in the trump inaugural committee? what can you tell us about that? >> again, our interest is really from a counter-intelligence point of view, and that is we're foreign parties trying to use the inauguration committee as a way of exerting influence over the incoming administration. we know already that foreign contributions which are prohibited were funneled in part to this committee through a straw man. sam patton has already pled guilty to an offense related to that, a $50,000 contribution to buy tickets to the inauguration on behalf of a russian and a ukranian. and so we're deeply interested to know whether this committee, which raised unprecedented sums, tried to raise that money to exert influence. there are other committees like the oversight committee, i think, that may be interested in other issues such as whether the trump family organization used the inaugural committee to enrich itself by charging above-market rate for hotel rentals or ballroom rentals or whatnot during the inauguration, but our interest is

this committee is better than this. this committee can do this better. why are we here doing preemptive subpoenas, we're going to be out for a while. and we need to keep the story rolling. the story rolling is there's some innuendo, possibilities that may be in this report but we can't wait to see. it unfortunately what will happen my friends is this, christmas will come again, they thought early nothing was there, now they're dying to open another president. at the end of the day, this president and what the report of the mueller conviction said was no collusion. no obstruction, and when we understand that, when we move forward with that, if we can't get what we want, we'll try and try again. maybe that's the new theme of the committee, the little train that kept looking for something that says i'll try and try, the president is still the president, the economy is moving forward, the regulations we have put in place are there, and at this point in time, the attorney general, although he has been smeared repeatedly is doing exactly what the regulation sa

disclosure to committees of congress, committee on ways and means committee on finance and joint committee on taxation upon written request from the chairman of the committee on ways and means of the house of representativers, the chairman of the finance committee or the chairman of the joint committee on taxation, the secretary issue furnish sup committee with any return or return information specified in such request, except that any return or return information which can be associated with or otherwise identify, directly or indirectly, a particular taxpayer shall be furnished to such committee only when sitting in closed executive session unless such taxpayer otherwise concepts in writing to such disclosure, from a legal perspective, how strong is the democrats' standing right now in getting the president's tax returns? >> the law is absolutely crystal clear on this point. people have been waiting for this day. it's not a matter of sort of legal interpretation. this law which is the provision of the statutory provision of the federal tax code that essentially says the irs is not allowed

committee cannot escape history.minutes to explain his decision, going through the points of evidence and how hard it was for him to vote against a president who he inth enthusiastically supported in three campaigns. then his hugely successful 1972 re-election cam in which president richard nixon won 49 states. a republican voting to undo that 49 state mandate for richard nixon wasn't an easy thing to do. but in his decision larry hogan left a lesson for today's congressional republicans. now, i have to squeeze in one more commercial break here so that i will have enough time on the other side of the break to show you everything that i want you to hear that congressman larry hogan said to the judiciary committee on that historic day in which the members of his -- of both parties of the judiciary committee today should be remembering and acting on. we'll be right back. e remembering and acting on. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ applebee's bigger, bolder grill combos. now that's eatin good in the neighborhood. so, you're ope

waters: the committee the committee will come to order. without objection the chairs authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. at today's hearing we are receiving the annual testimony of the secretary of treasury. on the state of the international financial system and i will now record myself for four minutes to give an opening statement. to date this committee convenes for a hearing to receive the annual testimony of treasury secretary steven mnuchin on the state of the international financial system. i would like to start by talking about the international development association or ida which is the arm of the world bank that provides grants and highly loans to the world's poorest countries. i am concerned through its new private sector that is today is transferring to $.5 million to the world banks private sector investment arm. the international finance corporation that is subsidizing private firms selective without competition on the basis of unsolicited proposals it is likely to prioritize financial returns over po

