The committee will come to order. Thank you all for coming today, i dont think all of you for being here. It is our honor to have the deputy secretary of state here to testify on u. S. Policy regarding peoples republic of china. I originally defaulting back in march, however, our need to focus on the Community Protests from doing that. It is important this committee continue its work on its most committing Foreign Policy challenges, obviously china is one of those. As a complete mistrust correctly recognized, china is a strategic in global competitor of the United States. It would be the greatest Foreign Policy challenge the United States faces in decades to come. Policies of the Chinese Communist party undermine u. S. Interests and values, as we share with partners around the world. Covid19 has brought this challenge the fork front of american life. We now know just how much the Chinese Communist partys decisions and actions directly affect u. S. Citizens, our allies and partners in t
And black lives matter have plunged portland into chaos. The leftist acts attacking citizens activists attacking citizens and destroying property, and the mayor just grins at it all. Ing Law Enforcement under constant attack. And today the police had to step in to clear two downtown parks of demonstrators trying to create their the own autonomous zone. Businesses have lost millions of dollars because of the rioting and the looting, and federal buildings including the courthouse have been fire bombed and vandalized. Acting dhs secretary chad wolf today said, quote a federal courthouse is a symbol of justice. To attack it is to attack america. End quote. I would add, to attack a city is to attack america. Federal dhs and doj officers and agents have been deployed to protect the courthouse and other federal buildings and to keep the mobs in check. The radical dems arent happy about that. They dont want the federal agents in portland for obvious reasons, because the feds, of course, will p
And black lives matter have plunged portland into chaos. The leftist acts attacking citizens activists attacking citizens and destroying property, and the mayor just grins at it all. Ing Law Enforcement under constant attack. And today the police had to step in to clear two downtown parks of demonstrators trying to create their the own autonomous zone. Businesses have lost millions of dollars because of the rioting and the looting, and federal buildings including the courthouse have been fire bombed and vandalized. Acting dhs secretary chad wolf today said, quote a federal courthouse is a symbol of justice. To attack it is to attack america. End quote. I would add, to attack a city is to attack america. Federal dhs and doj officers and agents have been deployed to protect the courthouse and other federal buildings and to keep the mobs in check. The radical dems arent happy about that. They dont want the federal agents in portland for obvious reasons, because the feds, of course, will p
Administer chinas takeover of hong kong. Blake burman is at the white house as we await the president s remarks. Blake, what are you hearing from the folks at the white house about what he will be telling us . Reporter hi, there, lou. One source telling me the president will make remarks about china, upcoming a press conference from the rose garden we expect to hear from the president moments from now. You mentioned reuters report about hong kong, the autonomy act passed by congress. Keep in mind with one thing on that, the president , that was signed or passed, rather by both the house and the senate, overwhelming support earlier this month, without getting too granular, the way that it works is, the president has to sign that into law or at least take action on that, give or take within 10 days. That puts the clock at about that time that the president would have to take some sort of action as today, on the hong kong autonomy act which would allow, call for sanctions on certain indiv
The cabinet position since february of last year. He had been scheduled to appear in march but, of course, the china virus pandemic interrupted that. Chair jerry nadler further delayed the hearing today. He got into a car accident on his way to capitol hill. Once that hearing did get underway, the radical dems proved themselves to be nothing more than idealogues, scared to death of attorney general barr. So much so they wouldnt let him talk. They wouldnt give him even a moment to respond to any of their questions. And as it turned out, from one radical dem congressman to the next, they had nothing to say except spew more leftwing propaganda. The attorney general subjected himself to their insults, their rude behavior, and they seemed to be pretending to be his equals intellectually. It was clear to all that they were not. The attorney general stated there was absolutely no basis for the states prosecution of general Michael Flynn. I think what the counsel concluded was that the only pu