You can watch the senate live right now on cspan2. While we wait for the Homeland Security hearing to resume, heres the first hour of testimony from this morning. Committee on Homeland Security will come to order. Committees meeting today to examine the most serious threats confronting our homeland. Before i recognize myself for an Opening Statement i would like to take a moment to welcome the newest member of our committee, don bacon. Don served nearly 30 years in the air force and is experienced in cybersecurity and airborne reconnaissance. Will prove greatly beneficial to this committee. Thank you, sir, for being here. Thank you, chairman. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. I would like to thank the witnesses. Acting secretary elaine duke. Fbi director christopher wray. Ctc director Nick Rasmussen for joining us today. You represent thousands of patriotic men and women who go to work every day to ensure the safety of their fellow americans. Everyone on this committee i
All right. I think well get started. Good afternoon. Thank you all for coming. Thanks for cspan for coming. My name is mark schmitt. Im the director of the Political Reform Program here at new america and all i want to do is welcome you to this discussion on race and solidarity in the United States and the future of solidarity as a way of thinking about thinking about race. This discussion was organized by ted johnson who has been a fellow in our National Fellows program and also a fellow in the Political Reform Program. His work on the complexity of black voting behavior and Political Attitudes has been eyeopening to me, and, you know, tremendously important. Hes now a fellow at the Brennan Center for justice which is an organization that as you can see, the signs here, its occasionally here. We often do things in partnership with the Brennan Center which is a wonderful organization and ted is bringing a bit of a of a nonlegal beyond legal, i guess he would say, scope of analysis to t
That way he can form opinions. Host how much of these reports are based on unnamed sources, and has that trend increased with this president . All right, i think we will get started. Thank you for coming. Thank you to cspan. I am the director of the Political Reform Program here at new america. I want to welcome you to this discussion on race and solidarity in the United States and the future of solidarity as a way of thinking about race. This discussion was organized by ted johnson, a fellow in our andonal Fellows Program also in our Political Reform Program. His work on the complexity of black voting behavior and Political Attitudes has been eyeopening to me enter medicinally important. He is a fellow at the Brennan Center for justice, an you can see that here. It is occasionally here. We often do things in partnership with the Brennan Center, a wonderful organization. Bit of ainging a nonlegal, beyond legal, scope of andysis to their work continuing hopefully to work in partnership
Stealing sensitive information. Plus. Im andy gallagher. Many people are ignoring calls to abandon the Confederate Flag and well at tell you why. After five years of punishing austerity, many greeks are decideingdeciding via referendum. Alexis tsipras is clearly siding for the no votes. More austerity in exchange for rescue loans. Greece needs those loans to avoid a default and banking collapse. A troika wants athens to slash spending. The greek accident now stands as more than 340 billion euros. On the eve of the referendum, describing a form of terrorism. Have no vote could mean crushing out of the euro zone, the dreaded grexit. Former priermts urged people to Prime Minister urged people to support the bailout. Translator today we greeks are deciding on the fate of our country. We are voting yes to greeks, yes to europe. John siropolous, this is a momentous day for europe. Give us whats at stake here. Reporter whats at stake is the future of greece really really. Were talk going whet
With light on the skyscrapersment temperatures differences arent too impressive in philadelphia, but, you really warmed up since yesterday. With the warm air nudging into mount pocono, allentown between nine, 12 degrees difference, a lot milder, a lot steamier region wide. Well check on the Atlantic City temperatures, temperatures very mild, heck at 77 right now. At 5 00 a. M. At the international airport. So we should have no problem making a run for 90 degrees here today. Thats the forecasted high. Normal high, 87. Right within range of where we should be, but the record was set 2010 at 23. Yes it, could be hotter, but it will be an awfully hot day regardless, for what weve been used to as of late, vittoria . All right, something to prepare for. Thanks katie. Good morning everyone, at least right now traveling on the roads as katie said before really not a sticky situation were waiting on rush hour, so that leads to construction project that we have lingering about. Taking a look at