It is my great honor to be here with t 14 my friend and someone who is a big part. Your most recent bestseller the witchhunt which is a fascinating read that tells us that we have been going through since 2015 misses a follow on to your bestseller , the russia hoax that was a number one bestseller. You are off to the races youre already number three. Its great to be with you. Thanks for having me. When i first heard the president use the term witchhunt in that tweet. And fake news that the election was rigged those that spent my professional life to recoil because they are bold phrases. But you borrowed this phrase for your book. White quick. Its very telling. What people forget about a witchhunt is there is no real which. But this overwhelming irrational desire to believe witches exist is what happened with an astonishing aware of smart people convince themselves that the president create committed the most noxious crime there is in the criminal codes. Treason. Treason is a conspiracy
Im already at number three its great to be here. When i first heard the president use the term witchhunt in that tweet like he used fake news the election was rigged that i spent my life that they recoil but now you have borrowed this phrase for your book. Why . Its very telling what people tend to forget about a witchhunt there are no real witches. But this overwhelming irrational desire is what propels a witchhunt and thats what happened here theoretically smart people convince themselves the president committed the most obnoxious crime there is a treasonous conspiracy with Vladimir Putin to steal the 2016 election. When it was based not on a shred of credible evidence in the book explains now we know through testimony of those involved they never had any plausible evidence to launch that investigation and nine months later when the special counsel is appointe appointed, they still had no evidence in the appointment itself violated the regulations authorizing the appointment and i ex
No place else to get yields, everybody keeps turning to equity markets and there is no place to have the solidity or safety of equity markets the us has so the market of choice spirals ever higher. Charles here is the thing i find interesting, a lot being made of institutional money coming out of the market, tons of individual investor money coming out of the market. I dont see a lot of exuberance we are being led by utility stocks. The narrative that this is just unfortunate and Goldman Sachs to be 60 instead of 160 is why investors missed this rally. Doesnt feel like an irrational exuberance, like a safe haven. We are steering the ship of our economy and it is able to be steered. Again, we do have this eight year ongoing thing that there is no place to get yields other than the equity markets so money keeps coming added and anytime it is about to die out there is a new reason to be here. Charles last night smuckers raised their dividend. I tell people dont worry about the next highte
Understand like myself were a federal prosecutor focused on fraud type of batters. I was for 16 years. And in your finding that you undertook of the arb its my understanding that you felt and this is quoting, your most important finding was the oversight of the arb recommendations at the highest levels within the department. Is that correct . Thats correct. And what highest level were you referring to . Release of the deputy secretary level. And in your opinion is that where the implementation of the arb recommendations stands at this point . The. That remains an unresolved recommendation. We did receive revisions to the Foreign Affairs manual yesterday and we are looking at them now. And so there, that recommendation was made by the aig and the Foreign Affairs manual she specifically state to other employees of the department that these recommendations will be undertaken by the deputy at a minimum secretary of state or highest level like the deputy secretary . That is correct. You sta
I want to welcome everyone. I want to apologize to our two witnesses and to everyone else whos been waiting. Just blame me for the delay. That would be the quickest and easiest thing to do. Ill do my best to start on time henceforth. This is hearing number two, reviewing efforts to secure u. S. Department diplomatic facilities and personnel. The committee will come to order. Chairman notes a quorum for taking testimony pursuant to the appropriate House Resolution number and house rule number, i want to recognize myself for the opening statement. In september of 2012, four of our fellow americans were killed and others were injured in an attack on our facility in benghazi, libya. Shawn smith, tyrone woods, Glenn Doherty and ambassador Chris Stevens died under circumstances most of us can not fathom. Fire, violence, the weaponry of war. I want to read something and i want to ask my colleagues to listen to what i read. Not just to the words but i want you to imagine having to live through