President was very positive about that well that theyre having their there and virtue is one thing praising them for it is another when they have serious repression going on right now in china whether its undermining the culture language and religion of tibet whether its seeing course theyre placing in education camps 12. 00 or 3 depending on the cause but at least one 1000000. 00 whether its the suppression of democracy and hong kong and just a violation of human rights throughout china its the same fight weve been having for years for what does it profit a man or a country if he gains the whole world and suffers the loss of his soul but we seem to be able to ignore these the. The shout out from our soul on respecting the dignity and worth of every person so i know many of you are here some of your regulars many of you are not and i said mr schiff maybe you should come to all of our meetings we might get some coverage for what were trying to do for the American People but we are very proud of the work of our chairman of the Intelligence Committee are we take this to be a very sad time for the American People for our country and peaching a president or having the investigation to feature president is not an easy thing to be so joyful about i dont know the name but its joyful but it is a sad time and as youve heard me say over and over again in the dark days of the revolution thomas paine said the times have found us we think the times that found us now not that we place ourselves in the category of greatness of our founders but we do place ourselves in a time of urgency on the threat to the constitution a system of checks and balances that is being made it is they fought for independence they declared independence they fought and won they established a democracy thank god they made the constitution amendable so we could always ever be expanding freedom and we see the actions of this president being an assault on the constitution. Once we had his even admission to that we had no choice but to go forward. Thank you madam speaker and thank you for leading. The entire house of representatives through this very fraught in time represented through this very fraught time in the history of the congress indeed the history of the country i also want to express my own condolence once again to the family of jamal khashoggi. Who bravely sought to advocate for Free Expression in saudi arabia and it cost him his life. We are deeply and his death and we are determined to bring about justice for those who were responsible for that heinous murder. Its also an appropriate time to recognize the danger facing journalists all over the world. In terms of the issues that weve been focused on this week i want to give you a brief update. Of what has transpired really just within the last week last thursday the Intelligence Committee held an open hearing with the acting director of national intelligence. The following day chairman angle issued a subpoena to the state department in close consultation with myself and chairman cummings. We are deeply concerned about secretary pump ayos effort now to. Potentially interfere with witnesses who whose testimony is needed before a Committee Many of whom are mentioned in the whistleblower complaint. And we want to make it abundantly clear that any effort by the secretary by the president or anyone else to interfere with the congresss ability to call before it relevant witnesses will be considered as evidence of obstruction of the lawful functions of congress and more than that will allow a an adverse inference to be drawn as to the underlying facts that if they are going to prevent witnesses from coming forward to testify on the allegations in the whistleblower complaint that will create an adverse inference that those allegations are in fact correct. On monday. I issued a subpoena to Rudy Giuliani again in consultation with chairman cummings and angle. We expect mr giuliani to comply with the Legal Process we are using he is obviously a key figure in all of this by his own admission as well as by the allegations in the whistleblower complaint today and just within the last hour and a half our chairman cummings. Noticed d a subpoena that will go out later. In that this week or next week after the notice period has expired that that committee intends to subpoena documents that the white house has been withholding from congress we are obviously coordinating very closely with chairman cummings on that on thursday and vaster volcker is scheduled to appear before a committee and on friday Inspector General the Inspector General of the i. C. Mr atkinson will appear before the committee and testify as well the last time that the Inspector General testified we did not have the complaint we now do and we certainly intend to ask the director about the efforts that were made to corroborate that complaint which we now know the Inspector General found both credible and urgent next week we have also scheduled a deposition or interview with the former u. S. Ambassador of out of itch to ukraine. And we are in discussion with other state department fitnesses to secure their depositions so weve been very busy as you can tell this week were going to be very busy again next week we are proceeding deliberately but at the same time we feel a real sense of urgency here that this work needs to get done and it needs to get done in a responsible period of time thank you for taking my moment beside him. Do we have any