Well, if i might to make sure we are not making a mistake senator coops. It is my hope that if you are confirmed and we do make progress on bipartisan criminal Justice Reform that as Attorney General you will carry out whatever legislative decisions might be made by this body. Last let me say in my six years here in addition to not working on a number of bipartisan proposals on criminal Justice Reform you have repeatedly voted against congressional attempts to prohibit torture in the military on text or the interrogation context and to defend enhanced interrogation practices. Are you clear now that our statutes prohibit torture and if the president were to rover yid that clear Legal Authority what actions would you take . On your previous question i would note the federal prison population has already dropped 10 or more percent and will drop
another 10,000 this year. What is happening now is reducing the federal population. This law only dealt with the federal prison population. And th
house republicans say this investigation will be the top priority next month, carley, todd. carley: brooke singman thank you so much. let s bring in chains, ranking member of the house oversight committee. congressman, good morning to you we want to get to that in just a minute but the intel committee report that says covid-19 may be tied to china s bio weapons program. do you know what information ledger colleagues to come to that conclusion? the intelligence committee has what congress is privy to peer they have efforts to communicate regularly with our intelligence committee and i high level of frustration with intelligence community that hasn t been upfront with the american people. they have information that would point directly to the research being done in the wuhan lab as being a part of biological weapons term. what is frustrating to me is the
to build trump tower moscow. maybe it had to do with the fact a trump tower meeting occurred with the russian delegation asking for dirt on hillary clinton. may it hard to do with the fact a russia oligarch employed paul manafort to have him doing lobbying. what did trump do? he not only benefited but rewarded it. tom winter, if you want to go back to see how dangerous the so-called russian hoax was, you don t have to listen to msnbc primetime hosts. you don t have to read the new york times editorial page. just read the republican senate intel committee report. that s a very good point. when marco rubio was running that committee, talking about the danger to america s national security that donald trump s contacts, his campaign s contacts with russia posed. and they actually advanced mueller s report understanding of that.
advance information about wikileaks planned releases through roger stone. at their direction, stone took action to gain inside knowledge for the campaign and shared his purported knowledge directly with trump and senior campaign officials on multiple occasions. trump and the campaign believes that stone had inside information and expressed sats fax thatstone s information suggested more releases. the so say it, the republican senate, intel committee report on russian threats to american democracy. david frum, with reference to the hoax, they re spreading hor shit. that s all they re doing. you put the emphasis on
been aware of the most recent horowitz report. but it is clear now it is clear now that the whole investigation that has brought us here with crime after crime being alleged and then having to be dropped was a fraudulent effort before the fisa court to have a surveillance warrant done against carter page. they lied initially, said that he was a russian agent, when actually he had been used by the c.i.a. as a spy against russia. and so they lied, it was fraudulent, and there hopefully people that will answer for their crimes and fraud in the department of justice in the days to come and it sounds like that should be the case. and there was fraud all the way through. but for three years we have been hearing about the crimes of the candidate trump and then