The House Committee on the judiciary will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare recess at any time and we welcome, we welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on oversight for the department of justice. I apologize for getting the hearing late, as many of you know i was in a minor car accident on the way in this morning. Everyone is fine, except perhaps the car. But it did cause significant delay. I think the attorney general and the members for their patience and flexibility and we will now begin. Before we begin, i want to acknowledge and note that we are joined this morning by the distinguished majority leader, the gentleman from maia maryland, leader hoyer, who has long recognized the need for vigorous congressional oversight of the executive branch under both parties and we appreciate his presence today as we question the attorney general. Before we begin, i would like to remind members that we have an established email distribution list dedicated to circulating exhib
Devoted her decade in congress the issues of criminal justice and disparities in healthcare. Representative bass chairs the judiciary committees subcommittee on crime and was passed by House Speaker nancy pelosi and house judiciary chair jerry nadler with shepherding the George Floyd Justice in policing act through the legislative process. The act which passed the house in late june mans choke holds and noknock warrant, as well as lowering the legal barriers for bringing civil and criminal charges against police for misconduct. A Police Reform bill authored by republican senator tim scott of South Carolina has stalled in the senate after democrats template it did not do enough to Curb Police Abuses and lacked key components including an end to qualified immunity for police. Senator scott and representative bass have tried to negotiate a compromise. Its something representative bass can claim as a bit of the specialty. Prior to her election to congress in 2010, representative bass serve
Start that again. On july 22, you join the president as he announced they expansion of operation legend to combat crime in cotton kansas city with approximate 61 million in d. O. J. Grants paradigm confused however as to the purpose of logic operation legend at this time for december of last year you announce the department would divert over 70 million in grant of u. S. Cities under initiative called operation pursuit correct . Select thats correct. Somatic operation pursuit targeted a familiar list of cities likear albuquerque, kansas city. Ue correct . So at the same july 22 press conference, you initially claimed that over 200 arrests had been made under operation legend, correct . So correct. But you misspoke. So correct. So therr u. S. Attorneys office later confirmed only a single arrests had been made under operation legend, correct . So i dont know. And the 199 other arrests were made under relentless pursuit or other programs. That was correct. I do think you can be forgiven f
Will get worse before it gets better, which may be true, but its still a weird campaign promise. When asked about former associate of Jeffrey Epstein and accused sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell at his press conference yesterday, President Trump said, quote, i wish her well. And then somewhere an assassin said, thats the code, and started screwing together a plastic rifle. Thats right he was asked about accused sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and said he had met maxwell numerous times over the years and wished her well oh, no, thats going to become a trump rally chant, isnt it . Wish her well wish her well former Attorney Michael Cohen has written a tellall book about President Trump. Seriously . Harry potter wasnt written about this much. What else is there to know oh, wow oh, it says hes a touch racist. What page oh, all of them. The Democratic Party recently drafted its 2020 platform, which is 80 pages long and was drafted by a 15person panel, as opposed to the republican platform
For those who dont comply and has called for noelle bellow reports now one supervisor believes the ordinance will help get his county back on track. I think if we do this and were aggressive more aggressive. In terms following this i think we can get off the watch list and then its up to the governor to lift the restrictions, no mask in San Mateo County could mean youll have to pay up. Supervisor david can up introduced the new mask ordinance tuesday, calling it a common sense solution for spine is a 100. A second finds 200. 3rd vibe is 500 of the ordinance also implements new fines for businesses who dont comply starting at 250 all the way up to 3,000 the reason were doing this is to save lives. No different then when a police officer. Science someone for a seat belt we have seen an increase in regards to people or 14 others not wearing mask the San Mateo County Sheriffs Office says theyll focus on education first. But the mandate gives them another tool to encourage people to follow