regular order in the house of representatives, and that's zoe lofgren, who is the chair of the house administration committee, where all of this was pulled together and we were able to get it over the finish line in the house of representatives. ms. lofgren: thank you. you know, in addition to the elements outlined so well by mr. sarbanes, there was a provision in h.r. 1 to secure our voting systems. all 50 states were targeted in the attacks, the cyberattacks in 2016, and we know that the attackers will be back. just yesterday the acting director of national intelligence said this, quote, i think the greatest challenge that we have is to make sure we maintain the integrity of our election system. we know right now that there are foreign powers that are trying to get us to question the validity of whether or not our elections are valid. he went on to say, protecting the sanctity of our elections within the united states, whether it be national state, local, is perhaps the most important job we have with the intelligence community. so, for the past 200 days, we have been pressing the senate to take

house. we are going to welcome the testimony of three witnesses. first we have the chief administrativefficer of the house. a position he has held since august 2016. he is responsible for financial, resources,uman information technology, and procurement services for members and their staff. he has had a particular focus on improving the efficiency and accuracy. he has a long record of house and government service. in the mid-1980's and early 1990's, he worked at the executive branch of the department of education and the department of interior. he worked on three house committees. you are pretty much the mayor of the house. directorwitness is the of leadership and international programs at the international conference for state legislators. she has been there since 2008, and her responsibilities include overseeing program content development for legislative leaders, creating and providing training for legislators, communicating with and providing services for legislative leaders, and overseeing international partnerships and programs. she has developed numerous programs for legislators

house. we are going to welcome the testimony of three witnesses. first we have the chief administrative officer of the house. he is responsible for financial, logistic, and for cure meant services for members and their staff. focus ond a particular public service. in the mid-1880's and 90's, he worked at the executive branch of the department of communications and me department of interior. the committee responsible for house munication's -- so you're pretty much the mayor of the house. we have the director of leadership at the international programs at the international conference for state legislators. her responsibilities include overseeing program content development, creating and providing training for legislators, communicating with and providing services for leaders, and overseeing partnerships and programs. she has developed numerous and has spoken on a variety of issues specific to legislatures. richard spent 19 years at the foundation from 1990 until 2006. during that time he facilitated strategic retreat and management consulting services. he is the author of frontline manage

trump signed a memorandum directing the department of treasury and housing and urban development to develop a plan for administrative and legislative reform of the federal housing finance system. many of the legislative recommendations in the plans that were released on thursday are consistent with my outline to fix our housing finance system. including attracting private capital back into the market, protecting taxpayers against future bailouts, and promoting competition. as well as preserving certain important incremental reforms that have already taken place during the conservatorship, including a robust transfer of credit risk. the single security and common secureatization platform and loan pricing that does not varavary. the status quo is not and has not been acceptable, and my strong preference remains to fix it through comprehensive legislation. five years ago this committee demonstrated it's possible. we came together to adhavenvanc solution on this topic. i released my outline which builds upon many principles of those efforts. it sets out a blueprint for sustainable new housing financing, a system that pr

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more many and then to be more efficient and then to put more money for political housing this is what the administration would be happy with this. >> what is your definition of affordable housing? >> it depends but with affordable housing how do you know where to send it quick. >> we have to work with this committee. >> you have not designed it yet. traditional is to spend less than 30 percent otherwise they are distressed. >> that is a parameter how to focus on the needs that fall within the affordable housing? >> i think generally. >> any other identifiers? >> at the number of different formulas to be reallocated and the tax credits per capita basis we have a number of formulas across the states and multiple occasions. and manufactured housing is very important in nevada and particularly with the rural communities. hud includes manufactured housing so without specifics would you ensure remain in any policy quick. >> making sure 10 percent of the single families people think of trailers and double wives but there is tremendous technological progress made in that area. and there is a removal of regulati

he spoke before the house administration committee for an hour. i understand the ranking member is on his way and since we have kind of a tight schedule i will start and he can give his opening statement. here he is now. the committee will come to order. we want to welcome everyone on

