and that's how nikki came here to safe, secure conyers.his is robert's house, and here they made a family. unusual, in some ways, as you will hear, but -- >> it was nice. it was really nice. everything clicked just right. >> reporter: and she wanted to her life to get even better. so, while she kept her job as a hair stylist, she enrolled in atlanta's bauder college to study fashion design. >> that's when i actually learned that nikki was a hairstylist. >> reporter: ronda anderson taught a couple of nikki's classes. she thought nikki had a sense of purpose -- whether it was about her kids, or fashion, or other people's hair. >> i came in the class early one day, as i normally do. she looked up at me, and said, "miss anderson, what's going on with your hair?" and i said, "what, excuse me?" and then she asked me this question. "do you have a hairstylist? and does she know have your hair looking like that today?" and i said, "yes and no." and she said, "miss anderson, i'm giving her one more chance. one more chance. and if it's not right, i'm

his relatives gathered as he underwent three hours of surgery joyce conyers said please show that video, not only because students participated in the beating but because others seemingly uncaringly reported it without trying to stop it. >> it's heart-wrenching to me that i have to look at a video with my nephew on it and where somebody is putting him in a chokehold like they're in the military trying to defend our country. >> in a statement to news 4, a spokesperson for prince george's count public schools said, we join the community in sadness and shock following the brutal incident that was videotaped this past friday at suitland high school. please be assured that the school system is taking swift and ry. news 4 has been unable to determine whether any students .ill fac the school's principal is expected to address this matter at a pta meeting tuesday nig. >>> that united airlines plane that had to make an emergency .anding at dulles airport this we have learned the boeing 757 blew a tire just after taking off . the plane was headed to san they were all put . some other flights were

chairman goodlatte, and ranking member conyers, this concludes my opening remarks. i look forward to a good discussion, and will be happy to answer your questions during both the open, and closed, portions of today's hearing as appropriate. thank you. >> thank you, mr. clancy. and i will, ranking member has not yet arrived. i will begin the questioning and when he does arrive, we will recognize him for both his opening statement, and questions. as you know, the officers who were present when omar gonzalez jumped the fence on september 19th believe that he was not armed and did not present a threat that would warrant the use of lethal force. it was ultimately discovered that he was, however, carrying a knife when he entered the white house. can you explain to us the service's policy for the use of lethal force? and given that mr. gonzalez did actually have a knife when he entered the white house, do you agree with the decision to withhold the report? >> yes, sir. dhs, department 6 of homeland security and the secret service have a very clear policy on the use of dead

john conyers and john lewis, both involved in the civil rights movement put out i thought particularly poignant statements. connier's statement was there's a much bigger issue here than just what happened between michael brown and this one incident and larger conversation that does need to go on. the one legislative thing i would say that is significant and maybe revived by ferguson is there is a bipartisan effort by cory booker and rand paul to do pretty good overall of the criminal justice system sentencing reform, in large part and rand paul's vocal about this, the inequities in the system and how we jail black men versus white men. trying to actually find a legislative solution there. gwen: so much of this is about leadership and who gets to lead. many of you were thinking more cognizantly about where washington is these days. if the election showed us cognizantly about where washington is these days. if the election showed us anything, many of you are sick to death of the debates and disputes. >> in the context of political leadership actually doing the jobs to which they were ele

chairman goodlatte, and ranking member conyers, this concludes my opening remarks. i look forward to a good discussion, and will be happy to answer your questions during both the open, and closed, portions of today's hearing as appropriate. thank you. >> thank you, mr. clancy. and i will, ranking member has not yet arrived. i will begin the questioning and when he does arrive, we will recognize him for both his opening statement, and questions. as you know, the officers who were present when omar gonzalez jumped the fence on september 19th believe that he was not armed and did not present a threat that would warrant the use of lethal force. it was ultimately discovered that he was, however, carrying a knife when he entered the white house. can you explain to us the service's policy for the use of lethal force? and given that mr. gonzalez did actually have a knife when he entered the white house, do you agree with the decision to withhold the report? >> yes, sir. dhs, department 6 of homeland security and the secret service have a very clear policy on the use of dead

chairman goodlatte, and ranking member conyers, this concludes my opening remarks. i look forward to a good discussion, and will be happy to answer your questions during both the open, and closed, portions of today's hearing as appropriate. thank you. >> thank you, mr. clancy. and i will, ranking member has not yet arrived. i will begin the questioning and when he does arrive, we will recognize him for both his opening statement, and questions. as you know, the officers who were present when omar gonzalez jumped the fence on september 19th believe that he was not armed and did not present a threat that would warrant the use of lethal force. it was ultimately discovered that he was, however, carrying a knife when he entered the white house. can you explain to us the service's policy for the use of lethal force? and given that mr. gonzalez did actually have a knife when he entered the white house, do you agree with the decision to withhold the report? >> yes, sir. dhs, department 6 of homeland security and the secret service have a very clear policy on the use of dead

