There must be whistleblower protection. Can you address how you feel about whistleblowers and retaliation within the department. I would be happy to. Should i be confirmed i would do everything in my power to make sure theres no retaliation. I feel whistleblowers are an important part of the way democracy functions and i was happily recently the president signed into law and other whistleblower due to efforts, but i believe within each department we need to ensure not only various environment of of trust and respect, but a safe place for voices to be heard. Its vital we understand concerns of employees. Let me also address contracting after disasters. We are all very worried about all of the americans. For the first time i believe, in my lifetime weve been unable to restore a sick living necessities to thousands of americans for weeks now. Im confident you will get other questions about puerto rico, but i want to hone in on contracting youve awarded more than 2 billion in contracts, tw
Behind closed doors by the Majority Party who have no intention of negotiating with democrats because they have locked themselves into a partisan process that only requires a majority vote. And theyre trying to rush it through this chamber with reckless speed. Why . Because my friends on the other side know the longer their bill is out there for the public to see, the less the public likes it. Their only hopes of passing it are to rush it through before anyone can grapple with the stunning hypocrisy of the center of their plan. The republican majority has repeatedly promised a middleclass tax bill, but instead they have concocted a bill grounded in tax cuts for big corporations and the very rich. They actually hurt middleclass people because they need to give those big breaks for the wealthiest. While promising that their plan gives everyone a tax cut thats what speaker ryan said again today multiple independent analyses con clued that the republican tax conclude that the republican ta
This hearing will come to order. Of course you will. Good morning. We are meeting today to consider the nomination of kristen m. Nielsen to be it next secretary of it United States department of Homeland Security. I want to welcome ms. Nielsen, her family. Id certainly want to call out mrs. Karen kelly. General kellys wife. Shes here also showing her support for the nominee. And i know ms. Nielsen will introduce her family in her Opening Statement. Americas facing enormous challenges. Our National Debt exceeds 20 trillion and theres no serious effort being made by either party to eliminate deficits expected to exceed over 1 trillion. Our enemies are on the rise. The Iranian Nuclear agreement did modify irans behavior for the worst. They remain determined to target with Nuclear Weapons and the threat of islamist terrorism has evolved, metasticized and spread all over the world, if the clnco our homeland. The challenges are equally daunting. We have just experienced unprecedented destruc
This hearing will come to order. Of course you will. Good morning. We are meeting today to consider the nomination of kristen m. Nielsen to be it next secretary of it United States department of Homeland Security. I want to welcome ms. Nielsen, her family. Id certainly want to call out mrs. Karen kelly. General kellys wife. Shes here also showing her support for the nominee. And i know ms. Nielsen will introduce her family in her Opening Statement. Americas facing enormous challenges. Our National Debt exceeds 20 trillion and theres no serious effort being made by either party to eliminate deficits expected to exceed over 1 trillion. Our enemies are on the rise. The Iranian Nuclear agreement did modify irans behavior for the worst. They remain determined to target with Nuclear Weapons and the threat of islamist terrorism has evolved, metasticized and spread all over the world, if the clnco our homeland. The challenges are equally daunting. We have just experienced unprecedented destruc
And by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose david brooks is here, an oped columnist for the New York Times since 2003. His writing spans politics, culture and the social sciences. He authored several books. His latest column out today examines observations from Election Results and what they tell us about the voting trends across the country. Pleased to have david brooks at this table. Welcome. Good to be back here. Rose great to have you. I want to talk in broad themes about what you have been writing about, were living in a day of global populism. Global populism has affected american politics and youre saying its the age of global populism. I compare it to years because certain periods in history countries are having the same problem but answering it in different ways. Were facing now the rise of populism. I read over a bunch of my columns