Rosenstein testified on capitol hill wednesday about special counsel Robert Muellers investigation of russias influence in the 2016 u. S. Elections. During the hearing, several members of the committee asked questions about alleged bias on the part of agents involved in this and a previous fbi investigation into Hillary Clintons handling of a private email server. From the house Judicial Committee, this is about four hours. Good morning. The Judicial Committee will come to order. Without objection the chairs authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on oversight hearing with Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein. Ill begin by risiecognizing myf for an opening statement. Thank you, deputy general attorney general rosenstein for appearing for the first time. There is much to discuss today and we look forward to your testimony and answers to your questions. As chairman of the committee with primary oversight of the departmen
Closing there is achilles kids. This is great organization. We wanted to highlight that for you. Gerri nice story. David first to our top stories. President donald trump, is back to work at the white house with a very full plate for the new year. The clock is ticking, to make progress with congress before they shift their focus to midterm elections. A look what the president focusing on coming up. Great courage behind the protesters. U. N. Ambassador, nikki haley and president praising those risking their lives and some losing their lives to rise up against tyranny in iran. More on the deadly up rising in iran to come. Former u. N. Ambassador john bolton on what action must be taken to support the protesters. The deep freeze is hitting big portions of the country including the south, texas and florida, experiencing temperatures 10 to 30 degrees below average. What will it do to the southern crops . Very latest details from the Weather Center and how long this will last. Gerri a lot goi
He is not embarrassed about it and angry about the label thats associated with it and he said, these were federal tax dollars that came from my constituency and we decided to get how to spend them. Now, in my district, thats close to 400 and we have to sort that out. I will end with this, mr. Chairman, i dont like the translation, those folks ought to be in jail, if they are doing something they are proud, they ought to be on tv. We talk about spending as itas exploded inhe modern age. What has exploded is the ability to help hold members of congress and administrations accountable. Theres not a member in the room who has seen pork barrel because it didnt originate in 1990s or 1970s or 1950s. We have had the challenge since 19th century and the earliest days of the institution. I would like to believe that with your leadership where we have been challenged but i but to mr. Sullivans point of low e Approval Ratings, i dont want the suggestion to be made that folks, that anyone wants to
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Youve been or where youve come from, this is your time. If you work hard, believe in yourself, believe in america than you can dream anything, you can be anything and to gather we can achieve absolutely anything. Tranter the president laid out an aggressive agenda for a second year in office focusing on immigration, trade on the war on terror. Highlights from the speech this morning. Markets after a huge selloff on wall street yesterday. The Dow Jones Industrial average finishing at its close down 362 points yesterday. One occurred , the worst decline since may. The nasdaq down 64 points lower yesterday. The dow s p futures pointing to a bit of a rebound of sorts. Dow industrials to be open and 84 points. Nasdaq also higher by a quarter of a percent. Looking at markets higher across the board. Europe this morning mixed performance. The cac in paris is at the quarter of a percent in the dax and german at the quarter of a percent. Mixed performance as you see the markets for large they l