Bret former President Donald Trump will not have to appear in person for the next hearing hes facing following this weeks indictment regarding alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The trial judge making that ruling today. This comes amid growing questions about the Justice System in the midst of dozens of criminal charges against the former president and multiple investigations involving the family of President Biden. Congressional republicans are vowing a strong response to what they feel is a twotiered application of the law. Senior Congressional Correspondent chad pergram starts us off tonight live from capitol hill. Good evening, chad. Bret, good evening. The g. O. P. Says there are two sets of rules. One for the bidens, another for former President Trump. The right intends to level the playing field. You cant beat them, you persecute them. Republicans believe there is something nefarious going on. It seems as though every time trump goals higher in the poll he gets a new
A san pablo street remains blocked off and residents ordered out of their homes this afternoon a day after illegal backyard shed. Found in a this map shows the size of t area of the original evacuation order. It covered a bck in each direction around the house on stanton avenue. Its been scaled back just a bit. Joins us with the latest. Reporter we are told half of the 1000 chemical bottles that were found have been removed. Some good news, some residents are being allowed to return home. This is really unprecedented, scene chemicals that seem to be hoarded over a nearly 50 year period in a shed in this individuals backyard. Bottles of mostly illegal chemicals were found at a house in this san pablo neighborhood. The man who allegedly lived here was in his 80s. He died a few months ago. His brother came by to clean up the property. Theres been some speculation, in talking to their brother or others that he may have been a chemistry professor, but that hasnt been confirmed. Reporter Law
Week. So you guys are stuck with me for the afternoon. And so with that im now going to read this fantastic biography. Im going to share with you why we are so thrilled to have bob bostock here with the Us Capitol Historical Society this afternoon. Bob is a curator for exhibits at the nixon foundation. And in fact bob worked for former president nixon towards the tail end of his time towards the tail end of his life in the office of former president nixon during his more than three decades of public service. He spent considerable time working on environmental policy really making him a perfect fit for this sort of program. He worked for governor Christine Todd whitman both when she was governor of new jersey and when she became epa administrator during we First Administration of president george w bush. He also served as director of Strategic Communications for the new Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and has some fantastic stories about the work that really did wonders to
What Public Office have you held before, if you have and if so hello, welcome to all of those of you who braved the weather to come join us today and also to our online all of a sudden. We really appreciate you joining us. Im tara watson, i direct the center for Economic Opportunity here at brookings. I was asked to join a project. It was under the auspices of the convergence collaborative and the goal was to discuss policies to support working families and i quickly learned that this approach was really serious about bringing together people from across the ideological spectrum and about facilitating productive conversation so several dozen of us spent quite a bit of time for the past year producing a report. Youll hear a bit about that today, especially in the first panel bull then because the process was so unusual, i wanted to give people the opportunity to hear more about work across the spectrum more generally. So our second pan panel will be focusing on productive ways to do tha
Public service along with these other Television Providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. Members of congress talked about religious freedom outside the u. S. At an event commemorating the 25th that of our three of the International Religious freedom act. The discussion included the conflict between israel and hamas advocating against religious persecution and the impact of the legislation. Good afternoon and welcome. My name is Abraham Cooper, and im honored to serve as chair of the u. S good afternoon and welcome. I am Abraham Cooper honored to serve on the International Commission for religious freedom. Thank you for joining us to mark the 25th anniversary of the International Religious freedom act. I would like to extend, on behalf of the commissioners, a special thank you to senator chris coons and his staff for reserving this historic room for us. In october 1998 congress passed, then, president bill clinton signed this act making the promotion of freedom of religion o