A year the United States has seen to it that deadliest white supremacist attacks in its recent history were born far out from the pentagon in october of 2018 a gunman murdered 11 jewish worshipers at the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh pennsylvania. Talking about. Then in august 22 people were shot dead in an attempt to kill as many latinos as possible in El Paso Texas. Just 9 months apart these attacks were connected to the ideology of White Supremacy and only read gradually and i think we all come to realize how extensive this underground network is of people who have bought into this hateful belief system. Those things are being nurtured by our president in his language and actually stoked against license to people like the shooter to do violence against communities. To pittsburgh suspect was critical of donald trump and theyll pass so shooter distance himself from the president in his manifesto. But both men frame their actions as responses to crises real or imagined that the
Order. Good afternoon, everyone. This is the sixth in a series of public hearings the committee will be holing as part of the house of representatives impeachment inquiry. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. There is a quorum present. We will proceed today in the same fashion as our other hearings. I will make an Opening Statement and the Ranking Member nunes will have the opportunity to make a statement and we will turn to our witnesses for their Opening Statements if they should choose to make one. For audience member, we welcome you and respect your interest in being here. In turn, we ask for your respect as we proceed with this hearing. As chairman, ill make any necessary or take any necessary appropriate steps to maintain order and ensure that the committee is run in accordance with house rules and House Resolution 660. With that, i now recognize myself to give an Opening Statement in the impeachment inquiry into donald j. Tr
Watch prime time reairs on cspan or stream any time on demand pot cspan. Org impeachme nt. The House Intelligence Committee just concluded its fifth open hearing of the impeachment inquiry against President Trump. Lawmakers heard testimony from Deputy Assistant secretary of defense for russian, ukrainian, and eurasian affairs, laura cooper. And under secretary of state for Political Affairs david hale. We will show you that hearing now in its entirety. [silence] [inaudible background conversations] [silence] the committee will come to order. Good afternoon everyone. This is the sixth 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 declare recess of the committee at any time. There was a quorum present. We will proceed today in the same fashion as her other hearings i will make an Opening Statement that the Ranking Member mr. Nunez will have an opportunity to make a sta
State for Political Affairs david hale. Order. Good afternoon, everyone. This is the sixth in a series of public hearings the committee will be holing as part of the house of representatives impeachment inquiry. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. There is a quorum present. We will proceed today in the same fashion as our other hearings. I will make an Opening Statement and the Ranking Member nunes will have the opportunity to make a statement and we will turn to our witnesses for their Opening Statements if they should choose to make one. For audience member, we welcome you and respect your interest in being here. Rep. Schiff the committee will come to order. This is the sixth in a series of hearings. There is a quorum present. We will proceed in the same fashion as the other hearings. We welcome you and respect your interest in being here. Ordance with house rules and House Resolution 660. With that, i now recognize myself to gi
Of all and ill start with kaitlan with you. Listen to this. This is sondland making this very significant statement earlier today. I know that members of this committee frequently frame these complicated issues in the form of a simple question. Was there a quid pro quo . As i testified previously, with regard to the requested white house call and the white house meeting, the answer is yes. He makes it clear, absolutely, totally discarding what the president and his allies are saying for weeks. And what the white house are relying on and what the president was reading from earlier was the conversation where he had and called the president to ask if there was a quid pro quo and he said the president got angry and said there was not one and that he didnt want anything from ukraine. But what they are they are ignoring is what he started his testimony with today that yes, in relation to the aid to the white house to the white house call and the white house meeting, there was a quid pro quo.