A year the United States has seen to it that deadliest white supremacist attacks in its recent history were born far out from the pentagon in october of 2018 a gunman murdered 11 jewish worshipers at the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh pennsylvania. Talking about. Then in august 22 people were shot dead in an attempt to kill as many latinos as possible in El Paso Texas. Just 9 months apart these attacks were connected to the ideology of White Supremacy and only read gradually and i think we all come to realize how extensive this underground network is of people who have bought into this hateful belief system. Those things are being nurtured by our president in his language and actually stoked against license to people like the shooter to do violence against communities. To pittsburgh suspect was critical of donald trump and theyll pass so shooter distance himself from the president in his manifesto. But both men frame their actions as responses to crises real or imagined that the
You cover that with the chairman and then of course we have the press conference of october 17 ed Mick Mulvaney let the cat fully out of the bag and revealed President Trump talk to him the corruption related to the dnc server a and admitted tt is why be held at the money, any other explanation for the hold . In my remaining 30 seconds just so people understand what i refer to, in 1970 Richard Nixon decided, i dont know a general skepticism of foreign aid but he decided to hold a congressionally mandated aid. As a result, Congress Went to work and passed the control act of 1974. Which prohibits the president from withholding congressionally appropriated funds without the approval of congress for any reason. Is that correct . I am not a lawyer, but that is my understanding of the provision. I will go with the approximate. Thank you very much i yield back my balance back mr. Conway. Thank you, mr. Chairman. My colleague failed to put certain issues on certification. The certification was
Know. There was a move to gather them and i understood generally directly and informally that they have been gathered thats the extent of my knowledge is not my area of responsibility yes but did they pass them on to you or did they pass them on to. The administration and somehow the only documents i receive sir were those within the parameters i described what i requested which was those given were the documents that either i produced or that were sent to me relevant to the matters were discussing today thank you all back to the chairman. Its mystifying thank you to both of our witnesses for your Service Today ms cooper i want to start with you you spoke eloquently of the threat of russia when it illegally and next crimea how thats a threat not only to ukraine but its also a threat to europe in the United States a National Security challenge and i said on the House Armed Services committee we know that the most important support for ukraine in terms of lethal defensive aid is in the f
Watch prime time reairs on cspan or stream any time on demand pot cspan. Org impeachme nt. The House Intelligence Committee just concluded its fifth open hearing of the impeachment inquiry against President Trump. Lawmakers heard testimony from Deputy Assistant secretary of defense for russian, ukrainian, and eurasian affairs, laura cooper. And under secretary of state for Political Affairs david hale. We will show you that hearing now in its entirety. [silence] [inaudible background conversations] [silence] the committee will come to order. Good afternoon everyone. This is the sixth in a series of public hearings the committee will be holding as part of the house of representatives impeachment inquiry. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. There was a quorum present. We will proceed today in the same fashion as her other hearings i will make an Opening Statement that the Ranking Member mr. Nunez will have an opportunity to make a sta
Witnesses up are 2 veteran diplomats acting u. S. Ambassador to ukraine William Taylor and Deputy Assistant secretary of state george cant a tailor has said in closed door testimony he had what he calls a clear understanding the trump wanted to pressure ukraine into investigating his political rival joe biden in exchange for continuing military aid to ukraine cant testify the trumps lawyer Rudy Giuliani pushed for the removal of the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine marie avantage who will testify on friday the president denies any wrongdoing and says the inquiry is in his words the greatest witch hunt in american history. Kimberly how kate is at the white house and castro is on capitol hill for us where that hearing is of course taking place well be talking to both of them in just a few minutes but 1st patty cohan begins our coverage. From a most the 1st day of his presidency there have been calls for Donald Trumps impeachment. But for the 1st 2 years with his party in control of con