questions 1st on the war to meet the needs of the American People in terms of u. S. M. C. A. And. The. Its a i 3. On that subject. You were just listening to the u. S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who as you know launched the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump just about a week ago and standing right by her side was adams is the chairman of the house Intelligence Committee lets bring in. Just to sum up for us she had what we heard in the past 10 minutes or so. What was interesting the nancy pelosi was really trying to emphasize at this event not just just about the impeachment inquiry and thats what appeared to be trying to rebut an argument by donald trump has been making on twitter just of the last half an hour or so dont trump was it was tweeting hash tag do nothing damns all the do nothing democrats are focused on is impeaching the president for having a very good conversation with the ukrainian president i knew that many people were listening even have a transcript theyve been at the stuff from the day i got elected bad for the country nancy pelosi the democrats havent met the stance of impeachment she was quoting he was quoting someone but he said basically saying look all this impeachment nonsense is this is going nowhere driving the stock market youre for in case down because the democrats arent doing anything nancy pelosi theyre making an argument actually we are also focused on learning Prescription Drug costs the u. S. Mexico cound trade agreement infrastructure also interesting lee both nancy pelosi and adam schiff mentioning that this was the anniversary of the the murder of democracy the that the journalist who was murdered at least as far as the cia is concerned and various other sources by the by the saudis at the at the behest of the Saudi Crown Prince nancy pelosi that try doing the white house the presidency for schmoozing with people who perhaps orchestrated his murder out of sheer tribute to him so we had nancy pelosi this speech this is a regular Weekly Press Conference and you could see she was like well where are you where you were that you guys were usually clearly theres more interest because. The impeachment adam schiff the house Intelligence Committee just basically going through what we all know what what happened last week what happened this week the new bits from that. We know that the these threats committees in congress have already subpoenaed documents from the state department and from Donald Trumps personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani the new bit of information were getting is that the press congressional committees have of asked for weeks for documents from the white house itself regarding the conversations with the ukrainian president the white house you know the conversations that the whistleblower complaint is all about now if they dont get the documents by friday or perhaps early next week there will be subpoenas now for the white house and what the cult what congress is saying is if you dont cooperate with us 1st of all we will look at this as obstruction of congress which is a crime but secondly we would also make the inference that the reason youre not giving us the information we want is because because youre worried that the information you will give us will back up the whistle blows claim which was that inappropriate activity was happening within the white house the office of the presidency was being used inappropriately in order to impact potentially the 2020 election all right thank you for that update from washington. Now were hearing that the u. S. President ial candidate Bernie Sanders is in hospital and his Campaign Team saying the democratic senator was at a Campaign Event where he experienced chest pains doctors say hes received treatment for a blocked artery lets bring in mike hanna also joining us from washington to tell us what youre hearing about Bernie Sanders and his health. Well then hes on his Campaign Says all Campaign Activities have been suspended until further notice as they put it they say though that he is in very good spirits but obviously this is going to have a major impact on his campaign remembering that Bernie Sanders turned 78. 00 on the 8th of last month so clearly among voters that would be concerned about his advanced age there was one particular stage introducing Health Issues as well may certainly have a major impact on the race for the candid to see for president Bernie Sanders has been tailing in the polls behind joe biden fighting it out with Elizabeth Warren for 2nd and 3rd place but certainly this is going to have an impact on the campaign in the days and weeks to come he certainly was very active mike when it came to the campaigning he Just Announced a couple of days ago that he had raised 20 5300000. 