days but on wednesday some attempted to escape using the su is streets of the territory have been quiet now quiet for the past 2 days. the greek government's announced plans to close overcrowded refugee camps on outlying islands to replace them with more restrictive camps on the mainland 20000 people will be moved by the end of a see if greece has been struggling with arrivals across the sea from turkey but local residents on the island say the move will not stop more migrants from arriving those are the headlines this hour faultlines is coming up next looking at how white supremacy it persists in america in china cancer drugs can be pretty beautifully expensive some desperate patients travel to india to buy cheap generic versions but what costs one when aged boys those smuggling to survive are now does iran. think i'm going back knowing a factor. in less than

a year the united states has seen to it that deadliest white supremacist attacks in its recent history were born far out from the pentagon in october of 2018 a gunman murdered 11 jewish worshipers at the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh pennsylvania. talking about. then in august 22 people were shot dead in an attempt to kill as many latinos as possible in el paso texas. just 9 months apart these attacks were connected to the ideology of white supremacy and only read gradually and i think we all come to realize how extensive this underground network is of people who have bought into this hateful belief system. those things are being nurtured by our president in his language and actually

stoked against license to people like the shooter to do violence against communities. to pittsburgh suspect was critical of donald trump and they'll pass so shooter distance himself from the president in his manifesto. but both men frame their actions as responses to crises real or imagined that the president has amplified even echoing his language about minorities and immigrants out of florida rally in may the president rhetorical he asked the crowd what he should do with migrants who cross the border but how do you stop these maybe one of the president's supporters yelled secure them and the president left that's only in the panhandle you can get away with that. in the wake of these shootings conservative pundits with. large platforms have also come under scrutiny white supremacy that's the problem this is a hoax it's a conspiracy theory used to divide the country and keep

a hold on power as if the president if it could have been here and it was like watching our wall leaders sit passively back as the invasion continues the number one conservative media for us in the united states is fox news or trustworthy our country is being stolen. in this episode of faultlines we examine the ideology behind these recent attacks. and how this racist discourse is seeping into the mainstream. i just remember hearing a lot of people screaming for help screaming for the end united states then i remember seeing the sun and hearing the helicopters and then after all she's basically cheese laying down. and praying that he wouldn't kill my daughter.

and that because he went through to the same door that she was in. on august 3rd louise covey a was at a wal-mart store in el paso texas when a 21 year old white supremacist opened fire luis a u.s. army veteran was shot 5 times so when he shot me i turned around towards the direction but i heard the shots from that's when i saw the weapon that he was carrying he was saying nothing he was just shooting randomly. after 5 surgeries in more than 2 months in the hospital luis has finally made it home. grown. invite everyone to come over. on the day of the attack the reason his family went to wal-mart to promote a fundraiser for his 10 year old daughter soccer team. 5 of the parents were shot.

all the girls escaped but when the waist woke up he learned that his father or his . was among the 22 people murdered that day. when i was sedated i had asked about my dad and they told me what had happened to him and that i just cried a lot that i just cried and cried and cried but when i woke up i mean i knew that he wasn't around us anymore and. i was in there to say the last goodbye i was under the carpet maybe. i would just came out after i woke up right say hi guys. i got to come support diverted to come support. there you go you go it's a stand that if it would end i would have created out that facebook like my dad was there right because he didn't know anything about the fundraiser. he might have been alive still i mean it's just it just sucks you know. that out of witnesses

describe the gunman passing over some of the white customers while targeting anyone who booked latino to him. after the shooting the way he said his wife marcella read the gunman's manifesto searching for answers you read it in the year that was this is happening because for president that's lines because of everything that he saying because everything that he he simply links in and to this young mind and said i mean you put one to the other you're not going go there almost as warm as what he says but texas and they show no hispanics that hispanics that were taking over the jobs that were taking over everything our president makes it seem like that every person across the bridge is a criminal and if that's not the case that criminals come from here and look what they do. the number of hate crime murders last year was the highest in over 20 years according to f.b.i. data. over the years black americans have faced the most frequent incidents of hate

crimes and 2018 saw an increase in the targeting of latinos. dr cathleen blue studies the history the white power movement in america these aren't just one off events they are part of a rising wave of action and these activists share a common set of ideologies symbols phrases and kind of modes of action that connect them with one another now that's important not only to understand the meaning of each of these acts of violence but to connect them together as part of a movement would prove not the manifesto from the past so shooter and i don't want to give him a platform but is this white supremacy i know that the media will probably call me a white supremacist anyway and blame traps rhetoric the media is infamous for fake news he says immediately repeating trump's rhetoric also has a lot of highly symbolic coded phrases that would be familiar to somebody in this movement so like hispanic invasion of texas replacement invasion replacement this

