Americans. It has sickened over 1 million americans and it is impacted every one of us. My deepest sympathies are with those we lost, and i salute the efforts of those on the front lines including the dedicated Intelligence Community professionals reporting for duty and carrying out their mission. These are truly trying times and your courage, honor and sacrifice will not be forgotten. Id like to begin by thanking President Trump for his Incredible Opportunity for me to serve our nation and for his confidence in me. I would also like to thank former u. S. Attorney general John Ashcroft for his gracious and humbling statement. I am forever grateful for your faith in me. I also want to recognize and thank senator cornyn for his kind words, and my fellow texans for their support. It is been the privilege of my life to represent the constituents of texas was Congressional District. Finally and most Important League theres no way i could be with you today without the encouragement and suppo
Affairs laura cooper. This was the Intelligence Committee six of the impeachment inquiry. The committee will come to order. Igood afternoon. This is the sixth in a series of public hearings. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. There is a quorum present. We will proceed in the same fashion. I will make another statement and mr. Nunez will have an opportunity to make a statement. We welcome you and respect your interest. As chairman, i will make any steps to maintain order and ensure the committee is run in accordance with house rules. I recognize myself to give an Opening Statement in the impeachment inquiry. David hale is the undersecretary for clinical affairs, the third most senior person in the department. Laura cooper is the secretary of isense for russia, ukraine, responsible for broad range of countries in the former soviet union. They have several decades of National Security experience. Dedicatedd from other their onlyants, priority has bee
Whistleblower and currently Senior Research fellow at the cato institute. Thank you for being here. Lets talk about your story. Why did you become a whistleblower during the gulf war . Guest those of us whove actually been through this kind of experience when you look at different whistleblower cases, a lot of commonalities come out and theres a new book out, whistleblowing in age of fraud by my friend entered was tom mueller. He takes you through these cases and i briefly mentioned there in connection with another episode of what you buy with most whistleblowers is they tend to be very interdirected. You tend to have a loyalty essentially to a higher purpose or calling and and i spent 26 s in government either fulltime or pipe parttime service between the National Guard and the cia, my ten plus years on capitol hill. Ive taken the same oath about five times in my life to preserve and protect and defend the constitution. I take deadly seriously. I will to that i die and thats what drov
A political and religious crisis. As always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter is next. Host good morning. It is monday, september 30. Welcome to washington journal. Though congress is in a two week break, House Democrats impeachment efforts move forward. Herker pelosi telling caucus in a Conference Call beterday, our tone must solemn, prayerful, and respectful of the constitution. Is the effort by democrats worthy of the constitution . Democrats, call 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Independents and others, that is 2027488002. Or you can send us a text and that line is 2027488003. We are also on twitter. Tweet us at cspanwj or post your comments on facebook, facebook. Com cspan. A piece updated in the new york pelosithe headline says pushes for simple message as inquiry barrels ahead. Nancy pelosi made a private appeal on sunday to democrats not to build public support for a school fullscale impeachment inquiry on President Trump. W
They demanded that he produce documents and witnesses that could aluminate more about dealing with ukraine that would be on the Conference Call with president trump. That all members were saying last week and into this weekend were the expeditiously was the word that was used over and over again that its my sense of the lawmakers whether they been for impeachment for months or months or if they only came on board in the last few days they do not want this to drag on for ever, even though some people are talking about the election and what it would mean for that but they see if they make concise, clear actions moving forward consistently that that is the strategy they are hoping to take there. There are more expected this week and there is even a closed hearing expected on friday, october 4th with the House Intelligence Committee and the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community to bring more clarity for those intelligence numbers on what they are dealing with. Host is there any p