Washington today, we are holding this hearing virtually in compliance with the regulations for Remote Committee proceedings pursuant to House Resolution 965. Remote hearings certainly are not the same as sitting together in our Committee Room and you should know. The new authority has allowed us to continue to do our work a behalf of the American People, while keeping our staff, families and broader communities this is the First Official Virtual Committee hearing in the United States house of representatives. As we begin this historic proceeding, i want to underscore that i plan to continue this committees long tradition of collegia collegiality and substantive debate even as we conduct our business from afar. I will continue to work with Ranking Member and his staff to make sure that all Ranking Members are respected in the knew virtual format. Before we turn to todays important topic, i want to remind members of a few procedures to help us all navigate this new platform. First, consi
And include National Accountability standards that have the support of the fraternal order of police. Jonathan good afternoon. Welcome to Washington Post live. Congresswoman karen bass of california is the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and in that role, she is leading the charge to implement unprecedented Police Reform to curb Police Brutality and racial profiling and eliminate qualified immunity as part of the justice in policing act, or as it is going to be renamed, the George Floyd Justice in policing act. Now the hard part. Getting these historic changes past. Congresswoman, so great to see you. Thank you for being here. Chairwoman bass thanks for having me on. Jonathan lets talk about atlanta and the shooting of rayshard brooks. Shot twice in the back according to the medical examiner. How does this fit in with george floyd in minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in louisville . Chairwoman bass this was such a tragedy and it leaves everybody distraught. The big difference is,
[silence]. 2020, we never ever saw again, but we thought you weeks ago. The tragedy for our country nation, but it really was an advertisement of our nation in front of the entire world. Good afternoon and welcome to Washington Post life. Opinion right writer for the Washington Post. Congresswoman karen is the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and in that role, the charge for unprecedented Police Reforms to curb the Police Brutality and eliminate qualified immunity as part of the justice and policing act. Or bill. Maria name text we, the george floyd reform act pretty getting these changes fast. Congress woman, karen bass, thank you so much for being here. Speech of thank you fo. Karen bass thank you for having me. Host how does this fit in with george floyd and breonna taylor, ahmaud arbery. Karen bass it is such a tragedy. One of the big differences is that he clearly engaged in a fight. And then he ran, and he turned around. It looks as though he turned around. But the questio
Resolved. Biden will also ask to streamline the naturalization process. The president S Immigration changes, as new data shows migrant encounters of the border have shot up 178 since last year. Going from nearly 65,000 in fiscal year 2020 to well over 180,000 in fiscal year 2021. Jesse, we are in the land of Executive Orders. Congress hasnt been able to pass a bill on this in decades really. So now you have the undoing of the Previous Administrations work and its really a confusing mess. Jesse if you listen closely, you can hear the cartels cheering. Now the coyotes can come over and bring a body to our soil and joe is not going to do a thing. You killed the remained in mexico deal that trump struck with the mexican president where they have to stay there and await a silo. You get rid of that, youre bringing back catch and release. Catch and release his back now. What is joes plan . He says we will send millions to Central America. How has that worked out for the last couple decades .
Whatsoever. They made the argument that it makes sense to try the case and then consider documents. They made no argument that the white make sense to have trial without witnesses are and why, because its indefensible. Its indefensible. No trial in america has ever been conducted like that, and so you would nothing about it. And that should be the most telling thing about councils argument. They had no defense of the mcconnell resolution because there is done. They couldnt defend on the basis of president , they couldnt defend on the base of history, based on the constitution, they couldnt defend at all. So what did they say . First they made the representation that the house is claiming there is a such thing as executive privilege. Thats nonsense. No one here has ever suggested theres no such thing as executive privilege but the interesting thing here is they have never claimed executive privilege. Not once during the house investigation did ever say that a single document was privile