The committee will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. The full committee is convening, regarding violations of the hatch act under the Trump Administration. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give my Opening Statement. Today, we are holding a hearing on a very troubling report issued by the office of special counsel on june 13th of this year. This report finds that Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, violated the hatch act dozens of times, and it reasonable degree of medical certainty recommends the president fire her immediately for repeated violations. Rarely issues come before the committee that are so clear cut, but this is one of them. This is about right and wrong. This is about the core principle of our precious democracy, that nobody, not one person, in this country is above the law. Contrary to claims from miss conway and President Trump, this is not a conspiracy to silence her or restrict her First Amendm
Cspan as a Public Service along with these other television cspan products, apparel, books, home decor, and accessories. There is something for every cspan fan. Every purchase helps support our nonprofit organization. Shop at cspanshop. Org. Host university of houston Political Science professor Brandon Rottinghaus joins us. His research over the years has been on political scandals, and the question he keeps referring to over time, do scandala still matter when it comes to a politicians career and the minds of voters . In american politics in 2023 do , scandals still matter . Guest it is a good question, and i think pertinent because we often use scandals as a way to be able to treat accountability and be able to frame a political system that sometimes voters do not get a chance to say directly and definitively how the process should go. So having a scandal in some ways is quite good because it exposes these kinds of problems and does often make leadership in government change things
Warhead was identified, each, well , each side informed each other, it says there, listen, for a second, for example , americans, yes, we have it in kansas , for example, we take it there on a planned basis, i dont know about the ventilation of a nuclear warhead, but we just drive back and forth and come back at dinner so that you dont think about anything there, the same goes for the russians , that we are taking these warheads somewhere in yakutia for a walk, we will air them out and return them back, now there is no such agreement, and. Thats it, its closed, the russians have left, thats all, they dont allow it. Now about modernity, its really once again americans know, but we have to understand how precious a story it is about keeping in proper condition, in proper quality, in proper technical condition, the russians have an average of 1,500 warheads in an active state, which they are currently taking, sticking and throwing, in total only about 600. For example, i am giving you suc
Proukrainian slogans and continues to trade with russia and belarus, the Prime Minister of poland said that the frozen assets may be enough to ensure ukraines success in the war, that is, such an unexpected statement came from the mouth of donald tusk, because donald tusk in principle, now his government is being blamed in the fact that the state of poland at all, that they also trade with there. And belarus, mr. Volodymyr, you are in touch, it is, well, in the context of these sanctions, sanctions policy and what tusk says, that in words everyone says that russia should be strangled with sanctions, in fact everyone bargains and trades with russia and belarus, well, there is actually inertia, because the russian market is very capacious, but the fact is that the purchasing power of russians is falling and. And russian policy of the russian state is reduced to minimization, i. E. To economy of currency resources, that is why this trade looks a little strange, because in fact, well, if e
Stoltenberg, nato secretary general, said that with swedens membership, the alliance will become stronger and safer. By the way, Volodymyr Zelenskyi also welcomed swedens membership and said that another country in europe has become more protected from russian evil. The country applied in may 22 , along with finland, after russias fullscale war against ukraine. And sweden and finland officially became members of nato. Remember, one of the reasons. What Vladimir Putin explained the fullscale invasion of ukraine by its possible accession to nato, that is, the alliance approaching the borders of russia, but precisely because of the beginning of the great war in the 22nd year, this border increased by another 1,300 km, precisely because of the accession of finland to the alliance, as can be seen on this map. And here is the statement made by the Prime Minister of finland, peteri orpo, about the russian threat in europe. Russia is obviously preparing for a long conflict with the west and re