Congresswoman, i have been briefed on the special counsel investigation. Do you believe the involvement of the hostile foreign entities interfering with the elections is more severe than the false representation of voter fraud in elections . Do you believe that a foreign interference with the elections is more severe . Congresswoman, i believe foreign interference in our election system in the United States is a very serious and ongoing concern. I also believe that voter fraud is a serious concern. After you left office, you pursued another series of public offices. One of which was the United States senate. Yes or no during the pursuit of that office, you are contacted to be offered dirt under opponent, which at the same time included other candidates such as steve king and nowsenator joni ernst . Would you have contacted the fb fbi . Conzelmann, i am not here to questions. And here for an oversight hearing. I dont believe i was very unsuccessful in my you have the responsible dude an
Resign after a second woman has now accused him of Sexual Assault. He denies both allegations. Just a week ago fairfax seemed likely to replace Governor Ralph Northam who is refusing to step down amid a blackface scandal. The third in line, the attorney general admitted this week he also used blackface in college. In the new allegation Meredith Watson said fairfax raped her back in 2000 while both were in college. Fairfax says that allegation is false. Watsons lawyers pushed back saying that after the Sexual Assault watson asked fairfax quote, why did you do it . He then alluded to watson being raped previously and told her quote i knew that because of what you happened last year you would be too afraid to say anything. Democrats in the Virginia House and senate who say fairfax should resign because he can no longer fulfill his duties. A virginia Democratic Delegate plan to bring articles of impeachment against fairfax. I cannot stand busy lenly while the Lieutenant Governor is facing
Congresswoman, i have been briefed on the special counsels investigation. Do you believe the involvement of the hostile foreign entities interfering with the elections is more severe than the false representation of voter fraud in elections . Do you believe that a foreign interference with electionis is more severe . Congresswoman, i think foreign interference in our election system in the United States is a very serious and ongoing concern. I also believe that voter fraud is a serious concern. After you left office, you pursued a series of other political offices, one of which is the United States senate. Yes or no, if during the pursuit of that office a hostile foreign power contacted you to offer dirt on your opponent which at the same time included other candidates such as steve king and now senator joni ernst, would you have contacted the fbi . Congresswoman, im not here to answer hypothetical questions. Im here for an oversight hearing. I dont believe you have the responsibility
The president tonight on the tarmac in florida had more to say. Its a shame that our country had to go through this. To be honest its a shame your president has had to dpo through before i even got elected it began. And it began illegally, and hopefully somebody is going to look at the other side. An illegal takedown that failed. And hopefully somebody is going to be looking at the other side. Illegal takedown that failed, he said, led by ro merit mueller. Yet hes lifted a burden. We want to start at the Justice Department. If you cant walk us through whats in the report. Theres two takeaways of the summary of the special counsels report. The first is the writing was on the wall when it comes to the question of collusion on coordination on conspiracy between the Trump Campaign and the russian dpoft. So far at least we have seen nothing to suggest that was going to happen. And the attorney general says it here. The investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign consp
Congressional hearings are remotely about the witness letting it all hang out. Theyre adversarial encounters and revelations if any good grudgingly. Today was no exception. The acting attorney general did his best to say as little as possible. Lawmakers at times talked more than he did, which is almost always the case. You may call the effort today grandstanding, sincere pursuit of the truth or perhaps a little bit of both. Heres a sampling. The time for this administration to postpone accountability is over. I do not intend today to talk about my private conversations with the president of the United States. This is a department of justice oversight hearing, supposedly, oops, im sorry, back to theatrics again. The curtain opened up and we found out what was really going on. No, we want to damage the president. I have not talked to the president of the United States about the special counsels investigation. We have followed the special counsels regulations to a t. Have you been asked t