Mr. Thompson is the president s tomny to be the next inspector jen olof the cia. Congratulations on your nomination. Id like to start by recognizing your family you brought with you today. Welcome to both of you. Patricia, this is as much your day as it is peters and were all grateful for the support, the patience and encouragement youve now doubt provided him in helping him get to this day. This is most certainly a professional achievement you should both take pride in. Our goal in conducting this hearing is to enable this committee to have a thoughtful consideration of mr. Thompsons qualifications to be the next Inspector General of the cia. Mr. Thompson has provided written responses to questions from the committee from its members, and this morning members will be able to ask any additional questions they have and hear the answer directly from the nominee. Mr. Thompson is a double grad kwt. He spent 23 years as a prosecutor with the department of justice as a u. S. Attorney for the
Topics panel on the appeasement of President Trump. Coleman, andancis i will be your moderator. We have a distinguish set of panelists who will discuss the impeachment of President Trump from a political and diplomatic perspective. We have a video presentation. I will begin with a short introduction of our panelists. Each will speak for 10 to 15 minutes after each has spoken, we will open it up so they can have reaction to each others presentation, and then we will open it up to questions from the audience. We have professor frank bowman, who is the Floyd R Gibson endowed professor of law at the university of missouri. He is also the author of a recent book, high crimes and misdemeanors a history of impeachment before mr. Trump. He is also the author of a blog, Impeachable Offenses. We have dr. Monica f injured. As an anthropologist of model, her extension of work on private property and ukraine is book,sis for her current property and oligarchy. She works in the u. S. , ukraine, and o
Extensive fieldwork on the creation of privacy and post soviet ukraine is the basis for her current work on property and al arche. Teaching and other jurisdictional, property theory, diplomacy, property law and the law of four. Working with ukraine on ukrainian issues for 25 years started before she became a legal scholar. During her time which included a two or of duty at the u. S. Embassy. He is the executive editor of above the law. A frequent commentator. We are looking forward to a very exciting panel with divergent views and takes on the impeachment process. Our first panelist will be from the professor. Constitutionally sufficient charges. Greetings to everyone in washington. I am frank. Circumstances are such that unfortunately i could not be with you in washington today. The organizers of this panel were kind enough to submit this short film in lieu of a personal appearance. Here are some thoughts on impeachment. Sometime in the next few weeks the effort to impeach and remove
i m in for nicolle wallace. the final day of e. jean carroll versus donald trump with closing arguments focused on a high-stakes question. what is the price to pay for using one of the world s most powerful megaphones to defame someone. first up her attorney addressed the factor looming over the trial, that is, trump s continued attacks on e. jean carroll. she pointed out trump spent the entire trial continuing to engage in defamation, trump dramatically stormed out of the courtroom. the judge noted the incident and kaplan continued. cnn repts that she said, quote, the case is also about punishing donald trump for what he has done and what he continues to do. shd trump tries to, quote, normalize conduct that could hardly be more abnormal. she went on to say, quote, typically when someone is found liable for defamaon, they stop making those statemeven if they don t like t jury s verdict, even if you d t like the jury s decision you follow it. those are the this trial is also
yesterday, and he was looking a little more like a child dressing up for halloween than a cabinet secretary there to bring hope and help to scared residents. here is how mayor pete did eventually respond to his 20-day delay. what i tried to do is balance to cothings: my desire to be involved and engaged on the ground, which is how i m wired to act, and my desire to follow the norm of transportation secretaries. i have to think about whether i got that balance right. sean: no thinking needed, pothole pete. he didn t strike the right balance. joining me now is james comer. congressman, good to see you. i want to get your take on this, because we reached out to mayor pete for a comment and we were actually referred to this tweet that says, i am along to learn, but the chair of the house oversight committee thinks that ntsb is part of our department. ntsb is independent, and with good reason. we will review and respond properly. congressman, how do you respond to mayor