republicans on the house judiciary committee peppering the ag over his recent memo focusing on parents and students over their conduct and comments at school board meetings and beyond. the attorney general said he defends the right to free speech and that the parents are not domestic terrorists but that issue and others made for heated moments in that hearing. rick has a story for us. speak out and two and a half weeks after warning of an increase in threats of violence against school administrators, attorney general merrick garland appeared before the house judiciary committee defending department of justice against criticism that the government is unfairly targeting parents. >> when did you first review the data showing the soap called disturbing uptake? >> i read the letter and we've been seeing over time -- >> i didn't asked -- you read the letter. that is your source? >> that letter is a september 30th plea from the national school boards association to president biden. to "investigate, intercept, and prevent the current threats of violence against public school officials to assur

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hearing before the house judiciary committee and the attorney general merrick garland get pretty testy at times. everything from whether or not republicans could show and in particular congressman jim jordan could show a video supporting the questions that they are asking the a.g. about parents being targeted by the f.b.i. specifically about those things and they were denied based on what chairman nadler of the house judiciary committee said was a point of rule there. someone objected and they went on. the back and forth got chippy for a bit. and then just moments ago, we saw something else and they are taking a break now and while they do we'll step in with "the faulkner focus". i'm hair use -- harris "the faulkner focus". a moment ago you saw the a.g. pressed on what may seem to be naked eye a conflict of interest for him to talk at all about going after parents and leveraging the f.b.i. to do that over issues that parents may have on what is being taught inside their children's's classroom. critical race theory. i believe we have a little bit of that. i will ask my team for that. >>

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he sits on the house judiciary committee. congressman, good morning you and thank you for being with us. and we have a lot that we want to get to you, but first, we want to ask your reaction to that developing situation out of haiti. have lawmakers been briefed? do you know what's going on right now to get those people back safely? >> well, we're all in our home districts and homes and i don't think many people have been briefed, maybe some people on intel committees or foreign affairs, but haiti is the most outrageously poor run and violent and lawless spot in the western hemisphere and possibly in the globe. i've been to goma in the congo and it reminds me of goma. it's a terrible situation and we have to be careful not to get troops there, or we'll see another situation maybe like mogadishu, where we'll lose american troops trying to rescue americans. of course, we were trying to help somalis there, but we put our troops in great jeopardy. the united nations needs to get involved and see what they can do. >> goma, referrin

on c-span3, attorney general merrick garland testifies before the house judiciary committee. you can watch on www.c-span.org or with their new c-span app, c-span now. the white house covid 19 responds team held a briefing on the biden administration's plan to rollout vaccines for children ages 5-11. they anticipate approval from federal regulators in the coming weeks. the team spoke with reporters for about 20 minutes. mr. zeints: good morning, and thanks for joining us. today i'll first turn to doctors walensky and fauci to cover the state of the pandemic and the importance of vaccinations. then dr. murthy and i will provide an update on the work we're doing to prepare for potential vaccinations for kids ages five through 11. over to you, dr. walensky. dr. walensky: thank you, jack. good morning, everyone. let's begin with an overview of the data. as of yesterday, the seven-day

judiciary committee. what is your takeaway? we talked about some of the big issues and critical race theory and d.o.j. intimidating parents in virginia. what do you expect to hear? we've watched these hearings for years, karl. there is a lot of bobbing and weaving and not much substance. a lot of side stepping. what are you looking for today? >> i'm looking for bobbing, weaving and side stepping. merrick garland since taking the job has professed a desire to create the image of his justice department as being a apart from politics. that's what he said the goal was. he has made statements and taken actions that belie that. you put your finger on one of the most amazing ones when we had disputes over the curriculum in places like loudon county, virginia, in which there were ugly words said he sent a message to the f.b.i. i want you to look into this. if there are threats of violence that's a state and local matter. it is not a matter for the justice department and yet he intruded in that. we'll get a lot of

