secretary austin? sec. austin: good afternoon. we just concluded our 10th had a successful meeting of ukraine defense contact group. before i get to that important work, i want to say a few words about a troubling episode yesterday. on tuesday, russian aircraft engaged in dangerous, reckless, unprofessional behavior in the international airspace over the black sea. two russian jets started feeling on unmanned aircraft conducting routine operations in international airspace. one russian jet struck our mp nine aircraft, resulting in a crash. this hazardous episode is a part of a pattern of aggressive, risky, and unsafe actions by russian pilots in international airspace. i just got off the phone with my russian counterpart. as i said repeatedly, he is important that great powers the models of transparency and communication. in the united states, we will condense the united states will continue to fly and operate wherever international law allows. it is incumbent upon russia to operate its military aircraft in a safe and professional

austin and jessica met in auburn. garage sale going on in the neighbourhood and somebody was bothering her, and so he stepped in to help her out. and then theyjust became friends from then, and then they ended up living together. theyjust did everything together. they did everything together. and some of it wasn't so good. and, you know, they had the struggles with their drug use. meth is such a trickster. it's the most trickster drug out there. i'm really impressed withjessie, though, because a lot of times, these drugs will take away people's souls. you know, they'll take away their moral compass. she was just trying to get back on track somehow. after living in a van for some time, they both got help for their addictions. in 2019, the couple moved in with a man introduced to them by a relative. so they were living at mike dudley's house. we had to get permission to go visit. it didn't look scary, but it was definitely very controlled. and so they were trying to move. so this was the voice mail from him on mother's

secretary austin. secretary austin: certainly defer to the work that we are doing being completed and looking at the results of that work. but certainly fort drum is--it has tremendous capability and a great community. i think if that site is chosen, i think it would be a good choice. ms. stefanik: that site has been choseon by the department tkpaoefpbs. that was announced a few years ago. we worked on that in the ndaa. fort drum has been designated as the potential third site. general milley -- secretary austin: potential. ms. stefanik: what is the process of ensuring that we are focused to meet the needs of the past but foot taour, 2030's and 2040's. it takes a long time for that infrastructure investment for that to be completed. what is the timeline, general milley or secretary austin? general milley: i don't think a timeline has been established. i can tell you what we are talking about, we are talking is something that's been out there some time tpopb on the books. 20 to 40 silos. the and the mis

secretary austin: sure. with respect to the internet and information, how information impacts operations, we have seen over the years that in terms of transnational terrorist activity, people have been recruited and actually encouraged to take action over the internet and radicalized over the internet. that kind of thing continues to -- we continue to see that. even in a conventional fight, there are still -- there is still a lot of activity that adversary also put on the internet to create a number of different types of effects. we see this, as you know, with the ukraine, russia conflict. we have to be -- we have to be active in that space. we also have to enable our partners to be active in that space. it's really important to us. it will continue to evolve. so there's significant, significant activity in those spaces. they do directly affect the fight. let me see if mark wants to add anything. mr. mccord: congresswoman, on the liberty, i'll circle back with you make sure we are closing loops on that whole

austin: thanks. in terms of the importance of ukraine, we have seen bipartisan support for providing security assistanceo ukraine up to this point. i expect we will continue to see that going forward. we have heard fr senior leaders on both sides say that. i expect we will continue to enjoy their support, but ukraine matters. it matters not just to ukraine or the u.s. but to the world. this is about rules-based international order. it is about one country's ability to wake up one day and change the borders of its neighbor and annex its neighbor's sovereign territory. countries around the world do not think that is a good idea. is why you have seen 50 -- that is why you have seen 50 countries come to these meetings of the ukraine defense contact group. they continue to work to ensure that ukraine gets everything it needs to be successful. it will remain our focus going forward. gen. milley: on the recovery, we know where it land. it is probably 4000 or 5000 feet of water. that is the. secondly, we hav

