antonio are being fully investigated? >> sir, again, i'm not sure exactly which report if we are sick thinking about the main one but yes, any allegations whether it's san antonio or any other sites are fully investigated. >> and we will know about them, this committee specifically will know about those and results of the investigation? >> i will have to check with our legal counsel to the extent we are able to share information protecting and following a loss sharing that information, we are absolutely happy to do that. >> i'm sorry, there are laws that said you would not release the information work -- >> i can only speak from my experience and child welfare, there are privacy protections in place that prevents the reporting of information about individual cases or active investigation so i want to make sure i'm doing my due diligence, i'm not overpromising anything we can share with you, we will. >> i want to ask you about another incident real quick nbc news said reported last month about an incident about children st

when they left those little towns to go somewhere they went to houston, they went to dallas or san antonio. they did not come to new york. they did not go to l.a. the roots go deep and most of my family was still there. >> back to your book on juneteenth, page 101 quote in 1967 there is a rerelease of the 1960 film the alamo. i was taken to see it with my best friend, he tells about that? >> it was an exciting thing. it was a big deal to go to the movies in those days and to go to houston connor was a little town 40 miles north of houston. hisce potentially applying force between the two places. course now houston has breached out and encroached upon all of us in that area. this was an exciting thing to treat to go see this movie about people we already knew about, jim buie, travis, davy crockett, these were names known to us. my best friend he was a boy was really into both characters but i knew who they were thought jim buie was almostmo this semi- godlike person the had this special powers or whatever. he got into knife fights the bowie knife became famous because of that so we go to se

host: annette gordan-reed, retired couple in san antonio. and then texas tries to keep the truth with competing with met this is crazy and related to censorship. we touched on the alamo but i want to acknowledge her e-mail. >> i have heard about e that. and those that actually read about it. host: will you be on the book festival circuit this fall quick. >> i think so. i am supposed to be. i'm hoping i can be there in person to actually meet people. go ahead neville. >>caller: my question is related to sally hemmings. so as a visual and an image is the some time to time descriptions. that she wasd. white and long straight hair down her back. i don't see many sketches or images or pictures which depict sally hemmings. >> weve don't have any depictions of her. people have imagined ideas of what she looks like. they do know reproductions of her we don't have any images of jefferson's wife maybe a couple of silhouettes so strangely enough and her father's home was destroyed by fire but it's interesting and completely different and we don't have

i'm interested in the district that goes from san antonio and that's been competitive for the last ten or 20 years and i note the republican was elected i guess his name is gonzales, i'm not sure. is he a relative? >> guest: i'm not sure but we can check that out. >> caller: where will the democrats put that? >> guest: unclear yet. tony gonzales, i don't believe he was the chief tight and for the kansas city chiefs but we are waiting to see what the republicans do at the districts of texas and it's one of the four key states that we are watching in redistricting for texas, georgia, north carolina and georgia where republicans are in charge and we will see what thate district is up lookig like and i expect it to be competitive and it is been one of the most competitive districts for maybe ten years running now but we just have to fwait to see what the field los like and also that factor with hispanic voters and was it a trump something specifically president trump was able to form that coalition or can republicans do it or can democrats really make some gain ground fact that they lost i

antonio, a district that biden won by 14 points and he flipped it. mccallen race, a hispanic area, and biden won the county in 2020 and we just flipped that for a republican. we're seeing huge growth not just with venezuelan and cuben latinos, and also mexican hispanics and colombian, puerto rican, the growth we're seeing is resonating part of it is our investments, but they are a small business owners and they're school of choice, and with the black and asian community as well. >> i want to follow up on something you said in your opening remarks, laws being changed in the name of covid. i've been curious why the republican criticism about the election focused so much on fraud rather than looking at all the different ways in which many states rapidly changed their election laws in order to enable mail-in voting on a much more timeline than-- >> that's what i talked about a lot. you saw a different standard applied to in-person voting than mail-in voting. you saw courts removing that i.d. requirement. when you get an absentee ballot for the first time

