Next, officials from the fai Justice Department, Homeland Security, and u. S. Election Assistance Commission testify on election infrastructure security. And how each agency is working to protect voting systems and coordinat coordinate with state and local officials. This house judiciary hearing runs about 2 1 2 hours. On judiy welcomthe judiciarywill come to. Without objection, the chair is authorized to house subcommittee on the judiciary will come to order, without objection. The chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on securing americas elections part two, oversight of Government Agencies. I will now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Last month this Committee Held part one of a series of hearings on securing americas elections. In that hearing, three witnesses who had been jointly selected by the committee testified unequivocally that our nations elections are under attack. Deborah plunket, former
They produce and sell more and more weapons, conduct exercises, expand, and at the same time claim that they do not threaten anyone, and they themselves are not afraid of anyone, contradictory statements of the north atlantic alliance, extremely contradictory statistics. Stockholm. The Peace Research court has published a new report on the state of the global arms trade over the past 4 years. The main trend europeans began to buy weapons twice as much as in the period from the fourteenth to the eighteenth years. They buy mostly from americans, of course, and they also started selling a lot more. And the leader here is france an increase of 47 . The french even supplanted russia from second place in the list of largest arms exporters. Well, as for importing countries, this one is the leader in europe. Ukraine is also explainable. It is precisely due to supplies to the kiev regime that the europeans are experiencing such an increase in sales. In general, the worsening militarization of n
Sergio quintana joins us live from the courthouse with more. There is a Standing Court order that is posted on the front door of the courthouse that says there is no pictures or video allowed inside the courthouse. The woman who shot that video said shes a journalist helping two men research their court cases. She saw something happen and jumped into action. Please stop recording. Reporter in the video you can hear the sheriffs deputy to tell her to stop recording. He tells her four times. Then it looks like he grabbed her phone. She said she started recording because deputies surrounded one of the men she was with and told him to stop taking pictures of documents. I was in the file room doing research and i saw an incident happened that i believe was police misconduct. I believed it was newsworthy and i turned on my recorder. Reporter a Sheriffs Department spokesperson declined to speak on camera but said the deputies were enforcing a rule about videotaping courthouse. She said it was
Claims this morning that the russians have damaging information on mr. Trump and that his lawyer met with russian officials and said Cash Payments to them. The lawyer says totally untrue. Trump angrily calls it a political witch hunt and fake news. The russians say they have no compromising material, but its all over the media. It will come up at the tillerson hearing and it wil be center stage at the News Conference. So, here is the state of political play. The left continues its full court press to discredit and undermine the trump presidency. They are in attack mode. You will see how trump responds. Varney company is about to begin. Exxonmobil chief Rex Tillersons confirmation is about to be gavelled to order. Youll expect questions, hostile questions from democrats on russia and Climate Change. We have liz peek. Judge andrew napolitano, spokesman rick grinell, Ashley Webster and liz macdonald. Well quote him on a couple tweets. Russia said the unverified report by political opponen
Conference. At the grand hyatt hotel. If any of you are interested in health care, we will have a separate health care session. Either i was perfect or you this was not exciting at all. Thank you very much. It doesnt look like me at all. Im Randy Johnson at the u. S. Chamber of commerce, im just a lawyer, im not going to pretend to add to all the information people provided today. Im proud of this summit, its our fifth one. And my goal on this, five or six years ago, was, if we can bring together a lot of smart people and talk about a lot of technological advances, and move the beuhl forward a little bit on disease treatment, wellness programs, we can call it a day and go home. We earned our members dues. On a personal basis ive experienced a lot of i lost a sister, two sisters and a brother to cancer recently. Both under 70. I also had Prostate Cancer several years ago, i picked up a tid bit here in one of these meetings which gave me the information to reject a recommendation several