Texas book festival. I have a couple announcements before i introduce our speakers and then we will have a brief conversation appear and then open it up or you and day for the last 10 minutes or so. There are microphones down the aisles and i will send volunteers to help if you need a microphone brought to you. First and foremost, please finance your cell phones. Dont be that person. They also want me to remind you to share your experience on social media. The festival uses the texas book fest as the twitter handle and the is tx book fest. Authors will find books. Because we are in the main tent, its just write down that way. A portion goes to the texas book festivals mission and helps fund. Programs that brings authors and students together and brings grants to libraries in texas. We are very grateful to have you here. All right, without further ado, let me introduce our wonderful speakers that really dont need introduction but, youve got to do your thing. First we have was a New York
Im already at number three its great to be here. When i first heard the president use the term witchhunt in that tweet like he used fake news the election was rigged that i spent my life that they recoil but now you have borrowed this phrase for your book. Why . Its very telling what people tend to forget about a witchhunt there are no real witches. But this overwhelming irrational desire is what propels a witchhunt and thats what happened here theoretically smart people convince themselves the president committed the most obnoxious crime there is a treasonous conspiracy with Vladimir Putin to steal the 2016 election. When it was based not on a shred of credible evidence in the book explains now we know through testimony of those involved they never had any plausible evidence to launch that investigation and nine months later when the special counsel is appointe appointed, they still had no evidence in the appointment itself violated the regulations authorizing the appointment and i ex
Volkera special envoformer special envoy to ukrain also this week, President Trump told reporters that china an should openvestigation into biden and his son. Joining me are marisa, and npr Senior Editor ron joining us from want d. C. Ron, le begin with you. Lets talk about the niece revelation with respect to Vice President pence. What do we know and where is th this going . House leaders have sent notice to the Vice President saying they e want to every development that might exist, thatight pertain to meetings that mike pence might verified with the ukrainian president , perhaps with others ineyukraine want to know everything that he knows about the en interchanges betour government at the highest levels, that is to say President Trump, and the ukrainian president with urespect to investigations of the bidens, d also with respect to what the president has been saying, and we saw this in those envoy messages that you referred to a moment ago, the quid pro quo, which seems to be quite
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