[000:00:00;00] the on going from bottom into the status of ramadan, thousands of palestinians of hills across kansas and his riley's trunks on residential times the hotel mccrae. this is just a red line from the hospital. so coming up that us intelligence report questions with it as well can to feed him off the prime minister benjamin netanyahu,

who can stay in power sedans. and he says it's taking control of the national tv headquarters is a bunch. the paramilitary rapids support forces full control and federal prime minister around laurie agrees to resign up to weeks of pressure from games which control most of the campus all the way up again and goes with 72 palestinians have been killed by israeli attacks. and guys are in the last 24 hours and they still live in all of the victims within residential buildings and the butler and central cancer. others were injured with some said to be buried under rumpled in the city. and gaza says he is ready. tanks have again fight on stopping people seeking food. at least 9 palestinians were killed in the attack of the quite round the balance which has been repeatedly targeted in recent weeks. is there any forces killed at least $115.00 civilians in the same area last month?

sounds is here is terrible. his name is on the find from southern cows or for us and there can just tell us more about these latest strikes. we you in rafa, but also the strikes and del bhalla. yes, the told me time we had been witnessing a series of as is very as twice in the last few hours that completely shaken. the tired goal is a strip wrapping scene. please do for the trip tech. so the middle areas, in particular endeavors, we're not part residential houses have been bothered and level to the ground, doesn't the palestinians have to reported killed and injured. and we have been seeing exactly that. there is on getting something for free patients of the eastern part of the town to be able to but where they use the force of the patient on behalf of this town. but initially this john has been designated as a safe zone for the majority of palestinians, which is right now, very densely populated area. and we simply ask of these for the repeated announcement that they will potentially invade as a depo started to get back to

a to from off towards the middle areas in particular, in buried by the which had been why the attack and the course of the past few days and we have been also hearing loud explosions in the it's other parts of the city or newness where the 24 says continue to demolish the residential neighborhoods completely. one off or the other, into erica, as all of that happens is really is the is where the military is still firing on palestinians taking food. i can you just explain why they have being repeatedly time because a yes and fox. the attack that happened today in a crate round about it has killed at least non count spinning. and this is completely up to great repeated attacks that have the most widely happened as it was trying to prevent palestinians from receiving much needed going as early as active as previously. they have killed and profound in and that will to around the bath. and the also increase roundabout, which is about the among palestinians has

a get trapped quite a bit time desktop vacation on the hype ration. no, that's it. people from catherine to bear, to wait a minute, have been desperately sent traumatized. since the start of this genocide don't move out of the and generally our did not have any further option scale. i'm just trying to get aids on the on getting restrictions in the post by the 24th. please. okay, thanks so much to eric that is terica bowes and for us there in gaza exchanges a file on the is where i live in on buddha, escalating has blah has 5 barrows you broken since it is rarely territory. and this off to is where i launched and attacked deep inside living on killing at least 4 civilians. st. ahold of has moved from virus the rocket barges launched from southern 11 on its military positions in northern israel are becoming more frequent. it's an escalation by has the law which opened the front to help relief pressure on garza 5 months ago. on tuesday, the armed

a group fired up to 100 rockets. usually many are intercepted by as well as air defense system that i windham, and many falls in open areas. but there seems to be a message that escalate things. typically if you took the, the month from the 15th of february, the last month, the, instead of the escalating intends of the quantity, not the, they'd still did not use the longer range, more precision, like the fact that $110.00, no, they alleged the, they have a discount the so these are more heavy of payload, longer range and the more precise of israel doesn't appear to be deterred. most of it continues to carry out strikes against hezbollah. target's with no geographical limits. the latest hits were 100 kilometers from the border, and 11 on eastern city of bol back. so far as well as attacks have been within the unwritten rules of engagement. but some believe the groups capabilities are keeping as well in check the capable of, uh, confronting,

says the law an open war. uh, especially that they have not a capable of achieving any of the objectives against a lot of. and now robot who are the us special counsels reported on you is present you a buttons handling of classified documents is appearing before the us health. your district committee visit button could be seen as a well meaning elderly man with a pool memory for me. the judiciary hearing is stuffing. now let's listen to page one of mister hers report. you said this, our investigation on covered evidence that president biden will fully retains and disclose classified materials after his vice presidency. when he was a private citizen, he further writes mister bye and willfully retained marked classified documents about afghanistan and hand written notes. in his note books which he stored in

unsecure places in his home, joe biden kept classified information, and joe biden failed to store classified information properly. mister her made these determinations. after interviewing 147 witnesses, he examined 7000000 documents, including e mails, text messages, photographs, videos, toll records, and other materials from both classified and unclassified sources. but there is more, not only joe, but not only kept information, he wasn't allowed to keep. and he not only failed to secure that information properly. he also stared it with people. he wasn't allowed to who weren't allowed to see it. shared that information with his ghostwriter. and remember, this is information that only individuals with the security clearance are supposed to see. mr. her told us on page 200 of his report, that it's the kind of information that quote risk serious damage to america's

