the end. the. thirty four year old frederick barbarossa is getting married his bride is sixteen year old fatima so they're going to it's an international dream wedding. the minstrels of the realm via to outdo each other in praising the beauty of the young noblewoman as witnesses to the events reported. to in. the chronicle of the bishops of votes book says in the weeks after whitson emperor frederick wed banty's the daughter of the count of burgundy invalid's book and consummated his marriage. laws the consummation of the marriage of bad place and frederick is to be witnessed by dignitaries from the empire from england france and poland. in the legal understanding of the day it was an important act of state necessary to vilify the union between the emperor and the contents of both the marriage is primarily a political union and. the wedding was depicted centuries later in a monumental sealing fresco in the staircase at the residence the bishop's palace in a football burgundy is part of the empire a

the prince -- the british embassy. the prince state in the north rim over the small dining room. it was later named the prince of wales bedroom. five years later, president lincolo wan'laid out there -- body was laid out there. during the kennedy administration, it was transformed into the president's dining room. visit,second day of the a large public reception was held in the east room at 12:00. according to the correspondent of a new york newspaper, "into that room, heard tell mail -- pelmell, children, rowdies and drivers. no telegraphic statement can do justice to the inexcusable lack of prearrangement for the preservation of indecency. the real party see has seen democracy unshackled for once." all bowed to the prince, and he returned their salutations. another newspaper took a different view of the event, saying the prince was able to form a good idea of the character of our presidential reception. their freedom from stilted etiquette and the perfect equality, which ignores social the stations. seem to show enthusiasm, or at least curiosity. during the afternoon, the presi

the chair: the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the consideration of h.r. 5797, which the clerk will report by title. the clerk: a bill to amend title 19 of the social security act, to allow states to provide under medicaid services for certain individuals with opioid use disorders and institutions for mental diseases. the chair: pursuant to the rule, the bill is considered read the first time. the gentlewoman from california, mrs. walters, and the gentleman from new jersey, mr. pallone, each will control 30 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from california. mrs. walters: mr. chairman, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentlewoman is recognized. mrs. walters: the opioid epidemic is ravaging this nation. families have been torn apart, lives have been destroyed, and communities are in dange doctor are endangered. this cry -- are endangered. this crisis does not discriminate. americans from all walks of life in all 50 states are being held hostage by the scourge of opioids. tragically, the opioid epidemic claims the

in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it, the amendment is agreed to. it is now in order to consider amendment number 47 printed in part a of house report 115-711. for what purpose does the gentleman from oregon he seek recognition. the clerk: amendment number 47 printed in part a of house offered by mr. schrader of oregon. the chair: each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon. mr. schrader: thank you very much. i want to thank chairman shuster and ranking member defazio and the staffs for working with us on drafting this amendment. it requires the corps to include any project or facility which there is a final report on disposition to the maximum extent possible. straightforward amendment. and i reserve. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? mr. shuster: claim time in opposition although i do not claim time in opposition. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. shuster: i thank the gentleman which requires the corps to in

keating: i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 20 offered by mr. keating of massachusetts. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 918, the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. keating, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. keating: my amendment allocates for additional research in innovative technologies for safe and secure storage, treatment, transportation and disposal of spent nuclear fuel from civilian nuclear reactors. five nuclear power plants have retired since 2013. six more across the country, including the pilgrim nuclear power plant in my district, are slated to retire in the next few years. this is timely, because just last month, this house passed by margin of 340-72, a bill to improve nuclear waste storage. reactors can shut down, but that doesn't mean there is a safe and secure plan for spent fuel stored on site. pilgrim has been operating for over 45 years in massachusetts and its spent fuel has been stored there ev

time the print gets on the paper. the differences between the two come down to goodlatte has the most enforcement and it is the most restrictive, but has components in it of amnesty. i will say it this way, the amnesty for daca recipients is a component of each. when you look at those two scenarios, the goodlattes the gentleman from texas seek >> follow that conversation at c-spanners org. we'll take you live to the u.s. house floor for debate on immigration. consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the resolution. the clerk: house calendar number 7, house resolution 954, resolved, that upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to consider in the house the bill h.r. 4760, to amend the immigration laws and the homeland security laws, and for other purposes. all points of order against consideration of the bill are waived. the amendments printed in the report of the committee on rules accompanying this resolution shall be considered as adopted. the bill, as amended, shall be considered a

