sir? those famous lines ordered by the lawyer, joseph wells, on june 9th, 1954, effectively marked the end of mccarthy-ism, and the investigations that wisconsin senator joseph mccarthy was conducting as chair of the senate permit cup subcommittee on investigations, created initially to investigate government fraud and waste, but he quickly turned into a political pet project to investigate what mccarthy claimed was communist infiltration at all levels of the government. the origins of the mccarthy investigation could be traced back to the post world war i overmine committee, a subcommittee of the senate judiciary committee, and to the house special committee to investigate communist activities in the united states, aka, the fish committee, formed and chaired by new york representative hamilton fish. the fish committee walked into the famous house on american activities committee, formed in 1938, and chaired by texas representative merchandise. much like mccarthy, 12 years
investigate kamala communism a post not secrets in america, up into reality, it conducted investigations based mainly on conspiracy and paranoia, including communism in hollywood and recommended the internment of japanese americans in world war ii. flash forward to december 12th, 2016, in the final day of the house select committee on benghazi, led by the south carolina representative, trey galaxy. the end of a seemingly endless investigation undertaken by republicans, which began at least on the surface, as an investigation into the 2012 terror attacks in libya that killed the u.s. ambassador, chris stevens. which immediately turned into a political sideshow meant to inflict political damage on the venn secretary of state, hillary clinton. as a reminder, you don t need to take my word on that. everybody thought hillary clinton was unbeatable, right? but we put together a benghazi special committee, a select committee, what her numbers today? her numbers are dropping. we re going t
stunning and kind of hilarious moment last night. i was sitting in my office waiting for the votes to resume, and josh hawley takes the floor and i hear out of corner of my eye, i m reading something, he s talking about investigation and the american people deserve the and i thought, wow. he he s come around on this. and then, i heard, no, he s talking about an investigation as to what happened where the where the flu came from, and whether it came out of the lab in wuhan. so, you know, he s good with he s good with investigations. just not this one. the other thing is, you know, they talk about it might be partisan and all that kind of thing. i i did a little homework this morning. you know how many investigations there were of benghazi? ten. and the last one didn t wind up until december 12th, 2016, one month after the presidential election. talk about partisan use of investigations. i mean, that was the the
about what happened at trump tower on december 12th, 2016 during the presidential transition. over the weekend, michael avenatti released video images which he said showed a qatari official in the lobby of trump tower on that day with michael cohen. and today that qatari official confirmed that he was indeed at trump tower on that date. michael avenatti then tweeted today once again we have been proven right. more ugly details to follow. ahmed al rumaihi is the qatari official who was then the head of qatar s investment fund controlling over $100 billion. mr. al rumaihi s admission that he was at trump tower came one day after his company issued a statement about the video images of him that michael avenatti released saying we do not confirm and have no basis to confirm the video. last night here on this program, michael avenatti point to a statement made under oath in a
trump s personal lawyer michael cohen. here is what he tweeted about the people seen at trump tower on december 12th, 2016. why was ahmed al-rumaihi meeting with michael cohen in 2016 and later brag by bribing administration officials according to a sworn declaration filed in court. now he is a qatari investor seen at trump tower that day and avenatti made it his mission to skploez questionable behavior from michael cohen. so what we got this afternoon is a statement from a spokesperson for a sports company that al-rumaihi owns stating why he was at trump tower on that day. here is what the statement said. mr. al-rumaihi was at trump tower and there in his then role as head of qatar investments an internal division of qia to accompany the delegation meeting with trump transition officials on that date. did he not participate in my meetings with michael flynn and