Subcommittee will come to order. The chairs authorized to declare a recess of the subcommittee at any time. Members of the full committee who are not members of the subcommittee on terrorism may participate in todays hearing. All members will have five minutes to submit extraneous materials for inclusion in the record. This hearing is titled the exploitation of Cultural Property, examining illegal activity and antiquities and art trade. Now recognize myself or two minutes to give an opening statement. Most of the statement will be presented into the record but to talk about the nature of the sale of historical artifacts, archaeological artifacts, the isis groups are now destroying entire Cultural Properties and putting them on the market for sale, many times the money goes into terrorism. That is what we are here to discuss today. The rest of my statement will be just printed into the record and with that i will yield two minutes to the gentleman from colorado. Thanks, mister chairman.
Live in washington with the latest on the battle over healthcare. But first lets head over to kevin cork live in beautiful new jersey. How is the white house handling the expanding expanding Russian Investigation . I dont mind telling you this, try though they might to keep the conversation on jobs, the economy, healthcare and infrastructure, the fact is as this investigation expands, greg, the white house understands it too has to expand its roster of experienced attorneys. You heard this name yesterday here on fox news. Today the white house making it official that white house special counsel has joined the white house staff, a partner in the investigations practice over in d. C. Former federal prosecutor graduate of harvard and georgetown law. Yes, he is in fact related to the late baseball great. The on going probe into the campaigns conflicts and contacts with russian nationals during the 2016 election. Now we know counterintelligence person in the meeting as well. It is important