That might not be enough because it looks as if joe biden has more than enough force to get over the 270. 00 Electoral College vote threshold which of course means he wins the white house but ideally the biden team would like to get to 360 thats within their grasp theres a couple reasons for that one it makes it look slightly more comfortable than just squeezing by on one Electoral College vote id take so we. Only got there because of problems with the voting systems but also 306. 00 is what donald trump achieved 4 years ago so for many in the Biden Campaign there would be an ironic symmetry that biden got to 306 but celebrations here in front of the white house and even here in the. Goodbye that was played i remember. 12 years ago when. The. Obama won the white house for the 1st time but a truly historic moment if this is to go through because of course we get joe biden as president in the United States but also elected for the 1st time to the office of Vice President we have a woman
This is two hours. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to recess the hearing at any time. Beforere we turn to the substance and then members should during these proceedings in light of the cautions by wearing a face cover such as a mask so i urge unless youre speaking to please be wearing a mask. We are also conducting this hearing which affords Additional Space for those who are physically distant so before we get into housekeeping let me give my best wishes to the president and the first lady for a speedy recovery of covid19. We were all quiteor shocked and distressed this morning to learn of their illness and we hope for a speedyy recovery they are very much in our thoughts. The department of Homeland Security leading dhs office of intelligence and analysis referring to the office throughout the hearing left the committee no choice to issue a subpoena for the hearing today from counsel of the client and then the forme
And i will turn it over. Thank you very much mister chairman. I want to welcome you and its wonderful for me to say see a woman in charge so we can celebrate for a few moments at least that you are responsible for the care and custody of over 180,000 federal inmates and one of the Justice Departments largest employers and approximately 35,500 employees as may of this year. As the chairman mentioned there are two issues i hope we can focus on. One is the First Step Act which you mentioned and the second is applaud blooms with is problems with staffing conditions within your department. Im going to put most of this in the record. I think what ill do mister chairman in the interest of time is put the statement in the record. Without objection. Senator durbin . Thank you mister chairman. Last Year Congress came together to pass what i considered one of the most important criminal Justice Reform laws and the nation. The first stepped hacked from overwhelming majority signed by President Tru
Five vigils for the victims of the London Bridge attack are held in london and cambridge. The Prime Minister, labour leader and the mayor of london remember the victims by observing a minutes silence. The girlfriend of jack merritt attends the service in cambridge, where both victims went to the university. Friends and colleagues have paid tribute. He was inspiring. He had a bright light in his eyes. And he was a young kid, but he was a cambridge grad, so he could have been anywhere, done anything. Well have more on the vigil and the political row over sentencing and the conditions under which offenders are released. Also this hour the American Woman who says she was brought to britain to have sex with Prince Andrew urges the British Public to stand beside her. He knows what happened, i know what happened, and theres only one of us telling the truth, and i know thats me. Released from Police Custody the paranoid schizopherenic who went on to kill three pensioners. The point of no retur
Im fully back to live in doha youre watching aljazeera and the former age of shin president Mahmoud Morsi has died during a Court Session in cairo this monday morsi was the 1st democratically elected president of egypt and was deposed in a military court in 2013 the coup was led by the current president of egypt Abdel Fattah Elsisi who was then the military chief morsy has been in jail for more than 5 years on what critics have described as politically motivated charges will begin our coverage with this report from laura birdman. Mohamed morsi sailed into the presidency of egypt with the winds of the peoples revolution demanding change. In 2012 he became egypts 1st democratically elected president and the 1st civilian to hold office. Morsi was born in 1951 he spent his adult life 1st as an engineering professor then as a member of parliament on a political prisoner. The egyptian revolution in 2011 set the stage for morsi to reach the pinnacle of power. A year after egyptians overthrew