charter section 10.104, charter section 10, personnel administration, and so it's actually number 10.104. categories 1-12 generally talks about department heads, executive assisstants, legislative analysts or assisstants, and expert professional temporary services. that would be in categories 1-12. in charter section 10.104 in categories 13-15, 13-15, attorneys, physicians and dentists, and the retirement system actuary. what we are more concerned about today and in your discussion are the categories 16-19, categories that the civil service commission is also concerned but we have limited authority since it's not a permanent civil service appointment. however, we still look into them. and you'll hear later in my presentation how we do that. category 16 is considered seasonal or temporary as needed appointments, limited to 1040 hours in a fiscal year. 17, appointments temporary backfill civil service employees on a leave of absence, and limited to two-year duration. category 18, approved for special projects and professional services with limited term funding and is limited to a three-yea

president trump answered a few questions about recent personnel changes in his administration and his views on immigration and horsemen. >> thank you very much. it is a great honor. we will be meeting with representatives of the president in a while. we have important things to talk about. we have never had a better relationship. i want to thank everybody or being here. thank you for being here. >> thank you. allow me to express my thanks and providing me this and making a quantum leap in the relationship. .> let me emphasize that >> all the thanks and appreciation. ] >> thank you very much for your support. this is what we are thinking. >> thank you. before wee to say take a couple questions, the first lady was recently in egypt. the pyramid's,s you can call it the seventh wonder or the eighth wonder, it was incredible. she said it is one of the most incredible things she has seen and we have lots of pictures. it was a great moment so hopefully people will go to look at them. she is not easily impressed, she was very impressed. >> thank you. >> [indiscernible] cleaning house at dhs.

. >> yesterday president>> yesterp welcomed egypt as -- questions t personnel changes in his administration, and his views on immigration enforcement. president trump: thank you, very much. it is a great honor to be with the president of egypt. we have many things to discuss. military, trade, and a lot of progress has been made in terms of terrorism and other things with egypt, and within egypt. it is really incredible what has happened, especially in certain respects that we have already talked about. we will be beating with with -- we wilg representatives of the president of egypt and a little while. we have very, very important things, militarily, to talk about, and about trade. big trading partner. we do a lot of work together. i think we have never had a better relationship, egypt and the united states, than we do right now. i want to thank everybody for being here. mr. president, thank you very much. my friend. president el-sisi: [speaking foreign language] >> allow me to show my thanks for your kind invitation and providing us with the opportunity to meet, and talk about making quant

that will be along the border will be helping with logistics, military, and medical personnel, and also with administrativeies. >> glor: mireya, seeing things firsthand in brownsville. mireya, thanks very much. scientists today showed off the first picture of a black hole. albert einstein's theories predicted the existence of these mysterious bodies. now, we have seen one. here's mark strassmann. >> reporter: with this image, science fiction became fact. it's the first visual proof black holes exist, like this doughnut-shaped behemoth rotating 55 million light years away. >> so you're basically looking at a supermassive black hole that's almost the size of our entire solar system. >> yay! >> reporter: black hole hunters are ecstatic. the cosmos just gifted them their holy grail. black holes are pure gravity-- the universe's ultimate irresistible force. beyond the hole's boundary, the point of no return. time ends. all matter and light disappear. it's a one-way ticket to oblivion. >> to know that these monsters exist, that is humbling. >> reporter: astrophysicist shep doeleman directed 200 scientists to bui

from blocking these investigations from going forward and from blocking administration personnel from respond to subpoenas. the mueller report as yet is still full of redactions. it is already even in its redacted form, sparking more areas of investigation and more areas of concern and public questions that senior white house officials don't have answers for. the white house right now is trying to block absolutely every aspect they can of these ongoing and now newly intensifying investigations. you would see why they would want to try. the president tonight called one specific "washington post" reporter to explain his thinking on how he's trying to stop all these investigations and why he thinks he'll be able to. his reasoning was something other than persuasive. you'll want to hear what he said. that reporter joins us next. r j. (ding) hey, who are you? oh, hey jeff, i'm a car thief... what?! i'm here to steal your car because, well, that's my job. what? what?? what?! (laughing) what?? what?! what?! [crash] what?! haha, it happens. and if you've got cut-rate car insurance, paying for

