license to operate from the last abortion clinic in the state. len late last night more than 24 hours after williams admitted the existence of that spreadsheet under oath, more than 24 hours after reporters started calling his office from all over the country to ask questions about it the missouri state government put out a statement about it. quote irresponsible reporting has led to false claims that dr. randall williams tracks the menstrual cycles of women in planned parenthood. nothing in the testimony could in any way be cited to support this false claim. the state gumt of missouri says nothing could be cited to support this false claim. state health director randall williams doesn t track the menstrual cycles of women seeking abortions at planned parenthood, no way, right, dr. williams? the last column there includes the department s calculation of the woman s last normal period, right?
be, and you ll see in the resolution we passed today we incorporate a lot of those processes, but there s one fundamental difference between this impeachment process and the ones that went before there s no special prosecutor, no independent prosecutor here to do the initial fact finding. and that s because when the criminal referral was made to bill barr s justice department he basically said i m not going to look at this, i m not going to authorize any criminal investigation, so we had to do that ourselves. so in some sense we step into the shoes of the independent council doing that fact find mchg and as the two models used between leon juwarsky or nixon or bill starr or clinton i m much more inclined along the leon juwarsky route and that is presenting a fact based report to the judiciary committee. these are the facts that we found, these are the transcripts from our hearings. and then the judiciary committee will weigh what to do with those
what can you tell us about your intensions, your expectations for that report and what, we, the public should expect to learn from it, when we should expect to see it? we have of course studied the prior impeachments involving bill clinton, richard nixon for guidance both as to what the process and procedures ought to be, and you ll see in the resolution we passed today we incorporate a lot of those processes, but there s one fundamental difference between this impeachment process and the ones that went before there s no special prosecutor, no independent prosecutor here to do the initial fact finding. and that s because when the criminal referral was made to bill barr s justice department he basically said i m not going to look at this, i m not going to authorize any criminal investigation, so we had to do that ourselves. so in some sense we step into the shoes of the independent council doing that fact finding
facts rather than a highly opinionated and lengthy report along the lines of kenneth starr. interesting. and if in the course of your investigation you turn up evidence of criminal behavior by people other than the president, obviously this is an impeachment proceeding of the president, if you turn up evidence, serious evidence of serious crimes committed by other people either on the periphery of this or elsewhere in the administration, do you make criminal referrals in that information? do you include that in the type of fact based report you were just describing? we certainly can make criminal referrals and there are times we have referred matters to the justice department where we thought for example witnesses had committed or potentially committed perjury before our committee. so it s not uncommon for those referrals to happen. they re not certainly common, but that is a practice that the congress has used in the past. i don t know that would be a part of this report, which re
is trying to adjudicate that issue right now. in the course of those proceedings he has admitted he s been rooting around in patients private medical records and making like a star chart of their periods. and in the last column there it includes the department s calculation of the woman s last normal period, right? yes, sir. yes, sir. that is how we are regulating the provision of abortion services here in missouri. so williams gave that testimony earlier this week, a couple of days ago after the kansas city star wrote about it, and it got a ton of national attention. it also led to calls that the missouri state health director should resign. it led the democratic leader in the legislator demanding the governor should immediately investigate this matter as to what this state health director has been up to. so williams gave that testimony on tuesday that the state health department under his leadership created a period tracker as part of their efforts to yank the