and as a member of the judiciary committee in the house and now seeing what the senate judiciary committee has revealed you, too, have oversight jurisdiction of what goes on at the justice department. what are your first thoughts about what can be done about this? >> well, good evening, lawrence. great to be on as always. you know, donald trump's behavior continues to make richard nixon look like a choir boy. and there is no bottom. there never will be. that is how corrupt this particular individual who used to occupy 1600 pennsylvania avenue is and how much he has corrupted the republican party, which is no longer a functional governing party. it's a cult. i think we came very close to losing our democracy, and the more information that is revealed the clearer that becomes. and so i expect on the house judiciary committee side we'll continue to explore this information, probe it, present it to the american people. of course, leading that effort in the house is going to continue to be the select committee. and then we're going to have to try to figure out how we can hold some of these indi

attorney general, can you confirm to this committee if you did earlier before the house judiciary committee the purpose of the memo that you were just discussing with senator cornyn is to have meetings to discuss whether there is a problem, to discuss strategies, to discuss whether local law enforcement needs assistance, or doesn't need assistance? is that the purpose of it? >> yes. thank you for making that point, senator. i say that in the memo. that the purpose of the memo is to convene meetings with federal, state, and local, tribal leaders and to facilitate discussions of strategies for addressing threats, to assess the question and to open lines of communication about those threats. >> thank you. i want to move to some other threats and that is a hearing that actually center blunt and i had yesterday. a bipartisan hearing. we both called witnesses before the rules committee. and it was with both republican and democratic election officials, the attorney general of arizona, a republican local official in philadelphia. and they told stories that horrified senators on both sides of the a

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today at a house judiciary committee hearing, attorney general merrick garland said this. >> the house of representatives votes for referral of the contempt charge. the department of justice will do what it always does in such circumstances. it will apply the facts and the law and make a decision consistent with the principles of prosecution. >> joining our discussion now is congresswoman madeleine dean of pennsylvania, she is a member of the house judiciary committee and served as a house impeachment manager in the second impeachment of donald trump. thank you very much for joining us tonight. i want to begin with where we just ended, and that is the attorney general's comment today. it's difficult to imagine him saying anything else under these circumstances, and yet, there is more suspense tonight in washington about what this attorney general will decide than there has been in a long time. >> and yet, lawrence, thank you, number one, for having me tonight. it's a pleasure to be with you. i was in that hearing room today with attorney general merrick garland, and if you flash back,

and then thursday attorney general garland will be before the house judiciary committee for an oversight hearing of the justice department. and there is a lot of issues he will be grilled on that day from january 6 committee but also on abortion more generally and texas abortion law. immigration is a huge one that republicans are pointing to there is a huge range ofs topics. a lot is happening this week at the hearing level that we haven't seen. sometimes a play out in the background to dominate the news coverage and we will see what else. host: independent line go ahead. >> number one i don't like either one of the's bills they are full of things we do not need. why aren't they talking about getting the deficit down instead of spending all this money? >> thank you for that. a lot of people are talking about getting it down. democrats in particular but also they had been saying we cannot be spending as much as we have been with these two packages together will be trillions of dollars. the argument from the white house is they are really trying to make a broader social spending package. n

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as you'll remember, i was a member and still am a member of the house judiciary committee and we saw the trump administration play this exact same playbook time and time again as they stonewalled congressional investigations. but what has changed, of course, and what is different now is that the department of justice is obviously -- you have an attorney general at the head of the department of justice who i think cares a great deal about co-equal branches of government, separation of powers an ebb suring the constitutional prerogatives of the congress are respected. at the end of the day if witnesses can defy subpoenas without consequence, then congressional oversight really no longer exists and it's hard to make the case congress is a co-equal branch of government in that circumstance. i take very seriously the select committee's language that was in the release today with respect to criminal contempt of congress, a referral to the department of justice. time will tell as to whether or not the department of justice under attorney general garland will ultimately implement that referr

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but at times it did feel like a prosecution as attorney general gall and the faces the house judiciary committee, amongst a variety of controversies within the department of justice. we will bring you the highlights as to whether either side was actually happy with how the proceedings went. and this week with a great advancement for medicine, with the successful temporary transplant of an animal, oregon to a human. howard this historic accomplishment does raise ethical questions amongst religious groups. we will think answers from our expert. i'm sorry, i know hughes, and we're going to give you the 360 view of these stories on today's near via hughes right here on our t america. ah.