the issue of in the specs the power range the low exceeds the maximum allowed. >> i don't believe that's correct he's an rf engineer and sometimes i pretend to be one but i'm not. >> we've seen him in times. >> good evening, i'm bill hammet. to answer the question about the antenna it's a tri-directional antenna and all directions are to be active and the sheet 1 drawings indicate the active sectors provide additional detail in sheet 2. there's one direction across the street whereas at that distance levels would be low. the other two generally go up and down the street though they're facing the buildings to some degree. >> the second question was related to when i saw the spec sheet it showed the power range the higher end exceed the maximum, is that correct? >> i'm not familiar with what sheet you're talking about. this is the specification sheet for the antenna itself? >> yes. >> the antennas are fabricated and can handle a variety of power up to some maximum. for this case and other cases they don't run as much as power as the antenna can handle like you don't drive your car the maxi

so, the offers on the table. i think we been very clear about how we see ourselves playing a role in a negotiation both as participants in supporting the process, we are party to this conflict, but the taliban leadership has to understand that the very nature of the settlement, when you talk about forms of government and rights of individuals under the constitution, prisoner release and con confidence building issues, these are issues that have to be negotiated with afghans, and knocked over the heads of afghans so we will play our role but the taliban, if we recognize them as part of the legitimate clinical fabric of afghanistan, they have to recognize that the afghan government and the many communities of afghanistan are also part of that legitimate fabric, political fabric of afghanistan. let me ask you this question. in your testimony you state that we have a condition space strategy in south asia, but those conditions however have never been spelled out. what conditions are you referring to specifically. >>

to the ship of the but out to mobilize the horror was almost the minister of defense for the time of.his fights well before and if is a mobilize have a selves. then in triptans may claim that it is is that intends to. and they feel that we have to make it clear that is and was that they're not israel is attacking. in spite of diane's opposition at zero nine hundred hours a cabinet decided on immediate mobilization of israeli reserves. meanwhile on this holiest of holy days israeli soldiers on the front lines fasted and prayed. but their calm was to be interrupted with the news of the upcoming war . ironically across the canal egyptian troops were given their first warning of war at exactly the same time. they were to break their mother in fast and prepare for battle. but the attack would come earlier than the israelis had been led to believe. that they were at. the battalion commanders gathered us but he said break you fast we laughed but he distributed tea and dates and we broke our fast when we broke our fast but there felt the dread there is no one who doesn't feel fear he said tod

welcome to the festival. i continue to serve on the board of the school. it's great to see key school sponsoring an event for the community like this. best to see all of you out here and showing your interest in reading and in books and in everything the school stands for. i'm here today with garrett graff who is the author of a book called "raven rock". the story of the u.s. government's secret plan to save itself while the rest of us die. it's a sardonic book. it makes amusing and instructive and frightening major issues of the government's preparedness after a war, especially a nuclear war. garrett graff knows what he's talking about and writing about. he's a historian who has specialized in national security. he's the author of a great book that he's come to my classes at the naval academy to talk about called "threat matrix: the fbi war in the age of global terror". he also has written for a number of journals but edited two of them politico and the washingtonian. and now he's turned his attention to the whole part of the u.s. where there are shelters

is backing the government against the rebels and the reuters news agency says the u.n. special envoy has put forward a peace plan proposing the who these hand in their weapons including ballistic missiles in exchange for an end to the coalition bombing campaign it also refers to a transitional government with all political factions represented the u.a.e. has hinted that it would support its plan for the red cross says it's pulling seventy one stuff out of yemen because of security incidents and threats concerns are mounting of a possible offensive to take the port of her data from the who these the porters the main lifeline for humanitarian aid into the water one country pro-government forces backed by the u.a.e. which is part of the side led coalition fighting with rebels have closed in on the city and wednesday they dropped leaflets telling people to rise up against these the u.n. says any assault on the city will have died humanitarian consequences the u.s. is also warning against an offensive to capture the port well the international organization for migration says

the presiding officer: the clerk will read the title of the bill for the first time. the clerk: h.r. 6, an act to provide for opioid use disorder prevention, recovery, and treatment and for other purposes. mr. mcconnell: i now ask for a second reading and in order to place the bill on the calendar under the provision of rule 14, i object to my own request. the presiding officer: objection having been heard, the bill will be read for a second time on the next legislative day. mr. mcconnell: now, mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 10:00 a.m. tuesday, june 26. further, that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day, and morning business be closed. i further ask that following leader remarks the senate resume consideration of the motion to proceed to h.r. 2. further, i ask the senate recess from 12:30 until 2:15 to allow for the weekly conference meetings.

