The Senate Environment and public works Works Committee held a hearing on how infrastructure legislation can help the economy recover from the coronavirus pandemic. Senators and panelists discuss the best way to fund road and bridge projects. Good morning. I called his hearing to order. Before i discussed todays hearing i want to say a few words about what is happening in communities across the country today. This is a time of great pain and unrest for our nation. Americans are truly outraged by recent killings. Anyone who watched the video the murder of george floyd has to be horrified and heartbroken. The resulting peaceful protests about police abuse against any american citizen are important and necessary. They listen to the voices of africanamericans about police brutality. Some of the peaceful protests were hijacked by filing criminal, distraction, looting and arson stop. Those who commit these crimes dishonor the memory of george floyd and dishonor the cause and the Peaceful Pro
Good morning. I call this hearing to order. Before i address the topic of todays hearing i want to say a few words about whats happening in communities across our country today. This is a time of great pain and unrestfor our nation. Americans are truly outraged by recent killings. Anyone who watched the video of the murder of george floyd has to be horrified and heartbroken. The resulting peaceful protests about police abuse against any american citizen are important and necessary our nation needs to listen to the voices of africanamericans about police brutality. Every american citizen deserves justice under the law. Some of the peacefulprotests have been hijacked by violent criminals. The destructing and looting and arson must stop. Those who commit these crimes dishonor the memory of george floyd and dishonor the cause for which the Peaceful Protesters first took to the streets. Now in a moment of americans to come together to listen and to heal. The goal of this hearing today is to
Soledad im soledad obrien, welcome to matter of fact. From new york to california, and everywhere in between, the u. S. Is facing a housing shortage. Its fueled in part by a lack of supply. New numbers show a sharp drop in Affordable Homes on the market. Only about 10 of newlybuilt homes are considered affordable with a price tag under 200,000. 10 years ago that number was 40 . In an effort to provide Affordable Housing options and boost the local economy, many cities are relying on urban renewal policies. But that often targets poor neighborhoods, pushing out the people who live there. Some cities are working to change that. In louisville, kentucky, theres an ambitious 870 million plan to improve the historic russell neighborhood without gentrifying it. Central to that plan is creating mixedIncome Housing. The second installment of our series americas cities russell rising, takes a look at the Housing Project beecher terrace, where the citys objectives will be put to the test with a p
Welcome to matter of fact. How separate are church and state . Thats the question the new political docuseries the family tries to answer. The family is a conservative Christian Group that for decades used its proximity to power to influence policy. It hosts small bipartisan prayer groups and has put on the National Prayer breakfast since 1953. The family also is known as the fello fellowship and remains secretive by design. Journalist jeff sharlet author of two books about the organization, the family and c street, served as one of the series executive producers. He also lived with the group at its headquarters in arlington, virginia, just outside of d. C. In my 20s i stumbled my way in and what i found was a secretive Christian Organization called the family that had been hiding in plain sight for 80 years. There were congressmen, senators, World Leaders soledad jeff sharlet, its so nice to have you, thanks for joining us. Jeff hi, soledad, thanks for having me. Soledad you bet. Give
and plug the leak. we take this very seriously and we will continue to work closely with our outstanding allies and partners and nothing will ever stop us from keeping america secure. we will continue to investigate and turn over every rock until we find the source of this and the extent of it. dana: this comes as top congressional leaders gain access to classified documents found at the homes of former vice president trump, pence and biden. bill: congressman jim hines joins us in a moment. first to chad pergram who leads our coverage live on the hill. good government is apparently no better at keeping secrets than a click of students in junior high. top house and senate leaders demand all member briefings about the latest batch of documents which were leaked. the pentagon and the intelligence community want answers. deeply unfortunate leak of classified documents is certainly as intense as anything in that now part of the in box as well. we need to learn lessons fr