An opening statement. They give for appearing for the first line in front of this committee will afford to your testimony and answers your questions. As chairman with primary oversight over the fbi and department of justice i have supported the department and the fbi and performing their valuable missions to keep our nation safe and to hold individuals accountable for criminal conduct. Yet i and many on the committee find ourselves in a difficult position to question the actions of prior in Current Department fbi leadership for the of a unique role of the department of justice you appointed special counsel director mueller so it is appropriate to its our questions related to the scope of the special kills the investigation. As well as the efficacy in light of various events calling into question the impartiality. For reports of the political predisposition and the bias of career agents on special counsel director comey is deeply troubling that expect us system of the identical justice
Rosenstein testified on capitol hill wednesday about special counsel Robert Muellers investigation of russias influence in the 2016 u. S. Elections. During the hearing, several members of the committee asked questions about alleged bias on the part of agents involved in this and a previous fbi investigation into Hillary Clintons handling of a private email server. From the house Judicial Committee, this is about four hours. Good morning. The Judicial Committee will come to order. Without objection the chairs authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on oversight hearing with Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein. Ill begin by risiecognizing myf for an opening statement. Thank you, deputy general attorney general rosenstein for appearing for the first time. There is much to discuss today and we look forward to your testimony and answers to your questions. As chairman of the committee with primary oversight of the departmen
Any. Most people agree that there will likely be charges. I am waiting for word on those in case they come through this afternoon. 45yearold sanchez is being held in the county jail right now. He is awaiting his legal fate. In a jailhouse interview he confessed to the shooting but said it was an accident. That he found a gun wrapped in a shirt. When he picked it up it went off three times and he accidentally shot her. He was handed over to the Sheriffs Department by immigrations and customs enforcement. That was in march to face drug charges. Those charges were dropped by a judge and he was allowed to go free. They said they take this case and others very seriously. They said quote bottom line if local authorities had no [ indiscernible ] to the Community Ice could have taken custody of him and had him removed from the country plus preventing this terrible tragedy. It goes onto say ice desperately wants local Law Enforcement agencies to work with us so we can stop the needless violence
Four and a half hours with a recess of 45 minutes in the middle. I would think having testified all that time tonights hearing might be redundant. It has similarities to friday. The only thing difference is chairman issa has invited ms. Jennifer oconner to testify tomorrow. Do you think her . I dont. Do you know if she worked at the irs of maynovember . That is my understanding. That would have been well before the discovery of lois lerners emails going missing . That is correct. Do you know where she works now . I understand at the whitehouse. Some might think people on this committee they have trumped mr. Camp and his committee and maybe it gives them camera but no one wants to speculate like that. I think it is unfortunate you had to be subjected to this again and i hope members will assess the creditability of the house. I think the gentlemen and we go to the gentlemen from tennessee. Mr. Duncan. Thank you very much. Thank you, mr. Chairman for pursueing this investigation like you
Accused of perjury before this committee. Only that he said that he was aware of lerners emails were overlooked, missing or had other technical issues. There was no evidence at that time to know whether they had been overlooked. Missing or any other issues. I did not say that. I said at the time we had no idea whether any of those applied. Thats why we were investigating. Thats what i was told in april when they came back with the findings that they reviewed at all. I never said at the time that we had any idea whether any of that is true. Thats the cinconsistency tht were talking about. If you know that you have a difference in the numbers what numbers . We dont know the numbers yet, mr. Chairman. The commissioner knew that there was a problem but didnt know the details. We were never told there was a problem. So he should talk before he knows the details. When every person up on the desk including the Ranking Member wants to know if you are going to get all or a concern. What is your