The Judiciary Committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time privet we welcome everyone to todays hearing on lessons from the mother report part two, nonpartisan perspectives. I will now recognize myself for an opening statement. Last week, we heard from two former United States attorneys who described President Trumps repeated efforts to undermine special counsel motors investigation on russias interference in the 2016 elections. We also heard from president nixons former white House Counsel told us that the actions by this administration were substantially similar to the measures the Nixon Administration took to undermine the watergate investigation. There is one important difference. Special counsel mother was investigating a different kind of breakin. The target was similar to that of watergate. The barker was hostile organization. The crime was carried out through hacking operation that stole hundreds of thou
The Judiciary Committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time privet we welcome everyone to todays hearing on lessons from the mother report part two, nonpartisan perspectives. I will now recognize myself for an opening statement. Last week, we heard from two former United States attorneys who described President Trumps repeated efforts to undermine special counsel motors investigation on russias interference in the 2016 elections. We also heard from president nixons former white House Counsel told us that the actions by this administration were substantially similar to the measures the Nixon Administration took to undermine the watergate investigation. There is one important difference. Special counsel mother was investigating a different kind of breakin. The target was similar to that of watergate. The barker was hostile organization. The crime was carried out through hacking operation that stole hundreds of thou
hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing you day with us. the biden 2024 plan takes shape. the president will tour through what he calls america reborn, circling infrastructure as a big selling point and the new republican majority as a big target. two cities, two grand juries, two giant legal developments in the investigations of donald trump. if manhattan, prosecutors now reportedly presenting evidence about hush money payments. in washington, two witnesses in the classified documents case have testified under oath. plus, two more memphis police officers out. three memphis emts dismissed. tyre nichols family asks why now, what took so long, and what else might the city be hiding. a first for us though, the president on the road today, celebrating a past achievement and using it to shape the politics of this year and next. this hour, the president in new york to showcase a revamp of the rail tunnel burrowing under the
a few moments ago we played a sound bite of donald trump during a deposition in new york. well, the former president also facing new and important scrutiny in two separate ongoing grand jury investigations. one is here in washington where two people who found classified documents at trump s florida storage facility testified under oath yesterday before a federal grand jury. the other grand jury is in manhattan. the new york times reporting a big escalation there with prosecutors now presenting evidence about hush money paid to the adult film actress stormy daniels. she, you might recall, threatened to go public with an alleged affair with trump weeks before election day in 2016. our legal affairs analyst, barry cordero joins our panel. for people at home it is investigation after investigation after investigation. you can get lost in the details. you have two grand juries where the pace at least seems to be accelerating tells you what? really big difference between the cases.