Confirmed secretary of the department of Homeland Security, which is an enormous task. This in the past, i truly appreciate anybody who was willing to undertake such enormous responsibility. I would ask my written opening remarks be entered into the record, without objection. I will keep it short. I know which got time restraints we have got time restraints. The secretary of Homeland Security manages 240,000 people in the department. The responsibilities for Homeland Security are vast. Starting with the Emergency Management agency, which has to do with deal with hurricanes, wild fires, and now covid, amongst many other responsibilities. More security is a huge issue. Hes done a pretty good job of establishing the out of control, illegal entry we are experiencing were experiencing over a year ago. The department is concerned about cybersecurity, election security, the security of our Critical Infrastructure. As we just witnessed, some of the protests have sprung into riots, was a protec
Bangkok says the latest protest represent a significant escalation of the stakes are high thailands students are risking it all by challenging not only the incumbent military backed regime but also the until now untouchable monarchy this is nothing short of revolutionary in a country that has had its fair share of violent crackdowns against dissenters now the genie is out of the bottle and its not likely to go back in any time soon many expect this weekends protest leaders to be slapped with lawsuits and long jail terms for what the government calls inciting unrest or for supposedly defaming the monarchy. But the self declared leaderless revolution is set to continue protesters are vowing not to stop until their demands are met whatever the costs may be. Opponents of the hardline leader of belarus Alexander Lukashenko are calling for more mass protests later on sunday weekly demonstrations in the capital minsk have become the focus for the prodemocracy movement in an attempt to reasser
The fresh mass protest and got a roof off of Police Arrest hundreds of women demanding the resignation of hardline president alexander the potential. And u. S. President donald trump says hell appoint another woman succeed veteran u. S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg republicans want to press ahead with the nomination but democrats insist the process should wait until after next months election. Im a decorated welcome to the Program Thousands of prodemocracy supporters in thailand have joined in a rich challenge to the all powerful monarchy and one of the biggest displays of defiance ever sane activists rallied all night in the capital bangkok their demands include curbs on the power of the king fresh elections and wide ranging constitutional reforms. This country belongs to the people the message inscribed on this brass plaque a symbol of protest cemented into the ground. For months now thais have been calling for reform of the mana king and political system. But this weeke
Demanding the resignation of hardline president Alexander Lukashenko. And us President Donald Trump says hill appoint another woman to 6 a veteran Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg republicans want to press ahead with the nomination but democrats insist the process should wait until after november selection. Im rebecca written welcome to the Program Thousands of prodemocracy supporters in thailand have joined in a rare challenge to the all powerful monarchy and one of the biggest displays of defiance ever seen activists rallied all night in the capital bangkok their demands include curbs on the power of the king fresh elections and wide ranging constitutional reforms. This country belongs to the people the message inscribed on this brass plaque a symbol of protest cemented into the ground. For months now thais have been calling for reform of the mana king and political system. But this weekends demonstration was the biggest in the years. Tens of thousands gathered in bangkok an
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