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we have former secretary of labor mr. rice to reduce money and politics to make sure we have successful access to the ballot to keep the media open with information flowing to uphold those high ethical standards funding comes are people all over the country that makes small contribution sitting down at the kitchen table withmo checks also foundation support as well. >>host: large donors? >> guest: we are fortunate to be funded by the democracy fund him a number of organizations throughout the country also are 1 million members help to sustain our organizations as well. >> why did you decide to do a report on the nra? we do have a crisis of gun violence in this country it is one of the leading causes of death of young people and of course the constant barrage on herou street and in our schools and communities through out the country it is a crisis that our leaders are not responding to quite frankly those in power have not been responding so we wentui to examine why that is and not responding to the crisis. there is a lot of ta

food your so and mr rice so as to get this base to do. redo this mission that made this equates test i mean. it's quite telling to you. it was convicted in one thousand into nine this in my name here i was that arrested when i was very young my fustian correlates. to normal life and i wanted to proceed with education but unfortunately. that came to an end blocked and when i was convicted it was still hard for me to up a truly really accept myself accept decision of the elders and. it was a bit of lemon for me to swallow. i've gone from a challenge to family background and had months and education was a big mistake and i've been in prison and you can see that death of in good faith and that has developed into me we knew of the problem or. the going to present itself in the court nominees most of us are poor most of those did they don't move or not to read their posts to do this so there was a turning point for them to go to court and be and do their cases properly. it was alone during the day and night. i would could give that picture of w

. >> mr. rice. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you gentlemen for being here to testify today. mr. owen, you mentioned that we are up to 20 countries that are providing advanced electronic data? >> yes, sir. 28. >> what is advanced electronic data? >> it is a data set, a data elements that the foreign post will capture and transmit to the u.s. postal service and forward it to us. >> so in order, they are looking for suspicious characters mailing packages. >> the individuals who are sending it, receiving it, the descriptions, the weight, the quantities -- >> so there's a database we are sharing back and forth? >> so that advanced information is run through law enforcement and databases that is outside of what is normal. of course, the targeting efforts are focused on previous violators and things of concern that we won't get into here. but, it is a rich targeting environment in the mail and we are pretty good at picking out shipments that are problematic. >> you say there are so many parcels and so easy to hide that it is -- you can add as many people as you want and x-ray machi

opening what can you, the volumes are just too overwhelming to be effective. >> mr. rice. >> thank you. thank you mr. chairman. thank you, gentlemen for being here to testify. mr. owen, you mentioned we are up to 20 countries that are -- that providing advance electronic data. >> yes, sir, 28. >> 28. what is advanced electric data? what is that. >> advanced electronic data is a data set, elements if you thats foreign post will capture, trns transmit to the u.s. postal service who then forwards it to us. >> they're looking for suspicious characters that are mailing packages. >> the individuals who are sending it, receiving it, the descriptions, the weights, quantities. >> there is some kind of a database much that that we're sharing back and forth. >> well that advanced information is run through the law enforcement our trade databases to identify the shipments that are outside of what is normal, you know, of course the targeting efforts are focused on previous violators things of concern that we won't get into here. but it's a very rich targeting environment in the mail.

to give this nominee the same treatment that the senate gave secretaries powell, rice, kerry, and clinton, and confirm mr. pompeo as our next secretary of state. call. the senator is recognized. mr. hatch: thank you, mr. president. as president pro tempore of the united states senate, i ask my colleagues to join us in voting swiftly and unanimously in support of mike pompeo's nomination. -- to serve as the next secretary of state. frankly, i am embarrassed by the naked partisanship that was on display during director pompeo's confirmation hearing. the director deserves better than this. that his nomination was nearly sent to the floor without recommendation is an utter disgrace. this is a graduate of west point, a man who served our nation honorably as a cavalry officer in the united states army. this is a talented litigator who graduated from harvard law school, where he served as editor of the law review. this is an accomplished businessman, a former member of congress, and a current director of the central intelligence agency. this is a man who is qualified to serve in every respect. and yet some of m

