the bottom line is what he is supporting with sheila jackson lee is a bill that calls for commission to study reparations. >> and proposals. they added that this year. this used to be conyers' bill every congress. >> it does not offer direct payment or even block payments. so you have to be mindful and listen with a critical year to what's going on. because this is about a proposal to study in a commission. it's not necessarily giving reparations. >> if we call him out on that, we have to call bernie sanders out on once again putting forth congressman clyburn's proposal. that proposal benefits more republican rural districts than it does black folks. so bernie sanders also has to be accountable for that. >> let me turn to tonight if i can. what are you all looking for tonight? >> fight. >> number one, last night i started calling last night's debate white night. it was the least diverse of the panels. and i think tonight we have a debate stage that looks very much like the face of america.

sheila jackson lee joins me now. thank you for coming on the program. >> thank you for having me. >> let me start with the president's tweets from this morning, where he suggested that it wasn't possible for these four congresswomen to love the united states of america. what's your response? >> well, i think the tragedy of all of this is not only the president has shredded the presidency, but all of his advocates, aides, supporters who have allowed him to behave this way, my dear friends on the other side of the aisle, republicans who have been enormously silent, who have not recognized that the president is drying the office of the presidency, and the normal role of that, and that is a healer in chief, that is to bring the country together, because the world recollect nices that the united states was a great experiment, and their admiration of this great experiment, of so many people from different places, was reflected by their decision to put the united nations in the united states. so for the president to dig down and continue this assault on these four elected members of cong

sheila jackson>> lee, judiciary committee obviously. let me be clear on what we accomplished today.e riveted throughout the entire line of questioning, was over and over again the president obstructed justice. and that clear point that there needs not be an underlying crime to obstruct justice. those are elements of the constitutional process of impeachment. we are here today as a piece of the ongoing investigation. it was clear today in the words of the report, read into the record of which mr. mullin agreed with, that he stands by his report. he stands on his report, and he's not wavering. the other point that was made is that theth star witness, if you will, refused to testify. and mr. mueller tried for almost a year over a year to get the president of the united states to come and testify. he did not. that would not be the case of the constitutional proceeding. [inaudible] >> well, that is a prerogative of the colleague on today. i can assure you as this hearing is further analyzed you will find that the elements dealing with tellin

congresswoman sheila jackson lee questioned mueller today and she joins me now. thank you.-to-face with you rather than over satellite. >> good to be with you. >> i got to say, we talked about if the democrats were going to be disciplined. i thought the democrats were very disciplined today. they were coordinated in their approach about asking substantive questions about the report and to robert mueller. the question is, did you get the answers you wanted from him? >> don, we absolutely did. we didn't expect fireworks, and i know there was a great build-up to this hearing. the reason why there was a long build-up, it took a long time to secure director mueller and we absolutely had to have him, but we had a methodical building block of a story. it wasn't a story with a lot of dancing and a lot of music. >> mmm-hmm. >> but as it relates to the judiciary committee volume ii, we hammered over and over again the issues dealing with obstruction of justice. i think one of the major points was the president and his supporters constantly indicate there was no collusion, there was n

. >> reporter: sheila jackson lee said there is no evidence of improving could not digs following theage. >> d.h.s. is doing nothing but covering up from the top down to the bottom. >> reporter: and congresswoman sheila jackson lee says she went to that facility in clint, texas, to address unsanitary conditions, but she says she was turned away. she vows democrats will bring this issue back to the forefront once congress is back in session, dion. >> mona, a question here. has president trump said anything about the deportation rates? >> reporter: well, you may remember that president trump set a deadline for congressional democrats to change the asylum laws before congress went on their 4th of july recess. of course, they missed that deadline, and so he now says that those raids targeting thousands of migrant families will happen, quote, fairly soon. reporting live in washington, mona kosar abdi, abc7 news. >> okay, and we will be watching, mona. thanks. >> a new team of lawyers will take over the justice department's census case. the trump administration has been fighting to add a qu

