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Boycotting the hearing today. We take you live outside the u. S. Capitol now to hear from senate democrats. [crowd yelling] ok, everybody. Thank you very much for coming, and thank you for joining us this morning. I am here to stand with my colleagues on the Judiciary Committee who are boycotting todays Committee Markup on the nomination of judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. This is not a decision. The members of the committee have taken lightly. But a republican majority has left us no choice. We are boycotting this illegitimate hearing. The nomination of Amy Coney Barrett is the most illegitimate process i have ever witnessed in the senate. Willotential confirmation have dire, dire consequences for the senate, for the supreme countrynd our entire for generations to come. Majoritye republican is conducting the most rushed, the most partisan, and the least legitimate nomination to the Supreme Court in our nations history. Confirmation will have dire consequences for the sena
Force here on the louisiana coast. The hurricane just making landfall just a little while ago so were starting to get and a portion of that northwestern corner of the eye wall which is filled with 8090 Miles Per Hour wind gust. So not a good situation for the lake charles area as you mentioned they just dealt with a category 4 hurricane not even 6 weeks ago, so this was a bad set up to begin with when he had that storm and now you have another hurricane coming on shore here and in virtually the same area impacting the same communities there are still tarps on roofs which i know will not withstand these winds there are large debris piles, thousands of them some not talking about a few brief hours here and there are thousands of debris piles still packed along the roads and all of these communities along the louisiana coast. Just not a good setup here luckily, a lot of those residents taken shelter or gotten out of harms wind is blowing this rain across the parking lot luckily, were prot
Compatible . No doubt, there is a need for intelligence communities to operate, threats exist. Foreign and domestic threats are real. Theyve been real throughout u. S. History. But for over a century in addition to taking action against real threats to the lives of american citizens, bureaus and agencies within the United States government have surveilled those who have expressed what they call Strong Political views that run counter to the prevailing government political paradigm. This challenges the notion that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. I will come back to that later in our discussion. Maybe you adhere to that view, maybe you are on the fence about it, maybe you reject it. That is fine. We will discuss it later. But the history of abuse of surveillance necessitates that discussion. The same tools used to protect can be used against citizens for sometimes nefarious reasons. Going back in history, in 1908, Teddy Roosevelts attorney general creates a squad o