We talked about it last night. What is going to happen after that . I dont know. Mr. Meadows . Thank, chairman. , you can take a bit of a breather on your return to the committee. What i want to do is go through with the people who are watching the conversation that you and i had when we spoke on the telephone. You were kind enough to hear out a presentation that i made and i intend to have some questions in that area. It does not make sense if i have not laid the predicate particularly for our viewers who are watching this. I guess the reason i want to do this is because people who are watching this need to understand that this small hearing room and the little tv box you are looking at, the little screen you are looking at are a little bit like the frame of a puppet theater. If you only look at what is going on in the puppet theater, you are not going to understand the whole story, you are not going to understand the real dynamic of what is going on here. You are certainly not going
All persons having business before the honorable the United States court of appeals for the District Of Columbia circuit are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the court is now sitting. God save the United States in this honorable court. Case number 1954. Oversighttrump versus and reform of the u. S. House of representatives. Good morning. May it please the court. In april of 2019, when the Oversight Committee issued this subpoena, it had an extraordinarily broad view of its own investigative authority. According to the committee, the power of the subpoena subpoena the president s personal papers is coextensive with the power to legislate. Ordid not to give any reason legislation and it had no duty to tailor its request. That view of its own authority is reflected in the subpoena which is drafted an incredibly broad terms and is little more than a vague sentence in a memo about legislation. But the committees view of its own authority was rejected by the Supreme Cour
Thank you. Appreciate the break. Mr. Comey, are you with us . Yes, sir. Okay. Thank you very much. Was that a sufficient break for you . Youre okay . Yes, okay, thank you very much. Was that a sufficient break for you . Youre okay . Yes, thanks very much. Thank you very much. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Comey, weve heard a number of things this morning, weve heard you say a number of times that the oig found problems in fisa applications across the board, but of course, it was only this one, these involving carter page, that you signed off on, that drew an unprecedented rebuke from the court, which im sure you remember. Let me quote from the order. The frequency of the orders in a case of the sensitive area, have called into question the reliability of the information in other applications. Do you remember that order from the court . It came after i left as i recall, but i remember reading about it. Yes. Have you ever known the court to ever issue the order youre familiar with . Yes.
Ruled in favor of the das office and the subpoena. But they also remanded the case back to the lower courts for additional consideration. This is an hour and 20 minutes. We will hear from trump the vance. The way we will proceed is that each side will have on interrupted arguments. Then there will be questioning in order of that with judge lavalle first then me and then judge. You will begin and you have reserved three minutes for a rebuttal. Thank you your honor and good morning. Good morning. And may it please the court, on remand the president filed and raised two claims, first that the subpoena and overbroad fishing expedition. And second that it was issued in bad faith in order to harass the president. The District Attorney concedes the Supreme Court is author of the president bring these claims in federal court on remand. The only issue then, on appeal, is whether the allegations of bad faith or plausible. The District Courts determination that they are not could be reversed for
The court heard arguments from the president s attorney in the manhattan District Attorneys office. The central issue surrounds the subpoena for the president s finances as part of an investigation into alleged misconduct i the president s company, the Trump Organization. This is the second time this case has appeared before the court. The first was in october of 2019. It ended up before the u. S. Supreme court in may of 2020 and the justices ultimately ruled in favor of the das office and subpoena. But also remanded the case back to the lower courts for additional consideration. This is one hour and 20 minutes. 20 minutes. We will hear from trump the vance. The way we will proceed is that each side will have on interrupted arguments. Then there will be questioning in order of that with judge lavalle first then me and then judge. You will begin and you have reserved three minutes for a rebuttal. Thank you your honor and good morning. Good morning. And may it please the court, on remand