joining me now, democratic congresswoman from texas, sheila jackson lee, congresswoman.uch for joining me. you are a senior member of the judiciary committee. i want to talk to you about the mueller hearing this week. but first i want to ask about the president's tweets, and specifically the impact they're having on democrats. i've heard mixed things from your colleagues. many, of course, say it's important to speak out. but also i'm hearing some frustration that the so-called squad is pulling the caucus into these fights which are overshadowing the policy issues that you democrats were elected to fight for. where do you stand? >> well, i am an optimist and i think the democratic party is stronger now than it's ever been before. and when i come home to the district, there are nothing but pats on my back, for one, upholding the constitution but really the work we've been doing. and i don't think it's going to the grim reaper in the united states senate that our work has been ignored. we passed the $15 hour minimum wage, the first time in almost a decade for the federal go

it never rises hard working families at a wednesday hearing texas congresswoman sheila jackson lee grillepartment of homeland security leaders for what she says is illegal surveillance of private citizens is no statutory legislation or anything that's giving you that authority but department heads defended the practice arguing dozens of states have signed agreements allowing it or agreement allows us to. >>verify with them that that is a valid license in to retrieve the photo from that's john wagner with us customs and border patrol assured lawmakers the tools are being used carefully the department. >>also says that it's common practice for law enforcement to use facial recognition technology to catch criminals but more than 2 dozen civil rights organizations and data privacy groups say it's time to put an end to it. >>they say past studies show facial recognition technology does not always get it right, especially for women and people of color it is unlikely that we will ever achieve a point where every single demographic is identical in performance across the board. >>department of co

of fear among immigrants across the united states so it's all very much we would we had from sheila jackson lee it sounds very much as though there is a significant pushback against this policy announced by the president. it is a huge pushback and it's extraordinary that a law enforcement agency would announce raids ahead of time normally you don't tell people that are going to come and arrest them but that's the whole idea here the trumpet ministration wants to get that sort of sense of fear out there this is really president trump telling the nation that he's fulfilling this campaign promise he would crack down on immigration he has not succeeded in building the wall there has been no immigration reform passed in the congress and so this is his way of telling people in a campaign season that he is committed to carrying out that promise of cracking down on immigration but that's launched a battle city by city as these ice agents go door by door looking for people and we're just getting the initial reports of some of those raids very little information is going on out there right now but of

this isn't sheila jackson lee, but this is the inspector general report. we are our brother's keeper. africans are coming across the border seeking relief and all we ave to do is follow our law to allow the aseal usm process and rerpped if they can stay or not say and use our humanitarian agencies to either help settle them in the united states or resettle them back out of the united states and having an agreement that after the a seal umh has failed, that they can remain and mexico which was originally spoken of. since i have been to mexico at e the policies -- mexico the border does not have the resources or the housing or the jobs to take care of these individuals who are there. i want to make it very clear, my fellow americans, on this floor, this particular democratic congress in the majority has recognized the importance of americans. we passed legislation to protect against eliminating pre-existing conditions and bring down insurance costs we passed $15 an hour wage increase as federal law, we are working other gun safety and working on issues deali

sheila jackson lee. p. jackson lee: i thank the chairman and ranking member. let me indicate there is, known to the public, the fourth estate, and i might say we have a fifth estate which is all of you and others that represent the social media empire. i believe it is important that we work together to find the right pathway for how america will be a leader and balance their responsibilities and rights of such a giant entity and rights and privileges of the american people and the sanctity and security of the american people. social media statistics from 2019 show there are 3.2 billion social media users worldwide, and this number is only growing. that equates to 42% of the current world population. that is enormous. i know the numbers are just as daunting in the u.s. let me ask a few questions, and i would appreciate brevity because of the necessity to try to get as much in as possible. on march 15, 2019, worshipers were slaughtered in the midst of their prayers in christchurch, new zealand. the gunman livestreamed the first attack on facebook live. so my que

