Welcome, everybody. Welcome. Apologize for the lack of space and lack of sandwiches. More people showed up than we were expecting. If you were expecting that jay z would be on this panel, i apologize. I dont think he was available. But this is Congressional Internet Caucus Academy briefing. Weve been doing these things since 1996. A pretty remarkable span of time. Informative issues, discussions on critical internet issues as we see them. Were policy agnostic but try to provide a good baseline on understanding of key issues. Todays panel in the era of streaming who is a bigger music mogul jay z or congress. This is with congressional in conjunction with congressional internet caucus. The cochairs of caucus on the senate side are chairman john thune and patrick leahy. On the host side congresswoman anna escru. Congressman collins would be cochair on the caucus and were thrilled to have him. The reality is that for members participating in briefings and hosting briefings in conjunction w
Most people watched into a collective yawn. From democratic perspective to me this is a bust. Bob muellers presentation was not detailed. This was not the Robert Mueller i knew. Bob mueller is not a made for tv guy, we live in a made for tv society. You do not have that viral they fumbled the entire accountability mission, on optics it was a disaster. Look who winning now, it looks like donald trump is winning. Kennedy not chuck todds beard. It was not mueller who had a bad day, she said it was president , channeling win stone winston churchill. It will is the end of the beginning. A renewed interest by congress in hearing from the people who were on muellers team and did the work beyond the sort of distant figure head figure of mueller himself, second thing. That i think sort of comes out of todays hearing, i think were already seeing, will be a renewed focus by democrats, on figuring out the money side. Figuring out the financial side. Kennedy show them the returns rachel. Said that
It was almost ver verbatim. Most people watched into a collective yawn. From democratic perspective to me this is a bust. Bob muellers presentation was not detailed. This was not the Robert Mueller i knew. Bob mueller is not a made for tv guy, we live in a made for tv society. You do not have that viral they fumbled the entire accountability mission, on optics it was a disaster. Look who winning now, it looks like donald trump is winning. Kennedy not chuck todds beard. It was not mueller who had a bad day, she said it was president , channeling win stone winston churchill. It will is the end of the beginning. A renewed interest by congress in hearing from the people who were on muellers team and did the work beyond the sort of distant figure head figure of mueller himself, second thing. That i think sort of comes out of todays hearing, i think were already seeing, will be a renewed focus by democrats, on figuring out the money side. Figuring out the financial side. Kennedy show them th
For most, in many cases really helps, statutes, house signals authority reaches that office. Ournd, whether constitutional gaps there are constitutional gaps raises questions. Did you state the house itself has the power . Power to issue a subpoena, the house itself . Mr. Consovoy not the constitutional power. The house itself because your argument to me sounded like it was all about the delegation of the committee not being explicit. I have no i find no argument that the house itself he said that house had to be explicit that it was giving what he had to the committee. Mr. Consovoy im sorry, im not getting the house rules state j. Millett including subpoena power . The vast majority, which is whether a subpoena is constitutional. Your first just on constitutional argument given your issues about legislative just to understand, i am understanding trying to understand what your argument is. The house itself would issue a subpoena and we would be over on the rest of the brief oral argume
Apologize. I dont think he was available. D the cochairs on this and inside or senator john thune and senator Patrick Leahy and the house side is anna eshoo and a few weeks ago the congresswoman announced that the congressman from georgia would be the cochair of the house side of the caucus and we are thrilled to have him. Without any particular policy approach or advocacy is a brave thing to do and they want to have more information and education on these difficult issues my name i is jimmy and im the director of the caucus academy. A little bit of housekeeping. It will be on cspan today lie on cspan. Org also tonight on time on cspan television. The hash tag today is music moguls and you can follow along at caucusac and we will broadcast afterwards. Let me start off by setting the stage. This is supposed to be an educational events. Congress has been very involved in music and a lot of people dont know that and a lot of people dont understand where congress is involved for the federa