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slim's impact reachedar bey th duties of his office. he was a pillar of strength during celrations, a comforting presence iimes of need and a beacon of positivity with a smile that could light up a room. the phrase doing extra good embodied his vues, reflecting a man who consistently went above and beyond for his community. as we mourn the loss o mayor slim whitloc let us remember him not only as a leader but as a sbol ofelflesess and votion. the love he had for his community was resip could red -- reciprocad, creating a bond that wl forever endure in the hearts of t pple he served. y his lacy inspire us to continue theork he srted. mayor, you will be missed mr. speer i rise tay to emphasize the critical impoance of federally qualified hea centers especial in rural communities like mine. i had the privilege of visiting one in my district andryorand high school's and rio grande high schoos school-based health center. th are lifelines for countless new otherwise lack access to essentl health care services. federally qualified health cente

more and more people are bei moved to shelters to stabilize the situation. pushing,thing is we're commodities, and get people registered in the system to receive assistance. assistance does not justome from fema, it comes from many organization represented here today by secretarprice, secretary carson, and others. next thing is, maintaining security. mobilizing the homeland security task force, law enforcement, making sure we are anticipating any security needs we have. price, wesecretary are working not only with governors and medical teams, but sending medical teams in not just to the convention center today. there are already some on-site. to make sure we're meeting access and functional needs. challenge to getting supplies in. once the roadway systems come in, we have amassed force for supporting local and state efforts. the governor pulled 12,000 national troops in, we are pulling units out of fort hood in the federal government to come in as well. told several thousand from the state of texas that is how the system works. it will be frustrating. we wil

bey worry that they could reeling from a second punch that could put them out of business. many restaurants are bracing for another round of restrictions as a resurgence in coronavirus cases in the u.s. crimes a pullback in reopening plans. they write, numerous states and cities halted or rolled back reopening plans for bars and restaurants amid a surge in covid-19 cases and suspicions by public officials that ground -- crowds gathering could be contributing to the spread. olympia, washington. raj, you are first up. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i have some comments about the covid virus in general, how it impacts the united states. first of all, the covid virus is just a cold, a very advanced cold. -- i had thisses argument about my son about this the other day. if people could stop smoking, drinking, eating gmo foods, sugary drinks and so does, -- das, start taking vitamin c, vitamin d3, zinc, magnesium, essential oils -- certain essential oils kill this virus easily. there are a few countries like egypt that have employed these practices and have wi

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point about no fact witnesses nothing for the judiciary committee we spent two and half weeks before bey was even held under clinton, two and half weeks we did even find your names out until less than 40 hours ago. i don't know what were playing hide the ball on. it's easy what you're going to say. we can't even get that straight. what are we doing for the next two weeks? no idea. the chairman just said something big was but nothing else. if are not on a witnesses, and we are the rubberstamp hiding a pack of the very robust in the chairman talked about 20 years ago. what a disgrace to this committee. to have this committee of impeachment simply take another entity and rubberstamp it. you say why do the things that i see matter? because by the way just a couple of months ago the democrats got all dressed up and said we're going of the due process protection for the president and good fairness throughout this. this the only committee which the president would have the possibility but no offense to you, for law professors. the president has nothing to ask you. you are not going to provide a

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nato arose out of strategic must bey, and nato called in response to the new strategic reality. our community of nations is under threat on multiple fronts, as the ark of insecurity builds on nato's periphery and beyond. we discussed the increased threats facing our alliance, and unified by the threats to our democracies, i found a strong alliance resolve to address these threats. russia's aggressive actions have violated international law and are destabilizing. andorism in the middle east north africa is a direct and immediate threat to europe and to us all. i am reminded of the tragic attacks on our european allies and what they have suffered in paris, nice, berlin, istanbul. the list goes on. we have recognized that the instability has taken on new forms that we must address, for example, in the cyber domain. is reinforcingto deterrence and defense, and adapting to more directly address terrorist threats along our southern flank in the mediterranean and turkey, and the words of the turkish emoji, defense allseamless the way across the mediterranean. we also met with one of na

