on the zonder commission why we have that commission is because of a discussion of the national executive committee of the agency and a number of meetings insisted that we needed such a commission and that is why finally that commission was created there relating the day very early of the years of zuma very late in the dad grew with you because in let's say in the gin women should finish his term in parliament no you're not telling the truth yourself now did you not say that no you never souther ok that's right the point i was making is that in parliament we kept saying to the president president please form the judicial commission of inquiry so that we can get on with this inquiry into how in fact was this state capture happening and yet president jacob zuma said in 2015 that the a.n.c. comes before the country that's a bit of a shocking statement for the present of a country to make it. so he made it. did you condemn him at the time for making way should i do agree with the statement i don't know them or not so you disagree while you're proving his point while you're proving is point no one will

world leading to violence this is not helpful we nor recently at a meeting we had as the national executive committee led by the president in the top 6 we've all our branches in johannesburg discuss these issues and we took a leadership position that said we must correct whoever is involved so you say you say when i want to branch leaders did the a.n.c. premier of how david macor did he not get the memo because he said this year some specific crimes are committed by specific nationalities drugs there are specific nationalities how do we have so many drug duns that are operated by nigerians is that helpful rhetoric when people are being not heard fooled by does also true. it's true what's true in certain cases people have been found to be guilty of running dry or no juries in this is sam nigeria literally. you said there are many south africans also i'm cousin you can where you stand on the one hand you're saying we shouldn't single them out on the other hand you're saying it's true what he says when years i'm out it is true when it is true it's true but i do condemn a statement that makes it sound li

on the zonder commission why we have that commission is because of a discussion of the national executive committee of the agency and a number of meetings insisted that we needed such a commission and that is why finally that commission was created very late in the day very late of the years of zuma very late in the day agri with you because in place saying that gene women should finish his term in parliament no you're not telling the truth yourself now did you not say that you never saw them ok that's the point i was making is that in parliament we kept saying to the president president please form the judicial commission of inquiry so that we can get on with this inquiry into how in fact was this state capture happening and yet president jacob zuma said in 2015 that the a.n.c. comes before the country that's a bit of a shocking statement for the present of a country to make it so he made it. did you condemn him at the time for making way should i do agree with the statement i don't know them or not say you disagree what are you proving his point why is your previous point no one will criticize me

committee. so i have located documents in the national archive that refer to innovation for the health alteration committee. president kennedy called the executive action. jumping forward to reagan he called it preemptive neutralization. bush called it lethal direct action and obama called it targeted killing. going back to after the vietnam war and president reagan developing a capacity for preemptive neutralization and this is because we sell the first rise in terrorism. what i also found very interesting, i interview a gentleman named lewis for this book and he was the 19th director of the secret service, he went on the record to expla explain, how the capacity to protect the president of the united states is the flipside of the coin of the executive action capacity or preempt neutralization capacity if you will. that comes from the fact that richard home so famously said if you have a capacity to take out someone else's leaders, why would they not take out yours. i'm paraphrasing but that's what he said. you begin to understand how serious this all gets behind the scenes. president reagan developed preemptive neutralization with the cia dire

i'm joined now by the armenian national committee of america executive director i'm party on i hope i got your name right there mr hardee on it's good to have you on the show i'll ask you the same thing i asked her room there from the a k party in turkey this decision that was made today by the house or yesterday by the house of representatives do you think that was a decision made out of conviction that this was truly genocide or do you think lawmakers were trying to use this to rebuke president trump and president aired of one. for many years turkey exercise a veto here in washington d.c. preventing members of congress from voting their conscience on the armenian genocide members of congress essentially overrode that veto and let members vote up or down and 405 of them voted yes only 11 voted no and that's basically what happened the patients went out with turkey to say that we're not going to force your gag rule here in washington and we're going to let legislators vote their conscience. the thing is this right in turkey it's illegal to talk about the armenian genocide and that's i