thank you so much, and i can't wait to host you again but in person here in san antonio. >> thank you, the raul. thank you for the questions. >> thank you so much. it was really a thrill to be here. >> thank you. >> hello, everyone. welcome to the san antonio book festival, and this panel, resistances anew, i'm brian davies, and i'm excited to be part of this conversation, celebration of literature and books and ideas. our authors today are dorothy whit ken and h.w. brands. if you haven't done so already, we hope you'll consider purchasing their books. the agitators and the zealot and the emancipator. as you know, independent bookstores have been challenged during the pandemic, so we hope that you'll support them and these writers and the festival by purchasing their books. just click on the buy the book button on the festival site. and if you have a question for our authors, you can just use the q and a box, and we'll get that processed to you and try and incorporate them during the conversation as we can. so first, let me tell you a little bit about our two authors. dorothy is the a

when they left the little town to go somewhere, they went to houston or they went to dallas or san antonio. they didn't come to new york. they didn't go to l.a. so the roots go deep, and most of my family is still there. >> host: well, back to your book "on juneteenth," page 101, quote: in 1967 there was a re-release of the 1960 film "the alamo." i was taken to see it with my best friend. can you tell us that story? >> guest: yeah. it was an exciting thing. it was a big deal to go to the movies in those days. and going to houston to see a movie. i was in a little town outside of houston, and there was essentially a pine forest between the two places. now, of course, houston has reached out and encroached upon all of that area. but it was an exciting thing, a treat to go see this movie about people that we already knew about, jim bowie, travis, dave i have correct. these were name -- davy crockett. and my friend who was a boy, my best friend, you know, really was into those characters. i mean, i knew who they were, and i thought jim bowie was almost this myth ific sort of -- mythic sort of

. >> from san antonio texas cap and is calling on the republican line. >>caller: it's so nice to talk to and thank you so much for what you do and also for your courage and spite of what happened and personally and it is just very impressive so thank you so much. >> it is more in the van indoctrination for what happened in the recent past to convince the general public that there is still a big proportion of people out there that believe that is true it seems almost criminal what the media can update and get away with and then it happens to say something against the agenda they will fire you. in light of that, are there any sources available for independent ones that you would recommend to people? it used to be a good example and then propagate opinions and try to push an agenda so is there anything you would recommend in your professional opinion. >> that last chapter slanted i wrote about this you could be interested in that what i do recommend individual all journalist and news organizations that i say in this time unfortunately it is up to you to fin

. >> san antonio, texas. >> nice to talk to you and i want to thank you so much for what you do also, i think you have done personally, even rosenstein, it is very impressive. also, i'd like to say that there are narratives, i don't even narrative so much as indoctrination the media even what's happening in the recent past, transient the general they are the russian aspect and people of that is true. seems almost criminal the media is able to get away with it also with the election and if you're a journalist who does work for corporate to say something against their agenda, they will fire you. in light of that, are there any news sources currently availab available, independent once you recommend people? like a good example, she and her section, they've become very best they propagate opinions to push an agenda. his anything you recommend in your professional opinion and go to that's available, independent journalists form sources. >> thank you, color. >> there's some discussion in the last chapter about this with the that. i do recommend individual news organizations that i say this

after receiving his ba in mathematics from trinity university in san antonio and an ma in statistics from the university of michigan, go blue, mr. santos went on to hold several leadership roles including vice president of statistics and methodology at the university of chicago's national opinion research center , director of survey operations at the university of michigan, survey research center in partner and executive vice president at a texas market research firm. mr. santos has also served as an expert advisor to the cdc and the census bureau. he currently serves as the elected president of the american statistical association, the leading professional organization for statisticians in the united states. welcome, mr. santos. you may proceed with your opening remarks. santos: thank you, chair, can you hear me? ok, thank you very much. i would like to first introduce my wife, della -- alela and my son emilio. i just want to say thank you for this opportunity to give an opening statement and thank you, committee members, for those of you who are here, and i understand if you can't