thank you, reverend parker, and thank all of you for bei here. want to thank kamala for her not only capacity do what she does, but the fire with what she brgs to thehings she cares a lot about. to all the members of congress, including reprentative bennie thompson andenator tammy duckworth, representative danny vis, the senator -- durbin, who is a wish, a speedy recovery from covid. he's just recovered recovery right now and who have long fought to honor the hill famy. 's not new to any of them, to the joe family tonight and be with you again. you know, when i was preparing his remarks, i, i quite frankly and my colleagues understand this. i found myself trying to temper my anger as i was ready. i'm not joking. i can't fathom i can't fathom what it must have been like. it's hard to believe i was 12 years old at. and i just, you know, i know no matter h much time has how many birthdays how many events, how many anniversaries. it's hard to relive. this brings it all back. we're talking about as if it happened yesterday. the images, your head, thin

the people of ukraine are different people of different views, beliefs and are not religious at all bey fighting against the worst that may be born with any human. the effort to kill, destroy and enslave, therefore it is also a spiritual battle. to everyone who fights together with us in spiritual dimension and dimension of values. i have the honor of knowingpleaf ukrainian soldiers and many others whom he has helped, and young people who, thanks to him get a great education. also, here is the director of the church of saint andrew and children of the united states air force. [applause] also our [applause] thank you. they are the leaders of communities who help others. and i would like to invite mr. peter.ou. the general director of the legendary new york opera which has become one of the largest centers of support through the language of art. they have done tremendous work to help us achieve the cultural solidarity we needed, a culture that enforces freedom, that thank you. [applause] >> thank you so much. here today are the leaders of the ukrainian community, benefactors, michael hopk

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to bei came to a supervisor in the political corruption unit. once here, my role spread more international because i stepped into the international corruption role. i got to travel to several places across the country. my last and mystic assignment was out west, where i was also a political corruption supervisor. it has mainly been corruption, but everybody in the bureau at some point works counterterrorism, counterintelligence, cyber security matters, because that is the priority. anytime a case comes up, san bernardino being an example, it is all hands on deck. or something in manhattan like bernie madoff. areatter whether you assigned to white-collar crime, everybody's working those cases. it's a team environment. >> you were working those high-profile cases. were also a special assistant u.s. attorney. what did you do? rep. fitzpatrick: i prosecuted gun and drug crimes. one of the many fascinating agent isout being an you have the opportunity to cross designate as a special assistant u.s. attorney. i had the chance to do that in the eastern

focusing on the future of could bey rights and others. we'll vote on that today. tomorrow we'll take up about freddie and fannie. freddie and fannie are exempt from the freedom of information act. the idea of bringing more transparency to government we'll pass a bill to make sure they are no longer exempt from foia. anybody can get the information dealing with freddie and fannie as we move forward. we'll continue to be able to fund this government. making sure our military men and women have all they need to not only protect this country but make the world safe. and will i tell you walking out of this conference i see great movement when it comes to health care. we'll continue to make sure we keep our promise to repeal and replace obamacare to make sure insurance costs are lower and people are protected from pre-existing conditions. >> the last two weeks have been really good for members to go back to their districts. again hear from and talk to the people that actually elected us. so that we continue working for the american people to follow through on the things

can bey, the process done effectively. it gives local government the ability to participate or make a decision to decline a permanent based on actual concerns about the safety of the community. permitting allows for their communication between jurisdictions and organizers. leaders of ann organization is important to establish gravels for the event, especially nonnegotiable matters with the intention economy can be reached by both parties on the ground rules. in our protests in knoxville, it was advertised on social media, a local white supremacy group announced they would be holding a support the monument rally for a civil war monument that had been vandalized. the group had previous gatherings. three other groups begin organizing counter protests. we were familiar with some of these groups. forsupport counterprotesters were substantially larger. monitoring problem areas. one of the counterprotest groups contacted us to request approval to conduct a march, that was denied because of the recent events we had seen in other l

democrats are under pressure to all all the stops with government funding bei t biggest point of leveragehouse minority leader has announced new rapid response and ligaon task force for the demoat according to news reports it is led by top democrats on the appropriations, oversight and judiciary committees. follow live coverage of c-span and on our website c-span. org. and c-spannow. find coverage any time on c-span. org. videos of key hearings and other events that guide you to highlights. they appear on the right-hand of your screen. this timeline makes it easy to quickly get an idea what was debated and decided in washington. scroll through and find out about c-span's points of interest. >> c-span, democracy unfiltered. we are funded by these television companies and more. including wow! >> the world is schainged. so wow! is there in speed and reliability, value and choice. now more than ever, it starts with great internet. >> wow! supports c-span as a public service along with these other television providers, giving you a front-row seat to democracy. >> coming up, a discussion lookin