you can begin. >>> house committee on judiciary will come to order. without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. welcome everyone to this morning's hearing and oversight of the department of justice. before we begin i would like to remind members we have established an e-mail address and distribution list dedicated to circulating exhibits, motions or other materials members might want to offer as part of our hearing today. fuld like to submit materials please distribute them and we'll circulate them to members and staff as quickly as we can.if y materials please distribute them and we'll circulate them to members and staff as quickly as we can. also face conversation are required for all meetings in enclosed space such as committee hearings except when you are recognized to speak. i will now recognize myself in opening statement. good morning mr. attorney general, and thank you for appearing before our committee today. in the department of justice performance as it should it is champion of bill of rights,

today gop members the house judiciary committee are asking chairman nadler to convene a hearing with deputy attorney general lisa monaco and acting assistant attorney general mark less coto investigate the national security division and their role in all of this. the letter follows a separate letter sent yesterday by all 19 republican congressman on the house judiciary committee to the nsba's board of directors, asking for their assistance in an investigation into the doj and the white house's attempt to use law enforcement to target concerned parents. now one of those signers joins me right now, congressman dan bishop of north carolina. he is on the house homeland security committee. congressman, thanks for joining us tonight, let me ask you before we get into the house's letter, take a look at some of the fireworks from yesterday's senate judiciary committee. listen to this. >> you have weaponized the fbi and the department of justice. it's wrong, it is unprecedented to my knowledge in the history of this country. >> it is about politicization of doj and you decided to submit as a

this is what david cicilline, a member of the house judiciary committee told me. he said, with enormous economic power very often comes enormous political power. and they are spending millions and millions of dollars flooding this town with lobbyists and campaign contributions, doing everything they can to stop the reforms. this is the reason that battles against monopolies are hard. so, look, we'll see what happens here. but i will say that proponents of reining in big tech feel like the tides have finally turned in their favor. >> we'll see. there is some bipartisan support, but i'm sure the lobbying machines are churning into action now. melanie zanona on the hill, donie o'sullivan, thank you very much. >>> president biden rejected the latest executive privilege claim by former president trump. this over documents that trump is trying to keep out of the hands of the january 6th select committee. >> cnn white house correspondent jeremy diamond joining us now. jeremy, this is after the former president had filed a lawsuit to stop the national archives from turnin

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attorney general, can you confirm to this committee, as you did earlier before the house judiciary committee, that the purpose of the memo that you were just discussing with senator cornyn is to have meetings to discuss whether there's a problem, to discuss strategies, to discuss whether local law enforcement needs assistance or doesn't need assistance? was that the purpose of it? >> yes, thank you for making that point, senator. i say that in the memo, that the purpose of the memo is to convene meetings with federal, state, and local, tribal leaders, and to facilitate the discussions of strategies for addressing threats, to assess the question and open the lines of communication about those threats. >> thank you. i want to move to some other threats. and that is a hearing that actually senator blount and i had yesterday. it was a bipartisan hearing. we both called witnesses. it was before the rules committee. it was with both republican and democratic election officials. the attorney general of arizona, a republican local official in philadelphia. and they told stories that horrified senato

for hearing, his first in person testimony before the house judiciary committee. that is that live on c-span3. you can watch on c-span.org or stream it live on our new c-span now mobile app. opal forum. let's hear from james first in waldorf, maryland. democrat line. >> the morning. several things. i want to touch base on -- i will start with the vaccine mandate. the vaccine mandate isn't as huge of an issue in my eyes because we have been vaccinated since i've been had the chickenpox and measles, mumps. i didn't know i need to take it, but i took it because you go to school, and your parents make you take the vaccine because it was mandatory. i don't necessarily see why we think there's a huge difference with this new vaccine the vaccines that we already have taken. the concern and that woke us of new medicine and deceiving humans. people don't really believe that you should trust the government. i trust that, but that different is not much from what we already do. thank you. >> colorado, next up. lori, independent line. lori, are you there? johnstown, colorado.

