Holes in a key defense theory, specifically the claim that sierra may have run away. Which is why her body has never been found. What the prosecution has done very effectively is not only presented its theory of the case, its starting to refute the defense theory of the case before theyve even spoken to the jury. Sierras father steve was in court today but declined to comment more than a dozen volunteers once helping look for sierra in morgan hill came to the trial to offer the Family Support mp mary dorning said she felt the prosecution presented a convincing case. It makes it very clear as to how they came to the conclusion and how they got his dna and how they picked him as the perpetrator. But with no body and no crime scene some question whether the evidence presented will be enough to convict Garcia Torres of killing seer la lamar. As part of this trial Garcia Torres is also accused of attacking three other women in safeway parking lots in morgan hill. The prosecution suesing tho
Nkick. We put in the place of march of 2016 and so its now a matter of getting agencies and Companies Online with this new capability. We have the Intelligence Community, we have the Law Enforcement community of the federal government online with this. A few other departments and we have a number of Large Companies in the private sector and information sharing organizations but theres a lot more to do there and so im continually promoting this new capability in the private sector in particular. And so thats a work in progress. All right, good. I think i mentioned i want down to flexi, the federal Law Enforcement Training Center in what used to be glen we, georgia, and i was real impressed by what i saw. It was a wonderful day with a lot of dedicated committed people doing good work for our country. I want to talk about the tsa Training Academy to train everybody who works at tsa and ive been especially impressed with steps that admiral neffenger took at tsa. Remember the day you called
That is live at 12 25 eastern time on cspan2. Here is some of the featured program for this president s day weekend on the cspan networks. On booktv saturday morning at 9 00 live coverage of the savannah book festival, nonfiction authors and books on topics like the disappearance of michael rockefeller, a British Company of the elephants in world war ii and four women spies during the civil war and at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on afterwards former Senior Adviser for president Obama David Axelrod on his 4 years in politics. On American History tv on cspan 3, saturday morning in beginning at 8 30 the 1 notedanniversary of the release of the film the birth of a nation. Setting with an interview with dr. Declare. A showing of the film followed by a call in program with civil war historian larry jones and declare and sunday at 8 00 on the presidency George Washington portraits focusing on how artists capture the spirit of the first president and what we can learn about him through their paintings.
Funded its post secondary institutions, not funding institutions that had served large proportions of mexican americans, including many of those along the south texas border. And deborah has written about this. In effect, identifying that south texas was an education desert. We see that that is still the case with one of the counties that nick hillman talked about. People in my own department actually teach students at that institution that nick hillman identified. We actually bring a program out to them. So that they can have access to doctoral education and policy studies. Even though i live in a metropolitan area, even though we are located in a metropolitan area, we have to reach out to them. We are held to the same standards, texas is one of the 25 states with performance funding. We are held to the same standards of needing outcomes as other universities like the university of texas at austin that served half as many lowincome students or fewer and we serve over twice as many lat
Were failing to get these perpetrators into the criminal Justice System and what we need to do to improve our abysmal record in that regard. I thank all of you for being here. You were all invited because you are experts in various ways on this issue. And this is not a hearing. This is a conversation. The goal here, and i want to say for senator gillibrand and senator blumenthal, they are both very sorry they cannot be here today. Im sure theyll be participating in the other roundtables we will have. Were working on drafting legislation. And what we want to do is maybe simplify because i know this is now a complex labyrinth of different rules between save and cleary and title 9 and different standards of proof, different state statutes. We dont even agree on the definition of consent. So those are challenges that i know this area represents and we want to see if we can simplify, clarify, augment, support, perhaps provide more mandatory training but with the grants that go with that so