came forward telling congress the trump administration gave security at people whose applications were first turned down. the manager of the white house personnel security office told the house committee those 25 people included at least two senior administration officials whose backgrounds were deemed disqualifying by intelligence officials. the concerns included foreign influence, drug use and criminal conduct >>> a woman born in the u.s. who left to fight for isis in syria is asking to be allowed to return. she is living in a refugee camp in syria and wants to return to the u.s. but the state department says she is not a u.s. citizen because was a diplomat from yemen at the time she was born. they lived in alabama and says she was radicalized online. in 2014 at 19 years old she left the u.s. to join the terror group, married an isis fighter and had a child >> i just want to go back home. i want my son to see my family. amily. >> the state department points to tweets she posted like this one back in 2015 encouraging the killing of americans. she says isis took over her twitter account. >>> 4:36. a lawyer for singer r. kelly says controversy a

>> that's going to have to be something that the border personnel, the administration and congress agreei will say is this. the border personnel, the men and women with whom i spoke are telling me they're babysitters. if somebody comes in, an illegal immigrant comes in, they have to actually go with them and stay with them at the hospital or wherever they are detained. they can't do their job and protect the border. so the more they are deterred, the more they are taken away and distracted with these other duties that they should not be doing that legally they have to do because of these very difficult policies and difficult court decisions. liberal judges have messed this up like they messed up so many other different things in our country. we have got to figure it out but we have to deal with it. the president is spot on. he is right. >> bill: thank you for your time. chuck fleischmann out of tennessee. thank you. >> julie: the first photo of a black hole in space marking a historic moment for science. how a grad student helped make it all happen. >> bill: also it is arguably the great

personnel. across a broad spectrum of issues his policies are so extreme that even good-faith nominees eventually face a choice, leave the administration or being consumed by the quicksand of the trump swamp. i hope that the president or some of the people around him will realize that his administration is far from a fine-tuned machine. it's a slow-motion disaster machine that the american people see in action every day. now on women's health, madam president, today the senate judiciary committee will hold a hearing on a sham bill that would further restrict women's access to care. every woman, every family in america should shudder at republicans' campaign to take away the rights of women to make decisions about their own health just to satisfy a hard-right radical agenda that the vast majority of americans completely disagree with. the bill would unduly restrict women's rights to make their own health decisions. dr. jennifer conte, a clinical assistant professor of ob-gyn at stanford, described the 20-week mark set by this bill as, quote, just an arbitrary limit set by politicians that has no medical or scientific backing. let me rep

personnel changes? >> three officials now -- administration officials have directly been told by the trump administration not to testify before your committee. none of the investigations are related by the way to the mueller report. we're talking about stephen miller testifying on immigration, carl kline testifying on security clearances that were given and john gore testifying on the u.s. census and a question involving u.s. citizenship. do their justifications for denying these individuals the right to go and appear before you, your committee hold up? >> no. this is an assault on the legislative branch of our government. and it's an assault on the constitutional framework of our government and if it is allowed to stand, frankly, the legislative branch will be a shadow of what it was intended to be by the constitution of the united states. so, no, we're going to resist and if the subpoena is issued and you're told you must testify, we will back that up and we will use in and all power in our command to make sure it is backed up. whether that is contempt citation or going to court and getting a -- that c

administration. chairman cummings has now subpoenaed the former personnel security director carl client who allegedly pushed through the clearance is the whistleblower says despite potential conflicts of interest or possible manipulation by foreign powers, one point. do you say enough's enough they will come when i will do whatever is necessary be done. to carry on my responsibilities under the constitution the president can give out security clearances as he sees fit, but has denied a role in pushing through these clearances. >>there no i don't think i have the authority to do that i'm not sure i but i i i wouldn't i wouldn't do it. the ranking member on oversight congressman jim jordan. >>called the investigation reckless that it is an excuse to go fishing for the personal files of dedicated public servants, this as the house judiciary committee under congressman jerry nadler announced it plans to subpoena to obtain the full unredacted mueller report he also wants to subpoena some of the biggest names who've worked in the trump white house, including steve bannon hope hicks and former white house c

