This week she warned the white house that former National Security adviser Michael Flynn had lied about his communications with russian officials and put at risk for blackmail. Miss gates served as acting attorney general in the opening days of the Trump Administration before she was fired to refusing the president S Immigration band. At a judiciary hearing monday she testified alongside director of National Intelligence james clapper. [inaudible conversation]. [inaudible conversation] just a gal. Thank you katie. Testing here. Here we come to order, thank you all for coming, heres the order of the day, a brief Opening Statement along with senator white house and then we will have senator grassley and feinstein follow some questioning and the seven minute rounds initially, we will try to put a second round of five minutes, both of those witnesses, thank you for coming. Will try to make this as short as possible and if you need a break, please let us know. So people,what are we doing an
Tillis. Welcome. Senator john kennedy, welcome. Chris van hollen. And senator katherine cortez. We appreciate all of you, and im sure i speak for all of the regular members of the committee that we welcome you and look forward to. To a lot of good work. Earlier members of the committee. [laughter] i was told by both sides to speak for myself. I look forward to working with all of us on the committee all members this year. I look forward to working with all of us on the committee all members this year. This committee has a long and distinguished history of tackling important issues and this congress has no exception. We have a significant list of issues that we will need to deal with and we will do that and i am confident we will continue the tradition in a strong and bipartisan manner. I look forward to working with my colleagues. Weve had a number of hearings already that we will be dealing with an and we will work to lead the committee through some very important territories during t
Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. And im not talking about doing better during that period of time. Im talking about in terms of moving up the economic ladder that actually if you square away someones housing situation, that thats the best way to situate them so that they can deal with their health, their education and whatever family problems they may need to contend. Like your thoughts in that area. My thought is that as i mentioned before, the things that we have been doing and the programs, theyre lifesaving. Theyre a safety net. Do i think we can do better . Absolutely. And do i think we should be spending a little more time and effort concentrating on developing the potential of our people . And the answer to that is yes, particularly in light of the fact that we have so many fewer people than our competitors and its going to be absolutely essential that we do that. One final question. I used to run a social Service Agency in honolulu and one of the things that we came to understand
Scintilla of doubt about the impartiality and fairness of the attorney general, the top Law Enforcement official of the land. Reporter amid the controversy two more of President Trumps cabinet members were confirmed today. Dr. Ben carson as housing and urban development secretary, and rick perry as energy secretary. In washington, joel waldman, fox news. California senator Kamala Harris is joining the growing number of democrats calling on the attorney general to resign. She tweeted, recusal is not good enough. Attorney general Jeff Sessions needs to resign. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and the democratic leader Chuck Schumer are also calling for Jeff Sessions to step down. In 20 minutes we will talk to our political analyst james taylor about what this controversy could mean for the trump presidency. Two suspects have been arrested and a third person is considered a person of interest after an offduty Oakland Police officer was shot at on the freeway. Crime reporter henry lee jo
Nothing. I could go do we have to do this. I plan on live tweeting the event. Were playing one of my favorite songs. I could probably go a week without a phone call. But if you take my ability to text. Yeah. Away from me, thats so of all the ways we communicate. Are you a text or a talker. I like texting now. Even my mom. My parents too. Text. So i cannot be at my kids or the nanny, i have to have this thing for that. Right. When were all together in the same room, then maybe i can put it down. Okay. Well see. Well see. A lot of people say the struggle is for work, we need our phones. Yeah. To check emails. Theyre not talking about work, are they. The problem is i check my work email just to see what is on twitter. Lets check facebook. Its a slippery slope. 40 minutes later, dinner is burning on the stove. We will talk about your challenge tonight and into tomorrow night to unplug. Before we talk about that, we have to talk about the weather. Rosemary orozco yesterday for many people w