The House Committee on the judiciary will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recessses of the committee i object. Objection noted. Decorum is present. We are conducting this hearing on the impeachment inquiry into president donald j. Trump. Presentations from the select committee on intelligence and the House Judiciary Committee pursuant to House Resolution 660 and a special Judiciary Committee procedures that are zpliebd section 4a of that resolution. Heres you the committee will proceed for this hearing. I will make an Opening Statement and then i will recognize the Ranking Member for an Opening Statement. After that, we will hear two sets of presentations. We will hear 30minute opening arguments from counsels for the majority and the minority. Jerry nadler and the Democratic Party you are the ones, america is done with this. America doesnt agree order in the room. You are removing our vote. We voted for donald trump and americans are sick of the impe
Christopher steele to generate this steele dossier for several of them . At the time i did not know, but i understand from the media it is through gps fusion, and if that is not correct. And you know that there was a law firm involved, but did you know the source of the money . At the time, no, but i have read it in the post and in your colleagues, it is the dnc i am led to believe. And the Clinton Campaign . I dont know that for sure. Okay. Mr. Castor. Welcome back. I hope you had a sandwich or something delicious. You, too. And dr. Hill, thank you for your participation on the deposition october 14th, columbus day, and we were with you most of the day and we appreciate that. And mr. Holmes, too, and you are the late entrant into this situation, and things sure did escalate quickly. We spoke with you last friday night about a, what we thought was going to be a 30second vignette about a twominute phone call, and then it turns out you know, with your 40minute opener today, you have a lo
The meeting will come to order. Chair now recognizes the Ranking Member or their counsel for the first round of their 45minute questions. I thank the gentleman. I want to get a few basic facts on the table of individuals that were involved in the 2016 election just to see who you know and who you have met with. So i will start with you, mr. Holmes. Have you met with or do you know Alexandra Chalupa . Could you turn your microphone on. No. Do you know nellie ohr . Have you met with nellie ohr . No. Bruce ohr . No. Glenn simpson . No. Thank you. Same question for you, dr. Hill. Do you know or have you met with Alexandra Chalupa . No. Nellie ohr . No. Bruce ohr . Only in the course of my previous position as a National Officer that he presided over the meetings i attended. A long time ago . Yes. Glenn simpson . No. Dr. Hill, in your testimony you said that in your deposition, excuse me, that Christopher Steele was your counterpart at one time. Is this correct. That is correct, yes. You te
I know. Alltime highs we have like, what, 39 trading days to go is that it . It is a tight time frame here the interesting thing around the market is it has shrugged off concern. One of the reason the market has gone higher is because of really light positioning. That mentality hasnt changed. That has fuelled the rally in the market you see the dow in the green but just barely. Nasdaq futures down by a point again, we are sitting at new highs after the gains we added on yesterday you look at the treasury market yielding 1. 85 xerox looking at buying hp. The company has an informal funding commitment xerox has a Market Company a third of hp. Both of these companies former technology stall waters. Xerox has had a couple of falls. Do people steel xerox things it is like faxing. Hp has tried to keep up it is like help me im drowning. Hp shares are up. Xerox somehow is the acquiring company. And there would be a premium to hps market cap. I just get depressed reading this xerox already scra
With foreign leaders, especially the sexy ones. He failed to document meetings with vladimir putin, one with kim jong un and a sunday brunch with oj. Not really, but you can see it happening, right . And while records with these other leaders might be key to impeachment, they may not need records anymore. You remember that thing that trump did when he asked a government to investigate his rival, joe biden . He did it again, this time on tv. What exactly did you hope zelinsky would do about the phone call . I would think if they were honest about it, theyd start a Major Investigation into the bidens. Its a very simple answer. They should investigate the bidens, because how does a company thats newly formed and all these companies, and by the way, likewise, china should start an investigation into the bidens. Jimmy everyone should be investigated. Why isnt, rarely during a witch hunt do you see the witch drown herself. But this is, either that or this is some kind of a strategy. To do th