Good morning, and thank you for being here. Im the United States attorney for the Northern District of illinois. I would like to start this morning by taking a moment to introduce you to my Law Enforcement colleagues, some of them you will hear from in a few moments. We are honored to have attorney general william barr here with us today. From the atf we have acting director Regina Lombardo and a special agent in charge in chicago is here as well. Dave. E Deputy Director we also have the special agent in charge of the fbi here in chicago present as well. From the dea, special agent in charge is present. We have chief deputy u. S. Arshal and the chief inspector also up here are two other United States attorneys. We have my counterpart from the Northern District of illinois. And my office, we Work Together frequently combating illegal trafficking of firearms across our common border between indiana and illinois. And my colleague justin, who is the u. S. Attorney in cleveland, the Norther
Being in tatters. This is 20 minutes. Good morning. Thank you very much for taking the time to join with us today. I know will all go downstairs after this i do not get a chance to say hello, Merry Christmas, and happy holidays thank you for helping us and the American People about the important work of the 115,000 members of the department of justice what they do to make our country stronger and safer. As you have heard me say many times before, this president was elected as a law and on president. He was elected to make america safe again. And that mission has never been more important. In fact, just this morning he made that message very clear and reiterated it again to the fbi academy there when he spoke to the graduation. That was the first time a president has spoken to the graduating class of the fbi academy of 47 years. I met with mothers and fathers of those daughters who were brutally slaughtered by ms13. I talked to pastors who fear the dramatic rise in Violent Crimes. That
Downstream as they rushed to evacuate 70,000 people in the path of a failing dam. Its been three days since maria sent flood water cascading through streets. Nearly all of puerto ricos cellphone towers are down and it could be months before power is restored. A 6. 2 earthquake hit mexico today. People recovering from the other earthquake earlier in the street were forced to the streets. The after shocks could be felt 450miles away. Those in tuesdays quake claim the government is ignoring them. They dont want to help. They only have ordered to give a show to the media. We have more on the rescue operations coming up in a full report in our next half hour. Breaking news to pass along from north philadelphia. Gunshots were fired at officers there. It happened at 10 00 p. M. 13th and york street. We are working to get more details as to what happened. We know no one was hurt. Police are looking for two men who reportedly fled the scene. More coming up on action news. Police in philadelphia
Chairman grassley welcome, everybody, to a very important hearing that we have. Thank you for being patient while we get started here. Ill have an opening statement. Senator feinstein will. And then well godirble introduce our first panel. Then when were done there go to the second panel and introduce that at that time. The Senate Judiciary committee today is holding a hearing that we entitled responses to the increase in religious hate crimes. This is a subject of great bipartisan interest in the committee. Religious hate crimes harm victims. And also have a great impact on communities. Many of these crimes would never have been committed but for hatred. They run counter to americas values such as religious freedom and tolerance. Americans have the right to be safe against those who would treat them as members of religious groups rather than as individuals. Religious hate crimes are on the rise. Crimes against jewish people are the most common religious hate crimes, and they have incr
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