we transmit the resolution to the relevant committees. the first committees that bill is going through. may be getting in the weeds too much. technologically things are changinchanging in san francisc. all of the things i am saying i wish the legislature could synchronize the system to make it universal across committees. it is a hopscotch approach right now. the water parks and water life committee might allow you to upload the city resolution. the insurance committee may request you fax it or hand deliver it or what have you. that is something we are dealing with. you want to make the finer point so the board members understand we are tracking how the committee's need to get positions taken by your board. in terms of balancing, we are constantly aware. we track every position taken by your board. i can produce that matrix at any point in time for you or your staff to demonstrate we are doing that. we are constantly aware of every position made by your board. >> do you make recommendations to the city or the mayor as to bills that we mig

this bill comes before the rules committee after much deliberation by the energy and commerce committee. in total the committee has considered this issue and this legislation for more than 18 hours over the course of hearings and markups since the beginning of this congress. during that time we've heard from consumer advocates, minority and underrepresented communities, rural broadband providers, small businesses, innovators, entrepreneurs and millions of constituents. in addition polls show more than 86% of all americans whether they be republicans, nm independents or democrats oppose the fcc's appeal that the protections this bill reinstates. people care about a free and open internet. because it's critical for so many communities and sectors for our economy. today broadband connectivity touches almost every aspect of our economy, politics and culture. this legislation would restore popular bipartisan common sense net nuteraleutrality protection. second, this bill gives the fcc the authority to protect consumers now and in the future through forward looking regulatory authority. third

and democratic congressman ted lieu serves on the judiciary committee and foreign affairs committees. to begin our discussion, we are first joined by phone by rosalind helderman, an investigative reporter for "the washington post" one of the reporters who broke tonight's story about the mueller report in the "washington post." and ross land, you're reporting the essence it is going to be a lightly redacted report. that's what your sources are telling you about this report. >> yeah, and of course, lightly could be in the eye of the beholder. so we'll have a conversation tomorrow night at this time. i want to be clear, i have not read the report and have not seen this yet. we'll see tomorrow night exactly what happens. our understanding is that the redactions are especially light in the section about obstruction of justice. so that he this report is really going to contain a very, very detailed and spec look at the president's activities and various episodes both ones known publicly before and some that were not. that looked like efforts to undermine this probe. and so i suspect we're g

and one of that committee's sort of super powers is that the chairman of that committee is empowered request and receive the tax return of any person in the united states. tonight the chair of that committee in the house has announced he is exercising that power, and he is directing the irs to turn over to him the last six years of president donald trump's tax returns. and his business tax returns too. joining us now is congresswoman judy chu of california. she is a member of the ways and means committee. congresswoman, thank you for joining us tonight. i really appreciate your time. >> thank you for having me. >> so it's clear and chairman neal makes clear that this is not a subpoena, but he also seems to be saying in the way that he is laying this out in his letter and the background information we've received from the committee, he seems to be saying that the irs has no choice but to comply with this request that the language of the statute says they shall provide a return requested by the chairman in this circumstances. is that your understanding? >> oh, yes. it was in 1924 that

writing committees and their staff, the senate finance committee and the house ways and means committee, and the staff of the joint tax committee are by far the leading experts on taxation in washington and the chief of staff of that staff on the joint tax committee is simply regarded in awe by all members of the staff of the tax writing committees. and so i am filled with awe tonight and very excited to have george yin with us tonight. he was actually hired by republicans to run the staff of the joint committee on taxation. there is usually depending on which party is in power, democratic chairman of that committee or a republican chairman of that committee, it was always a republican in george yin's time, but the staff of that committee is always considered nonpartisan. it isn't even bipartisan. they're nonpartisan, they are completely trusted by both sides. and george yin has actually written the definitive article on the tax writing committee's legal authority to obtain the president's tax returns, and so you are going to hear from the highest authority in the land on this issue ton

