He was compelled to appear by a lawful congressional subpoena. Just within the last few days, of course, the District Court has ruled that the impeachment inquiry is perfectly valid. Witnesses like dr. Kupperman need to do their duty and show up. I want to compliment the nine other witnesses who met similar opposition from the white house who were instructed by the white house not to appear but honored their lawful obligations and came forward. Did their lawful duty. We greatly appreciate the courage that they have shown. And that other witnesses will show who are scheduled to appear. The lawsuit that dr. Kupperman filed in District Court has no basis in law. A private citizen cannot sue the congress to try to avoid coming in when they are served with a lawful subpoena. We expect the court will make short shrift of that argument but nonetheless we move forward. Dr. Kupperman had testimony we believe would corroborate the allegations of miss conduct that other witnesses have made. But w
I like to welcome everybody to russia and eurasia seminar. We do it every two weeks. As you know, and today we, given the speaker we have and the topic hes going to deal with, we had the pleasure of welcoming cspan here, which is broadcasting this event, as far as i can tell, live on cspan two. Im charles gati. I organized the similars. I say very little because i want the speaker to have as much time as possible. Just to give you a little background, he comes from massachusetts. He went, studied soviet studies at harvard. Before that got his ba also in soviet studies and Political Science from tufts university, at harvard he studied with legendary adam alone, and that tufts with old friend of mine. He laughed washington after some 24 or 25 years, and now hes a professor at, in florida, at the program for human rights and diplomacy at Florida International university and moved, is shrouded in mystery because few people do that perhaps it will tell us, and also declassified information
The District Court has ruled that the impeachment inquiry is perfectly valid. Witnesses like dr. Kupperman need to show up. I want to compliment the nine other witnesses who met similar opposition from the white house who were instructed by the white house not to appear but honored their lawful obligations and came forward. Did their duty. We greatly appreciate the courage they have shown and other witnesses will show who are scheduled to appear. The lawsuit that dr. Kupperman filed in District Court has no basis in law. A private citizen cannot sue the congress to avoid coming in when they are served with a subpoena. We expect the court will make that argument but nonetheless we move forward. Dr. Kupperman had testimony we believe would corroborate in this conduct that other witnesses made. We move forward and well continue as we informed dr. Kuppermans counsel his failure to appear it may warrant contempt proceeding against him. In terms of where we are, we have had a full schedule u
Mr. Schiff good morning. Today, dr. Kupperman was scheduled to testify as part of the house impeachment inquiry for a previously scheduled deposition and he was a noshow. This is deeply regrettable. He was compelled to appear by a lawful congressional subpoena. Just within the last few days, of course, the District Court has ruled that the impeachment inquiry is perfectly valid. Witnesses like dr. Kupperman need to do their duty and show up. I want to compliment the nine other witnesses who met similar opposition from the white house who were instructed by the white house not to appear but honored their lawful obligations and came forward. Did their lawful duty. We greatly appreciate the courage that they have shown. And that other witnesses will show who are scheduled to appear. The lawsuit that dr. Kupperman filed in District Court has no basis in law. A private citizen cannot sue the congress to try to avoid coming in when they are served with a lawful subpoena. We expect the court
Mr. Schiff good morning, today dr. Kupperman was scheduled to testify as part of the house impeachment inquiry for a previously scheduled deposition and he was a noshow. This is deeply regrettable. He was compelled to appear by a lawful congressional subpoena. Just within the last few days, of course, the District Court has ruled that the impeachment inquiry is perfectly valid. Witnesses like dr. Kupperman need to do their duty and show up. I want to compliment the nine other witnesses who met similar opposition from the white house who were instructed by the white house not to appear but honored their lawful obligations and came forward. Did their lawful duty. We greatly appreciate the courage that they have shown. And that other witnesses will show who are scheduled to appear. The lawsuit that dr. Kupperman filed in District Court has no basis in law. A private citizen cannot sue the congress to try to avoid coming in when they are served with a lawful subpoena. We expect the court w