doing is going back along the line and speaking to a number of officials both within the white house administration and outside who had knowledge of these events as the whistleblower complaint clearly shows there were a number who knew about it before he or he or she wrote his formal letter of complaint and also importantly the white house had knowledge of these events before the whistleblower formally complained and at that stage hid those documents on the server so these are the facts that the congress will attempt to establish as it proceeds with the impeachment articles mike president trumps calling the whistleblower a statement hearsay evidence his supporters say this so-called witch hunt is the only way the democrats can stop trump from being reelected if you will view the what's the mood music when it comes to successfully pursuing impeachment. well it will depend on the details that all unearthed by the congressional committee drawing up the impeachment articles as more evidence comes to light if more evidence comes to light it likely to see a swing among those at present opposing any impea

chairman, the advice i received from the top staffers and the house of the house administration committee is that staff can be comprised of -- house of the administrative committee is that staff can be comprised of contractors. staff and employee are not equivalent terms. i yield back. >> my question is they will not approve a contract. are the regular duties of committee staff? >> that is not pertinent to this proceeding. this was signed off by the committee itself. chairman nadler: you are not a witness and you should not be seated at that table. >> i understand that. based upon the debate i just heard, the seem to be unauthorized questions. i will leave it to mr. lewandowski to decide. it is my view that he should not answer. >> we are not interested in your views. we have a hearing to conduct. chairman nadler: mr. lewandowski will answer all questions if he has a legitimate privilege to assert. he may assert the legitimate privilege. other than that he is under subpoena and will answer all questions. this is being done pursuant of the committee's rules. if this counsel does not like i

this is not exactly an administration that has made that a core priority. >> does your reporting suggest at all -- you say that the white house is suggesting that this had to do with corruption concerns. does the reporting suggest trump was at all more specific with mulvaney or more specific in the administration about this being directly related to joe biden's son? >> i mean, that's the question that everybody is asking. i'm not sure we have gotten to the truth with that yet. i think that what's important is to look at that call, that july 25th call, at the center of a broader series or collection of events of course in which the trump administration is withholding not only this money, roughly $400 million, but is withholding the prospect of a meeting for much of the new president's of ukraine's early tenure refusing to meet with or talk with him until this late july phone call. you have at the same time the president's lawyer really freelancing diplomatically and much more directly and explicitly prodding the ukrainian government to restart an investigation that they hoped would bring political dirt on the biden family. >>

he spoke earlier today before the house administration committee for an hour. >> i understand the ranking member is on his way and since we have kind of a tight schedule and we have a quorum, i'll start and give his opening statement -- here he is now. ms. lofgren: the committee will come to order and want to welcome everyone on this hearing of

hud supports the families with a home owning opportunities through the federal housing administration providing credit access and liquidity in the mortgage market. during the financial crisis in because of the policies of the previous administration, growing to approximately 350% and 400% respectively between the years of 2007 and 2018. our reform plan will reduce the role in finance and protect taxpayers. to that end i ask congress to work with the administration on 4 key pillars. return fha to the core mission of serving low and moderate income families including first time home buyers who cannot be served through traditional underwriting. to protect taxpayers from the risk of bailouts, and provide fha and ginnie mae with the tools they need to manage risk associated with oversized portfolios, and to provide liquidity to the housing finance system. it contains many recommendations but for the sake of my oral testimony let me focus on a few. first, return fha to its core mission. in those areas where it can't or won't work we must make sure we target programs to borrowers not served

of iran which john bolton was an advocate to century for regime change so within the white house administrationthis was not unexpected the departure of john bolton and lots of discussion about who's going to succeed him frontrunner it would appear is keith kellogg who's a national security adviser to the vice president marc pence also was acting national security adviser off to the departure of the 1st national security advisor michael flynn another name who's been mentioned as brian hook the arabian point person who's actually become a player in the president's son in law jared cushion his push for a wider middle east agreement so much speculation within d.c. but also observers pointing out one stop fact at the moment there's no national security adviser there is no homeland sit security secretary they have simply not been replaced you've got acting person in homeland security position and very importantly there's no director of national intelligence dan coats has not been replaced a long period of time up to his departure so very much a vacuum as always within the trump administration all rig

