but as soon as the mighty and sort of get together and show some, some work to the congress general government, which seems to be the case actually where the danger is not higher than before. we have some level of risk. all right, well we're running out of time, so we're gonna have to leave the conversation there. thank you so much. all of our guests, mussa condo, and i knew questioning annually jose below us. and thank you to for watching. you can see the program again any time visiting our website, al jazeera dot com, and for further discussion, go to our facebook page at facebook dot com, forward slash ha, inside story. you can also during the conversation on twitter or handle, is that a j inside story for me? how much i'm doing and a whole team here, bye for now. the ah, ah. ah, the repair hotel is the tenant that i've ever stated and the biggest box you have ever seen. how did explode taken out the hotel? this was the church. we loved it when it was built. and we, even when it was a major, told it at the conflict in northern ireland in the late 20th century belfast europa, a new episode o

in a growing power struggle within south africa's governing african national congress, its secretary general charged with corruption. mr macka—shoolay denies the charges and called the move unconstitutional. israel's president has asked opposition leader yair lapid to form new government after benjamin netanyahu failed to form a coalition. mr netanyahu had been unable to secure a majority in the 120—seat parliament. now, to an extremely rare pregnancy and a possible world record. a 25—year—old woman from mali has given birth to nine babies at once. two more than she expected. the babies were born premature, and weigh less than a kilogram each. courtney bembridge has the details. 0ne. two. three. four. five. six. seven. eight. and nine. halima cisse gave birth to five girls and four boys. the babies are all well and, if there are no complications, the family will set a new world record. nonuplets are extremely rare and risky. doctors in mali were worried, so the government intervened and the mother was flown to morocco. translation: she was 25 weeks pregnant so we - tried to make the pregnanc

in a growing power struggle within south africa's governing african national congress, its secretary generalion after being charged with corruption. mr magashule denies the charges and called the move unconstitutional. israel's president has asked opposition leader yair lapid to form new government after benjamin netanyahu failed to form a coalition. mr netanyahu had been unable to secure a majority in the i20—seat parliament. now to an extremely rare case that has generated huge interest on social media. a 25—year—old malian woman has given birth to nine babies at once. two more, than doctors had detected during scans. courtney bembridge has the details. one, two, three, four, five. six. seven. eight. and nine. halima cisse gave birth to five girls and four boys. the babies are all well and if there are no complications, the family will set a new world record. non— couplets are extremely rare and risky. doctors in mali were worried so the government intervened and the mother was flown to morocco. translation: she was 25 _ flown to morocco. translation: she was 25 weeks _ flown to morocco. t

that you had, organizations like yours, the project on government oversight, offer valuable support to efforts of congress and inspector generals to root out waste, fraud and i understand that it began in 2020 to publish its own reports on government waste, fraud and abuse related to covid-19 spending, but that the project stopped publishings reports less than a week before president biden took office. can you help me understand why the project on government oversight stopped publishing this waste, fraud and abuse report just as president biden was taking office? there's a tremendous amount of money that has been pumped into our economy, whether it's the cares act or whether it's the current american rescue act or this new act coming out, this infrastructure act and i think a report like yours is important. so can you give me some background as to why this report, why you stopped publishing it? >> yes, sloo you will. and thank you so much for the opportunity to clarify that, congressman, that was not a report. i think what you're referring to is a newsletter that we were publishing on a weekly basis that aggregated our investig

pennsylvania attorney general josh shapiro says it is up to congress in the federal government to make a difference. we know they're being used to kill people on the streets of our communities. and this spot has the power to do something about it while democrats support legislation to make it harder to build firearms. republicans say ghost guns aren't a real problem. >> and yet here we are having a congressional hearing pretending that so-called ghost guns are a major issue. texas republican senator ted cruz says there are other issues around gun violence that congress can and should focus on instead of ghost guns. homemade firearms are any more dangerous than any other firearms. and for all relevant purposes. homemade firearms are treated like any other firearm la cruz says the bill does nothing except target law abiding citizens and won't stop criminals reporting in washington. i'm basil john. >> coming up. broadway is back in action when shows are esume. >> plus back on the court at chase center tonight. the dup's trying to clinch that playoff spot. >> and a new partnership is bring

