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Back soon, okay? thank you so much for your time. thom tillis, republican from north carolina. thanks. sandra: right now the house oversight and reform committee holding a second hearing on facial recognition technology with the committee looking to insure transparency in the federal government s use of it. doug mcelway is live in washington with more on this. we have a lot of questions on this, doug. what are we learning? a lot of questions. in an 1890 article a young lawyer wrote one of the most cherished of all rights is the right to be left alone. he was worried about the misuse of photography. he would be appalled at some of the testimony today about facial recognition technology. a rare instance where both parties see a real threat to our right to be left alone. the committee will reveal that the f.b.i. maintains a huge ....
Trump, the trumpiest party in britain was the winner in the elections a few days ago, the brexit party. a lot of people do like trump and think like trump. the nationalism a and populism. he is not as out of place as media here would like to suggest. bill: he said we should deliver on that promise. theresa may said that a couple times today. big news in washington the house is back in session. democrats returning to the mueller matter. judiciary committee announcing plan for a contempt vote next week against the attorney general bill barr and former white house lawyer don mcgahn. lindsey graham telling sean hannity for him it s time to move on. no collusion with the russians. he decided not to bring a case against the president based on obstruction. to me case closed. let s look at comey and mccabe, strzok, page, all these other people and see how we got into this mess to begin with. ....
bill: chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge with this now from washington good morning. good morning. contempt vote is formally scheduled for june 11. the allegation from house democrats that don mcgahn and attorney general william barr have failed to comply with congressional sub aoens yas. administration and justice department officials cite executive privilege and congressional overreach. the house speaker ignored questions from our fox team on the hill whether contempt will be civil, criminal, or enforced by congress. civil contempt versus why civil contempt? whether the democrats still push for former special counsel robert mueller to testify after signaling last week the 448 page report is his testimony, one lawmaker said the debate is ongoing within the party. i think that the caucus is ....
Delegation meeting in washington where those talks go before june 10th, bill, there was a question or not they could work something out before the tariffs would take effect. the president said those are likely to still happen, the 5% starting june 10th. asked whether republicans would try to block it and how he would respond he said it would be foolish. bill: the market up 230 at the open. what is your sense down there in the mexican delegation coming to washington is this something they can work out or not? look, texas economy is tied to mexico. if they get sick, we get sick. same in the other border states of new mexico, arizona and some extent california. there is a great deal of concern. talked to a couple of business leaders in texas since the president s announcement. they re nervous. on the other hand, the response of the mexican government thus far has been very positive. we recognize there is a problem and want to come to washington and see if we can arrive at a ....
There who was a peer to mueller, who mueller respected, who they shared a mutual respect. ty cobb, the lawyer in the house with the investigation, they have known each other for three decades socially a bit through work. john dowd, the president s personal lawyer is someone very well-known in these tight white collar legal circles in washington. he did not have a personal relationship with mueller, but again someone mueller knew, respected. they were both marines in vietnam. that was experiences that shaped them greatly. so these were people that the president s longtime lawyer, marc kasowitz, intentionally sought out with one of the qualities was people who could connect and relate to robert mueller. when we talk about these meetings coming up, there s been a lot of back and forth between these lawyers and mueller s ....