The ability of congress to regulate the executive branch. This is one hour and 25 minutes. Hello, everyone. Panele to the 2019 apsa on prompt, constitutional crisis, and american democracy. Have distinguished panel here for you and we will hear from them individually. We will talk amongst ourselves briefly and then we will take some questions from the large and growing audience. Let me just quickly introduce the panel. Represent and reflect a diverse expertise in different points of view. Professor atwho is Cornell Law School visiting this year at georgetown. Matt glassman is senior fellow at the Governor Institute at georgetown, formerly at the Congressional Research service. Brick is the chancellors professor at uc irvine. Henry olson is a fellow at the ethics and Public Policy center and a columnist with the Washington Post. Ilya and victoria nurse is a woodworth professor of law at georgetown. In the interest of saving time and making sure that we can hear from all of these disting
It is a crossing of a threshold in terms of the Public Awareness of what happened and how it conforms to the law or not. The president likes to have his poster says the Mueller Report took this many days and cost this much money, in, that and the other. We have a corresponding contradictory chart. Mueller investigation by the numbers. 40 million recovered for the u. S. Government. Remember he said how much it would cost. Less than that. 37 people and entities charged with crimes. 25 ongoing criminal cases referred. Seven convicted, including five top Trump Campaign officials. And then he had no collusion, no this, or that. Ten instances of obstruction, yes. No exoneration. Thats some of what we heard today. I want to go to another point. The at the same time were on in path of the Mueller Investigation to recognize that therecognize that the more investigation was prohibited from looking into the president s finance and that is what our committees and jurisdictions have been doing. For
And i, too, thank in mueller for coming forward for service to his country. But when mueller would make a decision they liked, its we love you, you are the greatest thing since ice cream. But as soon as he said something they didnt like, its oh, you are a bum. Come on now. We had to see through that. Thank you. As we acknowledge the greatness of our chair jerry nadler and chairman schiff, i want to acknowledge he lie gentleman kusming. He d. Elijah kusming. His research aloud us to take to court, we won the case. The decision was a beautiful statement on the ability of congress to have oversight. Its just a remarkable decision and now of course the administration is appealing it. But i thank you, mr. Cummings for your great leadership. The Mueller Investigation could not do the president s personal or business connections. One of those connections could be through the russians, and thats what we want to find out. As we go to questions, i just want to say that i do believe what we saw t
Committee chair jerry nadler, Intelligence Committee chair adam schiff and oversight Committee Chair Elijah Cummings. We discussed todays testimony by former special Counsel Robert Mueller. This is about 30 minutes, thank you. Live coverage and seeing republican leaders. A good evening everyone sorry for the delay, it has been a pretty interesting day, and a historic one as a matter of fact. A day in which former special counsel affirmed in public what the Mueller Report put forth. It is a crossing of a threshold, in terms of the public awareness. Of what happened and how it conforms to the wall or not. The president likes to have his poster that said, it took as many days, this that and the other, we have a corresponding, contradictory chart. An investigation by the numbers, 40 million recovered. For the u. S. Government remember he said how much it would cost less than that, 37 people and entities charged with crimes, 25 ongoing criminal cases referred, seven convicted including five
Investment committee, josh, steve brown, we begin with the markets, stocks continue to stage their rebound, rise in bound yields giving relief there. You finally can take a little bit of a sigh of relief that yields have stop going down, maybe they bottomed and stocks did too. I feel like were in one of those moments and we have had them off and on over the years it remind message a lot of that risk on, risk off kind of market environment that we had previously spent months in different years throughout the recovery 2011 stands out. We probably did this in 2015 too. Where you have days is obvious, today is a risk on day, and so they sell off all the bond proxy, defensive sec ttors, and lasts a di or two days, and find yourself in other days, theyre taking up consumer stable stocks and utilities and Everything Else gets dumped i dont know that were definitively in that for a long time, but we have definitely been in that the last week or so maybe thats the way it has to be until we get