Facilities across the country. The administration has worked with the Committee Staff to observe 11 cpb, 13 i. C. E. Detention activities to contract with hhs. Contrary to the assertions from the democrats, the Trump Administration has cooperated substantially in matters related to the border and elsewhere, but lets just contrast that with the democrats combative posture. In letters to the state Department Employees the committee threatened witnesses that, and i quote, any failure to appear, any failure to appear in response to a mere letter requesting their presence for deposition shall, and i quote, constitute evidence of obstruction. This is just letter, not subpoenas. In letters the state Department Employees in letters to the state Department Employees the committee threatened witnesses that if they insist on having
agency counsel present to protect the Executive Branch in their Confidentiality Interest or if they make any effort to protect Confidentiality Interest at all, these o
Well, thats what it says, to faithfully execute the law. Is there anybody here i dont care what comes out of your mouth today. Is there anybody here who believes that this president has faithfully executed the law and faithfully executed the duties, the sacred trust that has been put in his hands and on his shoulder . He is supposed to faithfully execute the law, not ignore it, not abuse it and not forget it. The president is supposed to be motivated by public interest. Public interest. The interest of the people. But rather than remembering that or caring about that, im not really sure he ever really did. The president chose to try to coerce a foreign power, a newly elected, young president that we
all were excited about, an anticorruption president. The president tried to coerce him into interfering in the 2020 elections. The things that i have heard today about Vice President s child, things ive heard about the Vice President s son when we have billions of people in this country who
agency counsel present to protect the executive branch in their confidentiality interest or if they make any effort to protect confidentiality interest at all, these officials will have their salaries helped, weld withholding of salaries. the committees have not afforded the president basic protection such as the right to seal evidence, the right to save evidence and the right to counsel witnesses, the right to make objections related to the examination of witnesses or the admissibility of testimony and evidence and did not afford the president the right to afford the testimony presented. thank you. i yield back the remainder of my time. the gentleman yields back. to move to strike the last word. the urgency of this moment is the grave risk that the
their presence would constitute evidence of obstruction. let me just go through that language. it s a letter that would constitute evidence of obstruction. that s not a subpoena. that s a letter. democrats have also told the state department employees that they insisted on using agency counsel to protect confidentiality interest. they would have their salaries when would. kind of sounds like abuse of power, but i digress a little bit. democrats have not afforded this president basic procedure protections, such as the right to see all the evidence, the right to call witnesses, or the right to have counsel at hearings. it s just not the trump administration that s been railroaded by the democrats. judiciary democrats voted down my own subpoena, my own motion to subpoena the whistle-blower, even though i said that he could he or she could testify
the white house involvement doesn t stop there. today mcclatchy reports for the past five years the administration has been withholding over 9,000 documents that the intelligence committee requested as a part of its review. the white house told mcklatchey those documents were sed aside because they raised executive branch confidentiality interests. it is unclear what those interests are. this afternoon white house press secretary jay carney defended the withholding of these 9,000 documents and usualed the senate to complete their report without them. throughout this process the administration has facilitated unprecedented access to more than 6 million pages of records. as we have discussed with the committee, during the course of the review a small percentage, very small percentage of the total number of documents have been set aside because they raise executive branch confidentiality interest as it is very much our view that this very small percentage of documents from the 6