support for care we spoke with west benedicts the executive director of the libertarian national committee he told us nobody is interested in conducting a credible investigation. democrats have so now fundraising even almost trying to raise money off the impeachment. scandal and also of course republicans are doing it as well and i think it does undermine the investigation but to be honest i don't think anybody cares about doing a credible investigation during this impeachment process mostly republicans and democrats just want to score points against each other and try and raise money for their campaigns and try and get themselves elected i don't think democrats really care if the impeachment succeeds but then they have something they can talk about on their campaigns and say how bad trump is and say donate for us for president and donate for democrats for u.s. senate ultimately it's the politicians who benefit and it's the american people and often the rest of the world who. is hurt by this impeachment effort. thank you teasing out international this morning we're back in 30 minutes with

support for key of we spoke with west benedict the executive director of the libertarian national committee he says both parties only care about scoring points . democrats are so now fund raising even trying to raise money off the impeachment . scandal and also of course republicans are doing it as well and i think it does undermine the investigation but to be honest i don't think anybody cares about doing a credible investigation during this impeachment process mostly republicans and democrats just want to score points against each other and try and raise money for their campaigns and try and get themselves elected i don't think democrats really care if the impeachment succeeds but then they have something they can talk about on their campaigns and say how bad trump is and say donate for us for president and donate for democrats for u.s. senate ultimately it's the politicians who benefit and it's the american people who is hurt by this impeachment effort. and that's government says it won't be complying with new e.u. rules after farmers descended on the hague in tractors brussels wants to

national board of governors. she's also on the executive committee for the human rights campaign. shannon, thank you for your service and your question. >> thank you. good evening, mr. vice president. >> good evening. >> as anderson said, i served over ten years in the united states military and two combat tours in iraq, and after that service, i was forced to make one of the most difficult decisions i've ever been forced to make, and that was to choose between serving my country and my true identity as a transgender woman. this was indeed one of the most difficult decisions i've ever made. if you are elected, what will you do to support the estimated 15,000 troops putting their lives on the line every day to protect us? >> if i were president, you would not have to choose. not a joke. you would not have to choose. the fact of the matter is that we're in a position where transgender men and women are in a position where they should be able to do anything anybody else in the world can do. there should be no difference. i mean it sincerely. you know, you know my friend sarah mcbride

the senate education committee and help great the nation's first education savings account in 2011. and interestingly has a bit of a pattern i think that you work on the executive team of the former arizona state treasurer, dean martin and now you hold that post and you were an analyst for

committee and now vice president of the third way. also executive armed services committee. she's an msnbc national security analyst, and we're joined by democratic senator mike fa las can i -- i sper, i should have be been. >> this request by the inspector general is to meet with the committee staff. surely the members would be welcomed at the meeting, but most members are not in washington. this is a request to meet with the republican staff, the democratic staff of all of these committees, house and senate combined. it's maybe the largest collection of committee staff that will ever be gathered in one room at one time. what is your reading of this situation tonight with the state department? >> well, i think it's really interesting. first of all, steve linnick, let me give you some context. steve linnick is a former prosecutor. he spent a lot of times in corruption trials, which is paper-intensive trials. those are the kinds of cases that are built on documents. so he understands the importance of documents. the fact that he is bringing documents, that means that something is in those documents,

committees have put forward to the white house, to the second -- secretary of state inch reading through this na sensitive national security related documents that are likely to be covered by executive privilege. what do you actually expect reasonably for the committee to actually get ahold of? >> well, that's a great question, right? one of the things we need to rebuild in this country in the post-trump era is what actually executive privilege means. executive privilege does not mean that you get to hide embarrassing documents. executive privilege, and you know this margaret, stems from the idea that the president ought to be able to get advice from his advisers that is not subsequent to second-guessing or oversight by congress down the road. it doesn't mean that you move a really embarrassing transcript off of a traditional server on to a highly class find server because you understand if that got throughout in the public, it's a problem. it's not about hiding embarrassment. it's not about keeping people from testifying that might produce uncomfortable facts. so again, i expect this white house to continue to stonewall attempts to get at the truth. this is what they've done from t

