Surveillance reauthorization, 6038 was the vote. The 60th vote was needed to announce that bill. Also on capitol hill, a number of hearings we covered, a rather lengthy one on Homeland Security. A routine oversight hearing with Kiersten Nielsen kirstjen nielsen. Testified before the judiciary subcommittee on this issue. And also talked with a number of senators about the recent changes in daca and immigration. Here is what she had to say with some senator amy klobuchar. Listening to your answers under oath that you did not hear and i will not repeat this word and give it any dignity, we will collect the word shole. You testified under oath you did not hear the president use that word up a meeting. Correct. Is a possible he said the word at the meeting and you do not hear it . Anything is possible. Yes, maam. A possible he also said that wording you do not hear it . It is possible. There was crosstalk. I unfortunately was not the meeting was unscheduled. Lastminute, when i was notified,
Privilege of welcoming a friend of mind peter who has done Ground Breaking work in fighting challenge in the u. K. He has been directing for how long peter . Seven years. Seven years. Hes been one of the goto guys on all Things National security, terrorism, he has done phenomenal research. Last but not least delighted to welcome fernando who is from spain, hes done tons of policy related in terms not only foreign fighter phenomena in spain but also more generally speaking counterterrorism. Bottom line youre not going to get better scholar pra thank you very much, frank. Its a pleasure. Thank you. This is a wonderful turnout. We have reluctant to have an event on a friday morning. Almost august. Peter was more optimistic about the turnout. The star power from fernando helped us to have a wonderful turnout. Thank you very much for coming. The first that the program has had the pleasure to direct here and the center of Homeland Security here. On such an important topic wonderful colleague
You can send us a tweet at cspan or go to journal cspan. Org. Host here is Peter Sullivan to discuss the first vote. When will it take place and how will it go . Guest it will take place later in the afternoon. It is a procedural vote to actually start a debate on the bill to defund planned parenthood, cut off at 500 million, as you mentioned. The vote is likely to fail because it needs a 60 vote threshold. Hardly any democrats, if any will vote for it. There probably are not the vote. It will be a procedural vote to move forward. Host some republicans are saying their leadership should continue to fight on this. In the fall and september guest in the fall and september, we will see how this comes back when congress returns. A have to figure out how to fund the government by august 1 september 1. Many republicans say we should be Defunding Planned Parenthood in the spending bill and they will not vote for anything that includes funding for planned parenthood. In theory, that could lead
Industry, target, home depot, so many other private corporations have had customer information stolen. And so what we have realized his we can try very hard to keep ahead of the hackers, but what we need to do is think about how we minimize the need for customers to put their private information onto website. Right now, there are legal prohibitions for sharing classified information with the private sector, and as legal prohibitions on the private sector sharing information back with the government, termed as acting as agents of the government, and that is not allowed. We want to allow those barriers to be removed so that you could share information on threat signatures, very narrowly defined, so you are talking about when and zeros. Ones and zeros. If we could share that information, then when one hack is in one place, we can widely share that vulnerability and so it would probably protect everyone. Tonight at 8 00 eastern on the communicators one cspan2. Washington journal continues.
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