Alert the day care staff. He recently called the white house an adult day care center. I didnt make any of this up. Kasie hunt joins us live now. So the president is heading to capitol hill in the next hour for what is supposed to be a, quote, unity lunch with gop senators focusing on the tax cut plan. How awkward might this get . Reporter i have to tell you, ali, ive been roaming the halls of capitol hill for some years now. I havent seen anything like this before where you have the powerful head of a very Important Committee at a time when not only do we have americans deployed overseas but are potentially face iing at th least the possibility of war with north korea and you have the president and head of that Committee Trading Insults back and forth on twitter and of course for the tv cameras. Those words that Senator Corker
Senator Corker gave voice to a lot of peoples expectations that this will be more of a photo op than anything for the president of the United States. Because i think theres not a lot of faith in the republican conference that the president understands the details of the bills that they are working on. And corker has said, hey, this is a project that the house and senate have been working on for many years. Its not simply something the president can parachute in and try to do. But at the same time, this is going to be an incredibly difficult dynamic now with what has gone on. Paul ryan the House Speaker was questioned about this earlier today. Take a look. Bobs going to vote for tennessee. Hes going to vote for america. Hes going to vote for tax reform because he knows its in the best interest of americans. So put this twitter dispute aside. All this stuff you see on a daily basis twitter this and twitter that. Forget about it. Lets focus on helping people, improving peoples lives and
doing what we need to do to accomplish that. Thats what were focused on. Reporter thats basically how paul ryan has responded to every flap of this nature between the president and members of congress, et cetera. At this point for corker, its gone too far. Hes gone farther by quite a bit in the feud. Well see if any republicans change their tunes today. I would be surprised. And i know you cover this topic in so many depth. Corker is a vote they need for the tax reform plan. If he decides hes not going with it, its in jeopardy. Theres potentially real consequences here. Corker saying he will still attend that lunch. Kasie hunt, thank you. As that tax plan is worked out in congress, the president claims cutting Corporate Taxes would give americans a 4,000 pay raise. But for facts sake, is that true . Heres my buddy stephanie rhule. President trump is making a big promise to americans. Thousands of dollars extra in their paychecks every year by
drastically slashing Corporate Tax rates. That comes from a new study published by the president s Council Economic advisers. Cutting tax rates from 35 to 20 will boost wages substantially depending on where you are on the income ladder, he says the boost will add anywhere between 4,000 to 9,000 bucks a year. But does his math add up . Economists on the right, its an article of faith that lower taxes on businesses and the wealthy reap benefits that trickle down to the rest of us. They argue the extra money the Companies Get to keep increases demand for workers and drives up wages. But history shows us that cutting Corporate Taxes does not guarantee higher wages. Back in the 80s during another antitax drive under president reagan, the Corporate Tax rate was slashed from 46 to 34 . But instead of boosting wages, they actually fell for five straight years by as much as
3,000 in todays metrics. Contrast that with tax increased in 2013. Didnt get in the way of growth. Premise also flies in the face of earlier a laundry list of economists call the report everything from ridiculous to fatally flawed. Secretary Lawrence Somers goes one step further calling the 4,000 figure, quote, absurd on the face of it. That is in part because Research Suggests companies are more likely to pass it to shareholders, not workers. But in the end, trumps plan is trickle down economics plain and simple. Which an overwhelming majority of economists think just doesnt work. Stephanie will be back tomorrow. But joining me now is republican senator john hogan of north dakota. Hes a member of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs committee. Hes a member of the Appropriations Committee and hes the former governor of north dakota. Senator, good to see you. Thank you for being with us. Hi, ali. How are you . Good. I want to talk a bunch of issues with you. I want to start with this twitter thing this morning. You going to this lunch with the president . Yes, i will. Looking forward to talking about tax relief at that lunch. Got it. What do you make of this thing going on between the president and Senator Corker . I would really like to see them get together and talk through it and see if they cant work it out. Look. We need everybody working together on the serious issues whether its tax relief, health care reform, Strong National defense, border security, law enforcement, strong support for law enforcement. You know, all these issues. Thats what americans are concerned about. And we need to Work Together to address them. Right. But it is its sort of problematic that the president keeps going after an elected senator. Well, im not going to get into the argument between them. Again, i think what they need to do is see if they cant sit down and work through it. Lets talk about taxes,
