Preventing more attacks on the u. S. Capitol with one seeking to establish a commission to find out what went wrong on january 6 in the other allocating 1. 9 billion to address security problems revealed by the insurrection. The top democrat and republican on the Home Nancy early commission on friday unveiling their plan to form a commission after weeks of delicate Negotiations Host again, the full story is available on the Ap Website and joining us with more is christina marcos, who is covering the story for the Hill Newspaper and the hill. Com. Whats expected to happen this week . Guest one of the big things is this bill to create a commission to study the events of january 6 and what can be done to prevent another attack on the capital from happening again. Its a bipartisan bill that was unveiled on friday by the chairman of the House Homeland Security committee and its top republican. The main question going into this though is whether this will have widespread backing from republi
Recruited me to run for public office and i worked my way from a legislator into a statewide elected position and i was the commissioner of securities and insurance for montana for the last four years and now im serving as the only representative from montana to the United States congress. Host representing a state of about 1 million people, 146,000 square miles and come december of next year what do you need to have accomplished to consider your first term in congress a successful term . Guest i tried to really focus my attention on what we were going to address while i was here so we took the two committees and said those would be our silo so we will go natural resources which montana has a wealth of and veterans affairs which with 10 of my population is either veteran or active military and then i said we will have two more silos for other areas and number one bein. Immigration and begin to help many months ago that the immigration issue was going to be really, really frontpage and
I never imagined that id be standing here, the roles should completely be reversed. My son should be burying me. Dooiaccording to polling by research, 80 of black adults said in dealing with police, black people are generally treated less fairly than whites. A substantial majority of white adults 63 agreed. The polling was done in 2019 before the killings of george floyd, breonna taylor, ahmaud arbery, and, of course, Daunte Wright. But the perception was there in 2019 and its been there for generations. And so has the reality. Quoting now from a study published by the National Academy of sciences, quote, black men are about 2. 5 times more likely to be killed by police over the life course than are white men. According to Stanford Universitys open policing project, expands more than a decade through 2019, officers not only stop black drivers at higher rates than white drivers their analysis suggests Police Require less suspicion to search them. The authors caution their methods have l
Lockstep with the majority of what the American People want. So your overall point is good. We saw something that was bipartisan, which rarely ever happens in washington. I dont want to focus on the one im going to say whatever who did not go along with that. I think we should leave him to the margins and focus on the positive that happened. Josh hawley, who cares . Nobody cares. Hes insignificant. Then stop talking about him. Thats what i said. It took you like five minutes. You said his name like six times. We should focus in this moment on the important things that are happening in this country. That is very important. And so, yes, we yes. And also what happened with the shootings. Whats going on with that . Thats really important that we discuss, and i think we had a very important and Illuminating Conversation Last Night that the whole country is having. And i think we should continue to have those conversations because it is what resonates with the American People, and its what p
[ applause ] i never imagined that id be standing here, the roles should completely be reversed. My son should be burying me. Daunte wright is survived by a young son. It is haunting to think that, one day, someone may have to give him the same advice his father got about surviving encounters with police. According to polling from pew research, 84 of blackadults said in dealing with police, black people are generally treated less fairly than whites. A substantial majority of white adults, 63 , agreed. The polling was down in 2019, before the killings of george floyd, breonna taylor, ahmaud arbery, and, of course, daupt wright. But the perception was there in 2019 and its been there for generations. And so has the reality. Quoting now from a study published by the National Academy of sciences, quote, black men are about 2. 5 times more likely to be killed by police over the life course than are white men. Spanning more than a decade, through 2019, officers not only stopped black drivers