national security. what a job i'd have to say about all this. what was his explanation? on page 94, mister hers report, joe biden said he took his note books with him after his vice presidency because quote, they're mine. and every present, before me has done the same exact thing. never mind the fact that he had never been president when he took this information. but what comes through is joe biden felt he was entitled, you can almost hear it. you can feel the arrogance in the statement their mind. but even with all that, mr. her chose not to bring charges, because quote, mister biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did in our interview with him as a sympathetic. well, meaning elderly man with a port memory, a forgetful old man, who mister her said, did not remember when he was vice president for getting on the 1st day of the

interview when his tea, when his term ended, and forgetting on the 2nd day of the interview when his term is, vice president began mister her produced a 345 page report, but in the end it boils down to a few key facts. joe biden kept classified information. joe biden failed to properly secure classified information, and joe biden shared classified information with people he wasn't supposed to. joe biden broke the law because he is forgetful old man who would appear sympathetic to a jury. mister her chose not to bring charges. mister her, we think it's important that you be able to respond to president biden's response to your report. so we're going to play a short video of mr. buttons. prescott present by this press conference after your report was released because there's things in this press conference at the front. the united states says that are directly contradicted by what you found in your

report. so we can play that video. let me say a few things before i take the questions. as you know, the special comes release is fine, is the day about there. look into my handling of classified documents. something the special counsel say in his report is one of the reasons you are not charged is because in his description, you are a well meaning. elderly man with 84 memory will need to know every man and i know what all i'm doing. i'm in presence of this country back on the streets. i don't need his recommendation. and can continue as president my memory so bad. i let you speak. that's the best phone number is not my memory is fine. my memory, take

a look at what i've done since the compression. none of your thought i can pass any of these. i got past how that happens. you know, i guess i just forgot what was going on. a fully my, some of the, the qualified material i take responsibility for not having to see exactly what my staff was doing. there's it goes in 20 town things that appear in my garage, things that came out of my home, things that were most removed, not find me, but my staff. but my staff, the

about 3 or 4 people have been watching and they have expressed concerns about your a judge that is your georgia public. that is not to jordan for fresh concerns about your mental acuity. they say that you are too old, mister president. you told me that you believe there are many other democrats and her defeat donald trump. so why does it have to be you now? why, what is your person is going to be press united states and finish the job? i started the not sure classified information i did not share with my goal, so i did not guarantee you did not. the did not say that, mr. president. the question. the fact of the matter is what i didn't want repeated . i didn't want him to not. i didn't read it to you was i had written along with

moran and the president obama. why we should not be in this in afghanistan. and i was other than the multiple pages. and so what i was referring to, i said classified i should have said it was, should be private because it was a contact between the president and vice president as to what was going on. that's what is referring you. it was not classified information in that document. that was not the me when you look back at this incident, is there anything you would do differently now? do you think that a special prosecutor should have been appointed in the 1st place in both of these cases? first of all, what i would have done is, or see the transfer of the material that was in my office in my office. i should have done if i go back and i didn't have the responsibility that i thought was,

my staff was supposed to do that and they reference that in the report. and my staff did not do it in the way that for example, i didn't know how half the boxes got in my garage until i found out staff category won't put them together in terms of the garage in my home and all the stuff that was in my home was in filing cabinets that we're either locked or able. i mean, there was in my house and wasn't out in like in more lago in a public place where and none of that was high classified didn't, i mean that read stuff on, you know what i mean around the corners. none of that. and so i wish i had paid more attention to how the documents were being moved to where i thought there'd be moved to the archives. i thought all of us. that's what i thought. and what was the last part of the question whether special counselor should have been appointed in this case in the case of your rival present farmer for i think his special counsel should have been appointed. and the reason i think, especially counselor, should have been appointed is because i did not want to be in

a position that they looked at trump and we're kind of looking they just like they looked at the vice president and the factors, they made a firm conclusion i did not break the law period. thank you all the i'm of the view. as you know that the conduct of the response i guess is the guy the strip has been um over the top. i think that uh you know,

initially presence of mexico cc did not want to open up the gate to allow you mandatory material to get in. i talked to, i convinced open to let to make them part of the release and recognize them fully in return for certain things that you want to stay should commit to do. and the commitment to that we are a proposed to do related to $2.00 to $2.00 items. i'm not going to go into detail, but one of them was to deal with the protection against there are trying to be to the northwest, a ne isis. the 2nd one by providing ammunition and material for them to defend themselves. coincidence ways. that's the timeframe with this broke out. i have no proof what i'm about to say. but it's not a reasonable suspect that the hamas understood what was about to take place and wanted to break it up before it happens.