is become popular recently and it's another example of this idea of the white race being overrun by other people invasion is now attached to this idea of replacement and invasion of immigrants has to do with the feeling of being overrun by people of color if you look at the moment in which the both of those attacked attacks happened they both came on the back of president trump voicing very loudly his opinion that this century there was an invasion going on to the united states this is an invasion when you see these caravans starting out with 20000 people that's an invasion i was badly criticized for using the word invasion it's an invasion there's no question that trims words influence them and there's no question that trump was influenced by the work of tucker carlson and others at fox news this is not immigration immigration happens with the consent of the host country this is

happening by force without our consent what's happening at the border is a flat out invasion we are being overwhelmed every day calling anything but an enemy. we're interrupting this program on al-jazeera to go back to capitol hill the impeachment inquiry resuming adam schiff the chairman of the committee speaking now waiting to hear from david hale the undersecretary of state for political affairs as well as laura koopa who is the deputy assistant secretary of defense for russia ukraine and eurasia members we welcome you and respect your interest in being here in turn we ask for your respect as we proceed with this hearing as chairman i'll make any necessary or taken the necessary appropriate steps to maintain order and ensure that the committee is run in accordance with house rules and house resolution 660 with that i now recognize myself to give an opening statement in the impeachment inquiry into donald j. trump the 45th president of the united states this afternoon the american people

will hear from 2 witnesses who are both veteran national security professionals one of the department of state and the other at the defense department david hale is the undersecretary of state for political affairs the 3rd most senior official in the department and the most senior foreign service officer or cooper serves as deputy assistant secretary of defense for russia ukraine and eurasia and is responsible for a broad range of countries in the former soviet union and the balkans. between them they have several decades of national security experience serving both republican and democratic presidents and as we have heard from other dedicated public servants like former ambassador to ukraine where you have on of each former deputy assistant secretary of state george can't and vaster bill taylor lieutenant colonel alexander venkman and jennifer williams their only priority has been the security of the united states under secretary hill was witness to the smear campaign against the ambassador to ukraine marie of on of each and the efforts by some in the state

department to help her in late march we have on of it reached out to hail for assistance telling him in an e-mail that the tempo of social media and other criticisms of her were such that she felt she could no longer function unless there was a strong statement of defense for of her from the state department helped push to get the state department to put out a robust full page statement of defense and praise for best move out of each sadly to no avail that silence continues to today in late april and we heard in riveting testimony last friday from bastra on a bitch she was recalled to washington and form that she had lost the confidence of the president the secretary of state did not meet with her support and dealt with her instead with the departure of out of a church hail watched as 3 new players moved in to assume a prominent role in trump's ukraine policy the 3 amigos were nominally led by energy secretary rick perry but it would be ambassador volcker and

a bastard and presumably working with a master tailor who would be the ones really doing the continual work here in mid-summer trump ordered a suspension the military aid to ukraine despite the fact that the aid had been authorized and appropriated by congress and that the defense department in consultation with the state department had certified ukraine met all the necessary requirements to receive the aid including anti corruption reform. the aid was in the national interests of the united states and critical to ukraine's security a country that had been invaded by russia from her office in the pentagon this cooper oversaw significant amount of security assistance flowing to ukraine and was involved in efforts to understand and reverse the suspension of nearly 400000000 in u.s. aid cooper along with others learned about the freeze during a series of interagency meetings in the last 2 weeks of july at the 1st meeting on

july 18th and on the representative relayed that quote the white house chief of staff has conveyed that the president has concerns about ukraine and ukraine security assistance unquote and that a hold had been ordered by the president no explanation was provided all of the agencies responsible for ukraine policy supported security assistance and advocated for lifting of the hold the only dissenting voice was the office of management and budget which was following the orders of president trump and still no good explanation of the hold was provided while the 8 suspension had not been made public word was getting out catherine croft special advisor for ukraine to go she should work closely with ambassador volcker and who testified before this committee at a deposition received 2 separate calls in july or august from officials at the ukrainian embassy who quote approach me quietly and in confidence to ask me about an m.b.