the third run of the game for the democrats.swung that and then tossed his bat, jogged down to first, like a professional. aguilar comes in to score, 3-nothing, richmond with the rbi. >> he's driven in more than he's allowed right now which is never a good sign for the republicans. >> no it's not. that will bring up third baseman tim ryan to the plate, popped up to second base. his first time. richmo richmond, there he goes on the first pitch. davis is going to try and throw down to second. he makes the throw, not even close. richmond goes in standing up. how many pitches do you give him till third? one or two? >> this one. >> let's check in with our official scorer, zack. by the way, richmond is hands on his hip, starting walking towards third. he doesn't go. ryan swings and fouls one back. looked like he was going to go. his hands on his hips and started walking. >> eighth term. from ohio. when he's not here, he's on the appropriations committee. which is where a lot of the action is right now in congress, on the house side, a

so the spreads impact the numbers of the banks. so it will continue to be a volatile time. until we get more clear messages and in the meantime, it's going to be a rough ride certainly you will see good days and worse days but today it's a positive day the idea is that this epic occurrence that this -- you know, populist government coming in and being able to finally take over in parliament is actually happening today is perceived as a positive but we'll see what tomorrow brings back to you. >> claudia, thank you. thank you for the live update from italy in the milan studio there. >>> meanwhile, the euro is hovering a ten-day high against the dollar after the ecb's chief economist hinted that the central bank could begin to discuss the end of qe at next week's meeting speaking in berlin, pratt said that the governing council has to assess if sufficient progress has been made to unwind the asset program. striking a hawkish tone was the bun disbank adviser. money markets are now pricing in a 90% chance of a rate hike by july 2019. i'

people like the u.n. ambassador or the uk -- the ambassador to the uk. people like the u.s. attorney for the northern district of texas. the top federal prosecutor in north texas. the head of the department of energy savannah river operation center in savannah, georgia. [ laughing ] >> these are the people who would actually lead the united states in the event of an attack on washington. and it would sort of be a surprise to most americans. if you can sort of name any of the officials that i just named like you're ahead of 99% of america. . . >> hundreds of millions of dollars of the communications and equipment. again, you have this odd tension many of these facilities with the incredibly secret, classified facility and that these are regular government office buildings. so, the raven rock cafeteria is run by the choctaw indian tribe as part of a minority government contractor set-aside program. at the norad bunker in the center of the mountain, if you get all of the way inside the mountain there's a subway fast food franchise as part of the food court for the staff. in my

the problem really is the timing of the report, the team does not have time to do the work that needs to get done or some other reason. nevertheless we need to have congress look into this. my own suggestion would be that perhaps we have the trustee report at the end of the fiscal year, beginning in october. the president and his team can look at what could be done and incorporate the findings of the report into the budget session that takes place usually in february of the following year. it is a suggestion but i think congress should look into that. the second issue is that this report this year was signed only by the trump administration officials. this is a problem. the fact is we do not have two public trustees. when the bipartisan national commission on social security reform issued its 1983 report they remarked that adding two individuals from outside of the executive branch would be good public policy and help with confidence and the integrity of the trust fund. we really need independent folks outside of the trump ministration, outside of any administration to contribute to t

the speaker: the chair has examined the journal of the last day's proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approve. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, i demand a vote on the speaker's approval of the journal. the speaker: the request se -- question is on agreeing to the speakers' a -- approval of the journal. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. >> mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does -- the speaker: for what purpose does the gentleman seek recognition? >> i request the yeas and nays. the speaker: the yeas and nays are requested. those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20 further proceedings on this question are postponed. the pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentlewoman from new york, ms. stefanik. ms. stefanik: i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indi

the looming trade war with the us demonstrated the weakness in the us demonstrated the weakness in thethe right honourable gentleman to all of those who took action to recognise the anniversary of the 100 yea rs of recognise the anniversary of the 100 years of women getting the vote. it isa years of women getting the vote. it is a very good year for women in politics, we should continue to recognise that anniversary and it was indeed, as he said, there was a focus at the summit on the question of gender equality and women's empowerment. as he said, the important declaration in relation to increasing opportunities for at least 12 years of safe and quality education for all and dismantling the barriers to girls and women's poetry education particular in conflict affected and fragile states. and also we recognise that a marginalised girls such as those with a disability face additional barriers in maintaining access to education and it was an important commitment from all those at the table. he talks about trade deals and the possibility of a trade deal with the united states of america.

was the appeal of the cu to allow the demolition of the building. the variance decision deals with the project that would be constructed where that building would be demolished. and the new construction that would replace it. the variance is required for that. i have trouble with understanding the extent of the appellant's argument, but the process that they outlined, and yes, i work at the planning department, this is an absurd process that they are putting forward. they would have you somehow obtain the building permit to construct the new building before you get, or are allowed to get the approval to demolish the building. so you would have -- i still don't know how that would work, exactly. and in some cases, the new construction wouldn't even require a planning commission review. they would expect we would send that notification for a new building that goes where an existing building is but no reference of that building to be demolished. whether it sits on top of that building or not, it makes no sense to me. why anyone would want to go through