the journal recognizes the ranking member of the snapper for an opening statement is kim and i'm a read. you have such information as the such admiration for the present that you allowed him to take the 1st 10 minutes of his hearing. a. mr. chairman, house republicans may be desperate to convince america. flight conservative men are on the losing end of a to, to the justice system, a theory that appeals to the mag of crowd that has no basis in reality. with your comments today made me wonder if you have read the special councils report at all. a report does help us do a distinction between present biden and donald trump just not the one you want to distinction is actually 1st the report is clear that quote note pointed to the special council, find the evidence and mr. biting intended, or had reason to believe the information will be used to enter the united states that the benefit of foreign nations close vote. with respect to the classified

documents found them present by dispossession. quote, the decision to decline criminal charges with straightforward scrap. and with respect to the special counsels investigation, quote, mister biden turns in classified documents, the national archives in the department of justice, consented to the search of multiple locations, including his homes, set for voluntary interview, and then other ways cooperated with the investigation as quote, president biden acted responsibly cooperated completely and the decision to decline criminal justice, a decline. criminal charges was relatively straightforward in short, to borrow a phrase in the last administration. the hurry port represents the complete and total exoneration. a president biden. and how does that record contrast with present president trump? documents he retain, and the criminal charges pending against him in florida. we know that trump deliberately took large amounts of classified information from the white house. he

is admitted as much occasionally pretending that he classified this information without telling anyone on his way out the door as we know the store, the information around to morrow. lago in the craziest of places on the bowling stage spilled across the floor of an unlocked closet next to the toilet. we know they showed classified military plans to northward interviewing him as mister quote, as president, i could it be classified. trump says on an audio recording, now i can't, you know, but this is still a secret. still a secret close quote. so much to the declassification theory. we know when the indictment that trump is alleged to have shared these classified in documents with many other visitors tomorrow while ago. and we know that despite this rate is conduct, the department of justice gave trump every opportunity to avoid criminal charges again and especially counselors, words quote. after being given multiple chances to return classified documents and

devoid prosecution, mr. trump allegedly did the opposite. not only refused to return the documents for many months, but he also obstructed justice by listing others to destroy evidence and then to why about cause, quote, why did the president charge for my president trump, but not president biden? not because of some best conspiracy. not because the so called deep state was out to get him. but because the former president trump was fundamentally incapable of taking advantage of even one of the many, many chances he was given to avoid those charges. which brings me to the 2nd distinction. this report house has drawn between president biden, and donald trump simply put president biden at the mental acuity to navigate this situation. donald trump did not as much as been made of the special councils good to dis,

comments about the president by this age. let's set the context after returning our request by document, after opening his home to federal investigators, while simultaneously managing the 1st hours of the crisis in israel. president biden volunteer to sit through a 5 hour interview with the special council. i believe as his habit, the president biden probably committed a verbal slip or 2 during the interview. and i'm not sure any that matters, because when the interview was over, mister, her completely exonerated, president biden. and then there is donald trump. what kind of man bundles, not one, but dozens of opportunities to avoid criminal liability. what was that say about his mental state? here to the record speaks for itself. one of the great memories of all time, james web,

don't remember. and the names don't remember the name victor or bonded ever anyone ever hear of him? he's the leader of dirty by the way. they never report to crowd on january 6. you know nikki haley. pokili is in charge of security. 3 is lady ladders. larry chow about that. do you actually have a one on one? was call me? no, not much. not even that i remember how i received. oh, sweet language is coming into our country. we have nobody that even speaks those languages that truly foreign language is nobody speaks of tardy rap and russia. well repeat your. uh, i have a really good number. you are next wife was a woman by the name of marlin maples, right. do you recall what year is your married time? is naples a um, it's called like a banner ad. there's going to memory and there's gold, other things. so you don't remember saying you're one of the best buy and for no, i so little respect for obama that you started gets all around the nuclear were dirty,

you her the nuclear. we have to win in november. busy or we're not going out pennsylvania to change the name i talked to put in a lot for us and the, i don't remember that i, you know, i saw that this morning. i don't remember us getting back to just have a good memory and all that stuff like a great memory for 20 years that were fighting ices. i defeated isis in 4 ways and we did with obama. we one of the election that everyone said couldn't be one them, that cracked digitally. and you know what, where i am, you're getting shot where she's going to be the 1st rate. i know most people use a all right job, you did a good job, get the out a. that's it. that is a man who is incapable of avoiding criminal liability. a man who is wholly unfit for office and to a man and a man who at the very least, ought to think twice before accusing others of cognitive decline. thank you for