senator. What do you make of this plan . You just heard stephanie explain this strange part of it that the council of economic advisers said cutting Corporate Taxes is somehow going to result in individual families getting between 4,000 and 9,000 more. Thats got to be something your constituents are going to want to know about. Its hard for us to do the math to back that up. But the reality is were using very conservative assumptions. The idea is to target the middle class with the tax cut so they not only keep more of their earnings after tax but also so you stimulate economic growth. And what youre seeing already is with the regulatory relief weve provide d the growth in gp is 3. 1 . For one quarter. But its consistently been coming up over the last versus the past decade. And now when you combine that with tax relief, youre going to see Stronger Economic growth. I need to correct you there, senator. I think the longterm for 30 has been 2. 1 . Were at 2. 2 . Thats stuff that the president says thats not true. Since world war ii, the average rate of growth for our economy has been 3. 3 . Right. But we generally divide that up. We ended it in 1970 because we were busy rebuilding the world. We think of 1970 to now, its 2. 1 , sir. But thats the point. We want to get that growth rate up. We think that combining regulatory relief and tax relief will help increase that growth rate. Thats how you get wages and income higher. Between the war and 1970, we were building the u. S. Highway system, creating infrastructure. We build no infrastructure in the United States at all now. We were sort of shoring up the rest of the world. Whats the driver . Taxes never drives growth. Its got to be something that drives economic growth. But ali we want to add an infrastructure piece to the mix. So were talking about regulatory relief which we want to do more. Were talking about tax relief. And an infrastructure package. Were putting all three together. Theyre all designed to increase the rate of growth in our gdp and move wages and income higher. Thats what were working to do. Thats our agenda for america. All right. Lets talk about the situation in niger. Weve heard from some of your fellow senators. They both said, look, they dont want the Armed Services committee micromanaging the military. But theres some concern we didnt have an overarching view of the mission and Whats Going On. What did you know about this . Did you know we have these thousand troops in niger . And what are your concerns Going Forward . I knew we had special operatives there. I did not know we had a thousand troops. Thats why were asking questions. We want more information on what is going on. And we need to do that. Whats your take on Whats Going On in puerto rico right now . I know you voted for the 36. 5 billion in Emergency Relief for the hurricanes and the wildfires in the procedural vote last night. There were 60 no votes coming
from republicans. Whats the concern there . Why are republicans vote nothing on this . You know, im not sure. I think for the ones that voted no, they wanted offsets. But i dont speak for all of them, but i think that may have been the issue for some of them. We need to do more in puerto rico. No question about it. Now, were getting the aid there. Because its an island, its a problem getting it distributed. Obviously weve had real issues getting the power back in place. Youve got rural areas hard to get to. A lot more work needs to be done. Thank you for being with me spending time talking about these important issues. You bet. Senator john hoeven. Stand by, everybody. Were looking at the deadly attack in niger and why troops are there. Were digging into nigers resources up for grabs included oil, gold, and uranium. Heres what well watch coming up. 11 30 eastern, trump participants in an awards Minority Enterprise Development week. Well bring you more from that as soon as we have it. Callista gingrich will be swearing in as ambassador to the holy see. And senator hoeven and i think most of the republican senators will be at a lunch for republican policy. Stay with us. Youre watching velshi rhule on msnbc. These friends were on a trip when their windshield got chipped. So they scheduled at safelite. Com. They didnt have to change their plans or worry about a thing. Ill see you all in a little bit. And i fixed it right away with a strong repair they can trust. Plus, with most insurance a Safelite Repair is no cost to you. Customer really . tech being there whenever you need us thats another safelite advantage. Singers Safelite Repair, safelite replace. From godaddy in fact, 68 of people who have built their. Website using gocentral, did it in under an hour, and you can too. Build a better website in under an hour. With gocentral from godaddy. Were likely set up by terrorists. Three officials briefed on the matter said the theory is to look at the timeline. Lets look at it now. Militants were tipped off in advance about a meeting between the americans and leaders in a village sympathetic to isis. Villagers tried to delay the troops as they left. Once they departed, the militants attacked. The soldiers returned fire, then retreated, only to be ambushed again. About an hour into the fight, the americans called for help. A drone arrived within minutes and french jets arrived about an hour later. But it Wasnt Another 48 hours until sergeant la