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
Pass suffrage back in the early 1900s here in the United States of america. Those were torn down. Just yesterday, a woman a social worker woteaches at a local school just outside madison was charged with beating a state senator. A democrat state senator. Her name is samantha hamer. Hopefully she will be given justice, but i want to emphasize to my colleagues on the left that if you think youre insulated from antifa which is supposedly a myth, you should really think about that because they and other radicals will not spare violence on anyone. Their anarchy is bent to destroy our country. If you want to contact formaler colleague state senator tim carpenter, a democrat, he will tell you he was beat to a pulp on that night at midnight when they were tearing down those statues. It is not a myth. So mr. Attorney general, i would ask mr. Burnell trammell, i dont know if our attorney general attorney general call in wisconsin or the mayor of milwaukee are going to pursue what appears to perh
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