being here today, mr. her. thank you for illuminating a stark choice for this country and the most the cost in the months to come. i look forward to your testimony now. you'll back a still meals next here now recognizes the chairman of the oversight committee. mister. com or for an opening statement. thank you. in august 2022, president biden questioned in a 60 minutes interview. how anyone can be that you're responsible when asked about classified documents in the possession of former president trump. but when president biden said this, he knew that he had stashed classified materials in several unsecure locations for years, dating back to his time as vice president. and even as a us senator, president by the white house and his personal attorneys have not been honest with the american people about his wilful retention of classified material. and continued to hide information from congress. present biden's attorney's claim to a 1st discovered classified material at pen bite and center. on november 2nd 2022, however, president biden,

his lawyers kept secret from the american people before the mid term elections. cbs news broke the story in january 2023 leading americans to wonder at the white house in any intention of ever disclosing the president biden forwarded classified documents for years. one of my 1st actions after becoming chairman of house oversight committee, was to launch an investigation and the president biden's mishandling of classified documents. this investigation started before special counsel her was named. and what we found is alarming information obtained through multiple transcribed interviews, conducted by the oversight committee. contradict the white house is and present by his personal attorney's narrative about the discovery of classified documents at the pin biden center. in fact, the real timeline began in the spring of 2021, not november 2022, as the white house claimed. additionally, the classified documents were not kept in a locked closet,

as asserted by the white house. we've also learned that 5, what else employees in the department of defense employee were involved in the early stages of coordinating, the organizing, moving and removing a boxes that were later found to contain classified materials. there's no reasonable explanation as to why so many whitehouse employees were concerned with retrieving boxes. they believe only contains personal documents and materials. why did president biden keep these specific documents in unsecure locations for years? many questions remain. but now the white house is obstructing congress as we speak the proof for the american people we've subpoenaed for our white house council. dana ramos to appear for a deposition to provide information to our committee. but the white house is seeking to block for testimony. we've also so painted the department of justice for audio recordings and transcript to present binds interview with special counsel her . these were due the morning of the state of the union only this morning,

a couple of hours before today's hearing. the department of justice finally provided the transcript to present biden's interview with special counsel her. the timing is not coincidental, although we've had little time to review the transcripts from what we have seen. it is clear that the wide out did not want special council. her final report to be released, the white house has refused to be transparent with the american people about the presidents mishandling of classified documents and worse, they have appeared to have lied about the timeline about who handled the documents . and even about the contents of president biden's interview with special counsel her, that is why today's hearing is important. transparency is what we seek today, and we look forward to special counsel, hers testimony. you'll but gentlemen, yields back the chair recognizes the ranking member of the oversight committee, mr. raskin for his opening statement. thank you. sherman jordan. they're just 3 basic points that all americans need to understand about mr. hers report. number one,

the special council exonerates president biden. the very 1st line of the report says it all quotes. we conclude that no criminal charges are warranted in this matter. we would reach the same conclusion even if department justice policy did not foreclose criminal charges against the sitting president. second, the report establishes the president, finding offered, complete, and on hesitating cooperation with this special councils investigation, justice department, the national archives were proactively notified of the classified documents and they were turned over. the president allowed the f, b i to searches homes. and he shot for volunteer interview for more than 5 hours on october, 8th, and october 9th, even as he was busy responding to a mazda is vicious terrorist attack. and israel, the report best demonstrates president biden's complete devotion to the rule of law . and his respect for a fair and independent department of justice, president biden did not assert executive privilege or claim it absolute immunity

for presidential crimes. he did not hide boxes of documents under his bed or in a bath tub. he did not fight investigators, nor did you seek to redact a single word of mister her's report. he consented to the search of numerous locations, including his homes, and he did everything he could to cooperate, not instruct. 3rd, special counsel her repeatedly emphasizes the president biden's conduct contrast sharply with that of former president trump. her observes that unlike the president biden, quote, the allegations set forth in the dining to mr. trump, if proven, would clearly establish not only mr. trump's of willfulness, but also serious aggravating factors. he sets forth these points of difference in detail, quote, most notably, after being given multiple chances to return cost by documents and avoid prosecution. trump allegedly did the opposite. according to the indictment, he not only refused to return the documents for months,

but he also obstructed justice by enlisting others to destroy the evidence and then to lie about it. on quote, she returned only a portion of supreme documents and deliberately withheld the rest on like president biden. trump did not alert the national archives or d o j of the documents, nor did he turn over all the classified materials in his possession. he did not agree to sit down for a voluntary interview with the special council. he never consented to a search of his home. on the contrary, trumps suggested that his attorney, hide or destroy evidence requested by the epi i. in the grand jury, trump carefully instructed his aid to move boxes of costs by documents to hide them from the f. b i. trump tried to delete incriminating security tape footage from our logo, and he got his attorney to provide a false certification. the f b i saying he had produced all the documents in his possession. he did not given this report

a so damning and the contrast between biden and trumpet. it's hard for me to see why our colleagues think that this hearing advances,