we're hearing a list of -- the list is starting to grow and it's just beginning of white house administration officials that could be called up to capitol hill for testimony on -- as part of this investigation. what are you hearing from there in terms of -- we've seen how easily that has gone over with past investigations. what are you hearing there in terms of the openness, the willingness for folks to be called up there now? >> i think a few days ago white house officials probably would have dismissed that, pointing to what has happened to their colleagues in the past where they have been protected essential from having to go up in there, but there's a sense that things have changed now. they realized what democrats have undergone, how fast-moving this is. that's left a lot of people on unsure footing here. they're not confident that that strategy of blocking officials from going up there would technically work anymore. that's really something we have noticed here in the white house. they essential feel like they're starting over. they're trying to figure out what the strategy is. they didn

certainly of isis so i am hoping that i'm educating but also working with the trump white house and administrationto create a white house council on boys and men so there will be some issues on the public agenda in addition to the girls and women. for eight years. i have a problem especially when it is four times the rate shoving aside of the destructive behavior on so many fronts. i was getting my doctorate and why you teaching at rutgers university and the women's movement surfaced in 1969 and i started talking about the women's movement as a political movement and they said you have a fire in your belly when you talk about this, so i was able to persuade my committee to allow them to change my topic. i began to see that it was much more could flex and i was being told they earn more money than women and they've never had childrehavechildren and have nen married and it is by 17% in comparison that have never been married so i said to myself this is interesting and besides, if i knew i could hire a woman to do exactly the same type of work that a man is doing for a dollar, i wouldn't be able to s

white house has just announced that the new middle east peace envoy will be 30-year-old white house administrativeent -- assistant berkowitz. , trump'slacing jason friend real estate lawyer. what did former white house spokesperson hope hicks, berkowitz'sescribed duties as? correlatingee and meetings. as we wrap up the significance of all of this. think that point is very important. who is playing the role is very important -- not as important. a was educated partly at right-wing yeshiva in israel. this is a consistent piece. the more important point from what normal was talking about in terms of changes afoot in the united states where there are possibilities now, not yet congress but the shift in public discourse and media discourse about the question of palestinian rights, is a massive shift underway. things may become possible in the future. what has been different with president trump in office, the blatant nature of his recognition, no one before was willing to say the u.s. recognizes or does not mind the u.s. of that pine. his official recognition of it did bring expressions of opposition.

house. his administration has vigorously defended religious liberty and the freedom and in the united statese state department has become a watchful defender religious liberties, especially through the 2019 ministerial to advance religious freedom, the largest freedom event of its kind in the world. we anticipate a fruitful discussion today on how we can expand religious liberty, guarantee the sanctity of houses of worship, and combat religious persecution around the world and i'm so delighted you joined us for this event. it is really hard for me to think of a better person to introduce to a gathering of the freedom of religion in the world. he knows what religion is, what support it can give to the individual and to hold societies. he is an unpretentious man who not only believes in the power of religion, he lives his religion. with respect and even piety. he respects the faith of others, . he is that great exemplar, a hard-working family man born in indiana proud of his state, , prouder of his country, and a first-class demonstration of president trump's wisdom in selecting those who serv

he's also the chief deputy whip in the house and a member of the house administration committee whichral elections. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> as a supporter of joe biden, how do you think this has impacted the presidential campaign. has it smeared him, caused him any trouble or has it enhanced him and made people feel trump is afriday aid of him. how do you see this impacting your choice for the democratic nomination? >> without question, the eyes of the nation, indeed the eyes of the world are focused on the impeachment inquiry that we launched this past week. i'm chief deputy whip in the house of representatives. a few days ago we have launched a full scale investigation. we call it an impeachment inquiry. six house committees are engaged in collecting the evidence and the facts. not just the admission by the president and the transcript of the phone call and all of the other things we know so far, but we're looking at witnesses and other evidence that will lead us to a conclusion. there's no question that the president has been a very disappointing

