Good morning, this hearing is called to order. The title of this hearing is congressional oversight in the face of executive branch and media suppression, and in particular case study of the crossfire hurricane, corrupt investigation. Ill add that. The hearing is actually quite a bit broader than that. But well certainly focus on that. I became chairman of this committee in january of 2015 and will complete my sixyear term at the end of this month. We can all be proud of the more than 100 piece of legislation we worked on together as a committee that became law. The other than more than 200 bills we passed out of committee, although not signed into law, can still serve as the basis for future legislation. Our committee and subcommittees also have broad oversight jurisdiction, and responsibilities that we have not ignored. We investigated and exposed problems within the Va Health Care system, human trafficking, National Security leaks, and systemic violations of the hatch act within the
Marisa lagos,and joining from San Franciscos kqed politics and government reporter, guy maserati. Thank you for joining us tonight. Guy, President Trump proved last night that he can display restraint and offemore of a coherent policy message. Is it likely to increase votes in his favor late in the game with a week left until electi day . I think the answer to that is entirely incumbent on his mp gn ability to take that slightly more coherent policy message we heard in specific areas. And thinking about the energy policy, differences that emerged in the debate between biden and trump. Trump pouncing on the biden taing away from fossil fuels. Also, but issues that are more on voters mines like Coronavirus Response and health cayo. Marissa, arexpecting the unexpected to occur in the next few days, especially with President Trump behind in the polls, do you think the two campaigns will be relatively quiet now . Voting is underway and in record nu wers. Have some 15 million americans that
Its taken me years to gather and find out what happened. Since its one of the most important factors in the watergate story, i think its important to get that history straight. And were going to try to do that in a very summaried fashion today. Before i start though, i would like to remind you that other president s did tape starting with Franklin Roosevelt who used a when they first went to talky movies and they had a sound track, he had a system that was put in the oval office that recorded. Im going to try a very, very quick sample. Let me go back. A quick sample of roosevelt taping. All right. You get a sample there. Let me give you a thats kind of an amazing when you think somebody today, when we have cell phones talking about the break through in that presidency of a walky talky that was so heavy they had to carry it on their back. Nixon got the idea of taping from lyndon johnson, his immediate predecessor. During the transition between the two presidencies, nixon and johnson met
For a chance to win 49ers playoff tickets, some people are willing to get wet. [ cheering ] it is called a little bit, but the first time was the worst, this is my fourth time. Reporter the team raffled off eight pairs so to see if someone could do their best impression of nick balsa. I was standing there and i heard that i won good thing because the game is sold out. Reporter Team President said the 49ers are anticipating a recordbreaking crowd, largest in their 73 year history. Get into the system really early, so you are there for kickoff. Reporter there will be a navy flyover, rally towel away and halftime giveaway halftime show. The team store is open late for people hoping to gear up in time, and this will be the first 49ers playoff game in levi stadium, something that is lured fans in from afar, this one has been a fan since the catch. Reporter this man through he flew in from new york. Im so happy for tomorrow and i wanted to be in the news adm, ive ive been a candlestick but n
Is not fun. The subject to high wind because its not that big. Now they are back over this area. Look at that burn area on the zones. You have to tip your hat to the firefighters that jumped up at 1 am and did what they had to do to protect the structures right there. All mentioned i will mention, this has power shut off in phase 2, power went off after 10 pm last night, so electricity not a issue, so it is really easy to start a fire out here you christ. Eight hours later, most evacuations have been lifted, it burned more than 40 acres. Right now, firefighters are trying to find the cause of fire. It mentioned at 1 am this morning, this was after pg e had shut off power so we know it was in the power power lines that spark is. Steve, a lot of people that turn their power off, said its not that would be where i am . You have to understand something. A lot of these transmission corridor lines the Higher Elevations and a lot of these grades are linked up. So, if you 70 mileperhour wind a