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Committee democrats argued they are holding the president accountable for what they call abuse of power of the white house. Our question of the morning what do you think about the Judiciary Committees approval of impeachment charges against President Trump . We are going to open up our regular lines this morning. Republicans, we want to hear from you at 202 7488001. Democrats, we want to hear from you at 202 7488000. Independents, your line is 202 . 488002 keep in mind, you can always text us your reaction at 202 7488003, and we are always reading on social media, on twitter at cspanwj, and on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Ours set the stage for discussion this morning, going to what House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler said after th ....
Affairs laura cooper. This was the Intelligence Committee six of the impeachment inquiry. The committee will come to order. Igood afternoon. This is the sixth in a series of public hearings. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. There is a quorum present. We will proceed in the same fashion. I will make another statement and mr. Nunez will have an opportunity to make a statement. We welcome you and respect your interest. As chairman, i will make any steps to maintain order and ensure the committee is run in accordance with house rules. I recognize myself to give an Opening Statement in the impeachment inquiry. David hale is the undersecretary for clinical affairs, the third most senior person in the department. Laura cooper is the secretary of isense for russia, ukraine, responsible for broad range of countries in the former sovi ....
Leadership as at all other interAgency Meetings on this topic of which i was aware the National SecurityCommunity Expressed unanimous support for resuming the funding as in the u. S. National security interest at the july 26th meeting there was also a discussion of how ukrainian anticorruption efforts were making progress do you do you reiterated what we had said and our earlier certification to congress stating that sufficient progress in defense reform including anticorruption had occurred to justify the usa i spending. I and others at the interAgency Meetings felt that the matter was particularly urgent because it takes time to obligate that amount of money and my understanding was that the money was legally required to be obligated by september 30th the e ....
You cover that with the chairman and then of course we have the press conference of october 17 ed Mick Mulvaney let the cat fully out of the bag and revealed President Trump talk to him the corruption related to the dnc server a and admitted tt is why be held at the money, any other explanation for the hold . In my remaining 30 seconds just so people understand what i refer to, in 1970 Richard Nixon decided, i dont know a general skepticism of foreign aid but he decided to hold a congressionally mandated aid. As a result, Congress Went to work and passed the control act of 1974. Which prohibits the president from withholding congressionally appropriated funds without the approval of congress for any reason. Is that correct . I am not a lawyer, but that is my understan ....