Information about the nature of President Trumps phone calls for that ukrainian president s and his administrations conduct in the weeks and months before and after those communications. Ignoring for a moment the political reporting we know someone inside the Intelligence Community found the president conduct alarming enough to warrant a whistleblower complaint and the complaint was laso alarming that the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community appointed by President Trumps said that it was credible and urgent and a complaint that by law should be or must be submitted to congress. This is not one of those discretionary moments but the law says this must be transmitted to congress. Well, we still have not received the whistleblower complaint and congress has been advised in writing by the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community that the Trump Administration is preventing us from getting this report. Later today i will request the unanimous consent of the senatef to pass
I want to thank the witnesses for their patience and i will now recognize myself for a second round of questioning. Lets see, i want to go back to the question of the domestic emoluments clause, mr. Borden. We talked about the foreign emoluments clause which was an attempt to guarantee the undivided loyalty of the president and all members of congress to the American People and not to foreign powers. And thats why there was this absolute prohibition of payments of any kind whatever coming from Foreign Governments. And so thats why were very concerned to get as much information from the gsa about whatever you know and whatever you can find out about Foreign Governments using the trump hotel for business because of the president s continuing Business Ownership interests in the trump hotel. But the domestic emoluments clause limits the president to his salary in office, and we cant increase it. We cant reduce it, but also it says that the president cannot receive any other payments from t
Welcome back to the hearing. I want to thank the witnesses for their patience and i will now recognize myself for a second round of questioning. Lets see, i want to go back to the question of the domestic emoluments clause, mr. Borden. We talked about the foreign emoluments clause which was an attempt to guarantee the undivided loyalty of the president and all members of congress to the American People and not to foreign powers. And thats why there was this absolute prohibition of payments of any kind whatever coming from Foreign Governments. And so thats why were very concerned to get as much information from the gsa about whatever you know and whatever you can find out about Foreign Governments using the trump hotel for business because of the president s continuing Business Ownership interests in the trump hotel. But the domestic emoluments clause limits the president to his salary in office, and we cant increase it. We cant reduce it, but also it says that the president cannot rece
Subcommittee will come to order. The terror is authorized to declare recess at anytime. The subcommittee is convening a hearing on the document production efforts on the opposite office of personnel management. I regret that we need to have this hearing. We are here because the fbi has not substantially complied with the committees request for documents from several months ago. Have witnessed a stunning lack of cooperation across the administration in response to multiple congressional investigations. For this committee to perform its important constitutional we must havesion, documents and information requested from agencies. That in turn requires cooperation. When the committee or a subcommittee sends a request for documents or a written response for answers, we expect meaningful and timely compliance and not stall tactics. It is because of a breakdown in that process you three are here today. Today we will be asking each of you to justify your respective productionoublesome track re
Welcome back to the hearing, i want to thank the witnesses for their patients, and i will now recognize myself for a second round of questioning. I want to go back to the question of the domestic emoluments clause Mister Borden, we talked about the foreign emoluments clause, which was an attempt to guarantee the undivided loyalty of the president , and all members of congress, to the American People, and not to foreign powers, that is why there was this absolute prohibition on payments of any kind whatever coming from Foreign Governments. That is why, we are very concerned to get as much information from the gsa about whatever you know and can find out about Foreign Governments using the trump hotel. For business because of the president s ongoing business interest in the trump hotel. The domestic emoluments clause limits salary and office. We cant increase it or reduce it but it also says that the president cannot receive any other payments from the u. S. Government, or from any of th