personnel. on immigration, a san francisco judge blocked administration's policy of sending central american asylum secrets back to mexico while their cases are ajudicated. the judge gave the white house until friday to respond. >> john thank you. >> reporting as usual, the 9th circuit court of appeals doing what we would expect. >> president's new choice to run the department of homeland security. kevin mcaleenan, is the head of customs and border protection, he is a deputy commissioner of cbp, he started there in 2014, he has supported president zero tolerance policy, and backed tougher asylum rules and would like to extend time that illegal immigrants can be held in detention before being released. >> acting director of i.c.e., raised number of arrests of illegal immigrants, and was a open of sanctuary cities. kobach a straight forward 3 step policy to solve border crisis, including end of remittances sense home by illegal immigrants. and a group of never-trumpers at 2016 convention then that was then. >> president trump today slamming radical dimms for on going effort to under cut his administr

he served as the personnel security director at the white house of the first two years of the trump administration. klein's attorney says his client is willing to be interviewed voluntarily. >>> jerry nadler plans to authorize a subpoena this week for the full unredacted version. nadler is not saying whether the subpoena will be issued before attorney general william barr publicly releases the redacted mueller report. that is expected to happen later this month. >> finalizing the subpoena will take place one day after today's deadline. barr says he is working with mueller to finish redacting the report. according to the attorney general, those redactions include grand jury testimony, grand jury material, sensitive intelligence material, information from owning investigations and information that could damage the reputations of people not charged in the mueller probe. >>> breaking overnight, police in los angeles have named a suspect in the shooting death of rapper nipsey hussle. authorities say the gunman identified as eric holder was last spotted in 2016, white four door chevy cruz license plate

administration. chairman cummings has now suspected the former personnel security director, carl klein, who allegedly pushed through the clearances, the whistle blower says, despite potential conflicts of interest or possible manipulation by foreign powers. >> at what point do you say enough's enough? >> there will come a moment that i will do whatever is necessary to be done to carry out my responsibilities under the constitution. >> reporter: the president can give out security clearances, as he sees fit, but has denied a role in pushing through these clearan clearances. >> you tell anyone in the white house to overrule security clearances? >> i don't think i have the authority to do that. i'm not sure i do. >> you do. >> but i wouldn't do it. >> reporter: the ranking member on oversight, congressman jim jordan, called the investigation reckless. that it's an excuse to go fishing through the personal files of dedicated public servants. this as the house judiciary committee, under congressman jerry nadler, announced it plans to subpoena to obtain the full unredacted mueller report. he also wants to

this policy reverses a 2016 decision by the obama administration that allowed openly transgender personnelenly. you had the experience of dealing with rank and file, with the field ranked people. what do you think of this decision to ban people like this, people in this situation? >> i think it's not only the wrong decision, but it really is going to in the end hurt, i think, morale in the military. we are the strongest military on the face of the earth, and the reason we're strong is because we allow people to serve in the military whether they're women, whether they're transgender, whether they're gay, and the reality is -- and i've seen it as secretary of defense -- that these people served in an outstanding fashion in uniform. they were willing to put their lives on the line for the united states of america. that's what service to this country is all about. and when you say, oh, no, we can't have that particular group serve in the military, you are hurting our military and more importantly, you're hurting the message we send to the rest of the world about just exactly what is the unite

congress the trump administration gave security clearances to at least 25 people whose applications were at first turned down. trisha newbold, a manager in the white house personnely office told the house committee those 25 people include at least two senior administration officials whose backgrounds were deemed disqualifying by intelligence officials. she said the concerns included foreign influence, drug use and criminal conduct. >>> a woman born in the u.s. who left to fight for isis in syria is asking to be allowed to return. they is living in a refugee camp in syria. she wants to return to the u.s., but the state department says she is not a u.s. citizen because her father was a diplomat from yemen at the time she was born. she lived in hoover, alabama, and said she was radicalized online. in 2014 at 19 years old she left the u.s. to join the terror group, married an isis fighter and had a child. ild. >> i want my son to see my family >> the state department points to tweets that she posted like this one back in 2015 encouraging the killing of americans. she says isis took over her twitter account. >>> a lawyer for singer r. kelly now claiming controversy la

