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the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. to theome everyone hearings and oversight in the department of justice. i begin by recognizing myself. today we welcome attorney jeff sessions, the annual department oversight hearing. general, you have a long and distinguished career in public service. even when your decisions are not always well received. leaving theear department of justice has not been without difficulty, which is expected at the outset of a new administration. while much has been done to theect the proper under obama administration, more work must be done to ensure the department is operating to impartially administered justice. our last doj oversight hearing was beyond disappointing. loretta lynchal gave the least. and at least transparent testimony i can recall in my time in congress. it was lame a disservice to the american people. ms. lynch failed to respond substantively to every question posed by this committee. forme ....
explain. i think we see this in the indictments. the four indictments and please that have just taken place. i see sit most of importantly in what happened with the firing of director comey. and it is my belief that that is directly because he did not agree to lift the cloud of the russia investigation. that s obstruction of justice. kennedy: so if attitude determined your latitude, di-fi must be high. what you have are a series of actions that are questionable, tacky and annoying. if that were the threshold for obstruction diane s wardrobe would have been in trouble a long time ago. when you tie them together with the ribbon of white house gaffes, that s what the dems have been shopping for. one of the president s lawyers says the president can t obstruct justice at all. legally it seems we are in uncharted territory. issue is not settled. but both sides will claim and use loose logic to sink the other s battleship. if you are talking about threshold and precedent an ....
indictments. the four indictments and please that have just taken place. i see sit most of importantly in what happened with the firing of director comey. and it is my belief that that is directly because he did not agree to lift the cloud of the russia investigation. that s obstruction of justice. kennedy: so if attitude determined your latitude, di-fi must be high. what you have are a series of actions that are questionable, tacky and annoying. if that were the threshold for obstruction diane s wardrobe would have been in trouble a long time ago. when you tie them together with the ribbon of white house gaffes, that s what the dems have been shopping for. one of the president s lawyers says the president can t obstruct justice at all. legally it seems we are in uncharted territory. issue is not settled. but both sides will claim and use loose logic to sink the other s battleship. if you are talking about threshold and precedent and if the entire white house staff acte ....
if we looked at forest in particular, the amount of area that burns in any given year is up by over 1,000%. woodruff: all that and more, on tonight s pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the world s most pressing probl- skollfoundation.org. the lemelson foundation. committed to improving lives through invention, in the u.s. and developing countries. on the web at lemelson.org. supported by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org and with the ongoing support of these institutions: this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. woodruff: house and senate republicans have reached an agreement ....
if we looked at forest in particular, the amount of area that burns in any given year is up by over 1,000%. woodruff: all that and more, on tonight s pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the world s most pressing problems skollfoundation.org. the lemelson foundation. committed to improving lives through invention, in the u.s. and developing countries. on the web at lemelson.org. supported by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org and with the ongoing support of these institutions: this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. woodruff: house and senate republicans have reached an agreem ....