item 5a is human resources update and wendy macey and melissa white will be presenting. >> good afternoon commissioners. i'm wendy, here to present our update on the hiring efforts. may i please have the slides? so, as we enter into the new year, i'm pleased to report our vacancy rate for permanent funded positions is trending down after having risen during the pandemic. we all know about the challenges during the pandemic. our current raw vacancy rate is trending downward despite having added over a hundred positions in the meantime, which is as i analogy is the goal post is moving down the hill and able to trend downward so we appreciate the progress and appreciate your attention to these issues. this slide should appear as a [indiscernible] this is where we identify the bureau's or enterprises which have the highest numbers of vacancies or vacancy rates and i do want to caveat that our vacancy rates are raw numbers. as you might have noted when agm robinson spoke yesterday, there are a number recruitments in process and so our actual net vacancy rate is much smaller, so this time for t

house editor for politico, melissa murray from and nyu law school, a law clerk for soto social so toor on the federal before her ascension to the senior bench, and nbc political analyst matthew dowd, also a former george w. bush strategist and founder of country over party. melissa, help us. i want to start with what judge karen henderson said today at the hearing. >> i think it's paradoxical to say that he is constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed allows him to violate criminal laws. >> no matter what happened in that courthouse, donald trump was going to walk out and say that it was a good day for him. but you listen to the judge. what is your take away from what she said? >> i think the entire hearing made clear that there was profound skepticism from all three of the judges of the d. c. circuit for this argument that donald trump had some kind of absolute presidential immunity that shielded him from any kind of criminal prosecution, whether during his presidency or after it. the question that judge henderson posed is really about this question of wh

our friend katie benner, pulitzer prize-winning reporter for the new york times, sam stein, wet white house editor for politico, melissa murray from and nyu law school, a law clerk for soto social sotomayor, and nbc political analyst matthew dowd, also a former george will be bush strategist and founder of country over party. melissa,helps. i want to start with what judge karen henderson said today at the hearing. think it's paradoxical to say that he is constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed allows him to violate criminal laws. >> no matter what happened in that courthouse, donald trump is going to walk out and say that it was a good thing for him. but you listen to the judge. what is your take away from what she said? >> i think the entire hearing made clear that there was profound skepticism from all three of the judges of the d.c. circuit for this argument that donald trump had some kind of absolute presidential immunity that shielded him from any kind of criminal prosecution during his presidency or after it. the question that judge henderson posed

sexism and white nationalism. as it relates to these allegations, and i was going to leave that to where it is. barbara mcquade, and melissa redmond, thank you both for joining me from this first conversation today, on our second hour of velshi. still to come, emigration in america's southern border have been two of donald trump's favorite talking points from the moment that he came down the escalator in 2016. and now, he's trying to take a bipartisan border deal. how does that help his campaign and his brand? and, taxes an is here. we will investigate how race is woven into our tax system, and all of that, and more, coming up, on velshi. up, on velshi. with chase freedom unlimited, you can cashback 3% on dining including take-out. cashback on flapjacks, baby backs, or the tacos at the taco shack. nah, i'm working on my six pack. well, good luck with that. earn big with chase freedom unlimited with no annual fee. a force to be reckon with. no, not you saquon. hm? you! your business bank account with quickbooks mon

phil. >> reporter: melissa, this is part of the white house ongoing push to expand ev adoption.is you have a lot of people when it comes to buying an ev, i can't do anything if i want to drive it long distance with charging anxiety. the charging network in the countr country stinks. the public charging structure. aside from the tesla network, there is a lot to be desired with the public chargers. the white house today is saying it is taking a number of steps between today and yesterday. here are the steps. first of all, it will come out with new charger tax credit rules if you want a charger in your home. they are putting $46 million into ev worker training. not just in work on ev batteries and electric vehicles, but chargers and networks.chargers,e white house will put 14mi$149 million into the network of public chargers. the public chargers in the country with wildly inefficient in terms you sometimes stop and you get one that works and a lot of times you get one broken or slow to charge. people generally are not happy with the system overall. 170,000 public chargers in the co

rivers, specialist sanders and specialist moffat, they will all be coming home in a few days in the white house is saying that the president will be there to greet them. >> the pentagon said the attack bore the footprints of an iranian backed melissa -- militia. the pentagon has said that there will not be a final assessment on who exactly was responsible for what happened over the weekend but they did say that it's definitely a ron backed group, bu t what is interesting is that tonight, that group has put out a statement saying that's going to end its military operations against u.s. forces in the region. here's a part of the statement. he said, we are announcing the suspension of military and security operations against the occupation forces, that's u.s. troops, in order to prevent embarrassment to the iraqi government. the statement goes on to say that the group will take some act of self-defense against any american hostilities and when the pentagon was asked about this a spokesperson said actions speak louder than words and the u.s. has been demanding that these attacks stop for a nu

train it larry, number singer new terrific and thank you larry, joining us now let's get out of former white house attorney in a opossum columnist divine, think about so much for joining us okay, for seo, here's the thing and i went gop caucus just a week away in this big fight gearing up now to remove trump from the ballot in states like colorado in the fight is now the supreme court in may, what you think of the state attorneys general permanent have the nation 27 say slow morning them in court that this push to remove trump is illegal and unconstitutional will trigger chaos if he is removed from saint bella's 20 think this g goes. may: i think the rightness of the states and i think will actually see another brief from these states, say hello things, flood, i think that it will be total chaos if all states are just on their own 73 interpret the 14th a minute however the night and to it's very obvious, the congress is about to do something in order to give life to the 14th amendment in the race a very good point, if trump is an insurrectionist anybody can declare he was, that everything th

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