Well also hear from thom tillis, rick gates and arkansas senator tom cotton. Markets this morning look like this. Futures indicating this morning a decline at the start of trading. The dow industrials down right now 276 points, the nasdaq down almost 201, as you see, and the s p lower by 38. Markets finished near session lows wednesday on fading stimulus hopes of. Earnings season meanwhile rolling on. This morning we hear from walgreens, Morgan Stanley and Charles Schwab among others. All the numbers as soon as they hit the tape this morning. The nfl is back in business, you can watch the biggest games on fox, fox nfl lead analyst and three time hall of Famer Troy Aikman is here previewing whats next for the super bowl and beyond. Mornings with maria is live right now. European markets this morning look like this. Weve got a negative showing there as well. The fq100 down 133, the cac down 107 and dax index lower by 363. This as we learned covid cases in europe have surpassed those in t
Good morning, everybody. The hearing will come to order. Today were going to have a video hearing with ms. Sally yates, who was the acting attorney general for a period of time in january of 2017 and was the number two at the department of justice in early january 2017. Ms. Yates appeared before the committee on may 18th, 2017. That was before the Mueller Investigation really got started. It was before the horowitz report about the Mueller Investigation was issued, and i believe much has been learned since may of 2018 2017. And we would like to discuss certain topics with ms. Yates. My view of ms. Yates is that she exercised good caution and legal judgment in january of 2017, and if people had followed her advice, things might be different today, so i just want to let you know, ms. Yates, from my point of view, you analyzed the situation fairly correctly, and we will get into that later on. Whats the purpose of this hearing . Its to ask questions of ms. Yates knowing then what she know
The presiding justice of superior court and as us attorney who led undercover public investigations that involve wiretaps i have done this a lot and i viewed my role in those approvals as making sure the wiretap application was consistent with the criminal statute that we were trying to prosecute, that it was relevant to that. You werent an investigator, just making sure the material is in the statute. Correct. I think that probably very often took as an established fact that the fbi agent or Police Officer was telling us the truth, not customary prosecutorial practice to do an inquisition or a review of every statement made by an fbi agent or state Police Officer in preparing a warrant. If you have the slightest hint that something is wrong you definitely pursue that but the focus is more does this warrant a criminal case that we are making and that is the nature of the review at that level and you would hope the factual stuff would be sorted out before it got to the Deputy Attorney g
Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Barrtorney general william was on capitol hill for an oversight hearing on the Justice Department. This was his first appearance before the House Judiciary Committee since joining the Trump Administration. The attorney general was asked about his role in criminal cases involving roger stone and others as well as the federal response to nationwide protests and the legitimacy of mailin ballots despite claims of voter fraud by the president. The House Committee on the judiciary will come to order the House Committee on the judiciary will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare recess at any time and we welcome, we welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on oversight for the department of justice. I apologize for getting the hearing late, as many of you know i was in a minor car accident on the way in this morning. Everyone is fine, except perhaps the
Because of an irresponsible anonymous leak to the note. There is no good scenario as a result of this report. Who will want to cooperate with the United States Intelligence Community. Who will want to be united stat Intelligence Community . Who wants to be a source or an asset if they know their identity will be disclosed. Which allies want to share nifx with out if they are going to be splashed on the front page of a u. S. Newspaper. There are two bad scenarios that emerge from this report. Number one, this report makes it difficult to come to a consensus on this matter to verify intelligence. And number two, this level of controversy and discord plays correctly in the hands of russia and unfortunately serves their interest. Since before President Trump assumes office, dangerous leaks seeking to under mine the elected president have been published. According to the doj, classified leaks surged in this administration. Under president obama, just 39 on average criminal leak referrals in