witnesses, i ll introduce you in a bit and square you in, in a bit but i will give a brief opening statement followed by senator feinstein, senator cornyn, senator dushen who chair the immigration subcommittee. today we re here at the request of democratic colleagues to have a hearing, surrounding the death of 7-year-old jacqueline mcquinn, i hope i said the name right, 8-year-old felipe alonzo gomez, and we want to hear about their passing, and custody, and we will be hearing from commissioner mclean, mr. ball alice ard, mr. fisher, dr. lenten, who i will introduce in a bit. but to my democratic colleagues, all of us share the desire to find out how to make sure that children that we have custody of are well taken care of, and that we avoid injury and death to the fullest extent possible, and i promise you that if there are things to be changed, we will change them. i ve looked at this, i ve listened to the people in charge and i think they acted responsibly and that s why w
i want to thank our brand-new ranking member for joining us today. this committee has a long history of bipartisan work on many issues. i know we are going to work together to do true bipartisan oversight. i look forward to working with everybody on the subcommittee on bipartisan investigations and finding solutions to ultimately improve our government. i d like to yield to you for a minute if you d like to make any brief remarks. thank you very much for being here. i want to congratulate you on being the chair and using the gavel. it s good to have you here. we ve always worked i wasn t on the subcommittee before. know it always tries to work on a bipartisan basis. we are all good friends here in congress. i look forward to the opportunity to work for you. today, the subcommittee on oversight and investigations is holding a hearing entitled examining the failures of the trump administration s inhumane family separation policy. purpose of the hearing is to examine the d
good morning. i want to thank our brand-new ranking member for joining us today. this committee has a long history of bipartisan work on many issues. i know we are going to work together to do true bipartisan oversight. i look forward to working with everybody on the subcommittee on bipartisan investigations and finding solutions to ultimately improve our government. i d like to yield to you for a minute if you d like to make any brief remarks. thank you very much for being here. i want to congratulate you on being the chair and using the gavel. it s good to have you here. we ve always worked i wasn t on the subcommittee before. know it always tries to work on a bipartisan basis. we are all good friends here in congress. i look forward to the opportunity to work for you. today, the subcommittee on oversight and investigations is holding a hearing entitled examining the failures of the trump administration s inhumane family separation policy. purpose of the hearing is to
scheduling answers that are quite as clear instantaneously as that one. it was really great. is it possible that we can do this on monday? the court, no. mr. gardner and again oh, okay. the court again says no! are you seriously going to keep talking? i said n-o. n-o. no. in most other federal courts in america, that would be a perfectly reasonable request. there s a lot of federal judges who will not be working on friday, but this judge is. friday, 2:00 p.m. he wants an answer. what is the president up to and what is the government doing in this case. does the justice department speak for the government anymore does it represent what the government is doing or do we just rule biffi at from what the president retweets and misspelled on his phone. thanks, man. and who speaks for mark zuckerberg? the other big question of the day. good night, lawrence. tomorrow the president who has never inspired a majority of the american people will try to do that once again. h
office, an absolutely truthful tweet that set the record straight on hurricane dorian and alabama. i m going to talk to the former noaa official who predicted last night on this show that something like this would happen. also just how bad will the final toll be in the bahamas? an official warning people to prepare for the unimaginable as the death toll rises to 43 with hundreds or thousands still missing. we re going to take you to one of the hardest hit communities. what is the true cost of the president s family separation policy? this is a story that we don t want to get lost. the government report on the heartbreaking trauma suffered by immigrant children separated from their mothers and fathers. and could a lawsuit in minnesota change the way schools handle racist bullying? parents say their children were subject to blackface, the n-word, and threats of violence. we re going to get to all of that in this hour, but right now i want to talk about the president. the