mr. donovan: and i think, miss rice. thank you, mr. chairman. before i begin, i'd ask unanimous consent to insert into the record a letter from the jewish federations of north america, discussing the importance of the not for profit security grant program, a program that has made a big difference to the not for profits in my district. mr. mccaul: without objection, so ordered. donton thank you -- mr. donovan: thank you. i hate to do this to you but everyone's asking for your answers to writing and i have to go into the speaker's chair in about four minutes so i'd like to lay out my questions and ask you to do so as well. earlier this week my subcommittee held a field hearing in my district which focused on the importance of federal counterterrorism support to high-risk urban areas like new york city. witnesses representing law enforcement, first responders in new york and new jersey discussed the importance of intelligence information sharing and homeland security grant programs to their operations. we must fully fund these grant programs, parti

urge her colleagues to give this nominee the same treatment as they gave powell, rice, carey, and clinton and confirm mr. pompeo as the next secretary of state. i yelled the floor. >> i asked my colleagues to join us in voting swiftly and unanimously in support of mike pompeo's nomination to service the next secretary of state. i am embarrassed by the naked partisanship that was on display in his confirmation hearing. he deserves better than this. his nomination was sent to the floor without recommendation is an utter disgrace. this is a graduate of west point. man who served our nation honorably as calvary officer. this is a talented litigator who graduated from harvard law school where he served as editor of the law review. an accomplished businessman, a former member of congress and current director of the central intelligence agency. he was qualified to serve in every respect. yet they wanted to block the nomination on the ground that he supports our president. give me a break. to these colleagues i say, enough. enough of the games in the grandstanding. this undermines not only the reputation of thi

and pyongyang after them ok if you look at history all of the fault and grandfather of mr kim jong has promised rice ation all fecal reopen intra so to me. at the dynamic who studied the korean peninsula. history of the us asian i'm not surprised that these kind of promises a actually a way to kind to buy time and trying to. pray into the situation in order that mr kim jong un can't ask for some more concession now having said that because the thesis and tiny new set up by mr wynn jane so if we did the pens on president moon how you'll be convenes. in the meeting with mr kim jong un what kind of steps and measure and concession he's willing to make in order to make these the nuclear i say should come true in the near future. of course all eyes will be on those talks to see what does come from the impact along senior lecturer in politics university thank you for joining us on the program today. from. the u.k. government is setting up a special russia tax task force comprising senior m.p.'s that will counter perceived threats from moscow it comes amid the current diplomatic spat between the two countr

helicopters landed on the rice fields of our beautiful village mr kong i was here that day back in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight when the helicopters landed . and when the soldiers came they started killing everyone was to kong i was part of the americans that landed here in the helicopters and i want to apologize to the people of me i i'm sorry that it happened. i ask myself all the time why did this happen i don't know. that feeling. and an angry feeling are rising up in my heart. the u.s. soldiers killed my mother my older sister and my younger brother. how did you feel when you shot into civilians and killed was it hard for you like i say the only thing i can do now is just apologize for. how many people did you kill that morning i don't know. i don't know i don't know. i don't i don't even know if i killed anyone. that's not a reasonable answer your soldiers put all our people together in one place and shot directly at them you said you don't know whether you've killed anyone i cannot accept it. i wasn't what that group i was an outside a village. you stayed back at the ed

to give this nominee the same treatment that the senate gave secretaries powell, rice, kerry, and clinton, and confirm mr. pompeo as our next secretary of state. madam president, i yield the floor. and i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: mr. schumer: madam president. the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent that the qearm be dispense -- quorum be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: mr. president, the markup committee will markup the rules of the nominees to benefit the majority. of course the majority can approve of the nominations on a party line vote for all nominees up to and now including the supreme court since leader mcconnell elected to change those rules last year. why the need for further erosions to minority rights in the senate? republicans argue it's because their facing, quote, historic obstruction of the president's nominees. a few points on that. the democrats have cooperated with the majority of noncontroversial nominees, like career ambas

