Order. The chairs authorized to declare recess at any time. We welcome everyone to the hearing, oversight of the department of justice. Political interference and threats. Before we begin, i want to remind members we have established a distribution list dedicated to circulating written materials members might want to offer as part of the hearing. If you want to submit materials, send them to the email address previously distributed to your offices and we will circulate them to members and staff as quickly as possible. I want to remind all members the nodance of the office says facetoface is required. Required here is to follow guidance. This is for the health and safety of our staff and loved ones we will return to at the end of the day. I expect all members to wear a mask, except when you are speaking. I but recognize myself for an opening statement. Mr. Chairman, the point of last friday,er william barr announced that Geoffrey Berman was stepping down. This was, of course, untrue. He
Has disinfected they can use. We have spaced out the room to be as safe as possible for my staff and minority staff , thank you for working together to set up the room. It has been 40 something days since the senate has been able to meet the committee has a lot to do related to the coronavirus but we also have things that are necessary like filling judicial vacancies we are getting comments throughout the country about the vacancies and how they are impacting the ability to deliver justice in various states that we will be as part to that as we can. My democratic colleagues are requesting hearings state and federal and Detention Centers and for immigration purposes we will try to Work Together to have those hearings i am curious myself about our nations prisons and immigration Detention Centers so we are working as quickly as we can hopefully we will have a hearing about liability issues related to the virus and what we can do as the congress to safely open the country to minimize lega
Order. Order. This is a meeting room set up differently to deal with the reality we all face as a nation trying to practice social distancing and good hygiene. Thank you for coming everybody has disinfected they can use. We have spaced out the room to be as safe as possible for my staff and minority staff , thank you for working together to set up the room. It has been 40 something days since the senate has been able to meet the committee has a lot to do related to the coronavirus but we also have things that are necessary like filling judicial vacancies we are getting comments throughout the country about the vacancies and how they are impacting the ability to deliver justice in various states that we will be as part to that as we can. My democratic colleagues are requesting hearings state and federal and Detention Centers and for immigration purposes we will try to Work Together to have those hearings i am curious myself about our nations prisons and immigration Detention Centers so
County officials revealed their mystery case earlier today. Kron fours dan thorn joins us now live from san jose with the latest there dan. Well ken vickies Santa Clara County Health Officials say that they now have 3 confirmed cases of coronavirus but this latest case is different from the other 2 because this person got it through Community Transmission meaning that this person did not travel abroad and did not have any known connection to someone who is infected with coronavirus. Its another mystery coronavirus case in the bay area Santa Clara County Health Officials confirming friday they have a 3rd case similar to what was discovered earlier this week in Solano County. Like the california case reported 2 days ago. Our 3rd case did not recently traveled overseas or have any known contact with the recent travelers are an infected person Health Officials say this patient and older woman contracted coronavirus through Community Spread the unnamed woman has Chronic Health problems and
Fifteen year old boys have been named among the 39 people from vietnam who were found dead in a refrigerated lorry in essex. And we meet the veteran whos collected thousands of pounds, to build a new memorial for the heroes of d day. And at half past 11 well be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers james rampton, features writer for the independent and rachel cunliffe, comment and features editor at cityam. Stay with us for that. Floods have hit large parts of the country, with some areas receiving a months worth of rain in just one day. The north of england and the midlands were the worst affected. One woman died after being swept away by the rising water in rowsley, in derbyshire. The Environment Agency has warned people to stay away from swollen rivers. Six severe warnings meaning a danger to life are in place along the river don in South Yorkshire, and there are more than 60 other flood warnings in place. This report from our north of england correspondent danny