moving forward in putting the barriers up, trying to shift personnel to work the border. out of it administrationions, on the border where they can do their policing functions. one of the things that people don't understand about the military going to the border is that the role they provide. they backfill in those administrative roles. we've got to do more than just that. we are talking about now, starting to hire people who are not necessarily border patrol agents. highly trained to do some of the intake processing of detainees on the computers so we can get those agents out from behind those computers and out on the border. >> harris: >> harris: interesti. >> that's the kind of things we could do right now. >> harris: right, to reallocate, ishmael, the resources behind the screen. ranking member rogers, are you concerned at all about the departure of some of those top dhs -- first of all, i want to hear from vinny thompson, democrat from business mrs. was to become as is the president is trying to find, in his words, "a puppet" to run the dhs. >> he's trying to find a puppet to run the departm

personnel changes. he essentially wants to shape this administration to carry out his ideal immigration agenda. he is looking to push out folks who are not only at dhs but potentially at other agencies that play some role in combatting the flow of unauthorized immigration across the border or dealing with aid that is going to some central and latin american countries. his end goal essentially is to serve as the immigration czar president trump has talked about wanting to install in his administration. and he's doing that by quietly talking to officials as we reported yesterday. he's been making phone calls over the past weeks to individuals at dhs but also at the state department. and elsewhere inside the administration. sort of discussing the work performance of some of their colleagues, talking about what more they could do just on their own outside of congressional action to address the situation at the border. and he's encountering a lot of resistance. we talked to a few immigration groups today who tend to promote less immigration at the border both legal and illegal, and they have said th

on the other hand, personnel is important to the supreme court justices. 30 circuit court justices, the most in the first two years of any administration in history. we've done seven more circuits and now it's 37. we have 53 district judge is backed up with lifetime appointments that would make a huge impact on the country in the future. now that we have modified the rules in a way to allow us to expedite these appointments, we will do all of the district judges. that is not unimportant. that will have the longest impact on the country of anything we do. >> bret: legislatively, one of the things you have major votes on and you mentioned it, to criticize democrats and vote on the green new deal to put democrat presidential hopefuls on this and on the record. you'd decried show boats during the government shutdown. how was that not a showboat? >> mitch: welcome it was but i don't intend to spend all of our time doing that but once in a while they need to go on the record to vote for what they say they are for. i mean, we had the green new deal only four democrats voted against it and including the people who cosponsored it. i think we sh

washington host hospitals today that administration is now aiming did dismans -- dismantle office of personnele responsible for managing federal civilian workforce. it would be the biggest agent to be slashed since worl world wari i. >> i am all for cutting federal against, but this does not get us far, opmis a 2 billion dollar agents, we have a 4 tril condollar budget, not even a percentage point. ing in they are not talking about firing all of the 5,000 or so workers who work for opm. well we'll reasign them to other things. >> not fill vacancies, and people will retire. >> it will are a somewhat staff reduction, but this is a drop in the buck i bucket. >> >> hallelujah. >> witnes once you have ration n the cat, you can't unhave relations can the cat. >> that is true. kennedy: that is what my grandmother told me. >> maybe like eat a turkey sandwich. like the rest of the world. and i think we could let market decide what is and not acceptable to say on tv. kennedy: toe stossel said for y, we should get rid of department of education, and department of commerce. >> most of functions of ftc.c.