estate,rices -- real artwork. frothy?at is the most mr. attanasio: there is a lot of froth. for it but -- expert but charlie munger was talking about some of these things, i said, i asked him that question, the first thing that came to mind from him is venture capital. erik: what about in credit? creditanasio: side-by-side with that, technology multiples, people are willing to lend to technology companies at higher multiples, sometimes upwards of 10 times then we are more comfortable with at present. --crescent. that does not mean there were not pockets of opportunities to land in tech companies because they have the best grocery characteristics. -- growth characteristics. erik: where is their value, anywhere in credit? mr. attanasio: there is value in looking at conflict situations. value in understanding performance. in which you can absorb and which you can discard. that is best left to -- a lot of good firms, that is left to professional investment firms and not just buying the market, probably difficult to buy the market at generically at this thread right now. erik: if

mr. speaker, rape is never the fault of a victim. as we become more aware of this dastardly crime, some schools like rice university, have made excellent strides to address sexual assault on campus. the rice dean of undergraduate, and former rice student body president both testified about the many positive proactive steps rice has taken. a guide for other universities. the universities require all students to participate in a student driven six-week course that teaches young college students to notice the signs of sexual assault and work to that allow ulture sexual assault to occur on campus. it's worked like this that will help foster a culture change where survivors of sexual assault will feel support bide our community. sexual assault on campus must end. we must change culture to prevent this crime. we must give victims support to recover and become survivors. and we must let offenders know they will be held accountable for their acts and they will meet the law. mr. speaker, we should follow the words of megan ron deany. have -- rondini, have courage and be kind. that's just the way it is. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: pur

family friend and former secretary of state condoleezza rice sending her thoughts and prayers adding god bless you, mrssh. and may he hold you in the palm of his hand. we can confirm tonight she is here, home, resting comfortably with her family and the love of her life. bret? >> bret: casey stegall in houston. thank you. john mccain's office says the senator underwent surgery yesterday to treat an intestinal infection related to diverticulitis. he is in stable condition. the office says the senator has been participating in physical therapy at his arizona home as he recovers from the side effects of cancer treatment. well, if you have not filed your tax return yet, get with it. but, first, check out peter doocy's story on the big changes coming. that's next. ♪ ♪ this is a story about mail and packages. and it's also a story about people and while we make more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget... that your business is our business the united states postal service. priority: you almost $800 when we switched our auto and home insurance. with liberty, we could

been asked to drop out of the rice house minority leader however has defended their leadership's interference in their primary rights don't see anything inappropriate like. mr hoyer was engaged in a conversation about the realities of life in a race to see who can win in the general election and it's not the first time the us democrats are trying to influence elections e-mails revealed by wiki leaks show the party's officials tried to use bernie sanders religion against him in favor of hillary clinton both were representing the democrats in the race for the u.s. presidential seat for twenty sixteen moreover leaks also showed that the former democratic national committee chief gave clinton debate questions before sondos that that was during the democratic primary it's also been revealed that the party caves clinton imposed on hiring and spending. on the current chair of the democratic national committee however says incidents like this are a thing of the past. we're moving forward we have to make sure that everything is fair and open and everybody has a fair shake and that's what we're going to do well the tape recording released by the intercept put that in

rice and jeff sessions. he also adds a very important caveat to what he says about mr. trump. comey writes, quote, i have one perspective on the behavior i saw. which while disturbing and violating basic norms of ethical leadership, may fall short of being illegal. that's really important to remember. i want to bring in phil rutger, "washington post" bureau chief who read the entire book in one day. you were busy yesterday. i want to start with what president trump tweeted this morning. because certainly it's already gotten to him. james comey is a proven leaker and liar. virtually everyone in washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did until he was, in fact, fired. he leaked classified information, for which he should be prosecuted. he lied to congress under oath. he is a weak and untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven, a terrible director of the fbi. his handling of the crooked hillary clinton case and the events surrounding it will go down as one of the worst botch jobs of history. it was my great honor to fire james comey. put this slime ba

