the son of a lawful perm resident, and had siblings who were u. S. Citizens. Over 100 of these cases involved people whose homes were destroyed by an earthquake in haiti. In another data set, a 578 cases obtained from u. S. Cis in 2013, 336 were based on medical issues. One case involved a mexican female who entered the United States without inspection and had two u. S. Citizen children. One of her children had down syndrome, and the other child had serious medic
Political divisions. Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes. Erase or values. This morning, we talk to leaders from three hardhit cities. Fda commissioner dr. Stephen hahn with the white house response and analysis from our powerhouse roundtable. Announc he n, anchor martha raddatz. Good morning, and welcome to this week on this july 4th weekend. Americans this years celebrations overshadowed by the battle against the coronavirus. Some beaches normally crowded were shut down. In rhode island, the nations oldest independence parade was scaled back to vehicles. But it w besas u President Trump. Large gatherings, gan hiindepenr packed together with few visible masks. The president barely mentioning the pandemic. Choosing instead to attack those protesting racial injustice. At the white house saturday, we he repeated divisive themes from his past campaigns. As his efforts at reelection begin to falter. Those that are lying about our history