Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Barrtorney general william was on capitol hill for an oversight hearing on the Justice Department. This was his first appearance before the House Judiciary Committee since joining the Trump Administration. The attorney general was asked about his role in criminal cases involving roger stone and others as well as the federal response to nationwide protests and the legitimacy of mailin ballots despite claims of voter fraud by the president. The House Committee on the judiciary will come to order the House Committee on the judiciary will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare recess at any time and we welcome, we welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on oversight for the department of justice. I apologize for getting the hearing late, as many of you know i was in a minor car accident on the way in this morning. Everyone is fine, except perhaps the
Department. This was his first appearance with the House Judiciary Committee since joining the Trump Administration in 2019. The attorney general was asked about his role in criminal cases involving roger stone and others, as well as the response to nationwide protests, and the legitimacy of mailin ballots despite claims of voter fraud by the president. The House Committee on the judiciary will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on oversight for the department of justice. I apologize for beginning the hearing late. As many of you know, i was in a minor car accident on the way in this morning. Everyone is fine, except perhaps the car. But it did cause significant delay. I thank the attorney general and the members for their patience and flexibility, and we will now begin. Before we begin, i want to note that we are joined this morning by the distinguished majority leader, the gentleman from maryland, leader
To come but they are also called on whatever society or nation we happen to be a part of. There is a teaching that we are to exercise that citizenship in a robust fashion for the freedom of speech and assembly to freedom of religion al also this that are our birthright. And second is a witness of our faith so in the context of the decision by the overwhelming majority of evangelical christians have prolife and profamily roman catholics to back trump in 2016 and today my argument in the book is if you look at where he stands on the issues they would define as moral issues central to their faith, issues like the right to life, the right to religious freedom, defense of the state of israel moving the courts in the direction of respect for the constitution and bill o the bilf rights and not legislating from the bench, treating the courts and legislature which they are not supposed to be a those are all issues that in my view and in the view of tens of millions of voters are a defining mora
We happen to be a part of. If you look at the old and the new testament there is a consistent and clear teaching that we are to exercise that citizenship in a robust and muscular fashion. To defend our rights within the government which of course in the United States means our rights under the constitution and the bill of rights. Two freedom of speech and assembly. All of those things that are birth rate and then secondly as a witness of our faith. In the context of the decision by the overwhelmingly majority of evangelical christians and prolife and profamily catholics to back trump those in 2016 and today my argument is that if you look at where he stands on the issues they would define as moral issues. Issues like the right to life. Moving the courts in the direction. Treating it as a legislature. Those are all issues that in my view and in the view of tens of millions of these voters are defining moral issues. That are central to their core as people of faith. Donald trump pledged
American public to hear from. Me, john for having and i watch the entire interview and my reaction as an view thewas to credibility of john bolton and to look at it more from the standpoint of whether or not he could prove his claims and what evidence he provided to support those claims. What i found from a perspective of looking at fact and evidence sherry support and those types ary support was, what i thought john bolton was doing was putting out bold assertions. Conversationof elements that say i think or my perception was. He did not provide any sort of fact or proof other than this was my perception. Obviously, he and the president have had a lot of very different perspectives on foreign policy. That was the substance of their differences and why he was ultimately fired. I did not find it persuasive that this was some sort of bombshell that it was promoted to be. I found from a credibility standpoint, of course john bolton has had a lot of credibility issues in the past. He was n