This meeting will come to order. Good morning everyone. This is the third in a series of public hearings the committee will be holding as part of the house of representatives impeachment inquiry. Without objection the chair is authorized to play recess of the committee at any time that there is a quorum present. I will make an Opening Statement and then Ranking Member nunez will have the opportunity to make a statement. We ask for your respect as we. Roceed as chairman i will take all necessary steps to maintain order and that the committee is run in accordance with house rules and resolution 660. I now recognize myself to give an Opening Statement into the impeachment inquiry of donald j. Trump, the 45th president of the United States last week, we heard from three experienced diplomats who testified by on President Trumps a scheme military aid to fight the russians. By theerable but ukrainian president zelinski to political motivated investigations that trump believed would help his
[applause] president of the society and delighted to welcome the memorial election. This memorial elector started shortly after 9 11. Just like it started, after 9 1 . [applause] the inaugural lecture reminded us of what it means to be an american and have the legal tradition is a critical part of our identity of americans. That reminder is more crucial today and they understood this connection. We want the series to remind lawyers of it so they foster legal principles that advance individual liberty and personal responsibility and the rule of law. Other lectures have included justice scalia, chief justice roberts, Vice President cheney, judges can star, robert, ray randolph, edith jones, doug ginsberg, jeff sodded in judge neil gorsuchs. Also former attorney general and white house counsel, and senators tom and ben. That brings us to todays lecture. It is my privilege to introduce for this years the honorable william barr attorney general of the United States. People serve in governme
50s in oakland and San Francisco and mid 40s for san jose and as we go through the afternoon sunshine seasonal daytime highs and looking at 74 for a high in san jose and 70 for San Francisco in the trick ortreat forecast 4757 and grabbed the jacket for them. Deanna . If you are one of those folks who made their way out of tracy you will see a busy ride. We have an accident and to reported to the west on 580 right around crack line. Definitely slowing you down. The earlier one buzz by the past. Where delays begin, stay, stop and go in the good news is five times 3 minutes to oh 5680. No delays on 80, four or 101. An easy ride out to the east bay in San Francisco. We have an eye on two large destructive wildfires burning in the inland empire both burned homes and causing evacuations as we speak and this is a live look above and north San Bernardino county the hillside fire broke out about two near highway 18 a mandatory evacuations are in place right now for hundreds of homes and this is
right up federal regulators are scrabbling to prevent a sudden bank failure from triggering a wider financial meltdown. cnn has learned the fdic has prepared to step it and operate silicon valley bank to ensure its account holders can pay their employees in the wake of friday s sudden collapse of that banker that s according to a source with details on briefings between treasury officials and lawmakers for us just one sinner being floated at this hour with just hours left until financial markets reopen for monday trading for less tara spoke with a woman who used to silicon valley bank to run her small business per she says she is not her yet from any bank or federal official about the status of her money, here s what she had to say. note direct communication from anyone at this point. so i m in close communication with a lot of other founders and business owners. and we are trying to share all the information we can find during our own research and piecing it together. fran
bittman. someone you also recognize put alexander bittman. there they are right now. eugene bittman was born in ukraine is the twin brother as i said alexander bittman, whose central testimony was part of donald trump s first impeachment trial. eugene is now investigating war crime in ukraine as part of the atrocity. crimes advisory group created by the u.s., uk, and eu. colonel, good to see. and they were just in ukraine for the united justice conference in lviv.how clear is the evidence of war crimes and how the picture coming together? i see that it s coming together. we ve seen ããi ve seen so much evidence discovering it on this show. well jim ããthere s enormous evidence of war crimes. we have seen evidence in budget and areas surrounding kyiv, but what we ve seen so far is the tip of the iceberg. those areas are under russian occupation. mary opal is the order of magnitude worse than what we ve seen so far in the entire city and population of a few hundred