The head of Hawaiian Electric told house lawmakers the cause of the wildfire that spread has not been determined pinpointing because it could take several months to more than a year. She pledged cooperation of multiple ongoing investigations into what exactly happened. Energy and commerce subcommittee hearing is just over two hours. [background noises] [background noises] before we get started went to take a brief moment of point of personal privilege and the cardinal nooses mind is an article about virginias connection with hawaii and its history. Some of which is good some is not one of the interesting points as a congressman from the ninth district of virginia at the district that currently represent a democrat but the name oftl jennings was the only virginian to vote for hawaiian statehood. Until we are kind of a proud of that our section of the state is little different than other of the state sometimes good sometimes bad but mostly good with that being said vulvar gas would pleas
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Bipartisan basis so we would have bipartisanship as the start. And a lot of people because the Senate Bipartisan solution in the Senate Majority and it doesnt happen very often. Senator murray of washington working with public and senator Susan Collins of maine and the continuing resolution spelled out what we think needs to be done to keep the government open for about six or seven weeks. It includes six and a half billion dollars to maintain a commitment to ukraine and 6 billion to help them respond to federally declared disasters including one of my states where they are working to recover from the impact of summer storms. It would prevent election funding for Critical Healthcare and like the Community Health care centers. Im sure presiding officers visited see centers in the state have in my state. Its one of the more Amazing Products out of the Affordable Care act. I can remember 17 just met last minute and demanded we fund Community Health care as part of the bill. Admit that peo
Waves yesterday. The two indictments and one guilty plea could be just the beginning. Reporter President Trump says the investigation into russian interference in the president ial election is just a witchhunt. Monday, accused of hiding tens of millions in russian banks. The mueller Team Announced Trump Campaign adviser George Papadopoulos pled guilty for lying to the fbi. Papadopoulos is described as a cooperator. There are other sealed indictments that have already been filed. It you see one indictment and youve got one guy working for you, there are others. Reporter on twitter this morning, President Trump said as paul there was no collusion. Few people knew the young, low level volunteer named george, who has already proven to be a liar. He was a volunteer, again, on a council that met once. Reporter facebook, google, and twitter are prepared to testify that a Russian Group posted 80,000 times, and may have reached as many as 126 million facebook users. Cbs news, the white house. G
Entered the not guilty pleas for him in court on his behalf with him sitting there in the courtroom today. Three on not guilty pleas on charges of arson and one for allegedly being a felon in possession of a firearm. 54yearold coy from Boulder Creek is accused of starting that fire two weeks ago that threatened hundreds of homes and destroyed two of them. Also damaging six more, as you said. Coy was already in jail accused of looting homes in the burned area when investigators linked him to the fire that caused an estimated 7 million in damage. Lets be honest, he lit a fire that caused an evacuation and burned 300plus acres. Thats not something that happens every day in this county. And its arson. Its not an accident. And the message should be that we are going to come after you if you do those sort of things in this county with all the resources that we have and were going do do everything we can to hold you accountable. Reporter prosecutors say multiple witnesses saw coy start the fi