Community, ways and Means Committee. This hourlong program was hosted by the u. S. Capital Historical Society in the Committee Hearing room. We have a very many distinguished guests with us this evening. Im going to ask some of them to stand all of them to stand and please hold your applause until the keynotes be has been introduced. And that will be the end of the group. Congressman paul ryan, chairman of the ways and Means Committee. Congressman Sander Martin levin Ranking Member of the committee. We will hear from both of these gentlemen later in the program. Former distinguished chairman bill archer. Bill thomas. Charlie wrangle. Dave camp. Former Ranking Member jim mccrary. And all of the sitting members of the committee. Please rise. [applause] we have two former Committee Members, Robert Canales and Nancy Johnson , [applause] barbara and nancy were two of the first congresswomen to serve on the ways and Means Committee. Then we had that wonderful lady, Cokie Roberts. [applause]
House and tried and found guilty by the senate. And he only needed to be found guilty on one article of impeachment to be thrown out of office. Richmond nixon, seeing the writing on the wall, he was a very gifted, in many ways, a gifted odds maker in political games. He saw the writing on the wall and he decides to resign before he is actually thrown out of office. He announcing resignation on august 8th one 1974 and leaves office at noon on august 9th, 1974, 40 years ago this august. Timothy who served as the director in your california, now the director of library at new york university. Thank you for your perspective on the events of 40 years ago. And up next, more from the debate before the House Judiciary Committee on july 29th, 1974, including the vote on article ii, the abuse of power against Richard Nixon on cspan 3, american tv. The gentleman from california. Recognized for five minutes. I would like to speak about article ii which i suggest is an expression of our deep devoti
Respond in kind. Tit for tat, trade war. Sell off of stocks. Where is all of this going and what about the timing . John roberts at the white house. John . I didnt think this was going to come down today. No, well get to that in just a second. Lets look at the impact. The dow is down further than it is now. Earlier today, down well over 500 points. We started hearing from americas allies. All the talk is this is aimed at china. Theres other big steel producers that sell to the United States, germany, the u. K. , canada. Canada said any tariffs said would be unacceptable. I got a statement from britain that said were particularly concerned by any measures that would impact the u. K. Steel and aluminum industries. Rob portman said he was concerned that the president came out with the notion of tariffs before any particulars were decide. Were any products or Country Baseball exempted. I put that to Sarah Sanders this afternoon. Was he concerned about the effects of his announcement . The
Thats quite a sizeable coven. And Robert Mueller will divulging more in a court filing. Prosecutors are expected to describe how flynn has helped the russia investigation since agreeing to cooperate with the probe a year ago. Flynn, of course, was a key Trump Campaign aide and a former National Security adviser inside the white house when he was charged. The special counsel described how flynn had lied about passing messages between members of the Trump Campaign and the Russian Ambassador to the United States. It was the flynn investigation, you might remember, that prompted President Trump to say to then fbi director james comey, quote, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go, according to comey. President trump denies saying that, but the alleged request and subsequent firing of comey have been key parts of muellers investigation to whether President Trump obstructed justice. Now, one of the biggest mysteries in all of this is why . Why did flynn lie
Theres about a size 16 shoe going to drop here, and that shoe is not going to be related to lying or just to financial irregularities which weve seen in the past. I think theyre centering in on the investigation which is what flynn and others are saying about cooperation with russia. Well, phil mudd is not alone. Last night on the Program Moments after the memo hit, cnn chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said this about a statement, in it, stating, im quoting now, senior government leaders should be held to the highest standards. I dont think that is just filler material. I think that is a statement of how mueller is going to approach the remainder of his investigation as he starts thinking about the people in the white house. And the disgraced National Security adviser has apparently given the mueller team plenty to work with, sitting down 19 times with prosecutors, helping in three ongoing investigations. And right there, you might be saying, three . Theres possible collusion, theres