Campaign, the democrats have dismissed that claim and they claim President Trump has been politicizing the Justice Department. President trump has hypedru this report for over a year saying this is going to be very historic and expose a lot of wrongdoing. To some degree he was right because this report is a blackeye for the fbi. How tbi so . It found that the fisa application which is the application to surveilled carter page was riddled with errors, things from they left our key information. In other things they put in the fisa report and they left that out, they did not present that to the judge of the fisa court. There were all kinds of errors erand they found for one of the renewals and fbi lawyer had doctored evidence to make sure that the fisa application to wiretap mr. Page got renewed. So all in count, according to your story 17 inaccuracies or envisions, was there any explanation by leadership on why the fundamental mistakes are being made . No theres no explanation, nor is th
[music plays] jackson, you have a new book called american radicals. What years does your book cover . Prof. Jackson the earliest event in the book is 1817. It covers 1823 to 1870s. It covers the period roughly from the 1820s to the 1870s. Susan this is described as the second American Revolution. Why is that . Prof. Jackson the radicals in my book were calling for a second American Revolution based on what the revolution we know, fought by their fathers generation many had grandfathers who fought in the revolution. They described that revolution as merely political. They felt it had accomplished a separation from england. It had accomplished the foundation of a new political system. But the social revolution they had in mind would have to follow that merely Political Revolution in order to really bring into American Life the ideals of the founding that had to do with equality, with justice, that were glaringly not part of lived american experience, even in this new land. That was supp
Were grateful for your service and your input today is going to be invaluable. I will now ill make an Opening Statement and turn it over to the Ranking Member. Also before i begin on my comments here, i would like to take a moment to express my condolences to the families and friends of the sailors killed in pensacola last friday, the three sailers dedicated their lives were taken from us far too soon. We need answers about the shooter and how this happened. Certainly at this point, the president and all of us must require the kingdom to give full and transparent cooperation with the United States investigation so we can understand what happened, identify any problems with the vetting process for our military Education Programs and importantly, bring the killer to justice. Since october 1st, tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in cities throughout iraq, these protests largely driven by youth have called for political reforms, an end to corruption, improved service del
As all you know took office last spring, has been office now for six months. Its been an incredibly busy time for the new laws passed, focus on anticorruption and then also just this week its hard to believe it was only four days ago that nobody meeting took place with president zelensky, president putin i think had a first meeting facetoface meeting since 2016. Mr. Macron, mrs. Merkel as well during the time that the people of our interest to get a better understanding of the outcome of that meeting. Theres a sense of different obligations, responsibilities that came out of that meeting, including the rada passing i think an extension of special status, the don bosco part of the donbass which you will explain but were hoping really today to speak to you about a couple different issues and conversation. Well story and then open it up to those who are participating. This is an on the record conversation and we very much appreciate that you could be here and spend some time but really to
Vote the presiding officer does any senator wish to vote or change his or her vote . If not, the yeas are 74. The nays are 19. And the motion is agreed to. There are two minutes of debate for each side on the next before the next vote. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from delaware. Mr. Carper mr. President , thank you for recognizing me. The presiding officer senator, would you suspend for one minute. The senate will come to order. The senate will please come to order. Please take your conversations off the floor. The senate will come to order, please. The senator from delaware. Mr. Carper thank you, mr. President. Colleagues, i take no joy today in rising to urge you to join me in voting no on cloture on the nomination of Aurelia Skipwith to serve as director of u. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. To my disappointment, my dismay, miss skipwith is not providing information pertaining to her activities at the interior department as requested by Senate Democrats