done a linear fashion model city day about sorry three percent of the garment three stages go into langford's because there is a lack of rays of the using the fabrics and the garments that we're working with. that realisation lead kriti to learn and to bludgers other two founders to address the problem of textile waste in india they set up a design label committed to making fashionable clothing from garment waste or up cycling discarded items it's a concept that's been gaining in popularity in the textile industry all over india as awareness rises. and garment waste is not the only problem even more serious is the issue of production waste the textile industry is considered to be india's third largest polluter. environmental implications are worried the situation is getting worse by the day due to the surge in demand for products and the associated use of chemicals the need for landfill space and increased energy and water consumption. entering a fifty. seven million metric so that's that's huge and the single is about. which is as much as most. and that is a single. then of course that. in t

permit help with school segregation and fbi agent investors want to change that and smooth those rob langford and came and started going to some of the many folks and finally ended up with a meeting with some of the mentor edgar's mover had been convicted in mississippi and burden have been connected and those leaders asked about reopening the church bombing case because he always believed despite the one conviction there were others and said he will take a look at it and did. saw possibilities and got my friend carol privette was acting university attorney assigned to authorize it not attorney general janet reno and started that investigation and it was really based on that effort between the department of justice and the african-american community. >> i had not realized it to come out because the reagan justice department prosecutions for senators in alabama but voter fraud cases and everything i have been working on this baby about the history of birmingham right era leading to the church bombings for 18 years when i got a call in my kitchen got a phone call from a friend worked at cvs say

i have that bill with senator langford. a conservative republican and the white house made calls and stopped that bill from advancing. that's wrong. >> they stopped the bill from advancing? why did they do that? >> tell me. there is another election coming up in 2020. when you read the report and this is why it's so important that we have robert mueller come before the judiciary committee to make clear what went on here. so at the very least in addition everything else that's going on and other investigation that we can fix this going forward and they can't hide behind this report anymore. if you notice, part of the redactions are interestingly enough with this. there are national security concerns and congress should see the entire report. >> you talked about mueller and barr. you had an interesting exchange before your committee seeking the position. i want to play it for you. it's an exchange about obstruction and before the core of the heart of the matter. get your reaction to what has developed since then. take a liste

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and pass my bill the secure elections act that is bipartisan with senator langford of oklahoma to be able to have backup paper ballots in every state in the union. if they do it again we have a way to prove what happened. >> that's really good. that's really good. do you trust bill barr? i mean, bill barr -- he put forward the four-page summary. he is the attorney general. do you trust him? >> i did not support the attorney general. i didn't vote for him, because i was so concerned -- he wrote a few months before he got named a memo 19 pages -- like a job application in which he basically espouses belief to have unlimited power for the president called executive power. that made me concerned he was putting in that position that you're supposed to uphold the laws, not the white house. that's what makes me concerned. on the other hand i'm glad he said he is making the report public, and he is going to do it soon. i don't want to find out that redacted every sentence in the report. we are waiting to see what he does. >> let's talk about the race stuff. >> okay. >> you're out there, doin

also this week, a resolution offered by oklahoma republican james langford, that would shorten the amount of time the senate has to consider certain judicial and low-level executive nominations, from 30 hours to two hours. follow the senate live on our companion network c-span two. >> this week on q&a, historian douglas brinkley talks about his book, american moonshine: john f. kennedy in the great space race. >> he goes back to fdr, and thought fdr's new deal was too big, but what fdr did well, was beyond social security, and things, but fdr built the tva grant cooley -- what and eisenhower had the highway system, kennedy is thinking, what is my administrator and big public works thing? and, what i admire, he picked the right number technology. the computer chip we think of it today, get developed in the late 1950s, modern, modern aviation starts kicking in, by the time, jack kennedy runs in 1960, there are no computer science classes at universities, by the time he is killed in dallas, there are computer science classes everywhere. air travel is replacing automobile and train travel in

