The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Welcome everyone, good morning. We will have senators participating both live and virtually. Since it is difficul the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We will have senators participating live then virtually as a result of that its difficult to determine to go in ty, seniority and we both come three witnesses the assistant secretary of state and the bureau official for the European Eurasian Affairs and Principal Deputy assistant for western hemisphere fears. We appreciate you being here. We will be talking about china obviously that presents us with manyy challenges and opportunities. There has been a lot of legislation introduced and there is a bill we introduced earlier this year to bring together as many as possible so the minority introduced ase bill senator schumer is the lead sponsor but this is not a partisan issue that is an American Issue. When i put the bill togetheren originally come i did so to
End and a Pacific Region and they also discuss china handling of coronavirus pandemic. This is just over two hours. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Welcome everyone, good morning. We will have senators participating both live and virtually. Since it is difficult to figure out when they showed up virtually, we will go on seniority. If that is agreeable with everyone, that is what we will do. Today, we welcome three witnesses to talk with us. Julie chung is here. We appreciate you all being here this morning. Will be talking about china presents us with many challenges. Opportunities as well but right now, challenges. There has been a lot of legislation introduced as far as china is concerned. There was a bill that we introduced earlier this year. That as early as today or yesterday, the minority introduced a bill of which senator schumer is the lead sponsor of the bill. In any event, this is not a partisan issue. This is an american issue. When i put the bill
Her words are unparliamentarian. Reporter that move did not work and the democratic controlled house voted to condemn president trumps tweets in which he said the four minority women should go back to where they came from. On tuesday the president continueed the attack, unapologetic about the statement. Avi a list of things here said by the Congress Women that is so bad, so horrible, that i almost dont want to read it. Reporter the president tweeting aetling head of the vote saying those tweets were not racist. I dont have a racist bone in my body. The democrats 240 to 187, a benchmark highlighting that republicans are solidly in the president s corner. This is all about politics and beliefs of ideaologies. Its about time we lowered the temperature all across the board, all of us, all that contribute, to contribute to a letter level of discourse. Reporter among those who sided with the democrats is a republican retiring from indiana and one who left the gop this month. The rebuke may b
And im julie haener. The fire started alongside a highway and was caused by human activity of some sort. The flames spread from the grass to pacheco mini storage near buchanan field. Live coverage tonight from ktvus amber lee. Shes at that Storage Facility and has been talking to witnesses and fire officials, amber . Reporter julie, witnesses including the manager of the Stores Business tell me the fire caused quite a scare. The dry vegetation and weather are factors. About 2 45 tuesday afternoon winds whipped up a twrasz fire that started along highway 4 near interstate 680 in pacheco. It burned quickly, spreading to pacheco mini storage. It burned the area where a homeless man had settled. Couldnt get my bike. I lost all my hard drives. I lost my laptop. My camping gear. Reporter the manager of the storage business tole many eshe saw the flames while in the office and called 911. 49 units were destroyed. There are others damaged by smoke and water. She says customers store a variety
In adolf hitlers manifesto he wrote, all the great civilizations of the past became decadent because the originally creative race died out as a result of contamination of the blood. He links the poison which has invaded the National Blood to, quote, an influx of foreign blood. The Blood Reference is reminiscent of the chants by White Supremacists in charlottesville in 2017. Tonight, donald trump is now under fire for similar language about immigrants. Good evening. Im abby phillip. Here what is the former president and current republican frontrunner just said about immigrants. We know theyre terrorists. Nobody has ever seen anything like were witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. Its poisoning the blood of our country. Its so bad. And people are coming in with disease, people are coming in with every possible thing that you could have. We dont know what really inspired trump to use that language or what was even in his head, but this episode comes as trumps rhet