Whats my name, whats my oooo n President Trump is in michigan touring a forward plan that will produce been the leaders and is excited to make remarks. This it was scheduled for 3 20 eastern time, but things appear to be running behind schedule. We will take you there lie with them tomorrow to begin here on cspan. We will take you there when the remarks begin, here on cspan. Danielle brian joining us, the executive director on government oversight talking about the president decision to find the specter general. Lets begin with the role of the Inspector General in the federal government. Why do we have them and when did they first began . Daniel after watergate and the Church Committee hearings, which your viewers were really informed on government history will remember the investigations into overreach and wrongdoing in the Intelligence Community, especially the fbi. The Congress Passed a law that was creating these inspectors general in the agencies and have 78 Inspector Generals acr
Report tensions flare in the senate as republicans wrap up their investigation into obama era officials amid public and private pressure from donald trump. Gop senators are embracing calls to use their congressional power to investigate trumps biggest grievances from the Obama Administration, including the origins of the russia investigation. Foreignt established Intelligence Surveillance act and hunter biden. The Senate Judiciary committee will hold a vote they give chairman graham broad subpoena authority to call dozens of officials to testify as part of his investigation into the pfizer court and hurricane. Russianstigation into meddling and the 2016 campaign. We will have coverage at that hearing at 10 00 a. M. On cspan, downloadg, and you can the free cspan radio app. The chair of the Judiciary Committee Lindsey Graham, republican from South Carolina, spoke to reporters. [video clip] model waspoena used by senator lahey when the Judiciary Committee was investigating torture abuses
And the Church Committee hearings, which your viewers who are informed on history will remember were investigations into overreach and wrongdoing in the Intelligence Community. Especially the fbi. Congress passed a law that was creating these inspectors general in each of the agencies. They have expanded now, i think it is 78 inspectors general across the federal government. They are part of the executive branch, but they are unique in that while reporting directly to the head of the agency, they also report directly to congress. Port directly to congress. What sort of training do they need to have two how do you become an Inspector General . Guest that is a good question. It is clear there is confusion about that. In the 2008 reform act, they formalized a system where the report in 2008 reform act, they formalized a system where the Inspector General would go through a vetting process that would look at potential report in 2008 reform igs, making sure they had proper evidence of a Law
Mass shootings claimed 51 lives in El Paso Dayton odessa. To say nothing of the dozens of lives lost every day and every single day, to gun violence here in america. We just wrapped up our lunch, we heard a powerfully moving spee speech, she drove home the point of how gun violence as scared is it too many communities across the country. Overall this recess, the senate would hold a debate on gun violence when we turn to washington. We were ready to have a debate right now. Enough is enough. Is it too Many Americans were losing their lives to gun violence. It is time to bring the health house universal background check so to the floor for about, past the house we put a hundred and 95 days ago and legislation graveyard ever since. We have to have a strong background check so preventing guns to fall into the strong hands in the first place. There were two people i can make that happen, President Trump and later mcconnell. Later today Republican Leaders will meet we put President Trump. I
Testified about issues, including isis activities and influence in the region, as well as efforts to come back cyberterrorism. This is 40 minutes. Im going call the meeting to order, the subcommittee. Thank you all for coming today. A couple of things to start with. Number one, were going to have votes starting at 3 00. Well deal with that when we have to deal with that. Second thing is this committee doesnt meet as frequently as many other committees. But primary reason being that the issues we deal with are of significant magnitude that theyre generally dealt with by the whole community. So either this committee wraps itself around the other or vice at it. But in any event, we really deem that this was an appropriate subject, however, for this subcommittee. Obviously, the complexity of dealing with the issues on north africa are certainly worthy of our consideration. Thus the meeting today. And we have a very good panel to help us deal with these people who deal with this all the tim