Former attorney general lynch with respect to former fbi director missouri decision to not prosecute former secretary clinton. I am in receipt of the departments letter from yesterday stating that senior prosecutors will review our letters and make recommendations as to whether any matter is not currently under investigation should be opened require further resources for merit the appointment of a special counsel. Do i have your assurance that these matters will proceed fairly and expeditiously smart. Yes, you can, mr. Chairman. You can be sure that they will be done without political influence in the be done correctly and properly. You also reference an ongoing Inspector General investigation into many of the matters we have raised. Will you ensure that the i g brisas committee on his findings in close session, if necessary. I will do my best to comply with that. The Inspector General is able to announce investigations in a way that we do not on a normal criminal side of the departmen
The state department with previously undisclosed in formation, the Us Government has reason to believe several researchers in the Wuhan Institute of virology became sick in on him of 2019 months before the first identified case of the outbreak, their symptoms were consistent with covid19. Starting four years ago researchers conducted experiments on a bad coronavirus 96 similar to covid19. They call on china to give the team access to the wuhan labs. This is all breaking, we will hear from Julian Turner on the other big story regarding the russia investigation but for analysis on the revelation lets bring in doctor mark siegel. What does this tell us about the origin of the coronavirus . I want to add two facts that are really shocking, one is not only was the Wuhan Institute of virology working on that coronavirus is 96 similar to sars co. V 2 but state reports that is where you take a virus that is an animal virus and try to manipulate it to the second point, the other point is the Ch
Public. But we start with the latest mass the latest on the mass shooting in sutherland spring, texas, and new details on the shooters violent history toward women and children. Today, the air force is admitting it did not properly document a 2012 courtmartial conviction for Domestic Assault on the suspects wife and stepson whose skull he cracked. The error was meant the error meant there was no information in federal databases to prevent him from buying the firearms that he used to kill more than 2 dozen people on sunday and more than half of them were children. Two reports now from the Justice Department and from the pentagon. Lets start with Pete Williams and talking about the justice side of this. What more have we learned, pete, in terms of the investigation about the shooters history and his involvement in domestic gun violence, Domestic Violence . Well, i think the facts of his violence in Domestic Violence are very clear, but i think an important point has to be made here about
Good evening once again from our hea headquarters here in new york. Day two of the Trump Administration brings us new information on the russian broke. One described as a coffee boy and another dubbed, a hanger on. The new york sometimes report carter paige, Foreign Policy adviser to the trump president ial campaign met russian government officials during a july 2016 trip he took to moscow. According to testimony he gave on thursday to the house intelligence committee. Shortly after that trip mr. Page send an email to at least one Trump Campaign aid describing inintel he had. The email was read aloud during the closeddoor testimony. In march, paige talked to nbc hey z abohaze about his trip sa some people said hello to him there. You gave a speech many russia. What do d you do in russia . Had some meetings with scholars, professors and students there. There were some people that showed up to my graduation speech and, you know, i said hello to some people. But no material discussions. T
It seems to me that president ial campaign using the law firm as a conduit to pay for activities with which the campaign itself doesnt want to be directly associated is more than just dirty politics. Its also quite possibly illegal. To me, it seems that this is at least a violation of Campaign Finance laws for failure to accurately disclose the actual recipients of campaign disbursements. However, this type of arrangement is not illegal. If its not illegal under current law, we are risking opening pandoras box with all sorts of underhanded activities by campaigns being laundered through law firms and shielded under attorneyclient privilege. As the chief Law Enforcement official in this country, do you share a similar concern in your opinion is illegal under current law for president ial campaign to fund its ending of the compilation and dissemination of political dirt on its opponent by using a law firm to directly pay for the work . I would think it doesnt matter worthy of considerati