condoleezza rice all got unanimous or near-unanimous backing from the foreign relations committee, a signal to the rest of the world of bipartisan confidence in the nation's top diplomat. >> mrmpeo didn't retract the statements he said about muslim leaders. >> reporter: some democrats argue the former congressman and west point grad is too hawkish. others wanted to make a point about the commander-in-chief, who erroneously tweeted just this weekend that the north rereans have agreed to denuclearization. >> will you enable president trump's worst instincts? or will you be lurching from crisis to crisis as we've seen under this administration? >> reporter: full senate confirmation should come this week, which would enable pompeo to attend nato meetings in brussels on friday. >> i'll start with those things that i think are the biggest gaps and present the biggest risk. th reporter: but there is another battle brewing over the president's pick to replace pompeo at the c.i.a. deputy director gina haspel once ran a c.i.a. "black site" where detainees were waterboarded, a red flag for democrats and some republicans. >> glor: nancy is on the hill. hency, what does the c.i.a. have t

quite a few, i think john brennan, clapper, rice, roads all involved in the illegal unmasking and the unmasked names. ms. powers from the united nations. i think mr. comey clearly, mccabe is in deep trouble. i think page and strzok are cooperating so they are probably not in legal trouble. i think a lot of people of the highest levels of the justice department under obama are in very serious legal trouble. >> sean: joe to jennifer, thank you. thank you for coming to my christmas party. great to see you. here was my reaction is the house intel committee chairman california congressman devin nunes. freedom caucus chairman north carolina congressman mark meadows. neither were invited to my christmas party. and i apologize for that. in retrospect. i've been hearing all night, a lot and all day yesterday that there is a possibility that the strzok-page memos were handed at the state department last week. we haven't had them revealed. congressman meadows, have you heard that? >> really what we do know, sean, is there is another tranche of peter strzok, lisa page text messages that actually have been vetted by the doj. we are waiting on the inspector ge

rice all got unanimous or near unanimous backing from the foreign relations committee. a signal to the rest of the world, of bipartisan confidence in the nation's top diplomat. >> mr. pompeo didn't retract the statements about muslim leaders. some democrats argue the former congressman and west point grad is too hawkish. others want to make a point about the commander-in-chief who erroneously tweeted this weekend that the north koreans have agreed to denuclearization. >> will you enable president trump's worst instincts? or will you be lurking from crisis stew crisis as we have seen. >> full senate confirmation should come this week. which should enable pompeo to attend nato meetings in brusselss friday. >> i'll start with the things i think are the biggest gaps and present the biggest risk. >> reporter: there as it nother battle brewing over the president's pick to replace pompeo at cia, deputy director, gina haspel ran a cia black site where detainees were water boarded red flag for democrats and some republicans. >>> prince william and wife kate, duchess of cambridge brought home their third child. a bouncing baby boy. and our correspondent has the the latest fr

mr. jake nelson of tripaaa. medical chief of mercy hospital in san diego, dr. susan wife. at the national institute of drug abuse. senator ron rice, senator from new jersey and leader of the new jersey legislationive black caucus. senior pastor and senior adviser to approaches to marijuana policy. doug, the president and ceo of treatment centers. joined by a recovering addict, alexa who will share her story about marijuana addiction. one of the big myths is that it is not addictive. and a board member of s.a.m. we are concerned about the edibles and products marketed to our vulnerable populations. we are also very heartened by the fact that even in the states like california and massachusetts that voted to legalize it, the majority of localities are voting to not have legal commercial marijuana where they live. it signals a divide to people who want to decriminalize and go to full-blown legalization. one bit of news. a recent string of polls by emerson college notten funded by s.a.m., farly dickinson university and mason dixon, funded by s.a.m. found that when people are asked about multiple choices in regards to marijuana, their