president trump answered a few questions about recent personnel changes in his administration and his views mm

left to fill, but this week's progress marks a great new beginning not just for the administration that needs its personnel, but for the health of this institution. now on another matter, over the past year or so i've dedicated a large part of my time here on the floor to discussing the performance of the u.s. economy, and at no point have i struggled to find things to say. seemingly every day we've been greeted by headlines that tell the same story. under the political policies of a pro-growth, pro-opportunity republican agenda, americans are experiencing a remarkable economic moment. more than a year ago i mentioned on the floor that weekly jobless claims have reached their lowest level since 1969. and last week the labor department reported that by this measure the u.s. economy has set yet another new record. what was already a nearly 49-year low has now dipped further to a nearly 50-year low. my colleagues and i have been busy highlighting the american stories behind these numbers, stories of recovery and prosperity being written in all sorts of communities in all corners of our country. more than a ye

administration. chairman cummings has now suspected the former personnel security director, carl klein, who allegedly pushed through the clearances, the whistle-blower says, despite potential conflicts of interest or possible manipulation by foreign powers. >> at what point do you say, enough's enough? >> there will come a moment that i will do whoever is necessary to be done to carry out my responsibilities under the constitution. >> reporter: the president can give ow security clearances as he sees fit, but has denied a role in pushing through these clearances. >> you tell general kelly or anyone else in the white house to -- >> no, i don't think i have the authority to do that. i'm not sure i do. >> you do. >> but i would -- i wouldn't do it. >> reporter: the ranking member on oversight, congressman jim jordan, called the investigation reckless. that it is an excuse to go fi fishing through the personal files of dedicated public servants. this as the house judiciary committee under congressman jerry nadler announced it plans to subpoena to obtain the full unredacted mueller report. he also wants t

today new orders from the trump administration reassigning hundreds of customs and border patrol personnel with the highest number of migrant border crossings in morehadecad >> i'm not playing games. >> reporter: it follows a threat by president trump to close the southern borr crossings into the u.s. experts say that could deal a huge blow to the u.s. economy. >> mexico is the third largest trading partner for the u.s. after china and canada. one of the biggest product categories specifically that the u.s. gets from mexico, beer and wine and snack foods. if we get fewer of those, the prices go up, that's something that you could feel pretty soon. >> reporter: the president tweeting, homeland security is being so nice but not for long, urging congress to fix what he calls a major national emergency, something long disputed by democrats. >> this is an administration led obviously by the president that only knows how to use government to create chaos and to create problems instead of solving problems. >> reporter: the president also announcing plans to cut off aid to three central american c

request for current and retroactive personnel files and in that process we're required to digitize decade of records, video, voice recordings and it's a lot of administrative work. a.b.748 will not effect this year or next year but we expect a lot of requests when the law goes into effect in terms of body-worn camera footage requests. i thank you and thank the b.l.a. for their report. in the last fiscal year we've made significant investments in public safety and policing and they've resulted in safer, cleaner, happier neighborhoods. we know we have a lot of work still to be done but we are in a better place and we want to keep this work up. we're consistently reallocating our resources to meet the public safety needs of the growing city and hoping with the key investments we've identified we'll have the ability to formulate the strategies and response to keep our city and residents safe. thank you and i'm sure you have many questions. >> commissioner: thank you, chief. first on the roster, president yee. >> commissioner: a question question in terms of the budget priority, you list technology in there. i'm wondering if you also consider maybe needing to a

trump administration gave security clearances to at least 25 people whose applications were initially denied. the whistleblowers name is tricia newbold, she is a manager in the white house personnelurity office. she told a house committee that those 25 people include at least two senior administration officials whose backgrounds were deemed disqualifying by intelligence officials. newbold said there were concerns about foreign influence, drug use and criminal conduct. >>> up next, another bite from the taxman. the hike in the sales tax taking effect today. which bay area cities are affected and the impact for online retailers? >> anger in the east bay. hundreds of dollars of silent auction items for a little league fundraiser gone. the investigation now underway. >>> late showers falling now in time for the afternoon commute. more showers in the 5 day forecast. pretty much all week. i will have the specifics when we see you next. >>> also ahead, three people sent to the hospital after a hot air balloon crashed into powerlines today in napa. >>> it is no april fools joke. sales tax increases are taking effect up-and-down the state of california. henry lee tells us which bay area c

