Analysis and as we refer to as ona. Left the committee, no choice but to issue a subpoena on tuesday for his appearance at this hearing today. The department has persistently slow walked security clearance requests from counsel for their clients mr. Brian murphy, a lawful whistleblower and the former acting head of ina and the element within dhs in proceedings before this committee. The committee repeatedly offered to dhs that it would withdraw the subpoena for mr. Maurers appearance if the department authorized the attorney clearances in time for mr. Murphys often rescheduled deposition. Unfortunately dhs refused to do so. Therefore, were Going Forward today with his testimony. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. On august 3rd, amid public reporting of american citizens being scratched off the streets of portland by Law Enforcement officials from the department of Homeland Security, this committee launched an investigation into serious allegations that dhss intelligence a
In june of 1973 during testimony before the Senate Watergate committee, mr. Dean implicated president nixon and administration officials, including himself in the watergate coverup. He later pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for his role in watergate and served four months in prison. Discovering the tapes system, was it lucky or inevitable, is what were looking at. The nixon taping the whole story of the nixon tapes has been only partially told. Its taken me years to gather and find out what happened. Since its one of the most important factors in the watergate story, i think its important to get that history straight, and were going to try to do that in a very summary fashion today. Before i start, though, i would like to remind you that other president s did tape, starting with franklin roosevelt, who used a when they first went to talking movies and they had a soundtrack, he had a system that was put in the oval office that was recorded. Im going to try a very, very quick sam
Do you want that person to protect the confidentiality of the investigation . Even rumors about your case can impact your reputation. You want someone who values the truth. You want someone with the courage to make the right decision, even if its an unpopular decision. Theres an Old Supreme Court case that sets out the Job Description of a prosecutor. It is not the win. It is not the simply get convictions. It is to be a minister of justice. I have a daughter in law school. Shes heard me say this a million times. Good prosecutors clear more innocent people a month than Defense Attorneys do in a lifetime. But you have to be objective. You have to be fair. And you have to be honest. I would be hard pressed to think of any lawyer i worked with in congress who is less qualified to be a prosecutor than adam schiff. Yet this week we learned he wants to be the next Attorney General of california. I guess california is progressive. I guess the next Attorney General there will not share any of
Coronavirus crisis i spoke exclusively with President Trump this week about his second term agenda heading into that convention that interview straight ahead and well also talk to the man who helped lead the Trump Campaign to victory in 2016 steve bannon is here with his election predictions ahead of Convention Season in the middle of it all breaking news in john durhams criminal probe with exfbi attorney Kevin Klinesmith expected to plead guilty to falsifying a document in the russia investigation and dni John Ratcliffe flagged his criminality back in december last year. What you have is fbi lawyers literally changing evidence to make false representations to the court to continue this counterintelligence investigation against the president , so it details everyone is entitled to a presumption of innocence, the democrats never want to give one to donald trump, but the inspector generals findings really outline what his criminal activity. Maria coming up wisconsin senator ron johnson i
Make. I have said, and i believe that there is a good possibility that sometime in the next 20 years we will have a woman president. Hillary clinton locked many firsts in her role as first lady, Political Partners since law school, the clintons survived scandals and even the impeachment of president bill clinton. And as she considers a another bid for the white house herself, Hillary Clintons story is being written still. Welcome to cspans yearlong series, first ladies influence and damage. Tonight, we will tell you the story of the space of our 42nd president , Hillary Clinton. Here to tell us of the story are too journalist to know the clintons well. Gayle from vanity fair is a biographer of Hillary Clinton. Her 2000 book was called hillarys choice. David is from the Washington Post, author of two books about the clinton including a 1995 biography of bill clinton. Welcome to both of you. As we start, here i want to play a bit of a video from 1992. It is one of five or six Hillary Cli