encouraging that philosophy around government and the economy, biden is in better shape than obama was. obama, due partly to the numbers in congress but also just generalphilosophical kind of context around government and economy, the obama administration took a pretty limited fiscal stimulus approach to the problem. i would say biden has some advantage over the obama administration, given they both started in the middle of a crisis. on racial equity, though, i don't think there is any comparison. we think about racial equity, we will think about kennedy, lbj. when the civil rights movement was at its height. lbj was in a position, given his congressional majorities, to enact a pretty radical set of programs. that is not going to be the case for biden. biden is going to have to work to move stakeholders together to get the kind of movement lbj got through legislative programs. again, i don't think there is a comparison, but i do think biden is helped by the fact that almost everyone understands -- they may not agree with, but they understand the terms systemic racism and know it exists. all policymakers are aware of that and trying to navigate that and

general and congress in conducting rigorous oversight, especially given the lack of resources we all have. rep. norman: ok. thank you. mr. smith, i would like to discuss the role of inspector general in exposing current government employees who are committing crimes. i say serious crimes or violent crimes. i would say, like a serious crime would be if you own a select committee getting merely -- getting military information that others don't get, if you are sleeping with a spy or that would be a serious crime. let me ask you if a federal employee were convicted of a serious or violent crime off the clock, is there any laws consequence -- laws, consequences, that would require his remove -- his or her removal from office? mr. smith: i think it would depend on the specifics of the crime. we need more factual information. generally speaking, inspector general's, their private -- their primary role is to combat fraud, waste and abuse in the federal government. sometimes their investigations do lead. . to criminal referrals. and most inspector general's and the appropriate agents within their offices do exercise some criminal investigatory authority. but i think one of the proposals before the committee today that m

around government involved in the economy, biden is certainly in better shape than obama was because obama, due partly to the way that things were-- the numbers in congress, but also, just the generalphilosophical time and context around the government economy, the obama administration actually undertook a pretty limited relative to the problem so i would say that biden has, you know, some advantage over the obama administration given that they were both, you know, they both started in the middle of a crisis. on racial equity though, i don't think there is -- well there are any comparisons. we think about the kennedy administration, lbj, those are when the civil rights movement was really, i think, at its height and lbj has in a position, given his majority to act a radical, set program. that's not going to be the case for biden. so biden is really going to have to work to move together, to get the kind of movement that lbj got through his legislative program. so, again, i don't think there's a comparison, but i do think that biden needed help in this instance by the fact that almost everyone understands, they may not agree with, but they understand the terms, systemic racism, they

philosophy of government involved in the economy, biden is certainly in better shape than obama was, because obama, due partly to sort of the way things were, the numbers in congress, but also just a general, philosophical kind of context around government and the economy, the obama administration actually undertook a pretty limited fiscal stimulus relative to the problem. i would say biden has, you know, some advantages over the obama administration, given that they were both -- you know, they both started in the middle of the cries. on racial equity, though, i don't think there is -- any comparisons. we think about racial equity. we're going to think about the kennedy administration. we're talking about lbj. those are when the civil rights movement was really, i think, at its height. and lbj was in a position, given his congressional majorities to really enact a pretty radical set of programs. that is not going to be the case for biden. biden is really going to have to work, move stake holders together to get the kind of movement that lbj got through legislative programs. so again, don't think there's comparison but i do think that biden has helped in this instance by the fact that almo

congress. focusing on the reviews of the priority applications that have been submitted. john, how is that legit? >> generally the governmentuse it when he hands out benefits but it's allowed to do so in diversity in higher education like affirmative action and the other is when it has to provide remedies to people who suffer discrimination in the past. it's a heavy burden to overcome but maybe in this case if the other restaurant owners who are getting benefits under this program had suffered some kind of racial discrimination before, maybe the government is allowed or the government could say if we are allowed to ensure diversity in higher education where we allowed to ensure diversity and other aspects of lifelike ownership of restaurants. >> shannon: it's why you're a good lawyer and a professor. let's go to exhibit b. this is what the president said about the priorities. >> our priority will be black, latino, asian, native, women owned business of having equal resources. see when he never made -- nothing but a bold statement with exactly what they are going to try to do. trying to make up for lost ground and this is on

