Generations yet unborn, we have got to guard this moment. This is our watch. And again, i am soso very proud of the Judiciary Committee, i am so very, very proud of the Intelligence Committee because they went in and tried to pull out the facts so that they could paint the picture so that america could see it. And hopefully, they will not be ladies like the lady at amashs town hall meeting who said they didnt know that there was something wrong that trump did with regard in this Mueller Report. And so again, we, the speaker is absolutely right. She told us a little bit earlier that she wants to gather all the information and make sure that we have everything we need to paint that picture. Now, what the American People do with it, thats another thing. But we will not stand by and
fail to give them, let them see the total picture. I too thank mr. Mueller for coming forward for his service to our country. Last but not least, it is so interesting that when mueller would make a decision tha
beautiful statement on the ability of congress to have oversight. that s right. and just a remarkable decision and now of course, the administration is appealing it. but i thank you, too, mr. cummings, for your great leadership and where we re going next because as you know, the mueller investigation could not do the president s personal or business connections. and one of those connections could be to the russians. and that s what we want to find out. so as we go to questions, i just want to say that i think, i do believe that what we saw today was a very strong manifestation in fact, some would even say indictment of this administration s cone of silence in their cover-up. this is about our, the oath we take to protect and defend the constitution, but some of the
thing. that he was not exonerated and in fact, in several cases, based on the questions he got, he stretched out a little bit and suggested i have the evidence here but he didn t say an that. it was very interesting at one point he was asked he when he was before the intelligence committee show what are you suggesting would be the alternatives. and he suggested the word impeach which clarified in a way his report didn t that he thought the next logical accept store the congress was to impeach. that s the issue i think. joyce, on the substance today is also a test for america and the body politic, how do we deal with all the information coming at us, with it being delayed. i don t think there s any doubt some of this would have been useful earlier and for that, i m going to play you another example. for the months that donald trump was saying witch hunt, bob mueller could have rebutted that earlier as i mentioned. other prosecutors have rebutted in realtime. it took a subpoena because
attempted to do and that s what the trump campaign welcomed them in doing. a president who engages in crimes repeated crimes to cover up these unpatriotic and dictatorial actions. and this cannot go on. and it s up to congress to safeguard the constitution and we will do it. as i mentioned today during our hearing, i think the story of the 2016 election is really a story of disloyalty to country about greed and about lies. and if there s anything that i think symbolizes those three strands of the 2016 election, it was moscow trump tower. it was this massive real estate project that the president was trying to consummate while he was running for president and concealing it from the country. this i think demonstrated disloyalty to the country by
my position has always been that whatever decision we made in that regard would have to be done with our strongest possible hand. we still have some outstanding matters in the courts. it s about the congress, the constitution and the courts. and are fighting the president in in the courts. is this madam speaker excuse me. could i just some of your members told us over the course of today they were expecting imminent action of some kinded. i don t know why they did. what are the. i don t know why they thought that. they came to me and i said i don t know what. again, the lawsuits as we have a number of lawsuits. you want to speak to that, jerry? the very next step, i m not going to talk longer range. either tomorrow or friday is we re going into court to enforce, to ask for the grand jury material. and to enforce the subpoena