Current and former officials testify about the actions of attorney general barr, and decisions involving the roger stone case, and other doj investigations. This is just over four hours. Chairman, congratulations. Thank you. [indistinct conversations] the committee will come to order. The chairs authorized to declare recess at any time. We welcome everyone to the hearing, oversight of the department of justice. Political interference and threats. Before we begin, i want to remind members we have established a distribution list dedicated to circulating written materials members might want to offer as part of the hearing. If you want to submit materials, send them to the email address previously distributed to your offices and we will circulate them to members and staff as quickly as possible. I want to remind all members the nodance of the office says facetoface is required. Required here is to follow guidance. This is for the health and safety of our staff and loved ones we will return
Order. The chairs authorized to declare recess at any time. We welcome everyone to the hearing, oversight of the department of justice. Political interference and threats. Before we begin, i want to remind members we have established a distribution list dedicated to circulating written materials members might want to offer as part of the hearing. If you want to submit materials, send them to the email address previously distributed to your offices and we will circulate them to members and staff as quickly as possible. I want to remind all members the nodance of the office says facetoface is required. Required here is to follow guidance. This is for the health and safety of our staff and loved ones we will return to at the end of the day. I expect all members to wear a mask, except when you are speaking. I but recognize myself for an opening statement. Mr. Chairman, the point of last friday,er william barr announced that Geoffrey Berman was stepping down. This was, of course, untrue. He
Breaking news . Unmasking, revealing identity without a constitutional warrant. Your reaction to this breaking news. My reaction is we knew that something was not right through this entire process. We knew that this was an act that had made its way all the way to the white house and into the oval office and now we see from the list that, yes, indeed, obamas inner circle, including his chief of staff in the white house, had been making the request for the unmasking. Liz it is hard to see any scenario that obama and biden did not know what was going on with Michael Flynn. Do your point, yeah, the chief of staff is on the list, so is samantha power. Aside from the household names on the list, why is it that lower level staffers were asking for access to Michael Flynns conversation, like an Energy Department executive brief, u. S. Political advisor to nato, lowerlevel treasury officials, to just name a few. It just feels like it is out of control. Unconstitutional. You know, basically eave
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Underbelly really of the corrupt part i call them the corrupt cabal, strzok, mccain, comey, page all better than what to take and say we are going to try to find a way to stop this man, and when we see this happening they dont just say and from their own political views they actually say what they took step to do that within the confines of their job, look, carter page, and what were dealing with highs are so important because you never get carter page you never get the russian investigation. And that was three years of a witch hunt that started. Absolutely, he is right about carter page. You know, i agree with you, i want to remind people of how this all began, it is exactly what the congressman is pointing to. I can tell you about three and a half years ago, nearly four years ago, when i first started reporting on, i would call it the russia hoax, but back then we did not know. Back then, even when john solomon and i began reporting on this, what we were looking at was in discrepanci