joining us now congressman ken buck of house antitrust and house judiciary committees. congressman, good to have you back on. your reaction to this report. we have the hearing tomorrow. is there now serious movement to do something about this in congress? >> i think there is serious movement. i think it is really important that the public understands the need for the movement. it is clear that facebook has shown no interest in stopping the predators who use the site. for example human traffickers and drug dealers. they have shown very little interest in the fact that teen suicide rates are going up. that teen girls especially have serious issues when they're using instagram, serious bodily issues and so there are all these, you know, problems that really magnify the monopoly issue that facebook is involved in. if we have five facebooks, we have competitive pressure to make sure that these companies deal with the, really abuses going on. elizabeth: congressman, phase book whistle-blower said, quote, facebook's own research shows that it knows that its content is hateful,

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the attorneys general coming before the house judiciary committee on thursday will be certainly asked about these issues. >> lastly, i need your opinion about what a new gop gerrymandering map in texas is doing. whites in texas make up 40% of the population but now control 59% of the districts. hispanics have 39% but control just 20% of the districts. and blacks make up 12% of all texans, but control a tiny portion of districts. 2.7%. the texas house passed this bill at 3:00 a.m. thursday night, so democracy quite literally is dying in the dark. is there anything that congress can do about this? >> well, part of the freedom to vote act would prohibit this type of aggressive gerrymandering designed to bring about a republican partisan advantage where the demographics of a state, in that case, texas, don't measure up. we also, i think, are going to see litigation filed against this particular map because, as your numbers so clearly illustrate, this is a racial gerrymander that is a classic one and should not pass muster in terms of the constitution. i expect that the courts will hear th

he is a member of the house intelligence committee and the house judiciary committee. thank you for joining us tonight, mr. swalwell. chairman thompson is saying that, anything is possible in terms of where the subpoenas will be going next, but it seems like the january six committee does have to calculate how long a fight, a legal fight, donald trump would put up over a subpoena. >> lawrence, we should assume he's gonna fight everything. that's what he does. he is a legal terrorists, as we would call him on the impeachment team. we offered for him to come and testify in impeachment number two. if you recall, he refused that we believe that showed a consciousness of guilt. if he makes the same refusal if he's asked for january 6th, i hope the company recognizes the reason he won't come forward, is that is as it relates to this edition suite at the willard hotel, yes, we should know who paid for and stayed in that suite, at the very least. >> yeah, apparently there were several of them. let's listen to john eastman, the lawyer who was there providing the phony legal mem

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testifies before the house judiciary committee. you can watch on www.c-span.org or with their new c-span app, c-span now. the white house covid 19 responds team held a briefing on the biden administration's plan to rollout vaccines for children ages 5-11. they anticipate approval from federal regulators in the coming weeks. the team spoke with reporters for about 20 minutes. mr. zeints: good morning, and thanks for joining us. today i'll first turn to doctors walensky and fauci to cover the state of the pandemic and the importance of vaccinations. then dr. murthy and i will provide an update on the work we're doing to prepare for potential vaccinations for kids ages five through 11. over to you, dr. walensky. dr. walensky: thank you, jack. good morning, everyone. let's begin with an overview of the data. as of yesterday, the seven-day daily average of cases was about 75,500 cases per day, which represents a decrease of about 16% over the prior week. the seven-day average of hospital admissions was about 6,000 per day, also a decrea

host: that from the house judiciary committee meeting earlier this week. you can watch the whole thing at c-span.org. as the sun begins to rise on this saturday, october 23, asking you what role parents should play in public education. several responses from social media. elizabeth writing, parents should have complete control over their children's education. anne say, parents should play a role in education but let the professionals that we all pay for lead and do their jobs. the majority are not skilled or educated enough to determine curriculum. it is a shame the extremists are trying to bully the professionals about things they don't know or don't exist. also, try to push a whitewashed agenda to keep our kids ignorant. brenda saying, any parent who does not pay attention to anything your child is taught is asking for trouble. go to the meetings, talk to your school board. parents have been allowing liberal indoctrination for 20 years. pay attention. yes, parents should review school programs in advance. jimmy saying, kids are not government property. y

judiciary committee, have you become familiar with the public reported details about the case? >> g.a. garland: i have read about the details. >> greg: that's good, think of her how was his performance? before i don't think you can say the name merrick garland without thinking about the history. at that time, he was seen afters this person who was so wrong because he did not have an opportunity to have a hearing. everyone has expected that as attorney general he would be this evenhanded and careful attorney general. the problem for merrick garland is that the events make it look otherwise. even at the national school board association sending out this memo, then the back story, and "they have been going back and forth with the white house. we are upset with what's been going on in meetings, and people are under assault or in danger." over the weekend, from friday, the letter goes out. monday, there is an announcement that the fbi will be watching all of this. now, under scrutiny and questioning, merrick garland goes "i based it on the letter from the national school board assoc

