Wherever we are when the Ranking Member gets here, so she can make an opening statement. Good morning. I am pleased that we can hold this nomination hearing for three very wellqualified nominees to three important positions in our government. Noel francisco, nominated solicitor general. He will be the first ever asianamerican senateconfirmed solicitor general after confirmation. Steven engel, assistant attorney general for the office of Legal Counsel, an office that functions as Legal Advisor to executive Branch Agencies and the president. Makan delrahim, nominee to be assistant attorney general for antitrust division at doj. Immigrated to this country when he was 10 and if he confirmed, he will be the highestranking iranianamerican official in the department of justice. We all know makan because he was staff director for our friend sen. Hatch here, and his former staff director, he knows what it is like to sit on this side, and he is going to find out what it is like on the other side
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Duke University Supreme Court s discuss the Supreme Court and reconstruction era rise. This event is part of a series on the Supreme Court and reconstruction hosted by the Supreme Court Historical Society. [applause] sometimes i think that the problem with introductions of me is that before i got this job, i couldnt keep a job. [laughter] thank you very much for having me here. I just want to express my great appreciation for the Supreme Court Historical Society and for all of the rest of the associates here who do so much for the court. This year is the 2015 leon silverman a lecturer a silverman lecture series. Lecture series like these are an important part of what goes on at the court. Parthey are only a small of what the Supreme Court Historical Society does. The Supreme Court Historical Society puts out a regular journal, it collects items relating to the courts history, which really are all around the , a lot of the offices and the portraits are a result of the societys collectin
Singing his praises, we explain the growing popularity of argentinas answer to robin hood. Aid agencies say a deal has been reached to get food and medicine into besieged towns in syria where tens of thousands of people are in danger of starving to death images of emaciated bodies and starving students have have led to international outrage. In the Holiday Resort of madaya around 40,000 people have been cut off from aid since july. Volunteers are handing out the few supplies they had left. The situation in the town is deterioratin deteriorating. Ive been speaking in madaya and the situation is grim. About a week ago, nine days ago now, and the situation became much, much more dire. All Food Supplies in the town have run out. So people have resorted to eating whatever can be found and children are fed sugar that melted and water that is basic suss ten sustenance and anything that can be found. Proper food, supplies have run out of the obtaining supplies from other sources, mainly buying
But could you just describe this sort of the sort of obstacles that you ran into in the course of your investigation of the fast and Furious Scandal . Some of this which is already sort of in the public record, when i began covering this story, the Justice Department employees put out intrernl emails that said the story was false and the whistleblowers werent telling the truth, which we now know, have proven, they were, and the Justice Department has admitted it. But they put out a series of false implications and information along the way. They launched a campaign in my view of calling superiors, bosses colleagues, social media, using bloggers to cooperate with them and work with them in some cases directly saying it was not true, repeating false talking points. It was an allout effort to kill the reporting and stop other reporters who might be pursuing it. The extent of the links lengths to which Public Affairs officials went to try to stop this line of reporting on a story they clea