David Johnsons body was recovered more than a mile from the other victims. Joseph dunford talked about the need for answers and a big question that remains. We owe you more information. More importantly we owe the families of the fallen more information. Thats what the investigation is designed to identify. Did the Mission Change . That is one of the questions thats being asked. Its a fair question. But i cant tell you definitively the answer to that question. All right. Lets answer a different question. What is the u. S. s interest in niger in particular . Remember that there are about 1,000 u. S. Troops in niger. Most are working on a Drone Facility to provide surveillance for the continent with a small number of Special Forces units directly advising nigerian troops. With isis, al qaeda, and others establishing affiliates in africa, twhere are valuable resources the u. S. Would like to keep out of the hands of terror groups. Niger was producing 13,000 barrels of oil per day. This isnt all that much. It makes it the 86th largest producer in the world. But its important because, a, if you need money, 13,000 barrels of oil is still something. But heres the more important part. The China National petroleum corporation, cnpc, just awarded
two Operating Permits in niger. One in 2010 and then in 2013. They say they believe their network of oil wells could tap into a billion barrels under the surface increasing the output to between 60,000 and 80,000 barrels a day which would push the country toward the top 50 Oil Producers in the world. And its not just oil theyre looking at in niger. Its gold deposits discovered in the northeast portion of the country in recent years. That has sent miners scrambling. Gold is necessary for Consumer Electronics like cell phones as well. But by far the most valuable resource in niger is uranium. While the country only produces about 7. 5 of the worlds output, thats 7. 5 good enough to make it the fourth larger Uranium Producer on the planet. Theres a lot in west africa with one mine with the third
highest of all individual mines. In 2010 more than 114,000 tons of ore was mined in niger. This is enough to power seven Nuclear Reactors for a decade. This is a resource that china as it prepares to double its number of Nuclear Reactors would love to tap into. Joining me now is retired naval operator Malcolm Nance who has been following this closely. Right from the beginning while everybody else is scratching their heads wondering why were in niger, you knew there are two things going on in west africa. There are resources and isis and al qaeda affiliates. Youre right. I dont think thinking story is one about resources but resources might explain why there is such a great interest in the area for the Terrorist Groups themselves and wanting to collapse and some of these governments. And wanting to destabilize these very, very small regions that
have very poor people and who are muslims themselves. On the other hand, you do have big players in the International Mining and Oil Production renals. Niger has been known for uranium forever. In the 70s and 80s they were one of the biggest producers of uranium. On the other hand, now we have China National oil Company Coming in and being able to develop parts of that part of the sahara for oil. That makes it even more valuable to groups like isis and al qaeda because the central governments are not really central, they are very weak and could easily be overthrown and give them a resource like you saw in syria to be able to export money and terror. Malcolm, this is a complicated thing. For people who ro now asking a lot of questions about what was the mission and why were we there, some americans will say are we going to be all over the World Policing natural resources
so bad guys dont steal it. Back in the day there was colonialism. You went into areas because you wanted to use the resources yourself. Now its about keeping it out of the hands of other people. Thats a big mission for the u. S. Military. That mission has been in effect since world war ii. The entirety of the United States involvement has been to help major countries extract oil. We just dont see it as much anymore. Authority to go to the small regions where isis and al qaeda and fundamentalist groups could recruit and get more man power, operate in secret. Therefore all of these Special Forces missions in mali, chad, nigeria, cameroon, niger. These places are very important. Because as we say, when you squash down on isis main force, its like stepping on a ball of mercury. They break up and spread out. About the uranium, about the yellow cake in particular. Are we looking out . Is this a matter of keeping it out of the affiliates or a question of the chinese getting it and using it for their Nuclear Programs . Well, the china own it already. They have the license on the major field which by the way is about 200 kilometers, you know, about 160 miles northwest of our base in the u. S. Air force drone base. We put that there to get a centralized location to where we could surveil around algeria, mali, niger, chad, and libya so Terrorist Groups wouldnt be able to operate there with impunity. But china has its own National Interest there. They dont need armed forces. They are there to do purely economic exploitation of niger and niger gets a lot of money out of it. Its a role china is playing across africa. Malcolm, i talk to you a lot and theres never a time i talk to you and im not smarter at the end of it. Thank you, my friend. Malcolm nance. Stand by. Bill oreilly is raging against the Sexual Harassment allegations that hes facing. Well have those details next. We have physical proof that this is bull [ bleep ]. But [ bleep ]. Okay . So its on you if you want to destroy my children further. All right . Because its all crap. Everyone deserves attention, whether youve saved a lot or just a little. At pnc investments, we believe youre more than just a number. So we provide personal Financial Advice for every retirement investor. avo but you also have a higher risk of heart attack or stroke. Noninsulin victoza® lowers a1c,
