Former special Counsel Robert Mueller testified about his investigation. This was his second appearance on capitol hill wednesday. He appeared before the house judiciary ready earlier in the day. This two and a half hour hearing begins as mr. Mueller takes a seat at the witness table. This meeting will come to at the outset on behalf of my colleagues i want to thank special counsel mueller for a lifetime of service to your country. It tells the story of a foreign adversary sweeping and systemic intervention in a close u. S. Election. Intervention in a close u. S. Election. That should be enough to deserve the attention of every american as you well point out. But your report tells another story as well. The story of the 2016 election is also a story about disloyalty to country. About greed, and about lies. Your investigation determined the Trump Campaign including donald trump himself knew that a foreign power was intervening in our election and welcomed it, built russian meddling into
Subcommittee leaders say that is just one example. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection the chair has authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. The subcommittee is convening a hearing on the document production efforts on the office of personnel management, the federal bureau of investigation and the General Services administration in response to various committees and subcommittee document request. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. I want to thank the witnesses for being here although i know there could be more comfortable hearings to attend. I regret we need to have this hearing. We are here because opm, the fbi has not substantially complied with the committees request for documents from several months ago. We will witness the stunning lack of cooperation across the administration in response to multiple congressional investigations. For this committee to inform its important constitutional oversight mission, we must have documents
The Trump Administration is refusing to provide documents and other in formation to some health committees. The House Oversight subcommittee has requested information about plans to move the s headquarters out of washington dc. Subcommittee leaders say that is just one example. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection the chair has authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. The subcommittee is convening a hearing on the document production efforts on the office of personnel management, the federal bureau of investigation and the General Services administration in response to various committees and subcommittee document request. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. I want to thank the witnesses for being here although i know there could be more comfortable hearings to attend. I regret we need to have this hearing. We are here because opm, the fbi has not substantially complied with the committees request for documents from several months ago.
This meeting will come to order. At the outset on behalf of my colleagues i want to thank special counsel mueller for a lifetime of service to your country. It tells the story of a foreign adversary sweeping and systemic intervention in a close u. S. Election. That should be enough to deserve the attention of every american as you well point out. But your report tells another story as well. The story of the 2016 election is also a story about disloyalty to country. About greed, and about lies. Your investigation determined the Trump Campaign including donald trump himself knew that a foreign power was intervening in our election and welcomed it, built russian meddling into their strategy and used it. Disloyalty to country. Those are strong words but how else are we to describe a president ial campaign which did not inform the authorities of a foreign offer of dirt on their opponent which did not publicly shun it or turn it away but which instead invited it, encouraged it and made full
Subcommittee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess for the committee at any time, this subcommittee is convening a hearing on the document production efforts on the office of personnel management, the federal bureau of investigation, and the General Services administration in response to those committees and subcommittee document requests. I now recognize myself, for an Opening Statement. I want to thank the witnesses for being here, although i know there could be more comfortable hearings to attend. I regret we need to have this hearing. We are here because opm, the fbi, and gsa have not complied with the committees request for documents from several months ago. We witnessed a stunning lack of cooperation across the administration, in response to multiple congressional investigations. For this committee to performance important constitutional oversight mission, we must have documents and information requested from agencies. That, in turn, r