we have representative sheila jackson lee from a border state of texas calling it regrettable, sku suggesting an end run around congress. does this shut out lawmakers? >> the entire ruling was about whether or not congress had already asked and answered this question and by appropriating this money that in fact donald trump was violating the constitution which says that congress is the only one that has the purview to allocate money. and the reason why it's written in the constitution that way, is the constitution says the congress is closer to the people than the president is and the senate and therefore should be the ones representing the people in terms of what money is spent and what money is not spent. the whole case is actually based on the idea of whether or not congress should be the ones to talk about -- congress should be the ones to decide how this money should be spent. congress has decided this money should be spent for the military, by repurposing this into something that they said they don't want to do. what the court has said is that we're not going to answer that question rig

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gregg: so, you know, this houston, i believe it is a houston church at the behest of sheila jackson leehurch as a sanctuary for all -- for illegals which is, by the way, a violation of a law passed by congress. are these sanctuaries creating more of a problem, not to mention a violation of law? >> well, first of all, gregg, this is a real misnomer. there's no such thing as a sanctuary for criminals that law enforcement officers can't arrest people. they can come to any place, including my church or your place, and if a crime is taking place, they can arrest people. such thing as a sanctuary at our church. look, we don't ask people their immigration status when they come in to worship. that is not to our job. we're not an extension of i.c.e. or the government. but i don't believe churches ought to interfere with government. god has given government the task of enforcing the law, he's given the church the task of spreading the gospel. but a church is wrong, individuals are wrong if they help people break the law. gregg: pastor, always great to see you, sir, thanks very much. god bless you

i heard from sheila jackson lee, congresswoman from texas, barbara lee, congresswoman from california president knows it's upsetting. just within the last hour, he tweeted again. >> but they feel standing strong. they feel -- >> he's done it again because he feels like -- >> as they are in ghana marking 400 years since the first slaves were brought to this nation, they are still upset saying, look, we're standing with elijah cummings. and here's the issue. this is how things will change, and people don't believe it. if you say something if you stand up and not be bullied into submission, this is not right. if people believe that this president is a moral leader, they're sadly mistaken. it should not be about the color of our skin. it should be about people. what's happening at the southern border is wrong. elijah cummings stands up and says something about it. now he's called a racist for caring about humanity? something is wrong there, and this president is stirring a very ugly pot we've seen stirred before. people were killed. we are still in a time where we don't have an anti-lynch

. >> sheila jackson lee of texas is one of the lawmakers who questioned mueller, she joins us now.th us, we appreciate it. >> thank you, erica, good to be with you. >> you voted against tables last week's impeachment resolution that was brought to the house floor. after mueller's testimony, did the needle move for you at all? >> where are you today? >> i think the needle is going to move substantially as social media takes up all that was accomplished yesterday. all of the questioning from both committees as it is read and reread. seen on social media, that i might say many of the millennials get their news that way. and many other hardworking families, so i am very convinced that we were successful yesterday. and even though the numbers were not as high as other news items in the past. i would clearly say that we're not finished yet. >> you're pointing -- >> as it relates to -- >> go ahead. >> as it relates to where i am, i think after knowing the volumes one and two, after hearing over again, after hearing mr. mueller say yes to our line of questioning. dealing with obstruction,

she was asked by sheila jackson lee last month whether she was ever present for any conversation between michael cohen and donald trump about stormy daniels. she said no on multiple occasions. she also said she relayed information to the press that there was no affair between donald trump and stormy daniels based on information that was dictated to her. i'm told, wolf, that they are going to examine this information, this testimony, and perhaps will have follow-up questions for her in the days ahead, wolf. >> manu, thanks very much. we're going to talk about the disturbing chant at the president's rally and more with democratic senator richard blumenthal, a member of the judiciary and armed services committee. thank you so much for coming in. >> thank you. >> do you believe that this chant that we heard at the political rally, "send her back" was any different than the president's tweet earlier when he told congresswoman omar go back to where you came from. >> they were the president's own words, they were not original to that group. in fact donald trump gloried in them. he allowed the c

