Efficiency of federal employee background checks. The Oversight Reform Committee questioned office and management of budget officials to protect federal employees personal information. This hearing is about 2. 5 hours. Committee on oversight government reform will come to order and without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Appreciate you all being here. We have very important hearing. We have a number of members that im sure will be here, but it will be late. There is the National Prayer breakfast and getting across town at this point of the day is a difficult task. Nevertheless, glad to have you here and look forward to this important hearing. Two years ago, the office of Personnel Management suffered one of the most damaging data breaches in the history of the federal government. This went on for some time and we still, there are still Additional Details that need to be learned. But the counterintelligence value of the data that was stolen will last
Dubuque, iowa. Reporter ana, the president seems to be focusing the final hours on continuing to downplay the surge of coronavirus cases that we are seeing across the country. President trump not only denying that this surge that we have seen with our own eyes in the data, whether its in terms of number of cases, hospitalizations or even deaths, all of which are rising across this country, the president continues to be in denial hes also seeking out a difference between himself and the former Vice President , accusing him of wanting to lock down the country for the next several years. Listen. Under bidens lockdown, you will be living in a prison state. They want to lock it down. Lets lock our country down for a couple years and let it go away. By the way, those are the people that do the worst. Theyre the ones doing the worst. Europe imposed draconian lockdowns, but think of it, now they have to do it all over again. What the hell are they doing . I think ill go over and explain it to
Knowing it would hurt goldwater in the november election . That is something that occurred to the goldwater people at the time. I have researched this for my book. Effective that afternoon, rockefeller rehearsed that speech and they had no idea that it was going to yen rate the response that it did. Might have been naive on their part but the notion that rockefeller, you know, in advance planned this to show up, if you will, the quote extremists mood is over reaching. How did richard nix on thread the needle to appeal to the more mainstream socalled chamber of Congress Republicans and the goldwater wing . Conservatives had been chastised. Chase ended is a better word. Gold condition water had lost overwhelmingly. People wanted to say the Republican Party was dead, conservatism was dead after 64. Two weeks after that Lyndon Johnson won, a gallup poll found an almost dead heat among americans who identified themselves as liberal or conservative. There was always that lark element that th
If you will, the quote extremists mood is over reaching. How did richard nix on thread the needle to appeal to the more mainstream socalled chamber of Congress Republicans and the goldwater wing . Conservatives had been chastised. Chase ended is a better word. Gold condition water had lost overwhelmingly. People wanted to say the Republican Party was dead, conservatism was dead after 64. Two weeks after that Lyndon Johnson won, a gallup poll found an almost dead heat among americans who identified themselves as liberal or conservative. There was always that lark element that thought of itself conservative. Nixonts skill was to thread the needle, to be just conservative enough happy to 68 was a turbulent year a fairly moderate stoliberal wing. It was a tightrope act the book available at cspan. Org. Pat tree arkansas George Washington and the new american nation, their biography of Thomas E Dewey and the triumph of Herbert Hoover and your work along with robert dole laughing almost all
Russians, the white house is trying to move on. The fact is that general flynn continued in that position and was in the president ial daily briefings as part of the leader calls as recently as yesterday, general flynn kellyanne that makes no sense. Last month the Justice Department warned the white house that general flynn had misled them and that as a result he was vulnerable to blackmail and at that moment he still had the complete trust of the president . Matt, im telling you what the president has said, which is that hes accepted general flynns resignation and he wishes him well and that were moving on. The president ignoring questions this morning. Lets get going. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. And from capitol hill only the beginning of the investigations. I think there is significant dysfunction in the National Security apparatus of the Trump Administration, when you see that you dont know whos in charge, this flynn situation, the whole environment is one of dysfunc