the prosecutors' assessment of the fact, the law, the practice." the inspector general also concluded that director comey violated department of justice policies when he spoke publicly and informed congress about the investigation. on july 5, 2016, four months before the election, mr. comey held a press conference and announced the fbi would not recommend criminal charges. yet, director comey also personally criticized secretary clinton in the middle of her presidential campaign. the ig found that director "was contraryism, to long-standing department ," for " and protocol essentially trashing the subject of an investigation with comey,ed misconduct that every agent, and every prosecutor agreed did not warrant prosecution." divisive this announcement, mr. comey testified before congress numerous times and spoke at length about the clinton investigation, and that this would remain in the press during the final months of the presidential election. then on october 28, 2016, mr. comey informed congress that he had reopened the investigation . it had fi

today at 5, the latest from the inquiry into the grenfell tower fire. the lawyer for the man who lived in the flat where the fire began says his client was left terrified by threats of reprisals. whatever the precise cause or origin of the fire in mr kebede‘s kitchen, it was an accident and mr kebede bears no responsibility, directly or indirectly, for the fire. we'll have the latest from court. the other main stories on bbc news at 5... the government will produce backstop plans, including a "temporary customs arrangement" with the eu tomorrow. the brexit secretary david davis says ideas about how to avoid a hard border in ireland are still being discussed. more than 100 firefighters are tackling a blaze at the mandarin oriental hotel in knightsbridge in central london. the city watchdog tells mps there have been around 10,000 incidents of fraud linked to the computer problems at tsb. and bbc radio 2's 500 words competition reveals the children's word of the year — it is "plastic". the public inquiry into the grenfell tower disaster has heard that the

the price of the mandate to deliver the u.s. congress to establish rigid standards of minimal acceptable service rather through the history and is expected to use its flexibility to meet the needs and expectations while balancing the delivery of service against budgetary constraints. policymakers really need to start to find what we as a nation need and how it can be funded but that requires the ability to engage in a thoughtful and comprehensive examination the legislative process very seldom offers the opportunity to undertake such "in-depth" assessments particularly with so many competing interests at stake with mailers and employees and consumers very often little unanimity with these category of groups that the postal service with future projections needs clarity and certainty. to that end the chairman is pleased to present trump taskforces examining these issues in the commission looks forward to reviewing the final report and recommendations thank you again to the lexington institute for hosting this event and inviting me

of the scottish stonemasons and the importance of the story in the u.s. and scotland. >> greetings from scotland. i am happy indeed to be able to contribute to the white house historical associations symposium for 2018, which will celebrate the historic relationship between the united kingdom, ireland and the united states of america. the bonds of friendship which stretch across the atlantic are found throughout the pages of history, and will be further explored in the presentations for this year's symposium. when i met your president last year, i was interested to learn about the role scottish stonemasons had played in the construction of the white house, which means the links between our countries are in a very real sense embedded in the roles -- in the halls of every american president since john adams. the story is compelling. on october 13, 1792, the group charged with building the presidents house late a cornerstone in a simple but dignified ceremony. the place between the stones listed the district commissioners, the architect and a master scottish

of the case, the high profile of the that the his belief integrity of the fbi and the justice department depended on being able to stand out there and explain what the decision was and why it was made and that he was uniquely situated to be able to do that. >> do you find a credible? mr. horowitz: that he believed that? yes. that he was right about that? no, as we laid out here. that is the responsibility of the attorney general or deputy attorney general, highest-ranking prosecutor has decision.e for they are the ones accountable to the public, to the organization. anyid you come across evidence of would refute the notion he was concerned about his own reputation? mr. horowitz: we had a variety of testimony, to be fair, and it was in various places as to why he did what he did. and really a series of explanations from individuals as to what they believed. when shouldwray, criminal investigations be wrapped up? wray: hard to answer that in a general way. when the work is done. i mean, that is the most shorthanded way of putting it. >> how often is legislative opinion about when a crimina

at the heart of the current crisis is the border between the republic of ireland — which is in the eu the uk. the uk wants to leave the eu's customs union — but it doesn't want a hard border which would introduce customs checks. theresa may says no uk prime minister would ever agree to that. to buy some time on resolving this, the uk is proposing that after brexit, it will match eu trade tariffs while negotiations are ongoing. now, the disagreement between the prime minister and her brexit secretary was over whether the uk should name a date on which that arrangement must end. david davis was adamant that must happen. here's liam fox, another cabinet minister of a like mind. we wa nted we wanted to ensure that there would not be a mechanism by which the european union would be able to keep britain and a particular arrangement, and we would be leaving the eu and a period of any subsequent arrangements by the end of the 2021 year. that was what we time ago and that is what we finally got agreed on paper today. europe has already begun reacting. the european parliament's brexit co—ordina