along those lines i just heard earlier about a special initiative in san antonio, texas which was a vaccine event for individuals that didn't have broadband access or smart phones or not able to sign up for appointments online. it was strictly a call in and i think even a drop in kind of basis and i hear that they didn't distribute all of their vaccine. i hear that it didn't go as well as they were hoping it would and again you got patients in rural areas who are allowed to get a vaccine but there aren't enough distributors in her area. this is one area where i think the federal government needs to listen to the unique needs of what one county needs and not what another county will need. >> talk a little bit about dealing with covid fatigue among people after and in a lot of cases more than ten months of isolation and people working from home had people losing their jobs and now we have two approved vaccines and how do you keep people from saying as long as i know i will get a vaccine then i no longer need to wear a mask and i no longer need to follow the applied rules because i'm going to

he said, oh, wait, see if the san antonio team wants to pay for it. it pays for her to have her breast done and her nose. she was honest about this. and a lot of women had done this the state organizations had paid for it. dana was a contender and reporters asked her, have you had anything done and she was honest. it blew up this big scandal. >> right. the media treated it like she was a doping athlete. the funny thing is she still possessed at the attitude the whole thing. it did not traumatize her. she went through the ringer with this, but she still had the whole pageant experience. >> a lot of girls, women came up to her. >> her advice was, don't tell anyone. >> exactly. i want to move to the serious stuff. before we get to the platforms and shift, let's rewind a little bit and tell me a little bit more about the beginning. the very first miss america, what state was she from? [laughter] >> very good. you will appreciate this. being in new orleans for so many years, the miss america pageant was really just supposed to be a little side show at edge

germany, and had to stabilize me and then moved me to san antonio texas. at one of those locations, i guess it was maybe at balat, maybe the medication wasn't as heavy at that point, but it could have been any of them, i don't know. i found out they had to start working on me right away in balat. about two years after it happened, i got to meet my surgeon who was an air force colonel, and he said that of his two years that he had almost spent over there, they had never been attacked, except the one time i was on the table, they got rocket attacks and things were shaking and stuff. he said what he could remember was my legs, everything above my foot was in really really bad condition, and i don't remember what the procedure was called, but basically there was a procedure they weren't supposed to do on burns. brook army medical center is like the burn hospital, one of the best hospitals for burns, and there was a procedure they weren't supposed to do on any burn patient, he ended up doing it on me because it was the only way to save my legs. had that happene

after receiving his ba in mathematics from trinity university in san antonio, and an ma in statistics from the university of michigan, go blue, mr. santos with don on to hd several leadership roles including vice president of statistics and methodology of university of chicago's national opinion research center. director survey operations at the university unive, survey research center and partner and executive vice president at a texas market research firm. mr. santos has served as an expert advisor to the cdc and the census bureau. he currently serves as the elected president of the american statistical association, the leading professional organization for statisticians in the united states. welcome, mr. santos. you may proceed with your opening remarks. >> thank you, chair. can you hear me? can you hear me? >> yes. >> thank you very much. i would like to first introduced my wife, abella, and my son emilio who are here in support, and i just want to say thank you for this opportunity to give an opening statement. and thank you committee members for those of you who are here and i u

. >> welcome to the san antonio book festival rate our session today the executive director of the tour for american history at the university of texas at austin and his new book flash of lights, wall of fire, welcome. >> i am glad to be here, mark. good to see you. before we talk about this stunning book, which is about the aftereffects of the bombings that ended world war ii the atomic bombs that were dropped on hiroshima, 1945 in the bomb that was dropped on nagasaki just three days later, which effectively ended world war ii. before we talk about the book, contextualize those events force a little bit. >> of course the bomb itself was developed during world war ii in the famous manhattan project. and then when franklin or died as under his watch became president in july of 45 the bomb was successfully tested and eight desert in new mexico. truman and then made the decision to drop the bomb on japan. i cannot recall really if he made a decision for both of them at the time. i think that was soon after. but any rate made the decision to going to dropped the bomb on japan it was the ta

