Ch change. The types of things youre looking for change. Is austin the right person to handle rooting out extremism for the military . He absolutely is. Secretary austin is someone who because of that experience and because he came up through the ranks and served as an officer, first africanamerican secretary of defense, he does have a unique understanding of the challenges that we face here. I think theres some very specific things that he needs to do and i think he understands that. I think he understands that he needs to be more intrusive. We need to be more intrusive into the lives of our service members. I think he understands we need to be absolutely sure we are using the uniform code of military to prosecute people on active duty who engage in these activities. And i think he gets we need to fully understand the full nature of the problem. s important to point out the vast people in the military are not interested in this. They want to do the right thing. Secretary austin gets t
the second hour of a special edition of the sunday show. welcome to the sunday show. we will get to the conversation about maga madness, but let s go now to a press conference and pennsylvania about catastrophic flooding there. resulting in the flash flood along the 1000 block of washington crossing road between son rich crossroad and road. at that time, there were approximately 11 vehicles on the road. the flash flood occurred sometime after that. we believe approximately 11 cars were on the road, three were confirmed swept away. rescue crews were able to establish a command post, operational foreign position, we rescued eight people from cars and two people from the creek. we have currently four confirmed fatalities, correction, three confirmed fatalities and four are missing. search teams have actively searched the river banks and the creek banks from the river up to the floods that on 5:32. and we have continued to do the operation today. assets from the southeast r
mr.! any of that stuff. what we want to preserve and maintain as the fact that our military does not become a social experiment. we want the best of the best. you heard that right. republican congressman, eli crane, did indeed refer to black americans as, quote, colored people, during the debate over his proposed amendment to the defense spending bill on the house floor on thursday. immediately after that remark though, congresswoman joyously, former chair of the congressional black caucus asked that the derogatory phrase be stricken from the record. when asked about his choice of words, congressman ukraine said he, quote, misspoke. his comment came just days after senator tommy tuberville had a hard time determining whether white nationalists are racist or not. just to be clear, you agree
rules committee before going to the house floor on thursday? yes. the chair the vice chair will both present to the rules committee. and if reported for really, they will go to the house on thursday, that s our understanding. what is your expectation after thursday? rachel maddow has just reported in the previous hour that the last time the house did this, it took eight days between the time the house voted to recommend a criminal prosecution and the justice department actually brought charges against a reagan administration official. that passage of time was eight days. that is up to the u.s. attorney, of the district of columbia, and the department of justice. as to how fast they proceed, our expectation is that they will follow the law. so after it passes to the house floor, the speaker will certify it, it will get transmitted to the u.s. attorney for the
documents, as well as sit for interviews. the chairman wasn t sure at the point of time where you were voting tonight when the full house would vote on that. we now know the full house will vote day after tomorrow. the house has already a busy day pre that was already scheduled for tomorrow and you also apparently have to go through the rules committee on this. do you have to go through the rules committee before going to the house floor on thursday? yes, the chair and the vice chair will both present to the rules committee and if reported out favorably, it will go to the house floor on thursday. that s our understanding. and so what is your expectation after thursday? rachel maddow was reporting in the previous hour that the last time the house did this, it took eight days between the time the house voted to recommend a criminal prosecution and the justice department actually brought charges against a