The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, pastor ethan magness, First Christian church, johnson city, tennessee. The chaplain let us pray. Gracious god. We come to you in need of your sovereign love for your power exceeds our human power. Your authority exceeds all human authority. Your government will stand when all human government have passed into history. We come to you in confession of our weakness and sin. For we have sought too often our own power. We have fought too selfishly for our own glory. We have clung too tightly to our desire and to our faction and our plan. We come to you seeking the strength to repent. Turn us to your wisdom instead of our own. Turn us to honesty instead of falsehood. Turn us to humility and service instead of pride and selfseeking. We come to you for a blessing. Like jacob, we cling to you and will not let go until you have blessed us for you are good and gracious and loving and in you we put our trust.
Good morning, the committee will come to order. And without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. With that ill now recognize myself to give an Opening Statement. Two days ago, the entire world came together to Mark International holocaust Remembrance Day. In addition, 75 years ago this week, in january 1945 , the auschwitz broken out concentration camp was liberated from the nazis. It was one of the most infamous sites of the nazi genocide. More than 1 Million People were murdered there. The purpose of todays hearing is to commemorate these brave anniversaries remember the nose we lost and to honor those who are still with us. But it is not enough to simply recognize these things, we must also contemplate what led to these atrocities. We must remember the lholocaust in order to help combat bigotry, hate and violence of all kinds today i am so pleased to have our distinguished panel here today. I have asked them to help us come together on
Booktv is live coverage of the wisconsin book festival from madison. Starting saturday at 11 30 11 . Eastern. Featuring former diplomat offered her thoughts on combating terrorism. Washingt. Host we want to welcome back to host we want to look back to the washington journal ralph norman, republican South Carolina who served on the oversight reform committee. You served with the late congressman elijah cummings. Your thoughts on his passing. Guest greta, two things come to mind about chairman cummings. One, he had a goodness about him. He was just goodness. People will tell you that have known for a long time, he may not vote the way he does, you may not agree with everything but there was a goodness. And secondly he really tried to be fair. He ended a lot of come when it got pretty heated he would say we are better than this. Thats just saying i will always take with me because its true, particularly now in politics. He will be missed. He had a presence about him when he would walk in
The most visible part of Donald Trumps attempt to hold on to power. Tonight we talk to those who witnessed the whole plot unfurl and tried to stop it. The lies. This election was stolen from you, from me, and from the country. If you ask how Many Republican congressmen believe donald trump was reelected, id say maybe a couple. 60 of our base does. Reporter Conspiracy Theories. That could have been mickey mouse. Im watching going this is the craziest thing ive ever seen. And then people just bought it whole cloth. Reporter lawsuits. They tried to not have your votes counted. They did not want your vote to count. Reporter potentially illegal Pressure Campaigns. I just want to find 11,780 votes. What he was asking for wasnt supported by the facts, wasnt supported by the constitution. Reporter extraordinary scheming. Lets talk about the eastman memo. Just breathtaking that you would have laid out such a clear game plan that so clearly violated the constitution. Reporter and all too many in
the secure location where the leaders were hunkering down. that will be tomorrow night on 360. right now, cnn tonight with right now, cnn tonight with jake tapper. captions by vitac www.vitac.com welcome back to cnn tonight. i m jake tapper. knock, knock, knock, donald trump, you ve been served. that s about to happen at mar-a-lago, presumably, after members of the january 6th house select committee voted unanimously and a touch theatrically to subpoena donald trump for testimony and documents. it s all part of their case that trump not only tried to overturn democracy in 2020 with fraud, lies, threats, and violence, but that trump continues to do so. we are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion. and every american is entitled to those answers so we can act now to protect our republic. today s hearing included never-before-seen video of congressional leaders, democrats and republicans who are had been evacuated from the c