Live now to hearing on White Supremacists infiltration of Police Department. The House Oversight and reform subcommittee on civil rights and Civil Liberties is hosting. This is live coverage on cspan2. Good morning to the chair of the committee, ms. Maloney has joined us. Good morning to our Ranking Member mr. Roys whos with us and good morning to the vice chair and all of our wonderful members who joined us. I want to take a moment to extend a special welcome to rashida to leave of michigan come to our subcommittee. This is her first hearing with our subcommittee and were delighted to have her choice. Welcome, ms. Tlaib. I wanted show a video to set the stage. Please play the video. White supremacy permeates every corner of society and our institution. Please agencies to the fbi to department of justice, all of them. The Southern Poverty Law Center combover is engaged in those groups wherever that might lead. We have outed a number of Law Enforcement officers who have connections to w
Often in the safest cities. Reporter Police Say Three morning. They broke into the cluster to get into the pharmacy. One man had a gun. Annealed for employees to get onto the floor. I saw this guy and he said get on the floor. Reporter employee gunshots were fired. That was not the case. Plrgeant quigley d aine it w witness animistic a loud noise for gunfire. We were able to discern that is other suspects were breaking into the pharmacy, there was a loud bang of their entry. It was believed to have been related to a gunshot. Reporter the suspects got away with an unknown amount of macronix. Click what Michael Dickson how much is still being determined. Unfortunately, employees are still shaken up. It gets scary. Reer lice believe it was related to an incident that happened tuesday. Where burglars broke into a bloomingdales and stole thousands of dollars worth of merchandise. Jackie ward, kpix 5. Police are asking people to keep an eye out for a 2004 red chevy truck the believe that is
Court. It is not always an edifying experience but a mean and ugly fight at times and we know how it turned out, judge kavanaugh now Justice Kavanaugh was narrowly confirmed on a largely partyline vote. It was a memorable site so why did you to choose to retell this story in book links for . Guest we were both involved in the kavanaugh confirmation battle. She was working on the confirmation and covering it as a journalist. We knew we had a good story here and knew that we had good access and we wanted to lay it down and get the record down and so we interviewed more than 100 people, including the president and various other people and several Supreme Court justices people in the senate and we are so glad we did because this was something that gripped the nation last year and in the chaos of it and in the moment it is worth reflecting on after the dust settled about lessons to learn from it and what were the things that happened behind the scenes and were glad we got to do it. Guest ab
Last summer washington saw a particular fierce fight over the nomination with Brett Kavanaugh to succeed Justice Anthony kennedy on the Supreme Court it was mean and ugly at times and we know how it turned out as he was narrowly confirmed along the partyline vote. But it was a memorable fight so why did you two decide to kill the story quick. We were both involved in the battle we knew we had a good story and we had good access and we wanted to lay it down for the record so we interviewed more than 100 people at the white house and Supreme Court justices and those in the senate we are so glad that we did because in the moment reflecting on those lessons to learn what happened behind the scenes. And working to replay those events with those allegations of a very similar pattern so what we have seen since the confirmation so they believe thomas over hill but that constant drumbeat to rewrite the narrative it is important to make sure the facts are up there to get part of revisionist hist
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