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i spoke with congresswoman sheila jackson lee. she's been rescheduled to visit the border station after not being granted into cbp facilities. this is what she said in response to the president's comments, that the migrants are better off. watch this. >> these people came from unbelievable violence. the women i spoke to, her son was murdered, the other woman left for a grocery store or to get food, when she came back her house had been broken into and the teenagers she was in charge of were drugged and they had to call emergency services to undrug them and they fled. the disabled person has no resources and is frightened for his life because he's vulnerable. i don't think the president has a clue, and, unfortunately, the department of homeland security and the entire apparatus in washington are in outright denial. >> what do you think, ryan? i mean, listen, it's not going away and both sides see this as politically expedient to have this issue front and center. >> i think the big thing about the way trump talks about this issue is

here with me now is one of the members of the committee, texas democratic congresswoman sheila jackson much for joining us today. >> martin, thank you so much for having me. hello to all of your viewers on this wonderful 50th commemoration if i might say sitting in houston of apollo 11. congratulations to all of my fellow houstonians and americans for an exciting, historical moment and a moment for our future. i'm just excited and i must add to that, the freedom of asap. i am a member of the judiciary committee. you're getting ready to ask me questions of justice and i hope sweden listens to the fact that he should be released because his rights have been denied and he should have his rights preserved. >> i'll get to that in just a moment. let's start by talking about the mueller report. it was released of course in april, 448 pages and most of it now unredacted. what is it that you hope to learn next week that hasn't already been made public? >> well, i think the most important element of this is for the voice of robert mueller to be heard truthfully and under oath, capturing the two

. >> congresswoman sheila jackson lee attempted to visit two texas detention centers today and was turned around but was invited to reschedule. she said this. >> this is a natural and manmade disaster. this is a disaster brought on by the president's irresponsible, inhumane policy. >> but, and this is a surprise, the president was really, really hot under the collar this weekend about his old friends at fox news. the president tweeting this, he said fox news is changing fast. but they forgot the people who got them there. apparently the network has relied -- he's relied on to be a megaphone to his base is not sufficiently supportive. and speaking of playing to his base, there's this. the president retweeting what reports to be a quote from ronald reagan predicting a trump presidency. and if it sounded too good to be true, well, that's because it's not true. the quote. for the life of me, and i'll never know how to explain it, when i met that young man i felt like i was the one shaking his hand with the president. the tweet was -- the tweet has since been deleted and the quote is fake. rat

sheila jackson lee doing the question.e you ever present when president trump and cohen discussed stormy daniels. >> no, ma'am. >> i'm going to say it again, were you ever presenting when trump and mr. cohen discussed stormy daniels since it was all over the news that that occurred. so no is my answer. that is her june 19th to the congress. this from the search warnrant. cohen received a call from hicks. 16 seconds into the call trump joined the call and the call continued over four minutes. so on a call but not present for the communication, is that the out here? >> that could be the technicality she was speaking to, the semantics there. there's a question here, democrats have so much they want to investigate right now. they still wanting to pull out pieces of the mueller report and have witnesses of the mueller report come forward and testify, whether it's corey lewandowski or the people in the white house. you have to wonder if this is a rabbit hole. they're never going to find out the content of those calls. they can b

i will sign into law sheila jackson lee's reparations bill so we can have the national conversation. >> laura: is jim crow still alive and well with black employment at record levels question >> it's not. "new york post," fox publication, came out and quoted the quinnipiac poll, 51% of the country said president trump is a racist. i applaud you for saying in the previous segment trump needs to lower the temperature. he said a couple years ago what if you got to lose, give me a chance. why doesn't he go to baltimore like you were suggesting. 51% of this country right noww believes trump is a racist. what is that tell you? >> do you know why that is? >> let me finish. the only person who's been honest as laura ingraham because she said she needs to lower the temperature. >> do you know why that is? "the new york times," "washington post," all the talking heads lie about the president. they lie about the president. our organization, project 21 came out lastro year with a promotion, better deal for america and we were addressing issues like in baltimore. you know who responded? the white