. >> that wraps up book tvs coverage of the reset virtual san antonio book festival. watch these programs booktv.org. by clicking the fairs and festivals tab at the top of the page. ♪♪ ♪♪ recently actor and healthcare advocate michael j fox spoke about being diagnosed with parkinson's at age 29, living with that disease and his foundation's work a cure. [inaudible] i have an understanding infringing on others. i think i have to hand check it and keep it at bay. a tumor on my spine that was threatening me. making my legs weak. i went to a series of doctors. they wanted nothing to do with it. fantastic. it is a horrible tumor. infringing on your spinal cord. who wants to paralyze michael j fox. that is the funniest thing i have ever heard. so he -- [inaudible] worsening symptoms. the damage had already been done it was an intense experience that i could not watch after those. hard to do this walking exercise you hear people say that. it is true. you had to learn to transfer weight. to your toes. my tendency was my toes and i would fall forward. i had in baltimor

i contain things in texas, houston particular but san antonio and other parts of the district, then i represent affordable housing has been a major concern and this is just getting worse as a major problem. and as yesterday, the labor department never shows that the housing costs which the cost of rent, and the homeownership are continuing to grow. we approved significant assistance in the american rescue plan for those who are struggling to make the most of the rent payments and unfortunately, in texas say republicans have bundled getting the relief to those who needed the most they seem to do better it really barriers whether it is putting a barrier to rent assistance or building a barrier to funding or building a barrier along the rio grande river. the homeownership which is a source of financial security for so many americans is increasingly underage as our witnesses today have told us. and let me ask you about the rescue plan at the congress has an you've indicated while many people in your state of new jersey, and places like texas we have the state government, that there is sti

host: san antonio, texas, catherine colleen and on a republican line, go ahead. i want to thank you so much for what you do. and i think what you're done i think personally and even for standing up against rosenstein and the things that you're done is very impressive, thank you so much. also i would like to say when you say there's a narrative, i kind of don't even see it's a narrative it's a must indoctrination with what's going on with corporate media or even what happened in the recent would trying to convince the general public that our president is a russian asset and there is still big proportion of people that believe that is true. , it seems a most criminal with what our media is able to propagate and get away with and what recently happened with the advection, if you're journalist it does work for corporate media and happened to say something against their agenda they will fire you. in light of that, are there any news sources currently available, independent ones that you would recommend to people, one of the caller said i do not have time in the interc

that is something for example the mayor of san antonio julian castro who ran for the democratic nomination also spoke about because he spoke spanish in the home and said when you start school they were not encouraged to speak spanish. i think today the spanish is not proficient. >> he is very much an english speaker. >> the pressure that is central to the idea of integration simulation of american society. >> i want to switch gears and talk about border wall and borders because that is such a prominent piece of discussion in your book and thoughtfulness in your book. we talked about the opening in the instance of you crossing the border and what struck me the day you and your husband wanted to go watch a world cup soccer match and crossing over the border, no problem in coming back was a major ordeal and it felt very threatening to you. you were scared. and when you look at our border system. what do you see and what is a contrast there especially first on our southern border. >> it is something -- i've only crossed the land border into mexico a couple of times in that incident you describ

a native of san antonio who grew up in a mexican-american family, mr. santos in his 40-year career has become one of the top statisticians for the country -- in the country. if confirmed, santos would be the first hispanic and in fact the first person of color to become a permanent director of the census bureau. he's exactly the kind of person our country needs overseeing our census -- impartial, highly experienced, someone from outside politics. we must and need to protect our census from the pressures of partisan politics, and santos is the perfect fit. president trump, true to form, spent years trying to politicize and weaponize our country's census, going as far as maliciously trying to include citizenship questions and have counts of undocumented immigrants. mr. santos will restore trust and integrity to one of the most important agencies in government. and on mr. syed. of course there are too many other qualified and uncontroversial nominees that are still awaiting their confirmation because of shameful republican delay. mr. mohsin syed is a parti

