Readings in the salyut us there are many things threatening the United States freedom of the press these days hawk watchers from Government Agency infiltration be a retired intelligence and security agents like John Brennan James clapper running around cable news rooms influencing news stories as pundits and experts to major Government Contractors like multibillionaire jeff bezos buying a major news outlet like the Washington Post but those are the show youre more center stage examples theres actually another more insidious major threat to our press these days and its name is wall street and its crushing local newspapers across the country olympia snow smith writes and take on wall street that all over the country private equity and hedge funds have been scooping up these cash strapped papers and looting them into irrelevance or bankruptcy in fact between 20042800 United States lost. More than a 5th of the local newspapers in newsrooms at these local newspapers they lost half of their
[reporters shouting questions] we continued the conversation on impeachment in the whistleblower complaint against President Trump. The complaint against donald trump. Paul worsens wide paul the senior counsel during the whitewater investigation. Ou worked for ken starr do you see any legal similarities between that investigation and the investigation against President Trump . As it is being conducted by the Intelligence Committee . A differentnk it is kettle of fish that present its own level of issues. At the highest level, the legal question of what constitutes a high crime and misdemeanor and what are Congress Investigative authorities, that does not change. But there is a significant difference in the nature of two levels ats on least. The first is that the congress in the clinton investigation really did not conduct any independent investigation of its own. It relied almost exclusively on the input of the independent counsel, ken starr. That was not necessarily inappropriate. He
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[taps gavel] ll right. The committee will come to order. Better late than never. Sorry, everybody. The constitutional obligation of the job. I will now recognize myself for five minutes to give myself an opening statement. That said, as is usually the case, i will not take five minutes because we are doing Something Different today. Those of you who have attended past hearings no as committee sometimes likes to shake things up, and today, were looking at ways to develop the next generation of leaders in congress, which is part of our committees mandate. We figured what better way to showcase the next generation of leaders would be to future this committee of to feature this. Ommittees freshmen members we have benefited from their unique perspective as freshmen members. Resentative tendons representative tendons representative demings dutifully gets here early and waits and waits and waits to question witnesses. His patients has not gone unnoticed. I will yield to the representatives. T
Of South Carolina led the hearing. [taps gavel] all right. Hearing is setting members up for success. I now recognize myself or five minutes to give an opening statement. As is usually the case im not going to take five minutes because we are doing Something Different today. Those of you who have attended past hearings no as committee sometimes likes to shake things up, and today, were looking at ways to develop the next generation of leaders in congress, which is part of our committees mandate. We figured what better way to showcase the next generation of leaders would be to future this committee of to feature this. Ommittees freshmen members we have benefited from their unique perspective as freshmen members. Resentative tendons representative tendons representative demings dutifully gets here early and waits and waits and waits to question witnesses. His patients has not gone unnoticed. I will yield to the representatives. They are running the meeting today. Vice chairman graves, i