congresswoman sheila jackson lee said were you ever present when trump and cohen discussed stormy danielssaid, no, ma'am. you were never present when they discussed stormy daniels? no. so there's obviously evidence that there were some phone calls in which she played some part, but how can you determine what took place in those calls without that evidence? >> well, you need the evidence, you might need testimony from michael cohen of what they have. i said to your knowledge, i asked to your knowledge of payments made to ms. daniels and your discussions about those payments, i asked her do you have any knowledge of any of those payments or ms. mcdougal. apparently she did. and proving it, i don't know if those phone calls were taped, if cohen testified, if there's additional material, but you don't have to be dick tracy to know that she did the best nuancing or skating. trump trusted her. >> presumably robert mueller would've known something about this as well. so had he, wouldn't he have referred this or indicted her for perjuring herself? >> she didn't make those statements that robert m

listen as he's coming before congress, let to what sheila jackson lee, a democrat, said to our dahnawhat she hopes he does. >> to tell an indicting story that can be projected by the voice and the words of director mueller. the picture that will be gleaned from the testimony, both in front of the judiciary committee and in front of the intelligence committee will be stark and real. >> maria, do democrats run the risk of looking foolish if robert mueller resists their attempts at theater? >> i do think that that is certainly a challenge. but i think what the congresswoman was getting at is that the report in and of itself is damning. that if we can get mueller to actually just read what is in the report, those 11 instances when he clearly delineated when this president obstructed justice, that that will be damning enough and can be followed up by questions and commentary by the democrats to really spell out the picture to americans who have not yet read the report, that this report engaged -- >> or may never. >> or may never. exactly. i think that's why it's hugely important for us to

it never rises hard working families at a wednesday hearing texas congresswoman sheila jackson lee grilld security leaders for what she says is illegal surveillance of private citizens is no statutory legislation or anything that's giving you that authority but department heads defended the practice arguing dozens of states have signed agreements allowing it or agreement allows us to. >>verify with them that that is a valid license in to retrieve the photo from that's john wagner with us customs and border patrol assured lawmakers the tools are being used carefully the department. >>also says that it's common practice for law enforcement to use facial recognition technology to catch criminals but more than 2 dozen civil rights organizations and data privacy groups say it's time to put an end to it. >>they say past studies show facial recognition technology does not always get it right, especially for women and people of color it is unlikely that we will ever achieve a point where every single demographic is identical in performance across the board. >>department of commerce technology ch

the bill was introduced by democratic congressmember sheila jackson lee of houston, after former congressmember john conyers had championed the bill for decades without success. the hearing took p place on juneteenth, the day that commemorates june 19, 1865, when enslaved africans in galveston, texas, finally learned that the emancipation proclamation had abolished slavery. this year also marks the 400th anniversary of the trans-atlantic slave trade. ahead of the hearing, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell was asked by spectrum reporter eva mckend whether the government should issue a public apology for slavery. this was mcconnell''s response. >> i don't think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago, for whom none of us currently living are responsible, is a good idea. we've, you know, tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil war, by passing landmark civil rights legislation. we've elected an african-american president. i think we're always a work in progress in this country, but no one currently alive was responsible for that. and i don't think we sh

a lot to talk about right now to republicans joining us with their take but joining us now is sheila jackson. congresswoman jack soson lee, y voted yes on this resolution condemning the president's co ' comments. when the president says he doesn't have a racist bone in his body, you know, i always wonder how anybody can say that. we all have biases. we all have things we need to work on. what do you make of what is going on right now? >> anderson, i'm hoping by the 400, 240-person vote today that there is some sense of calmness and harmony brought to the american people and to the united states congress. it was a bipartisan vote and it rejects really the president's own interpretation of himself and the distortion that he is given to america's values. and it takes away the distraction that he always seems to want to put in play. i don't know whether he wants to call himself racist or whether he has a racist bone but his words and many of us know that words can be inciting and they can provoke war over peace. how do you say that a federal judge of his panic background is a mexican and cannot

