Prize if you did not write a book would you . Easterny night at 8 00 on cspans q1 day. President trump is holding a Border Security event today. We are planning coverage and will have it for two later on cspan. We are going to show you this weeks Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing with state department at officials on a Security Assistance to mexico. Members question the officials on how the u. S. Is working with the Mexican Government to combat trafficking by cartels. Humanitarian crises in the country and handling around cases of american citizens being killed in mexico. We are going to get started. The reason for the early hearing is we have votes and people go back to the district today. I want to make sure i got this hearing in. I will begin. Other members will be walking in as the hearing is progressing. Order. Aring will come to assessing u. S. Security assistance to mexico. We focus on evaluating the extent to which u. S. Assistance has been effective in has been effective in
We are going to get started. Reason for the early hearing is we have votes and people go back to the district today. I wanted to make sure i got this hearing in. Other members will be walking in as the hearing is progressing. Come to order. Ll we are focusing on the extent to assistance has been effective in strengthening section protecting human rights. Objection, all members may have five days to submit questions and materials for the record. I will now make an Opening Statement and then turn it over to be Ranking Member for his Opening Statement. Before i open with my statement, i want to thank everybody that is here early. It is miserable outside and i want to thank the witnesses for being here. Good morning. Thank you for being here today. In reading the news over the last few weeks, the shocking headlines from mexico have been impossible to escape. Last week i saw kids as young as six are arming themselves to defend their families in a rural part of the United States. As cartels
Doesnt target minorities. The verdict, the colorado Movie Theater defendant learns his fate. The fate of john hoaments hoimsw it could change the debate in congress. One year ago, sunday, an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white Police Officer. It ignited a National Debate that continues today. Ferguson becomes the signal of that debate. And the mistrust between police and minorities across america. We take you back to the area it first started it will dee ann eastabrook is in ferguson. Diane. John, this is the weekend that is going to remember Michael Brown. In sunday people are going to gather in the neighborhood that Michael Brown was shot a year ago, they are going to observe a moment of silence at the time he was shot and they are going to march to a niche hig niche higha short way away. Tonight things are very calm in ferguson. So diane, what has changed in the last year . Reporter well, we have seen some change in the last year from a governme
Today i die opened in reply to a friend, they kicked in a door and it popped off. This is not the way we want these kinds of negotiations to end. Reporter early friday morning around 5 45 u. S. Marshals attempted to serve tyree a warrant for a probation violation. When they gained entry, they were confronted with a heavy smoke condition fdny firefighters were met with gunfire, police say four shots. Guy is shooting. Reporter two bullets strike 53yearold lieutenant james hayes of engine 158 in the leg. He is being treated for nonlife threatening injuries. This could have been a tragic day for the new York City Fire department but thankfully lufthansa hayes is lieutenant hayes is recovering with his family. Reporter tyree barricaded himself in the basement armed with an assault rifle. Hostage negotiations began a dialogue. A family friend tried to speak to tyree. I text him. If i could get in and talk to him, he would listen to me. Reporter they brought in his mother. Shortly after he le
Had a long rap sheet. This is the ak47 he used to open fire on officers before they shot and killed him. He was armed with a smoke grenade and 100 rounds of ammunition. Police tried everything to get him to surrender. They even flew in his mother from delaware. Instead he chose to fight to the end. N. J. Burkett will have the latest on the firefighters condition. But first, lets get with tim fleischer. Reporter we can show you a much better vantage point, the nypd has allowed us to move a little closer. I will show you, we can move into it and we are right up next to the crime scene. See that house with the green roof . Down in the basement apartment, that is where this suspect was holed up for nearly six hours in this standoff. That large vehicle in front of it, that is known as the bear. That is a heavily Armored Vehicle used by the esu unit. That is what the men worked out of while they worked on this stand off and what they used to protect them when the gunfire began. This standoff