Hearing on the covid19 pandemic best practices and opportunities for innovation. Before we begin i would like to remind members that we have established in the military and the distribution list dedicated to circulating red materials that members might want to offer is part of our hearing today. If you would like to submit that terry will. Send them to the email address that has been previously distributed to you all and we will circulate the materials to members and staff as quickly as we can. I also ask unanimous consent that following items be entered into the record. A letter to chairman johnson and Ranking Member roby and the American Association of judges and the results of a study in a recent survey by the federal Bar Association and its members on Legal Practices in the covid19 era. Without objection, so admitted. I will recognize myself for an opening statement. Welcome to the Senate Committee hearing on courts during the covid19 pandemic best practices and opportunities for i
The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Our father, may your name be praised. Lord, use our senators today to permit justice to rule in our land. Remind them that righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is an equal opportunity destroyer. As our lawmakers strive to do your will, reward their faithfulness,. Illuminate their hearts with your wisdom and love. Help them to remember that the entire ethical requirement is fulfilled by loving your neighbor as you love yourself. May this love for those in need hasten the day when justice will roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. Continue to be our strength and fortress, sustaining us with your amazing grace. We pray in your merciful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for w
Additional funding is provided by. Drporate funding is provi by. Welcome to firing line, chairman adam schiff. Thank you. You are the chairman of the house inlligence committee, the democratically controlled committee th ran the impeachment hearing for President Trump. At what point in the process did you, mr. Chairman, begin to be convinced that the president had committec imble offenses . I dont know that i c or testimony becau plot really unfolded during the course of the investigation. Unusual, having beenigation so a prosecutor many years ago, th is very much analogous to a whitecollar complex criminal case. Those cases are almost always very documentdriv, but here the administration completely stonewalled our investigation. We they said,e not gog to give you any documents. Were not gonna make any witnesses available, but because of the courage of a number of Public Servants who defied the white house and came forward and testified, we learned about this effort to shake down the p
dealings. i have never discussed with my son or brother anything having to do with their businesses, period. take a look at these new allegations from gary chapley, a long-time high ranking nonpolitical irs whistle-blower whose testimony just became public so everyone can now read it. he says hunter biden was protected and shielded from the law in ways that he has never seen in his long career. there s so much in his testimony that is shocking. but let s start here with this alleged message from hunter biden to chinese business man henry zhao who appears to have owed him money. this is a whats app text. i m sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. tell the director that i would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand and now means tonight. and z, if i get a call or tech from anyone involved in this other than you, chang or the chairman, i will make certain that my ability to hold a grudge that
good evening, alex. we have beto are joining us tonight on the one year mark since the mass murder in uvalde and andrew weissmann has pulled off a miracle. he s found a way to join us from somewhere across the sea. i don t even know where. you don t need nowhere, all you need to know, if this is gonna be there. so more a lot of time zones from, here in need a passport to be there. but this letter that donald trump s lawyers sent to the attorney general, it andrew can t contain him self. he s good he s gonna get a word in here. about. as he should, i m eager to hear what ginger westman thinks of this letter. thank you, alex. have a good, show. thank you. when your job is making decisions, in the decision to have to make the most important decisions made in the united states of america and you have been making those decisions for a teen years, it seems like the most difficult question you could ever be asked is, what is the hardest decision you ve ever had to ma