committee.t is about a statement he submitted before the hearing today. the headline, barr makes no mention of mueller. house lawmakers want to hear more from attorney general william barr about the status of the special counsel report. it looks like they will have to bring it up themselves. filed a written statement that focuses on the justice department priority for a $29.2 billion request for 2020 and leads out of the message of the -- any mention of the russia investigation. his appearance will draw much more attention than a traditional budget hearing because it will be his first appearance since robert mueller submitted his report. at 9:30 thisill be morning if you want to watch it. to watch that hearing. that will take place live today. about that in the context of our today in washington segment. that topic up for discussion. you can talk about the status of the southern border, especially of the senate holds a hearing on that topic. you see that on our website, c-span.org. you can also

committee. this hearing begins with a markup of the net neutrality bill. >> today, the committee will be considering to considering two measures. the first is the save the internet act. this bill would reserve the trump fcc's net neutrality vote. simply put, large corporations should not be in charge of what americans see online. a free and open internet is a critical part of enabling free speech and allowing our digital economy to thrive. hr 1644 mirrors the congressional act bill that pass -- passed the senate last congress and had 182 bipartisan signers here in the house. an overwhelming majority of americans, 86% in a repeat poll is opposed to what the president's fcc has done. that includes 82% of republicans. we should continue that bipartisan spirit this congress and finally protect americans from abusive practices by internet service providers. the second measure is hr-2021, the investing for the people act. this bill would prevent deep and harmful cuts to discretionary programs establis

we constituted an entire committee called the budget committee. i don't want to wow you with my eloquence, do you know what the responsibility with the budget committee is? one, write the budget. write the budget. for years there was a time where the senate was not taking up budgets in its budget committee. i wondered why they didn't disband it because the only job the budget committee has is to write the budget. by know we need to do that together. we know we do. but we're not. second bill this rule makes in order is the government takeover of the internet bill. again, if you think the internet is broken, and the benevolent hand of government can can fix it, this is the bill for you. if you think the internet is not broken and perhaps the government ought to stay where government is anti-freedom of the internet should continue, this is not the bill for you -- and the freedom of the internet should continue, this is not the bill for you. we need to defeat the rule. i do want to point out for the rules committee, we were working just beyond those d

volume 7 and 8 from the hearings before the house judiciary committee. looking at volume 7, it is filled with grand jury testimony and other evidence from the investigation that was produced to the house judiciary committee. for example, on page 688 of volume 8, there is the grand jury testimony of rosemary woods. here is a copy of it. there were volumes and volumes of such information produced in the watergate investigation to the house judiciary committee. these examples of receiving all of the relevant evidence and other analogous investigations help show how unprecedented it would be for attorney general barr to withhold from congress potentially significant portions of special counsel mueller's report and the underlying evidence and materials. the same type of information can and should be produced here. i ask unanimous consent to include these materials in the record. this subpoena authorization gives this committee the ability -- >> you've been listening there to jerry nadler the chairman of the house judiciary committee making the argument in eff

and as a former cochair of the taipai city committee.francisco was active as a member of the california commission on asian and pacific islanders american affairs. advising the governor and legislature on issues affecting the islander communities. a member of the california world trade commission, a member of the california transportation as advisory board and a board member of the california acupuncture board regulating the practice of acupuncture and asian medicine in the state. as if that wasn't enough, he was president of the u.s., china and preservation confucius foundation to promote relationships between the united states and the pacific rim. francisco was instrumental in shaping the political careers of many local leaders, including then president to the board of supervisors angela alio and over the years, francisco became well-known as a prolific fundraiser and a community relation's consultant on a local, state and national level working with congressman mike honda, former california greg davis, formal state senator john burton

congressman elijah cummings of maryland chairs the house oversight committee. we will show the hearing beginning with his opening statements. >> we will hear from secretary of commerce the honorable wilbur ross about preparations for the 2020 census. ourconstitution requires government to conduct a census every 10 years. the constitution also requires person the every latest census begins next year and significant challenges have been raised by the government accountability office either about whether we will be ready. today's hearing will be our andt of several this year we will look to our able subcommittee on civil rights and civil liberties headed up by the honorable jamie raskin to follow-up with additional hearings. we're to make sure tracking progress. highlighting small problems before they become large problems. that outstanding recommendations are being implemented effectively and efficiently. today we'll examine secretary ross's decision to add a new citizenship question after up, at thesten census bureau warned and i quote quality ofarms the the cen

