the judiciary committee will come to order. without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. we welcome everyone to today s hearing, on lessons from the mueller report. presidential obstruction, and other crimes. i will now recognize myself for an opening statement. just over two years ago, special counsel robert mueller was charged with conducting a full and thorough investigation of the russian government s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election unquote including an examination of quote any links and/or coordination between the russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of president donald trump, and any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation. closed quote. he concluded in his own words, quote, russian intelligence officers who are part of the russian military launched a concerted attack on our political system. those offices used sophisticated cyber techniques to
to 1973 it was called british honduras. english is the first language of the population as a result of its colonial history. we flew into belize city then caught a turbo prop south along the coast to the town of punta gorda. in the air we observed the dense tropical jungle unfolding below, mile after emerald mile. several rivers drained the rainforest emptying their contents into the caribbean sea. our plan was to explore the country and fishing these rivers. we re the guests a variety of travel destinations and belize is one of his favorites. (buck) this is drake dawson the president of safari unlimited. drake good to see you today. (drake) good to have you here buck. (buck) you know you and i met at a show here a few months ago and you were telling me all about belize and we had to come check it out and here we are. (drake) there you go yeah we re gonna spend our first bit of time at cotton tree lodge up in the jungle its an amazing place. it s about 12 miles up the river t
ourselves, saving our communities. i feel good. [laughter] i knew that i would. [laughter] thank you again. be back by 2:00. oh, is someone [inaudible conversations] oh, okay. thank you. please, stay for your pictures. see you at two. knox. [inaudible conversations] next, from the national black writers conference at medgar evers college in brooklyn, a panel on changing historical narrative. [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. we re here enter well, i m really glad to be here, in person, right here in front of you. you know, we in this panel we don t grown groan and bemoan the destructive narratives about us misrepresenting who we are and how we are with. this panel will help us to reconstruct, to tell our own stories, the real deal. our stories, this is our story, this is our song, let the work i ve done speak to me. and so to moderate this panel on reconstructing the historical narrative of us is professor woodard who was given, i don t
laptops. intelligence officials suggest that they ve stolen airport screening devices so they ve specifically lermd how to coon seal the bombs. evan perez and barbara story broke the story. i want to begin this evening with our justice correspondent evan perez. evan, obviously, an incredibly significant report. what are you learning? reporter: erin, cnn has learned that u.s. intelligence and law enforcement agencies believe isis have come up with innovative ways to come up with dw devices to avoid detection. terror bomb makers have come up with a way to hide explosives in the battery compartment but still have the power turn on long enough to get past skreepers. there were reports that they ve tested variants of laptop bombs using different configurations to assess how difficult it would be to detect them using tsa machines. the testers found out that the machines had a far more time detecting these new types of bombs. barbara, is this the reason for the ban last week fro
with kevin cork. a sudden invite? yeah, pretty interesting, diplomacy by twitter. ostensibly one world leader sends another what amounts to an on line e vite and the other world leader might show up. the other leader in this case not just any old world leader talking about kim jong-un, the leader of north korea. one of the many headlines, neil, here in south korea as the president makes his way here for bilateral talks with president moon and the expected trip to the dmz for what could be a third face-to-face with kim jong-un if he makes it there. the president s trip here following an event g 20 summit in japan where he was asked if he would in fact meet with chairman kim while here. it might happen tomorrow, to be honest. we won t call ate summit we won t call it a summit. we will call it a handshake, if it does happen. i don t know if it will. it could happen. i m literally visiting the dmz. if you met kim jong-un at the dmz tomorrow, would you step across the bord