Days leading up to the maga invasion at the capital. The basis of the president s second Impeachment Trial starting next week. The genesis of the siege, revealing it wasnt an up rising but a coordinated campaign by the former president and his allies. That was rooted in a lie that was so convincing to some of his most devoted followers it made the assault on the capitol almost inevitable. And a growing list of people and organizations involved in planning, promoting and financing the rallies that precipitated the insurrection. Alex jones, ali alexander, the pilly gee, mike lindell, and people who have been in the Republican Party, and establishment groups like the republican attorneys general association. The heiress to the publix supermarket fortune. Her money paid for the lions share of the 500,000 at the ellipse where the former president spoke. Before they converged on washington, all the forces rallied around a single goal of stopping the socalled steal. And the times reveal, some
You can watch the senate live right now on cspan2. While we wait for the Homeland Security hearing to resume, heres the first hour of testimony from this morning. Committee on Homeland Security will come to order. Committees meeting today to examine the most serious threats confronting our homeland. Before i recognize myself for an Opening Statement i would like to take a moment to welcome the newest member of our committee, don bacon. Don served nearly 30 years in the air force and is experienced in cybersecurity and airborne reconnaissance. Will prove greatly beneficial to this committee. Thank you, sir, for being here. Thank you, chairman. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. I would like to thank the witnesses. Acting secretary elaine duke. Fbi director christopher wray. Ctc director Nick Rasmussen for joining us today. You represent thousands of patriotic men and women who go to work every day to ensure the safety of their fellow americans. Everyone on this committee i
He was 13 years old and living in nagasaki. He lived about two miles from ground zero and somehow survived even though the bomb devastated his neighborhood. Thats just amazing. Two days later he and his mother visited the epicenter searching for their family members who live nearby. Heres how he described the scene. Im going to translate this one as well. Translator he says houses were gone. Only the steel bars of concrete buildings stood bare and hollow. Steel bars of factories were entirely bent. Everything else was a burnt field. On the way to my aunts house we saw blackened bodies all over the place. They probably burned underneath houses that burned down. People who died from severe injuries and burns they were left on the ground without being collected. Those who were gravelly injured and alive were left to writhe in pain without rescue. Today, mr. Tanaka is a Nuclear Engineer himts and hes an activist against Nuclear Weapons. He feels things are going in the wrong direction. Lis
Integrations reporter from politico. The headline on your website, congress clears spending bill, averting shutdown. The house passed and thehous senate followed suit. It will go to the president. What is in this measure . This is a really minimal spending bill theres almost nothing in it except just keeping the funding going. Theres a small technical fix in the Childrens Health insurance program, the funding that expired on september 30 and this is just kicking it down theth road why do this now . Congressional leaders have not agreed on how much to actually spend in fiscal 2018. They cant write the big spending bill until we get those numbers. This is giving two additional weeks so that we can try to iron out negotiations on the hill, congressional leaders can keep meeting, try to come up with the best spending record lets focus on the house inet the wall at the senate. Republicans all on board for this measure yesterday. Democrats all opposed it. What are republicans, what are the d
Cspan2. This will be on the only. We expected to get underway in just a moment. Were about to get started. This is just a friendly reminder that all the council cocounsel consider counsel desk. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] United States court of appeals, all persons before the united stat states [inaudible] may it please the court. The injunction strongly signals confirmation is fundamentally different than the prior executive order. The proclamation respects a multiagency, worldwide review engagement and recommendation process and findings of eight countries have inadequate information sharing practices or other risk factors that undermine the visa vetting system and that warrant tailored entry restrictions to improve their practices and protect this nation until they do so. In light of the fact that the standards for stay and standard for preliminary injunction are essentially the same, would you tell me what you think the Supreme Court action on monday in issu