must bey health centers funded at the levels contained in the bipartisan legislation introduced earlier this year, and i congratulate senators blunt and stabenow for their work on this issue. there are other republicans who are cosponsoring it. we could pass it tomorrow if it was on the floor of the senate. let us do that. to the prevention program of the affordable care act that were included in the december 21 agreement are unacceptable, and they must not be repeated. stabenow bill has nine cosponsors. it represents a modest increase in funding of just $2 billion over five years. it is the very least we could do to address the major crisis of primary health care in america, especially in rural america. know, president, as you federal funding for the children's health insurance program expired on september 30, 2017. if the chip program is not 9 million children and working families will lose their health insurance. can you imagine that we have a congress prepared and acting to give tax breaks to the richest people in this country, but somehow or another, they have not gotten around to

bey tuned, this is going to a much more dynamic era with dynamic diplomacy in europe. fact that the u.s. is not working more closely with allies to prevent that is unfortunately creating opportunities for chinese disinformation to be more successful than it should be. >> thomas, do you want to weigh-in? >> the temptation here for the united states intelligence will bey at some point to give in and try to take the gloves off. what does it mean to take the gloves off here? occasionally when i speak with people in the national security establishment in different countries they think active measures should be countered with active measures, fight fire with fire. incentive for the intelligence community in the u.s. is the right one. the incentive is, understand facts driven analysis and what would happen and how this pandemic started and how china is using its leverage in europe to put other governments under pressure. fact driven reporting and assessment and analysis. the incentive structure in the white house appears to be of --ent, lots risk is at some point over time we

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immigration and the jail population bei >> you can find washington journal on c-span.org. we take you to the house now. -- ook at house on school of cap ability. gaveling for a two-day workweek. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c. february 6, 2017. i hereby appoint the honorable adrian smith to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, paul d. ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, the chair would now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority leader and minority leaders for morning hour debate. pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in res is until -- recess more number lakeses later in the -- more nominations later in the week. more on c-span2. neil gorsuch is ramping up his senate charm offensive later this week, scheduling meetings with democratic leaders who will be a major influence in determining whether he

i look around this country i see projects bei■ zébuilt.to tell their constituents that we brought it to you. joe biden brought the restoration projects in all these changes. more than 200,000 jobs in this economy. he's produced more jobs than donald trump ever did. even more than barack obama did. [indiscernible] host: we got your point. was there anything you wanted to follow uth you will probably hea lot of that in the budget hearings on the president's budget. every time we go to these hearings regarding the■. presidt budget, it gets into the very recent trend over the lasming ic circumstances. you hear about that debate over job creation what the unemployment rate is at the beginning of a democratic administration. bobby scott in the house say■s thq#ere's supposed to be a house budget committee hearing on budget committee hearing on >> later this week the house would force legislationoce tiktok to diversities ownership or face a ban. live coverage now of the house on c-span.

bei am preparing to overrated. working with a great team to move the state forward, not focused on what robbie has done or not done. clearly thatery this is going to be my last political job, elected or appointed. i'm going to be focused on moving the state forward for the benefit of all louisianians. >> i'm going to have to go back to global warming. topic du jour in theington, not through month over the year. >> there is some criticism. washington. not happy with where the president is going. the question becomes what is your proposal? what is your alternative? does this not need to be addressed? think the entire premise on which the president is at doing in terms of the types of work cast is completely overstated. i do not support that draconian action that is going to have a huge impact on the economy. this is very suspect in terms of the numbers. none of these has come true. impact ofhave zero china, india and other countries do not genetically change their policy. >> what is the plan? republican being focused

