• News Wrap: Afghan government begins releasing Taliban prisoners

    News Wrap: Afghan government begins releasing Taliban prisoners

    May 26, 2020 10:50 PM EDT

    ... Chinese army garrison in Hong Kong said today that his troops will firmly enforce Beijing's orders.Back in this country, the Pentagon's deputy inspector general, Glenn Fine, resigned weeks after he was removed as overseer of pandemic relief spending. In a brief statement, he praised the watchdog role ...

  • WATCH: HHS watchdog who found testing shortages testifies that Trump barbs haven't deterred her

    WATCH: HHS watchdog who found testing shortages testifies that Trump barbs haven't deterred her

    May 26, 2020 02:41 PM EDT

    Trump called the report, based on a late March survey of 323 hospitals nationwide, "just wrong” and suggested that its conclusions were skewed by politics. “Give me the name of the inspector general,” Trump told reporters. “Could politics be entered into that?” Trump later dismissed the report on Twitter as ...

  • WATCH: NASA holds presser on upcoming SpaceX flight test

    WATCH: NASA holds presser on upcoming SpaceX flight test

    May 21, 2020 09:54 PM EDT

    ... and Boeing could be flying astronauts by now if Congress had provided more funding early on. The contracts with NASA are worth billions. NASA's inspector general has estimated the per-seat cost for SpaceX at $55 million, while the price of a Russian Soyuz seat has averaged $80 million ...

  • $1.3 billion awarded for border wall, largest contract yet

    $1.3 billion awarded for border wall, largest contract yet

    May 21, 2020 02:10 PM EDT

    ... of Congress raised concerns in December after Fisher was awarded a $400 million contract for border wall construction. Within two weeks, the defense department's inspector general had launched an investigation, which is ongoing, according to Democratic U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, a critic who questioned whether the ...

  • May 20, 2020 - PBS NewsHour full episode

    May 20, 2020 - PBS NewsHour full episode

    May 20, 2020 11:58 PM EDT

    Wednesday on the NewsHour, all 50 states have begun lifting restrictions put in place to slow the spread of COVID-19. Plus: The firing of a State Department inspector general investigating Mike Pompeo, a cyclone slams India and Bangladesh, child deportations during COVID-19, Brazil’s coronavirus crisis, modeling infectious ...

  • Pompeo says he didn't know fired IG was investigating him

    Pompeo says he didn't know fired IG was investigating him

    May 20, 2020 10:50 PM EDT

    ... in order to protect an inspector general. But these officials who I'm talking to Judy saying this is a five-alarm fire inside the inspector general community. Current inspector generals are scared, the mood is negative. And the idea that inspector generals are there to speak truth to power ...

  • WATCH: Biden delivers graduation address at Columbia Law School

    WATCH: Biden delivers graduation address at Columbia Law School

    May 20, 2020 04:47 PM EDT

    ... life that anyone has ever said about me."Also Tuesday, Biden was asked about Trump's firing of Steve Linick as the State Department’s inspector general. Some Republicans have defended the move, arguing that it was within the president's rights, but Biden and other Democrats say it is ...

  • WATCH: 'Should have done it some time ago,' Pompeo says of firing State Department's IG

    WATCH: 'Should have done it some time ago,' Pompeo says of firing State Department's IG

    May 20, 2020 04:20 PM EDT

    Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended his request to remove his department’s Inspector General, Steve Linick. Watch Pompeo's remarks in the video player above. “[Inspectors general] just like all of us, serve at the pleasure of the president of the United States. In this case, I recommended to ...

  • News Wrap: FBI says Pensacola gunman tied to al-Qaida

    News Wrap: FBI says Pensacola gunman tied to al-Qaida

    May 18, 2020 10:45 PM EDT

    Democrats say that the Friday night firing of State Department's inspector general may be linked to a Saudi arms deal. Representative Eliot Engel, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said today that inspector general Steve Linick was investigating the $7 billion deal. President Trump said that he does ...

  • Trump's 'highly unusual' politicization of government watchdogs

    Trump's 'highly unusual' politicization of government watchdogs

    May 18, 2020 10:35 PM EDT

    ... is: I am the state. No Supreme Court has ever agreed with that. Yamiche Alcindor: Well, you are talking about the fact that these removals are unusual. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also said that he has no idea what the inspector general at the State Department was looking into.