committee held a confirmation hearing for chad wolf to formula become head of the homeland security department. mr. wolf has been serving as acting dhs secretary since november of last year. answered questions on election interference, domestic terrorism, and human trafficking, among other topics. this is just under two hours. meeting toe are consider the nomination of acting secretary of homeland security, chad wolf, to be the confirmed secretary of the department of homeland security, which is an enormous task. this in the past, i truly appreciate anybody who was willing to undertake such enormous responsibility. i would ask my written opening remarks be entered into the record, without objection. i will keep it short. i know which got time restraints we have got time restraints. the secretary of homeland security manages 240,000 people in the department. the responsibilities for homeland security are vast. starting with the emergency management agency, which has to do wi
confirmed secretary of the department of homeland security, which is an enormous task. this in the past, i truly appreciate anybody who was willing to undertake such enormous responsibility. i would ask my written opening remarks be entered into the record, without objection. i will keep it short. i know which got time restraints we have got time restraints. the secretary of homeland security manages 240,000 people in the department. the responsibilities for homeland security are vast. starting with the emergency management agency, which has to do with deal with hurricanes, wild fires, and now covid, amongst many other responsibilities. more security is a huge issue. he s done a pretty good job of establishing the out of control, illegal entry we are experiencing were experiencing over a year ago. the department is concerned about cybersecurity, election security, the security of our critical infrastructure. as we just witnessed, some of the protests have sprung into ri
over and sudan s government says it s question revolves by members of a disbanded intelligence unit who were angry at the terms they ve been offered upon their dismissal 2 soldiers were killed 4 others were injured the 1st major challenge from within the security ranks for this transitional government which took power back in august morgan has our report now from. tuesday in what it s all started like this. members of the operation 2 units of sudan s general intelligence services opening fire in the capital there rejecting a severance package offered to them after the unit was dissolved months ago and they opted to retire rather than join the military tensions were high as people. what was going. on here was remember some clubs are firing their weapons what are we waiting for where are the security forces to stop this. sudan s government only months old deployed soldiers to try and contain the situation tanks patrolled the streets while military choppers flew over her. as the
andd stage on straw city where e have to be constantly chasing it down. slashsh, poison, burn. we spent $150 billion each year treating cancer, yet t a patient with cancer is as likely too die of it today, with a few exceptions, as one would 50 years ago. today we spend the hour with renowned cancer doctor dr. azra raza, author of the new book the first cell and the human costs of pursuing cancer to the last. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. the pentagon has released new emails revealing how the white house budget office ordered the pentagon to halt all military minuteskraine only 91 after president trump s july 25 telephone call with the ukraine president zelensky. the heavily redacted emails shows michael duffey telling pentagon officialsls trump h had become personally interested in aid and had ordered the hold. the emails were released after the center for public integrity filed a freed
andd stage on straw city where e have to be constantly chasing it down. slashsh, poison, burn. we spent $150 billion each year treating cancer, yet a a patient with cancer is as likely to die of it today, with a few exceptions, as one would 50 years ago. today we spend the hour with renowned cancer doctor dr. azra raza, author of the new book the first cell and the human costs of pursuing cancer to the last. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. the pentagon has released new emails revealing how the white house budget office ordered the pentagon to halt all military minuteskraine only 91 after president trump s july 25 telephone call with the ukraine president zelensky. the heavily redacted emails shows michael duffey telling pentagon officials t trump hadad become personally interested in aid and had ordered the hold. the emails were released after the center for public integrity filed a freedo