A poll that could shake up politics. And the story of how our group in indonesia is helping bring the children recover from months at sea. Aid groups say theyre deeply concerned over restrictions on the flow of aid into syria the Un Security Council agreed on friday to a compromise that leaves only one Border Crossing with turkey open it was an aid lifeline to half a 1000000 children are diplomatic at the james bays reports from un headquarters in new york a Security Council resolution on delivery of aid into syria is finally passed the result of the voting is as follows. 12 votes in favor of. No votes against and 3 abstentions but this was not what 13 out of 15 Council Members wanted only one Border Crossing bubble how one can now be used to deliver aid off to china and russia use their veto power in recent days to block other options so this resolution is not what the United States and a majority of the council fought for and it is certainly far short of what the Syrian People need a
49. 1 billion in discretion fundi funding and the disaster of the relief fund. Today we welcome chad wolf, the acting secretary of the department of Homeland Security. Thank you for being with us. Mr. Secretary, the fy 21 budget proposes 49. 7 billion in discretionary funding for the department of Homeland Security. This is a cut of 750 million below the current year level. I want to be clear, absent of any in acted law to affect such a transfer, this subcommittee will continue to include funding f for the secret service. When including funding for the secret service for the total, the budget request for fy 21 is 1. 78 billion above the current year level. There is something of the proposed budget that i believe will find strong bipartisan support. However there are also proposals we should not expect to see funded in the house bill. Among those are funding for border barriers and the expansion of capacity. Particularly in light of high priority needs that just continues to hire custom
Greetings and sell you take. Despite what the constitution declares the freedom of the press has had a topsy turvy sometimes even brutal history of abuse here in the United States of america while most of the time attacks on us journalism has been through very indirect or opaque means like the influence of the lure of the almighty ratings dollar the or the herd click mentality of beltway ivy league journalists or even newsroom employees putting their climb up the corporate ladder before their journalistic integrity but every so often throughout our long history there is a very direct abuse of the press by members of the government institutions they are. Paid to report on a lot like the exchange that took place recently when defense one news editor ben watson tried to make his way through customs at Washington Dulles International airport the hill reports that watson was harassed and accused by a u. S. Customs and Border Protection agent of writing propaganda when he attempted to reente
Watson tried to make his way through customs at Washington Dulles International airport the hill reports that watson was harassed and accused by a u. S. Customs and Border Protection agent of writing propaganda when he attempted to reenter the United States this week apparently as watson was going through customs after informing the officer of his occupation the officer held onto his passport repeatedly asked him over and over and over again so you write propaganda write. This started of course a volley of well no im a journalist so you write propaganda write well no im a journalist so you write propaganda write until watson finally relented and said yes whereupon he was given back as a passport and allowed to leave the airport finally as watson told the Washington Post with his tone and hes looking me in the eye i very much realize this is not a joke ive honestly never had a human attempt to provoke me like this before in my life this behavior is totally normal now i guess. That my fr
Normal now i guess. That my friends is a good question and one that can only be answered by watching the whole us. Wonder what. It looks like theyre real with this one. As it were to pull out of. What they like you know what i got. Was that we. Would. Be. Welcome or want to watch your hearts i am sorry roland and im path a lot less and. You were just saying to you what have you are going to do with border the proceeds of the dollar so you do you get arrested i think i know your guy and i dont think that would have gone as well as me vested met him to be yeah i dont i totally understand why at some point he would just sort of taken aback by the question and by the relentless passing and i have had experiences with Border Patrol in the past just coming in and out of d. C. Especially that there are definitely a little suspicious you know if you mention that you are that year in journalism or a news or anything like that they definitely give you more of a once over although its funny becau