It was like a slap in the face for francois hollande. A recent poll says hes the least Popular French president in almost 60 years. The economy is in recession, one in 10 french dont have a job, and rating agencies and brussels regularly wrapped pariss knuckles. Tax hikes have raised the hackles of his former supporters. Click the pile of ash is already a meter high. For workers from this britney fish factory have been protesting its planned closure. They suddenly faced the bleak prospect of redundancy. Its a disaster for this region in the center of britney brittany. Weve already lost food factories, and if they close this 1, 2, the whole area will collapse. Denise is one of at least 200 workers. Although it is an important regional employer, the promise of cheaper labor costs is enough to lower operations eastward to poland. Tshirts read, we are angry. Given that the company has just paid shareholders dividends, the anger is justified. They are fighting for fair compensation. In fran
Nixon administration all regularly tried to politicize and weaponize the fbi against civil rights activists and against lots of other people who werent able to fight back against that big and overreaching state. And i think one of the reasons why youve heard so much support for the way you conceive of this mission and this calling today is because of the ways youve made clear how you think this calling and this oath obligate you to work for the constitution and in defense of the constitution on behalf of the American People. Not on behalf of either political party. And as youve reiterated again and again, youre willingness to resign, if ever forced to politicize an investigation. And i think thats why you hear so much bipartisan support for your confirmation today. Would you also pledge to this committee that if ever directed by the white house to shut down or curtail an investigation that you would report that back to this committee . Not necessarily in a public setting, but at the ve
We hope some information will come clear out of this News Conference that were expecting to come any minute now. The point of all of this is that r. Kelly has been under fire, he is an embattled singer for decades. Back in 2008 as you know he was brought up on charges of child pornography, but he was able to get out of those charges. He denied he was the person who was in the tape as with the person alleged he was with in that tape, but that did not end, accusations against r. Kelly saying he was abusing underage girls. One family said their daughter was under a spell, if you will, of r. Kelly. She has come forward saying it is not true. It is because she was with him because she wants to. So now this 52yearold grammy winner is now facing arrest. A lot is happening regarding this in the last 20 hours or so. Two new accusers came out against r. Kelly today. The two women say they met r. Kelly at a party after a concert in baltimore. They were offered alcohol, cocaine, and marijuana by a
Officials. Elijah cummings sent a letter accusing the white house of obstructing his work. He said the use of private email accounts by Jared Kushner, ivanka trump, and steve ban non was a potential violation of records laws. And he doesnt stop there he says it confirms that he continues to use whats app to don duct official business. Kushners attorney is just reponding to the letter. Im going to have to read through it, it is a little long,ly get back to you on that in junction a moment, gjoining s now is someone who sits on the Oversight Committee, it is a date to have you here. Youre a busy guy. In trying to get information about russian interference in the election, what the administration and the campaign has, if anything, requests for information. Yes, just to put things in context, were not a monarchy or a dictatorship. Were a democracy, and congress has to act as a check and balance on the president. Nan and in november we we elected in the minority because of that. When the pr
Impeachment inquiry that is moving forward. That meeting is happening behind closed doors. Volker is a key figure from the whistleblower complaint. In the complaint, cvolker was advising you cra advising ukrainian officials on how to navigate President Trumps demands. The president is certainly not happy about any of this. Nancy pelosi hands out subpoenas she has to approve it. She hands them out like theyre cookie. You want a subpoena, here you go, take them. They have been trying to impeach me since the day agot elected. I think he knows the argument that could be made against him. Did you hear the fear in his voice. I heard the surprise that that i thought what he did was wrong. That he was undermining our constitution, and the integrity of our elections. Jeff bennet on capitol hill, kurt volker says he is eager to tell his side of the story. First, im outside of the capitol because we hoped to ask him that question directly. We expect him to show up for this deposition in the next