and now it's my pleasure to call on carolyn maloney, the acting chair of the oversight committee. mrs. maloney: i will be brief. i have just two points. first i want to commmend my colleagues for their diligent work. this is a very grave matter. as they have shown, we are acting deliberatively, thoroughly and without delay. secondly, i want to remind everyone of the words of our beloved former chairman, elijah cummings and quote, he said we are fighting for the soul of democracy, end quote. that is our core mission under the constitution. we cannot allow a president or any president to extort foreign countries into interfering with our democracy. we cannot allow a president to withhold critical military aid that we have in congress provided in order to counter russian aggression. and we cannot allow a president to ignore dualy authorized subpoenas, withheld documents, prevent witnesses from testifying, covering up wrongdoing, and obstructing congress. this is a fundamental corruption of the constitution and abuse of power and a breach of the oath of office. thank you. and i now yi

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i also want to recognize myself, representative carolyn maloney, for her work on this bill as well. tah is frequently discussed as one of the top states for fraud schemes. a news article noted that utah in most number of ponzi schemes from 2008 through despite being only 31st in population. n that decade alone, utah investors lost over $1.5 billion ponzi schemes or $502 per person plus an additional $500 types of fraud. 2 billion overall taken from hardworking utahans. $2 billion that won't be there for retirement, that won't be to our pass along children and to our grandchildren. of a -- as a result of a couple recent court cases, could leave it worse, leaving utahans less protected nd leaving fraudsters empowered. a firm kokesh opened that provided advice. ver the course of roughly 14 years, charles kokesh misappropriated money from these a lavish funding lifestyle for himself and in the process defrauding the investors of millions of dollars. he was found -- they asked him a civil penalty as well as disgorgement totalling roughly $35 million. the facts of this case are not in dis

carolyn maloney, they didn't take any questions. they want to know about the tweet the president sent this last hour, and he didn't comment on that. this is the first set of the public hearings we are going to have with these figures in the next week and a half or so. again, notice -- this is something republicans will complain about -- where the democrats calling? they don't have ball control in this situation. they want to hear from kurt volker, the special envoy to ukraine. we are going to get a deposition released today. another transcript, from bill taylor. he's one of the witness is scheduled to be called next wednesday. we got one part of that yesterday from gordon sondland, the ambassador to the european union. remember, there was that text message exchange between gordon sondland and bill taylor, where bill taylor raised some concerns with the sondland of what the president was doing. that transcript this afternoon is going to be key, and his public comments next week are going to be key. the other thing that is very import

and we've got the oversight committee with carolyn maloney on the foreign affairs committee.there might be other opportunities to get more fact evidence. but we're zeroing in on this sequence of events that took place related to the ukraine shakedown and whatever cover-up followed in its wake. and obstruction of justice has been a very important part of prior presidential impeachment investigations in our history. it was part of the bill clinton impeachment, part of the richard nixon impeachment. congress takes it very seriously for this reason. if we allow presidents to cover up and obstruct investigations by hiding evidence and blockading witnesses, it means our impeachment power is effectively destroyed. we don't have the power of oversight and the ultimate power of oversight, which is impeachment if the president is permitted to obstruct and interfere with our investigations, and so that's why obstruction of justice has always been a critical part of impeachment investigations. >> congressman jamey raskin, thank you for joining us. >> delighted to be with you and happy th

perhaps test lower levels of unemployment and in this moment and time of hyperbipartisanship -- carolyn maloney, sorry about that. in this moment of hyperpolarization, it might be worth pointing out bipartisanship here that both sides agree on low interest rates from the federal reserve >> what i was going to say, one interesting thing in the prepared statement was, of course, the fed chair reiterates this idea fiscal policy is on an unsustainable path interestingly he says that perhaps it will mean that there won't be the political will to have al response in the next downturn, which is interesting in the sense that the fed has been criticized in terms of using up some of its recession-fighting ammunition by cutting rates three times here so both sides seem to say the other guy should be storing up the ammunition for when things get really poor here, but he's not endorsing the idea that this recent period with low rates and very wide deficits doesn't mean we don't have to worry about the longer term debt implications. >> i can't emphasize how different this is from last december where we were

now been elected as chair of the committee beating out jerry connelly in the vote, 133-86 and carolyn maloney will now lead the oversight committee to the house and we'll hear from menefee, california and this is fred on the others line. go ahead. >> yeah. i've got a question for you. i'm an independent, however, i'm switching over to a republican in light of the situation. i continue to hear the democrats say one thing that really bothers me and nobody is above the law. if they truly believe nobody is above the law, why would they have concerns about our president stepping in and finding out any corruption that has been going on in ukraine? like one of the other callers previously stated, the burisma, the president of burisma was caught today stating that $16.5 million was given to biden's son. so where is their concern on the democratic side about finding out those issues. >> do you think that's something, fred, that we should leave to the ukrainian authorities or given that there's allegedly an american involved in this case, hunter biden, that is something that u.s. authorities should loo

yesterday on the oversight committee and its leadership, house democrats elected congresswoman carolyn maloneylead, making her the first woman to lead the crucial panel. she follows representative elijah cummings who died last month. she defeated in her election yesterday congressman gerald conway of virginia, 133-86. she is an ally of speaker nancy pelosi and has served since 1993. she ran against elijah cummings in 2010 to lead democrats on that committee. murphy in shreveport, louisiana, democrat, good morning. caller: hello? host: go ahead. caller: hello? host: go ahead with your comment. caller: i am murphy and i'm a vet. i agree he should be impeached. on top of that, the first three days he was in office, by me being a military vet, i would be -- unlike the first three days in office that he was in, , got himselfmen into a rage for the obama administration where they told him it will be for more, told him not to do it, didn't -- did it anyway and got people killed. host: bring us to these days and what the meetings will mean going forward. -- hearings will mean going forward. caller: al

let's listen in to carolyn maloney, q&a. here we go. >> 4.2%. and long-term unemployment also are at a near decade low. yet the unemployment rate for some groups is substantially higher. for example, the black unemployment rate -- while at an historic low -- is still well above 5%. is the economy at full employment, or could a tighter labor market draw more people back into the work force? >> thank you. so we're charged to achieve maximum employment, and when we think about maximum employment, we look at not just unemployment, but also labor force participation, we look at wages, we look at, you know, many, many data points. and i would say that what we have learned and what we will continue to learn is that the u.s. economy can operate at a much lower level of unemployment than many would have thought. and it's probably not surprising that we'd be learning that now, because we're at levels of unemployment that we haven't seen in 50 years. this is the first time that we've had unemployment meaningfully below 4% for 18 months. so we're observing