Are cuts we can absorb and it will not diminish our ability to provide essential services. The Police Officers association says, as an organization, they do support in investing in communities of color, saying they are concerned that by not telling vacancies, the department will be stretched thin her. The mayor said despite the unprecedented economic fallout from the pandemic, this budget does not include layoffs. She is asking unions to agree to a wage freeze for the next 2 years to keep as many people working as possible. I want to be very clear, the unions dont agree to delay raises, we will be forced to lay people off. We will be forced to cut city services. Reporter the mayor is saying just because there is a pandemic and hardship, does not mean that the city can ignore Mental Health and homelessness. The mayor did announce the creation of the office of donated care, and getting those experienced in Mental Health, city services, and addressing homelessness. The budget is funding 1
Year. Another was interrelated but sort of a distinct issue that we saw starting over the summer with vaping related illnesses that were beginning to emerge. We have now seen thousands injured and dozens dead from this. Thats related to illicit vaping from the use of ecigarettes. Beards and sea of those illnesses really prompted policymakers to want to respond more broadly to the vaping issues weird dealing with in the u. S. They will have to take their flavors off of the market. The other dive boat the cigarette product available, there are these devices that they have tanks that the users can refill them with liquid nicotine themselves. They tend to be more popular among adults. They are harder to conceal the products on juul. The flavor for those who continue to operate as they currently have as long as they have strict age verification in place. It is also not la favors that are obviously marketing to children. So they wouldbe able to sell things like flavors used on serial or Some
agency of unfair treatment and alleging retaliation. republicans say this is further proof of what it calls institutional rot and anti-conservative bias and adding to the argument just before the hearing, the fbi yanked security clearances of two of the agents. working as an fbi special agent was my dream job, my whistle-blowing was a political up oath, but the fbi closed ranks and attacked the messenger. my family and i have been surviving on early withdrawals from the retirement account while the fbi has ignored my request for approval to outside employment. i swore an oath to the constitution. do you believe that the fbi is hostile to you for that reason to keep agents from speaking up? yes, yes, no question. dana: chairman jim jordan morning the whistle-blowers they would face heavy attacks from democrats. we talked to two dozen whistle-blowers, people have come to us and we have interviewed several of those in today three of them. three of those brave whist
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attack. coming up, we ll talk with the wife of one of them about her husband and why she plans to be in the room for the hearing tonight. we ll have the latest from a michigan courtroom where a republican candidate for governor is showing up for the first time after being arrested for his alleged role in the attack on the capitol. we ve got a lot to get to. i m hallie jackson in washington and let s start with ali on capitol hill. the punch bowl news founder and msnbc contributor, jake sherman and leanne caldwell. here s what we want to lay out here. a kind of viewer s guide as you get ready to watch the hearing and key moments to watch. it starts tonight, 8:00 eastern. it s going to last roughly 90 minutes. the first of six hearings. the committee is promising to reveal previously unseen material. their words. video and audio from the day of the insurrection. one of the two republicans on the committee saying it will change history, but will it? over the next six hearings, d