hold on ukraine security assistance crofter was quote very surprised at the effectiveness of my ukrainian counterparts diplomatic tradecraft as in to say they found out very early on much earlier than i expected them to ukrainians wanted answers but croft did not have a good response. but then in late august cooper met with kurt volker with whom she had met many times in the past during that meeting in which they were discussing the hold on security assistance will reveal that he was engaged in an effort to have the government of ukraine issue a statement that would quote commit to the prosecution of any individuals involved in election interference unquote cooper understood that a focus effort were successful the hold might be lifted and announced to cooper no such statement was forthcoming but the a was abruptly restored on september 11th days after the 3 committees launched an investigation into the trump ukraine scheme and with that and now recognize the

ranking member. thank you as we republicans have argued at these hearings the american people are getting a skewed impression of these events that's because the democrats assume full authority to call witnesses and they promptly rejected any new witnesses the republicans requested so i'd like to take a moment to discuss a few of the people whose testimony has been deemed unacceptable for the american people to hear the whistleblower was a blower is the key figure who started this entire impeachment charade by submitting to a complaint against president trump that relied on 2nd hand and 3rd hand information and media reports this began a bizarre series of events although the complaint had no intelligence component whatsoever the intelligence community inspector general accepted it and even changed the guidance on the complaint forms to eliminate the requirement for 1st

hand information that his office back dated the forms to make them appear as if they were published a month before democrats then took the extremely rare step of pushing a whistleblower complaint into the public. using it as the centerpiece of their impeachment crusade. we later learned that the democratic staff had prior court nation with the whistleblower the democrats themselves had denied it on national television following that revelation democrats did a dramatic about face they suddenly dropped their insistence that the whistleblower testified to us and rejected our request to hear from them then in a hearing yesterday the democrats cut off our questions and accused us of trying to out. even though they claim they don't even know who he is

alexander chalupa. is a former operative for the democratic national committee who worked with officials of the ukrainian embassy in washington d.c. in order to smear the trump campaign in 2016 she met directly about these matters with then ukrainian ambassador. who himself wrote an article criticizing trump during the 2016 campaign. activities were one of several indicators of ukrainian election meddling in 2016 all of which were aimed at the trump campaign once you understand that ukrainian officials were cooperating directly with president trump's political opponents to undermine his candidacy it's easy to understand why the president would want to learn the full truth about these operations and why he would be skeptical of ukraine hunter biden biden is another witness who the democrats are sparing from cross-examination is secure

enough to extremely well paying job on the board of a corrupt ukrainian company. highlights the precise corruption problem in ukraine. concern not only president trump but all of the witnesses we've interviewed so far the democrats have dismissed questions about biden's role as conspiracy theories. yet they're trying to impeach president trump for having expressed concerns about the company if we could hear from biden we could ask him how he got his position what did he do to earn his lavish salary and what light could he shed on corruption at this notorious company but biden would make an inconvenient witness for the democrats and so they've blocked his testimony at these hearings we've heard a lot of 2nd hand 3rd hand information and speculation about president trump's intentions but in the end the only direct order we've heard from the president

is his order to our last witness ambassador susan lynn that he wanted nothing from ukraine that is a can that is consistent with the testimony provided by senator johnson who said that president trump angrily denied accounts that a quid pro quo existed aside from rejecting our witnesses the democrats have tried other petty tricks to shape public opinion just this morning they called a break in the hearing in order to press their absurd arguments to t.v. cameras then for this hearing they cancelled the multiple rounds of initial questioning they had earlier today with embassador. and as they have had with all the previous witnesses who they bizarrely consider as their star witnesses when you look through the presumptions assumptions and smoke and mirrors you see the facts of this case are clear president trump was skeptical of foreign aid

generally and especially skeptical of aid to corrupt countries like ukraine he wanted to discover the facts about ukrainian meddling in the 2016 election against his campaign a reef hold on ukrainian aid was lifted without ukraine taking any steps they were supposedly being bribed to do. president zelinsky repeatedly said there was nothing improper about president trump's call with him and he did not even know about the holden aide at the time he was supposedly being extorted with so what exactly are the democrats impeaching the president for none of us here really know because the accusations change by the hour once again this is impeachment in search of a crime so the chairman i would urge you to bring this to a close as a journalist hearing and move on and get back to the work of the intelligence

committee that yield back i thank the gentleman today we are joined by ambassador david hale and ms lorch cooper david hale service as the undersecretary of state for political affairs for the department of state a position he has held since august 30 2018 mr hell join the foreign service in 1984 and holds the rank of career massacre he previously served as the ambassador to pakistan ambassador to lebanon special envoy for middle east peace deputy special envoy and ambassador to jordan and vaster hale also served as deputy assistant secretary of state and executive assistant to secretary of state albright or cooper is the deputy assistant secretary of defense for russia ukraine and eurasia at the department of defense she is a career member of the senior executive service ms cooper previously served as a principal director in the office of the assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and global security affairs. prior to joining the department