finally, as far away as san antonio, republicans have flipped a democratic bastion in a clear sign that republican inroads with hispanic voters last year were not a fluke. so what's responsible for this astounding red wave, unlike anything we have seen in years? well, if you listened to some in the immediate why this morning, the answer is the -- in the media this morning, the answer is the same as always. glenn youngkin is apparently a smiling fleece jacket-wearing reincarnation of democratic demagogues. if you look at the actual results, this laughable attack is exposed for what it is -- dishonest propaganda. as part of this supposedly racist or white supremacist backlash election, more than half of hispanic voters appear to have pulled the lever for youngkin. not one but two plurality house districts flipped to the g.o.p. best of all for this supposedly racist election, virginia voters just elected the state's first black female lieutenant governor. that woman is winsome seers, a gun-toting immigrant marine veteran and a proud conservative republican. so much for the media spin. now

in san antonio, the outpatient clinic which serves tens of thousands of veterans sustained water damage and had reduction in operations. can you give me an update on where we stand with the facility? is it fully up and running? are there any projects pending? mr. simms: thank you. i'm going to ask mr. lippmann to respond to that. mr. lippmann: thank you for the question. the outpatient clinic is in the leap facility -- an elite facility. we note the facility is working with the building owner to actively complete the repairs. the building owner has indicated a preliminary schedule of completing everything by june 1. in the meantime, the local facility has moved services to the veterans that normally use the clinic to other facilities or made them virtual. we will be working with them and they will be working with the building owner to see if they can expedite the schedule when they get into the work. rep. gonzalez: thank you. please keep us up-to-date on that. cyber threats are constantly evolving. the v.a. has not issued a cyber security strategy since 2018. why has it been three years

after receiving his ba in mathematics from trinity university in san antonio, and they ma in statistics from the university of michigan, duluth and mr. santos went on to hold several leadership roles including vice president of statistics the methodology that the diversity of charles national research center. director of survey operations at the university of michigan, survey research partner and executive vice president at his texas market research firm. mr. santos is also served as an expert advisor to the cdc, and the census bureau. he currently serves as the elected president of the american sent association leading professional organization in the united states pretty well, mr. santos we may proceed with your opening remarks. >> thank you chair, can you hear me. okay, thank you very much. i would like to first introduce my wife idella and my son emilio who was here in support. i just want to say thank you for this opportunity to give an opening statement. and thank you committee members for those of you who are here and i understand that if you can't be, and obligate. it is an hono

i visited philadelphia and new york and atlanta and new orleans and san antonio and los angeles, and never once has the head of the union asked me a question, never once have i received an inquiry in writing or orally from the head of the union and if he should ask me a question, i shall answer it because i have been answering the questions of individuals whom he is responsible to represent. >> i would be happy to give you these case issues for the record, and i look forward to your response for the record and i would just say however much an inconvenience it may be for you to answer questions from me or other senators on the committee ormm from the union, the people that you are in charge of and supposed to be supervising, it is your job and frankly i don't care if it's an inconvenience and if you don't like it, it is your job to do so and the fact you are not able or willing to respond to these specific inquiries is troublesome but i will give them to you for the record and look forward to the response. >> if i may say also that is false. your questions are not an inconvenience for

in the relief from cities like san antonio and austin, paid leave policies only to have them different state and republican leadership. thank you for your leadership working with the defense department to make our military and childcare so standard. bipartisan cooperation on this, i think we share concerns, the only problem is we get a disagreement when it comes time to pay for those concerns and see we reach the children we need to reach. you mentioned a number of actions to take the stabilized childcare system, would you allow the on investing more in the child studies to support stable access to high-quality for low income families, how can we assure the money we invest expand availability, quality and financial stability for childcare businesses and offer of 40 the care. >> thank you for that question. i think the military has a good model how we can do this. one lesson we learn from doing the military is that we need to put money into the supply side of the equation as well as the care. what i think this is to childcare entitlement, that's money more into the supply side of the eq

