Ofner contempt congress. Then eric holder to appoint a special counsel to investigate the irs targeting. And second transistors cable show in los angeles hosted by the National Shaw communications association. Later, a discussion about Climate Change knowing the release of a white house report assessing the impact across the United States. Tonight, marco rubio in new hampshire. He was the keynote speaker at annualkingham county freedom counters dinner. You much that it it 00 p. M. Eastern. It 8 00 p. M. Eastern. This week, the house of voted mostly along hard lines. For refusing to cooperate. Year, she invoked her fifth amendment right not to testify at a hearing before the House Oversight committee. After she delivered an Opening Statement in which he denied any wrongdoing during her time as director. This debate is a little more than one hour. Mr. Issa i yield myself two minutes. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. 2013, on march 29, the congress started an investiga
Ms. Lerner impeded official investigations. She risked exposing and may actually have exposed confidential taxpayer information in the process. Day after day, action after action ms. Lerner exposed herself as a servant to her political philosophy rather than a servant to the American People. This, mr. Speaker, is why the house has taken the extraordinary action of referring ms. Lerner to the department of justice for criminal prosecution. And why we will request a special council to investigate this case. Not only has the president asserted that there is, quote, not even a smidgen of corruption at the i. R. S. , but leaks from the department of justice have indicated that no one will be prosecuted. Thats not surprising, as a top donor to the president s campaign is playing a key role in their investigation. Potentially compromising any semblance of independence and justice. An independent, nonpartisan, special prosecutor is needed to ensure a fair investigation that all americans can t
And she also professed her innocence. Pure and simple. 30 independent legal experts have said the proceedings were constitutionally deficient to bring a contempt proceeding. They were constitutionally deficient because the chair did not overrule ms. Lerners fifth amendment assertion and order her to answer the question. And as long as that deficiency is there, there is no reason to move forward with this effort today. But lets move on to the bigger picture. Every single 501c4 that was in the queue before the i. R. S. Could have selfcertified. They didnt even need to be in that queue. So whether or not there was a list of progressive organizations and conservative organizations that they were through omehow get the thousands of applications they had, they could have moved aside and selfcertified. There have been 39 witnesses before this committee, there have been 530 pages of documents. There is no smoking gun. But the other side is locked and loaded, theyre just shooting blanks. I yiel
National Security Policy is inhibit the advancement of al qaeda. We will go now live over to the American Enterprise institute in washington. Frederick kagan. Coming inside to this windowless we have windows, but we have covered them. I want to thank you for coming happyr talking about our talk with. I am frederick kagan, the director of the American Enterprise institute critical threats project. We have been working on al qaeda and especially on the various Al Qaedaaffiliated movements around the world for a number of years now. Topicnfortunately is a that does not show any sign of diminishing in importance, and it is getting ever more complicated to understand, because what we are finding is a lot of these affiliates and inociates are ramifying their local areas, and both expanding and interacting with one another in new ways. Simply major undertakig ng simply to try to follow what is going on, let alone coming up with come up with a coherent recommendations for one instead. Just to
Heilemann, looking at the politics of 2014 and their new association with bloomberg. So there is a lot of demand for digital video, a lot of experiments that havent worked well and largely because as good as the news organizations are that tried to do it, they dont have television studios, experienced producers or people who make tv all the time. The great thing about this opportunity is we take the assets bloomberg has an apply them in a different way. Charlie Keifer Sutherlands 24, live another day. 24 was big in africa, Eastern Europe and big in the middle east, but i found surprising. The show really did transcend the culture, language, politics, religion, all kinds of things. Ive never experienced any single project like it. Charlie ukraine, the politics of 2014, and the return of 24. When we continue. Su2z theres a saying around here you stand behind what you say. Around here, we dont make excuses, we make commitments. And when you cant live up to them, you own up and make it rig