secretary austin, thank you for your service. i've know the also in budgets an increase in the budget for suicide prevention programs and that you recently stupid a working group to begin the inimplementation of the response independent review committee. do you have a sense for whether you will have the right resources to implement those recommendations as soon as practicallable? >> i do. this is something that invested in year after year and continue to invest it. i think mental health challenges are -- a significant part of this. and we'll do everything we can to improve, you know, in terms of access and the quality of mental health care that's being provided as well. but i do think, you know, it's important to continue to invest in it. so -- >> thank you, and secretary austin, as you know every day our military grows more diverse and i believe that it is critically important to support policies that ensure our it forces can work as a cohesive team and that means that addressing disparities that affect our military service memb

items to pass along at the top now be happy to get to your questions first on behalf of secretary austin and the department of defense i would like to offer our heartfelt condolences to families and friends and colleagues of those assigned to the 101st airborne division who lost their lives last night went to black hawk helicopters crashed outside of four campbell kentucky the helicopters were performing planned night tree kneeing operations at the time of the incident and the aircraft safety team from alabama will arrive today and our thoughts and prayers are with the units and all those affected by theti tragedy. and then to affirm the defense relationship. secretary austin thank you romanian for allied forces to defend the eastern t flank and from the leadership role in the region also saluted the 30 year anniversary with the alabama national guard. the secretary looks forward to future meetings and opportunities to work with the allies and the full readable be posted later today. since russia's unprovoked invasion of ukraine us european command and security assistance group ukraine h

austin is hurting.have staff that answer 911 calls that we had in 1995, when i was a five-year officer and we had 500,000 people in the city. that is where we are right now and we can't sustain that. the crime rate is going up, violent crime is going up, no traffic enforcement in austin right now. it is not sustainable, something has to be done. >> ashley: 911 response times have increased from seven minutes in 2018 to 10 minutes in 2022. dhs will try to help with that, do you think they can get this under control? >> yeah, i think so, the dps will do what it needs to bring troopers to austin. dps serves 254 counties, so that is 254 bodies. austin other than border has highest number of troopers in it because it is the state capital. i have every confidence that dps will bring enough troopers in to help with the issue. they will be on the high-speed roadways taking crash reports and traffic enforcement and backing up officers when they need them. >> ashley: austin crime stats, arson up, murder up, burgl

general milley, secretary austin talked about the pattern of behavior. often is russia conducting these harassing maneuvers and has it increased in recent weeks? >> thanks, elie. as you know, as you've said, we are still going through videos and photographs to ascertain what we can release, what we can provide, but in terms of what the video shows, we remain confident in the facts that we have conveyed thus far. that will not -- that will not change in terms of, you know, what happened and how it happened, and so, again, we will work through as quickly as we can to evaluate videos and we will let you know when we have something in terms of video or stills that we can provide you. >> in terms of the pattern of behavior, elie, yes, this is a part of a pattern of behavior. the united states and russian military forces operate in proximity to each other throughout the world. we are operating in the middle east, in syria, for example. we have areas up in alaska that routinely either maritime or aerial vessels come in contact in the maritime areas outside of h

secretary austin, general milley mentioned the video. we heard reports you're working to declassify video of the incident. what does that video show and when will that video be released? why hasn't it been released yet? general milley, general austin talked about this behavior. how often is russia conducting these maneuvers and have they increased in recent weeks? >> thank you. as you know, as you said, we are still going through videos and photographs to acertain what we can release, what we can provide. in terms of what the video show, we remain confident in the facts that we have conveyed thus far. that will not change, in terms of what happened and how it happened. and so, again, we'll work through as quickly as we can to evaluate videos. we'll let you know when we have something, in terms of video or stills we can provide you. >> in terms of pattern, yes, this is part of a pattern of behavior. the united states and russian military forces operate in proximity to each other throughout the world. we are operating in syria, for example