howard and i crossed paths as young lawyers in san antonio, texas, where we used to play a little pickup basketball together. he graduated from st. mary's school of law a few years before i did and much to the benefit of families across our state, he quickly found his calling working on child support and family issues. howard spent time as a private lawyer, as a state-appointed judge, and as a regional director for child support enforcement. he bounced back-and-forth between the texas attorney general's office and the texas department of protective and regulatory services, and his colleagues would joke, howard, how can we miss you if you won't stay gone? but a man as talented and devoted and as effective as howard is always in high demand. when i was elected as attorney general of texas in 1998, he was one of the first people i called. at the time the child support division of the attorney general's office was a disaster. staff were completely overwhelmed by the sky-high number of cases. the office ran a computer system that was so dysfunctional, it actually managed to decrease productiv

as you know texas suffered one of the worst ever natural disasters last month and in san antonio the outpatient clinic serving tens of thousands veterans sustained water damage and reduction of operations. can you give an update where we stand with the facility or any projects that are pending? >>. >> thank you for the question the out patient clinic is in the least facility they are working with the owner to complete the repairs the preliminary schedule completing everything thank you. by june 1st but the local facility has moved services to other facilities war made them virtual. we will work with the owner to see if we can expedite once they begin the repair work. >> please keep our team up-to-date on that. cyberthreats are constantly evolving we have not have any strategies since 2018 why since the strategy was issued has a been three years? >> thank you for the question. the cybersecurity piece is outside of the witnesses we have here today but we can get you in touch with the right people. >> i will submit those qu questions. >> if i can interrupt please get us that information

while he is down there going back to texas the good folks of san antonio durable and after generous toast he responded like this, the only reason i'm telling you this is because i like to hear my voice echo office microphone, it will give you all honesty a good taste of what he was like and it's all cavalier if you will. sir, walter scott, i hope you did not do this off-the-cuff, if he did i am jealous. this assemblage of beauty ends to the thirsty is ambition. one smile from the beauty contended in the rough arena of life where more than sufficient to compensate me for all my humble labors on the field. the smile of women and the approbation of men of our aspirations. to win them the student burns the midnight lamp the soldier sheds his blood on the battlefield and for them all are willing to die they are the sweetest apples. i'll never get this one his parities, anybody no agent history, guess what all that convoluted stuff i went to the mississippi public education system. [laughter] what is your excuse, thank you for bailing me out. you know were on live television. allow me too propo

i know and october of 1992 president bush joined later some mexico and canada in san antonio to initial the original nafta agreement. that's the turning point in history of our three countries. it truly was. and in its time nafta was i think extremely beneficial. united states certainly to my home texas, our neighbors of canada and mexico. but it is -- we need to care for and invest in it, upgrade it, and make it work for the 21st century. we achieved that together, and president trump sided, he said this is cutting edge state of art agreement that protects -- the great people of our country. and he's right. this is the standard for the 21st century trade agreement that builds on the good provisions of nafta, literatures and all u.s. goods exported to mexico and you're all of the exporter to canada. this opens new markets, the u.s. dairy, white, poultry and a lot of key reforms in energy and telecommunications in a big way. i think it strengthens our partnership in distortions caused by non--- like china. it includes ip protection for copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets along with

annette gordon-reed truck entered doctor joe pearson is why the problem prominent retired couple in san antonio i met them several times at the book festival in austin but misses peers, m e-mailed me separately to say that the texas state history museum has abruptly canceled the speech by the authors of the new book, on the alamo. i don't know if you're familiar with that book and texas is trying to keep the truth from competing with math this is crazy and related to censorship. i know we touch on the alamo and ten alamo minute ago. but i wanted to acknowledge missus pearson's it e-mail predict speech of, yes, i heard about the situation, it is kind of like what is called the effects when you draw attention to things like this, this will probably make people go out and readro the book even more. people don't like to have ideas being kept from them. that's important situation. from the things that are actually part about it. i'm not the book yet. that should be on my nightstand next. peter: will you be in the s book festival services fall. annette: i think so yes i'm supposed to be in th