. >> may i just add to the point -- >> sheila jackson. >> thank you, mr. chairman. throughout the entire time of mr. mueller's presence before the house judiciary committee, he evidenced elements of a crime. he was not in any way shortchanging his answers that crimes had been committed. he said yes to the three elements of obstruction. he said yes that one element of obstruction could result in jail time. he also said that when i say said, answered questions that said you did not have to have an underlying crime to be able to be convicted of obstruction. i don't think the american people have ever heard that in that manner before. i know there are some who may have read both volumes. but they never heard it as it was played out with the members of this committee that when you finish a judiciary committee's questioning and when you started with chairman nadler, who did an enormous job on framing our questioning by getting right to the meat of the issue of obstruction and then exoneration, which director mueller openly and i think quite vividly said that he was not --

act, i will focus on education, address health care disparities but i will also sign into law sheila jackson lee's reparations bill so that we can have a national conversation we have waited too long in this country to have. >> laura: is jim crow still alivee and well, leo, with black employment at record levels? >> no, it's not alive and well. but i want to give you some news for everyone. new york pole, if ox publicatio publication, came out and quoted the quinnipiac poll, 51% of the country said that president trump is a racist and i applaud you for saying right in the previous segment trump needs to lower the temperature. he said a couple of years ago, what you got to lose? give me a chance. why don't you go to baltimore like you are suggesting with each spell shelby steele. 51% of this country right now believe that trump is a racist. does that tell you about his messaging? >> do know why that is? >> the only person was been honest about it is laura ingraham, because she said he needs to lower the temperature and he made an unforced error. >> do know why that is? >> tell me why 51% -- >

as president, i will sign into law sheila jackson lee's reparations bill so we can have the nationalted too long to have. >> a smattering of applause there. let's discuss its significance. mark preston, april ryan, also chris cilizza, good to see you. april, reparations. does it help him in party, hurt him in a general? >> it helps him in party. it could hurt him in the general, because that's such a touchy issue. a lot of america, to include black america is not always in on this issue. but it's gaining momentum. i remember 22 years ago, bill clinton had the chance to make an apology for slavery. he didn't. the issue, if you did apologize, that meant to repair the wrong. you know? reparations. what did reparations look like, who would get them? you know, and that's kind of a slippery slope. going back to beto o'rourke tonight, when he said he would indeed sign the bill into law that sheila jackson lee has on the table, that's for establishing a commission to look at it. not saying i'm going to give you reparations. so, the devil is in the details there. the step is coming. there's m

i yield the balance of my time to representative sheila jackson lee. the chair: the gentlewoman from texas is recognized. ms. jackson lee: i thank the distinguished gentlelady. i want to personally thank her for her constant and needed fight for women's rights and particularly to protect these women against sexual assault and sexual abuse. ky not tell you how many stories that we've heard at the border of young women who have come either by coyotes or when they get here to this country, the fear that they have of sexual assault and sexual abuse. it is a long, long, long, long walk and a long journey from northern triangle and i want to thank you again for recognizing that. so i rise to support the cust kuster amendment, i rise to support the underlying bill, h.r. 3239. i thank the gentlelady from california for her leadership and i thank my good friend dr. ruiz. we've talked about this, he's talked about this i've heard him on many occasions, speaking to us as members of congress, not democrat bus democrats and republicans and independents and others w