mr. lloyd austin says he's talked with his russian counterpart. so gay showing go about the downing of the drone, which is worse intentions between the 2 nations. also coming up as fighting rages and the ukranian city of back what we look at, cubes, plans to launch a potential counter offensive this spring plus thousands protest in paris in a last ditch effort to deter lawmakers from raising the age of retirement changes. the government says unnecessary to save the pension system. ah, i'm told me your logic well welcome to the program. us defense secretary lloyd austin and his russian counterpart. so geisha who have discussed tuesdays drone incident over the black sea. the u. s. military says it's surveillance drone was in international airspace when a russian jet dumped fuel in it and clipped it's propeller, causing it to crash. defense circuitry. austin had strong words for moscow. after the incident. on tuesday, rush, an aircraft engaged and dangerous, and reckless and unprofessional behavior in the international airspace over the black sea to

as secretary austin d other u.s. leaders have said we will continue to support ukraine for as long as it takes. with that i will take your estions. first, ap. >> thank you for doing this. i was hoping you could talk a little bit more about why the pentagon decided to declassify the video of the dne and whether or not releasing it increasethe risk of russ framing this contract -- conflict, instead ofeing a conflict between russia an ukraine, but between russia and the west? brig. gen. ryder: first of all, it is not unusual for us to release imagery of unsafe, unprofessional incidents. we have done that in other situations. particularlyn this case, given the reckless and dangerous behavi, to demonstrate publicly what type of actions the russians had taken, we felt it was important to provide this imagery. certainly there e certain considerationse have to take into account when dealing with imagery to include the classification, to ensure we are not inadvertently putting out sensitive inrmation. in this case, we were ab

separately, earlier today, secretary austin met with minister tobar. secretary austin thank row mania for hosting forces to defend flank and role in the black sea region. the two leaders absoluted of row mania's state program with the alabama national guard. the secretary looks forward to opportunities to work with our allies. a full readout will be posted later today. on the training front since russia's unprovoked invasion of ukraine, u.s. army europe and africa and security assistance group ukraine have trained 7,000 members. 65 ukranian air defenders completed in oklahoma and have now arrived back in europe and integrated with other air defenders and air equipment with the united states, germany and netherlands. the air patriot system will add to the air defenses to provide protection and shield from russia's attacks on innocent civilians and infrastructure. in germany at the close of this month, more than 4,000 soldiers and two brigades with two bradleys and strikers will have returned to ukraine. it is currently underway and with two motorized in

secretary austin? >> certainly defer to the work that we're doing, being completed and look at the results of that work but certainly fort drum, it has tremendous capability and a great community, so i think if that site is chosen i think would be a good choice. that site has been chosen by the department defense. that was announced a few years ago. we work on that in the nda. it's also current and previous ndaa. fort drum has been designated as the potential third site. general milley speeded potential third site. >> potential third site. what is the process of ensuring we focused to meet the needs out of the past but of the future, 2030 and 2040s because it takes a long time for that of research investment for that to be potentially completed. what is the time what general milley or secretary austin? >> i do think a timeline has been established but i can tell you what we talk about, what you talk about, but the project has been after for quite some time on the books. you look at probably 20 to 40 se

secretary austin spoke to his counterpart. general milley spoke to his counterpart. i highlighted at the top that oufocus is on conducting our missions in the region in international airspace. we are focused on protecting and defending the nato alliance and also on supporting ukraine -- i will let you put wordso it. we have highlighted that it is an onyx of the bull act. if you are looking for hyperbole, i believe that to you. >> separate question. toy, a mysterious helicopter crashein northern iraq. it was carrying pkk elements. does the u.s. provide helicopter pilots and training to partners in syria or not? brig. gen. ryder: not to my knowledge, no. we do not. thank you. >> thank y, general. just want to follow-up on the drone issue incident. first question, yesterday, the last assessment we heard, it is not clear whether this collision was intentional or not. do you have an update on this assessment, whether the russians did this on purpose? the second question is, the indications that the russians may be trying to recover some of the debr. you talked about deepw