you have all served in the executive branch and in the national security committee. you made the paper to the legislative branch. how is that inform your service in being a productive and effective legislator or in the time of tremendous national security tumult? i'll start with you, will. >> sure, elissa. thank you and it's a pleasure to be with my eckstein colic. when lucky to have this kind of experience here and congress at an important time. as an operator within the cia you are the collectors of last resort and our job was to collect information to inform policymakers. we were very clear, , our job ws not to suggest or project policy. the transition was interesting for me because for almost a decade it was during this things we're not supposed to be doing. but having granular understanding of these positions, living in india for two years and that living in pakistan for two years after that looking at these issues from a different perspective, being in new york city doing a lot of interagency work and understanding how these four issues impact our domestic agen

committee. his name is tom cole. the number one campaign contributor of tom cole is the chickasaw nation. through their affiliates and through the nation directly and their executiveses they have put in $258,000 into cole's campaign committee. the number one contributor all time to him. they have reaped in the past five years $700 million worth of federal grants. these are taxpayer subsidies into the nation. they've also received a half million dollars worth of surplus military equipment out of the pentagon. they've received military rifles. thermal sights. they've also received mine detecting sets, and mine-resistant vehicles, tucker. >> tucker: i'm not as familiar with the geography of oklahoma as i should be. is there a big mine problem in oklahoma? >> i don't know if there is going to be an oklahoman running around setting land mines on the indian land. >> tucker: but if there is one, tom cole has made certain the chickasaw nation is prepared. >> they are prepared. these situations always get worse. tom cole is in a safe republican district. he has in the last nine election cycles, in four of those cycles his opponents have raised no money the chickasaw nation,

committee. that's not what the founders envisioned when they imagined congress and the executive branch working together to conduct the nation's foreign policy. it seems clear that the trump administration is either reluctant or simply unwilling to keep congress in the loop on its plan to defeat isis and protect american interests in the region. the most likely explanation, unfortunately is that it does not have one. this needs to change. there needs to be a plan. there needs to be some accountability to congress. we need to hear from secretaries pompeo and esper in congress this week. and now on another matter. as the house of representatives continues to do its constitutional duty to conduct oversight of any wrongdoing by the executive branch, our republican colleagues in both chambers have made both pains to mick its process an issue. a group of house republicans stormed the secure facility in the capitol to highlight the purported secrecy of the process. it was later revealed that fully one third of those members were already allowed in the closed hearings. here in the senate, senator graham introduced a resolution with a

committee. the deputy superintendent for cemetery administration. superintendent anc. and executive director, arlington nationaly cemeteries. these are the gatekeepers at anc responsible for recommending approval to the secretary to the army. would you please give them a round of applause? [applause] mr. galeaz: to the uss thresher family members, thank you for allowing us to serve you and your loved ones with the direction of this memorial -- erection of this memorial. may god bless america. [applause] >> our next speaker in your program is tom wiley. if you read his biography, you see a wonderful life of service to this nation as a member of our secret service. but i know tom from a different role. tom's brother, john wiley, was a member of thresher. he has been there with kevin and i at many meetings, representing the families and expressing rationale and reason why the thresher memorial is rightfully here at arlington cemetery. so tom, representing the families, welcome to the podium. [applause] mr. wiley: thank you, admiral. senator shaheen, vice admiral, distinguished guests, thresher families, friends, t

executive drirector of te national security council. on news on the chairman from the various house committees, how extraordinary the white house state department tried to tell her you can't honor a congressional request? >> extraordinary on so many levels. first, you never hear of the state department on orders of the president blocking somebody from the state department coming in to testify about a matter of foreign affairsthat's highly, highly unusual. but the second thing to order her and to try to get her to ultimately defy a subpoena really raises it to another level. i think it's going to set a precedent over the hong rlong r. each thing that happens while impeachment is investigated sets a precedent what comes in the future in terms of bringing more witnesses in to testify. now you have a precedent that a witness who has been subpoenaed has the right to come in and speak to congress. unless, of course, some court rules otherwise. >> again, a quick follow-up. yovanovitch we pointed out, a public servant 30 years, appointed by republicans and democratic presidents and on the state department payroll still. should she be worried about her

