Along with questions about oversight of the president , she was asked about the death of Jeffrey Epstein. The good morning, everybody. We will get started just in a second. Welcome. I have a very brief opening statement. Thank youa for coming. We will get you sworn in here in a moment. Its important that we have this oversight hearing and there are a couple of areas of inquiry. One is Jeffrey Epstein and hopefully about the implementation of the act and where can we go from there, how can we buildst upon that, those are the three areas that i would like to talk about and they will turn over to senator feinstein. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. I want to welcome you. Its wonderful for me to see a woman in charge so we can celebrate for a few brief moments o at least. [laughter] you are responsible for the care s d custody of over 180,000 federal inmates, and one of the Justice Departments largest employers with approximately 35,500 employees as of may of this year. As the chairman me
Order. Without 0, all members will have five days to submit statements, materials and questions for the record, subject to length limitation and the rules. We immediate today to examine the fiasco surrounding the Trump Administrations decision to invoke Emergency Authority under the arms expert control act. And abuse of authority in my view and ram led to 8 billion in arms sales to gulf countries. Well hear testimony from assistant secretary of state for plate political clarke cooper. Thank you for appearing before us today. Welcome to members of the and can the press and thank you to your friends on cspan who are broughting this important proceeding. Before i recognize myself for opening stam i want to just say to the member isll be heavy with the gavel because we want to get in as many people asking questions as possible. So, the five minutes will be pretty hard and fast. Instead of let it go for six or seven minutes. If ask people to please speak within the fiveminute recognized per
and find some accommodation route to testify, he is going to cite potentially a letter from donald trump according to the brand-new washington post reporting, and as you may recall, he is awaiting a federal criminal trial that could land him in prison. it is a big deal that mister bannon now is i according to the post some sort of accommodation. we are going to get to that story in a few minutes. we are tracking one element. as for the white house lawyer, mister pat cipollone, he went hours and hours, a .5 hours total. in fact, we are told that it just wrapped up within the last few moments here, pat cipollone arrived before 8:30 am, he is visible in the passenger seat caught by cameras there, he was escorted to a conference room to provide this testimony. there were some shouted questions from the reporters today, this was a dramatic theme when you consider just how long this was, he did not respond to the press, mister pat cipollone matters because he is someone who has bee
Questions the president may or may not have known. That assumes a lot. Mister kushners attorney has said he volunteered to share with congress what he knows about these meetings. What your question assumes is a lot of facts that are not substantiated by anything but Anonymous Sources that are leaked out. Reporter the mastermind behind the operation shutdown suggestions that there was any collusion with russia. The United States, we have access to the best data and the data we use on this campaign directly came from the Republican National committee and after the 2012 election to build a data set like never seen before. We didnt need data from anyone else. It was in the United States of america and the best data is here. All that is available to corporations in america are other people in america. Heather Michael Flynn agrees to provide documents to the Senate Intelligence committee has part of the investigation after invoking his fifth amendment rights refusing to testify earlier in th
interest at that time was on trying to get as many pardons done and i know that you know, he was always to him in the team, they were saying we are going to resign, we will not be here if this or that happens. i kind of took it up to just be whining to be honest with you. that is mister kushner, who was well, earlier in line willing to testify, you see him on video but you see him basically casting mister pat cipollone as a whiner. when he said that of course mister pat cipollone had not come out and testified under oath before the video cameras. it is kind of interesting, that could blow up in his face, if pat cipollone has a different view, if he thinks his efforts to prevent a criminal conspiracy , a coup, and a violent insurrection were not whining. but were rather him putting his neck on the line, threatening to resign, to try to stop those potential crimes. as for the reference to pardons, it may be clear, even donald trump who loves to break rules and do things his own way, ca