Latest policy will be found unconstitutional. Well get an update from the center for constitutional rights. Then to america severing Opioid Epidemic and how congress undermine efforts to restrict the flow of pain pills that led to tens of thousands of deaths. We will look at the secretive family making billions from the Opioid Crisis. That is the Sackler Family, owners of the comedy that invented oxycontin. We will speak with christopher glazek, the reporter who broke the story. Then to guantanamo where detainees on Hunger Strike have accused officials of a sudden change in practice that could result in them starving to death as doctors stop forcefeeding them and are no longer monitoring their medical condition. We will go to london to speak with Clive Stafford smith of reprieveve, which represents eit guantanamo pririsoners. If someone is going to die from starvation, should you go against their will and force feed them or not . When the british did that to the ira, we let them die. A
We begin with the details of two al qaeda hostages, an italian aid worker, and Giovanni Porto were killed during a drone strike at the afghanistanpakistan border. And now an investigation into exactly what went wrong. Mike marza joins us from washington and what do we know about the operation and what the u. S. Is doing to help the families . Reporter well, the white house said that the president didnt signoff on the attack, but he appeared in a hasty event in the white house situation room and talked about the inadvertent it deaths of captives wienstein and porto and what they wont say is a long list of questions that many people have, including the nature of the attack. Was it a drone attack, a commando raid . An aircraft launch attack . They did not say the timeline, other than to say that they started to get information in the week after the attack remember this took place in january that wienstein and porto may have been present at the attack. And they wont say where if happened,
Asked by our constituents all the time to support very projects. Deputy secretary theres been some question about this review board that you allegedly created to review the l. A. Films case. Are you aware of that . Yes, but that was not created for that case. That was created for all cases. The concept of the decision board was generated in 2011. I discussed with career employees the application of that decision board to the issue of difference, which was of tremendous concern in the community, in the eb5 program. I discussed its application with a number of career employees in 2012 and ongoing. So it was not limited to that one case. Zblf the decision board or deference board, as it was termed subsequently was a reform applicable to the eb5 program writ large and it was needed and especially with respect to the the issue of difference, which caused so much consternation in the community, wh u when uscis would make a decision. Investors would invest. Capital would be infused. Business
Security will come to order. The pur o pos of this hearing is to receive testimony regarding the immigrant Investor Program known as the eb5 program. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. On march 24th the department of Homeland Security Inspector General released a report detailing allegations against deputy secretary mayorkas that relate to his time as director of uscis and his oversight of the eb5 program. The igs Office Conducted more than 50 interviews, reviewed more than 40,000 phone records and obtained more than 1 million documents and emails. This investigation was unprecedented in that there were more than a dozen whistle blowers that came forward to the Inspector Generals office. The findings are troubling as the ig made some very serious charges against mr. Mayorkas. Leave among them were that he used his position to influence outcomes in select cases for the benefit of politically connected and powerful individuals. In general, these allegations fall under four
Both sides to file any new motions that they want to. Then theres another deadline at 11 00 a. M. For each side to respond and basically rebuttal whatever motions the other side presented at 9 00 a. M. Then this trial kicks off again at 1 00 today with the chief justice presiding over the chamber of the senate. And what i will tell you is we can expect to see the house managers making their official opening arguments. Basically making the case for why the president deserves to be impeached. You saw them making that case over yesterday as they were trying to convince republican members to vote for some of those changes to mcconnells resolution. Those all failed along party lines. Susan collins crossed the line for one of them, but it wasnt enough to actually make any substantial changes to mcconnells resolution. However, during the republican lunch yesterday, there were some fireworks. Many republicans made the case to the leadership that they needed to give each side more days to make