Trump uses week to take his ambitions to new heights. How dictatorships of the past operas clues about a second trump term. The consequences of the springfield alive. But the women who started all is now saying. Today s debate sparked several meltdowns but we are breaking them down in today s worst of the week. I am ayman mohyeldin , let us do it. Years from now we may look back at the events of this week as being pivotal in american history. Not just because kamala harris and donald trump debated in front of 67 million americans but because trump to use this debate, the widest audience either candidate will likely speak in front of with the authoritarian rhetoric but to turn it up a notch to amplify it in the masses. In what may be remembered as one final warning about what a second trump administration will be, free from guard rails and sheila by the supreme court with legal immunity, trump combined all of his biggest hits, his bigotry, lies and threats to democracy in one evening fo
Is coming in. The house coming into take out two of the three bills dealing with oil drilling in the u. S. Onexpect also floor speeches 9 11. Chair lays before the house a ommunication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. September 11, 2019. I hereby appoint the honorable nor ma j. Torres to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2019, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. Green, for five minutes. Mr. Green thank you,
President ial library and museum. Im so excited for you to be here today. We are commemorating the refugee act of 1980 signed by president carter in march that year. On behalf of president carter, who was unable to be here, i just want to welcome you first, welcome you to the carter president ial center. We say center because theres two fabulous entities here, the federal entity is the Library Museum which is where you are now and a few feet away is the Carter Center which is an ngo. Together president carter looks at us as the center. We provide him with data, research, camaraderie, advice and we work really, really hard for him as well. The refugee act is an amendment to the earlier immigration and nationality act and the migration of the refugee assistant act. The goal was to provide permanent and consistent admission to people who were suffering in other nations and to provide asylum. That was the whole point of it. This is what makes it so exciting to be here today too. We are par
Lets get started again. We will start with the first panel, and i will introduce the moderator and then she going to introduce the panelists. Honored to introduce to you monica stanky who is with the raven group. She is a nationally known expert on Immigration Law and policy. I know monica from her time on the judiciary committee, the house judiciary committee, where she focused on immigration and refugee issue, but i also know monica for another reason. Her father was a refugee from uganda resettled to new orleans by hius, my organization. Monica. Thank you very much, and thank you for being here, and thank you to mark, and for putting on this wonderful event. As mark said, my father was resettled by hius in 1972 and so i have a personal connection and as counsel on the judiciary committee, it is wonderful to be here. Today we want to diverge from the standup panel, and we want to have two wonderful speakers today and look at how the refugee act came to be and then take a step back to
Are fleeing to europe at this very moment. Can anyone tell me from what countries they are fleeing . Layton okay, syria any other countries test . Im sorry. Kosovo okay, sarah. Russia any other countries . Stephen eritrea thats correct, patricio. Denison and ukraine thats correct. Thank you. So they are traveling very long distances. To find refuge in europe and this map gives you an idea of the routes and the distances that they are traveling in order to reach safety. Some are traveling alone. Others are traveling as part of family units. Some are traveling in search of economic opportunity. Others are literally fleeing for their lives. To escape war devastation rape and force conscription into armies the vast majority of the refugees are syrian can anyone tell me why the syrians are fleeing . Okay. Thank you albert. Civil war absolutely, would anyone else like to then talk. Okay. Thank you meredith. All very violent and like people just need to kill the publicly and like and also the