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bei think the go to needs to kids in school, in person, in the classroom. for most kids, that is the best environment for them. >> i understand that -- >> what if they can't? >> leadeth scotus -- what if the school district feels they cannot safely go into the school because there is a flareup in the district? remote learning, are you ok with it in that situation? >> if there is a short-term flareup for a few days, that is a different situation than planning for an entirely school year -- an entire school year in anticipation of something that has not happened. the reality is we are committed to ensuring all students and schools have the resources necessary for kids to be able to continue learning. where schools do not follow through on that, parents should have the opportunity an option -- threator no, is the still alive or not? yes or no. >> we are committed to ensuring students are in schools and learning. >> ok. >> to be able to take their kids -- if their school refuses to open -- >> that is not a yes or no answer. >> here is a look at her live coverag

be made to discourage or have the effect of discouraging other witnesses from coming forward to to bey as a great to, further accented obstruction of a coequal branch of government. this is one of the few impeachment inquiries in our country. he goes to the core of whether the president abused his office to seek political help in his reelection campaign, and did tell her to the detriment of our nation's security. did so by effectively coercing a country that has been invaded by rivalo t investigate a and condition the relationship between this country and that country on whether they're were willing to play ball. the gravity of the issues we are investigating and the inquiry is looking into. it is hard to imagine a set of facts more damaging try standing in the world but more of a fundamental breach of the president's oath of office. the american people have the right to know that the president is acting in their interests, with an eye towards national security and not his narrow personal political interests. they have a right to know. the american people have a need to know. this inqu

isra bei the only democrac in the middle east -- dle st -- as uniquely american. israel being the only democracy in the middle east. the obama administration argued we can provide these funds for short-term security and specific tactical needs, but israel's long-term security is best served by israel brokering a two-state solution with the palestinians. and so the americans have unique leverage over israel in this regard because some ways the guarantor of israeli security they can make that argument that, you know, we are investing in the long-term security of the state that we consider to be indispensible in the world order. and adjust -- a just state in existence but we think in the long term in order to continue being a viable state and the state of israel that we have long supported, you need to broker peace. i think when it comes to iron dome, it's one of the most successful projects that the u.s. has ever invested in in terms of missile technology and in fact it's the only testing ground, really, for short-term rockets that we've ever seen. the u.s. saw that

whatuince is bei given to first responders? if you talkcounty to the sheriff's department, th have protocols for when people are supposed to be on the road. whether it is the wind over the rain -- every county makes thos decisions. >> it has been on most a week or five days and three been waiting for this storm. i know you have been all over the state. what kind of: -- what kind of toll is a taking on you? >> when you go through this what you learn is we have a really good state emergency management team. they do a really good job. whether you are talking to the emergency manament officials enforcement,e w they are absolutely committed. you haveo be impressed with your national guard. these are individual showing up and coming on active duty when they don't know what is going to happen to their own family. i want to thank president trp. i've talked to him about every day. i've spoken to the fema met -- fema administrator almost every day. that is true for every federal agency. people are working hard. there are a lot of unknown

everything that is happening here is bei defense.t you see, talking about our national security will be undermined. well, tell me about national security in texas whentting rolled over in el pas, when you have texans dying from fentanyl poisoning, when you have gangs and cartels operatin. talk to me about national security then. .... for yielding. thank you. the gentlelady from connecticut said that in this bill they were able to successfullyequest for spending reductions and rejected republicans' request for riders. andepublicans are going to vote for that? that's outrageous. she's right, though. she got the spending. she killednçear that a vote for this is a vote for china. a vote for -- against this is a vote for china, what you are re for this is a vote for chinese terrorism. we have had over 30,000 illegal aliens from china come across the border with this border policy. what you're going to get you are voting to speed up the process of recontribution of -- redistribution of illegal aliens coming in. that's what the funding will

beis going to continue to debated by politicians and historians. what contracting firm is benefiting the most from staying in afghanistan? guest: i do not know. there are lots that have been buildingin some of the operations in terms of infrastructure, roads. involved ineen building up bases. you have heard some of the stories about efforts to build up enormous sicilia fees that will actually not be used. perhaps with the expectation that we would be around. now they're just turning into these enormous warehouse is that will probably fall into disrepair relatively rapidly. is president karzai firmly in control? guest: he has been a contentious leader since his last election in 2009. there areon has been questions about the way he was voted in. a lot of improper uses of polls and so on. a lot of corruption. is he acting logically? given the circumstances that he faces and the fact he has multiple audiences, afghan, regional, the united dates, nato, his own personal interest, it is hard to say that being is not a relatively sane response. try to push

