Day which he can do every day and does every day. Hes constantly driving the message and therefore having us around really allows him to do that. Q a, sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan. Homeland Security Officials talked about what theyre doing to combat threats to the u. S. , focussing on interagency communication and efforts to improve efficiencies. They spoke before the Senate Homeland security and Governmental Affairs committee. Good morning. This roundtable of the Homeland Security Governmental Affairs will come to order. I want to welcome our participants, well call them, i guess theyre witnesses. We have the honorable elaine duke, the honorable claire grady, the honorable george scott and the honorable john kelly from dhs, the gao as well as the office of the Inspector General. This roundtable discussed the attempt to reauthorize dhs. The house passed their bill. They have a memorandum of understanding to consolidate that entire process under the committee of Homeland Securi
Federal officials in the center for Transgender Equality much of the hearing focused on how the tsa treats transgender and disabled travelers college homeland hearing. The Senate Committee is meeting to examine the efforts to engage with the traveling public and when it is positive, successful for most americans tsa is in Homeland Security component they regularly interact with. By screening over 2 million passengers per day tsa Center Acting with a diverse array tss had certainly look at issues and other times it just operations to improve effectiveness tsa has struggled to communicate with the public. Back of Stakeholder Engagement has led to confusion among travelers, airports and the tsa all personnel. This new procedure called enhance accessible screening was met with some confusion as travelers to not understand the reasoning behind the new procedures. Rises and falls in the agencys ability to consistently apply among the system. Identifying and understanding public needs and eff
And for that reason were very pleased to happy to have cspan with us today. Cspan2 will be broadcasting this live at this time. And for that reason when you ask questions wed ask that you please identify yourself both so that the, our speakers know who you are as well as the larger audience. Another of the missions of the aba is in nonpartisan as well as bipartisan fashion to talk about highlight and advance the interests of National Security law and do so in twoways. One, to stand up for the principle of physical security, but do so consistent with our National Security values. Thats the essence of what the Aba Standing Committee on law and National Security is all about. Thats also why im so pleased today that our speakers are discussing in fact are two people who spent their entire careers doing just that. Standing up for the physical security of the United States but doing so in a manner consistent with our values. Our discussants are Harvey Rishikof and fran townsend. I would try
Two soldiers have been killed in what is thought to have been a suicide bombing at at Police Station in eastern turkey. A truck packed with explosive was rammed into the building. 24 have been injurds. The perform kk has been p. K. K. Has been blamed for the attack. The violence increased after the turkish government began air strikes against separatists. Kurds have been protesting against the air strikes. Police fired water canon and tear gas to break up a rally in turkeys city crowds gathered outside the prokurdish h. D. P. Party officers, politicians called for a resumption of peace talks with the p. K. K. More from zeina khodr, on the turkey syria bored erm. Attacks have been continuing, there has been numerous incidents, 22 soldiers and police men killed. The latest incidents really signals an escalation because according to the governor of agriprovince, in the east of the country, a suicide bomber barked an agricultural vehicle outside an army base, and detonated the explosives,
Worlds doping chiefs respond to the alarm as reports say a third of the medals won by athletes over a decade could be taped by drugs. Turkeys military is denying allegations airstrikes against p. K. K. Targets have hit civilians. There are growing fears of civilian deathion since bombings. An attack on a Police Station killed two soldiers. Zeina hodor reports. A suicide truck bomb killed at least two soldiers and injured 20. Authorities are blaming the outallowed Kurdistan Workers Party or the p. K. K. Sundays bombs is seen as an escalation in the continuing conflict between turkey and the p. K. K. Which has spilled on to this street. Scenes like these have been recurring in mainly kurdish areas of the country. We wanted to organize a match urging the continuation of peace talks. There is chaos in kurdistan. Who wanted to create this atmosphere . It was the government. Turkey disagrees. It blamed the p. K. K. For violating a ceasefire and killing a civilian and 21 security personnel ov