offense in 2001 ms cooper was a policy planning officer of the state department in the office of coordinator of counterterrorism 2 final points before witnesses are sworn 1st witness depositions as part of this inquiry were unclassified in nature and all open hearings will also be held at the unclassified level any information that may touch on classified information we dress separately and 2nd congress will not tolerate any reprisal threat of reprisal or attempt to retaliate against any u.s. government official for testifying before congress including you or any of your colleagues if you would both please rise and raise your right hand i'll begin by swearing you and you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god let the record show the witnesses answered in the affirmative thank you and please be seated the microphone is sensitive so please speak directly into it without objection your

written statements will be made part of the record with that best for haleigh if you have and opening statement you're free to give that and immediately thereafter ms cooper you are recognized for your opening statement mr chairman i i don't have a prepared opening statement but i would like to just comment of course as you said i've been under secretary since august of 2018 a foreign service officer for over 35 years and ambassador 3 time serving both republican and democratic administrations proudly and i'm here in response to your subpoena to answer the questions of the committee thank you undersecretary ms cooper mr chairman ranking member members of this committee i appeared today to provide facts and answer questions based on my experience as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for russia ukraine and eurasia i would 1st like to describe my background as well as my role and vantage point relevant to

your inquiry. i bring to my daily work and to this proceeding my sense of duty to u.s. national security not to any political party i have proudly served 2 democratic and 2 republican presidents i entered government service through the presidential management internship competition joining the state department in 1909 to work on counterterrorism in europe and the former soviet union inspired by working with the u.s. military on a department of defense rotational assignment i decided to accept a civil service position in the policy organization of the office of the secretary of defense in january 2001 where i have remained for the past 18 years my strong sense of pride in serving my country and dedication to my pentagon colleagues were cemented in the moments after i felt the pentagon shake beneath me on september 11th 2001 my office was scheduled to move into the section of the

pentagon that was destroyed in the attack but a construction delay meant that we were still at our old desks in the adjacent section on that devastating day after we had wiped the black dust from our desks and tried to get back to work i found meaning by volunteering to work on afghanistan policy and would give my next 4 years to this mission i later had the opportunity to move into the leadership ranks of my organization and i've had the privilege to manage issues ranging from defense strategic planning to homeland defense and mission assurance. i accepted the position of principal director for russia ukraine and eurasia in 2016 and was honored to be appointed formally to the position of deputy assistant secretary of defense in 2018 in my current role i work to advance u.s. national security with a focus on deterring russian aggression and building strong partnerships with the frontline states of ukraine and georgia as well as 10 other allies and partners

from the balkans to the caucasus strengthening ukraine's capacity to defend itself against russian aggression is central to my team's mission the united states and our allies provide ukraine with this with security assistance because it is in our national security interest to deter russian aggression around the world we also provide security assistance so that ukraine can negotiate a peace with russia from a position of strength the human toll continues to climb in this ongoing war with 14000 ukrainian lives lost since russia's 2014 invasion these sacrifices are continually in my mind as i lead deity efforts to provide vital training and equipment including defensively full assistance to the ukrainian armed forces. i have also supported a robust ukrainian ministry of defense program of defense reform to ensure the long

term sustainability of u.s. investments and the transformation of the ukrainian military from a soviet model to a nato iraq robel force the national defense authorization act requires the department of defense to certify defense reform progress to release half of the ukraine security assistance and initiative or usa i fund a provision we find very helpful based on recommendations from me and other key d.o.d. advisors the department of defense in court nation with the department of state certified in may 2019 that ukraine had quote taken substantial actions to make defense institutional reforms for the purposes of decreasing corruption increasing accountability and sustaining improvements of combat capability unquote meriting obligation of the entire 250000000 in usa i funds this brings me to the

topic of today's proceedings i would like to recap my recollection of the timeline in which these events played out i testified about all of this at length in my deposition in july i became aware of a whole being placed on obligation of the state department's foreign military financing or f.m.s. and d.o.d.'s usa i funds in a series of interagency meetings i heard that the president had directed the office of management and budget to hold the funds because of his concerns about corruption in ukraine let me say at the outset that i have never discussed this or any other matter with the president and never heard directly from him about this matter at a senior.