This morning the panel will resume the questioning of Lieutenant Colonel north. Indicate that on , the select committees of the house and senate received the Opening Statement of colonel north. This statement pursuant to the have been examined and determined that there are no in everton disclosures of classified material, further, that we are satisfied that the statement does not exceed the bounds set forth by the court in the grant of immunity, and although the statement obviously exceeds ten minutes, we will not insist upon a summary of it. And if the colonel wishes to present his Opening Statement at this time, he may do so in total. Lt. Col. North thank you, mr. Chairman. Chairman inouye please proceed. Lt. Col. North as you all know by now, my name is oliver north, Lieutenant Colonel, United States marine corps. My best friend is my wife betsy, to whom i have been married for 19 years, and with whom i have had four wonderful children, aged 18, 16, 11and 6. I came to the National S
This morning the panel will resume the questioning of Lieutenant Colonel north. Indicate that on , the select committees of the house and senate received the Opening Statement of colonel north. This statement pursuant to the have been examined and determined that there are no in everton disclosures of classified material, further, that we are satisfied that the statement does not exceed the bounds set forth by the court in the grant of immunity, and although the statement obviously exceeds ten minutes, we will not insist upon a summary of it. And if the colonel wishes to present his Opening Statement at this time, he may do so in total. Lt. Col. North thank you, mr. Chairman. Chairman inouye please proceed. Lt. Col. North as you all know by now, my name is oliver north, Lieutenant Colonel, United States marine corps. My best friend is my wife betsy, to whom i have been married for 19 years, and with whom i have had four wonderful children, aged 18, 16, 11and 6. I came to the National S
Watergate scandal. But president Richard Nixon wasnt one of them. The watergate grand jury considered president nixon to be a coconspirator but as a sitting president no federal prosecutor ever charged him with a crime. Thats why it was such a crucial touchstone moment in American History when nixon stepped down as president and his successor gerald ford immediately pardoned him. It was a remarkably controversial thing. The country was in uproar. People were mad at ford about it for years and decades thereafter. It was something specific and important about nixon and about what the criminal law means around president s. Because nixon leaving office as president , him resigning meant that as soon as he was no longer president he could have been charged. He could have been criminally indicted. He might have ended up in prison. It is the fact that gerald ford pardoned him as soon as he left office, that meant nixon never was charged. So we have never seen a president sent to the pokey. Th
President no federal prosecutor ever charged him with a crime. Thats why it was such a crucial touchstone moment in American History when nixon stepped down as president and his successor gerald ford immediately pardoned him. It was a remarkably controversial thing. The country was in uproar. People were mad at ford about it for years and decades thereafter. It was something specific and important about nixon and about what the criminal law means around president s. Because nixon leaving office as president , him resigning meant that as soon as he was no longer president he could have been charged. He could have been criminally indicted. He might have ended up in prison. It is the fact that gerald ford pardoned him as soon as he left office, that meant nixon never was charged. So we have never seen a president sent to the pokey. The iran contra scandal in the 1980s where there were a ton of criminal indictments. 14 Reagan Administration officials were criminally charged in the scandal
Coast to watch. The biggest crowd since the last Space Shuttle flight. And then once this thing was 37 miles up, 60 kilometers up in the sky, two of the boosters rockets, the two on the side, they split off and started a control flight back to earth. It went up to 90 kilometers, 56 miles up and then the core booster, the Center Booster broke off, too. Now, the core booster was supposed to come down on a drone barge in the ocean. As it was coming down, we lost the feed of that one and we couldnt tell from the video whether the core booster, the central booster actually landed or not. You could on the broadcast, you could hear a voice at one point say we lost the center core. We thought that probably meant the core booster was lost. Elon musk later confirmed that the center core booster did not survive the landing on that drone ship. But remember, there were three of them. And those first two that broke off, side boosters that were supposed to come down not at sea but on land, boy, did t