so i'm hoping that i'm educating the democrats but i'm also working with veterans white house and administrationto try to create a a whit white house council on boys and men so that there will be a issue when the public agenda in addition to girls and women's issues. >> is a white house commission oon girls and women click >> for eight years there was under obama and it has become defunct, sort of enacted delete inactivinactive from the veteras administration. i have a problem with there being a council for women and girls, just a problem with one-on-onone-on-one integrals at boys and men especially when boys and men are committing a suicide at four times the rate of girls and women, showing signs of destructive and self-destructive behavior on so many fronts.tr >> professor, how did you get into this line of work? >> when i was doing my doctorate at nyu and i was teaching at rutgers university. the women's movement surfaced in 1969, and i started talking about the women's movement as a political movement. and my students said doctor, you are so, by keith r. a. fire in your belly when you talk a

house. administration officials say the former national security adviser is the latest adviser to struggle to obey the president's, quote, unspoken rules. the president sometimes calf caesque management style and the expectations he sets for those in his direct employ. white house reporter and msnbc political contributor ashley parker. explain what you're talking about, ashley? >> what we were trying to capture was the president's rules are -- some might say who have worked for him, nightmarish, sort of confounding and confusing and make no sense and don't seem to behave by a rational set of rules or expectations or dictums, and that is like out of a kafka novel, zins why does the president not want advisers, according to your reporting, who advise him? what does he actually want? >> it's a little mixed. what he wants is on the one hand, this is a president who does solicit opinions and broker a disagreement from a number of people. but unlike previous presidents, it's not as of this president views his cabinet as this apparatus. he is sometimes likely to ask a cabinet secretary for advice. h

. >> first, tell me, have you ever heard of a white house administration getting so involved in noaa's forecasting as to threaten to fire staff? >> no, i haven't. in fact, it's illegal for the president or anybody else to put out a false weather forecast. congress passed a law in 1894 providing for a fine or an imprisonment for anybody putting out a false weather forecast. we haven't seen this for a long time, not since something like 1954 i think there was a tornado hoax but it was just last week was the first instance we have seen since then so this is something brand new. >> "the washington post" reporting putting it all the way up to the president himself right? they say he put the pressure on mulvaney to put the pressure on noaa to support the false forecast, and the president denying. but look. it's actually a federal crime to put, you know, out the information as you said. so is that a federal crime? can they prosecute it? >> absolutely. this is a federal crime and it's punished by a fine or a jail term. and it's not a large fine. it is like $500. so in my view trump should be p

president trump posted victims of religious persecution at a historic event at the white house, his administrationas vigorously defended religious liberty and the freedom and you'd the -- in the united states. the state department has become a watchful defender religious liberties, especially through the 2019 ministerial to advance religious freedom, the largest freedom event of its kind in the world. we anticipate a fruitful discussion today on how we can expand religious liberty, guarantee the sanctity of half -- of houses of worship and combat religious persecution around the world and i'm so delighted you joined us for this event. it is really hard for me to think of a better person to introduce to a gathering of the freedom of religions in the world. is, whatwhat religion support it can give to the individual and to society's. he is an unpretentious man who not only believes in the power of religion, he lives his religion. with respect and even piety. ,e respects the faith of others he is that great exemplar, a hard-working family man born in indiana proud of his state, prouder of his country