the attacks on latino americans in modern history and last few weeks, san antonio and austin has stuck with anti-semitic attacks with businesses defaced and a local jewish community be intimidated only of same white nationalist public they were wearing nasi clothing outside of the holocaust museum and deny it so i want to ask you, what will the fbi dot to investigate these incidents in texas and others like us. >> for one the fbi engaged with local law enforcement extensively and identifying crimes whether it is a crime or whether it is a part of a group that follows the promotion of a white supremacist to the white supremacy race and we have elevated the racially motivated to extremist to one of our highest levels of threats and as i said earlier, counterterrorism made asm high priority in the fi and within that, racially motivated extremism is at the top equal to that as a threat of a foreign terrorist such as isis so we focused a great deal of resources on trying to disrupt and stop that activity and identify those individuals that may be responsible for the and we take it very seri

. >> a i have served under "don't ask don't tell" and a scholarship that took me from san antonio to university. "don't ask don't tell" d applies to me even as the cadets on my opportunity to get an education and to serve our country all of that goes away but for the courage of those who said -- "don't ask don't tell" is the policy that never should have been in tank so it is no more in no small part due to speaker pelosi's leadership raiding of speaker pelosi is ready to throw a punch for the children and we know that speaker pelosi is willing to throw punch ford lgbtqpulg equality so speaker pi thank you for your leadership and your courage. >> a i wanted to send along my congratulations in your honor is an lgbtq history maker. you certainly deserve this award. amazing work to help appeal "don't ask don't tell" to your support of marriage equality something personal to me. you have been an advocate in the ally for the lgbtq community and you definitely deserve this honor. congratulations again speaker pelosi. >> a congratulations speaker pelosi and being honored with the lgbtq hist

antonio and what happened there were 22 army reserve demands and general max barrettes, close friend of mine in the federal reserve thought we didn't need command and control so reduced it to ten. the flag moved to little rock and it became the 90th regional support command and i was the second command and had been the -- i think 123rd army reserve command and so those folks didn't know and didn't care about the 90th. the 90th has history from world war i and world war ii. particularly world war ii. they spent more days in ground combat than any army unit in world war ii. it was honor to command them but i had to give arkansas people. >> you still live in the atlanta area while doing this? >> yeah. arkansas, louisiana, texas, new mexico and they had been under a lot of different and had to pretty much educate them in the history of the 90th reserve command, regional support command. i connected after i had been there a few months i went to come and ask to speak in the infantry division and it was being held in indianapolis, indiana. didn't know anything about them. that was where i d

one is in the lbo and i had the chance to visit with the chief at the southwest border of san antonio last week. those that have the program say somebody was on site with them not a call that somebody they could talk to that they had averted some unfortunate circumstances for team members so looking at that program , two additional sectors and sectors word that be beneficial but frankly i'm willing to work with anyone i will come suggestions. >> but the death of this cbp personnel in 2021. what we do for those that are contemplating suicide and how can we help you help your workforce? . . . . we are out there, they are out there talking to our. supports, chaplains every single day. they spend a lot of time there, we have was called a campaign right now, myself and senior leadership talking to the folks about ensuring they are getting the help they need which is good. i think the communications and trying to get out as much as i can to talk to the men and women to see what additional support they need. it's an alll in approach but again, i am open to taking additional ideas, any additi

last two weeks, san antonio and austin have suffered a series of anti-semitic attacks with businesses defaced with swastikas and the local jewish community being intimidated. and we've seen nazis outside the holocaust museum and denying the holocaust. i want to ask what will the fbi do to investigate incidents and others like this? >> for one the fbi engaged with local law enforcement extensively in identifying crimes, whether it is a hate crime or whether it is a part of a group that follows the promotion of a white supremacist advocates for --. we have elevated racially motivated non extremists to one of our highest threats. counterterrorism remains the highest priority of the ip fbi. and within that racially motivated violent extremism is at the top, equal to that of the threat of foreign terrorists such as isis. so we focus a great deal of resources focused on trying to disrupt and stop that activity and identify those individuals that may be responsible for them. we take this very seriously. >> thank you. well taking on white nationalist extremism is something i'm glad this admin

