Manager Corey Lewandowski was. Sked about the interactions on judiciary will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to call recesses at any time. We welcome everyone to todays hearing on president ial obstruction of president ial obstruction of justice and abuse of power. Before we begin i remind our Committee Members that we should refrain from making inappropriate personal references to protected parties, namely the president , Vice President , members of the senate, members of the house. This would include accusations of dishonesty, criminality, treason, or other unethical or imoper motives. The Critical Issues we are addressing today which go to the very core of our constitutional democracy, understandably bring out strong passions in us as they do in the American People. I hope that in what should but i hope that in what should be a spirited discussion of these issues today well stay focused on the issues and take care of to the keep our comments from being dire
From the American People. Is robthose witnesses porter, former white house staff secretary served by a subpoena from the secretary august 26. Rob porter was prominently featured in Robert Muellers report with a detailed description of efforts to obstruct justice. The report describes the president directing them White House Counsel Don Mcgahn to fire the special counsel and then ordering him to lie about it. The committee has many questions but the president is not wants asking those questions. The president directed mr. Porter not to they saw bogus claim of immunity. Mr. Dearborn is not here today either for the same reason. Sphere of what we and the American People could learn from their testimony. Their absence will not stop the oversight. On january 25, 2018, the New York Times reported the president had ordered mcgahn to have the department of justice fire the special counsel. The president went on tv and denied the story. The president pressured mcgahn to put out a statement deny
So good to see you again. When this all happened last night, i thought of many things, but i did think of you, and ill tell you why. Its evidence related. You have used your knowledge, your program over the many months of this to talk about how initially it was pretty clear that the Justice Department was not going beyond the events of that day, and you and i talked about that. Other reporters have weighed in, and im curious even though i know you have been talking about it for two hours how you think we got here. Because what we saw in this indictment that i thought was both strong, gripping and bad for the indicted donald trump, was how long and repeatedly they tried to end democracy in america. Yeah, the indictment is so harrowing, and i think that jack smith was at this for just ten months, obviously he built on all of the good work of the committee. I have learned that things are never as clean as what they appear, and we dont always have all the facts before them. But i think the
decided to postpone tomorrow s proceedings. we re praying for all those in the path. we start tonight with a major political battle taking place across the country. as of today, we are just six weeks out from this year s midterms. despite economical and historical trends that should favor republicans, this election is shaping up to be closer than anyone expected, thanks in part to republican extremism to states across the country. from roe v. wade to state abortion bans to election denial to political stunts to silence asylum seekers, the republicans are executing on april radical agenda. red state governors like texas greg abbott and florida s ron desantis. men pushing the extremism while they raise their own political profiles and jockey to raise trump s mantles as leaders for presidential hopefuls. on the other side of that fight are a handful of democratic governors, the people leading the charge against ready cal republican policies. chief among them is california gov
worst part of the day. since we last met, donald trump responded to that development in the form of a meandering, unhinged 14 paige letter addressed to bennie thompson. we ll spare you the much debunked claims, the kicking and screaming, random sentences, inexplicably in all caps except to say nowhere did trump commit to complying with the subpoena and even reporting trump may want to make that interview with the committee a live one. we ll talk to a committee member to find out if that is on the table. as a matter of fact, though, trump s kwaurl with the january 6th committee is one of a number of separate avenues of legal peril for the twice impeached ex-president. all of these stories every one of them broke within hours of one another. we ll run down the rest. there is this seditious conspiracy trial of far right oath keepers related to the capitol attack an trump is very much present in all of those proceedings. evidence presented in court shows that militia group s memb