committee, subpoena robert mueller to testify before your committee? >> i think it is inevitable that bob mueller is going to have to testify. and i would presume that he may testify before multiple committees. the judiciary committee will be predominately interested in the criminal side. we are interested in how this investigation began. and it may even be ongoing, we don't know, and that is, this began as a counterintelligence investigation over concerns that the president or people around him may be compromised, wittingly or unwittingly. we don't even know if that is a part of the mueller report. by law, they are required to brief us on any counterintelligence activity. we will hold him to the law, whether that's bob mueller himself or others within the intelligence community or the fbi, i don't want to say at this point, that will be a leadership decision. but i think it's inevitable that he's going to need to testify before congress. >> and when you say, by law, they have to brief you, you mean the gang of eight? >> they have to brief congress on

, the oversight committee. you voted today to subpoena carl kline, a former white house official, who apparently played a key role in granting security clearances to officials who had initially been denied those clearances. what do you hope to learn from him? >> we need to find out, first of all, why they were denied. you know, typically, they are denied because someone has a conflict of interest, has foreign financial interests, has a criminal record or bad behavior. so under all of those circumstances, we want to know, of those 25 people, why is it that even though they were declined, that that was overruled by the white house? this is a civil servant, someone who has served for 18 years in both republican and democratic administrations, who has come to congress because it's her last hope is what she said. she is fearful, she's already been retaliated against. she started making a list of 25 people. there may be many more who were basically given security clearances, but were not persons that should have gott

regular or special congressional committees like the armed services committee often start higher worksften start fireworks. the committee works over bills before they are debated or voted upon. it is another way congress seeks to get all the facts before it acts on a bill. some committee hearings can be very tense, and sometimes they are used to air political views which are embarrassing to one of the parties in congress. congressional committees have the power under law to compel the attendance of witnesses and have them testify under oath. the chairman and members of the committee may question witnesses, open hearings on important questions often attract large attendance, and newspaper reporters are there. here are some high-ranking naval officers who were called to testify. they are checking over the statements they are going to make to the committee. other meetings are private and quite informal, often involving members of the two opposing political parties, trying to straighten out some difference of opinion so the lawmaking will not be blocked. back in the capital, under the dome

we don't call it the qtea committee we call it the parcel tax oversight committee. our core charge is to ensure that the funds are spent only in the manner that was approved by the voters. so, we go through the financials every meeting and every single line ties back to the wordings of the ballot measure. we include the scope for the audit for the past year and review the expenditures to the most recent period at every meeting. one of the things we wanted today do this year, as lea indicated was to see whether -- what the voters voted for is taking place. we'll get to that more later on. we reviewed the district spending. the audit, and this year, because most of the money goes to how many an resources and to technology, we wanted to spend more time with the head of human resources, daniel and the head of information technology so each of them were in for an entire meeting talking about questions and issues that we posed to them ahead of time. we really haven't started looking into the living wage for educators act because it's pretty much pending. >> so as far as -

a member of both the intelligence committee and the oversight and reform committee, congressman, thanks so much for joining us. i know you just got off this democratic caucus conference call that you've been on for the past hour or so. first of all, what can you tell us, where does your party stand right now on this very sensitive issue of launching preliminary hearings, for example, on impeachment? >> well, i think that clearly there's differences of views on the ultimate question of impeachment right now. but there is a consensus on one thing, which is we have to get a full unredacted version of the mueller report, and then secondly, we have to have bob mueller as well as key witnesses that are featured in the report come testify on capitol hill. >> where do you stand, congressman? which part of the democratic party are you with when it comes to impeachment? >> i'm, i'm kind of in the camp whereas a former prosecutor in illinois, i basically learned that you have to investigate before you prosecute. and right now i'm focused like a laser on, you know, a thousand redactions in this rep