government. now congress is forcing the pentagon to explain. bret? >> we will follow it all. generalagon. thank you. up next, the panel on the new push to try to determine the true origins of the coronavirus. first, beyond our borders tonight. rocking parts of congo following this weekend's volcanic eruption that tore through villages displaced thousands of people and killed at least 22. there are fears the tremors may trigger another eruption. india crosses the 300,000 mark for coronavirus deaths. a devastating surge of infections appears to be easing in the big cities but is swamping the poorer countryside in india. iran and the u.n. nuclear watchdog agree to a one month extension of a deal on surveillance cameras at tehran's atomic sites. the agreement buys more time for ongoing negotiations seeking to save the country's tattered nuclear deal with the u.s. and other western nations. just some of the other stories beyond our borders tonight. we'll be right back. ♪ (vo) ideas exist inside you, electrify you. they grow from our imagination, but they can't be held back. they want to b

probably a nonstarter if the government that wants to begin negotiating a new version of the reform with their political parties not only in its correlation but in congress in general because the current reform the one that sparked these protests that has been matched with wide spread opposition including inside the party of president. but this by these victories and part of the protesters demonstrations have continued in the country has lived through another very tense night particularly once again and colombia's 3rd largest city kollywood there were a number of clashes between protesters and the police and where unfortunately another 2 protesters have been killed or have been shot to doing these protests during the night 6 days into these protests is still clear exactly how many people have died doing the protests there are different numbers 9 people have been confirmed so far 8 protesters and one policeman i'm part of the but human rights organizations say they're investigating more deaths so a very volatile situation that will most likely continue this by the withdrawal of the reform. thank you. one of the most powerful rebel groups the independent says it has

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congress. general jal services congress independent and nonpartisan watchdog. provide one or $7 million for gao to conduct oversight for the trillions of dollars provided by the federal governmentinning more than a year ago from coronavirus response and recovery efforts. he spent roughly a third of that funding on dozens of pandemic focused engagements already. i'm interested in learning more about gao's current future work evaluating how to improve decisions international response ongoing pandemic challenges. it's good to know jal can and will continue to provide an eye on the ground force. wrote o2 the american people to get funds out the door quickly and ensure they are spent effectively and efficiently. your covid-19 oversight duties on top of gao's over too effective efficiency and root out waste and abuse. director, congress lies to offer expert and nonpartisan analysis and economic deliberation is essential to the legislative process. budget request seeks to make it more transparent and responsive congress for the bills you inlays only grow in complexity and demand your course estimates have increased. through her priority into quickly and effectively inform congress of

general and they were wrong about the benefits of vitamin d3, and other drugs. let's not forget their refusal to admit the trillions in government spending the biden team are trying to ram through congress is totally unnecessary and irresponsible. even larry summers said it was unnecessary. another issue that got precious little attention, biden's refusal to call all government workers back to the office. it is so revealing, the tcp a rock bureaucracy you hangout in dc for 5 minutes and realize no one is going back to work. they have been paid for more than a year and most employees are sitting at home supposedly working more efficiently, taking online yoga, planting an organic vegetable garden, workers at grocery stores are working, licorice stores are working, big-box stores are working and apparently essential but hundreds of thousands of government workers in washington dc are not. i say good because when republicans take the house next year they should move to cut the federal payroll accordingly, they are not essential and they should have cut the federal workforce when they had the chance, they didn't. biden cannot sex my granddad used to say himself out of the star situation his

government agencies, and you testified before congress about the solarwinds attack and said there is simply no unifying governmental organization looking at future vulnerabilities. you heard what general alexander said. what do you think has to happen? >> for anyone who is still asleep at the wheel, these attacks are a wakeup call, and they're a wakeup call about the new normal we live in, which is strategic competition in cyberspace is happening every day. whether it's the theft of defense secrets, whether it's political dissidents and activists and it's only going to activate over time. the approach we have had which is this whac-a-mole approach, it doesn't size to the scale to the scope of the prop. we have adversaries who are creative and bold, and they're using our laws and regulations against us to launch these attacks. so we need to take a different hasheen rtnership, an organi line to identiglobalts, th ris environment, and the vulnerabilities that we face so that we can develop the defenses for those, and we have great examples. i mean, if you look to world war ii where alfred loomis pulled together the best and the brightest to solve the technical problems and arguably chang

