Unseal certain grand jury materials from the mueller investigation. This is one hour 40 minutes. This is in session. Be seated, please. The u. S. 10th. Authorizing the release of grand jury material. The committee on the judiciary of the house of representatives. Mr. Friedman. Good morning again. Good morning again. The court knows, and the time since the last oral argument, the committee referred to the Florida House of representatives. In the house of representatives approved two articles of impeachment. Is thergument information, the grand jury information, underlines the Mueller Report to proven in a senate trial in the articles of impeachment approved by the house, the president upon culpability president posco culpability. There are a couple of problems. This is not the need the District Court found. We have concerns with the test of the District Court applies. That aside for the moment. What the district found was the house of representatives was the Senate Impeachment trial. Th
We are going to have more of a dialogue and if you have questions we will engage up for the last 30 minutes. The first is a think many of you saw jon on 60 minutes this past sunday. Is there anything on the cutting floor of 60 minutes youd like to apprise . I think i went pretty well. 60 minutes folks it was her second case on 60 minutes in the last year both of them having to do with espionage. One chinese and one russian but a good indication both of the kind of the tv we are seeing these days but also the level of interest in the media which is very different from the last time i is on the National Security division when this is really a counterterrorism job and it was 95 counterterrorism post9 11 al qaeda responsibility. This is a big shift over the last 10 or 12 years. One of the questions we all have the nsc has been quite active in the china prosecution. Youve done your china initiative. What do you see as the goal of nst in that space and what do you consider success in that sp
A conversation with the ukrainian president we do not have presently with President Trump in any resolution from the floor so the appearance of this is that theres a rush to judgment on everybodys part you hear a candidate for president on the other side saying even before they saw the transcript that came out a couple of days ago that that he should be impeached and then you hear republicans absolutely certain that hes done nothing wrong which you know maybe on the 4 corners of that document he has it so i think that its a mistake to have these hearings in closed door sessions like the are right now in the Intelligence Committee at least in less there are some National Security information there you can have hearings in open Public Session either by the Intelligence Committee judiciary somebody if theres a whistleblower you can put literally what ive done is chairman in the past you put a bag over their head to put a sheet over something that then muffle their voice so you arent discl
Trump in any resolution from the floor so the appearance of this is that theres a rush to judgment on everybodys part you hear a candidate for president on the other side saying even before they saw the transcript that came out a couple of days ago that that he should be impeached and then you hear republicans absolutely certain that hes done nothing wrong which you know maybe on the 4 corners of that document he has it so i think that its a mistake to have these hearings in closed door sessions like the are right now in the Intelligence Committee at least in less there are some National Security information there you can have hearings in open Public Session either by the Intelligence Committee judiciary somebody if theres a whistle blower you can put literally what ive done is chairman in the past you put a bag over their head to put a sheet over something that then muffle their voice so you arent disclosing them but its not a National Security issue they say these hearings should not
I think that it was not a good thing to do i wouldnt recommend doing it im not sure its impeachable of itself i dont think it rises to the same level as we had in the clinton impeachment trial of certainly not of crimes like perjury lying under oath in front of a court or grand jury or tampering with a witness or hiding things in that sense of obstructing justice it doesnt rise to the same level as watergate where you had not only the break in but the cover up and clearly abuse of a number of agencies so the question is twofold one is did the president commit a any crime or an abuse of power that would merit a article of impeachment on its own related to that and number 2 do you want to remove him from office now that latter decision is going to be made if it gets through you know a passage of the house there thats going to be made by the u. S. Senate and i think its clear that he and i think everybody generally agrees that its highly unlikely. He would be removed for this but he might