the. well the u.s. ambassador went on to remind the court what the political dispute between the u.a.e. and qatar is accusing the country once again of backing dangerous terrorist groups across the region something cattle vehemently deny. or doha is looking for is financial compensation for what it says is a reprimand damage caused by the blockade the u.a.e. denies that that damage has taken place on friday both countries will have a chance to speak again to sum up their final arguments and it will then be in the hands of the this court here in the hague to work out exactly what to do next but we do know that the u.a.e. is challenging the belated see of the court carrying on with this case any further saying that earlier forms of arbitration that should have been carried out before bringing this case to the court have not been exhausted first thank you for that nice barkha dollar trampas cetera wiil more details of an upcoming summit he'll hold with russia's vladimir putin the two leaders are expected t

the christian the socialist union of the c.s.u. wants to refuse entry to people who've already made asylum claims elsewhere in europe something chancellor merkel rejects doesn't it kate has more from berlin. the row over what to do with people who come to germany claiming refugee status who had already done so initially in the first e.u. country in which they made landfall has really blown up in the course of thursday the issue has been one that has dogged the the formation of a grand coalition government and now the various allies of angela merkel the christian social union is putting its foot down its leader it's the minister federal interior minister says the horse is in a hole for who is affectively the leader of the party on a national level federally anyway has said he wants to go back to the conditions that prevailed in twenty fifteen before anglo-american open the borders to people with that famous phrase version of and us germany can do it i'm going to merkel disagrees very considerably she says no there there should be no

the answers the right honorable gentleman was excluded from the chamber and fro the precincts o the palace of westminster for the remainder of the day. i think that is now clear. if there are no further points of order, and i hope there are not any further points of order, colleagues, we've got a long way to go, many hours to come of chamber bate we come now to presentation of bill. mr. frank fields. >> the senate agriculture e marked u the 2018 farm bill today. the bill sets agriculture and federal food policy for the next five years. committee members reviewed the measure secon by section making changes. you can watch that tonight at 9:00 eastern here on c-span 2. and tomorrow democratic and republican members of congress face off in the 57th annual congressional baseball game for charity. the game will be played at nationals park, and live coverage begins at 7:00 p. eastern on our companion network c-span 3. >> c-span'shington journal liveryve eay with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up thursday morning, michigan republican congressman fred upton discusses combatting the

not for the microchips for the people of the city.le reply on this port for the supplies. 8 million people are already close to starvation, 22 million people severely affected by lack of access to food. so this kind of context, losing the sport, because this operation will take months and maybe even a year to complete and that time, it will be very hard than supplied the population in the northwest of the country. so in way, we will —— it will make the humanitarian suffering even worse. thank you so much for explaining all that. bringing you up—to—date with what's going on in the comments. we're just hearing that theresa may has won a vote in parliament that throughout the proposal, which would have forced the government to report on the efforts it made in the customs union. voting 395 did — to 58. we will bring you more on that as it comes to us. so far the voting on brexit on the eu withdrawal bill in the comments this evening has once again alban going to government's way. a plumber has won a legal battle that may well huge ramific

the fight has dug in around the airport of yemen's main port of the data the u.a.e. is demanding the rebels withdraw unconditionally from the strategic area and key a lifeline to save civilian lives losing a dado would deal a serious blow to the rebels it could also mean imports of food costs off the seventy percent of the population bunnet smith reports. the three year war in yemen has reached what could be a crucial turning point the battle for the port city of the outgoing u.n. high commissioner for human rights has issued a warning. for grave warry regarding the. coalition's ongoing attacks. which could result in normal civilian casualties and disastrous impact on. your monitor to millions of people which comes through the port. nearly two hundred people have been killed since the offensive for the important red sea port began on wednesday and then the five thousand families forced to flee their homes according to the u.n. . we suffer from the aerial raids in the cruel aggression in the indiscriminate shelling that goes on twenty four seventh's this is led us to

are the -- still the major element if not the dominant element of the taliban? >> yes. >> now we have these and they understand that half of them are in afghanistan and have her in pakistan. let me just say, we have to understand that and deal with that or we will never have peace. we made a mistake in the beginning trying to re-create the centralized government in kabul, and the way permitted critics and criminals to take over the government and lose the country of billions of dollars and we expect the afghans to say now will have a democratic process. let me note also that the major opium production areas in that country is in the push to an areas, is it not? >> it is dominated in those areas. >> and we have done nothing. we have gone through a lot of pr things that make it look like were doing something. if you want to eliminate the poppy production in afghanistan we could do it within a week. we have technological capabilities and we have not done that. and thus we've allowed the taliban to have a major source of billions of dollars of input, which permits t

