The committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair reserve the right to reset the hearing at any time. The president ial oath of office requires the president of the United States to do two things. Faithfully execute his or her office, and protect and defend the constitution. That old, of course, cannot be honored if the president does not first defend the country. Our National Security is jeopardized, in our country is then thefended, ability to faithfully execute the office becomes smooth. The duty to defend the nations foundational to the responsibilities. But what of the second responsibility to defend the constitution . What does that really mean . The founders were not speaking of course of a piece of parchment, rather they were expressing the obligation of the president to defend the. Nstitution to defend the rule of law, a principle on which the idea of america was born that we are a nation of laws, not men. If we do not defend the nation, there is no constitution.
The. We were first told about it a week and a half ago and told very specifically that the whistleblower did not want to get any of this information out. They didnt want it to leak out, so there were only a few potential groups of people that would have known about this complaint. Is. Too people within the Inspector Generals Office and the whistleblower and whoever that was whistleblower gave this information to. So what im trying to ascertain, how it would run in the Mainstream Media. They have the basics of it it involved the president of the United States talking to a foreign leader. So, did anybody, you or anybody in your office leak this to the Washington Post or nbc news . Ranking member, i lead the Intelligence Community we know how to keep a secret. As far as how that got into the press i really dont know. I know its all over the place. Its been reported by different media for the past several weeks. Where they get their information from i dont know. So it was not from the Inte
Conversation the president had ukraine. President of members of the House Intelligence Committee asked about the complaint and how it was handled by the office of dni, the Justice Department, and white house. We show the entire hearing, and you can read the whistleblower complaint at cspan. Org. [gavel bangs] chairman schiff the committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair reserves the right to reassess the hearing at any time. The president ial oath of office requires the president of the United States to do two things. Faithfully execute his or her office, and protect and defend the constitution. That oath, of course, cannot be honored if the president does not first defend the country. If our National Security is jeopardized, if our country is left undefended, the necessity to faithfully execute the office becomes moot. Where there is no country, there is no office to execute. And so, the duty to defend the nation is foundational to the president s responsibilities. Bu
He explained the scandalous resignation statement different from the grain blackmail of the kremlin friendly relations between Putin Erdogan and kim jongun we will talk about for the next hour our guests are a major of the armed forces of ukraine from the games special agent lapin and ukrainian journalist Roman Tsimbalyuk however , before starting a conversation with our guests , i will tell you about a russian pilot Maksym Kuzminov he flew an mi8 helicopter to ukraine and today he gave a press conference in kyiv and told the details of a unique special operation called the tit. Let me remind you that on august 23 he landed at one of the air bases of the armed forces of ukraine together with two crew members on board this mi8 there were components for combat aircraft and a helicopter and the equipment became a trophy for our army, lets see what Maksym Kuzminov said today, he was flying at a low altitude and his back was being shot at the pilot maksym kuzmiv, who managed to deliver the
26,000 acres, just 6 contained. The north complex fire also in the an gechlt les, burning for a week now, covering a quarter million acres is 23 contained. Oregon fires, a million acres burned so far. Washington state Officials Say 10,000 acres were burned just this week, 80 of the small town of maltan was destroyed. We talk about this as a wildfire. We have to start thinking theyre more climate fires. Theyre climate fires because thats what creates the conditions that makes them so explosive. Theres a sustainable problem and that is Climate Change. Its a climate emergency. This is what everyone predicted. This is what all the experts have been saying for decades. And right now these recordsetting fires are burning millions of acres, causing poor air quality up and down the west coast, and at least 20 people have died. Lets go to my colleague, joining me from berry creek. I know youre very close to the northern complex fire. That now one of the deadliest fires in all of california stat