Can i get everybodys attention please . All right. Welcome to the met club. Thank you for coming out on this rainy evening. Know theres a lot of traffic and everything so we appreciate you coming here. Were absolute im not doing the introduction yet but dehighlighted to have dick morris here tonight. Thank you. Welcome to the met club. Were also glad to have our friends from cspan here. Thats pretty cool. So wave to the guys at cspan there. Just a couple of quick announcements. Our next event here at the club will be our first thursday say hello. The next event is first thursday, october 5th, and that will be our Farewell Party to our county chairwoman, adele, who she and her husband moved to washington, dc. Her husband, david, who is a very noted economist, is part of the the undersecretary of the treasury for International Monetary affairs. So hi has been confirmed as an undersecretary of the treasury. He is going to be here that night, too so its a great opportunity to celebrate the
Can i get everybodys attention please westmark all right. Welcome to the met club, thank you for coming out on this rainy evening and theres a lot of scrap and everything so we appreciate you coming here. Were delighted, im not doing the introduction yet but were delighted to have vic martin here tonight, vic, welcome to the club. Were also glad to have our friends from cspan here so thats pretty cool. Thanks to the guys at cspan. Just a couple of quick announcements, our next event here at the club will be first thursday. He loves them too. Our next event is first thursday, october 5 and that will be our Farewell Party to our county chairwoman and l malthus who, she and her husband moved to washington, her husband david was a noted economist is part of the, easy undersecretary of the treasury or International Monetary affairs been confirmed as undersecretary so they moved, and he apparently is going to be here that night so i think its a great opportunity for us to celebrate them and
They talk about the personal experience raising children with down syndrome. The cochairs also testified along with medical experts, advocates and individuals with the syndrome of how research can lead to breakthroughs. His hearing is two hours and 20 minutes. [inaudible] will convene a meeting chairman will join us for a few minutes. The delicate members waiting period before we start i want to recognize my friend from arkansas. Thank you and i would like to disclose that sometime around 11 00 oclock i have to depart early for previously scheduled meeting. Want to take a moment to recognize a lady in the audience today and each one of my colleagues have been provided a glossy bio. But for the benefit of the audience for hearing purposes to recognize Mary Lorraine foreman and shes in the back. Mary is a freshman at the university of arkansas. [applause] we dont have to call box today but given our record we probably shouldnt be calling the hawks right now. That said, as information pro
Democrats, 2027488000. Independents can call 2027488002. Regis on social media on twitter cspanwj and on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. More from the report from cnn about this Ongoing Investigation. It says a federal grand jury in washington on friday approved the first charges in the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller. The charges are still sealed under orders from the federal judge and plans prepared friday for anyone charged to be taken into custody as soon as monday. It is unclear what the charges are. The report goes on to say the special counsel investigation is focused on potential between the Donald Trump Campaign and russia, as well as obstruction of justice by the president who may have tried to impede the investigation. Cnn said investigators are scrutinizing donald and his associated financial ties with russia and they are examining foreign lobbying conducted by former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort and former National Security advisor Michael Flynn. An
Nonprofit investigative News Organization in washington, d. C. And with quite an allstar panel with us today. They almost need to introduction. However, we will introduce them anyway. Starting to my right is somebody who donald trump probably knows quite well and that is Walter Schaub who up until july, midjuly fischer was the director of thee office of government ethics and is now with the Campaign Legal center, another nonprofit in washington, d. C. [applause] next up is matthew miller. Matt is currently a partner at a Strategic Advisory firm for brand, policy, and crisis issues. Led the department of justice communication scheme under president barack obama and was the spokesperson for eric holder. [applause] going down the line, mr. Richard painter who is chief ethics lawyer for george w. Bush in 20052007, and most recently has been, you are the cochairperson, am i correct . The vice chair. Of citizens for responsibility, responsible and ethics in washington and is also a law profe