Beware increased risk during the covid19 pandemic. Due to the covid19 Public Health emergency, todays hearing is being held remotely. All the members hey, jan. We cant hear you. I dont know, are you are you muted . Im not muted. I can hear her. I can hear you, jan. I cant hear you at least, not yet. I can. I can. Can you hear me now . Not yet. Oh, i think it must be on your end then. Youre coming in loud and clear here. Okay. Can republicans hear jan . Is it just me . Im not hearing anybody. Yes, jan, we can hear you fine. Okay. Im going to continue while somebody helps fix the silent person. Okay. Due to the covid19 Public Health emergency, todays hearing is being held remotely. All the members and witnesses will be participating Via Video Conference as part of our hearing, microphones will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members and witnesses, you will need to unmute yourself, unmute your microphone, each time that you wish to speak. Additi
Mainstream media that you are part of. First of all, there is a bias against republicans in general, with reagan he was portrayed as stupid or dangerous, both same thing with trump, hes been dangerous according to the media. They cannot bear down to that. If they did they would be ostracized by their colleagues. I know for example from people within the White House Correspondent that among themselves they laugh and mock him, that is the overriding thing. Many people cannot think independently. And in fact that is one reason i left college after two years like a few other people, i did not want to be told how to think, i wanted to get firsthand what actually happened. And thats the way i operated. I do not have blinders on. I like to penetrate secrets and thats what ive done in this book with all the details about the real dial. It is excellent, its a fun read. Explain what happened with paul ryan and Chris Christie during the access hollywood important weekend for the campaign. What di
Lets go, guys. Lets go. The subcommittee will now come to order. Before i begin my opening statement, i want to make a general announcement to members about the process today. After months of trying to find a mutually acceptable date for a hearing, the committee was finally able to get a date with the administrator and we announced it. However last week we learned that the administrator was being summoned to meet with his boss, the president around lunch. Rather than postpone the hearing, or push the entire hearing to a Late Afternoon start time, or try to find another mutually acceptable date. We have come to an understanding of an idea for us to fully question the administrator. We will proceed with opening statements. We will recess at 11 00 a. M. , and reconvene in room 212 upstairs. I will also note that theres going to be a Voting Period in this last block and were going to try, with the help of my colleagues, to keep the hearing going through that vote series. I have done it bef
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] subcommittee will now come to order. Before i begin my Opening Statement i want to make a general announcement to member about the process today. After months of trying to find the date for the hearing the committee at the end of last week the committee learned mr. Pruitt was being summoned to meet with his boss, the president , for 90 minutes around lunch. Rather than agreeing to start the whole process over and or the hearing earlier, we have and to have a defined end time or push the entire their Late Afternoon start time or find another date, we have come to an agreement which we understand is not ideal but gives members maximum flexibility to question the administrator. We will proceed ive Opening Statements, the administrators testimony and members questions until 11 00 a. M. Well recess at that time and reconvene at 2 00 p. M. In 2322 which is upstairs. We expect the administrator will stave with us until Committee Members who
After months of trying to find the date for the hearing the committee at the end of last week the committee learned mr. Pruitt was being summoned to meet with his boss, the president , for 90 minutes around lunch. Rather than agreeing to start the whole process over and or the hearing earlier, we have and to have a defined end time or push the entire their Late Afternoon start time or find another date, we have come to an agreement which we understand is not ideal but gives members maximum flexibility to question the administrator. We will proceed ive opening statements, the administrators testimony and members questions until 11 00 a. M. Well recess at that time and reconvene at 2 00 p. M. In 2322 which is upstairs. We expect the administrator will stave with us until Committee Members who are present or want to ask questions have been begin their turn to ask questions. I will also note that theres going to be a Voting Period in this last block and well try with then of my colleagues