not bey be coming ill or providing patient care, if there at a high risk of getting covid. so there are challenges to training, making sure that there is adequate training, not only for infections you can control but appropriately movie residents to the appropriate care. that is another challenge. host: betty in georgia. caller: hello. host: you are on the air. caller: i want to say that nursing homes have big problems, and had big problems before the pandemic. my daughter after having surgery had to go to a nursing home at least two times. she was in the hospital for maybe about a year. gone from stonebridge to the nursing home. bed was on the whole time i was writing -- riding to the nursing home. the pewter workers low wages. you will not be excited about helping people when you pay them $10 an hour. not seem that enthusiastic about helping people. host: we have talked about the workers a little bit. what about the response from congress? this report requested by senator wyden and others, what is expected from congress in terms of reaction to the report? guest: so, separ

listen to the roar of the bei-three engine -- ebe-3 -- roar of the be-3 engine. max q is confirmed. beautiful burn on that engine, liquid nitrogen is the propellant, not just clean in terms of beautifully performing, but what comes out of it is steam. to see the glow of the engine underneath the rocket, just under our shoulders, and no that we have got a crew that is going to space -- it just feels different, doesn't it? gary: it feels totally different. >> you can follow along. this but on what are the bottom left, the altimeter in the middle of the screen there. so far, appears to be a nominal flight. coming up here on micco, main engine cut off. that will be followed shortly by separation. after separation, we are going to let the astronauts unbuckle and taken the thrills of zero g. there is micco, main engine cut off, a beautiful shut down the new shepard rocket. look at that view. unreal. awaiting separation here. land, -- and here we are. you can start to see. standby. you are going to see the separation of the cap seal from the booth -- capsule from the booster itself. >> woo

the fears that these individuals had, the fears of bei imprisoned and jailed for revealing that information to you, kept them secret until later on in the process. much later on. this year in great britain, we are seeing an inquiry into that process. the chilcutt inquiry. wikileaks released a cable on this inquiry. this was telling the u.s. ambassador at the time of the inquiry, do not worry we are going to protect all of your interests here. similarly, there was a time in 2007 when there were serious moves afoot to get up to war with iran. most of you rember th feeling. -cons were pushing through their mouthpieces in america and the united states, pushing for that war. people can afford and said, do not do what i did. he was the leaker of the pentagon papers. do not do what i did and wait four or five years until after the vietnam war had started. do not wait to come forward until this war starts. sources did me forth. sources who saw the planning for that war. as a result, there were moves against it. the sources have n been exposed. they did their best. they may have changed history and

let me thank themor bei a part here. i want to thank the capitol press corps for you being a part. how about the capitol pice. they did their job today. we want to thank them. we also want to thank code pink r coming and supporting doge. we want to cut waste, fraud and abuse. we put that on the sign. we make that change on a sign and we will do it. she's happy. happy doge d, we hope to see you nextonth. with tha we aradjourned. >> pentagon budget, that's where the money is, peter. >> that's where the money is. she checked the pentagon, that's where the money is. cut the pentagon, that's where the money is. cut the month -- cut t pentagon, that's where the money is. cut the pentagon, that's forhe money is. >> the associated press is reporting over 20 civil service employees of the department of governmentfficiency have resigned, claiming that the wor of the deparent s dismantling crical public services. the ap story quotes the resignion letter, which reads part, wswe to serve the american pple and uphold our old to the constitution across presidti administrations. however, it has be

of twoonly one bei-slavery presidents to elected to the white house are you he was deeply feared by the .outh his vision of a unified country, in which the federal government and the states where partners and a relationship that enable the federal government to play a leading role in binding the country together through , throughcture projects supporting manufacturer, and so on. by thedeeply affected southern states who believed he wanted to much power. the life ofan on our president john quincy adams. >> tomorrow politico looks ahead to the 2014 and 2016 elections. political consultants and reporters will discuss the current climate. that will be live at noon eastern on our companion network, c-span 2. several house and senate campaigns continue to take place across the country in pursuit of the midterm elections. a georgia senate republican primary debate was was suddenly -- was recently held. competing in a runoff election this tuesday that will determine who runs against the democrats michelle munn in november. this comes to you from georgia public broadcasting and the atlantic pres

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