rice jambalaya. the desert is an actor a tart with some ice cream. >> throughout the menu i'm sure that christmas special selections and presented it to mrs.tion of all the elements is perfect. situate american many the little nod to the french. ca goat cheese -- it sounds great. and the tomatoes jam. the crÈme fraÎche bicycling scanner be heavier and richer and really delicious. otherwise they selected as well chardonnay has was the plans were taken from the dishon area implanted in oregon. a real blend of our two nations. they really looked at the details somehow can we say we appreciate you and are honoring you. are a part of our country. >> for the social secretary the details and the logistics must be difficult. >> yes. putting everything in order and making sure you selected appropriately you wanted to make sure he created no fences to anyone. making sure no allergies or issues. so she's checking once, twice, three times. then presented the options to the first lady. here some opportunities and selections. the first lady begins to make her decisions. in the end it's her style of her decisions. it's the evening of mrs. trump. >> how t

rice, who not only was a famous -- fabulous advisor, but was a dear, dear friend. and so i'm -- anyway, i'm going to give bono this award. i must confess -- [laughter] mr. bush: wearing a tux -- yeah, yeah, i got it. yeah. wearing a tux really not my first choice and hanging out with rockers is not my first choice. [laughter] bush: but condi's right, i can't tell you enough about bono. i must confess, i was a little skeptical about him, i must confess when he was coming to the white house and i confess he might have been slightly kept -- skeptical about me. [laughter] mr. bush: but we formed this fast friendship. here's what i learned about the guy. he's the real deal. if you want to talk about poverty issues, you better know your stuff because bono is one of the most well-informed people i met in washington, d.c. i don't know if the facts were true that he was spewing out. but -- [laughter] mr. bush: but he was convincing. so i want to tell you a story about this. and bono gets a huge amount of credit, by the way. so laura and i went to rwanda to see a catholic charity organization, when they mature so they can see -- port the advances of predatory men

rice who served under president george w. bush, tweeting my thoughts and prayers with mrs. barbara bush and bush family.personal story on twitter, keeping barbara bush and her family in my heart and prayers. i will never forget how kind she was to me on every occasion we met and fondly the white house staff spoke of her. people in her local community are paying tribute, like the owner of fuzzy's pizza in houston honoring her with a special barbara bush pizza. you can send your thoughts and prayers too, barbara bush.org has a form that people can fill out with kind messages. the team will forward the form directly to her, so she can see i as well. she did so much for the nation. people are saying thank you. it is at simple as that. steve: barbara bush.org is the website for her foundation. she has been promoting literacy for decades. number of people got her interested in books. now it is the opportunity for us to say thank you to her. >> i think a lot of people are taking up that cause and, i think we all should do. ainsley: many americans love that family. god bless her. >> thanks so much. >> you loved

to give this nominee the same treatment that the senate gave secretaries powell, rice, kerry, and clinton, and confirm mr. pompeo as our next secretary of state. call. the senator is recognized. mr. hatch: thank you, mr. president. as president pro tempore of the united states senate, i ask my colleagues to join us in voting swiftly and unanimously in support of mike pompeo's nomination. -- to serve as the next secretary of state. frankly, i am embarrassed by the naked partisanship that was on display during director pompeo's confirmation

of her colleagues this nominee the same treatment that they gave secretaries powell rice carey and clinton and confirm mr mr. pompeo is her next secretary of state. madam president i yield the floor. the new start to spread and it seems to swaying voters. there's an editorial that comes out with a baby screaming mom, mom, where's my pa? >> the first few episodes are all in my head they all kind of hang around the concept of we the people so it was an exploration of gender, race, nationality ancestry and then we sort of move into the idea of a more perfect union and there are couple of episodes about justice and defense and it and with a culmination with the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our popularity and what does that mean? >> good evening from washington. tonight the white house es