Live now to hearing on White Supremacists infiltration of Police Department. The House Oversight and reform subcommittee on civil rights and Civil Liberties is hosting. This is live coverage on cspan2. Good morning to the chair of the committee, ms. Maloney has joined us. Good morning to our Ranking Member mr. Roys whos with us and good morning to the vice chair and all of our wonderful members who joined us. I want to take a moment to extend a special welcome to rashida to leave of michigan come to our subcommittee. This is her first hearing with our subcommittee and were delighted to have her choice. Welcome, ms. Tlaib. I wanted show a video to set the stage. Please play the video. White supremacy permeates every corner of society and our institution. Please agencies to the fbi to department of justice, all of them. The Southern Poverty Law Center combover is engaged in those groups wherever that might lead. We have outed a number of Law Enforcement officers who have connections to w
Host that does it for todays washington journal. The American Enterprise institute is hosting epa administrator andrew weaver. That conversation is beginning now. Administrator we were, he will have some opening remarks and then i will have questions. You can ask questions to pitch as you can see on our event page and or youtube page, and questions on twitter at hashtags airandwater. First, his opening remarks. Admin. Wheeler i want to thank aei for inviting me to be here today. Month, i provided reflections on the past 50 years of the amber mental Protection Agency and laid out a plan for its future at the nixon library. Today i would like to explain based on what we have accomplished over the past 40 years, how we are going to get to this future. It is incontrovertible that today, the environment is in better shape under President Trump than we found it. Air pollution in this country has fallen 7 . Manyyear, the apa delisted superfund sites. And we will ddelist another 27 this year.
Remarks and then i will ask questions. You can submit questions as well. But first your opening remarks. Welcome. Thank you for the introduction but i want to welcome aei for inviting me to be here today earlier this month i have reflections on the last 50 years of the epa and laid out our plan for its future at the Nixon Library. Today i would like to explain based on what we have accomplished over the past four years how we will get to this future. It is incontrovertible today the environment is in better shape under President Trump and we found it. Since 2017 air pollution in this country has fallen 7 percent. Last year superfund sites the most in a single year since 2001 and b will list another 27 this year the epa is trying to finance more than 40 billion of clean Water Infrastructure supporting 7100 projects and 27000 jobs during President Trumps first term and they have recovered more criminal and civil appointees them the Obama Biden Administration did and their first term. The
Longterm Economic Trends that covid19 has only made worse. Correspondent Jill Schlesinger will report our cover story. Reporter coronavirus has put millions of people out of work and left millions more without even enough to eat. Meanwhile, billionaires Bank Accounts grow fatter. The pandemic has only laid bare inequities that have existed in our country for a long time. Now the question is what do we do. Reporter covid19 affects the debate over wealth and income inequity ahead on sunday. Pauley paris hilton is a celebrity whos name is known around the world, but the real person has largely been hidden from view, until now. Shell talk with tracy smith. Reporter just when you thought you had heard all there was to hear about paris hilton, she makes a movie about a time in her life she says was too dark to even tell her parents about. Why not tell them when you got out . I didnt think they would believe me. Because even talking about it now and hearing myself talk about it, it sounds imp
Any medical condition. And the u. S. Accuses china of sponsoring hackers to spy on American Companies working on a vaccine for covert 19. You know harvey has you covered it next hour with a fresh news update the kaiser report is coming up right here on our international if youre watching in the u. K. Or ireland its just. This is the kaiser report the world is. So you see its gave her thats what i see when i look at the headlines japan and the government will start paying us companies to move factories out of china japan to pay at least 536 1000000. 00 for companies to leave china now they are not heading back to japan they are planning on going to cambodia vietnam places like that other places in South East Asia right wow a remarkable and so why are they doing that. Because theres a period of. Japan as a close ally of the United States the United States is escalating their war 1 against china and there are 2 cities trap it could be game over on that on this whole the paradigm that weve