Years. The u. S. Has been without a defense secretary all year since the departure of former defense chief jim mattis in december. This is live coverage on cspan 3. Our meeting will come to order consistent with our policy to start on time. We will be doing that. Good morning. Today were considering the nomination of dr. Mark espy to be secretary of defense. We thank you all for being here today. We anticipate during your opening remarks, dr. Espy, that you will introduce any members of your family who are here and other support groups. It is standard we do have the eight required questions you will have to respond to audibly so we can get that in the record. Have you adhered to ethical regarding conflicts of interest. Yes, sir. Have you taken any actions which would prepare to presume the outcome of the confirmation process . No, sir. Exercising legislative and oversight responsibility makes it important that this committee, its subcommittees and other appropriate committees of congre
January. Mr. Esper, currently Army Secretary, was asked about u. S. Policy toward iran, cybersecurity, and Nuclear Deterrence, among other topics. This is just over 2. 5 hours. Requirede the 8 questions you will have to respond to audibly so we can get that in the record. If you would hear to the regulations of interest . Yes sir. Have you taken any actions that would appear to presume the outcome of the confirmation process . No, sir. Exercising your responsibility makes it important that this committee, subcommittees, and other appropriate committees if congress received testimony briefings, reports, recordings, records, and other information from the executive branch on a timely basis. Do you agree, it is confirmed, to testify before this committee . Yes, sir. Do you agree to provide records, documents, Electronic Communications in a timely matter when requested by this committee, subcommittees, or other appropriate committees of congress, and to results with the request or basis of
calls institutional rot and conservative bias as well. the f.b.i. recently revoked two of the witnesses security clearances. the bureau refact clearances. democrats expected to pounce. last hour we heard this in a moment. dana: all this after the durham report found the f.b.i. was biased against president trump. jordan says it s part of a larger problem. politics is driving the agenda in far too many federal agencies. read the durham report from a couple of days ago where they outline where you had the f.b.i. and the justice department start an investigation with no predicate. if you are a parent attending a school board meeting, a pro-lifeer praying at a clinic or a catholic simply going to mass you are a target of the government. target of the f.b.i. if you re one of these folks willing to come forward and talk about what s going on out there, you get attacked. they will try to crush you. bill: that was a preview. we heard it an hour ago. david spunt at the justice
are tense again. thank you so much for joining us this morning. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early on this thursday morning. morning joe starts right now. a self-loathing has swept our country. joe and kamala even say america is racist. this is not about identity politics. i don t believe in that, and i don t believe in glass ceilings either. strong and proud, not weak and woke. that s the america i see. [ applause ] the only challenger so far to donald trump in the 2024 presidential race kicks off her campaign. during that speech, nikki haley took a dig at her former boss and president joe biden. we ll play for you those comments. also today, we ll get our first look at the pieces of the grand jury investigating the president s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in georgia. plus, mike pence wants all the credit for doing the right thing on january 6th but doesn t want to talk about it under oath. we ll show you what he had to say abou
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