From the House Oversight committee, this is about two hours. The chair will come to order. Welcome to the oversight subcommittee on civil rights entitled White Supremacists in blue, the infiltration of local Police Departments. Good morning to the chair of the committee, miss maloney, good morning to our Ranking Member, mr. Roy, who is with us, and good morning to the vice chair of the committee, ms ms. Ocasiocortez and our wonderful members. I want to express a special welcome to Rashida Tlaib of michigan. This is our first hearing with our subcommittee and were delighted to have her join us. Welcome. Before we begin today, i want to play a video that will set the stage for the discussion that were about to have. Clerkings, please go ahead and play the video. White supremacy permeates every corner of the institution. Tracks hate and extremist groups, whomever is engaged in those groups, wherever that might lead. We have outed a number of Law Enforcement officers who have connections t
Committee members will be asking him about a whistleblower complaint that top dhs officials interfered with Intelligence Reports to protect President Trumps image and immigration policy. The committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to recess the hearing at any time. Before we turn to the substance of todays hearing let me address a House Keeping matter. First let me remind members should during these proceedings with the exception of when theyre speaking take precautions in light of covid19 including by wearing a face cover such as a mask. Were also limiting staff attendance at the hearing. I would encourage and urge unless youre speaking to please be wearing your mask. Were also conducting this hearing in the Capital Visitors Center auditorium, which affords Additional Space for those present to remain fizz any distant from one another. Before i get into the other House Keeping matter let me just express my best wishes to the president and first lady for
Analysis and as we refer to as ona. Left the committee, no choice but to issue a subpoena on tuesday for his appearance at this hearing today. The department has persistently slow walked security clearance requests from counsel for their clients mr. Brian murphy, a lawful whistleblower and the former acting head of ina and the element within dhs in proceedings before this committee. The committee repeatedly offered to dhs that it would withdraw the subpoena for mr. Maurers appearance if the department authorized the attorney clearances in time for mr. Murphys often rescheduled deposition. Unfortunately dhs refused to do so. Therefore, were Going Forward today with his testimony. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. On august 3rd, amid public reporting of american citizens being scratched off the streets of portland by Law Enforcement officials from the department of Homeland Security, this committee launched an investigation into serious allegations that dhss intelligence a
If it went ahead virtually, the nature of the interaction would change and interrupting would be much more difficult but the president says hes not going to do a virtual debate. Thats where it stands right now. At last nights debate orderly fashion and Kamala Harris failed to answer on key issues, she deflect order laughed it all off. Her silence revealed on what the biden team will do if elected. President trump goes all in on regenerons antivirus treatment. The president called it a miracle. Of course, hes been criticized for his use of an unapproved treatment. The stock, though, up big time, 3. 6 , 21 higher. Now look at the overall market after wednesdays very, very big rally. 840,000 jobless claims last week. Not having that much impact on the market this morning. We see the dow going up another 180. S p up 21 and look at that the nasdaq going again up 101 points. Possibility, they are still talking about some form of stimulus. Thats a positive. Looks like a still stalemate but th
Reporters in the gop agenda and the president s comments on the peaceful transfer of power. I want to begin by extending prayers to the two Police Officers shot in louisville last night. To the country, we are grateful for our Law Enforcement and the risks they take to keep our communities safe. What happened to Breonna Taylor was a tragedy. I should honor her death making sure a similar situation does not repeat itself in the future. Excuse for the organized violence we are seeing in the streets and it must stop. Today marks the oneday anniversary since Speaker Pelosi launched the most partisan, weakest impeachment in u. S. History. Watched sunday. It seems like shes going to try again. When people look back on the work of the house of representatives for the 116th congress, they will see it was led by a majority more concerned with attacking the president and building up our country. Democrats years since nancy pelosi took the gavel, democrats have done more to dismantle institutions