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factors that this involves the president of the united states and/or other senior or white house administration officials. that letter came with a subpoena for that whistle-blower complaint. here is eric swallow of southern california. good to have you here. >> thanks for having me on. >> this is a little complicated. let's start with the basic principle there is in the law legal statutory provisions. how does that work? >> if you see something that is unlawful, you are protected. if you say something. you can't be fired and also after seven days congress will be notified and we'll take our own measures. if it's classified it goes through a review to make sure that it's nothing that is secret or top secret is disseminated and we can take action and still protect our secrets. >> my understanding, post the church committee, their entire structure of intelligence oversight, this is part of that. the idea is that if you have a whistle-blower, you need -- that congress serves this really key role in overseeing the intelligence community because there's someone that isn't in their sort of direct chai

electronic serve of the call by placing it in a special server and also that members of f the white house administration met with officials in the ukraine to discuss ways to 1/2 gave president trump's question now the complaint was made public this morning by the house intelligence committee which just wrapped up about three hours of testimony of a hearing with the acting director of national intelligence they were concerned about the length of time it took him to hand over the complaint. mcguire said he was just try in to follow the law. >> i realized the importance of the matter that is before us this morning i thought it would be prudent to be sure it met that statute before i sent it forward in compliance with the whistle-blower protection act. >> now president trump has been lashing out on twitter he said that democrats are trying to destroy the republican party and he called on his supporters to stand together, play the game and fight back so clearly the battle lines are being drawn here in washington >> and we're watching for a bigger market reaction thank you very much. still down about 67 point

and president trump not showing respect and answering questions or allowing his white house administration to answer questions that the congress put forward to his personnel. and recently, with this stuff that's happening now with ukraine, the president is offering, offering to have the transcripts of his phone conversations. the the question in fact is whistleblower's investigation. there is an investigation right now going on that doesn't just cover one phone call. it covers at least eight. it covers a president asking nother country to commit a crime. host: good point. there wasn't an additional tweet from the president. you talked about the eight. there were certainly several phone calls. the tweet from the president earlier seemed to refer to one, not sure if it refers to all of the conversations with the ukrainian president. caller: well, anyway. it's just that right now he's not offering anything of any real value. he's got to give everything up, everything. because right now, speaker pelosi is 100% behind impeachment. host: kind of a dual track thing going on here. you saw the vide

i would like to ask you what the administration's plan to resolve the house and housing finance system. critics say it can't be reformed and it may be better to get rid of it altogether. >> i think the white house and administration along with financial services is something they have been studying for quite some time. we want to make sure they are secure, but also we want to make sure that those who need to have capital for a home have the lowest rate possible to be able to prosper and build homes as they wish. taxpayers protect the and what the individuals with the lowest rate. you cant something ignore, but not something you would say you can't deal with at all. there are a lot of ideas out there. i look forward to talking to you throughout the retreat. = think we will have the president -- i think we will have the president speaking tonight. building on an economy, the strongest it has been in 50 years. the unique part of this economy is that it is not an economy built for one person. it is helping all. we want to continue to build on that and make america stronger. if there is one

administration official, you take the latter. bloomberg reported that there thetalk in the white house, trump administration orbit, of having this rim sort of pact that could be kind of a detente. the white house did not respond very well to that. they put out denials to other companies that weren't bloomberg, and i'll trump was asked about it and he said yeah, it's something around. the critical point you made i need to heavily emphasize his president trump has not signed off on this yet. this is all very tentative.it's an idea . it's not a plan. it's not a deal in any sort of frame. but it certainly sets the stage, walking into talks in washington between the u.s. and chinese delegations, where they're going to talk about these issues and get to a peace deal. now, if they don't, there are u.s. tariff escalations set to happen october 15, and a really big tariff escalation december 15. so, there are some things we're looking at coming up if this doesn't quite work. beenfor now, while we've sitting here talking and bemoaned there have not been offramp's for the trade escalation, there certainly are right now. anna: yeah, we're bu

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obviously the white house, the administration is currently fighting that. what is your sense in the trump white house? is that a battle they think they can win long-term, or is there a sense there that ultimately this is going to come out in some form? >> well, i would put it sort of in a more historical context. this is one of many battles. if you look back to the mueller investigation and congressional investigations of that, the white house has pretty much stonewalled on just about every request they've had from congress. they have exerted executive privilege to prevent former aides from testifying. they've refused to hand over documents. and so this is just another example where they're not going to give an inch. so far some of these cases are making their way through the court system, but so far it has been a pretty effective strategy for the white house, and it has put democrats kind of on the defensive and confused about what their next step should be. so i think the way the trump white house views it is they're going to fight every single thing and w

