Mayorkas appeared before the House Homeland Security committee to testify on President Bidens 2025 budget request. The secretary stressed the need for the house to pass the senates bipartisan bill as he faced criticism from republicans through his handling of the crisis at the southern border. The hearing ended shortly before the house delivered impeachment articles against the secretary to the senate. This is about three hours. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Without objection the committee may recess at any point. Good morning, secretary mayorkas, and thank you for joining the committees budget that you and President Biden put forth the department of Homeland Security. March 1 the department celebrated its 21st anniversary, and i want to thank the Public Servants throughout hhs that dedicate their lives to securing the homeland. This work is vital to the nations safety and security. Mr. Secretary, when you took the oath of office use for two, quote, suppor
These are some of the media stories we are getting crosses this week the tragedy in mecca. 1 story differing narratives depending upon what channel you are watching in which country. The conflict in crimea has led to the launch after new Television Channel in estonia. No country for journalism mexico and the perils of the profession. The handle is snowden. Citizen 4 hits twitter. There are certain news events when you examine the coverage them reveal much about the larger story the disaster that structural the hajj pilgrimage in mecca is an example of that reflected through the lenses of saudi and airanian media. Two tloningz of pilgrims met at an intersection called nina. What happens next is unclear. What we know is hungry of lives were lost. One of the reasons for the confusion journalists say is they were denied access to the scene for up to seven hours. The larger story is the geo politics of the region, news reports coming out of riyadh and tehran were from sympathy to sympathy.
The conflict in crimea has led to the launch after new Television Channel in estonia. No country for journalism profession. The handle is snowden. Citizen 4 hits twitter. There are certain news events when you examine the coverage them reveal much about the larger story the disaster that structural the hajj pilgrimage in mecca is an example of that reflected through the lenses of saudi and airanian media. Two tloningz of pilgrims met at an intersection called nina. What happens next is unclear. What we know is hungry of lives were lost. One of the reasons for the confusion journalists say is they were denied access to the scene for up to seven hours. The larger story is the geo politics of the region, news reports coming out of riyadh and a bit of bad press given it happened in a place muslims consider sacred and saw e arabia and iran are fighting wars by proxy elsewhere in the region. Our starting point this week is mecca. The city of mecca is home to 2 Million People and the kaaba co
The conflict in crimea has led to the launch after new Television Channel in estonia. No country for journalism profession. The handle is snowden. Citizen 4 hits twitter. There are certain news events when you examine the coverage them reveal much about the larger story the disaster that structural the hajj pilgrimage in mecca is an example of that reflected through the lenses of saudi and airanian media. Two tloningz of pilgrims met at an intersection called nina. What happens next is unclear. What we know is hungry of lives were lost. One of the reasons for the confusion journalists say is they were denied access to the scene for up to seven hours. The larger story is the geo politics of the region, news reports coming out of riyadh and a bit of bad press given it happened in a place muslims consider sacred and saw e arabia and iran are fighting wars by proxy elsewhere in the region. Our starting point this week is mecca. The city of mecca is home to 2 Million People and the kaaba co
If president obama gets his way, even as he continues to fight efforts by many of us to repeal outdated oil expert ban that would allow us here in this country to send oil to our allies. I think it does beg the question, and part of the discussion hopefully this newing will be with that source of revenue, that iran is anticipating to receive, what do we do with it . What will the intentions of these be . Libby did do good and build hospitals . Libby to direct yet additional sources of revenue to the terrorist organizations. In recent months we have seen a great deal of discussion about isis Oil Production and distribution, and Coalition Efforts to disrupt this source of revenue. Bottom line is that the Islamic State this oil is helping to finance terrorism. Significantly. I have long argued that Energy Security is central to National Security. Last year we released a series of reports. One was entitled Oil Production outages and strategic warnings. Another was iraq, through the lens of