Of the Trump Administrations muslim ban, i would like to welcome the members of t the subcommittee and oversight and investigations to this hearing. We are happy to be working on this important issue with you all today. Id also like to thank all of the majorityminority members in staff of both subcommittees for coordination and flexibility while planning this joint hearing particularly given the cancellation of yesterdays vote, i want to note that because of the cancellation not every member is able to be here today, but i did make a point of talking to mr. Columns and mr. Buck to be assure that they would be okay with proceeding and they assured me that they were since mr. Bigg and zeldon will be here, we do appreciate that flexibility and our opportunity to learn more and to probe issues about this matter. I really do think the hearing in many ways is overdue for 2 and a half years the administration has been allowed to arbitrarily ban from predominantly muslim countries and no overs
Newsroom continues now with ashleigh banfield. Hi, everybody. Nice to have you with me. Im ashleigh banfield. They have met, they have talked, and they have prayed a lot. And tomorrow they are going to vote, or at least they are going to meet for the purpose of voting, which means tomorrow, theoretically, the 115cardinal electors of the Roman Catholic church could give the world a brand new pope. Could it be Peter Turkson of gha ghana . That would be the first african pope in more than 1,500 years. Or perhaps luis tagle of the philippines, a rising star in the church, but seen by some people as perhaps too young to be pope at just 55 years old. Maybe sean omalley of the United States, boston, to be exact. He is one of two supposedly credible candidates for the First American pope ever. New yorks Timothy Dolan is the other. In fact, the United States has 11 voting cardinals of those 115, which makes us the second biggest block of voters behind italy. And speaking of italy, the cardinals
bring an aircraft down. but with today s vigilant passengers, post-9/11, there is no one in the cabin that s going to let someone with a golf club or teeny tiny knife take down the plane and the cabin doors are locked to the pilots. fine. you re going to use the flight attendants as collateral damage? what about the federal air marshals on the planes, too. let me tell you something, ashleigh, if something happens in the back of the plane, the fams, their job is to protect the cockpit at all costs. listen let me finish. let me tell you, if something goes on in the back, they are not going to be able to take care of that. look, after i was in law enforcement, i was hired by delta airlines to start up an abusive passenger program before 9/11, and my job back then, i was trying to get the knives off the planes before 9/11. and after 9/11 happened, i thought it was good that they did not allow. why bring it back on, there s no need. notwithstanding that knives can hurt someone, i