Alex, good evening. It is a kinetic situation at columbia. We will follow that through the air. Thanks for that coverage. We stay in new york city, where today, donald trump was back in court, where he is facing 34 Felony Counts related to the hush money payments he paid to adult film store star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about an alleged affair, and particularly to keep ms. Daniels quiet up until the 2016 election. The lawyer, keith davidson, took the stand, and we will get to that in just a minute. At the big news out of todays trial happened before any witnesses actually testified. Today, the judge in this case, judge one russian juan merchan, said trump will be allowed to attend his very tall son, behrens barons graduation. The other matter was also somewhat of a win for donald trump. Today, judge merchan found trump in contempt of violating his gag order, ruling he violated the gag order nine times. As punishment, judge merchan find trump 9000, 1000 per violation. And he warned
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Form including islamist terrorism. What we try tried to do in this committee is through this hearing process layout a reality. I come from a manufacturing background. Salt a lot of problems. The only way to solve a problem is first admit you have one properly define it, properly describe it, gather the information and admit to the reality. There is no way anybody can deny we have a problem worldwide in terms of extremism and violence. We witness it just a few hours ago on a practice field for a Charity Baseball event. Let me acknowledge first of all our prayers are with those victims, congressman scalise, the staff member and the two members of the capitol Hill Security team that were worded and even having been wounded they continue to to return fire and prevented a far greater tragedy. The appreciation we owe to the men and women in Public Safety that every day they step out of the threshold of their door they literally put their lives on the line. They demonstrated it again this mor
Park city tour. And sunday at 2 00 p. M. On hist, working with our cable afilliates and visiting across the country. The Senate Homeland Security Committee held a hearing on violent extremism and what the u. S. Can do to counterextremists ideology. Good morning. This hearing is called to order. I want to thank the witnesses for your testimony for taking the time, for your curage. The mission of this committee is pretty straight forward. To enhance the economic and National Security of america. And promote more efficient, effective and accountable government. The Committee Really is, in many respects, two committees in one from the house side. Homeland security and governmental affairs. This hearing is really focusing on the Homeland Security side of the committee structure. And within that structure we have four priorities. Border security, cyber security, protecting our Critical Infrastructure and countering extremism and violence in any form, including islamic terrorism. What we try
Park city tour. And sunday at 2 00 p. M. On hist, working with our cable afilliates and visiting across the country. The Senate Homeland Security Committee held a hearing on violent extremism and what the u. S. Can do to counterextremists ideology. Good morning. This hearing is called to order. I want to thank the witnesses for your testimony for taking the time, for your curage. The mission of this committee is pretty straight forward. To enhance the economic and National Security of america. And promote more efficient, effective and accountable government. The Committee Really is, in many respects, two committees in one from the house side. Homeland security and governmental affairs. This hearing is really focusing on the Homeland Security side of the committee structure. And within that structure we have four priorities. Border security, cyber security, protecting our Critical Infrastructure and countering extremism and violence in any form, including islamic terrorism. What we try