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
Bill also works to lower the compliance burden on Financial Institutions, most of which are Community Banks, by establishing several tools to allow for more targeted sharing of b. S. A. , is bsaamlrelated information. Studies kes modest and waste ways to reduce the cost associated with researching and writing suspicious activity reports. The bill also creates a new privacy and Civil Liberties officer, as well as an innovation officer in each of the federal financial regulators. And importantly, the bill imposes new penalties on Financial Institutions and personnel that violate the law and creates a Whistleblower Program to encourage and protect those who identify such bad acts. R. 2513, as amended, has the strong support of Financial Institutions. It is also supported by n. G. O. s like the aflcio, global witness, oxfam america, friends of the earth, jubilee u. S. A. Network, and the Small Business majority, all of which are members of the transparency focus fact coalition. Its widely
than last year. still you have people out there looking for the cheapest gas they can find in their neighborhood and it is a welcome reprieve for consumers. yesterday we saw that those falling gas prices one reason why consumer inflation looks to have moderated a little bit in the month of july, we have producer price inflation, that is a factory-level gauge of inflation that comes out at 8:30 this morning. i will certainly take it if it s going to be, what, $3.70 versus $5 a gallon in the near future. thank you for that. the other major news this morning, reports that point to the possibility of someone inside donald trump s orbit raising concern about possession of classified documents. the wall street journal reports this morning that sometime after trump first turned over 15 boxes of material to the national archives last winter, someone familiar with the stored papers told investigators there may be still more classified documents at the private club. so who could
still more classified documents at the private club, closed quote. that signals there was potentially additional material there of interest to the u.s. government, even after trump turned over those 15 boxes to the national archives earlier this year. and last night, the director of the fbi chris rwray refused o answer questions about this search. he expressed real concern surrounding violent threats against fbi agents. take a listen. any threats made against law enforcement including the men and women of the fbi as with any law enforcement agency are deplorable and dangerous. and this morning, cnn has learned that some within the justice department believed that the department should have provided a public statement on the search. so let s start right there with our cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez. evan, we have been talking a lot this week about the real escalation from a meeting that investigators had back in june, with trump lawyers at mar-a-lago, leadin
meeting in june, and this subpoena essentially prompted this meeting where we know that the trump lawyers gave a little tour to some of the prosecutors and investigators doing this investigation, showed them where these documents were being held, and at the end of that meeting they left with classified documents, documents that were national security information. that s the reason why that meeting occurred. what it tells us is that these conversations, these discussions that were on going between trump lawyers and the justice department turned contentious much earlier, much, much earlier than the search that occurred on monday. we re also learning that part of all of this involves a witness, at least one witness. do we know, was that witness saying there s still documents you missed on june 8th? this witness told them there were definitely documents being held at mar-a-lago that the fbi needed to get, obviously wanted to get. this was information that included classified