conyers. >> thank you both. i apologize for my tardiness. and i too welcome mr. clancy. i wanted to raise a little discussion about the ten people that have successfully climbed over the white house fence. and is there any thought yet about how we're going to repair this problem that keeps happening? replacement or a different design, or what are your thoughts as you sit here before the judiciary committee, sir? >> yes, sir. there's several levels to this, sir. the the first is from our own operational standpoint to address what happened on september 19th. we immediately instituted additional training and integrated training between the tactical units and our uniformed division officers, first with the four-hour block. classroom work. and then additionally six-hour block out of our training facility, where we would do the integrated training, so we could do a much better job and not allow what happened on september 19th to occur again. but additionally, there are some other things that we are looking at to include adjusting to either the height of the fence or some modif

conyers. >> thank you both. i apologize for my tardiness. and i too welcome mr. clancy. i wanted to raise a little discussion about the ten people that have succefully climbed over the white house fence. and is there any thought yet about how we're going to repair this problem that keeps happening? replacement or a different desi, or what are your thoughts as you sit here before the judiciary committee, sir? >> yes, sir. there's several levels to this, sir. the the first is from our own operational standpoint to address what happened on september 19th. we immediately instituted additional training and integrated training between the tactical units and our uniformed division officers, first with the four-hour block. classroom work. and then additionally six-hour block out of our training facility, where we would do the integrated training, so we could do a much better job and not allow what happened on september 19th to occur again. but additionally, there are some other things that we are looking at to include adjusting to either the height of the fence or some modificat

chairman goodlatte, and ranking member conyers this concludes my opening remarks.look forward to a good discussion and will be happy to answer questions during both the open and close portions of today's hearing as appropriate. thank you. >> thank you mr. clancy and i will begin the questioning and when he does arrive he will recognize him for his opening statement and questions. as you know the officers who were present with omar gonzalez to jump the fence on september 19th believed he was not armed and not present a threat that would warrant a lethal threat and was ultimately discovered he was carrying a knife when he entered the white house. can you explain what the services policy for the use of lethal force has given mr. gonzalez didn't actually have a knife when he entered the white house do you agree with the decision to withhold its? >> yes sir. dhs and the secret service have a very clear policy on the use of deadly force. basically what it states is an officer when it's necessary is authorized to use deadly force if the individual poses an immediate dange

congressman john conyers is drafting legislation and you might be aware of this trying to, designed to propagate to make greater use of volunteer doctors to help with backlogs etc.. he is not talking out these without compensation. straight up free doctors to help you guys deal with your caseload but he says and a lot of veterans have also told me that they run into resistance from the va because you guys consider it more than of an administrative hassle than it's worth to manage a cadre of pro bono doctors so can you talk about that issue a little bit? >> yeah first of all what are the changes we are making is to look at strategic partnerships as a force multiplier. when i was preparing for my confirmation hearing i went through the existing strategies of the organization that are publicly available on line. the second strategy talks about partnerships but what i found in the organization was kind of a bunker mentality that we are partners would look more as competitors than not. for example major league baseball kindly use the first game of the world series to call out their support

here is john conyers from michigan. the underlying issues are complex. a tweet from janice hahn from california. a tweet from tim scott. republican steve stockman from texas. those are just a few of the reactions from members of congress last night. we will have those through the first hour of "washington journal" today. what the decision means to the state of race relations in america. we are getting your thoughts and comments. we will start with a bill on -- jim calling in from oklahoma. caller: good morning. of me give you an example how white people and people of color are treated differently. nevada, wey ranch in had a bunch of white rednecks pointing semi-automatics and automatic weapons. we have them on video pointing them at federal law enforcement officials trying to enforce the laws against a squatter. nothing happened. using the video to identify those people, bring them to justice, take their weapons away, and put them in prison? if they would have been black, there would have been a massacre. folks in st. black louis protesting and they brin

john conyers, house judiciary committee. elijah cummings, house committee on oversight and government reform. eddie bernice johnson, house committee on science, space, and technology. lydia velazquez, house small business committee. peter defazio, house transportation and infrastructure committee. corrine brown, house committee on veterans' affairs. bob brady, house administration committee. linda sanchez, health ethics committee. carolyn maloney, joint economic committee. raul grijalva, new ranking member of natural resources. i always said in my own district in san francisco, california, the beauty is in the mix. the strength is in the mix. and we are so very is, very, very proud that our seats at the table of the ranking members represent not only the beautiful diversity, they not only look like america, they live like america. they understand the challenges, the aspirations of all americans who are very, very proud. i could talk for a long time about each and every one of you, but you will see and you know already and so

with our house supporters including representative steve womack, jackie spear, peter welch and john conyers and have found common ground on this important issue that's supported by more than 200 groups. i want to publicly commend -- all of my senate and house colleagues in taking a leadership role and i strongly encourage my colleagues to support the goals of states' rights and a level playing field for all businesses and making sure that the revenue that's owed particularly for small towns makes it to the small towns. by pushing for the enactment of the marketplace fairness act this year. and again i want to congratulate my colleague -- the presiding officer: the senator has consumed ten minutes. mr. enzi: thank you. i was just going to yield the floor to my colleague, who's done an outstanding job on this. i yield the floor. mr. alexander: thank you, madam president. senator enzi -- the presiding officer: the senator from ten tep. mr. alexander: thank you, madam president. senator enzi has been the leading proponent of the marketplace fairness act, and i urge -- i congratulate him for his