here to discuss kentucky republican house judiciary committee member, let's get sassy with massey. nice to see you. >> but his ego, you know it's bad when even the u.s. chamber of communism -- i mean commerce advocating for smaller government. i have no love lost for the military industrial complex here but i think we better listen to the ceo when he says the vaccine mandates on contractors and subcontractors will put a kink in the supply line to our military, that's important when it starts to affect national security and i got off a phone call with my constituents, 22 year member of the special forces in the navy being forced into retirement or he will lose his retirement and g.i. bill because he refuses to take the vaccine. kennedy: it's like i am not anti- vaccine, i got the vaccine, i am very happy about the vaccine, we discussed, i got super sick with covid, there are a lot of things i do others don't do but i don't think the government should force them to do those things. there is also someone within the administration saying if you force people to get vaccinated, there wil

. >> harris: attorney general garland getting grilled by the house judiciary committee. you watched it on fox live yesterday. a "wall street journal" sums it up this way. merrick garland gets schooled. mr. garland provided no evidence to suggest an escalation in the violence against school boards and no explanation for why such facts, even if criminal, are federal offenses. republicans hit garland on any coordination there might be between the d.o.j. and white house before sending out that controversial memo targeting parents at school board meetings. here is how he answered. >> has the white house told you to white the memo? >> no one spoke to me about the memo at all. i'm sure i -- at least i certainly would believe that the white house communicated its concerns about the letter to the justice department and that is -- >> my next question, did you or anyone at the justice department discuss the memo with white house personnel or with anyone at the white house before the memo was sent? >> i did not. >> harris: okay. let's add this into it. new emails show the white hous

. >> harris: all right, we will get back to the house judiciary committee and the attorney general america garland now, questioning from the 46 members bipartisan continues now. >> i certainly did, and i worked on it. >> in that memo you issued a directive to the fbi. you directed the fbi to conduct meetings with leaders at all levels of government across the country, and every judicial district to strategize against an alleged trend of "harassment, intimidation and threats of violence." you didn't cite examples to distinguish legitimate first amendment activity from criminal activity, nor certainly examples of a nationwide scope or severity of such acts that constitute a rise or a spike in criminal activity which you alleged in the memo. certainly not one that would not warrant nationwide action by the fbi. here you relied on knowledge which you relied in part, which by the way characterized of this activity nationwide is domestic terrorism and may be some vague awareness of other news reports. this was not the initiation of the investigation, and frankly, the preeminent law enforcement o

it's just amazing. >> don, you know, when the house judiciary committee subpoenaed don mcgahn, trump's white house counsel, it took two years to get through the court. two years. that's the kind of system that we're dealing with here. >> oh, boy. kirsten, let's talk about another tough thing that's happening in another tough week for the biden presidency. a disappointing jobs report. the country barely avoided a default. the debt ceiling remains, right? that mess remains. it's temporary that they -- you know, they're stopping it now, but they're going to have to deal with it in december. and his domestic agenda, if i can get my lips to work right on a friday, is in jeopardy. i mean biden ran as a candidate that could get things done. so how is he going to pull all this off? >> well, look, yes, i mean i think he's trying to get things done. but we also have to keep perspective on this which it's not like he has 60 democratic votes in the senate. he's working with a very narrow majority and with a couple senators who are -- you know, aren't going to go along with his agenda as he's laid

