Good afternoon, welcome to white house history. My name is stuart im the president of the White House Historical association. Today we will have an exciting conversation with the head of the Rubinstein Center for white house history in one of our historians on a brandnew book, the cabinet, George Washington and the creation of the american institution. Ordinarily we would do this event at the Carriage House which is our base of operations on Lafayette Park but as we are all working from home and joining you in your home we are trying out this new mode of communications. It is perfectly fitting with our historic mission. As you all know we were founded in 1961 by first lady, jacqueline kennedy, who had the vision at such a young age in a short period of time as first lady to create an organization like the White House Historical association to give nonprofit, nonpartisan support to the work of maintaining the museum of standard of the white house but also an education mission, to teach
Historic mission. As all of you know we were founded by 1961 by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy who had a vision in such a young age as first lady to create an organization to give nonprofit, nonpartisan support to the work of maintaining the Museum Standard of the white house but also an Education Mission to teach and to tell stories of the white house and history going back to 1792 when George Washington who were talking about today actually selected that piece of land and hired the young irish architect james hogan to build the white house. Well, creating educational materials and content is a core part of our mission and thats what we do every day through the wonderful books that we publish, our programs that we host at the Decatur House and around the country and online social media content and website content and this is an example of that. We are doing more and more of this during this time when we are all at home looking for interesting things to do. I would encourage you to chec
Draw near and give their attention so the court is now sitting. Be seated, please. Case number 195331 committee on the judiciary of the United States house of representatives versus Donald F Mcgahn 2nd appellate. Good morning, your honor. May it please the court. The House Judiciary Committee seeks to assert an implied cause of action to enforce the subpoena to compel mr. Mcgahn to testify regarding his duties as white House Counsel over the objection of the president of the United States. This interbridge dispute over institutional prerogatives bears no resemblance to be against nonfederal officials, congress enforce subpoenas against federal executive officials asserting executive prerogative objections and what gives the senate statute. How does that help us think about the constitutional issue and stability issue. I think it does in two ways, your honor, first, we have a straightup subject matter jurisdiction argument because of the senate statute. But the second point, if you rule
Security will come to order. Let me say at the outset a number of our members are still in route from the Prayer Breakfast this morning. And they will join us accordingly. The Ranking Member being one of them. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on the department of Homeland Securitys use of facial recognition of Biometric Technologies. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. Good morning. The committees meeting today to continue examining the department of Homeland Securitys use of facial Recognition Technology. The Committee Held part one of this hearing in july of last year after new ths that the department was expanding its use of facial recognition for varying purposes such as confirming the identity of travellers including u. S. Citizens. As facial Recognition Technology has advanced, it has become the chosen form of Biometric Technology used by the government and industry. I want to reiterate that im not holy op
May it please the court. The House Judiciary Committee seeks to assert an implied cause of action to enforce the subpoena to compel mr. Mcgahn to testify regarding his duties as white House Counsel over the objection of the president of the United States. This interbridge dispute over institutional prerogatives bears no resemblance to be controversies under article 3 and moreover, while congress has purported to authorize senate commutes to enforce certain subpoenas against nonfederal officials, congress itself has expressly carved out the authority of the senate to enforce subpoenas against federal executive officials asserting executive prerogative objections and what gives the senate statute. How does that help us think about the constitutional issue and stability issue. I think it does in two ways, your honor, first, we have a straightup subject matter jurisdiction argument because of the senate statute. But the second point, if you rule that theres no authority, this court can avo