. >> my name is roger williams and i represent the 25th district of texas and the united states congress and coached the republican baseball team. this morning, as you know, we were attacked by gunmen at our press conference. those who talk about what is wrong with america, but, in this case, we saw what is right with america. we saw two people risk their lives to save the lives of others. we thought courage in the face of death. we saw examples of why all americans should be grateful everyday for law enforcement officers around this country. been 25uld have easily deaths or more today. we had 20 by two players and about 15 staff. officer greiner and bailey prevented that and my family will be forever grateful. the thin blue line held today, and law enforcement officers everywhere should be proud. americans everywhere should be thankful that this is still the kind of country that produces these kinds of euros. i ask everybody to join me in praying for the victims and for their full recoveries for you go to bed tonight. i will be happy to take questions. i will briefly tell you my story .

i represent the 25th district of texas in the united states congress. theso help coach congressional baseball team for the republicans. as you know, we were attacked by a gunman at our press conference. those who will talk about what is wrong with america. with the officers, we saw what is right with america. we saw two people risk their lives to save the lives of others. we saw courage in the face of death. and we saw examples of what all americans should be grateful everyday. for law enforcement officers around this country area there could have easily been 25 deaths or more today. i think we had 25 team players and about 15 staff. but officer griner and bailey prevented that and my family and i will be forever grateful. the thin blue line held today. and law enforcement officers everywhere should be proud. and americans everywhere should be thankful that this is still the kind of country that still produces these kinds of heroes. so i ask everybody to join me in praying for the victims and for their full recoveries before you go to bed tonight. i'll

a lot of brave people in the united states congress. >> can you elaborate on your staffer's condition? >> he has been released from the hospital. he was shot in the leg. he was in the outfield. i give him credit. i think zach is probably 23 or 24. all the time he was bleeding and we were under fire, he was texting, letting people know we were under fire and that we needed help. so, he's doing great. vice president pence has spoken to him. i'm grateful for that, for his talking to zach. so, he's on the road to recovery. yes ma'am? congressman, i know the game is still set to be on, but what about the caucus? >> some of us are still only injured list. i think we were supposed to have breakfast tomorrow, but i believe that has been canceled. i believe what we will have is a prayer service or something, and then play baseball. if you're not sure which one i will be, i will be the one coaching third on crutches. but yeah, we are going to play. we need to play. this is a game that has been going on for over 100 years. it goes to charity and we need to play this baseball game. i'm excited th

united states mr. trump has violated any suggestion that he should be trusted with the oval office. we are members of the united states congress, men and women, who represent the people. the people seek not to have seek or queens but they of the n office presidency that can be trusted. today mr. trump you have ceased to have the trust of the american people. when you begin to of the presidency that can be trusted. the diminishing of those who have mental health needs, psycho joe. a low i.q. mica. then you begin to talk about the private issues of women who have before in life been segregated and discriminated against because they are women. blood from wherever. or your face is bleeding. do you realize how many women workplaces of which we fight for equality, in schools, in their homes with the issue of domestic violence because they're not protected? and then our commander in chief seeks to take advantage of the position that he holds. so why do we do it? not for self but for the words that were said about colleagues. look at that face. would anybody vote for that? that was the candidate trump. w we're facing the president tru

purchased and not only is it an idiotic move, you are a father and a husband and a member of the united states congress. i bought cocaine and i got busted by the fbi. >> they said they heard there was a member of congress that was doing this and it was a sting operation. this is one of the things i do in the buck i don't go into detail with the guy looked like whether you've been through your own ups and downs i try not to dwell on the past. i don't arrested and i remember specifically the road i was walking down when i heard my name and they knew better than to say congressman because i probably would have just kept going. i was inebriated. i had beers on the hill after i dig at work and i went to a fundraiser with the majority leader, then i went to a bar and bought this and after i walked out after purchasing it i heard my name and i turned around like whose party is it now. fbi. your life is about to change dramatically. and that was the understatement of a lifetime. >> you don't talk about that much in the buck. people made fun of you on talk shows. i never used the words t. party. there are commo