paul austin and take austin, homeowners from marin, california. michael freddy toney, senior vice president of research and technology and chief economist at the mortgage bankers association. and craig stein men, president of the appraisal institute. we will begin with dr. howell. dr. howell? >> thank you, good morning representatives of the appraisal committee and doctors park and martinez. thank you for this opportunity to testify. a decade ago my collaborator and i began researching appraisers like most people we had grown up being taught that a properties worth was based on its geolocation. communities with welcome struck homes that were larger, ample school resources, and lots of retail establishments should be worth more. yet, as we began to investigate the industry itself, we notice that something was significantly off. at the time we are living in houston where there are several highly sought after black and latin middle class neighborhoods. even though their properties are really comparable to lots of white communities, we noticed that th

welcome to the program. us defense secretary lloyd austin and his russian counterparts again. sure, you have discussed tuesdays drawing incident over the black sea. the u. s. military says it's surveillance. drone was an international asked base when to russian jets dumped fuel on it. one of them clipped its propeller, causing the drone to crash defense secretary austin had strong word for moscow. after the incident. on tuesday, russian aircraft engaged in dangerous and reckless and unprofessional behavior. in the international airspace over the black sea to russian jets dumped fuel on an unmanned u. s. m. q 9 aircraft conducting routine operations in international airspace. and one rush and jet struck r m m q 9 aircraft, resulting in a crash. this hazardous episode is a part is part of a pattern of aggressive risk at risky an unsafe actions by russian pilots in international airspace. now i just got off the phone with my russian counterpart minister showing as i've said repeatedly, it's important that great powers be models of transparency and communication and united states

and thank you, secretary austin, for your leadership.s as the secretary pointed out is our tenth contact group and these meetings and the donations that come from it would not be happening without the incredible leadership of secretary austin so thank you for that. your direction remains critical to the future success of the group. and also thank you to the ukrainian minister of defense resnickoff my counterpart general zaluzhny who was not on the call but i've talked to him several times in the past week and the deputy chief of defense who represented general zaluzhny, general moisu. all of them continue to lead ukraine in their fight for freedom. also thanks to you will at the ministers of defense and chiefs of defense from 51 participants in today's meeting including nato and the european union. they join the meeting and they continue to provide critical support to ukraine each nation is contributing what they can to ensure ukraine has the means to defend itself against the illegal and unprovoked russian invasion. it's been nearly 13

a criteria of defense light austin. he talked to his russian counterpart as we just heard, and he referred to yesterday's incident as a troubling episode and said that it was dangerous and unprofessional, and reckless. but he also said that this is part of that pattern of aggressive and risky actions from russia. however, he added that the u. s. does not seek an armed a conflict with russia, and at that the u. s. will continue flying international space and that it's up to russia to encounter the u. s. aircraft in a save and a professional manner. this is a clear alert towards russia, but nothing more than that they don't want to escalate the situation. and in that pentagon briefing, we also learned that they are not certain if this encounter a yesterday was intentional or general milly. he said that the aggressive behavior was intentional, but the actual that the actual physical contact of the aircraft that they are not sure if that was intentional as well. correspondent carlindo troy in washington as ukrainian forces

austin butler or brendan fraser. for me it is austin butler's to lose.d and the transformation. but the other side, austin butler is playing a real life person and he did the singing and dancing. and i remember watching this and leaving the theater thinking very differently about elvis presley. and i thought this was a character in american history that i kind of knew well, right? ain't nothing but a hound dog, don't step on my blue suede shoes. watching austin butler play this role, if made me feel something different for elvis. so when you can take something so steeped in americana and give it if your own twist to where the family is behind your portrayal, i'm pulling for austin butler. nothing against brendan fraser. that physical transformation was tremendous. but austin, that was something special. >> yeah, i haven't seen the whale yet but i finished elvis last thnight. it was a beautifully made movie. and what about oscar host a year after the famous slap? >> yeah, this is going to be a really fine line for jimmy kimmel to walk. he is hosting again

