Over the past month senator harris has cosponsored the justice in policing act, coauthored the bipartisan harris amendment, helped introduce a resolution decrying attacks on the Affordable Care act and helped introduce the whistleblower protection act [indiscernible] coronavirus pandemic. Harris is the former District Attorney of San Francisco, the former attorney general of california, made a run for the democratic president ial nomination and is now talked about as a possible president ial runningmate to joe biden. Right now harris is front and center in the senate, in the Senate Debate on Police Reform and she joins me now. Enator harris, welcome back. Senator harris thank you for being with you, jonathan. Happy birthday. Jonathan thank you. Before we get to Police Reform, we have to get to intelligence and the russia story obtained bounties on the lives of american soldiers. You are a member of the Senate Intelligence committee. You attended a Briefing Regarding the allegations tha
Good morning everyone. How are you . To say over and over again, every day we are involved in impeachment is a sad day for america. And yesterday was one the winner given no choice but to send to the senate to articles of impeachment against donald trump, the president of the united states. For his president s acetate does by his abuse of power and obstruction of congress. And his actions that undermine our national security. He violated his office to protect and defend the constitution and jeopardize the integrity of our elections. Every day, new incriminating evidence comes forward, you are well aware of the hearings last night i think that only speaks very clearly of the need for the senate to enter the documentation into their discussion. Today, and this is the day the Government Accounting Office confirmed that the president s actions at the center of our impeachment articles withholding congressionally approved military aid from ukraine was illegal. And these are their words. The
F facial Recognition Technology. They testified before the House Oversight and reform committee. Working on e is legislation to address the emerging technology. Good morning, everyone, and is out objection the chair authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. Would now like to recognize myself to give an opening statement. Today the committee is holding on a critical ng issue. Facial recognition tech. Its clear that despite the sectors expanded use of technology, its just not ready primetime. During this hearing, well private sectors development, use and sale of technology as well as its partnerships with Government Entities, using this technology. We learned from our first may 22 of 2019 that he use of facial Recognition Technology can severely impact American Civil Rights and liberties, including the right to privacy. Protection and equal under the law. We learned during our second federal, n june 4 how state and local Government Entities use this technology on wide
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