the order would be we go back and forth, and apparently, you can have two republicans speak and one democrat. is that what the chairman is doing? absolutely. after i get done, and i m not giving an opening statement, i m explaining as the chairman ought to explain, the work of the committee to people that don t seem to understand it. i ll call on senator hatch when i m done, and then i m going to call on you, senator leahy. when i learned of ms. ramirez s allegations, i acted immediately to investigate them, unlike our democratic colleagues, some of who sat on her story and apparently conducted their own private investigation rather than share it with the chairman. i first learned of her allegations when they became public in the article new yorker published late sunday evening, september 23rd. my staff immediately contacted her counsel asking when she was available for an interview with committee investigators. the next afternoon, monday,
and never again get involved in it, because he said, i wouldn t care about anything but our country, anything. now whatever young of the idea of sons and daughters taking the place of a true blind trust, even though he s only the president-elect, not the president yet, his actions are already raising questions. he met last week with three indian business partners, also with daughter ivanka, who will be running his company, sat on in his meeting with a japanese prime minister, the washington post reports that foreign diplomats have begun staying at his new hotel in washington. by all appearances, the candidate who ran against business as usual appears so far, at least, to be conducting his own business as usual. just a few minutes ago, trump tweeted about it. quote, prior to the election, it was well known that i have interest in properties all over the world. only the crooked media makes this a big deal. and when asked about it earlier today, trump s senior adviser, kellyanne conway
and they re fillnthy. if i was a terrorist, i would think the job was done. when i was in school, there was a boy picking on a girl i liked. i sat on him. if i ever see a terrorist in an amtrak, 6 7 , you re getting sat on. i would hide behind him. he s tall. has the thing. this case of these heros, they were trained for things like this. to see something say something or do something only works if you re prepared to do so. i think we need to focus on more than scanners before you get on a train. the surveillance. this terrorist was known by authorities in three different countries and slipped through cracks. we need to look at why and how to keep tabs on people. slipping through cracks, the employee cat. i want to ask you, how can can any kind of company do anything?
next, we talk about mr. rogers who really embodies the innocence of the decade. an icon who started in the 60s. we re very honored that the heinz history center in pittsburgh donated his clothing to this exhibit and it speaks of a calmness, the growth of television, and the involvement of children. and juxtapose that calmness to the volatility that was happening in reality. the social change happening all around everyone in this country. the two parts of this exhibit i want to make sure we get to before we get back to you guys, the stools with the civil rights movement and the bench in the jail martin luther king jr. sat on. these are important artifacts that symbolize the civil rights movement of the 1960s. the four stools we see here come from the greensboro historical museum. they were at the lunch counter, the woolworths lunch counter
police. here is boston police commissioner ed davis. from the time of the attack on monday afternoon until the shootout early friday morning, did the f.b.i. bring to your attention at all the fact that the older brother had been under investigation by the f.b.i.? no, we didn t start to look at that until after the shootout. so this is 3 1/2 days after and the f.b.i. still did not make you aware of it? that s correct. the idea that the feds have this information and it s not shared with the state and locals defies why we created the department of homeland security in the first place. it s very troubling to me. steve: it s very troubling to awful us. we re spending billions of dollars on intel and they re supposed to share this stuff and they didn t. so the blame game was all out for everybody to see yesterday where boston cops said yeah the f.b.i. had information they sat