Please welcome to the stage teethree. [applause] thank you. Thank you so much. [applause] thank you. Thank you iowa. Thank you Iowa Democratic party. Thank you fellow democrats. [cheers and applause] the first time i came to the state was as a volunteer to knock on doors for president ial candidate a young man with a funny name. [cheers and applause] and we knew the stakes were high then. The stakes are colossal now. If countries cannot afford more for more years that cannot recognize it. We know what is at stake and we know he will do everything he can to hold onto power. But if you nominate me his playbook will not work this time around. [cheers and applause] i dont get a golf course with my name on it while pretending to care about the working class. I dont even golf. I drive a chevy that was built in ohio by the very same workers this president has led down. [applause] and i dont go to work in an office in washington dc. It is six hours that way on iad. Here in the midwest. And we
[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] now, we will hear from House Democrats who also spoke to reporters after the house voted to move forward with additional impeachment inquiry procedures. Included chairs of all. Ommittees with authority mr. Mcgovern this is a sad and somber time in the history of the United States of america. For the fourth time in our history, we are compelled by allegations of president ial wrongdoing, so serious we are engaged in an impeachment inquiry. None of us ran for impeachment none of us ran for office to impeach president but we have , put into place a fair process. These procedures are guided by the precedent congress set under previous impeachments and guarantee protections for the president and his counsel that were not expressly provided during prior impeachments and lays out a process so the American People can hear about President Trumps abuse of powe
Issues with plastic straws. He is a member of oceana. And it also included testimony from other environmental advocates and plastics industry representative representative. The subcommittee on oceans and wildlife will come to order. I may look like congressman huffman, but i am not. It is a shock. Congressman huffman is back in sonoma and able to deal with the wildfires and he was not able to get back here in washington, and so we are all hoping that, you know, that the fires subside and that, you know, many people are safe and that mr. Huffman returns soon. So with that, the subcommittee on water, oceans and wildlife will come to order. The subcommittee is meeting today to meet on the testimony of a sea of problems, the impact of plastics on ocean, water and wildlife. Any oral Opening Statements at the hearings are limited to the chairman, the ranking minority member, the vice chair and the vice Ranking Member. This is going to allow us to hear from our witnesses sooner and help keep,
Were going to ask the members of the press to please part the center aisle so members can have access to the witnesses. The committees meeting today to receive testimony on global terrorism threats to the homeland part two. Good morning, the committee, as i indicated, is meeting to hear from four expert witnesses on where we are as of this date with threats to the homeland. This committee was created in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of september 11th, 2001. Since the establishment of the department of Homeland Security, the committee has focused on insuring the department is fulfilling its mission to secure the homeland. I take this responsibility seriously, as has every chairman of this committee. This is why its been the committees practice to hold a hearing to assess Global Threats to the homeland and evaluate the federal governments efforts to confront them. Congress and the American People deserve to hear about the threats we face directly from the official charge with ou
Communicators. All communicators are available as podcasts. The health impeachment panels starting to release transcripts from their investigation and today it was former u. S. Of exeter to ukraine, you can find the entire released transcript online at cspan. Org. After words House Intelligence Committee chair adam schiff spoke to reporters in the capital about the impeachment inquiry and he told reporters of those who failed to appear would be considered further evidence of the white house obstructing congress and its impeachment probe. Good morning. Today we had additional scheduled depositions with the top lawyer for the National Security council as well as mr. Blair from the office of management budget and i will work closely with Mick Mulvaney. Both of them defied congressional subpoenas and refused to appear for their scheduled depositions. As has been the case with other witnesses who have done the same thing. This will be further evidence of an effort by the administration to o