administration has a guard as a foreign terrorist organization. it is an unprecedented move ve implications for military personnel abroad. jonathan hunt reports now from jerusalem. >> reporter: this is the latest from a series of tough measures the white house has taken since trump decided a year ago to pull out of president obama's nuclear deal with iran. the guard corp as a terrorist organization would mark the first time the u.s. has labeled a foreign country's military in such a way. the policy has been pushed by secretary of state mike pompeo and john bol ton who are putting pressure on an organization that runs around security and has wide economic side the counit welcomed by republicans including nebraska senator who said in a statement that while the designation may be new, quote, these irgc butchers have been terrorists for a long time. and he add quote this would greatly expand our ability to roll back iran's ability to fund and export terror abroad. but critics say it could lead to the top of getting retaliation against u.s. troops in country's like syria or iraq where iranian forces are active. wendy sherman,

personnel down at the border. then also to other individuals inside this administration.'s remember, there are 57,000 troops still at the border. they would need to be given notice of any closure happening at our port of entry. the pentagon hasn't indicate that that has happened yet. i think there are steps that this administration can take. the big question is whether or not there is cooperation on both the left and the fight to let this happen. there's push back against the national emergency declaration. whether or not shutting down the border good idea politically is a looming question. >> dana: no doubt it would be drastic. what is the appetite on capitol hill for dealing with something that the secretary of homeland security is saying is a must do, which is the changing of asylum laws. that wouldn't take too long to get done. probably be about a week or two to get it through congress if people are actually serious about doing something that would actually make a difference here. >> you have to remember we're heading into a presidential election cycle. another midter

. >>> the trump administration could be looking to break up the office of personnel management. the department's responsibilities, the washington post says would be split into three other departments. if the president moves forward it would be the first federal department eliminated since world war ii. >>> president trump says he may send more u.s. troops to the border with mexico to help with security. the president didn't say how many additional troops may be added. about 5,000 military personnel are currently deployed at the border. the current mission is in support of security operations, reenforcing barriers and providing logistical support. >>> happening today president trump is meeting with south korean president moon jae-in at the white house. the two will be discussing north korea and how to restart the stalled peace talks. president trump walked away from talks in february with kim jong-un after the two could not reach a deal on nuclear disarmament. >>> a strong okay hit off the eastern coast of japan. the 6.2 quake did not cause any immediate reports of injuries or da

personnel is policy, you probably heard that line before. you see that very visibly in a white house and in an administration.a listen to senator grassley on that today. >> i have no way of measuring it except i don't see a lot of accomplishments that the white house has accomplished for the president on immigration. >> dana: we have one other piece from senator grassley. can we play that as well? >> they are now the policy people down there that give them intellectual and a policy basis for exactly the policies that the president wants in immigration, and it would be a real mistake if they go that far down into the bureaucracy to fire good people like that, that i have worked with for 17 years. >> dana: i have got a minute left, i'll give you each 30 seconds. tim, a final word on this topic today. >> yes. secretary nelson obviously popular, but president trump has the right to hire and fire personnel. the over arching thing though is senate republicans now have to deal with the confirmation. >> dana: they'll try to get those through. adam, final word to you. >> those are tough words from one of the white hou

personnel security director. this comes after a whistle proceeder told congress senior trump administration officials granted clearances to at least 25 people who had initially been denied. democrats claim the situation is a million times worse than security concerns over the clinton e-mail server. >> you got all the secrets to people that don't have security clearance possibly. i mean, all of it. >> while no one is mentioned by name, one individual appears to be the president's son if law, jared kushner. the "new york times" reports the president ordered his chief of staff to grant the clearance against the recommendation of intelligence officials. >>> happening today, water will begin flowing down the reconstructed spillway of the oraville dam. the repair job took two years to complete. this morning's release is intended to make sure it functions the. it suffered a catastrophic failure in 2017 and caused flooding and evacuations. >>> state officials will conduct surveys of the sierra snow pack. eldorado county is reopened after a snow slide. crews were able to free a car. they got trapped in yesterday's slide, nobody