cofounder and president and executive director of muslim advocates in the national at bc and educational organization previously she served as a counsel on the senate judiciary committee and worked on the constitution subcommittee chairman senator russell feingold. prior to working for the united states senate, she worked as a litigation associate with several law firms. current role is advocate, subcommittee on oversight and agency actions total rights in federal courts on the topic of anti- muslim rhetoric and connections to law enforcement. she received her bachelor his degree from college and or doctrines from cornell law school. finally, we have arthur andrew, the honorable is the resident fellow in law and policy. the senator of immigration studies and former immigration judge with immigration court in pennsylvania. mr. arthur has also served as a former immigration and naturalization service general counsel office and worked on capitol hill as counsel to the house judiciary committee and house oversight committee. he received a bachelor his degree from the university of virginia and a doctorate from george washington university school of law. we welcome all of

committee, is now an msnbc national security analyst. joining us, john hofland, msnbc news, cohost and executive producer of showtime's "the circus." evelyn, start with you and where we are on this ukraine case. you know some of the players in this case. you know kurt volcker. what do you make of his testimony today? and what more do you think we're going to be learning bill? >> right, so as you say, i know ambassador ivanovic, who also testified -- >> the one removed by donald trump from her position. >> i know her, i know her deputy, also being held back by pompeo. i know kurt volcker. i know from a source close to the investigation a bit of what happened today, a bit of the context, i guess. again, this is secondhand. at least. but essentially it seems that what volcker was trying to do, and i've known him a long time so i'm giving him a lot of benefit of the doubt, was to try to maneuver the situation so that he can get president trump to meet with president zelensky, the new ukrainian president. he thought that giuliani was feeding a bunch of garbage that he had heard from some ukrainians, one ukranian in particular, to presid

executive branch and legislative branch and ramifications on the national security. >> let's look at the subpoena. in light of mike pompeo's direct intervention to block your appearance before the committee'se left with no choice but to compel your appearance and deposition pursuant to the enclosed subpoena. and a lot of other things in this people should read for sure. in order to fulfill his duties to the american people and executive branch and all future occupants, donald trump and his administration cannot participate in your partisan and unconstitutional inquiry under these circumstances. you obviously agree with that. >> co. equal branches of the government kind of grade each other's homework. that is the way the founding fathers arranged things. we are seeing all this play out. it is to the detriment of what has been a challenge for us in domestic policies and foreign policy, hard to do either of those when you having credible partisan divide. bill: some of the text message this been leaked and among other things, there was no quid pro quo, you can look at it there. >> representative jim jordan said he would like the ambassador to appear and testify for that very reason, he felt so

national committee. it will be the former president's first open press event since the midterms last year. adam lashinsky joins us from fortune, executives contributor as well. you know, a couple things on obama. number one he is back out there again. there is a lot of talk whether he would endorse biden or snubbing him, all the rest. what about in silicon valley, adam. as he tries to raise money, do executives out there, are they ready to support a democratic party may be a party of warren, rather than a party of obama? that may have changed since he was president? >> funny the way you said the question. i'm sure the way the democrats and the way president obama will frame his visit, connell, you're changing the subject. they are going to want to talk about barack obama because barack obama remains extremely well-loved in silicon valley. he was their president and, i'm sure he will do everything he can to change the subject when issues like elizabeth warren come up. connell: but he is raising money. he can't run again obviously. he is raising money, essentially for somebody else. it could be his former vice president. do you look at th

chaired the senate education committee and helped create the nation's first edution savings account into thousand 11. interestingly, has a pattern i thek that you worked on executive team of the former arizona state treasurer, dean martin, and now you hold the post. and you are an analyst for the senate committee of education that you would later chair. some grassroots work and then heading. thanks for being here. john deberry is a representative of the 90th district in tennessee general assembly. he represents memphis and he has been there a while. he started in 1995, when i lived in tennessee. .uite a while since i've been he's been a member of several committees. he also serves as the democratic leader pro tem for -- mike turzai represents the 20th district in allegheny county. speaker turzai has been a member of the house since 2001 and was elected speaker in 2016 he's also done groundbreaking work in pennsylvania on their school choice initiatives. he led effts with pennsylvania business leaders to implement a $15 million operation -- scholarship tax credit which started children in low while heg schoolsnd was house majority leader he double the size of the e