we are members of the united states congress, men and women, who represent the people. the people seek not to have kings or queens, but they seek to have an office of the presidency that can be trusted. today, mr. trump, you have ceased to have the trust of the american people. when you begin to utilize again the diminishing of those who have mental health needs, sikecow, joe scarborough or low i. q. mika, and then you begin to talk about the private issues of women who have before in life have been discriminated against because they are women, blood is wherever, or your face bleeding, do you realize how workplacesshudder in of which we fight for equality, in schools, in their homes with the issue of domestic violence because they are not protected. and then our commander in chief seeks to take advantage of the position that he holds. so why do we do it? not for self, but for the words that were said about carlie if i reasona, look at that face, that was candidate trump. now we're facing the president trum, and i would argue that our responsibility is not to him, but to

focus of it, and i am very proud to say that through the efforts of my predecessors and the united states congress and others, that malware came to the united states but was contained to a handful of systems and contained within those systems. it's as if it never came across the ocean, so to speak, and we helped nations over seas contain it. that said, we need to get better because the threat is changing -- morphing and this administration, to pat it on the back, certainly my department of homeland security are focused on increasing the protections better than they are now. particularly as we interact and we do heavily interact with private interestities, people like that, it is one team, one fight, and can only get better. >> thank you. i just want to thank you again, when the president asked you to serve in this capacity, that you said yes. i'm grateful for your leadership and the early results you're already seeing because of your leadership, thank you. >> senator danes. i have a couple closing questions, secretary kelly. first of all, i am concerned about the funding for the coast guard. i'm g

the initiative or referendum is an essentially a way to say to the united states government to congress the people of california have spoken the next step would have to be the united states congress would have to look at this and decide whether or not they wish to have another state in in our country so it is this is a long term process but again there's a lot of people california that just feel like they're just affected by what's happening in state capital sacramento much like what happened with rags where people were were concerned about what's happening in brussels much like the trumpet jury or people concerned about what was happening in washington and we're looking for a change carry guns to thank you after the break blood the oil is u.s. support to saudi waivers of a qatari we look at the world's largest source of other countable power and from that line as well reveal the firefights in the streets of london on the war of words over the firestorm. going on the ground. the other. girl is the. target. and the people. selling. bombs brings peace to the chicken hawks the battle. for

a lot of brave people certainly in the united states congress. yes, sir? elaborate on your staffer's condition? >> he has been released from the hospital. he was shot in the leg. he was in the outfield. i give him credit. i think zach is probably 23, 24. all the time he was bleeding, we were under fire he was texting. he was texting, letting people know we were under fire. and we needed help. so he is doing great. vice president pence has spoken to him. i'm grateful for that, for his talking to zach. so he is on the road to recovery. yes, ma'am? >> congressman, will the team plan on having practice tomorrow morning? i know the game is still set to be on but what about practice? >> some of us are on the injured reserve list right now but i think we were supposed to have breakfast tomorrow. that has been canceled i believe. i believe what we will have, get there a little early tomorrow night, have a, maybe have a prayer, little prayer service or something, and then play baseball. and, you're not sure which one i will be, i will be the one coaching third on c

the clerk: to the congress of the united states, section 202-d of the national emergencies act provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless within 90 days of the anniversary date of its declaration the president publishes in the federal register and transmits to the congress a notice stating that the emergency is to continue beyond the effect of the anniversary date. in accordance with that provision, i have sent to the federal register for publication the enclosed notice stating that the national emergency with respect to the actions and policies of certain members of the government of belarus and other persons to undermine democratic processes or institutions of belarus that was declared in executive order 13405 of june 16, 2006 is to continue in effect beyond june 16, 2017. the actions and policies of certain members of the government of belarus and other persons to undermine democratic processes or institutions of belarus to commit human rights abuses related to political repression and to engage in public corruption to continue to pose an unusual and extrao