program the fight for yemen so they the airport both sides the who the rebels and the south the emirati coalition claim that they are in firm control. and koko the gorilla who mastered american sign language and captured the hearts of millions has died at the age of forty six. out of the recent big showers in southern coke assists and mills in iran have been well quite active but the disappearing now you can see a few one tops and that's about it cost wise i think we're going to concentrate more towards georgia north and turkey the ones who showers possibly showing up in cyprus and the coasts of syria otherwise it's just sunshine high twenty's for example in beirut just below the forty mark in baghdad and in teheran was quite a breeze blowing which tends to make c.m. more suited to get the concentration of high temperatures not breezy quite a stiff one not particularly dusty in council rather more dusty in riyadh to see where it comes from temp she's staying in the low forty's appears to be in there and so a lot of just to be around about thirty mark drizzle inland and almost constantly

and in the the united states this is how the dow and the nasdaq are getting on.gland, scotland and wales will be given lessons in driving at speed if their instructor thinks they're ready. they can only take lessons with approved instructors, and in cars fitted with dual controls. but some say the way we learn to drive needs a full overhaul, as graham satchell reports. five o'clock this morning, and jonathan davies is heading onto the motorway. a slightly nerve—racking experience and a small piece of history. it's the first time learner drivers have been allowed on the motorway. i think it's brilliant, long overdue. i think once you have passed your test, before this, you were going on the motorway on your own for the first time, which would be daunting in any situation, so now having the chance to have a lesson or three or however many you want on the motorways will be great. jonathan's instructor is teaching him how to get on and off the motorway and lane management, giving him the confidence to drive safely. things can always go wrong on the motorways. i've ha

the decision -- our conclusion was that the decision of the prosecutor was not the result of political bias based on the evidence we reviewed. >> thank you. and i am very disturbed about the behavior of many people in the fbi starting with mr. comey. i find his ego exceeded his ability to discern right from wrong. i'm very concerned about those individuals that had negative things to say about either one of the candidates. and i am very concerned about what i think was the failure of the leadership in the justice department who seems to me to have been intimidated by mr. comey and not pushing back on him and not holding him accountable. having said that, i'm tired of this discussion. i thank you for your findings. i would like for my committee, the oversite committee, as well as the judiciary committee of which i get to sit today to look at the issues that are impacting the safety and security of our nation. our reputation and whether or not we should be using tax dollars to try to figure out why the president of the united states of america, his administration are doing things that ar

city the fighting continues in the area the yemeni army is now blocking the road between hyundai the province and the capital sana in an effort to cut rebel supply lines hashim the whole bar has more. than a major setback for who threw rebels in yemen and their fighters are retreating into. one of their strongholds but. the did his fight losing the war well. you know what's happening in yemen is a foreign invasion game iraqis into saudi officers are implementing an american agenda their allies are on the ground are the puppets in the killers of their own people oh. these are forces loyal to president. the moment they took over the cities. but it's saudi arabia and the u.a.e. warplanes that's made the difference they have intensified strikes over the last few days to break rebel defense lion's. den leader enemies using the population as a human shield these are putting their tanks in populated areas and shelling the airport we target military positions and we have void civilian targets at the same time you money terry an aide will start arriving to data but the fight is far from over

the time as the defining work of the convention. the framers who joined together who are normally not in agreement and said this is how we can address this, they all agreed that they didn't want a situation like the one that we have today where a president has unilateral authority, and they believe they had fixed the problem because article 1 section 8 could not be more clear. to hold us back to the question, this kinetic conflict was used in litigation on behalf of democratic republican members. the obama administration came forward when we were challenging libyan wars and came in and said it's not war by hour definition. when we had that argument they went further and said the president alone defines what war is. we presented that to the court. do you honestly think that the framers put this specific of an obligation, spent this amount of time, and it all comes down to a now and that the president is simply allowed to define? by the end of litigation i had no better idea of what connecticut means in wartime than i did before, but

the speaker of the house is in fact the chief enforcer of the rules of the house. and of course, he must abide by them, just as we expect every member to. for the past year, while the committee of official conduct have investigated charges brought to me by another member, i have been silent. awaiting an opportunity to speak on the matter of these charges. . that opportunity has been repeatedly delayed. silence is no longer -- >> it is no longer desirable. so without any bitterness, any acrimony or hard feelings toward anybody, i thank you for , as i answer to you and the american people for my and all theputation things i have tried to stand for all these years. >> and he goes on to address the charges. eventually, he resigns. and that is in the congressional record as well, his remarks. the congressmen that he is referring to that brought the charges against him and really publicly campaigned on this, was the newt gingrich. he went on a very public campaign that jim wright had to be investigated. wright felt personally offended by some of the language that mr. gin

