you, an american hero, a veteran, who protected all of us by fighting these wars? what do they say when they reject your question to help the women you describe as your brothers and sisters. first off, i m not a hero. i served with a bunch of them. the frustrating thing is they tell us their qualm, their angst with the afghan adjustment act is the fact that afghans were brought to the united states last year in a manner they don t consider to be safe. they claim these people weren t properly vetted. i think that s wrong. i think they were properly vetted. i know the extent to which they re vetted and they re probably the most vetted immigrants our country has allowed to come in, period. but you think if they re truly concerned they d want to pass the afghan adjustment act because it includes if they want to stay going forward they have
meeting, and on that issue, chairman thompson told reporters that the committee is considering several categories of referrals, not just criminal referrals to doj for criminal investigation prosecution but referrals for campaign-finance violations, and professional discipline from the bar for attorneys as well. nbc new capitol hill correspondent joins us now. what should we be looking for as we careen towards monday and this committees dramatic unveiling of their final act. a dramatic shift to the timing here, too, because we are getting this initial phase of the business meeting that will vote to adopt the report, the release is still going to come wednesday but what chairman thompson told reporters today is that the committees been working through the weekend and they looked at what they ve done and they realize they could move a little more quickly ahead of the december break for
the republicans were highly critical of the biden administration over the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan but now that it s time to help the afghan allies and interpreters who fought side by side with our troops, many of those same republicans are refusing to act. we ll explain. don t go anywhere. o act. we ll explain. don t go anywhere. (dog barking) we love our pets. but we don t always love their hair. which is why we made bounce pet hair and lint guard with three times the pet hair fighting ingredients. just one sheet helps remove pet hair from your clothes! looking good starts in the dryer with bounce pet.
who knows. federal sentencing guidelines suggest a term of more like nine to 11 years in prison. but this is interesting. and this provides us some new insight. the federal prosecutors in the guy reffitt case have asked the judge for something called an upward departure from the sentencing guidelines. sentencing guidelines are nine to 11 years and they re asking for the court to consider a longer sentence than that, asking to add a sentencing enhancement to the case on the grounds of terrorism. onng the grounds what he did fi the statutory definition of terrorism. he engaged inst acts of violenc that were intended to influence the government through intimidation or coercion,o act been defined by statute as domestic terrorism. now, it is up to the court, up to the judge whether or not to actually do that, to accept this terrorism enhancement on guy
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