00 in the 3rd quarter and thats the largest quarter for any democratic candidate this year. Yes it is indeed hes been very active on the campaign trail and certainly hes been very effective at raising money but this is been a problem among some democrats that alec explain why for example Bernie Sanders recently registered as an independent for the senate race in 2022 now that is to aid to Campaign Funding but its a very strange situation where youve got a man running as a democrat in a president ial campaign but registering as an independent for his next Senatorial Campaign not be depressing to be the same when he competed for the position with Hillary Clinton back in 2016 then he registered as an independent for the 21000 senate race while running as a democrat Hillary Clinton the qs didnt very strongly of dividing the party of running not in the interest of the United States but in the interests of dividing all roughing up the Democrat Party now certainly Bernie Sanders himself denies this and his followers deny this insisting that theres nothing more that he wants than to get rid of trump at this particular point and that the interests of the Democratic Party are high on his agenda but there is still that sense and Many Democrats to argue that Bernie Sanders is presence within the campaign does tend to disrupt rather than drive the agenda of the Democratic Party that debate is going to be in live and by the news of his ill health at present all right mike hanna thank you. Police in baghdad have used live rounds to break up crowds of protesters. Ok Security Forces appear to fire above the crowd in the latest rounds of demonstrations at least 2 people have been killed iraqs Prime Minister has promised an inquiry following clashes that mass rallies on tuesday that left at least 2 dead and 200 injured our correspondent joining us from baghdad what do you hearing about the latest situation in iran. Well what was happening is the protest was trying to get into taqueria square thats where the main protest took place on tuesday night on wednesday during the day the iraqi Security Forces had actually sealed the area off so the iraqi Security Forces have managed to stop the protesters getting into tacker square of course what thats meant is a protest of actually spread across baghdad in various different locations now this is the road to the airport which is just behind me Baghdad International airport there are clashes that there are clashes about half a kilometer away from me on the bridge going into various where those clashes are ongoing because of the way this has been set up through social media the call came on social media to get people to protest site sense of push into Tucker Square the Iraqi Government has actually severely restricted access to sites of displaced work such as twitter indeed ive had problems logging on to those websites as have all of my colleagues and a lot of my iraqi friends and this seems to be a deliberate move by the government to stop the message getting out but the message has got out now what were seeing is not only just in baghdad were hearing that in at least 5 other cities across iraq have been protests taking place in large numbers and this is also a very real concern for the Iraqi Government that big concern is that these protests could spread. Into a nationWide Movement and just get bigger and bigger all right thank you. A moment of silence has been held in istanbul on the 1st anniversary of the murder of Saudi Arabian journalists. Family friends and members of the United NationsInvestigation Team were at the ceremony in turkey so she was never seen again after going into the saudi consulate to collect documents to get married his fiance spoke of her pain over the past year after wards years in my life i stand here broken but. Proud to see you all here and you all i still seek justice i want to know whats happened so hes got the i want hes going to be released from jail i want those. Held accountable for day action. Lets make to around the lane hes the forbes chief content officer hes joining us from new york good to speak with you on the aljazeera news hour so a year later the world is still very much talking about. The belief is that whomever wanted to silence him simply has not succeeded what are your thoughts when youre on. Well weve done something weve tried to do something you know in part in his honor especially here with in the Year Anniversary several months ago we started something called the one Free Press Coalition where we have news outlets from around the world that are going to focus every month we have the 10 most urgent cases and we focus on. Press freedom cases where we can shine the light of the world media on 10 cases and make sure that people dont forget this month because shoji is the number one case and we want everyone to remember and so we have reuters a. P. Washington pose forbes time over 33 doesnt do that lets and were joined this this month by aljazeera as well which we appreciate every month were going to keep on reminding people that this case has still not been theres still no justice and when to keep on reminding people to bring 1000000000 people a collective audience of 1000000000 around the world to remember and to keep watch and what do you ultimately hoping to achieve with this ultimate justice. Well its protection its you know a lot of these journalists you know when he goes into the consulate into the embassy and then disappears in some ways hes alone and what were saying is whether its that case or whether its in prison journalists in me and whether its in colombia or mexico or bahrain wherever it is were going to keep on reminding and theyre not going to be forgotten and if we have our collective audience of all these outlets as over a 1000000000 people to the extent that every month we sit there remind people of all the cases and we bring in new cases and we focus the worlds attention we can offer some protection. In terms of journalists and bloggers member of the press who are just trying to do their job and are being intimidated and whether its somebody whos a prison whether in thi