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trusted sources are rare and precious commodities. Theyre out there but finding them on your own has never been harder. Its why at Thomson Reuters we provide you with the intelligence, technology, and Human Expertise you need to find trusted answers. The answer company. Thomson reuters. Welcome back to velshi rhule. Former fox Host Bill Oreilly is fighting back angry over the New York Times article that claims he paid 32 million to settle Sexual Harassment allegations in january. Nbc news has not verified the reported settlement. Oreilly says while he legally cannot reveal details, hes resolved, quote, three things during his 20 years at fox. Half the number of settles the New York Times reports. He says hes outraged his family is getting hurt. We have physical proof that this is bull [ bleep ]. Bull [ bleep ]. Okay . So its on you if you want to destroy my children further. All right . Because its all crap. The end game is lets link oreilly with Harvey Weinstein. Lets make him that. Thats what we want to do. All right . And so we take him out of The Market Place forever. Its frustrating for me but unless i want another seven or eight years of constant litigation that puts my children in a kill zone, i have to maintain my discipline. Am i mad at god . Yeah, im mad at him. I wish i had more protection. I wish this stuff didnt happen. I cant explain it to you. Yeah, im mad at him. Foxs Parent Company 21st Century Fox says they were aware oreilly settled with lisa wheel
but didnt know the terms when he was signed. They added clauses to the contract. Im going to continue this in just a second. Bob corker is walking out. I want to listen in to what hes got to say. Hang on. Where that typically happens. Sir, you said earlier that the president has debased the country. Can you explain more what you mean by that . So, look. I think the standing up in front of is the American People and stating untruths that Everybody Knows to be untrue, just the attempted bullying that he does, which everybody sees through. Just the dividing of our company, you know, the name calling. For young people to be watching not only here in our country but around the world, someone of this mentality or or president of the United States is
something i think that is debasing to our country. You would think he would aspire to be the president of the United States. And act like a president of the United States. You know, thats just not going to be the case apparently. And its up to others who serve in an elected capacity whether theyre governor or mayors to conduct themselves in a manner that is more becoming of a leader. But hes obviously, you know, not up to that. Ive had private meetings with him, played golf with him, had multiple occasions where the staff has asked me to please intervene. Getting ready to do something that was off the tracks. Look, ive seen no evolution in an upward way. As a matter of fact, i would say it appears to me that its
almost devolving. But look. You know, everybody has their own opinion about that. And im here to serve another 14 1 2 months. Why arent more of your colleagues speaking out the way you are . You know, i you know, ive been very independent, i think, the whole time ive been up here. I probably have a unique relationship. Ive gotten to know him in a different way than a lot of senators have just through this last year. I, you know, also, you know, told the people of tennessee that i was going to run for two terms. And, you know, so, you know, a sense of independence, i think. And just the, you know, i was in a pretty tough business that, you know, started when i was 25. Ive been around people that, you know, have mentalities of
our current president and, you know, have through life just learned how you deal with it. Do you think theres any hope do you have any interest in repairing your relationship with the president . Whats that . How do you feel about the delay of the russian sanctions . I cant hear, theres so many questions at once. But ill see yall at lunch. Thank you, sir. All right. Senator corker walking out of a meeting. Kasie hunts going to who was just interviewing him is going to get in front of a camera in a moment. Were going to get back to the bill oreilly story in just a moment. But kasies there. Bob corker, i want to underscore something we didnt talk about earlier today. That is donald trump tweeted that bob corker helped president obama get the iran deal. Bob corker voted against the iran deal. He was against the iran deal. The president did tweet something that was totally untrue about bob corker this morning. Reporter and you heard bob