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tate austin said. it was something that we and our review of some of the language that is on the millions of appraisals that we have, we did find some concerning language similar to what you reference. we had one appraiser described a neighborhood as working-class and black. another described a neighborhood of immigrants as one spicy neighborhood. several repair users record of the demographics of the neighborhood within appraisal one noting an area had a black race population above the state average. these are the things we really need to bring to the forefront. these are real issues. this is a real issue for so many people across this country. and again we want to make sure everyone has the same access to equity and housing in particular. it is the biggest contributor to wealth for many families across america. so, i actually want to start by acknowledging the austin's for being here today. it takes a lot of courage to come across the country and be so public about this very important issue. we reall

s. defense minister lloyd austin saying that he had talked with his russian counterpart, sergey joy about the downing of the drone. the incident has raised tension between the 2 nations even further. also coming up his fighting rages in the embattled ukrainian city of buckland. we'll look at keeps plans to launch a potentially a potential counter offensive this spring. also tonight to our u. s. banking trouble spreading here to europe. the question comes and shares in switzerland, 2nd biggest bank, pretty swiss slumped to record low. investors are still spook after the collapse of california's silicon valley bank. and pakistan police to barely dropped their efforts to arrest him. ron con flashes erupted outside the former prime minister's home in lahore with his supporters blocking the police. ah i'm brig off is good to have you with us us since secretary lloyd austin and his russian counterpart, sergey sure you have spoken to each other about tuesdays drone incident over the black seat. the u. s. military says that a u. s. m q 9 reaper drone was an international airspace when 2 russian j

chair. >> thank you, secretary austin. i recognize general milley. >> distinguished members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify before you today and i have been privileged to defend this country for 43 consecutive years and this will maybe be my last hearing. i want to thank the congress europeans continue support for not only busy but every year for four decades. i am privileged to represent errant greens, guardians and families united states joint force alongside secretary austin, i want to thank them for their leadership. joint force is the most capable military in the world and our troops are the best led invest trained force everywhere because of your support. thank you for what you have done i asked the youth support this request for the budget approval. our mission, mission of the uniformed military and our purpose is simple. defend the united states of america and fight and win all the means of combat. to do that our priorities are simple. maintain high stake readiness while modernizing for t

well, the us defense secretary lloyd austin and his russian counterpart, sergey chicago. have discussed tuesdays drone incident over the black c. u. s. military says it's surveillance drone was in international airspace when to russian jets dumped fuel on it. one of them clipped. it's propeller causing the drone to crash moscow denies. it's to blame and says it's trying to recover the drone. the u . s. believes that would be difficult given how deep the sea is. defense secretary austin, head strong words for bosco. after the incident on tuesday, rush, an aircraft engaged and dangerous, and reckless and unprofessional behavior in the international airspace over the black sea. to rush and jets dump fuel on an unmanned u. s. m. q 9 aircraft conducting routine operations in international airspace. and one rush and jet struck r m m q 9 aircraft, resulting in a crash. this hazardous episode is a part is part of a pattern of aggressive risk at risky and unsafe actions by russian pilots in international airspace. now i just got off the phone with my russian counterpart minister s

the defense minister of gallant and lloyd austin to the airport. normally that would take place at the ministry of the defense. the protesters certainly are got their point across. the israeli police have actually been trying to forcibly move the protesters from blocking highways and roads about little success. some of those roads are actually still blocked as we speak. but this was a meeting or that was crock. quite crucial for prime minister benjamin netanyahu. he doesn't have a huge amount of invitations to sit with americans. are president joe biden has nicely extended an invitation to prime minister benjamin netanyahu. so this would have been a very crucial meeting for him. he or she tweeted after the meeting saying today i met with you or secretary of defense, lloyd austin. our common goal is to prevent iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and stuart iranian aggression. so fam, this meeting was about one thing and one thing only, and it was all about iran, with no mention of the d escalation of tensions, the occupied west bank, the near nightl