antonio the 1600 unaccompanied children and then to intense positive on - - and to test positive. and then to investigate these allegations and what they share about these allegations and the opportunity to visit i know i had the opportunity to do so and those allegations and if you have been investigated. >> thank you very much for the question and the matter in which you asked the question i appreciate that. we are on top of any reports or allegations of abuse to make sure not only do we follow the law that we provide them with the well-being they deservedy while they are in our custody temporary as it may be we don't get into a discussion of their immigration status we make sure wee take care of them so any report we will investigate and continue to do that but i can tell you 7000 children had to come through our custody are all being cared for and cared for well. >> thank you. we have professionals there outstanding and did a really good job so the president said that if we cannot agree on everything let's talk about what we can agree on. with those bipartisan bills but if you

and just using my hometown of san antonio as an for example, there are over 300 polling places. the largest shift at any given time of sapd is about 150 officers who have arguably better things to do. what happens to us? do we finish her caster her ballot -- casting her ballot? if we do does she come back? what's the word of mouth as that experience spreads like wildfire, bad chisme? that can't be who we are and the idea this bill makes voting easier in this instance, i don't see how. there are no cases of voter fraud relating to voter assistance. in county if a, just to give you numbers -- in fact, just to give you numbers and i'll wrap up - mr. raskin: please. mr. bernal: the likelihood of voter fraud in texas is less than anyone of us being struck by lightning. mr. raskin: thank you, representative bernal, for your excellent testimony. and members are very patient. i'll hold off on my questioning and allow mr. mfume to go. then we'll go directly to the ranking member. mr. mfume: thank you very much, mr. chair. and members of the committee. mr. chair, i want to thank you as i

the chance to visit with the chiefs of the southwest corner san antonio just last week and the three that had that program said it was very beneficial in that there was somebody on site within. it wasn't a call, the wasn't an eap. it was somebody on site within and could talk. they thought they have reverted some unfortunate circumstances for our team members. so i think looking at the program, expanding the program to additional sectors and field offices across cbp would be beneficial. but, frankly, i'm willing to work with anybody that i can to ensure that the many women are getting the support they need. so i welcome any suggestion. >> and a follow-up. the death of -- attributed to suicide while there been five such a desk covered in 2021. what are you doing specifically to cbp personnel who may be contemplating suicide? and how can we help you help your workforce? >> i think supporting the commission that we talked about and we believe a tragic has been averred because of that program so expanding that program so there's folks on site to talk to our personnel. the chiefs of borde

from a convention hall in seneca falls to a bridge in selma, from willie's home in san antonio, texas, to this very chamber, the voting rights victories of each generation have been hard fought and hard won, and it is no different today. in recent months, we've seen the latest challenge to the core of our democracy. scores of new laws proposed by republican state legislatures to target the past five decades of gains in voting rights. cynical politicians spreading false claims of voter fraud because they fear losing in a fair election. you can see the danger of it, even in my home state of california, where just yesterday we held a recall election. republicans ran a campaign of disinformation, spreading baseless claims of massive voter fraud before the polls even closed, before they even opened, and long before a single ballot was even counted. it's straight out of donald trump's playbook, the same playbook that perpetuated the big lie and fueled the domestic terrorism that the world witnessed on january 6. and it's no coincidence that the cynical claims of voter fraud are often target

what began as one small pro-democracy protest in san antonio spread across the island in a matter of hours. cubans from all walks of life took to the streets in a courageous call for democratic change. among those clamoring for freedom were afro-cubans demanding an end to discrimination and injustice. young people dreaming of a brighter future in their country, artists and activists from the san ysidro movement singing and ordinary citizens facing widespread food choices access to health care. the people of cuba are crying out for freedom and we must hear them. [speaking in spanish] this is not about politics or ideology. the free world has a responsibility to stand with those who are not yet free. and the people of cuba are anything but free. let's dispel the myths about what life is under the cuban regime. for decades the regime's ruthless and repressive tactics have systematically silenced the cuban people while party insiders and cronies enrich themselves at their expense. today cuba remains a one-party communist state with the basic principles of political pluralism and represen