counsel is entitled to ask you questions about this but not an oversight committee of the united states congress? >> it is my position i have to be particularly careful about not stepping into the special counsel's lane, as they have now been authorized by the department of justice. >> i don't understand why that lane takes precedence over the lane of the united states congress in an oversight committee. can you explain that distinction? why does the special counsel get deference and not this committee. >> i'd be happy -- >> is there a legal basis -- >> i'd be happy to discuss that fully with my general counsel and with the department. right now, that's the -- >> on the record, i would like a legal justification for your refusal to answer the question today. i think it is a straight forward question. it is not involving discussions with the president. it is involving discussions with mr. comey. gentlemen, director coats and admiral rogers, i think you testified, admiral rogers, you did discuss today's testimony with someone in the white house. >> i said i asked what did the white house intend to

. >> it's time to ask whether the attack on the united states congress yesterday was forseeable, predictable and to some degree self-inflicted. too many leaders and political commentators who set an example for us to follow have led us into an abyss of violent rhetoric which it should be no surprise has led to violence. eric: now, mercedes, if this isn't media bias against republicans, i don't know what it is. >> i think for the mainstream media it's always the republican's fault. you can go back to the gabby giffords shooting and congressman scalise, it gets old, it gets to a point where when you look at the language that so many on the left use, celebrities included, journalists as well, we saw joy reed tweet out recently basically attacking scalise's voting record while the man is still in the hospital? when does it end? many of these politicians on the left pushed forward this, that the president is going to kill you. that the health care bill is going to kill you. building up all of this hate language and i think it's incredibly harming and getting into penetrating our culture and our s

to tell comey he can't talk to the united states congress about what happened, what those conversationse, about russian espionage, the investigation and whether the president was trying to block the investigation, that's something the congress has the right to know. there's no executive privilege for coverups, and certainly no executive privilege for coverups of collaboration with foreign spies. this makes absolutely no sense. >> laura, let's talk a little more about this. thousands of tweets. michael mentioned the tweets. president trump's twitter page. tweets that include the president saying former national security adviser michael flynn should seek immunity, and threatening james comey after he was fired. how important will those tweets be to robert mueller's invest fwa gags? >> very important. they go to essentially your motive, your content. it gives contextual clues to the invest investigation, to say what was the motive or intention behind the acts you took? remember, we hardly had any cases of low hanging fruit. a smoking fwgun and shn saomeon this is miy nefarious intent an i

senators and over 50% of the united states congress, that started in 2010.he russians! racism hacked this system before trump was ever elected, before he and putin got together. it was racism, racially -- racial germanderring an and ract voter suppression that set up the congress we have now and the people who got hurt most by the policies that have been elect bid these so-called what i call unconstitutional constituted legislators have been poor whites. >> trevor: let's talk about that for a second. one part of your message that constantly resonated with people seems to be that you focus on that word "poor." you know, the new "poor people's movement." >> what doctor king said 50 years ago, he said we needed a radical revolution of various. we believe the cairo center and poor activists across the country and other people coming together, we need a moral revival of values that deals withcies tink racism, not just when somebody says the "n" word, but systemic racism, policies that hurt people because of color, poverty, the war economy and national morality. t

> i don't understand why the special counsel's lane takes precedence over the lane of the united states congress and the investigative and oversight committee. can you explain that distinction? >> why does special counsel get deference and not this committee? is there a legal basis for that distinction? >> i would discuss it more fully with my general counsel and the department. >> on the record, i would like a legal justification for your refusal to answer the question today because i think it's a straightforward question. it's not involving discussions with the president, and discussions with mr. comey. gentlemen, director coats and admiral rogers, i think you testified, admiral rogers that you does discuss today's testimony with someone in the white house? >> i said i asked did the white house intend to evoke executive privileges associated with any interactions between myself and the president of the united states? >> and what was the answer to the question? >> to be honest i didn't get a definitive answer and both myself and the dni are still talking. >> why are you not answering these ques

