When and in our politics a lot of these legal questions that may be best directed at somebody else but i feel like you have a perspective when does a well see office of legislative Legal Counsel Legal Counsel scuse me guidance override the laws passed by congress. The office of Legal Counsel does not override laws passed by congress what it does is it passes legal opinion for those of us who are in the executive branch and the office of Legal Counsel legal opinion is binding to everyone within the executive branch. Good copy and i have 2 final questions im asking together to give you the time to answer them both. What is your assessment of how intelligence operations in general are going to be impacted by this latest episode and when i say episode im referring to the media circus the political circus the technical issues that are related to this whistle blower revelation you alluded to it in some of your previous questions but i would i would like your your assessment of how this can i
Last night, but only received today. We made available to the public as soon as we received the redacted version sets out a aq ies of the most damning allegationsa determined and that will be the subject of our investigation. This whistleblower has given us a road map for our investigation and it is important to underscore that what we are able to corroborate already about the whistleblower has been corroborated in detail by this record of the president s conversation with the president of ukraine. That gives added weight and urgen urgences to the need of the whistleblower. I want to express my profound gratitude to the whistleblower for coming forward, and i am grateful for the director for coming to the committee, for not requiring us to use coercion. Y he we provided a subpoena, but nonetheless, he came before the committee and he came before the committee voluntarily, and while i believe that he has made the wrong decision in withholding the complaint like my colleagues, i respect
Good to see you. Youve still got, what, 50, 60 House Democratic members who came from republican and trump districts who understand the power of usmca, and in fact, to some extent if they are going to think they are going to go off the ledge, on some crazy idea of impeachment, which is doomed to failure, they might even be more inclined to do something constructive on the u. S. Canadian mexican trade deal. David but nancy pelosi says they will be able to work something out on usmca. Listen. Were moving ahead on the u. S. Mexico canada agreement. Were again hoping to be on a continuing path to that. David amid the noise, do you think we can see sustained Economic Growth and progrowth legislation . Im not sure that the first requires the second. And thankfully it does not. Weve had growth. We continue to have growth. Mainly because of the u. S. Consumer benefitting from great job market, higher wages and all the rest of the things we have talked about on this panel because nobody else is
Online at cspan. Org or listen with the free cspan radio app. The acting intelligence director testified today about a whistleblower complaint concerning a phone conversation between President Trump and the president of ukraine. Director maguire took questions from members of the house Intelligence Committee. You can read the whistleblower complaint at cspan. Org. The meeting will come to order. Without object, the cheer reserves the right to recess the hearing at any time. The president ial oath of office requires the president of the United States to do two things, faithfully execute his or her office and protect and defend the constitution. That oath, of course, cannot be honored if the president does not first defend the country. If our National Security is jeopardized, if our country is left undefended, the necessity to faithfully execute the office becomes moot, where there is no country, there is no office to execute, and so the duty to defend the nation is foundational to the p
Damming allegations concerning the conduct of the president and others potentially within the administration. Out a scheme to use the leverage of the presidency, the leverage of the vital military assistance to a foreign nation to provide or obtain dirt on a political opponent. Thosemore serious than involved in the complaint. The complaint goes further than the record of the call, and there were efforts made to conceal this scheme by moving communications onto servers that were designed for a different purpose, that were designed to contain Committee Case in of covert actions and other highly sensitive intelligence information. It is an irony that the department of justice would say this is outside the jurisdiction , and yet someone felt it should be put in the place that is used for the protection of the most sensitive of classified information. What we do know at this point is this, when the Inspector General found the whistleblower was credible, he was right. Because what this whis