And i will turn it over. Thank you very much mister chairman. I want to welcome you and its wonderful for me to say see a woman in charge so we can celebrate for a few moments at least that you are responsible for the care and custody of over 180,000 federal inmates and one of the Justice Departments largest employers and approximately 35,500 employees as may of this year. As the chairman mentioned there are two issues i hope we can focus on. One is the First Step Act which you mentioned and the second is applaud blooms with is problems with staffing conditions within your department. Im going to put most of this in the record. I think what ill do mister chairman in the interest of time is put the statement in the record. Without objection. Senator durbin . Thank you mister chairman. Last Year Congress came together to pass what i considered one of the most important criminal Justice Reform laws and the nation. The first stepped hacked from overwhelming majority signed by President Tru
Support that we have a oversight hearing i think there will be a couple areas of inquiry, all things Jeffrey Epstein. And hopefully about the implementation of firststepan a. And where do we go from there. How do you build upon that those are the three areas i would like to talk about. I will turn over to senator feinstein. E areas i would like to talk about at all tonight over. Thank you very much mister chairman. I want to welcome you and its wonderful for me to say a woman in charge so we can celebrate for a few moments at least that you are responsible for the care and custody of over 180,000 federal inmates and one of the approximately 35,500 employees as of may of this year. And as the chairman mentioned that are two issues i hope we can focus on your point is the First Step Act which he mentioned, and the second is problems with staffing and conditions within your department. Im going to put most of this in the record, but i think what ill do, mr. Chairman, in the interest of ti
the pentagon, u.s. response to the drone attack that killed three troops in jordan could come in stages. you are watching fox and friends first, i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus. we learn the identities of the three army soldiers, two of them were under 25 years old. some are calling for the u.s. to send a direct message to iran immediately. brooke singman has details. brooke: pentagon releasing the names of the three soldiers killed in the attack. they were assigned to 718th. sergeant william drone and specialist moffet. the president faces growing calls to take action against iran. sounded like the administration has ruled out strikes within iran. i appreciate the question, i will not telegraph punches. we are not looking for war with iran, not looking to escalate the tension anymore. everything has been done to deescalate tension. did does the administration not hold iran responsible for the attack or the risk is acceptable? i m not going to telegrap
six other employees face felony convictions for their involvement, facing all warts even putting tracking devices on the steiner s car and putting ads for sexual encounters at the couple s home. a bunch of people got fired. insane story. the lead with jake tapper starts now. is the u.s. on the brink of war? iran backed forces vowing revenge after u.s. and uk strikes against them in yemen. firepower after repeated attacks on commercial ships in the red sea. will last night s retaliatory strikes keep the groups at bay? and is president biden ready for what be next? in moments, we talked with spokeswoman from the pentagon. les, a blizzard creating a wideout in iowa three days before the republican caucus is how candidates are going with the backup plans to reach out to voters and try to get those voters to the caucuses on a very cold monday. and the brother of an israeli hostage told to leave this week and when his parents talk to the red cross to try to get the daughter
at the rafah boarder crossing near the gaza/egyptian border. the you haven t seen this video, it came in a short while to cnn. it shows crowds running as gunfire is ringing out in the streets. meanwhile, fears of a growing escalation in the middle east are also on the broadcast this evening. an iranian drone struck a commercial ship in the indian ocean on saturday. a u.s. defense official says a fire broke out on the chemical tanker with nearly two dozen crew members on board, but no one was hurt. the strike comes as newly declassified u.s. intelligence suggests iran has been deeply involved in a series of houthi rebel attacks on ships in the red sea. we have reporters covering this. will rippley is live in tel aviv with more on the outbreak of violence at the rafah crossing, and more than gunfire, will. it seems like out-and-out chaos breaking out outside that crossing area. what can you tell us? reporter: a lot of factors lead up to this. the rafah crossing is one of the