i can remember the -- in the last administration, the secretary of the air force was having an event. i remember commenting out at elgins air force base. i said in 1959, two wonderful things happened. number one, i got married. number two, we delivered our first kc-135. she said well, i guess that offers security for you here at altes for the next 59. i think it is. that's how important that is. our kr-135's are necessary, and 14 in addition we have. we have $350 million to procure air force attack aircraft. procurement of 117 army helicopters. $17 million to prototype the next generation combat vehicle. $100 million each for the u.s. -- for the marine corps light aircraft and the group five unmanned aerial system. and and lastly $10 billion for missile defense. for the missile defense agency. that's timely getting us up where we have fallen behind during the last administration. might as well see it -- say it as it is. now we have everyone agreeing that this is good. this is in the bill, in the bill that we have unnecessarily postponed for another week. so i guess that's -- someone i

with the exposure of all of the this, we'll get into the sub strait and the foundation of the entire mueller investigation. i have been an active participant in that. i have been there with bob mueller. i'm not saying bob mueller is not a good guy. he's a combat marine. i kind of admire him. but the underpinnings of his investigation. >> yeah. >> we have to go back and see how it started. remember, all this stuff that's come out now about cambridge and stephen -- and all of this. it's not james bond. these things run like the post office. there is a chain of title, of every e-mail, every expense account. >> we have to take a quick break. you mentioned the southern district. very quickly. how worried should the president be about michael cohen? >> i think that the southern district, this whole thing of going into the trump organization is another witch hunt. what does that have to do with -- how does -- what does that have to do -- what does that have to do with russian collusion? how did the southern district of manhattan get involved here? why are they going after the trump organiza

into the clinic by the end of the year? >> absolutely. >> inside the areas with access to mental-healt mental health se veterans can you share with me how you plan to bring more doctors and 12 professionals to these areas in nevada? >> thank you for the time that you have taken with me. we have to take a deeper look at how we bring doctors into the va. there've been many things the federal government has tried on in terms of recruiting doctors and i think the va has to look at those. we have to do a better job of recruiting the doctors coming out of the military. i'd like to learn about how we can get commitment for the doctors to work to the va and this is my opinion i haven't cleared it with anyone in exchange for their service with the va do we go down the road where we take care of the medical schools in exchange for long-term service with va we do need to make an assessment again as to where we need our doctors and we do need to also in those underserved areas look at how we incentivize people to go out there. the ques

the discussions of the g7, will the prime minister agreed that now is not the time to weaken sanctionsinst russia. does a very strong argument we should be cooperating with other parties to strengthen sanctions against russia in order to make sure pressure continues to be applied on putin to conform in the rule-based international order. my friend makes a very important point. -- thata committed to will be a discussion that will come up in the european council as well. as we made clear in the g7, we stand ready to take further restrictive measures if necessary. communique include building lasting peace and transition miramar? and as they hit the camps where the displaced people are, and the prime minister let me know what our government is doing to ensure this is not getting worse? ms. may: can i say to the honorable lady, there are a number of actions obviously united kingdom has taken. we are providing real support for the refugees in camps and in bangladesh. we continue to work and will continue to press the miramar government to create the situation in which those refugees are able

employment rates and so on so on the mike the the the the better situation on the macro level did not translate on the micro what is his popularity ninety seven percent he won the election with me although that was a fast as we said his opponents were the jailed or threatened but is it possible to say whether he has any popularity among the general population with inflation running as high as it is in the country with the stairs the measures that have been implemented the tax rises that you were talking about i think if there were free and fair elections i would highly doubt that he would get reelected the specially depends on who runs against him somebody like me and then who he jailed for example or even not much if he or even someone from the opposition liberal opposition or islamist opposition if they ran against him in a free and fair elections i highly doubt that he would win and what happens at the end of this second term constitutionally can only run for two terms is he likely to change the constitution so he can run again is another mubarak i think it looks like he's worse th

the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 6136. a bill to amend the immigration laws and provide for border security and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the bill -- pursuant to house resolution 953, the bill is considered as read. the bill is considered read. the bill shall be debatable for one hour, 40 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on the judiciary and 20 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on how homeland security. the gentleman from virginia, mr. goodlatte, and the gentleman from new york, mr. nadler, each will control 20 minutes. the gentleman from texas, mr. mccaul, and the gentleman from mississippi, mr. thompson, each will control 10 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia. mr. goodlatte: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials to h.r. 6136. t

the president was not involved in the drafting of the statement. it came from donald trump jr. >> another member of the legal team used it as a new reason the president should not testify in the mueller probe. >> this is the reason you don't let the president testify. our recollection keeps changing. >> giuliani thinks trump lawyer whose said the president did not dick -- lawyers what said the president did not dictate the letter says the president is uninformed. he believes he is innocent. >>> president trump claims he never would have hired paul manafort as the campaign manager if he was warned he was under investigation. as only one of two people left who could become president, why won't the fbi or department of justice told me they were secretly investigating paul manafort. should have told me. he was with us for a short period of time. manafort was with the campaign for five months. three months as chairman. it was en't late in the campaig >> he was hired to get donald trump through theconvention. donald, nice selective memory. you hired paul