i represent the 25th district of texas in the united states congress, and i also help coach the republican congressional baseball team. this morning, as you know, we were attacked by a gunman at our press conference. there will be those who talk about what's wrong with america but in this case officers griner and bailey, we saw what's right with america. we saw two people risk their lives to save the lives of others. we saw courage in the face of death, and we saw examples of why all americans should be grateful every day for law enforcement officers around this country. there could have easily been 25 deaths or more today. i think we had 25 team players and about 15 staff, but officers griner and bailey prevented, that and my family and i will be forever grateful. the thin blue line held today, and law enforcement officers everywhere should be proud and americans everywhere should be thankful that this is still the kind of country that still produces these kinds of heros. so ask everybody in joining me and praying for victims and their full recovery buff go to bed tonight. i'll be happy t

you know, this is something that dod mostly, almost entirely because the united states congress in 1985 they solved that what the goldwater/nichols kind of thing. it does work so i'm looking for those kind of things to increase the efficiency of the department. but there's other aspects that i've learned to say the least. that is the highly politicized nature of what i do, of what the men and women of this department do, and also, press reporting. now, that said, in defense of the press and others, i don't think we had a particularly good approach to interacting with the press, and frankly, with the hill. we have put first-class people in my liaison section in dhs and in the public affairs section. we are leaning forward to -- as fast as possible, serve the needs of the united states congress quicker, certainly quicker, than it was done before. i remember during the process of being confirmed almost every member i talked to said you are the worst in the federal government for responding to letters or requests or whatever, and that's unacceptable and we're changing that. and the same thi

enhancements to this effort is the real id initiative that passed into law 12 years ago by the united states congress. one, which one of our states has taken just like many others are working hard at the plants. in those 12 years someone elected or appointed state and federal positions who have the fundamental and sacred responsibility to safeguard the nation have chosen to drag their feet or even ignore the law passed by congress. i will not. real id will make america safer and it already is. real id will soon be enforced at our airports, ports of entry in all federal facilities and it's a critically important 911 commission recommendation that others have been willing to ignore. i which will ensure that it implement it on schedule with no extension for states that are not taking the efforts seriously. for the states and territories that cannot or will not make the january 2018 deadline they should be encouraging other citizens to have other forms of id with the real id law. passports, available from the state department. we need to prevent bad actors regardless of religion, race or national alley f

. >> pelley: it's time to ask whether the attack on the united states congress yesterday was foreseeableand to some degree, self-inflicted. too many leaders and political commentators who set an example for us into an abyss of violent rhetoric which, it should be no surprise, has led to violence. yesterday was not the first time. in december last year, a many manwith an assault rifle stormed into a washington-area pizzeria to free child sex slaves whom hillary clinton was holding there-- or at least that's what political blog sites had said. he fired into a locked door to discover no children in chains. bernie sanders has called the president the most dangerous in history. and the shoot or yesterday was a sanders volunteer. you might think that no sane person would act on political hate speech, and you'd be right. the trouble is, there are a lot of americans who struggle with mental illness. in february, the president tweeted that the news media were the "enemy of the american people." later, at a lunch for reporters, president trump was asked whether he worried that that language would

the united states constitution does not confer citizenship on anyone outside the united states. it is for congress to determine which categories of such person should be granted u.s. citizenship by statute. in doing so congress has always required that the persons involved have a demonstrated in sufficient connection to the united states either in themselves or through their parents to warrant the control of citizenship because citizenship carries with it writes on the part of the individual and important duties of protection on part of the united states government. this concerns the framework under the nationality act of 1952 as originally enacted for granting citizenship for persons outside of the united states as of the date of their birth. other provisions still with things later in life. in particular, this case concerns the granting of citizenship to children born out of wedlock abroad. the situation in which this court's cases make clear that mothers and fathers are not typically situated with respect to their legal status concerning the child at the moment of birth. the general rules of ci

