Barr will be testifying before the House Judiciary Committee about his job performance. We will begin our conversation with all of you on that. What do you think about mr. As attorneyrmance general . If you agree, 202 7488000. If you disagree, 202 7488001. You can text us at 202 7488003. Twitter. S on join us on the phone is todd ruger with cq roll call. Remind our viewers why this hearing is taking place. Good morning. This is basically something that used to happen all the time and does happen all the time. Its an oversight hearing you have the house which is the closest representative to the people of the United States in the government and they get a chance to bring in a Trump Administration official and have him sit there and answer questions. Its going to take about four or five hours to go through all the members of this committee. They get about five minutes to ask him. This is something that congress does routinely that allows them to get accountability for the Justice Departm
there was nbc news correspondent miguel almagor letting you know that actually that assault on paul pelosi in san francisco that you read about last week, that story was a whole lot stranger than you ever imagine. according to almagor, citing several law enforcement sources with direct knowledge, it was paul pelosi who opened the door for police when they arrived. now, you ll remember that authorities had previously told us that the intruder, david de pape, had broken into paul pelosi s bedroom on the third floor of the house and woke him up. yet somehow both pelosi and to paper on the ground floor. by the time police got there. moreover, according to almagor pelosi in the paper had been together in the house for at least half an hour. and yet, strangely, they both seemed fine with police present almagor reported paul pelosi, quote, did not immediately declare an emergency or leave his home. instead, he, quote, walked back several feet toward the assailant and away from p
Needs to be revenue neutral, what the team is proposing. Money in politics all over, that is what varney and company does right now. It does beg the question, if there was what he perceived as undue influence, the oversight committee, could have talked it out of judiciary committee, the intel committee, devon nunez, the senate intel committee, could have gone public with it but documentation and how it was received, if it did indeed happen, that is where we need to figure out the facts. Charles congressman jason ch f chaffetz questioning the legitimacy of this memo. We have every angle covered including judge Andrew Napolitano, legal analyst steve cortez on the market potential impact here. And how it affects the trump agenda on capitol hill but we want to begin with the judge. Everyone is becoming a lawyer these days, legal scholar. 1828 usa, require james come to let someone know if he felt the president was trying to obstruct the investigation in any way. He had a legal requirement,
In addition, career investigators at the department of justice also looked into these claims. They also found, and i quote again, no evidence that any official involved in the handling of the tax exempt applications or irs leadership attempted to obstruct justice, into quotation. Its no wonder then that we have read reports of speaker ryan doing his best to make certain this measure never reaches the floor of the house, as Speaker Boehner did before him. Its also not a surprise that many in the republican conference have been critical of the tactics that forced this hearing. Chairman boost the need for the subcommittee on tax policy has argued that this hearing is a waste of time and and potentially damaging to our priorities. He told reporters last week, if we do this is going to further delay the investigation. I think its time to move on, into quotation. Senator orrin hatch, the chairman of the Senate Finance committee, has said that there simply no interest in impeachment activity
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