[indistinct conversations] shuttering] [indistinct conversations] the committee will come to order. This is the third in a series of public hearings that the committee will be holding as part of the house of representatives impeachment inquiry. The chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. We will proceed today in the same fashion as our first hearing. Ill make an Opening Statement and Ranking Member nunez will have the opportunity to make a statement. Well turn to the witnesses for their Opening Statements and questions. For audience members, we welcome you. We ask for your respect as we proceed with todays hearing. It is the intention of the committee rep. Schiff this meeting will come to order. Good morning everyone. This is the third in a series of public hearings the committee will be holding as part of the house of representatives impeachment inquiry. Without objection the chair is authorized to play recess of the committee at any time that there is a
Im not aware of the meetings. Did you know that lawyers pressured the state department that they invoked Hunter Bidens name as a reason to intervene . Im not aware of any of the facts. Did you no he that joe biden called ukrainian president at least three times in february 2016 after the president and owner of burismas home was raided by the state Prosecutors Office . Im aware of the fact that President Biden or vice President Biden was very engaged on ukraine and had numerous engagements. Thats what im aware of. Ms. Williams and Lieutenant Colonel vindman, as you may or may not know, this committee spent three years conducting many many investigations starting with the russia collusion hoax, democratic hysteria over the lack of collusion and the Mueller Report and now this impeachment charade. One of most concerning things regarding all of these investigations is the amount of classified or otherwise Sensitive Information i read in the press that derive either from this committee or s
Years ago well ceremonies are taking place at locations across the city throughout the day it was exactly 30 years ago on the night of november 989 that east germanys communist regime surprised the world by lifting all travel restrictions on east german citizens the move allowed ordinary people to cross freely to the west for the 1st time since the wall was built in 1961 it enabled friends and family to reunite after being separated for decades and it paved the way fluent german reunification just a year later. Well the w. Will be covering events throughout the day taking us through this mornings activities r. T. W. Thomas aspira the berlin wall memorial here in the capital and in the studio im joined by john beric great to see you both thomas id like to start with you then because tell us what is in store where you are. We are right here as you said in the wall memorial in the center of. The wall divided this city you can probably see part of the memorial behind me on a such this was
Cspan. Great to see our programs getting wider distribution and attention. Faithfulon to our many who come to attend all of these in person. For those that are ever faithful here, you know exactly what im going to do next. Part of our tradition is to recognize those who are the purpose of this museum. So, do we have any world war ii , homefront workers, or Holocaust Survivors with us today . Please waive and be recognized. [applause] thanks for coming tonight. How about other veterans . Veterans from any other era . If you could stand and be recognized for wave and accept our thanks. [applause] thank you all for being here with us. You know, this week marks the many famoussary of or infamous world war ii battles. The invasion appellant the took place onluja september 15. Operation market garden, the failed operation that became wasn as the bridgetoo far launched on september 17. In fact, this aircraft above our heads is a veteran of that battle. Twoears ago in todays, days, this drop t
And just make up some stuff because jonerik cups to us from West Virginia and hes done some fantastic scholarship for us at the blog about those early months and the early year of the war in 1861, which really set the stage for what happens in 1861 and onward. A lot of people forget about how formative the action in West Virginia was and hes in there with his sleeves rolled up. Really working the material in a way that ive been impressed with. But now im going to read this really nice introduction. From mount pleasant, ohio. He studied history at Bethany College and received a masters of library and Information Science at kent state university. Where he focused his studies on archives and preservation. He started his career in the preservation at the library of copping and later worked for a congress and later worked for a pittsburghbased preservation firm, where he developed Preservation Strategies for libraries, archives and museums. In 2012 he was named director of archives and reco