khanna: i yield the remaining of our time to representative sheila jackson lee. the chair: the gentlewoman has 15 seconds. ms. jackson lee: the people of iran do not want war. i thank the gentleman from covel california for allowing us, no matter what time of night it is, to declare the people of iran don't want war, the people of the united states know that the constitution says congress has the right to delair war. i support this amendment because it speaks to the constitution and our right to declare and and to stand against war and sending these men and women without the authority of congress. the chair: the gentlewoman yields back. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. thornberry: thank you, madam chair. i yield myself the balance of he time. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. thornberry: madam chair, i'm sympathetic with the idea that congress has neglected to fulfill its responsibilities under the constitution in this area for many years. with presidents of both parties and with congressional majorities of both parties. unfortunately, i belie

will sign into law a new voting rights act, address health care disparities and sign into law sheila jacksonill so we can have the national conversation we've waited too longing this country to have. >> speaking of reparations, miss williamson, many of your opone nlts support reparations of slavery but you're calling for financial assistance. what makes you qualified to determine how much owed? >> not in financial asisterance 500 -- 200 to $500 billion payment of a debt owed. that's what reparations is. we need deep truth it telling. we don't need another commission to look at evidence. it is time for us to simply realize that this country will not heal. the country is a collection of people. they heal when there's deep truth telling. we need to recognize when it comes to the economic debt between blacks and whites it does come from a great injustice that has never been dealt with and that has to do with the fact that there were 250 years of slavery followed by another 100 years of domestic terrorism. what makes me qualify snd i'll tell you what? if you did the math of 40 acre oofz mule and

here is sheila jackson lee talking about why she disagrees with you. >>. >> thought the entire time of mr. mueller's time in front of the house judiciary committee, he had elements of crime, he was not in any way short-changing his answers that crimes had been committed. he said yes to the three elements of obstruction. he said yes that one element of obstruction could result in jail time. >> how do you watch the mueller hearings and read the report and she does have such vastly different views of this? >> because there's a lot of complexity to this and like inning this life. there are many interpretations to it. and many experts who intensity dislike trump, the president, feel that as well. whether a crime is actually committed or intent to commit a yiem are two different things. and the oush. >> do you think your more reasoned approach is going to lose or do you think you guys-- the blue dogs are going to be able to hold this back? >> i think the reasoned approach is going to be victorious. in politics, a month is ten years sometimes. >> why he, especially in this news cycle. >> i wi

one of the neighborhoods that the great sheila jackson lee represents in congress is cashmere gardens. a neighborhood that has been hit by three 500 year floods in just the last five years. hurricane harvey in 2017 was the worst of them. we showed up to that neighborhood time after time, and one year to the day, we saw four of the five library still shut down. we passed cashmere elementary and i said this has got to be a tough school. knowschild that walks in that he or she is in the right place because they get to be with world-class public school educators. i want to make sure i have their backs and show them the respect they have earned and they deserve. enqueue all four having us out. we love you. >> i am comfortable, so i'm just going to stay right here. strong a great website, public schools.org. we have invited all our members to put up a video or ask a question on that site. this is a video question. this is from allison in new york. >> my students face a wide array of problems that are somewhat unique to rural america. ofy are the unseen vortex the opioid crisis. how will you

last night you were quite articulate in discussing reparations and in the words of sheila lee jackson's bill, can you explain to the american people who are watching this right now and listening to this right now what form of reparations are you talking about. who pays what how much? >> that's the question that the reparations commission that sheila jackson lee has proposed would answer, and it would answer it by bringing every single american into the conversation, giving them a seat at the table, and finally, for once, telling the full and complete american story. how did we end up where there is ten times the wealth in white america than there is in black america or an internal mortality crisis that is three times as deadly for women of color or education disparities where you are five times as likely to be disciplined in a kindergarten classroom if you're a child of color, this is the legacy of slavery, and jim crow and suppression, alive and well today. we need to listen to everyone who has born the consequences of this problem in our country. this commission would begin that proce

