Here ainley have berthing support the patient to have been Opening Statement and then to introduce the first panel with vr done the Senate Judiciary committee is holding a hearing will entitle their responses to the increase of religious hate crimes it is from great bipartisan interest with religious hate crimes to have a great impact on the community. Many of these crimes never would have been committed but for hatred. Run counter to americas values such as religious freedom and americans have the right for those that would treat them as members of religious groups the religious hate crimes on the riots bottles common religious hate crimes against muslims to the fastestgrowing category by have been contacted fear of practicing once religion should never happen in this country. This has been growing for some time and it is not new. We will confront antisemitism and condemns hatred to bear witness an act. With these statements with Government Action dating back to George Washington wrot
Welcome to a very important here ainley have berthing support the patient to have been Opening Statement and then to introduce the first panel with vr done the Senate Judiciary committee is holding a hearing will entitle their responses to the increase of religious chairman grassley welcome, everybody, to a very important hearing that we have. Thank you for being patient while we get started here. Ill have an Opening Statement. Senator feinstein will go, and then well go, ill introduce our first panel. Then when were done there go to the second panel and introduce that at that time. The Senate Judiciary committee today is holding a hearing that we entitled responses to the increase in religious hate crimes. This is a subject of great bipartisan interest in the committee. Religious hate crimes harm victims. And also have a great impact on communities. Many of these crimes would never have been committed but for hatred. They run counter to americas values such as religious freedom and to
Nfc east showdown with the giants. Those stories in a moment, but lets get the forecast from meteorologist chris sowers, a great day in store. Reporter we have a nice day for the remainder of the afternoon. We have sunny skies, high, thin cloudiness upstairs. Temperatures in the 50s, a light breeze out of the northwest at 10 to 15 Miles Per Hour. 62 in philadelphia. 59 in allentown. Millville, a comfortable 63. Wilmington, 63. Dover, 64. 59 in trenton. And atlantic city, 63 degrees. Heres satellite and radar along with action radar. Part of the reason why its so breezy this afternoon we had a cold front slide through overnight, because of the pressure differences between the area of low pressure off the coast of maine and the High Pressure off the carolinas, were getting a wind tunnel effect. Combination of sun and clouds, comfortable, 65 degrees. I want to show you the numbers across the lower 48. This is going to be a nice fall week here. Theres no cold out there, look at these tempe
The payment would have been made with or without hostages. It sounds to me like my friends on the other side are upset about this would rather we paid iran the money and not gotten our people back. They would have been happy. Yippie. I would not have been. You would still be here been criticized for not getting americans home. You cant win this. I hope you understand this is a political game to try once again to number one trash the obama administration. Number two, trash the iran nuclear deal. And number three, somehow make them look like criminals, dropping bags of cash in the middle of the night like a drug deal. This is ridiculous. Now, i understand, and again, i think there are fair and reasonable and thoughtful and tough questions asked about the iran nuclear deal. I voted for it, but i think questions are reasonable. Any legal settlement with the risk of litigation, i was a lawyer back in my previous life when i actually had some useful function to have. Any legal settlement is
I appreciate it. In yourh, you stated Opening Statement that you have been dealing with these claims for about 30 years. Yes. Ok, about 30 years. Thank you. You have been involved in a number of different transactions. Cash . Ny of them in i am not involved in the exact financial transactions. Is it common for these settlements to be disposed of in cash . There have been various larger settlements over time. Each one has been so generous. There has been a difference in the way many of those you could have just answered my question and moved on. I am very concerned about this and i think all kinds of americans across our great land are concerned about this. I know the people that i represent in maine are very concerned about this. Lets step back for a minute. We have a government that has vowed to wipe our major ally in the middle east, the only one that we trust, off the face of the year. They have vowed to kill as Many Americans as they can and they have blood on their hands right now