committee. that was the schism. did this qualify? does this not qualify? i think, having heard the hours of testimony from the director of national intelligence, it was proceeding with caution because of the executived to go to the office of legal counsel. the question that i think republicans have behind the scenes is why did you ultimately make this clarification? this only prompt you to make this clarification? when the inspector general for the intelligence committee comes and testifies on friday, i think that's going to be one of the central questions for devon nunez. >> melissa: why did they make the change? why did they make the clarification? sorry. go ahead. >> harris: no, i was missing clarification, looking at the documents. the law never said that it must contain first-hand information. but it was easy to misconstrue. >> jason: for instance, the oversight committee, we get a couple dozen complaints every single day. you have to sort through that. there are 13,500 inspector general's out there that fall under 72 different branches. so, you can imagine with 2.2 million federal employees, how many things are percolating. >> harris: the people though -- >> kristen: i think the american peop

committee and helped create the nation's first education savings account in 2011. and interestingly, has a little bit of a pattern, i think, that you worked on the executive team of the former arizona state treasurer, dean martin, and now you hold that post, and you were an analyst for the arizona senate committee on education which you would later chair. >> that's right. [laughter] >> so some grassroots work or and then heading. thanks for being here. john deberry is a representative of the 90th district in tennessee general asemiby. he represents -- assembly. he represents memphis, and he's been there for a while. put it this way, he started in 1995 when i lived in tennessee, so that's been quite a while since i've been in d.c. in the aassembly he's been member of several committees including the innovation subcommittee. and he also serves as the democratic leader pro tem por. mike turzai is the speaker of the pennsylvania house of representatives and represents the 21st district in allegheny county. he's been a member of the house since 2001 and was elected speaker in 2015, and he's also done ground breaking work in pennsylvania on their school choice initiatives.

committee. well, that is really quite damaging to later arguing executive privilege. because thatis arguing executive privilege. because that is not executive privilege. you can claim privilege if information might damage national in powerlj because you just do not like the other people in power. i mean, the 8—page lighter from the white house seems to go beyond executive privilege. refusing all corporation by saying this is an illegitimate investigation. well, the problem is it isa investigation. well, the problem is it is a legitimate investigation, it is illegitimate concern from congress. if the president engage in self—dealing with the ukrainians, thatis self—dealing with the ukrainians, that is be a clear impeachable offe nce. that is be a clear impeachable offence. so, congress is both oversight and impeachment authority to demand this information. they will wind in court. this will certainly kick the can the road, it will delay things. but the outcome is pretty much certain. the problem is pretty much certain. the problem is that there is no discernible legal strategy here. they are really clear cutting their own defences. which is baffling. so, they may end up which is baffling. so, they may end up in

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the senate education committee and help great the nation's first education savings account in 2011. and interestingly has a bit of a pattern i think that you work on the executive team of the former arizona state treasurer, dean martin and now you hold that post and you were an analyst for the arizona senate committee on education which would later chair. some grassroots work and then heading. thanks a vineyard. john deberry is -- thanks for being here. john deberry is from the tennessee general assembly. he represents memphis and it's been there a while. put it this way he started 1995 and when i lived in tennessee, so has been quite a while since i've been in d.c. the assembly he's been a member of several committees including the education committee and the curriculum testing and innovation subcommittee. he also served at the democratic leader pro tem for. mike turzai as a last leader, speak at the pennsylvania house of representatives and represents the 28th district in allegheny county. he has been a member of the house since 2001 and was elected speaker in 2015 and he has also done groundbreaking work in pennsylvania under school choice initiatives. he le

national emergency declared in executive with respect to significant narcotics traffickers centered in colombia. signed, donald j. trump, the white house, october 15, 2019. the speaker pro tempore: to the committee on foreign affairs and ordered printed. pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house until approximately"washington. host: patrick eddington at our table, gulf war whistleblower and currently a research fellow institute. thank you for being here, let's talk about your story. why did you become a whistleblower? guest: those of us who have been through this experience, when you look at whistleblower cases, a lot of commonalities come out aner

