Protection, Transportation Security Administration, and a secret service answer questions from the House Homeland Security committee. The committee on Homeland Security will come to order. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on a department of Homeland Security use of a facial recognition and other Biometric Technologies. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Good morning. The committee on Homeland Security is meeting to examine department of Homeland Security use of facial recognition and other Biometric Technologies. The government use of biometrics is not entirely new. For example, finger prints have been used as an identification tool for many decades. Other biometrics includes dna, voice pattern and palm prints. In recent years facial recognition has become the new chosen forum of Biometric Technology as facial Recognition Technology has advanced it is used by the
Responsibility and make more constructive official contribibo multilateral cooperation instead of adding negativity. Amy well have more on the United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement after headlines. In news from washington, democrats have begun to release transcripts of testimonies from the closeddoor impeachment inquiry into whether President Trump withheld military aide from ukraine to pressure the ukrainian president to investigate trumps political rival, joe biden, and his son. One of the released transcripts shows the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch, said she felt threatened by the president s words after she read a transcript of the july 25 phone call between trump and ukrainian president zelensky. Another topic to secretary of state mike pompeo my michael mckinley, testified he told pompeo three times they should make a Public Statement in support of yovanovitch. Contradicting pompeos claims in an abc news interview last month that he had never he
Amy President Trump is moving ahead with his pledge to withdraw from the landmark paris climate agreement. We will speak to 350. Org cofounder Bill Mckibben. Then we willll go to yale to spk to a student who is fighting to stop the deportation of his hundred mother. She is receiving stage four Cancer Treatment and is being held in a private detention jail in georgia. Plus, it is election day and much of the United States. We will look at a new york city Ballot Initiative that could change the way voters selectt their candidatates in future elections. It lets you choose whethero vote for one candidate like you always have work to rank your favorite. If your first choice does not win, your boat automatically goes to your second choice. The first candidate to get a majority wins. Amy rankeked Choice Voting. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace e report. Im amy goodman. The Trump Administration has formally notified the United Nation
Members of either wounded victims or people who have passed away now this city is gone through a lot to say the very least over the past several days and its going through more as time goes on on thursday thats tomorrow with the 1st of 22 funerals are going to be held here in el paso and in cities in cross the border in neighboring cities in mexico the visit by President Trump to this city has been quite controversial for a number of reasons one hes criticized el paso in the past as being a crime infested city a false claim that was refuted by the mayor and by other city officials with statistics showing that this is a very safe city hes also talked about an invasion of people from south of the border from latin america coming into the United States well that same sort of invasion terminology was used in the diatribe that. That Police Believe the alleged shooter used so Many Democrats said that President Trump should stay away he came anyway hes here now hopefully well have more inform
Have also been injured safely the libyan representative can convey my countrys condolences and sympathies to his country and to his people by the u. N. Peacekeepers have also responded saying the attack or not stopped them from continuing their work in libya it serves to highlight the continued danger of terrorism because a country and the limits of Effective Security control in the absence of one government and one military and police force walking across the country it also confirms that the slate of the both of us still ities is creating a vacuum easily exploited by harvey called elements thats try on cowards and violence the United Nation doesnt in turn to either create. For the foreseeable future i would place the remains of the libyan people well early a libyan a warlord hell if i have to ask that his forces will observe a cease fire during the holidays starting on saturday the internationally recognized government in tripoli has already accepted a un request for a truce for the