Jspeak of the white house red to listen to warnings about the situation on the ground. As the saying goes, if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. And fail, they did. To the families here today and two to the American People i say i will not rest until i get to the bottom of this tragedy. You deserve answers. The American People deserve answers. There is no military leader, we have lost troops and combat who have this feeling so this is personal to be. This is culpability in this attack lies in Policy Decisions that created the environment of august 2021 kabul. John powerful testimony from the two generals who ran President Bidens chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan an event that defined his first term in office and theearing is right now on a capitol hill. Sandra the president meanwhile thousands of miles away about the land in nevada on a Campaign Swing asking americans to give him four more years. John john roberts in washington. Sandra good to be with you im sandra smith in new york
Its all political, and i think that in the end that that ends up hurting joe biden and helping donald trump. John jonathan turley, to the point that a lot of democrats are making here, this was a clearly partisan report, that hur was only out to get biden, trying to shred his credibility. He said in his Opening Statement that he had to, because of doj guidelines, present this report to the Attorney General on his decision not to charge. He said i knew from my decision to be credible, i could not simply announce i recommended no criminal charges and leave it at that, i needed to explain why, show my work as he said. Put that into context for us legally. Did he have to go into this level of detail . Because its the part of this that is real ticked off the white house and set democrats aflame is his idea that joe biden is a kindly old gentleman with a bad memory, and that of course brings up the entire conversation about whether or not he can continue to be president now let alone for ano
process to limit how american tax dollars are spent at the department of justice. i yield back. general lady from texas is recognized. good morning. you have value the independence of a special counsel. i do. you asked garland to allow you to continue the investigation saying we want to thank you and your office for permitting our inquiry to proceed with will without interfere answer as you assured the members of the judiciary committee would be the case during the confirmation hearings to become attorney general of the united states. you value your special counsel status. it a being a rat that garland let you proceed on your case as you wish. that s true. it was important you have to as special counsel your investigation was supposed to be independent because special counsels and attorneys are supposed to be independent, right? special counsel is. yes. they are supposed to be independent, is that correct? special counsel is independent of the attorney gener
Going on now. Former president Donald Trumps New York Criminal Trial we have covered. At this moment Michael Cohen is back on the stand. Another day of the defenses cross examination. Cohen is the prosecutions star witness and weve learned he will be their final one. I mean, what would you say after whatever it is you would call what he has done on that stand . Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. Team trump is laser focused on shredding cohens credibility. Shouldnt be too hard. He is a convicted liar and he has been profiting off of the former president s legal journey now. On tuesday Michael Cohen even admitted he wants to see trump convicted. A former Legal Advisor to cohen shredded his testimony and his character actually for the defense. He did their job for them. Robert costello, who also worked in new yorks Southern District said cohen insisted to him that donald trump knew absolutely nothing about the payments he was making to Stormy Daniels in return for stayi
impeachment inquiry into president biden. for months, the white house and hunter biden have been stone walling our investigation trying to hide the truth, and this stonewalling is what s caused us to be here today, like chairman cole said yesterday, it s deeply sad. it s a sad day, not something any of us want to be doing on this house floor, but it has become necessary. following today s floor vote on h-res 918, the committees on oversight, accountability, ways and means and judiciary will have greater legal position and subpoena power to fully investigate allegations of influence peddling and wrongdoing by president biden, his family, and his associates. the american people deserve transparency and accountability. they deserve the truth, and that s exactly what they re going to get from this republican house. thank you, mr. speaker, and i yield back. gentle lady yields back. gentleman from oklahoma reserves. gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. speaker, i sho