Present. The committee a quorum is present. The committee is meeting to hear testimony on the importance of trauma and practices in education to assist students impacted by gun violence and other adversities. Miss beth of georgia, of minnesota, miss the of wilde ofiss pennsylvania, and mr. Pastor of texas, are permitted to participate in todays hearings with the understanding that their questions will come on the after all members of the subcommittee have had an opportunity to question the witness. ,ursuant to committee will 7c Opening Statements are limited to the chair and the Ranking Member. This allows us to hear from or witnesses sooner and provides all members with time to ask questions. Can you hear me all right . All right. I recognize myself now for the purpose of making an opening statement. I want to begin by acknowledging that this morning marks 18 years since the terrorist attacks that struck new york, pennsylvania, and the pentagon on september 11, 2001. Let us please tak
Tracy good afternoon. I am tracy byrnes. Ashley and i am ashley webster. Congress off this week. Tracy talk about sticker shock at the pump. Gas prices climbing 432 straight days. I have cried every 32 of those days. Ashley immigration outrage. Working on a bipartisan answer. They are getting riled up. So is lou dobbs. He will be weighing in. Tracy if you have a job, you have felt the tax hike. Ashley president s day. Good afternoon to you. President s day is what matters sales and auto sales. The u. S. Holiday resulted in low trading volume. The market reacting. Risks to the euro zones recovery. Speaking of europe, by the way, is the u. S. Going the way of greece . Check out the front cover of the latest addition. We follow president obamas plan, the u. S. Will be in worse shape than greece is today. It will take 25 years, maybe sooner. The federal debt is the problem. We have to make serious spending cuts now. We could be like greece. Interesting. And frightening. Tracy nobody is cut
Calling it a Critical Alert level in britain. We used to have that colorcoded alert system after 9 11. We no longer have that. We have the National Terrorism advisory syst, which sends out targeted alerts for specific incidents and specific places. But in britain, theyve still got a nationwide alert system and tonight, theresa may raised their nationwide alert level to critical, which in the Prime Minister words means, another attack may be imminent in great britain. Now, this Critical Alert level means that they are deploying troops in the streets. They are putting the British Military in the street alongside british police. There have been raids today in britain. There has been at least one arrest reportedly in conjunction with last nights bombing. Theres been a lot of controversy about u. S. Officials and u. S. News sources publishing the name of the man believed to have been the bomber, the suicide bomber. Were going to have more on that story and have the latest from london and fr
Prescription in terms of what you ought to do that would count as normal behavior in that circumstance. For the last couple days even this white house in its unusual situation and unusual relationship to political norms in general, for the last couple days even this white house accepted the basic principle that a president shouldnt fire the person leading an investigation into his campaign because the president doesnt like that investigation. For the past couple days the white house at least halfheartedly try to explain the firing of fbi director james comey as something other than what it looks like. They produced a memo from the Deputy Attorney general saying it was because of the handling of the Hillary Clinton email last year. They produced the Vice President of the United States to assure people in his calm, steady way that the president only fired the fbi director because of grave concerns about the fbi director coming from within the department of justice. The white house spokes
American east coast difference in england. So its after 2 00 in the morning now in england. That country is now not only dealing with the aftermath of that horrific bombing of that pop concert in manchester, england, last night, which claimed 22 lives. They are also now officially calling it a Critical Alert level in britain. We used to have that colorcoded alert system after 9 11. We no longer have that. We have the National Terrorism advisoryystem, which sends out targeted alerts for specific incidents and specific places. But in britain, theyve still got a nationwide alert system and tonight, theresa may raised their nationwide alert level to critical, which in the Prime Minister words means, another attack may be imminent in great britain. Now, this Critical Alert level means that they are deploying troops in the streets. They are putting the British Military in the street alongside british police. There have been raids today in britain. There has been at least one arrest reportedl