That. Ill keep it short because i know wevegot time constraints here but a quick description of what an enormous challenge this is. The secretary of Homeland Security managers 240,000 people in the department. The responsibilities for Homeland Security are vast. Ill start with itthe federal Emergency Management agency that has to deal with do hurricanes and wildfires now covid amongst many other responsibilities , Border Security, a huge issue. Weve not fixed that problem by a long stretch but this administration has done a good job of stopping the outofcontrol illegal entry that we are experiencing over a year ago. Pe this department is concerned about cyber security, Election Security, security of our Critical Infrastructure and as we just witnessed with some of the protests that have sprung to right, also protecting our federal buildings and of course we have to thank David Underwood in open oakland california, a member of the federal Protection Services so the responsibilities are
Welcome to do that its good to have you with us less than a week after signing a troop withdrawal deal with the taliban the u. S. Has conducted an airstrike against taliban militants in afghanistan the air strike in Helmand Province was in support of afghan troops being attacked by the taliban that attack one of many that involved across the country by the taliban in just 24 hours the violence on the ground coming just hours after taliban leaders assured us president in a phone call that they wanted a secession of violence a situation meant to enable talks about peace in afghanistan to begin. The taliban celebrating after their Historic Deal with the u. S. The agreement in doha was heralded as a major step towards ending afghanistans 18 new war 2 days later taliban fighters are back on the offensive carrying out dozens of attacks across the country. Afghan Security Forces came under deadly fire in kandahar and herat the worst violence in those with up to 20 killed came only hours after
Define muslims and hindus take to the streets to show peace possible. Welcome to. Its good to have you with us less than a week after signing a troop withdrawal deal with the taliban the u. S. Has conducted an asteroid against taliban militants in afghanistan the airstrike in Helmand Province was in support of afghan troops being attacked by the taliban that attack one of many that evolved across the country by the taliban in just 24 hours the violence on the ground coming just hours after taliban leaders assured us president in a phone call that they wanted a secession of violence a situation meant to enable talks about peace in afghanistan to begin. The taliban celebrating after the Historic Deal with the u. S. The agreement in doha was heralded as a major step towards ending afghanistans 18 new war days later taliban fighters are back on the offensive carrying out dozens of attacks across the country. Afghan Security Forces came under deadly fire in kandahar and herat the worst viol
Of a new citizenship law. And hit by Corruption Cases and to repeat election failures israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a primary challenger from his own party. And im were harding with sports it was a basketball battle in l. A. With le brons lakers falling short against the clippers we have that and more christmas in the action coming up this hour. Itll be with us here on the news hour we begin with breaking news in turkeys president recipe the one says that he will be sending troops to libya after a request from the internationally recognized government turkey says it wants to support the tripoli based administration which has been under a months long defensive by forces loyal to the warlord Khalifa Haftar president and also says that hell present a bill on the deployment to parliament when it reconvenes in january. From the beginning we have objected to the coup perpetrated by the retired general against the lawful government we provided and are still providing assista
His family and also looks at recommendation of how the treat it, and also looking at Insurance Fraud schemes with witnesses from the government and the Addiction Treatment centers. I usually dont start these meetings until the Ranking Member comes, but because of the service that we have for congressman cummings plus the fact that we had to change this meeting to adjust to that schedule, i wanted to get going, and it is going to be kind of erratic sort of operation, because i have another meeting that i have to attend to make a quorum down the hall here. So, i am going to start out, and then, i know that you want to introduce one person, and are you under a time constraint . Because if you are, i will give you the courtesy of going ahead. Mr. Chairman, i can wait until the regular. Okay. So i welcome our panelists today to our hearing on the oneyear anniversary of the support act. This landmark statute which many of us had a hand in developing responded to the Opioid Epidemic on multip