i disagree with sheila jackson she runs a good district.s far as baltimore, my son was an nih studynt to at johns hopkins and we had to stay at a low income place and the guards told us not to go after dark because we were white and we did and we live in a barrio in texas. we went to good markets and we met good folks and we had good experiences. i would like you to ask everyone agreeing with trump if they have been there because i have and i'm native texan. i think some people are just .greeing to the tv depiction trump watches one station and the whole country can't just agree to that. they either go there, look it up, or go talk to people who have been there. i do like this singling out. i don't like that, it feels wrong for america. that's all i wanted to say. i'm disappointed in the president. thank you so much. deborah, republican line, thanks for joining in. you mentioned the reaction yesterday morning of the president at the white house, before heading out to play golf, responding to a report on "fox cnn, theds," later on media corr

speaker, i yield five minutes to the gentlelady from texas, sheila jackson lee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from texas is recognized for five minutes. ms. jackson lee: i thank the gentlelady and i thank the two co-sponsors, the gentleman from pennsylvania, the gentlelady from pennsylvania, for a very important initiative that not one of us have unfortunately not heard of one of our law enforcement officers in recent years, in recent times in recent months committing suicide. that incident has occurred in my own community and it is clearly important to be able to provide this extra support. supporting and treating officers in crisis act of 2019. the stoic act. it is crucial because it also impacts these families. these officers every day deal with such catastrophic incidences. in my own community we've seen six little children killed over the last couple of months. the individuals who arrive first to the scene are law enforcement officers and they're moms and dads with children. and i imagine or cannot imagine the impact that those scenes, those crime

i will focus on education, address health care disparities and also sign into lee sheila jackson lee'ssation we waited too long in this country to have. >> thank you, congressman o'rourke, speaking of reparations ms. williamson, many of your opponents support a commission for reparations for slavery. you are calling for $500 billion in financial assistance, what makes you qualified to determine how much is owed in raeparation. >> it's not $500 billion in financial assistance. it's $500 billion, 200 to $500 billion payment of a debt that is owed. that is what rap rations is. we need deep truth telling. i appreciate what congressman o'rourke has said. it is time for us to simply realize that this country will not real. all that a country is a collection of people. people heal when there's deep truth telling. we need to recognize when it comes to the economic gap between blacks and whites in america, it does come from a great injustice that has never been dealt with. that great injustice has had to do with the fact that there was 250 years of slavery followed by another hundred yearsover

sheila jackson lee. let me be clear on what we accomplished today. riveted throughout the entire line of questioning was over and over again the president obstructed justice. there needs not be an underlying crime to obstruct justice. those are elements of the constitutional process of impeachment. we're here today as a piece of the ongoing investigation. he stands by his report. he stands on his report and he's not waivering. the star witness refused to testify. mr. mueller tried to get the president of the united states to come and testify. he did not. that would not be case of a constitutional proceedsing. i can assure you as this hearing is further analyzed, you will find that the elements dealing with telling staff to lie, dealing with interfering with witnesses dealing with the question of dangling of a pardon to interfere with a witness. dealing with the attorney general to unrefuse yourself. you have to ask yourself the question, if any other president had done these acts, would a proceeding not be in place. i would make the argument that we'

sheila, you came in later. before we end this hearing, let me turn to ms. jackson-lee for her five minutes and then we will have time to get to the floor. the gentle lady from texas is recognized. >> i think the chair and thank you for holding this hearing. to the witnesses, uscis acknowledges per policy changes that slowed processing and increased the backlog. does uscis, and i know we've had a series of questions like this, make any efforts to improve data collection and analysis to better understand the impact of future policy changes and processing time on case backlog? >> we do reviews, looking back in time to see the policy effects. certainly when we have information about the various policies, we tried to make estimates of how long things will take. we regularly do reviews every year on this nature. >> what is your backlog now? if you had to give a landscape approximation of how many backlog cases, do you have a handle on that? >> we have 2.4 million cases in backlog and overall, 5.9 million cases pending. >> and those individuals, do they have a document in