The house will be in order. This year cspan celebrates 45 years of covering Congress Like no other. Since 1979 we have been your primary source for capitol hill providing balanced, unfiltered coverage of government, taking you to where policy is debated and decided with the support of american cable companies. Cspan, 45 years and counting. Powered by cable. Host we like to take a look at we can congress. I want to start not necessarily on capitol hill, but certainly on a topic involving a member of congress. The democratic senator of new jersey, his trial begins today. What if the trial about. Remind folks why he got involved in this, his second trial as people may remember. The first one happened around 2015, 2060i believe. It took so long from initially breaking the news. Essentially, the indictment involved him receiving gifts for colluding with foreign governments. This is all somewhat related to we assume a halal Meat Organization and him giving special privileges to certain compa
House speaker Kevin Mccarthy fighting to stay in power. Florida republican congressman matt gaetz pushing to oust him after less than a year in charge. Hello, im john roberts, welcome to you on this historic tuesday. A lot going on behind us. Im Aishah Hasnie in for sandra smith. Matt gaetz filed the motion to vacate the chair, could force a new vote as early as 1 30 today for House Speaker if mccarthys allies are not able to save him. John the florida congressman says the recent spending battle and ongoing aid to ukraine says he is not representing republican interest in the house. And if he can convince enough gop members for the motion, he will be forced to rely on democrats. Aishah juan and chris are standing by, but first, off to capitol hill where senior Congressional Correspondent chad pergram is live with the latest. So, what are you hearing, where are the democrats at right now . Good afternoon, aishah. When asked if he would still be speaking, Kevin Mccarthy said yes but conc
The Oversight Committee will reconvene. Were now back in order. The chair recognizes miss crockett for five minutes. Thank you so much, mister chairman. The problem with going this late in the game is that theres so much we put out there, youre kind of all over the place. Just rock with me for a little bit. First of all, i want to get the elephant out of the room. Just to be clear, you provided deposition testimony and in your deposition, neither one of you ever stated that President Joe Biden interfered with your investigations. Correct . This transcript does not include that. The transcript does not include. Thank you or does it include whether garland interfered with your investigations. Correct . The transcript doesnt say that. The reason i say that is because the insinuation that the committee is trying to make, or at least one side of the committee is trying to make is that for some reason, there was interference. My colleagues continue to make sure that they outline the fact tha
The Oversight Committee will reconvene. Were now back in order. The chair recognizes miss crockett for five minutes. The Oversight Committee will reconvene and we are back in order and the chair recognizes ms. Crockett for five minutes. The problem with going this late in the game that there is so much out there that you are all over the place so just rock with me for a bit. I want to get the elephant out of the room and to be clear, both of you provided deposition testimony. In those depositions, neither one of you ever stated that President Joe Biden interfered with your investigations, correct . The transcript doesnt include that. Nor does it include that Merrick Garland interfered with your investigations, correct . The transcript doesnt say that. Thank you. The reason i say that is because it is the insinuation that this committee is trying to make or least one side of this committee is trying to make is that for some reason there was interference. My colleagues continue to make s
The chair recognizes mr. Palmer for five minutes. I thank the chairman. I want to welcome the whistleblowers and thank you for your courage. More than, that for your it is now back in order and e the chair recognizes mr. Palmer from alabama for five minutes. I want to welcome the whistleblowers and thank you for your courage and your fidelity to your duty to faithfully enforce the laws of the United States. Mr. Shapley, the statute of limitations has run out of possible charges for tax year 2014 and 2015 . Correct. And there were huge there were tax liabilities . Yes. You didnt have any access to the evidence related to the sources of income . Based on limitations placed on us by the Attorneys Office, that is very likely. The Oversight Committee recently reviewed a nonclassified document from the a buy i on the form used by the fbi to memorialize information related to it by a confidential human source the fd 1023 form was created in june 2020 and its not a tip sheet or a hotline or a