reporter: we clearly see, we just heard it from secretary austin, that the u.s.overnment does not want to escalate this incident. today secretary of defense lloyd austin talked to his russian counterpart and referred to yesterday's incident is a troubling episode, said it was dangerous, unprofessional and reckless, but he also said that this is part of the pattern of aggressive and risky actions from russia. however, he added that the u.s. does not seek armed conflict with russia, and that the u.s. will continue flying international space, that it is up to pressure to encounter u.s. aircraft in a safe and professional manner. this is a clear alert towards russia, but nothing more. they don't want to escalate the situation. in the pentagon briefing, we also learned that they are not certain if this encounter yesterday was intentional. general milley said that the aggressive behavior was intentional, but the actual physical contact with the aircraft, they are not sure if that was intentional as well. brent: that is a slight change from what we heard yesterday. what

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austin police association president thomas see real joins us now.o the ruse of artificial -- the rise of artificial intelligence in austin, help me understand why there's such an officer shortage in that city. >> suring thanks for having me this morning. a lot of our issues go back to 2017, 2018 when the city council voted down our police contract. you know, we were told that we needed to spend less money so we could hire more cops, and signed a contract in 2018 that we thought would give them the ability to do that and then, you know, over the next two years we saw the defunding movement. you know, ahive and well here in austin, texas, our old council cut 150 vacancies that we had, and we've been in a downward slide ever since. we -- will: and austin seems to have gone all in on the defund movement. i'm just curious, did i read you have 300 officers short of capacity right now in how short of you -- are you of full staffing in austin? >> yeah. they cut 150 positions, we're down another 265 positions right now. so, you know, from where we were back

but for the time being an austin industry, exhausted economy is faring well. we had a growth rate of 3.4 percent of the end of 2022. nobody expected that in springtime . i mean here again, the doom say always have he days and days predicted that we will have inflation. we will have insolvency, we will have a recession where we won't, and we won't have a recession now that this year, so less remain optimistic. we're stronger than we're believe ourselves. so you have wind half way off russian guess you trying to get to 0 percent and is there any? well, it depends. half i'm cautious because it dependent. yes. i know. yeah. but yes, the one thing is we, and that's the shocking fact. we are the country with the longest dan and gas treaties with russia since 1968. and we have the dismantlement of the soviet union, the collapse of the iron curtain and everything gas came, and we paid. and for the 1st time, last year, the russian president of russian federation made something, none of his predecessors, not a, in the times of the salvage unit made, he used this as a le

such things, we have partially heard such things in the past. in ukraine it is 40 defense minister austin also hinted that, in addition to tanks, we should receive new fighters within the next month, but for now these are conditionally new fighters - these are not the fourth generation plus fighters that ukraine is asking for. and these are mig-29 fighters from the reserves of poland and slovakia about 12 or 14 mig-29 aircraft from poland and 11 from slovakia, all these aircraft were manufactured before 1992, although some of them were modernized. to restore those samples of mitosis-9 that we already have. that is, we are talking about the fact that rammstein , on the one hand, is working, all the questions seem to be clear, directed at strengthening our offensive and defensive capabilities, but we understand that the question of time now plays a key role and we hope that this rammstein will be such a serious push that both the previous promises and the current ones were implemented as quickly as possible. these were the main military results of this day, and more international and econom

you as to been secretary lloyd austin and his russian counterpart, sergey joy. have spoken to each other about tuesdays drove incident over the black sea, the u. s. military says that the drawing was in international airspace when 2 russian jets dropped fuel on it, causing it to correct. this is dw news after a short break. i'll be back to take you through the day. stick around. we'll be right back tooth ah ah, with ah ah ah cattle as this live stock market are being exchanged for young women. half of all girls in south sudan are forcibly married. many are abused and raped. the visits has raised high hopes. mm. but can his words really help the country's female population, global 3000. in 60 minutes on d, w. o. david evelyn, share my welcome to my podcast, enough matter by and by celebrities influences and experts to talk about all plain la. thanks from day to get to day. nothing less the south. all these things and more and then you know, season of the plot can make sure to tune and wherever you get your pot path and join the conversation. because you know it l