ability to govern this country through compromise, through a future-looking let's move forward kind of thing. do we want to drag attorney general, former attorney general barr before the congresse want this to be the story? or do we want to move on in the way i think president biden is trying to move on. i would argue that let's let history judge attorney general barr and history will not judge him well. >> all right. congressman himes, we really appreciate you joining us in studio this morning. >> good to be with you. >> john? >>> we're following breaking news escalating violence in israel. just moments ago our cnn crew was forced to run for cover as air strike sirens went off in ashkelon near the gaza border. [ sirens ] >> guys, we have sirens. let's go. let's go. >> let's go! we're done. >> hadas! >> my phone. my phone. my phone. >> pal still yan officials said 24 are dead, including 9 children. both sides have been trading rocket strikes and air strikes. aaron, thank you so much for joining us. look, a lot of analysts think that this is spiraling out of control and could get worse in ways we haven't seen in years. what makes the situation we are seeing right now so combust

congress must remain committed to sustaining the peace process and generating engagement and economic opportunity in northern ireland. moreover, we must work with the u.k. government, the irish government and the eu to ensure trade restrictions from the implementation of the northern ireland protocol, and communities in northern ireland can reap the economic benefits. i hope our witnesses will address the ongoing threat of parliamentarian is him and how the united states can support efforts to disarm and disband these organizations. we are fortunate to have two members of the commission which was established to address parliamentarian is him in northern ireland, to provide insight on how to eradicate this threat that imperils the legacy of the good friday agreement. we are experiencing a highly polarizing time on capitol hill. there are many things that divide our friends across the aisle from all of us, but when it comes to a commitment to peace in northern ireland, members of both parties are completely united. it is my hope today that congress can learn from our witnesses, and how the united states can continue to support implementation of the peacemaking strat

testified before congress regarding the government surveillance of muslim and arab americans an following the september 11th attacks. she also helped establish an bra independentn inspector general for the new york police department and prior to joiningt the brennan center she worked am a senior policy organization at the prohibition of chemical hany weapons. welcome, ms. patel. you are recognized for your five-minute opening statement. >> thank you, chairman peters, portman and r members of the committee. i'm happy to be here testifying today. as our country faces up to the c problem of white supremacists p and far rightlay a violence, i play a constructive role in providing unbiased intelligence to guide the response. the office has great influence. it sits at a center of a web of intelligence agencies spread eeh throughout the country. in light ofe its influence it'a important thatnd ina's output a advice meet the highest standards to americans civil pe rights and liberties. it's true when it comes to domestic intelligence which presents unique threats becauses of its overlap with protected political speech and organizing. ina has in the past -- some americans for little appa

government -- edward: right, in alaska. >> it was embarrassing. it was absolutely embarrassing. so, look, i think that president biden needs to stand strong with our senators and in congress in generalon, but demand answers and get to the bottom of where this covid virus came from. so that's going to, you know, or we are going to get pushback, but it's not only going to be the u.s. we're going to require the need and the help of our allies to push china into a position where we either look at sanctions or stronger measures to basically make sure china pays the price. edward: yeah. and that's exactly what china does, they push and push to see what they can get away with, and then they keep going and cross that line. mercedes schlapp, thank you. enjoy your memorial day weekend. >> thank you, you too. edward: yeah. released military footage may prove, get this, the existence of ufos. the truth is out there. ♪ ♪ (naj) at fisher investments, our clients know we have their backs. (other money manager) how do your clients know that? (naj) because as a fiduciary, it's our responsibility to always put clients first. (other money manager) so you do it because you have to? (naj) no, we do it b

before congress regarding on the government surveillance of muslim and arab americans following the september the 11th attack and state laws. she also helped establish an independent inspector general for the new york police department and prior to joining the brennan center worked as a senior policy officer at the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons in the hague and clerked for the judge of the international criminal tribunal in the former yugoslavia. welcome. you are recognized for your five-minute opening statement. >> thank you chairman peters, ranking member of the committee. i'm happy to be here to testify today. as the country faces the problem of far right of violence as well as a range of other threats, ina has the potential to play a constructive role in providing accurate and unbiased intelligence to help guide the response and testifies because they are at the center of the web of intelligence and law enforcement agencies spent throughout the country. in light of its influence it is important they need to the highest standards of respect on the civil rights and civil liberties. this is especially true when it comes to domestic intelligence that presents

