Completed its drawdown and those remaining will assist in the departure of u. S. Civilians and afghan citizens. The briefing runs an hour. Mr. Price good afternoon. Apologies for the delay. Let me start with an update on of Ghanas Department of state is working aroundtheclock to facilitate afghanistan. The department of state is working this of facilitate the departure of vulnerable afghans and americans. We remain committed to flights for sivs and other vulnerable afghans as quickly as possible. The security of government employees and u. S. Citizens overseas is our top priority as well. The department of defense has secured the airport so that military and commercial flights can resume. Our staff on the ground is communicating with american citizens in kabul who are not at the airport with instructions on when and how to get there. We have communicated to the first tranche of american citizens who have requested an evacuation assistance. Our team is working hand in glove with militar
And other vulnerable afghans as safely as possible. The safety of u. S. Employees and citizens overseas is our top priority as well. The department of defense has secured the airport so that military and commercial flights can resume. Our staff on the ground is communicating with american citizens in kabul who are not It At the airport with instructions on how and when to get there. We have communicated with the first trench of citizens who have requested evacuation assistance. We are working hand in glove with afghan forces to load planes as swiftly and safely as possible. We have now drawn down to the cork differ medic presence we need. At this time, we no longer need to facilitate departures for all of our embassy personnel. All remaining and consular affairs personnel to augment special immigrants and elsewhere, adding personnel to assist with P1 And P2 identification processes. We successfully relocated many of our locally employed staff. We are trying to determine who is interest
Chair klobuchar i call to order this second joint hearing of the rules and Homeland Security and government Affairs Committee on examining the january 6 attack on the united States Capitol. At Todays Hearing, we will continue our committees important work to get answers that will lead us to solutions following the horrific events at the capitol on january 6. Last week we heard from witnesses who were directly in charge of Capitol Security on that day and from local Law Enforcement in washington. Today, we will hear testimony from the head of the d. C. National guard and from federal officials from agencies including fbi, Defense Department, and department of Homeland Security that are tasked with supporting our security people at the capitol. The testimony of these witnesses is crucial as we work to get to the bottom of what happened, again, with the focus being on making sure it does not happen again. And with that, i now turn it over to Chairman Peters for his opening statement. I wi
Chair klobuchar i call to order this second joint hearing of the rules and Homeland Security and government Affairs Committee on examining the january 6 attack on the united States Capitol. At Todays Hearing, we will continue our committees important work to get answers that will lead us to solutions following the horrific events at the capitol on january 6. Last week we heard from witnesses who were directly in charge of Capitol Security on that day and from local Law Enforcement in washington. Today, we will hear testimony from the head of the d. C. National guard and from federal officials from agencies including fbi, Defense Department, and department of Homeland Security that are tasked with supporting our security people at the capitol. The testimony of these witnesses is crucial as we work to get to the bottom of what happened, again, with the focus being on making sure it does not happen again. And with that, i now turn it over to Chairman Peters for his opening statement. I wi
prosecutors go through all of these bank records, financial records. all the backups that the accountants used to create the tax returns. that s the key here. the backups? what do you mean? the receipts. you know, in the lingo of today, where are the receipts? the receipts in this case are all of the bank records that any accountant uses to make the taxes. so we re talking about the trump organization, the several hundred llcs affiliated with the trump organization and all of their financial records, monthly bank statements. checking accounts, savings accounts, investment accounts, credit cards for all of those different entities. you know, john, donald trump for years fought having this information made public, despite sort of promising it, promising it initially. what does that tell you and certainly as we listen to what tristen says about what all of this will unveil, we get a sense of it. what does it tell you why donald trump wanted to keep this secret? well, i t