r committee hanged for. we hanged at least six.his is where the hangings would have taken place in the summer of 1858. the crime in san luis obispo robbery.t was it did not stop at robbery. the gang that terrorized the area in the 1850's had a motto and it was dead men tell no tales. they were not satisfied with stealing. they killed their victims. they left a trail of skeletal remains north of town to santa barbara. travelers remarked on coming upon human remains frequently during the 1850's. and the gang that would provoke the vigilance committee was actually headquartered in santa barbara. and the leader of the gang was jack powers. he was raised in hells kitchen, in new york city. he came to santa barbara in 1848 as part of a volunteer regiment to fight the mexican war. he did not do much fighting. what he did was what he did best. which was dancing. the women of santa barbara loved him. he also loved to racehorses. so the men of santa barbara loved him. unfortunately, he was also a killer. the outlawhead of gang that terrorize

, and the intelligence committee in the house. we know as of today with the cnn reporting that they're handing over subpoena documents in new york to new york law enforcement. i mean, it's on. the president is scrambling here, including making stuff up now about mueller's investigation saying mueller covered all. this nobody else need to do it. nice try, but it's on. it's happening. and simultaneously, the second area, the other most acute area of trouble for the president, the other area for which he is scrambling the fastest right now, other than his financials is his newly emergent, very serious john dean problem. john dean in 1973 had just left the nixon white house under contentious circumstances when dean was called to testify before congress before the senate watergate committee. that dean testimony ended up being blockbuster stuff about the watergate cover-up and the president's role in it, and dangling pardons and clemency to people to shut them up. intimidating witnesses and obstruction of justice and the enemies list. e

house judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler explained the need for committee lawyers to question the attorney general. >> we've seen any number of instances under the five-minute rule where a witness also filibuster for 4 1/2 minutes and give a nonresponsive answer in the last half minute and you can't follow up. if the attorney general is afraid to subject himself to questions where you can follow up that may indicate lack of confidence in his own positions. it's not up to the attorney general to tell the committee how to conduct its business or we will decide what the most effective way of asking questions are and that's what our decision is. >> chairman nadler said that attorney general barr could be subpoenaed if he refuses to testify this week. >> what will happen if he doesn't show up? >> we've told him we expect him to show up on thursday and we're going to conduct the inquire as we said we would. if he doesn't show up, we'll resort to subpoenas. >> he was asked whether william barr's objections to testifying could change the committee's position on impeachment. >> if the

are they cooperating with the committee? mr.chiff: the banks are cooperating, they needed a friendly subpoena to cooperate, they are, i'm sure, concerned about the litigation that the trump organization has brought but let's be plain about it. the president was fully transparent in the sense that he says he's going to fight every effort at oversight of his administration. and i think we need to recognize what's happening here, first the president made an effort to nullify congress' most important power, and that is the power of the purse. and did so by trying to go around the congress and build a wall that congress refused to fund. now he's going at congress again to try to undermine one of our other most important powers and responsibilities and that is the responsibility of oversight. i would say to my g.o.p. colleagues that may support him in this effort, be careful what you wish for because it will mean that subsequent republican majorities or the republicans in the senate will be likewise unable to do their constitutional j