langford from kansas for example was partly responsible for this change in rule 22. i guess i've been a little bit cheered up by the fact that congress did fix the real problem and i've been able to say now there's one less problem than there was before but it's very hard to get an organization to reform itself. congress is happy to consider reform legislation to fix the pentagon or fix this place are fixed that ways but to fix itself is very hard. the most we can do is point to a way. there are some but not so many, not so many pivot currency of the congress has become one of notoriety than one of legislation. that is somewhat pessimistic about it but -- after this week especially. >> what you said about lack of moral -- superiority in congress i have a talk show that emphasizes vanity of democratic legislators and of democracy as opposed to an aristocracy. nobody is anybody or everybody is nobody and nobody is nobody so you have to make a name for yourself in this requires or encourages a certain vanity and democratic representatives. it's much more what you said a

. >> senator langford. >> secretary, thanks -- great to see you. you have been across a lot of miles and had a lot of meetings and conversations, so thanks for continuing the work. can we shift to central america for a moment? we are finding out rapidly it is important with immigration. you go back to four years ago, joe biden started leading an effort called the alliance for prosperity to greatly accelerate investment into central america. it was my impression after the first year, four years ago that wants the state department pushed out funds, they seemed to push out funds to as many moneyes -- we had to get out the door. there seemed to be some learning after that and in the third year, it seemed to be forcing money out the door rather than being as strategic as it could be. the administration has said we will try to end foreign forstance and i want to ask clarification of this. it seems to me the alliance for prosperity was focused on how do and in develop security, government corruption in that zone to be able to help with whatever we could w

senator langford . i was sitting on an error about to go next to a gentleman flying back to oklahoma and he leaned over and introduced him self and we chit chatted for a while and so what brings you to washington? he says i'm coming off a nh trial and have been for years. and he smiled and he said and am still here. from watching his smile and chit chatting with him on the two hour flight back on, it reminded me again of how many people that are still around just like you said because of the work you're doing. so thanks for continuing network and for helping folks that literally for him, as you know, he had been through everything to be able to get to your desk, to get to that spot, we appreciate it very much. collins, give me an update on the brain mapping. i want to walk through some of what we talked about in the past we made significant investments into that and -- previous thing i have to get to , tell me where we are on brain mapping. >> i would love to talk about this. this began four years ago a

. >> senator langford. >> commissioner, thank you for being here. this is an incredibly busy season for you to walk through this for you and your team. i appreciate your time and engagement. walk me through what you and i have talked about, the question of legacy hardware and software at the irs, and the status of getting that back to speed. mr. rettig: the irs has been tasked with a lot of new projects almost on an annual basis. essentially, they had one project on top of an existing project, and at some point, the entire system needs to be replaced. we also have legacy in terms of the code being used. there was a comment about the kennedy era. it's not the hardware, it is the code. the private sector would not be operating in the sense we are operating. i think it is a tribute to the i.t. and other folks to the extent we are operating. they deliver not only seamless implementation of the tax act, but a seamless filing season so far. >> what is the time period on getting code of today? mr. rettig: under the monetization plan, it is in a six year ti

. >> senator langford . >> thank you mister chairman . >> thank you for being here and thank you for all the work this is an incredibly busy season to walk through this and your team and i appreciate your time and engagement. this is something we talked about before, the question of legacy hardware and software at the irs, the status and getting that up to speed . >> the irs has been tasked with a lot of new projects on an annual basis and they need to, essentially add one project on top of an existing project and at some point, the entire system needs to be brought about and replaced. we also have legacy in terms of the code, the language used that's what goes back to the comment about the kennedy era, it's not the hardware it's the code and the private sector, would not be operating in the sense we are operating. it's a tribute to it and other folks in the irs at the level we are operating, this is not just a simple and seamless filing season so far . >> what's the time period on getting the code up-to-date? >> under the modernization planets within a six year timeframe and we expe