The House Committee on the judiciary will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare recess at any time and we welcome, we welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on oversight for the department of justice. I apologize for getting the hearing late, as many of you know i was in a minor car accident on the way in this morning. Everyone is fine, except perhaps the car. But it did cause significant delay. I think the attorney general and the members for their patience and flexibility and we will now begin. Before we begin, i want to acknowledge and note that we are joined this morning by the distinguished majority leader, the gentleman from maia maryland, leader hoyer, who has long recognized the need for vigorous congressional oversight of the executive branch under both parties and we appreciate his presence today as we question the attorney general. Before we begin, i would like to remind members that we have an established email distribution list dedicated to circulating exhib
You then delay the full report, leaving america in peoples doing with their misleading summary of support of President Trumps bogus claims that there was no collusion or obstruction. You repeat the claims today that there was no basis to the investigation and it was politically motivated and calling it the russiagate scandal. 2019, the Justice Departments own Inspector General, michael horowitz, found it had been initiated without political bias and appropriately. A. G. Barr no. That was not mr. Horwitzs finding . A. G. Barr no. You are wrong. A. G. Barr he said he found reclaiming my time, without political bias. Reclaiming my time, in april of this year, the Republicanled Senate Intelligence Committee unanimously found that russia interfered with our elections and attempted to undermine american democracy, correct customer correct . A. G. Barr i said so, too. Is it ever appropriate for a president to accept foreign assistance in an election . A. G. Barr it depends on the assistance.
The committee will resume with this meeting. Sir, in your opening statement, you continued your assisting effort to undermine the finding of russian interference in our election. In march 2019, he sent a letter to the committee mischaracterizing robert koehlers finding that Vladimir Putin interfered in the 2016 president ial election in sweeping and systematic fashion to benefit donald trump. Mr. Robert mueller promptly called you up for your mischaracterization in a letter you never corrected it. You then delay the full report, leaving america in peoples doing with their misleading summary of support of President Trumps bogus claims that there was no collusion or obstruction. You repeat the claims today that there was no basis to the investigation and it was politically motivated and calling it the russiagate scandal. 2019, the Justice Departments own Inspector General, michael horowitz, found it had been initiated without political bias and appropriately. A. G. Barr no. That was not
To make sure everythings in order in the Household Plus you have to work a job or two. On the other side of the democratic race. In a few hours. A National Nurses group will be here in a bus to campaign for sanders. They also plan stops at union center and smale park. Reporting live. Jordan burgess. 9 on your side. Gop president ial candidate donald trump is staying in ohio. Cancelling a rally in florida to focus on the buckeye state. What its calling a massive rally tonight in youngstown. Both ohio and florida have winner take all primaries republican race. Trump was just here in cincinnati in front of a large crowd yesterday in west chester. And about onethousand demonstrators chanted outside during the event. Hes been at the center of controversy over violence at his rallies. And were hearing today from the protestor who tried to rush the stage at a trump event near dayton. Donald trump is a bully. And he is willing to destroy this country for power for himself. Himself. Officials a
Do its thing and whether he made those statements in actuality or in context whether they would be admissible is all things we have to take a look at. Reporter all right, his attorney of course not being able to say much because of clientattorney privilege there. By the way, president obama has been the most threatened president in u. S. History. He gets about 30 threats a day, Death Threats and of course it is something he is used to but nobody wants to see happen. Live outside the fell courthouse, harry boomer, cleveland 19. Dan thank you, harry just when we thought spring had arrived another good shot of denise looks like it is lets get to jeff tanchak for an update. Jeff it doesnt feel like a march day with the wind chill. The snow is moving out. We had flurries in the akroncanton area and snow in county and we will take a closer look at that area right now and we will pinpoint that area with snow showers in champion. Hiram, you got five inches of snow that came down from the lakee