The subcommittee on oversight and management accountability will come toward her. The subcommittee is meeting today to receive testimony on oversight of i. C. E. Detention facilities and is dhs doing enough . Good afternoon. We are here to discuss the oversight immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility and by the dhs is doing enough to ensure that i. C. E. Owned that tension standards are being met. Before we started like to take a moment to acknowledge some of the challenges the subcommittee had in arranging todays hearing we are holding to panel this afternoon because i. C. E. Is declined to sit on the same panel with nakamato the contractor. The departments lack of cooperation makes it more challenging for congress to do its job. They recently stated at a meeting with dhs leaders its important in the subcommittee to bring everyone together pray that is how we can best identify challenges and find ways to solve them. This is important to me as two of i. C. E. So these th
I recognize myself for opening statement. In five weeks time, the Inspector General released two alerts detailing dangerous conditions at u. S. Customs and Border Protection facilities in texas. According to the ig, at some of the facilities conditions are so bad that they require immediate attention and action. The first alert focused on the detention of single adults and detailed, quote, dangerous holding conditions at the el paso processing center. Unfortunately this report was not a surprise to me and my colleagues, along with vice chair, i visited the same facility a few months ago. Even then, conditions we observed were unacceptable. Women, children, families were either outside waiting to enter the facility, shoved into overcrowded cells, or sitting in hallways. Prior to the visit, we understood hundreds of families were housed outside for days in a tent behind the Border Patrol facility. We expected to meet with them, but to our surprise, the tent was empty. It was not until af
it is the ethics committee in the house. they already investigated this. still, clearly, facing is federal probe. the question is where does it go next? they spoke to reporters after, saying that she did nothing wrong. as a rank-and-file member of congress, not entitled to personal protection by the house. instead, i have used campaign funds as permissible to retain security services. i have not used any federal tax dollars for personal security services. in accordance with our applicable rules, i retained my husband as part of my security team because he has had extensive experience in this area. now, jake, she said that she has now acknowledged this investigation in the interest of transparency, although she did not answer questions for me and other reporters about what exactly is happening in this investigation and the scope of it, whether she has spoken to federal prosecutors, whether she is being interviewed by the grand jury in any way. she said she would cooperate
were appointed by trump, said the justice department can resume its review of classified documents taken from mar-a-lago. the judges also called out the claims that the former president may have declassified documents that were seized pointing out there s no proof. this appeals court decision is one of two major legal blows for the former president in a single day. the new york attorney general filed a lawsuit against trump, his family and firm alleging wi wide-ranging fraud involving some of his properties and other assets. evan perez joins us now. evan, you have some new details. the special master, the independent oversear of the evidence, is putting some pressure on the trump team. explain. yeah, just in the past hour we have an order from raymond dearie, the senior judge serve agz the independent third party that is going to look through these 11,000 pages of documents. remember, this is something that donald trump himself and his lawyers had asked for. and now he is s
children s lives. stunning new details and the images this morning on law enforcement s response to the mass shooting at a school last month in uvalde, texas. we are learning that 11 officers responded to robb elementary school within three minutes. they were armed to the hilt. they had protective gear, bulletproof protective gear, but still waited. why? this image obtained by the austin american statesman shows an officer with a ballistic shield, 11:52 a.m., 19 minutes after the gunman first entered the school,. another image obtained by the texas tribune shows officers with rifles, ballistic shields, and an ax-like tool. so they had all of this, but we do not know, we should note, at this point, what point in the standoff this image was taken. this morning, a father of one of the students killed in the mass shooting tells cnn he cannot fathom why officers would wait so long to act. they re supposed to be trained professionals, bulletproof vests, heavy automatic weapon