U. S. Troops and the debate against military bases named after confederate soldiers. Chairman smith i call the meeting to order. I welcome our witnesses, secretary of defense esper and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff milley. We appreciate you being here today. I do have to read an Opening Statement here about procedure in light of the fact that we do have members who are participating remotely in his in this hearing, in accordance with house rules. So i will do that and then a couple other programming notes and we will get started. I would like to welcome members who are joining todays markup remotely. Those members are reminded that they must be visible on screen within the Software Platform for the purposes of Identity Verification when joining their andeedings, establishing maintaining decorum, participating, and voting. We will not be voting, but participating members must use the Software Platform video function while attending the proceedings unless they experience connecti
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Committee on alleged russian bounties for u. S. Troops in afghanistan. Announcer defense secretary mark esper and general mark toley were on capitol hill testify on defense department. They were also asked about alleged russian bounties over u. S. Troops and military bases named after confederate soldiers. Chairman smith i call the meeting to order. I welcome our witnesses, secretary of defense esper and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff milley. We appreciate you being here today. I do have to read an Opening Statement here about procedure in light of the fact that we do have members who are participating remotely in his hearing, in accordance with house rules. So i will do that and then a couple other programming notes and we will get started. I would like to welcome members who are joining todays markup remotely. Those members are reminded that they must be visible on screen within the Software Platform for the purposes of Identity Verification for maintaining a coram participati
That the president is taking on in the past. Now with us tonight on this social media showdown, white house Economic Advisor kevin hassett. We have with us tonight former whitewater independent counsel robert ray. Attorney general William Barrs new investigation into this. Dozens of Obama Administration officials during the president ial transition made repeated requests to unmask the trump Team Including Michael Flynn. Again this was done during the president ial transition. This is the question, were they doing a fishing expedition to target the democrats political opponents . We also have with us tonight former trump 2016 Campaign Manager Corey Lewandoski with us on reports that u. S. Attorney, john durham, his criminal probe into abuses under the Obama Administration and doing surveillance on the Trump Campaign and the flynn probes, that could wrap up in months. Also, will this throw a big wrench into team bidens race for the white house . And with us tonight, michael fln Attorney
Business exclusive. Welcome back to the show, peter. Thanks so much for joining us. Your reaction to this development . How are you doing, liz . Look, i want to see comey, page, strzok, brennan, clapper, basically investigated. This is great news for flynn. He was unjustly prosecuted. The Bigger Picture here, he is back on the campaign this, whole russia thing started way back then. It is just been 3 1 2 years where we had rogue agents and people in the deep state trying to take this president down and people like flynn. It was just so unjust what they did to him and hits son his son by the way. It will be a great day for american justice but it is about time. Im not sure why it took so long. Elizabeth peter, lets listen to the president weighing in on this development. Lets watch. He was an innocent man. He is a great gentleman. He was targeted by the Obama Administration and he was targeted in order to try and take down a president and what they have done is a disgrace, and i hope a