It says. That i have is a film legend the german director has made over 70 felt its ranging from art house to big hollywood productions hes traveled to the ends of the earth and peered into the depths of the human soul. Transit movie the most. Hes created iconic characters to images in feature films and documentaries. Always searching for a deeper truth his perspective is investigative and radically subjective verda have song of the adventurer. We met up with this great cinematic storyteller in munich where his story began. When did it become clear to you that you had to and could make films. When i was around 14 or 15 years old when barriers things happened at the same time which made my fate apparent to me. Among them was that i would make films that i was also a kind of poet. And it was always clear to me that i would do this better than others. It was also clear that since i knew little about film and had seen almost nothing i would have to invent the cinema myself. If i left. It i
Chairman reserves the right to call recess. make an Opening Statement and representative nunes will make an Opening Statement and well turn to the witness for Opening Statement and then to questions. For audience members we welcome you and respect your interest in being here. In turn, we ask for your respect as we proceed with todays hearing. It is the intention of the committee to proceed without disruptions. As chairman ill take all necessary and appropriate steps to maintain order to ensure that the committee is run in accordance with house rules and House Resolution 660. With that i now recognize myself to give an Opening Statement in the impeachment inquiry into donald j. Trump, the 45th president of the United States. In april, 2019 the United States ambassador to ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was in kiev when she was called by a Senior State Department official and told to get on the next plane back to washington. Upon her return to d. C. She was informed by her superiors that altho
Quorum call ms. Cortez masto mr. President , i rise today in opposition to it the nomination of lawrence van dyke to serve on the United States court of appeals for the ninth circuit. Mr. Van dyke fits neatly into this administrations pattern of picking federal judges for our Circuit Courts of appeal without meaningful input from home state senators. The president continues to select ideologically extreme nominees like mr. Van dyke, and the white house is putting forward people without enough experience for the momentous roles they have been chosen to serve. Mr. Van dyke has been nominated to fill a nevada seat on the ninth circuit, even though hes not a nevadan. He didnt grow up in my state, he doesnt appear to own property there, he doesnt seem to have family ties, and he was only an active member of the nevada state bar for two years. Senator rosen and i engage with the white house to put forward highly respected nevadans with bipartisan support, but our suggestions were summarily i
Hill just a few minutes ago and she is the 3rd witness to speak publicly about the events surrounding trumps mouth famous phone call with the ukrainian leader in july hes accused of threatening to withhold when the tree aide on this ukraine investigated his political rival joe biden get out of it as a career diplomat and an Anti Corruption advocate last month she told the inquiry about efforts by trumps lawyer Rudy Giuliani to publicly discredit her she said a senior ukrainian official had warned her to watch her back now giuliani had accused her of undermining the president before trump dismissed her in may. In just a moment our White House Correspondent kimberly how could join us but 1st lets go to heidi show cost or shes outside the hearing room on capitol hill we have a pretty good idea heidi of what mr van of which will say so what kind of questions are we expecting from both the democrats and republicans. Sure wolf from democrats was a bit more expecting them to elicit from the r
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the meeting will come to order. Good morning, everyone. This is the second in a series of public hearings the committee will be holding as part of the houses impeachment inquiry, without objection the chairman reserves the right to call recess. make an Opening Statement and representative nunes will make an Opening Statement and well turn to the witness for Opening Statement and then to questions. For audience members we welcome you and respect your interest in being here. In turn, we ask for your respect as we proceed with todays hearing. It is the intention of the committee to proceed without disruptions. As chairman ill take all necessary and appropriate steps to maintain order to ensure that the committee is run in accordance with house rules and House Resolution 660. With that i now recognize myself to give an Opening Statement in the impeachment inquiry into donald j. Trump, the 45th president of the United States. In april, 201