Spending. so i hope the public understands right. that we re working to try to get this formula on the shelf. but steve scalise said this wasn t the way of solving things and throwing $28 million at the fda when they didn t have a plan wasn t the way to do it. do you believe that the fda has a plan? yes, i do. and i think that there is a there are accountability measures there. we re exercising our oversight responsibility and the white house is also. so we ve got to put the resources there. i don t know what the majority of whip scalise is talking about. whether they say it is reckless spending, what do they want us to do? nothing. and that is what republicans are doing. democrats are doing everything we can do to solve this problem and to get to the bottom of it. and it is an emergency and i m really disappointed that they didn t see this in the way that would help solve the problem
Should congress be looking into the training? tough training, but some of the physical requirements during hell week, which was after this tragedy happened i mean, which preceded the tragedy rather. there s no doubt we always have an oversight responsibility. we ll be asking questions to make sure if this was something that was a departure from protocol, if standards weren t followed, and we ll do our oversight responsibility. our heart goes out to the family members of those service members who were lost. i think it s a reminder for all of us here the special operations community of which i served is asked to do extremely dangerous work, and to do those dangerous and tough things, you have to go through extremely dangerous and tough training. you try to make the training as close dom bat as possible, and that s tough. i remember my last parachute operation, airborne operation as a ranger in 2005, we lost a young range owner that
Truth. i think that s what s going to keep us together. you re also introducing new legislation which would regulate russia s use of cryptocurrency which they re using to side-step sanctions from the west. we know sanctions have not stopped putin, so why would this work? well, we want to authorize using our oversight authorities, authorize and create the office of the director of digital currency so that we can make sure that we are watching and there s transparent so that putin is not able to side-step the sanctions. and so if we see anything of that nature. look, we ve got to make sure that these sanctions that the president has indicated will be crippling as they are sanctions, and there s no way for him to get around it. and so this is just another mechanism that the congress is utilizing as far as our oversight responsibility to make sure that we are watching very carefully and trying to be very transparent about where and how
Now i submit as a member of the judiciary committee with oversight responsibility over your department, submit request for information all the time. it takes time, i understand that, sometimes it takes months to get a response back. i m grateful when i get a response back. i understand people are busy and have a lot of stuff to comply with. if one association can send one letter without any independent research on your part and within days barely over a weekend, get not just a response, but an action memo signed by the attorney general of the united states, i think that is weird and makes me uncomfortable. national school board association as i understand it, had publicly stated they had been coordinating with officials at the white house on this for weeks. it doesn t feel right, doesn t
Mccarthy says this bannon subpoena is invalid. is he wrong? yeah. i think there s very strong arguments that the january 6th committee is conducting a valid investigation. they have both an oversight responsibility and they have a legislative responsibility, and if somebody is looking for a legislative hook, there are bills currently pending in congress, including one called the protecting our democracy act, that have reforms to the presidency, reforms for things like enforcing congressional subpoenas that are arguably relevant to the commit s investigation, but also in this particular case steve bannon doesn t have any credible reason, any proper legal justification for defying the committee s subpoena. there simply is not a credible argument why he as a private citizen at the time, a private citizen now, recipient of a law full subpoena doesn t have a