it is immoral budget, budget that must be defeated by the united states congress. thank you for holding this hearing. there's a lot to discuss and i look for to chatting with mr. mnuchin on these issues. >> thank you senator sanders. we now introduce our witness, the honorable stephen nation, the secretary of the united states treasury. secretary has a remarkable career including being a partner and chief information officer at the coleman sex group. founder and ceo of the one west bank group and founder chairman, and seo dune capital management. prior to being sworn and he was a senior economic advisor to them president-elect trump of finance chairman for hisesidentl campaign. profe apart from his professional role he has been committed to prayers philanthropic charitable causes including the ucla health system board, the l.a. policenclude foundation, and the museum and sculpture garden in d.c. thank you for taking your timetu to be with us today and being willing to serve. we look forward to receivingitay your testimony.ook please begin. >> thank you very much. c

i am very proud to say that through the efforts of my predecessors in the united states congress and thers, that now where team to the united states but was contained to a handful of systems and contained within those systems. it's as if it never came across the ocean so to speak and we helped the nations overseas container. that said, we need to get better because the threat is changing and morphine and this administration on the back and said that my department of homeland security on increasing the protection better than they are now particularly as they interact and redo heavily interact with microsoft, people like that. one team, one fight and can only get better. >> thank you, secretary kelly. 20 thank you when the president has to serve in this capacity that you said yes. and grateful for your leadership and the early results. >> thank you. senator daines comic about closing questions, secretary kelly that i'm concerned about funding for the coast guard. i asked out how much i was hoping the department of defense made a fair amount of funding that they contribute half a billion

i'm troubled by the fact that anyone, anyone can overrule the united states congress and the resneck united states. that is troubling to me. trying to balance those two things is something i want to work through. >> we do want to see our investors protected wherever they are and canada has a mature court system. there are a few more challenges in mexico but i hope you will be looking closely at the system that i think has failed us and in the secondary you said your testimony and i was pleased to hear that you expect significant action far beyond previous administrations including for example self-initiated litigation and defense of the u.s. war groups. while that's good it's a fairly low bar since ustr under all previous demonstrations i think has never successfully challenged the labor or environmental provision within a trading partner and as you know yesterday the united states lost and it's drugged out lengthy nine-year action with reference to labor with a finding apparently that was not a matter affecting trade. i believe that the failure to effectively enforce our environmenta

it's time to ask whether the attack on the united states congress yesterday was foreseeable predictable and to some degree self-inflicted too many leaders and political commentators who set an example for us to follow have lead us into an abyss of violent rhetoric which it should be no surprise has led to violence so lionel while pelley did touch on mental health you know later in that clip do you think he overstated the responsibility of lawmakers i mean yes the shooter was a sander supporter and sanders has said that the president is dangerous but regardless sanders can't be held accountable for what for this i mean what say you . how dare this man do this how dare he stand before us to spend oh by the way is now gone expurgated removed obliterated a bladed bowdlerized from this from this cesspool of this dreck mainstream media c.b.s. in particular oh dare you say about this years ago if you would have said well you know that woman who was attacked well maybe she did come maybe she was you know draft report but you don't play the victim of the voting record had nothing to do with this

. >> not an over site of the united states of congress. >> it is my position that i have to be careful about not stepping into the special counsel's lane as they have now been authorized. >> i don't understand why the special counsel lane takes precedent over the united states congress and over sight committee. why does special counsel gets deference and not this county. >> i would be happy to take this back to my -- >> on the record, i would like a legal justification because i think it is a straightforward question, it is not involving discussions with the president, it is involving discussions with mr. comey. director coats and admiral rogers, i think you testify that you did discuss with today's testimonies with someone in the white house. >> what was the answer to that question? >> to be honest, i did not get an answer. we are still talking. >> why are you not answering these questions. is there an in vocation by the president of its of executive privilege, is there or not? >> not that i am aware of. >> then why are you not answering? >> because i feel is inappropriate. >> what yo