in the white house national security council, the executive branch of our government that left, nothing illegal about that. but left and went to work with adam schiffen his committees do that? that's unusual move. what's going on over there? i would like to explore that relationship a little more too. steve: wait a minute. what are you suggesting? >> i'm suggesting that people still have contacts, obviously based on prior professional relationships to trump's white house. people advising donald trump, whose sole purpose on the national security council is to provide president trump with national security information to make life or death decisions left and went to work for the opposition political party under adam schiff on the house intel committee. why would you do that? nothing illegal. i'm not suggesting illegality. i'm suggesting unusual, no? why would you do that? these people still have professional contacts from where the leak we know emanated from the national security council. brian: dan, do you think in retrospect, it was wise for the president to even put rudy into the ukraine to investigate? >> i do and i will tell you why prominent ukrainians again th

executive director of the national civil rights organization. since early 2017, we have been fighting the muslim ban and the courts and working with congress to right this wrong. members of the committeehank you for holding this hearing, the first congressional hearing on the muslim ban. your presence here signals your commitment to protecting civil rights for all. thank you so much for your courage. you speak for thousands of americans are hurting today. so how did we get here and what can congress do? in january 2017, just seven days after his inauguration, president trump issued an executive order banning people from predominantly muslim countries from entering the u.s. thousands of americans flock to airports across the country in protest. court after court ruled the muslim ban was unlawful and then the president issued two revised ban,ions of the versions that claims to include exceptions and a waiver process . immediately after the third ban went into effect, thousands of blanket denials for visas before they even had a chance to apply for a waiver demonstrate they were eligible. according to recent data from the state department, that roughly 60,000 applications onlyved during

national emergency declared in executive order 13067 as expanded by executive order 13400 with respect to sudan. signed dodged j. trump, the white house, october 31, 2019. the speaker pro tempore: referred to the committee on foreign affairs and ordered printed. under the speaker's afoundationed policy of january 3, 2019, the gentleman from texas, mr. gohmert is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. gohmert: thank you, madam speaker. today, some vote today, some would say it was very important, but actually it didn't do so much. in fact revoked some of our history, some of our precedent, me of our rules to take an unusual step toward supposed impeachment. i still continue to be of the opinion that we will not end up having a vote in this chamber on whether or not to on actually impeach president trump because if that happens, it goes to the senate. it gets slam dunk down in the senate both on the basis of massive failure of due process as well as no evidence, no direct evidence of any wrongdoing unless we're talking is a democratthat and held the second highest office before. due process.ot by the way, once it goes to the senate, they vote it down and then assures a repea

execution of its mission, spreenting, combating, and treating the event of drug proliferation throughout our nation. i would like to thank my fellow member, mark meadows, for joining me in introducing this bill and the committee staff on bob dole sides of the aisle -- both sides of the aisle for working to advance it. i look forward to the house of representatives passing this bill today. there is more to be done to address the addiction crisis and i look forward to continued work with all my colleagues on this important issue. thank you, mr. speaker. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california reserves. the gentleman from arizona is recognized. mr. gosar: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today in support of h.r. 3889, the ondcp technical corrections act of 2019. simply, this bill makes technical amendments to a law we passed last congress. we move quickly last congress to re-authorize the office of the national drug control policy. the re-authorization was drafted to reinvigorate the office and give the trump administration additional authorities to address the opioid crisis. last congress the oversight committ

committee. that's not what the founders envisioned when they imagined congress and the executive branch working together to conduct the nation's foreign policy. it seems clear that the trump administration is either reluctant or simply unwilling to keep congress in the loop on its plan to defeat isis and protect american interests in the region. the most likely explanation, unfortunately, is that this does not have one. this needs to change. there needs to be a plan. there needs to be some accountability to congress. we need to hear from secretaries pompeo and esper in congress this week. and now on another matter, as the house of representatives continues to do its constitutional duty to conduct oversight of any wrongdoing by the executive branch, our republican colleagues in both chambers have made great pains to make its process an issue. a group of house republicans stormed the secure facility in the capitol to highlight the purported secrecy of the process. it was later revealed that fully one-third of those members were already allowed in the closed hearings. here in the senate, senator graham introduced a resolution wit