President isnt taking her. Also coming up. 7 theres jubilation in malis capital as president. Should keep him in power but International Observers fear more instability is on the. Motorcycle riders along a busy highway leaving at least one person with life threatening injuries prosecutors are calling it a terrorist attack. Hello and welcome to the program the European Union does not recognize the results of the recent election in belarus that has allowed president. To cling to power that from an emergency video summit of e. U. Leaders the 27 head. The government will also impose economic sanctions on individuals they say were involved in voting fraud and a crackdown on protesters. When chancellor merkel spoke to reporters after the emergency summit there have been huge infringements against election rules these elections were not free and they were not fair and this is why we do not recognize the results of these elections together in a common message of the Member States weve said cle
Assistant attorney general and the office of Legal Counsel under the bush administration, was a member of the domestic policy staff under president reagan, served in the Central Intelligence agency, and was a law clerk for the u. S. Court of appeals for the d. C. Circuit judge in addition to his he did get public service, he also has ensive Service Plaque to practicing law in the private sector. He received his ma from Kobe University and a jd from George Washington school of law. We welcome the attorney general and we thank him for participating today. If you would please rise, i will begin by swearing you in. If you could raise your right hand, or lefthand. Do you swear or affirm the testimony you are about to give is true and correct to the best of your knowledge, information, and belief, so help you god. Let the record show the witness has answered in the affirmative. Thank you and please be seated. Please note the written statement will be entered into the record in its entirety.
Thanks for having faith in me. [inaudible] right now. Ok. What all have you been using [inaudible] the lake congressman john lewis is the is lying in state tonight at the u. S. Capitol until tonight around 10 p. M. Eastern so that the public and pay their respects. That is streaming live on our website, cspan. Org. Cspan has unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and Public Policy events. You can watch all the Public Affairs programming on television, online, or listen on the free radio app and to be a part of the National Conversation through the cspan daily washington journal post book programs or social media feeds. Cspan, created as a Public Service and brought you today by your television provider. President trump today will give an update on the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic at the white house. We will have live coverage beginning at 5 p. M. Eastern. You can also watch online at cspan. Org and listen live with the free cspan radio app.
The House Committee on the judiciary will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare recess at any time and we welcome, we welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on oversight for the department of justice. I apologize for getting the hearing late, as many of you know i was in a minor car accident on the way in this morning. Everyone is fine, except perhaps the car. But it did cause significant delay. I think the attorney general and the members for their patience and flexibility and we will now begin. Before we begin, i want to acknowledge and note that we are joined this morning by the distinguished majority leader, the gentleman from maia maryland, leader hoyer, who has long recognized the need for vigorous congressional oversight of the executive branch under both parties and we appreciate his presence today as we question the attorney general. Before we begin, i would like to remind members that we have an established email distribution list dedicated to circulating exhib
Start that again. On july 22, you join the president as he announced they expansion of operation legend to combat crime in cotton kansas city with approximate 61 million in d. O. J. Grants paradigm confused however as to the purpose of logic operation legend at this time for december of last year you announce the department would divert over 70 million in grant of u. S. Cities under initiative called operation pursuit correct . Select thats correct. Somatic operation pursuit targeted a familiar list of cities likear albuquerque, kansas city. Ue correct . So at the same july 22 press conference, you initially claimed that over 200 arrests had been made under operation legend, correct . So correct. But you misspoke. So correct. So therr u. S. Attorneys office later confirmed only a single arrests had been made under operation legend, correct . So i dont know. And the 199 other arrests were made under relentless pursuit or other programs. That was correct. I do think you can be forgiven f