The committee will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. The full committee is convening, regarding violations of the hatch act under the Trump Administration. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give my Opening Statement. Today, we are holding a hearing on a very troubling report issued by the office of special counsel on june 13th of this year. This report finds that Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, violated the hatch act dozens of times, and it reasonable degree of medical certainty recommends the president fire her immediately for repeated violations. Rarely issues come before the committee that are so clear cut, but this is one of them. This is about right and wrong. This is about the core principle of our precious democracy, that nobody, not one person, in this country is above the law. Contrary to claims from miss conway and President Trump, this is not a conspiracy to silence her or restrict her First Amendm
A to haiti. James, fully admitted that i receive, was the only politician to enjoy the support of over half of the population. Pulling data from august 2004 showed that 8 percent of patients support family, la valez, more than any other single party, but a far cry from the 2040 percent, or even 80 percent of all. As politicians insist, the party enjoyed itself. That same poll, however, showed that aris died was still the only figure in haiti with a favorability rating above 50 percent. Following the co, the us was not going to just drop the hard gain rain over how you see the flu. I received to south africa something that the i was to lead a cold, a kidnapping. You say that we gave the americans of pretext reality. The americans created their own pretext. And if it hadnt been this, it would have been something else. It took to us 58 years to recognize eightys independence. Their priorities havent changed and todays american policy is more or less consistent with the way its always been
Week but theres no question overall two big things stuck out to me. First of all this week was an extraordinarily reminder of just how much legal trouble the legal president is in. Its really something to have all eyes glued on the courthouse in washington, d. C. Watching what jack smith is going to do, waiting for an indictment in the investigation and his attempt to overturn the 2020 election, only to have a new separate Superseding Indictment Draft in the investigation into his mishandling of classified documents. All happening within the span of hours. You really cant make this stuff up sometimes. And put 1 figure on this mountain of legal trouble, just last night the Washington Post came out with a new piece detailing the more than 40 million trumps Political Group is spent on legal costs to defend not just trump, but his advisers and others in the first half of this year alone. The first half of this year alone, at 40 million from Trump Supporters all across the country footing l
Detaining the president , mohamed bazoum. On friday, the head of the president ial guards unit, general abdourahmane tchiani, declared himself nigers new leader, saying insecurity, economic woes and corruption prompted him to seize power. The us, the eu, and france, nigers former colonial ruler, say they wont recognise the coup leaders, with some suspending Security Cooperation and budgetary aid. There are concerns among many countries over which states nigers new leader will align with, potentially moving closer to russia, as happened after coups in neighbouring burkina faso and mali. Later, leaders from the 15 countries that make up ecowas, the Economic Community of west african states, and the eight leaders from the west African Economic and Monetary Union will meet to discuss their response. Earlier, chris ewokor, who is following the story from neighbouring nigeria. Well, right now in niger, things are happening quite fast. Earlier today, one of the members of the Military Coup ca
Healthy democracy doesnt just look like this. It looks like this where americans see democracy work and truly informed, public graphs, get informed straight from the source, unfiltered, unbiased, word for word from the Nations Capital to whatever you are its the opinion that matters the most, this is what democracy looks like. Hes been powered by cable. The Senate Judiciary committee voted to advance a bill to establish Supreme Court justice in recent disclosure about personal conduct outside of their official duties. The pass along party lines with only one amendment that condemns racist comments for justices receiving bipartisan support. The committee debated the bill during three hour session on capitol hill. Senate Judiciary Committee will come to order, welcome, everyone. We have a conflict with the Senate Appropriations committee in bothh committees and we will start the meeting sometime this morning and who may be called to attend. We will work to accommodate keep things moving