. >>> attorney general merrick garland testifies before the house judiciary committee today. they are wrestling with several contentious issues including enforcement of the january 6 committee's subpoenas, voting rights, and texas new abortion law. >>> seating a jury city proving to be a trial against three white men who killed black jogger ahmaud arbery in georgia. he was shot after the men chased him down in their pickup truck. the judge asked 19 potential jurors if they wanted to serve on the case. none raised their hands. >>> the nfl agreed to stop using race as a factor in dementia testing. it excluded black players in concussion claims. retired black players can now be reevaluated for concussion awards. >>> smoke from wildfires may prove more harmful to people in the eastern u.s. than the west. a study shows about 75% of visits to the e.r. for asthma cases and deaths in recent years occurred east of the rockies. >>> today the team from nyu langone health will discuss a historic transplant. for the first time ever, a pig kidney has been transplanted into a human and not

let's bring in legal analyst, ambassador norm eisen, special counsel for the house judiciary committee in president trump's first impeachment trial. good morning, ambassador. great to see you as always. so in that first round of subpoenas, there were a lot of familiar faces, steve bannon and mark meadows, but in this subpoena list, not quite household names. you say that shouldn't fool anyone. what's significant to you about these subpoenas? >> boris, thanks for having me back. always wonderful to see you. in building any investigation it's important to identify those who -- because every investigation is different -- played the central role. they're not always big names, but this round of 11 subpoenas includes some familiar ones like katrina pierson and some less familiar ones who occupied critical conduit roles, boris. these are folks who worked in the republican fundraising and political apparatus in the trump campaign and also who are listed as organizers on the papers for the january 6th rally which became inthe crime of insurrection -- incitement of insurrection. i think just as

judiciary committee. in the meantime there is the ongoing biden presidency after all, democrats are working with the white house on salvaging the presidents ambitious the mystic spending plan. today he was back on the road, the simon's hometown of scranton pa, to promote what is now a slimmed down version of his proposal to expand several social programs and address climate change. biden plan to raise taxes to pay for those proposals has now meeting increased resistance from wait for, democrat it later kyrsten sinema of arizona. there was also joe manchin of west virginia. according to new report from other jones mentioned quote, told associates that he is considering leaving the democratic party if president joe biden and democrats on capitol hill do not agree to his demand to get the size of the social infrastructure bill from 3.5 trillion to 1.7 five trillion. manchin has said that if this were to happen, he would declare himself an american independent, and he has devised a detailed exist ravaging for

he told the house judiciary committee said you would know if durham were done investigating the origins of the fbi's look into president trump and russia. last month durham got an indictment against former clinton campaign lawyer michael susman. he pleaded not guilty to lying to the fbi when he passed on a tip about a possible connection with the trump organization and a russian bank. a two-year russia collusion investigation followed and went nowhere. the question is why was he passing along that information and to whom and what understanding did they have any understanding of why he did that. susman says a subpoena to his law form showing that he's not done. let's bring in former acting attorney general matt whisker. what did you think of that moment and what can you tell us about your understanding where this stands and where it's going? >> well, it's very clear the investigation by john durham is still going on and trying to get to the origins of the russian collusion hoax. ultimately the question is how much resources is john durham being given by the department of justice. somehow

all the republicans on the house judiciary committee have an obligation. we're supposed to provide oversight for the department of justice. merrick garland is the attorney general. he is the top law enforcement official in this country. he should be above reproach. when he sent out the controversial memo on july 4th it raised a lot of eyebrows. his memo to direct the fbi and u.s. attorney's offices to mobilize against parents who have audacity to exercise free speech and protest curriculum at the local school board. this despite the fact it looks partisan, ethics problem has arisen. reported everywhere that the attorney general's son-in-law is cofounder and owner of a company, that gets this, promotes the far left curricula that is subject of many of these parents protest. we need a public report on this. we need an ethics inquiry and we demanded that today. liz: at the same time he aiming federal firepower meant for terrorists against parents making alleged threats to school boards his son-in-law is making big bucks from school boards. one report says $12

. >> republican members of the house judiciary committee are demanding the nfb aid provide documents showing any and all communication it has with the biden white house and the justice department. >> scary stuff, general milley calling china's hypersonic missile test very concerning and almost a sputnik moment. jillian: republican senators calling out the intelligence community on a woke agenda. here is the latest. >> good morning. china's recent test of a hypersonic missile system was described as concerning by joint chiefs of staff chairman general mark millie. he added this is a significant technological event for the country. the comments hall reports the chinese tested two hypersonic missiles over the summer that are capable of carrying a nuclear weapon. press secretary jen psaki was asked about the general's comments during a briefing at the white house. >> i have seen general milley's comments which is a concern we all have about china's military modernization efforts. they continue to pursue capabilities that increase tensions in the region and we have concerns about that and