healing town hall, live from studio being new orleans. now joined now by chris hayes and join all right. good evening, and welcome to our town hall of the national day of racial healing and event creating, 60 years ago by our sponsor of the w. e. case kellogg foundation. the specialties held every year on the day after the dr. martin luther king holiday. if you look around, you will see that we are in this glorious space, incredible room. it is part of a studio b which is a set of former warehouses turn to an art experience by the artist brandon be mike odoms, here in the by water neighborhood of the great city of new orleans. our colleague jermaine lee who has been doing some reporting for this project is here with us as well and so is the young fella s the land where we unfortunate to be meeting tonight has made a gathering place and trading hub of different backgrounds and cultures going back centuries. and so we want to acknowledge, thank and honor the i
there don t appear to be any casualties as a result of this attack there is a statement which is claiming to be put out by the iraqi police which we have not yet been able to verify but this statement is suggesting that a single katyusha rocket has landed inside the base and as i say no casualties reported but that is then led to a search of the perimeter by security forces and they say that they have found a rocket launcher which contained 11 un fired missiles now the significance of this base as you as you mentioned is that this was the base back in december which was targeted by several rockets in which a u.s. contractor died which then led to the u.s. taking action against held by the. ball a group that then led to demonstrations around the perimeter of the u.s. embassy here in baghdad with some actually being able to break into parts of that program of terror and it was shortly after that that the u.s. then carried out drone strikes here at baghdad airport which killed i
President stepped out of the oval office, stepped into texas amid this disaster, what advice would you give him one district today . Thanks for having me, first let me say our hearts go out to the victims in houston and i also want to send a special thanks to all of the rescuers, the First Responders and volunteers and we should have all those people in our hearts and our prayers. In terms of President Trump, and leaving the white house, its important to know a number of things, leadership and if youre on top of the situation, confidence that your people are running the operations appropriately and compassion , if you dont show those things, then you start to have problems and as weve seen in the past with the president that we need to show those things because its also important the location of where hes going to make sure he doesnt go to a place that the disaster zone itself cuand that he is detracting from the rescue effort but if you want to go to a location that far enough away th
Testify about technologies theyre using to secure the nations borders, including efforts to combat drug smuggling. The committee on Homeland Security subcommittee on border and Maritime Security will come to order. The subcommittee is meeting today to examine the role of technology in the nations Border Security efforts. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Border security is a complicated endeavor, because theres no one size fits all solution. Thinking through what it will take to secure the border is the primary responsibility of the three agencies represented by our witnesses today. Border patrol is our Operational Force between the ports of industry, cbps office of Field Operations job is to facilitate legitimate trade and travel while keeping illicit drugs from entering, air and marine is the supporting element. All three of these critical Border Security components rely heavily on technology to accomplish their mission. Indeed, technology is a Crucial Force multiplier
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