they have the staff and the capabilities and the processes in place to look at this in a way that s objective and that s how it should be done. now the house intelligence committee moving forward with public hearings on russia s interference in last year s election. i want to conduct as many of these hearings in open in the public and as you know that s a little rare for the intelligence committees to do. the committees chair inviting officials to testify beginning march 20th. the top democrat on the committee representative confirming the alleged wiretapping will be part of the investigati investigation. we accept. we will investigate this. despite saying they haven t seen any evidence of it. a lot of that was maybe a little bit strung together.
down the markers i needed to to hold the department of justice within the boundaries down the road. all of this is important because jeff sessions rekuzed himself from russian interference or ties between the trump team and russia. do you believe that attorney general sessions perjerred himself during his confirmation hearing? and whether he communicated that back to the trump campaign. you can imagine circumstances where the trump campaign gave him talking points. he was a message boy from them and there was a content that
would like to know whether they are investigating the russia-trump connections and the wiretap matter we i don t know that that came up but it s certainly going to come up today because we have a letter going out requesting some of the background information. are you going to get that public statement you asked for? by the 15th he had an answer for us so we ll be standing by for that. did he say? it was a bit of a difficult day for him because it was the very day that jeff sessions re-signed, i m sorry, recused. it wasn t clear if he knew he was going to recuse himself.
that s what we re asking. still offering no evidence. it s not a question of new proof or less proof or whatever the answer is the same. despite denials of wiretapping from former top intelligence officials. spicer continuing to insist on an investigation. there s a concern about what happened in the 2016 election. the house and senate intelligence committee have the staff and capabilities and processes in place to look at this in a way that s objective and that s where it should be done. now the house intelligence committee moving forward with public hearings on russia s interference in last year s election. i want to conduct as many of these hearings open in the public and that s a little rare for the intelligence committees to do. the committees chair, representative devin nunez allowing officials to testify beginning march 20th. the top democrat on the
know. the folks in the position to make that decision. if confirmed he would head any russia probe after emotioje sessions recused himself from failing to disclose two meetings with the russian ambassador during his confirmation hearing. it s hard to come to any other conclusion that he pedid. he should come before the committee and explain this. another controversial topic at the white house. the state of hawaii now filed suit against the administration newly revived travel ban. and it was put into place. appreciate it. let s bring up scott taylor. member of the house appropriations committee and he served in the iraq war as a navy