not just in austin, texas though. this is happening all over the country cities are facing this time and again i do not have enough officers on the beat. they do not have enough people come into the recruitment situation to become officers in progress exactly as i stated these woke policies and initiatives to prosecute police officers is not helping the situation. we also have an austin city council just voted down a police contract. a bit under police contract for decades. that is going to only exacerbate the problem with mass resignations that will continue throughout this year. the austin police department officially goes out of contract here in a few days on march 31. we will see what that means in terms of additional resignations that will continue throughout 2023 and beyond for a sourcing the result, jennifer, thank you so much for your time today. >> thank you, appreciate it. support new reaction from washington after u.s. forces were targeted by iranian backed militants in sierra. so how should president biden

in terms of secretary austin talking to his counterpart, not at this time to my knowledge. dod officials have not spoken specifically to russian authorities on this particular incident. i do know the state department is raising our concerns about the incident directly with the russian government i do for you to them for details on that. in terms of the mission of the m queue nine a mention it's an isr platform. these aircraft have been flying over the black sea region for some time to include before the current conflict started. it is an important and busy international waterway. and so it is not an uncommon mission for us to be flying international airspace. [inaudible] >> was as aircraft armed? >> i'm not going to get into the specific profile of this particular aircraft british of the emq nine does have the ability to be armed. it was again conducting an isr mission in international airspace. some think we have been doing for some time. in terms of the types of tactic techniques and procedures to protect our aircraft i'm not going to get into the pacific's. the key point

it is how austin got the number -- >> hello? >> reporter: of 81-year-old rita la force. >> i'm fine! >> reporter: rita has lived alone for many years in her apartment. the pandemic threatened to isolate her in ways she's never experience. a health aide suggested she sign up for social call. >> i didn't expect to get a dearest friend. >> when rita and i got started, we would talk sometime for over two hours. because her stories were really interest to me and i love to hear about her. >> austin's original commitment was for one area. three years later, they still talk weekly. each considering the other a dear friend. they never thought they could meet in person until today. >> i could not have gotten through it without her. i could not have. >> having rita, somebody i knew i was bringing pleasure to. she was bringing pleasure to me. >> two women who had touched each other's lives, now finally able to touch. >> friends for life now. >> exactly. the commitment was one weekly phone call for one year. but one year turned into two year

welcome to our committee secretary austin and general milley. thank you for your service to our country, oyou've distinguished yourself and your service. i wanted to say my top priority is ukraine right now mister chairman i'm sure you have a closed-door session on that before we move into markup i just wanted to request that if possible. general, as a follow-up to the liberty road ainitiative i would greatly appreciate it individually we could work with you on your staff. rather large staffing at the department of defense. we unable to do that effectively. then i wanted to follow up on something congressman prayer talked about, the severe illicit narcotics activity is the stabilizing in his region and having impacts across our country and i wanted to put on the record is a great book called dreamland by sam quinones who tracks the economics of what's going on following the passage of nafta in 1993 and all-white of the mexican white corn market speeding up in most places of the planning of heroin and moving into other drugs. it's quite sobering

>> well, i have been doing personal injury law in austin for 20 years.ou are in a car crash. the police would show up promptly and quickly. in the past three to four years, this than a continuing issue. and the reason is simple. we do not have enough police officers here. the men and women on the austin police department are doing the best they can and are doing a good job in difficult circumstances. but there's not enough of them. and the reason there's not enough is this city council has been at war with the police for at least three to four years. they attempted to defund the police department by $100 million in 2020. and even a few months ago they refused to vote on a four year deal for the police union. and so the result of that is you have more and more police officers retiring and we are down about 300 to 400 police officers. the real life consequence of that is what lacy and justin just went through. you call a police officer. there is not enough police officers and you sit out there on a road injured with your children and no one shows up for tw