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
Links to the russian government reached out to the Trump Campaign to telegraph the kremlins preference for mr. Trump. Joseph masud a london based malt east professor told george pap pop dops topz who told him the russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton including thousands of emails. Papadopoulos was informed that the russian government could assist the campaign through the anonymous release of stole be material. At the time mr. Papadopoulos was given this extraordinary information, the American Public was unaware that the dnc and Clinton Campaign had been hacked, let alone russia was behind the attack and planned to weaponize the data it stole. In july of 2016, the russian government began dumping the stolen emails in precisely the same fashion it had previewed for mr. Papadopoulos. It was informed of the russian outreach to papadopoulos and ware wire eaware that the russians medding through the aanonymous release of information gnat fbi opened up its investigation. But as james comey wou
Across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. Well see you at the end of tomorrow. Tomorrow thank you all for joining us at this hour. We have breaking news tonight, as i just mentioned. If your calendar was marked for this coming monday, when President Trump was set to hold a Press Conference that he promised would exonerate him from the allegations laid out in that Fulton County indictment, if that was a date that was reserved on your eye calla, well im sorry to inform you, that it has been called off. Trump says tonight that his legal team is instead putting all of the overwhelming evidence informal legal filings. He adds, therefore, the News Conference is no longer necessary. That news comes right after trumps legal team and another case finally gave its answer as to when they believe the former president should go to trial. Trumps team is arguing tonight that the federal 2020 election case brought by special counsel jack smith should go to trial in April Of 2026. Th
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Phone about the moment of paper theyre dealing with. Its coming up. I had an intuition that would be there. When you see stacks of paper compared to national monuments, and you at home are going to get treated to that in just a few seconds. Thank you, my friend. You bet. Thank you all for joining us this hour. We have breaking news tonight as i just mentioned. If your calender was marked for this coming monday when President Trump was set to hold a Press Conference he was promised would exonerate him from the allegations laid out in that Fulton County indictment, if that was a date reserved on your ical, im sorry to inform you it has been called off. Trump says tonight his legal team is instead putting the overwhelming evidence in formal legal filings. He adds, therefore the News Conference is no longer necessary. That news comes right after trumps legal team in another case finally gave its answer as to when they believe the former president should go to trial. Trumps team is arguing