corker say just there as he explained in quite frankly i was surprised by how frank and how much he was willing to continue to expand on the remarks that he had made earlier this morning. That is exactly one of the things that he pointed to, ali. He said this is somebody who says things that are not true. And its clear whether thats the iran deal, the president also claimed in a series of tweets that he told corker he wouldnt endorse him. We know that corker and his staff have said on the record that that was not the case. Clearly Corker Thinking the president is saying one thing in public and another in private. I was also struck, ali, by what he had to say there at the end going through this idea that the president is not getting the message. Not Getting Better at being the president of the United States. Not moderating the way that he looks at the world. Bob corker saying, hey, you know, theyve called me to try to get him to try to talk him off the edge, essentially, and ive tried. But the more that time ive spent with him, tried to get to know him, the harder its become for that to happen. I was very struck by that. Because corker also i mean, he walked through a bit of the interactions hes had with President Trump. The sort of approach for a lot of these members to try to understand the president has been to spend personal time with him and try to sort through how it is he consumes the media, particularly television. And send a message to the president. Corker has clearly decided that this is no longer viable at all. And he also acknowledged he doesnt have to run for reelection. It is a very this day is really going to be interesting particularly at that lunch the president s going to be at that bob corker still says hes going to be at. Thats going to have to be awkward. I think your question to corker about why are your other republican colleagues not following that lead and he wasnt sure why theyre not. Reporter he wasnt. Although thats where his answer about his election came into play. Right. But i do think that is going to be the test Going Forward. And im not sure if anything will change. It certainly didnt change this morning with House Speaker paul ryan who one of my colleagues pointed out on twitter that paul ryan had made a joke at a Comedy Dinner a couple days ago that one of the things he has to do in the morning is get up, read twitter, and pretend what story he didnt see on twitter when he faces us in the hallways. He has repeatedly declined to comment on the things that the president has done visavis other members of congress, the insults thrown. He did that again this morning. Im very interesting to hear were going to see Mitch Mcconnell later on today at the microphones here at the capitol. Im sure that he will be pressed on this, obviously. Whether or not he is willing to engage. He has occasionally been sharper
about the president. But it really is in many ways b it feels like we are witnessing the pulling apart of the republican party. Its just a question of how much of it is going to pull away from what, you know, President Trump has managed to wrangle. At the end of the day, if Ept Tho Accompli they want to accomplish anything, they need to Work Together. Does not seem as though the events of today are going at all im making a major understatement here are adding to any unity. All right. Well stay on this all day with you. Thank you so much at capitol hill. Lets go back to the bill oreilly story. Joining me is bill sherman now. Gabe, nbc news has not been able to verify the times report about the settlement, the 32 million settlement. What do you know about the is . The only thing we seem to know is anybody who knows anything about settlements particularly from individuals versus Public Companies thinks this is a
remarkable number if true. Without question. I have a source inside 21st Century Fox the Parent Company who is making the case they did not know the number. All they knew when they resigned earlier this year is that he had made a settlement and it was confidential. But that raises a larger question. If your biggest star is making an out of court Sexual Harassment settlement to make it go away, youd want to ask questions. And clearly they made the Business Decision to go through with resigning him and face the repercussions if it did become public. Which is a final sentence you can use for a lot of things happening these days. Bill oreilly saying people are trying to capitalize on the Harvey Weinstein scandal and this is political in nature. Do we know anything about the motivation for this news coming out at this point . No. Without question. This is a classic oreilly technique. To Cast Dispersions on unnamed people with unnamed allegations. He plays the victim. This is what he did every night so successfully on his number one rated fox show. This is what hes doing to Gin Up Support from his fans he is being persecuted. What we know there is a multimillion Dollar Settlement out of court to make the Sexual Harassment claim go away. Those facts speak for themselves and oreilly can talk whatever he wants to get out of it. But that does not make the fact he settled this shocking number out of court. One of the other things that bill oreilly keeps saying in every interview is that no one has complained to hr or legal. Is that a technicality . Yeah. Thats a classic dodge. Because as ive reported numerous times inside fox news, the Hr Department was seen as the personal part of roger ailes. Its not where you would go. No. Everyone knew he had that would make the company look