all the money that's people the debt of the poor helps line the pockets of the rich privatizing the entire public sector through the death mechanism is the act of expropriation of common property that typically land for the profit of a limited few could mean to be one of. the banana growing nations in the caribbean also bound themselves one after the other to the company. each time the company managed to pay little or no chances in the countries in which is operated draining their resources even more and assuring their dependence. case that the united fruit if. headways was wonderful tax free concessions and things but honestly practically every western company all over latin america and asia had the same had the same conditions basically they had the bargaining power they had the technological advantage and the money these places wanted done and the deal was very little taxes. in our age tax avoidance or tax planning as it has it's called in business schools has become central feature of business globally and that's a quite different situation from when you know developing fragile states

it is the notion of the people being at the center of the legal order here. although state governments, they will be similar to other states, citizens in them are going to be like citizens in other states. just because you move around the country, does not mean you will go to a lesser place. not some colonial place where you would not be able to do the things you would in other states. this is really different than the situation of other imperial powers. these new lands are not come be colonial appendage is -- appendages. it is made public and turned into private property. this happens because of the policy and law. this is not something that is, of course, this is the way we do it. you see this in the northwest territory. ohio, indiana, wisconsin, so this is what we are talking about. independence here, other elements of northwest ordinance underscored jefferson's vision of independence. as part of the northwest territorial ordinance you have inheritance. you can divide up your property and will it to a number of people. none of the property will be held in

he learned much later about the coal holdings of the -- >> roughly the the president brought the team together. >> 2016. >> the president had not asked for disinformation. there there was no process in place that would have given this information on a more operational basis. >> there should have been but there wasn't and that's why advocate the fusion center in the second recommendation to also have a continuing conversationco with country. i would add to the extent and i would separate the information on the i influence operations in the information side and the targeting of the electoral infrastructure the integration of that and the cyber threat within the office of the dni and that was to try to combine the cyber technical intelligence with the geopolitical intelligence we can actually understand one without the other >> senator langford. >> tell me about the second recommendation you have to work with the public and private entities. how do you think that should be formed to? >> i think this should be a presidentially elected part -- at the leader level monthly or thereafter. aft

position up here are the fans in the background with the confetti. and look at the building under construction. all of the steel workers have taken the time off to watch what was going on down at the stage below. i think it was bob fitzgerald who said tell everyone if you take the day off and we were talk to the supervisor of the men and women and he said -- no, don't do that. so they taking time off to wait for the double-decker bus that will have the coaches and the players heading down toward 11th and jefferson, and as you take a look to the right, you could see where the other floats are and they are taking the left turn on to broadway where everybody else and the 1 million plus fans are supposed to get underway and the players will catch up shortly. >> bob redell reporting for us. and don't take it personally they didn't stop to talk because they have a parade to start. >> they have to get on the bus. >> so we heard from steve kerr who said this feels like old hat now. but he said the first time they won it felt like a dream and this time he did

and i welcome to the program on the parana the one hundred a probably the most friendless people in the world almost ten years after those words were uttered by a u.n. spokeswoman the situation facing what could barely be more da hundreds of thousands of sheltering in camps in bangladesh having fled what rights groups have described as atrocities by myanmar's military. peter moore of the international committee of the red cross has visited nine months racan state where the violent crackdown happened now mother government is going to start repair treating the head to the villages they abandoned but more told al-jazeera that he doesn't think how that's possible at least in the short term for the i.c.r.c. this is still and is at the present moment first and foremost an emergency operation a lot of people have been affected from all the communities and we need also to have even stronger support in facilities from all the authorities in myanmar to be able to operate and to expand our operations the reconsolidation of the communities the are bringing back of minimal safety and security for pe

at the facts around the events building up to the fire and the fire itself.ra layne who specialises in fire safety engineering and she has given her presentation. so far today looking at the towel before its renovations, things like how fire engines access the building —— looking at the tower. what the windows were made up of, how the internal and external walls were created. she went on to list fire safety requirements for tower blocks across england, explaining that these were built on the basis that a fire could be contained within a flat. she said these buildings were not designed to facilitate mass evacuation. the design intent is that the fire stays within this one compartment or box around the flat. everything is invested in preventing the internal spread of fire. the required external wall fire performance, based on adequately resisting the spread of fire, is intended to prevent an external fire scenario, beyond the single flat on fire. equally, people on the floors above the floor where the flat fire has started at also to be protected from the singl