California congressman brad sherman chaired the hearing. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. The full committee not on the subcommittee are authorized to participate in todays hearing. Members are reminded to keep their video function on at all times. Members are reminded that they are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves and to mute themselves after theyre finished speaking. Consistent with the regulations accompanying the resolution, the staff will mute members and witnesses as appropriate when not recognized in order to avoid inadvertent background noise. Members are reminded that all house rules relating to order and decorum apply to this hearing. This hearing is entitled Insider Trading and stock option grants, an examination of correspondent integrity in the covid19 pandemic. We know that we have votes on the floor. We will not have any further delays of this hearing in order to allow members t
Fall under the agencys jurisdiction. So often times requesters are making rather broad requests. Agencies are then faced with trying to figure out what it is and what in the world is it that the person actually wants. One way to deal with this we have talked about this for ages. It was ultimately codified in the foia amendments in 1996 was for the agency to come back to the requester and say, i dont understand what your request is asking for or this is really too complex and its too time consuming and if you are willing to narrow the request and here are some suggestions, we can handle the request more expeditiously for you. Thats basically the tradeoff for the agency is that the request gets narrow and more manageable and the bone thats being thrown to the requester is that they will respond to it more expeditiously. That often times still is not it doesnt happen in practice. But thats kind of where the statute is supposed to be. I have a friend who is a litigator in the National Secu
2013. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Good morning everyone. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Im matt lauer. Good morning im Savannah Guthrie along side Natalie Morales. Tell us it cant happen. A shark and tornado cant come down and eat us. This is the movie thats made godzilla look like an art film. This is absolutely everywhere trending today. Therell be oscars, by the way, for the guy that takes on the shark. I think they should bring godzilla and attack of the killer tomatoes versus sharks and see who wins. Well find out why its so popular later on. And ed sheeran is our live guest this morning. You see so many people in orange in honor of him and his orange hair. But lets start this morning with the closely watched trial of George Zimmerman. The jury could have this case as early as today. Kerry sanders is at the courthouse in sanford, florida. Good morning. Good morning. The defense team is now pre
On . Theyll say look if the guy at the top can say anything to anybody at any time, why cant i . That was republican congressman mark sanford on morning joe a year ago. While the South Carolina conservative largely backed the president s agenda, he called out the commanderinchief as we just heard right there. Last night sanford lost his primary race after the president attacked him personally on twitter. Just hours before the polls closed, and it was close. Welcome to morning joe, everyone, its wednesday, june 13th. With us we have msnbc contributor mike barn kill. National Affairs Analyst for nbc news and msnbc jon heilemann. Former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst, Steve Rattner and author of the book, a world in disarray, Richard Haass and National Political reporter nbc news heidi przybilla. A lot to get to. If you want to know where the Republican Party is right now, jon heilemann, mark sanford survives careerending, what should have been a careerending scandal.
Barr wrote Rod Rosenstein and i have concluded the evidence developed during the special counsels investigation is not sufficient to establish the president committed an obstruction of justice offense. An official tells nbc news barr did not consult mueller about i had summary. The special counsels office said were not commenting. President trump reacted to the release of muellers finding claiming complete and total exoneration. After a long look, after a long investigation, after so many people have been so badly hurt, after not looking at the other side, where a lot of bad things happened, a lot of horrible things happened, a lot of very bad things happened for our country, it was Just Announced there was no collusion with russia. The most ridiculous thing ive ever heard. There was no collusion with russia. There was no obstruction and none whatsoever and it was a complete and total exoneration. Its a shame that our country had to go through this. To be honest, its a shame that your