back. No one felt comfortable ive interviewed going inside hr to make a claim especially against bill oreilly. Gabe, good to talk to you. Thank you for your reporting on this, gabe sherman. Stand by, everyone. Chairman devon nunes is minutes away from making an announcement on capitol hill. His committee is the one investigating russian meddling in the election and whether the Trump Campaign colluded. Youre watching velshi rhule lye on msnbc. When a fire is going on, youre
made in vietnam. And woven blouse ts, shoes, and handbags are made in china. Made in u. S. Is zero. But six other countries are fine to make the daughters brand. Manufacturing jobs was a big point for President Trump as a candidate and President Elect for tweets like rexnord of indiana is moving to mexico and rather viciously firing all of its 300 workers. No more. To new projections. New projections showing the industry is shedding another million jobs in the next ten years. Take a look at that. To a 76year low of just over 11 million jobs. Really, though, what is the Culpr Culprit . A study this year found while trade is responsible for 13. 4 of manufacturing job losses, 88
can be attributed to Productivity Growth which includes massive automation. To dig into this Productivity Growth, i want to bring in the new yorkers journalist who gets to the heart of manufacturing. We started a conversation the other day that we had to stop because of breaking news. But i want to get to this. Its an important thing to understand. While we should concentrate on wages and jobs in america, there is a much bigger force and a much bigger Driving Cause of manufacturing losses in the United States. And that is automation and ultimately robots. The technological leaps in this area have been enormous. And of Course Technology for decades has eliminated certain jobs. But the thinking was that it would create more new jobs and often better higher skilled jobs. What weve seen recently and what economists are acknowledging is, in fact, entire categories of jobs are being eliminated. You can take one example. There are a lot of articles in
the news now about workers finding refuge in war houses. So a lot of out of Line Work Manufacturing and retail workers can work in a Warehouse Fulfi fulfilling shopping orders. I uncovered orders. In fact, i have created a company that is an entire warehouse system. Really the only job that exists in this warehouse is of the system manager who sits alone in a room in front of a bank of computers, and otherwise robots do all the work. Sort Ning Warehousing is something easily automated. This is not a complicated thing. In your article, though, you begin by profiling a guy working in a Furniture Plant since 1984. In those days, you were set. You needed to get into the shop, sometimes you needed to get into the union. You often could do this with just a High School Education and it would end in a pension with a
normal age retirement. There is not that fundamental that exists for most workers anymore. That model has completely disappeared, and people spoke to me with nostalgia about it. They said if you had a High School Diploma and you got a job in one of these Furniture Stores in grand rapids, michigan, you were set. You could possibly have a second home. Managers at the plant were driving luxury foreign cars. All of that has disappeared. Many say theyre making the same Dollar Figure Salary they were making 20 years ago, but they were so grateful to have your jobs because theyve seen thousands of their friends get laid off, and of course robots are invading their plant and taking over more and more of the work. What happens is it makes the work physically easier. You dont have to think as much. The machine does all the thinking and heavy lifting and you end up in a position where youre sort of helping the robot create the piece of furniture and youre not actually having to do the work yourself, and how long will we wait until the
robot is just doing everything . This is something people dont seem to want to acknowledge, but it is happening. No, we dont acknowledge it on any level. In the technological world where a new app comes out or a new phone comes out and the political share goes up, we say somehow well figure out how to get the American Worker back. Somehow we have to think about Policy Responses to this, including if these Manufacturing Workers you talked about have not seen an inflationadjusted increase in their income in some cases in 30, 40, 50 years, do we have to start thinking about things like a negative Income Tax Rate where the government subsidizes the idea that youre not going to get that kind of a job back. Well, of course, there are policy steps we could take to address this, and of course the negative Income Credit is a possibility. There is talk of a universal basic income which is the same idea, the idea of the government sending money to cover basic Living Expenses to workers who cannot earn that money by
selling their labor into the market because the market has changed. Of course, we need massive investments into education and teaching new generations of students the skills they need to kind of find work in the new economy. Infrastructure spending. The disturbing thing i found while reporting this piece is when i called around to policymakers or even business executives, they dont want to acknowledge that this is happening. In fact, many of the policy moves were seeing out of washington right now are taking us in the opposite direction. So it was a little disturbing, and i think there are other countries that are preparing a little better. The u. S. Is kind of playing catchup at this point. Sheila, its a great story. Thank you so much and thanks for coming back to have this conversation. Well have it many times again because it is really one of our eras most important issues. Sheila is a staff writer with the new yorker. Catch her article. Right now were watching the white house. The president is participating in an awards ceremony for Enterprise Development week. We also have our eyes on capitol