s also employs attorneys and administrative experts but it's clear that right now the agency simply doesn't have enough personnel to launch complex research and development projects like corresponding agencies in israel have done. this indicates that germany has a lot of catching up to do in israel cyber security is a key element of government policy. israeli experts are capable of dealing with just about any high tech threat. cyber crimes in the classical term solve a crime stone done by private criminals over us. something. regardless of state as much as this is a prime concern in other countries much less a concern in this infrastructure will prepare. cyber security is one of today's most important international growth markets as israel. but there aren't many german companies to be found among the world leaders in the sector. this is the london office of dark trace the world leader in the use of artificial intelligence technology to provide cyber security. emily is one of the company's co-founders dartrey simple is nearly seven hundred people many of them are former government security experts. early days wha

administration's decision not to defend it in court. >> president trump continues his purge of the entire homeland security department. more personnel including the head of the secret service are now pushed out the door with a list of those potentially on the chopping block growing even longer. >> i think this administration has been the most unstable that i have seen. >> i'm worried about what i have seen further down the bureaucracy like in the immigration service. >> and hollywood actress felicity huffman and a dozen other parents plead guilty in the college cheating admissions scandal. president trump firing agency officials one by one by one as he tries to find someone, anyone at this point to blame for the skyrocketing number of migrants arriving at the southern border. he might want to consider blaming himself and his policies. i have a great team here to help us understand all of it. but first, i want to go through this because we're now 54 days after the president declared a national emergency to deal with immigration at the southern border. now we know he has already fired or is reportedly thinking about firing most of the

democrats are prepareing a subpoena for the former personnel security director this comes after a whistle proceeder told congress senior trump administrationranted clearances to at least 25 people who had initially been denied. democrats claim the situation is a million times worse than security concerns over the clinton e-mail server. >> you got all the secrets. ones of people that don't have a security clearance, possibly. all of them. >> while no one is mentioned by name, one individual appears to be the president's son if law, jared kushner. the "new york times" reports, the president ordered his chief of staff too grant the clearance against the recommendation of intelligence officials. >>> happening today, water will be going down the reconstructed spillway in araville dam, the $101 billion repair job took two years to complete. this morning's release so to make sure it is able to function. it caused flooding and evacuations. >>> happening today, state water officials will conduct the fourth snow survey of the season, earlier surveys include the sierra snow pack is in good shape. they are reopened after a snow slide crews were able t

this administration is choosing to divert from programs and personnel that might help the process of radicalization and save lives. it's for these reasons that the southern poverty law center supports the no hate act and antilynching legislation passed in the senate last year. we also would like to see an end to policies like the mud limb band and t -- muslim ban. it is not just a small group of people with a serious problem as president trump suggested unless we acknowledge this reality we can only expect hate groups to rise, white nationalist violence to continue and to perhaps get worse. >> thank you, up next we have alfred wisconsin. -- wilson. >> thank you, everybody, for the opportunity to speak to you today. i was hurled into this position, i'm the husband of one of the most beautiful women that i know in the world, three magnificent kids, and i'm a member of omega si fi fraternity when i make the daytime that was the executive director and cofound cofounder in charlottesville, virginia i get a different look. whiett nationalists, neo-nazi, kkk members all came and diversed on

personnel under president obama. senior counsel at the center for justice. and jason johnson, politics editor for the root has been covering this administration and their habits with the truth. rudy, let me start with you. how big a deal is what we are learning about the process inside this white house? >> so this is more than just a bureaucrat process. this is a system that has been developed and supported by both republican and democratic presidents over an extended period of time that is meant to protect some of the most sensitive information that our government officials handle, and the president him or herself from embarrassment when issues arise with those people who are handling it. so the fact that we now have allegations that there has been repeated deviation from the process in favor of partisan interests and nepotism is something that should concern, frankly, all americans, and i'm pleased to see that the oversight committee is looking at this. >> jason, you know, there are two aspects to this. there is the conduct and then there is the way they've dealt with the conduct, right? >> right. >> i mean, what is strating they could have forthrightly sai