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>> judiciary committee is an interesting committee. i think every single controversial issue in the entire universe goes to that committee. i think there will be a lot of back-and-forth. to me, we may spend hours there, discussing this. the bottom line is that, the attorney general has already said he will release the report. president trump has said, release the report. it will happen, they need some type of time to go through and make sure that they are following the law by redacting classified information, and information that has privacy issues due to the grand jury. i don't know why chairman nadler's doing this. i can say i served on three committees, i serve on the rules committee, i serve on the judiciary committee and the homeland security committee. there is a common theme, undermine the president of the united states. that is what it is all about. it's all about the 2020 presidential election. to make the homeland security committee, what you make of the present threat to shut down the southern border? >> i hope we can find a

every member of the ways and means committee knows that as well. in member's remarks yesterday, they said the committee has a responsibility to conduct oversight of the tax system to determine how americans, including those in elected office are complying with theh law. in other words, the president and vice president ought to be s held to the same high standards as every other american. not at different standards. the same standards. there is no reason to believe that this is already happening. democrats haven't offered a shred of evidence to suggest the irs hasn't done his job. and by the way, the democrats are really so concerned about enforcement, then why not ask the treasury inspector general to conduct a review of the irs audit process? i want to tell you why they might not do that because they are not concerned about oversight of the irs enforcement process at all. what they are interested in is using their oversight responsibilities to collect as much information about this president finances as they can get their hands on. and that is rea

, the investigatory committees. maybe in a closed room where nobody can take the oath but you will -- >> just like an intelligence briefing. they will get things in private that they don't share in public. >> exactly. that seems to me to be a fair way to plans this out. >> stand by. don't go anywhere. we're watching live pictures of the hearing room right now. laura coates, david gergen, stick with us as we prepare to hear from bill barr, the first time he has testified since the summary of the mueller report. >>> still to come the white house is weighing a so-called binary choice for migrants, stay together indefinitely in a detention facility or be separated at the border. this as the president ordered a partial border shutdown backing off that demand, though, but just a few weeks ago. those details ahead. >>> this as we are waiting to hear from attorney general barr facing tough questions on capitol hill just minutes from now. we will bring that to you live when it kicks off. there are people out there who see th

the house judiciary committee meeting happening. kelly o'donnell joins us from the white house lawn. i imagine the white house is also watching this. i was talking to sources there saying this is a lot, in their view, bluster from democrats. the president, as we look at congressman matt gates there has a lot of allies in this room who are really fighting his case for him. >> yes. it's democrats who are also sort of test driving the powers that came with their majority in the area of running these committees, using their gabble power for subpoenas and the political debate that follows. this is the kind of hearing where it takes a very long time for everyone to say what's on their minds and then the vote. there is certainly a difference between this era and the ken starr era because the individual statute that everything associated with ken starr was very different in that it requir required the publication of the full report. the special council statute is different in that the limitations are much greater for the report to only go t

the financial services committee is a committee for expertise on housing issues. if you were on that committee you were shut down as well. democrats also denied the natural resources, ed and labor, veterans' affairs, and energy and commerce committees the chance to weigh in on a bill with provisions that sit squarely with their jurisdictions. i want to re-authorize the violence against women act. i want to do it that meets the fundamental goals and original intent of the law and i want to recognize changes that need to be addressed. simply put, i want to find a bipartisan, bicameral agreement that democrats have shunned when they rushed this bill to the floor. this bill could actually put women at greater risk in some of the programs it authorizes and it's not a solution i can support with that, mr. speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. nadler: mr. speaker, i now yield two minutes to the vice chair of the crime subcommittee, the gentlewoman from florida, ms. demmings. the chair:

the intelligence committee, potentially the judiciary committee, at times had to deconflict with theal counsel's office to make sure that what they were pursuing in terms of their congressional investigations wasn't going to mess up the investigation that the special counsel was carrying over. that requires some sort of communication with the special counsel's office. since robert mueller's investigation has come to a close and since this report has been handed over to the justice department, has there been ongoing communication between the special counsel's office and the congressional committee's that might give you in these key committees some insight into what's going on between mueller and barr? >> not to my knowledge, but chairman nadler indicated even earlier today that he expects that bob mueller testify before the house judiciary committee sooner rather than later, as well as other individuals who are involved in the mueller investigation. we can't trust anything that's coming out of the department of justice, and all we want is the facts. awful we want is transparency. all