people conducted at the rico at old dominion university in virginia at the request of the united states congress it was an official government study to see if there were illegal voters and the professors who ran the study this massive study said they found exactly ready not five million not four not two not one they found exactly zero zero none illegal alien voters on the voter rolls not one so how did these people find in that same study with the ex that the experts found zero what do they find they found a few people who because remember their reach out to eighteen million people they found a few people who said oh i am an alien and i voted so but if you contacted those people as the university did in other researchers they said oh well they just made a mistake if you ask eighteen million people did you set off an atomic bomb this week out of eighteen million three or four and say yeah i did that. my mistake so when they actually checked there were no illegal alien voters in fact if they did find them they would have arrested them they did not i'd like these people the right wing a big mouth g

and members of the united states congress and that is the rules and guidelines by the congress to abide by and that was the first book. they were appalled they were not going to be able to get the tickets so they tried to figure out all these ways but if it is fair market value you cannot accept a gift that is worth x. amount or more it applies to thw members of congress with the industries there is a room full of attorneys and some skyscrapers and the city of chicago these attorneys are figuring out how to bend the rule. if you want to stop pitting people against each other, stop the government from picking andm choosing sides. i know that in practice it is a lot harder to do but in life whether you support the massive subsidies for green energy like all of us that believe in a healthy economy and environment, i understand the ideas for research and development but if you don't like that or if youu don't like a bunch of breaks going to big oil, you have to b stop the government pick and choose sides based on their tax law if you want the lobbyists to get out of the office of your membe

federal court except for the supreme court owes its entire existence and jurisdiction to the united states congress. congress brings those courts into being an we can take them out. congress gives them their jurisdiction and we can take them out. and i think it is time to begin to take out some of these courts that like artificial intelligence have become self-aware and now are trying to crash out and take power away from those under our constitution that have it. and to take it unto themselves in a self-protection mode. it is getting dangerous in the united states of america for a number of reasons, radical islam is only one of the reasons. t courts going so far to overrule common sense and overrule the words of the constitution and overrule the rds of lawfully passed bills in the house and the senate signed by presidents and approved in other case law and courts are coming back now and just deciding, we're like artificial intelligence, we're most important. now that we're self-aware as a considerate. and year going to do everything we can to limit congressional authority, executive authority, and

we'll be back in a moment. >>> it's time to ask whether the attack on the united states congress yesterdayforeseeable, predictable, and to some degree self-infed commentators who set an example for us to follow have led us into an abyss of violent rhetoric which, it should be no surprise, has led to violence. yesterday was not the first time. in december last year a man with an assault rifle stormed into a washington-area pizzeria to free child sex slaves whom hillary clinton was holding there. or at least that's what political blog sites had said. he fired into a locked door to discover no children in chains. bernie sanders has called the president the most dangerous in history, and shooter yesterday was a sanders volunteer. you might think that no sane person would act on political hate speech. and you'd be right. the trouble is there are a lot of americans who struggle with minlness. in tweeted that the news media were the "enemy of the american people." later, at a lunch for reporters, president trump was asked whether he worried that that language would incite violence. his pause indi

united states to make some of those people treatedfairly. on the other hand as he suggests , i am troubled iv sovereign issue, i'm troubled by the fact that anyone, anyone can overrule the united states congress and president of the unitedstates . that is troubling to me so those two things are something that i want to work through's what we do want to see our investors protected wherever they are. and canada as a mature court system, there are more challenges in mexico but i hope you will be looking closely at a system that i think has failed us area and in the second area, you say in your testimony and i was pleased to hear it that you expect significant action far beyond previous administrations including for example self initiated litigation in defense of us workers. while that's good, it's a fairly low bar and ustr under all previous administrations i think has never successfully challenged a labor or environmental provision with any trading partner and as you know, yesterday the united states lost in its drug out, lengthy, nine-year action with reference to guatemalan labor with a finding apparently that was not a matter affecting trade. i believe that the failure to effectively enforce

