The Judiciary Committee will come to order. And without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on oversight of the federal bureau of investigation. Ill begin by recognizing myself for an Opening Statement. Thank you, director wray, for appearing for the first time in front of this committee and thank you for your service to our country and your new position. There is much to discuss today, and we look forward to your answers. The president recently tweeted that the fbi is in tatters. While some will take umbrage with President Trumps assertion, it does appear to me that at the very least, the fbis reputation as an impartial, nonpolitical agency has been called into question recently. We cannot afford for the fbi, which has traditionally been dubbed the premier Law Enforcement agency in the world, to become tainted by politicization or the perception of a lack of evenhandedness. Questions regardin
Director wray also talked about comments made by President Trump on twitter about the work and reputation of the fbi. This House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing is four hours. The Judiciary Committee will come to order. And without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on oversight of the federal bureau of investigation. Ill begin by recognizing myself for an Opening Statement. Thank you, director wray, for appearing for the first time in front of this committee and thank you for your service to our country and your new position. There is much to discuss today, and we look forward to your answers. The president recently tweeted that the fbi is in tatters. While some will take umbrage with President Trumps assertion, it does appear to me that at the very least, the fbis reputation as an impartial, nonpolitical agency has been called into question recently. We cannot afford for the fbi, whic
The Judiciary Committee look on the order. The chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to todays hearing. I will begin by recognizing myself for an Opening Statement. Thank you, director wray, for appearing for your first time in front of this committee, and thank you for your service to our country and your new position. There is much to discuss today, and we look forward to your answers. The president recently tweeted that the fbi is in tatters. While some will take umbrage with President Trumps assertion, it does appear to me that, at the very least, the fbis reputation as an impartial, nonpolitical agency has been called into question recently. We cannot afford for the fbi, which has traditionally been dubbed the premier Law Enforcement agency in the world, to become tainted by politicization or the perception of a lack of evenhandedness. Questions regarding the fbis impartiality first came to light under the Obama Administration su
Nbc 10 is live at the meeting. Tell us whats happening there. Reporter george, a lot of people here this morning. The commissioners are in the middle of discussions before they go ahead with a vote. As you can see hundreds of protesters brought this entire meeting to a stand still more than once. I want to show you what happened a few moments ago. You saw protesters there singing in an effort to disrupt the vote that the Pinelands Commission has to make today. This is all about the plan to build an oil pipeline through the pinelands forest. Protesters are concerned about what that could mean f. They feel they didnt have enough time to review Public Comments. The public will not be allowed to speak until a decision is made here. There was a second on a motion to table the vote for another day. That was overruled by commissioners who were ready to move forward today and that was the result. We talked to one of the people who have to organize this protest. Here is what is at stake. Its im
In the back or the front, it is what you have to work with at this point. One reason you write the dissent, there are different kinds of dissent but one reason you write to send is to clarify with granularity what the difference is. If i just said okay, or if i said i dont agree with them, affirm the convention, that will not help you focus on the granular distinction and the granular distinction, a compelling interest test, i want to get away with clear and present danger because you dont have clear and present danger with something that has a tendency to discredit, you cant get there because it is not clear and present. How else would you apply the First Amendment, you look through the compelling interest, strict scrutiny compelling interest test. I found a compelling interest in the fact that the army had an interest obviously in discouraging and preventing racist gangs from being in the army. That was clearly a problem. And it would discourage recruitment. And third, public support