The Senate Judiciary hearing is one hour 45 minutes. Good morning. We will wait a minute to start but i want to complement for bringing this up to me we will learn a lot today about the social media front. And what we can do to help them better inform parents. So hes on his way i will give an opening statement. That we havent been in a while and after a visit to the border it will give a better idea what we can do legislatively to provide those on the front lines of the chaotic situation on the border and we have a Bipartisan Group and trying to find a solution and i know the folks in texas are struggling mightily. Thank you very much. I will tell you what we will go ahead and get started. Please raise your right hand. Is a testimony the truth the whole truth so help you god . Okay. Welcome mister stone. On the 13th judicial circuit we are proud of your work welcome to washington. Thank you for having me mister chairman. I understand Ranking Member feinstein will not be here but i want
Route 55 in new jersey is shut down northbound in harrison county. We are told police are detouring traffic off of route 55 northbound at route 322. Switching gears, lets get right over to krystal klei. She is in the nbc 10 first alert weather center. We are talking about another warm weekend day. Give us the details. Thats right, katy, we are starting with temperatures currently on the board and another not terribly cold start to our morning. Temperatures are mostly in the 40s and some low 50s. 52, philadelphia. Millville, 47. Atlantic city, the same. Look how much warmer up against the water line at the marina. It is almost 60 degrees. 43, allentown and low 50s over philadelphia. We have low 50s, 40s to start. On radar and satellite, fairly clear. Not perfectly clear like yesterday. Today, scattered clouds that roll across our entire region, giving us more of the mostly sunny to partly cloudy forecast. Still enough sunshine to really enjoy yourself. Temperatures on the climb, right b
For the russian government did not happen, at least to my knowledge, and not with me. We now know, of course, that neither of these statements is true. Shortly after the attorney general made the first comment, Washington Post reported that he met with the Russian Ambassador at least twice during the campaign. In the past month weve also learned that the attorney general must have been very much aware of a continuing exchange of information between the Trump Campaign and the russian government. And charging documents unsealed last month, George Papadopoulos, a foreignpolicy advisor to the Trump Campaign, admits to Extensive Communications with russian contacts. At a march 31, 2016, meeting of the campaigns National Security advisory committee, attended by candidate trump, and chaired by senator sessions, mr. Papadopoulos stated in some and in substance that he had connections that could help arrange a meeting between then candidate trump and president putin. It does not matter and has
Just to set the scene, this is normally an oversight hearing. It is a routine hearing. What do they normally talk about and how will this be different . Normally, in an oversight hearing like this, you have a lot of questions about the routine business of the Justice Department. In this case, it would be antitrust questions, questions about civil rights, questions about criminal prosecutions. Democrats are going in with a lot of questions about Jeff Sessions in particular. Some of the events in the campaign. Some things that have come up as part of Robert Muellers investigation into broader russian mesylate medling. Publicans have developed their own set of questions. Some around the conduct of the now fired fbi director, james comey, as well as questions about a deal from several years ago involving a purchase of a uranium company. Sort of a tangled tale. Hits it jumps around and different things, but there will be some lines of questioning i think will keep recurring through the whol
Leading the department of justice, an agency that by its very nature is prone to controversy because of the publics varied opinions on what it seeks to what it means to seek and obtain justice. However, you clearly understand that the department you lead must have the confidence of the American People even when your decisions are not always well received. Your first year leading the department of justice has not been without difficulty which is expected at the outset of a new administration. While much has been done to correct the improper Political Engagement by the department of justice under the obama administration, more work must be done to insure the department is operating to impartially administer justice. Our last doj oversight hearing was beyond disappointing. Attorney general Loretta Lynch gave the least full many and least fulsome and least transparent testimony that i can recall in my time in congress. It was plainly a disservice to the American People. Ms. Lynch failed to