the kof rentee issue, and i am troubled by the fact that anyone, anyone can overrule the united states congress and the president of the united states when is passed a law and that is troubling to me and trying to balance those two things is something they want to work through. >> certainly, we do want to see our investors protected wherever they are and canada has a mature court system and i think you will be working closely at a system they think has failed us. and the second area, and you say in your testimony that you expect significant action including, for example, self-initiated litigation in defense of u.s. workers. >> while that's good, it's a fairly low bar since ustr under all previous administrations, i think has never successfully challenged a labor or environmental provision with any trading partner, and as you know, yesterday the united states lost in its drug out, lengthy, nine-year action with reference to guatemala labor, with a finding apparently that it was want a manner affecting trade. i believe that the failure to effectively enforce our environmental and working conditio

many good men and women of differing political perspectives work in the united states congress. these are people who have accomplished important things in their own home communities and decided that their heart was calling them to serve in a broader capacity. now, i fully recognize that washington, d.c. can seem elitist and aloof. but as you know, mr. speaker, members of congress are real people with real families from eal places across our land. there may be a disproportionate share of lawyers in our institution, but there are nurses, doctors, small business owners. one of the doctors, representative brad wenstrup, a friend of mine, happened to be at the baseball practice and iraq war veteran, a surgeon and he attended to steve scalise's gunshot wound. above all, they are americans. there is a limit what a paid public servant can absorb. and we can take the violent words but when it spills into violent action, it's too much, this country cannot continue to ip itself apart like this. madam speaker, there is one additional difficulty here that needs to be unpacked. there is a rea

the united states department of food and drug administration, was only possible because of normalized relationships with cuba. president trump wants to destroy that relationship, and this congress needs to stand up to this president. on behalf of the millions of americans who benefit, including millions of cancer patients from open relationships between the united states and cuba. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from arkansas seek recognition? >> request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. crawford: thank you, madam speaker. i rise today to honor the life of police officer from my district who lost his life in the line of duty just this week. lieutenant patrick wetherford was a 10-year veteran in the criminal investigations division. he graduated from university of arkansas at new port and little rock. he was the husband to kristen and loving father to his daughter and son. on monday, june 12, wetherford responded to reports of a vehicle break-in at 6:00 p.m. he was shot and taken to a local

based on the study 7% vote in favor of twoehood, will now collect united states senators and five congressman and send them to congressnd demand admission as a state. this is a tactic that tennessee used in the 19th century to pressure congress to admit tennessee as a state. they're going to go through an election of two senators and five commerce meant -- which will be boycotted by the other party. the reality is, the economic crisis of puerto rico at this point cannot be resolved just threw a statehood process. it has to be a process of real self-determined nation for the island of puerto rico that has not happened yet. to turn to sun's puerto rican day parade in new york. marchers at the parade included puerto rican independence activist oscar lopez rivera, who was imprisoned for about 35 years. this year's organizers chose to organize lopez rivera as the -- to honor lopez rivera as the parade's first "national freedom hero." but after a boycott campaign was organized by a right-wing conservative group funded by donors close to both president trump and to breitbart news, oscar lopez rivera announced he would march

it is immoral budget, it is a budgeting that must be defeated by the united states congress. so mr. chairman, thank you for holding this hearing, there's a lot to discuss and i look forward to chatting with mr. ma mnuchin on some of these issues. >> thank you, senator sanders. i'll now introduce our witness. our witness today is the honorable steve ma mnuchin, the secretary of the united states treasury. secretary has a remarkable career including being a partner and chief information officer at the goldman sachs group, founder and ceo of the 1 west bank group and founder, chairman and koechlt of dune capital management. prior to being sworn in he was a senior economic adviser to then president-elect trump and finance chairman for his campaign. apart from his professional roles, secretary ma mnuchin has been committed to various fill lan tlopic and charitable cause. those cause include the ucla health system board, la police foundation and sculpture garden right here in drks d.c. just to name a few. thank you for taking your time to be with us today and for being willing to serve. w