Free mobile app, or online at cspan. Org. Announcer Voting Rights advocates testified on Voter Suppression efforts and id laws before the house judiciary subcommittee on civil rights this year. This is about two hours and 40 minutes. The committee on the judiciary subcommittee on the constitutional civil rights and Civil Liberties will come to order. Without objections, i will authorize for recess at any time. I welcome everyone to the hearing on Voter Suppression and continuing threats to democracy. Before we continue, want to remind members that we have established an email address at that has been shared, and a distribution list for motions and other written materials that members want to offer as part of the hearing today. I also have unanimous consent that are policy from georgia be allowed to participate, and will be permitted to ask question should a member yield their time. Without objection, so done. I will ask all witnesses and members to mute your microphone to prevent feedb
Her parents were taiwan intellectuals. Their stories need to be told. Maybe the first story they need to learn is what it means to be asianamerican, what it means to be an asianamerican now and in 2014. We have been telling the stories over and over again. When i was at npr in 1989 i thought i news room and they didnt know what to do with the story. 300,000 filipinos in the bay area. They didnt know what to do with the story. Did they send the filipinoamerican . They asked me and i said this is a story. They said not sure. As i said, i practically had to give them we didnt have the internet them. I had to say look at the numbers. They are not just in daly city. Then they finally sent me. It was 1983 in august so that is when there was the assassio story. Since then in 1987 when the philippines fell every station sent an anchor to cover the story because they knew how important it was. So that is a way that a failure turned it around and it became a big story. You backed it up with numb
Education. Additional funding also provided by moutual of america. Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Welcome. Im kim lawton, sitting in for bob abernethy. Thank you for joining us. People of faith around the world continue to pray for a permanent truce between israel and hamas. During this weeks pause in the fighting, groups were able to deliver aid to people in gaza. Many decried the humanitarian impact of the conflict. A Catholic Relief Services official described the situation as quote a complete catastrophe. Many religious leaders continued to protest the large number of civilian casualties. In washington, on tisha bav, the jewish day of mourning, activists held a vigil for those on both sides who were killed. The gathering urged an end to the war. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said hamas should be held accountable for what he called the tragic loss of civilian lives. He said israels actions were justified and proportional. In west africa, aut
Nbcs tom costello covers aviation for us and joins me this morning. Good morning. What do we know . Reporter we have five different aircraft today that we are told were affected by a bomb threat threats called in have all been deemed to be not credible, and four of the five flights were already on the ground safely. American 648, san diego to philly delta flight 55 los angeles to atlanta, united 995, which was San Francisco to chicago, and youre looking right there at the scene of philadelphia, by the way, thats american 648, san diego to philly. Last flight 939, portland to guadalajara, mexico also were told on the ground. One flight still in the air, korean air 23 seoul, south korea to San Francisco. That flight is still in the air, landing 2 20 p. M. Eastern time in San Francisco. That threat deemed not credible. Korean air is continuing on with the flight. All of these threats are, we are told, very similar to the ones that were phoned in over the past couple of weeks in which the
Reporter so just in the last sort of 20 minutes or so, weve learned that the fbi is now investigating this as a possible act of terrorism because of some the nature of the attack and weve also learned that the suspect here shouted some words during the attack, you know, words other jihadi sort of like other terrorists use, allahu akbar. It was words to that effect that witnesses have told police they heard, which is now leading some to believe that this may have been an act of terrorism. The Police Officer that was hurt here, hes now in stable condition, expected to survive. Were told he was in the public area of the airport when the suspect came behind him and attacked him, stabbed him in the back and then was taken into custody. There were other people around this Police Officer, and they were able to subdue him and the man was eventually taken into custody. Police and the fbi are still working through his identity, trying to figure out exactly who he is and why he was at the airport