general and administrative expenses. according to the project on government oversight, quote behind closed doors opioid decadence have impugned individual members of congress amid discussions off a quote drip, drip, drip strategy to delay or quote unquote slow role our congressionall investigation. you are not trying to obstruct my committee's investigation, our user? no i'm not mr. chairman. >> mr. ferrera went to bring up something called exhibit a. can you please put up exhibit a, clerks? this exhibit a is an e-mail that my committee received from some whistleblower folks. and in it, it describes a call in which you participated in mid january of this year to say your name is highland at the top, joe ceo of nevada opio. i want to direct your attention to the bottom parts that are highlighted, which is a readout of this call. it says the council that the opio hired to assist with the core response has a advised them that the opio's should send slow in incomplete answers so that his team, namely me, my team, gets distracted and moves on. star ferrera, after what you have heard and seen this morning, you don't think i'm going to be moving on from this inve

general and the ministry of expenses. mr. ferrera, according to the project on government oversight quote, behind closed doors executives have impugned individual members of congress on the discussions of a quote, drip, drip, drip strategy. this is to delay or quote unquote slow role our congressional investigation. mr. ferrera, you're not trying to obstruct my committee's investigation, are you sir? >> no, i am not. >> mr. ferrera, i want to bring up something called exhibit a. could you please put up exhibit a, clerks. this exhibit a is an e-mail that my committee received from some whistleblower folks. and it describes a call in which you participated in mid january of this year. you see your name highlighted at the top. joe ferrera of nevada opo. i want to direct your attention to the bottom parts which are highlighted which is a readout of this call and says the council that the opio hired to assist with the core response has advised them that they should send slow and incomplete answers so that his team, namely me, my team gets distracted and moves on. mr. ferrera, after what you heard and have seen this morning you don't think i will be moving on from this

congress regarding the government surveillance of muslim and arab americans following the september 11th attacks. and has organized advocacy efforts against diskrim ma tory state laws. she helped establish an independent inspector general for the new york police department and she worked as a senior policy officer at the organization for prohibition of chemical weapons in the hague and clerked for the judge at the international criminal tribunal in the former yugoslavia. welcome. you're recognized for your five-minute opening statement. >>> thank you, chairman. ranking member, and members of the committee, i'm happy to be here testifying today. as our country faces the persistent problem of white splem cyst and far white -- to help guide the response. the office has great influence because it sits at the center of a web of intelligence and law enforcement agencies spread throughout the country. in light of the influence, it is critically important that ina's output and advice meet the highest standards of respect of american civil rights and civil liberties. this is especially true when it comes to domestic intelligence which presents unique threats because of its obvious overlap with protected political speech and org

government, as a country, to take care of these sick veterans. >> you, in fact, wrote an op-ed with general david petraus titled, a memorial day appeal to congressus a little bit more about your specific appeal to members of congress, to president biden, and do you feel you're making progress? >> thank you. i really do think we are making progress, and the appeal here is to include the large number of illnesses that we know are caused by exposure to these types of toxins. you mentioned the two bills right now. the real difference between the house bill and the senate bill are the number of covered illnesses. the house bill has about 23. the senate bill has, i think, less than 15, maybe 12 to 15, and that's a huge difference, because the ones that are excluded are the ones that we know are really the result of many of these exposures, and so if we're going to do this, we need to do it right, and we need to do it now. as you mentioned, i think, in the lead-up to the story, we're still dealing with illnesses that are caused from agent orange exposure to our vietnam veterans. so, so many decades later, we're still dealing with that. we're 20 years o

congress. the intent would be to maintain those resources and that assistance to the afghan government. you know -- >> well thank you. i appreciate that. i think you're answering my question. i do want to ask general trollinger, rather than asking you the same question or expecting you to respond, i think because this will be a policy decision, that the administration will be making, i want to go to you and ask you this, with the u.s. withdrawing u.s. forcing from afghanistan by september, one has to question the ability of the afghan security forces to stand their ground against the taliban and our ability to successfully conduct over the horizon counter-terrorism operations. i know we've kind of touched on that a little bit. but i want to ask it this way. in your professional military judgment, can we success friday and continually combat threats posed by the taliban and al qaeda and other violent extremist organizations over the horizon operations? >> i absolutely believe we can, senator. we have the capabilities to be able to posture in the region where it is required. we have the capabilities to be able to monitor potential adversaries, attract those adversaries and then strike when condition