hill. Devin nunez set to make an announcement about we dont know what. It could be about the Russian Investigation and what trump had to do with it. In light of confederate monuments in this country, we want to introduce you to americans who may be due a statue. This was an American Civil Rights attorney who helped end the civil doctrine. He went to monmouth university, finishing second in his class. In 1940, hill, marshall and two colleagues won a major civil rights case on pay equity for black teachers. Hell continue the career for wins of civil rights. One of his cases was included in one of the famous brown case which helped segregate schools nationwide. He was awarded the president ial medal of freedom. He died in 2007 at 100 years
old. If you have a Medal Of Honor write to us at velshiruhle. We are waiting for mr. Gowdy because this announcement today involves both the House Intelligence Committee and the government oversight committee. Mr. Gowdy, however, cant get pulled away from the meeting hes currently in. But with me today i have mr. King from new york who chairs our subcommittee on emerging threats, and then mr. Desantes from florida who chairs the subcommittee on National Security. What were here today to announce is an inquiry into russias involvement into the iranian deal that was done several years ago. This is just the beginning of this probe. We are not going to jump to any conclusions at this time, but one of the things, as you know, that were concerned about is
whether or not there was an fbi investigation. Was there a doj investigation . And if so, why was congress not informed of this matter . So thats that will be the start of the probe. It will be two different committees who will be looking into this and we will keep you posted with further details. Let me go to mr. Desantos who is filling in for mr. Gowdy today. Thank you, mr. Chairman. We do have a witness who is a confidential informant who wants to talk about his role in this, and were in contact with the Justice Department to release him from a nondisclosure agreement. If that Doesnt Work Out in a timely fashion, then we obviously would be able to suspect h subpoena him. On my subcommittee, well be focusing on how the Interagency Process worked in this. We dont think it worked out very well so we have jurisdiction over the various National Security agencies and we want to get as much
information as we can so we can see what happened. Is to next weso next well. Mr. King is of particular relevance, not only because he chairs the subcommittee that oversees the fbi and treasury from our committee, but also because he was a chairman back at the time and sent a letter in opposition questioning the sale of this company. He sent that letter to Secretary Geitner at the time, the Treasury Secretary, so were happy that hes still here and will be the point person from our committee on this investigation. Mr. King . Thank you, chairman. It was back in October Of 2010 at that time i was the Ranking Member of Homeland Security, and myself and three other Ranking Members sent a letter to the Treasury Department raising very, very real concerns about why we would allow a russianowned company to get access to 20 of americas uranium supply. There are any number of reasons or objections we raised, questions we raised, and it was brought to the highest levels. I got a letter in response from
Treasury Secretary geitner and saying this was getting full scrutiny. So this was brought to the highest levels of the obama administration, including the Treasury Secretary. Its important we find out why that deal went through, and certainly in view of recent allegations that have been made or recent questions that have been raised, its essential that this investigation, this inquiry, go forward. It will be done in full coordination with government oversight. Theres not going to be any conflict here. Were going to go Forward Together in a cooperative way. Again, specifically the emerging threat over the subcommittee has immediate contact with trurthe Treasury Department. It fits in nicely here. Seven years ago this month, i raised these objections with the Treasury Secretary who said they were being fully investigate,
a investigated, and objevious we want to know whats happened since then and the context of this investigation. I look guaforward to working wi ron desantos who is an exceptional member of this committee. What evidence is there that there was work on that investigation. [ Inaudible Question ] let me first say that so our committee has been looking into this for a while now. We have been in touch with different individuals who have brought us information. I think, as mr. Desantos stated, there is a concern over the nondisclosure agreement. We dont think that is a concern. We think that any american, if they have information, even if its top secret, at the top secret level, they can come to
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