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house. i think all of that is quite premature. what rationale did the administratione for holding up military aid to ukraine? was mentioned yesterday, i involved in advocating the aid. talk to the secretary of defense twice, the secretary of state wants. the good news is, it finally happened. i have no idea what precipitated the delay, but i was among those advocating we needed to stick with our ukrainian friends. i was not given an explanation. fortunately, it has happened and i am happy about that. the previous administration continued to pull back from ukraine and this administration has done a better job of standing behind the you grew ukrainian's. -- behind the ukrainian. appropriate for any candidate to reach out to a foreign leader asking for help digging up dirt on political rivals? >> we will find out what happened in the senate through a process, preestablished by the intelligence committee, behind closed doors initially with the acting director of dni. that is the responsible, rather a political and bipartisan way -- apolitical and bipartisan way to proceed

those liabilities drove pg&e into bankruptcy in january. >>> tonight at the white house, the trump administration is hosting its second state dinner. prime minister scott morrison of australia and his wife will be the guests of honor. he says he's looking forward to meeting president trump to talk about how both countries can strengthen their alliance and the already close partnership. the first state dinner was last year with french president emmanuel macron being honored. >>> a federal judge in sacramento approved the trump campaign's request to block a new law requiring presidential and glute candidates gubernatorial candidates to release five years of tax returns. the trump team says states don't havewho can run for president. it would block california from enforcing the law while the case is heard. president trump has refused to release his tax returns, saying they are being audited. >>> a unique program matches seniors at one retirement community with immigrants who work there to teach them how to read and write english. the goal is to help the workers achieve the american dream. >> we eat

tree of life synagogue massacre, i thought, how am my friends and colleagues n the white house and administration responding when on event happened like that and i kind of knew from my long in the white house situation room sitting alongside mary and lisa, i know exactly we would have swung into action had it been an individual al was tied to isis or qaeda. we would have had the c.i.a., defense department, state department, treasury every national security agency that you can think of would have been around the table with us, out what piece of this can we help solve or address. hand, as soon as that person is identified as being a domestic terrorist, and any way linked to and i was i was or al qaeda, all metaphoricals in a sense push ourselves back from the table and look to the right f.b.i. over to you, and it becomes simply an f.b.i. law r to treat as a enforcement set of challenges. i don't say that in any way as being critical. my friends and colleagues of the f.b.i. what i'm saying is we tend to eave then alone on the playing field when dealing with this set of issues and to their credit up

house over ukraine. trump's attempt to pressure the leader of ukraine followed a months' long fight inside the administration that sidelined national security officials to exploit the u.s. relationship. several officials describe tense meetings at the white house leading up to the president's phone call on july 25. sessions that led some participants to fear that trump and those close to him appeared prepared to use u.s. leverage for trump's political gain. as the worries intensify, some senior officials worked behind the scenes to hold off a trump meeting out of concern that trump would use the conversation to press kiev for damaging information on trump's potential rival in the 2020 race, former vice president joe biden and biden's son, hunter. here for our leadoff discussion on a tuesday night, robert costa, national political reporter for the "washington post" and moderator of washington week. peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the "new york times" and co-author of the book impeachment in american history. politics reporter for axios and jeremy bash, former chief counsel to the house intell

housing was opened in may. the building a stark contrast with the former resident now empty across the street. the trump administration call for local city solution policies and allow more housing development. >> were talking about public and private partnerships and mixed income.>> reporter: on air force one tuesday president donald trump said the people of san francisco are fed up on the people of los angeles are that up and we're going to look at it and do something about it at the appropriate time. the secretary said few specifics about what action and in what time. >> we need to work with the psychiatric association and we need to acknowledge that perhaps the government made some mistakes when it's abandoned a lot of people who are not capable of taking care of themselves.>> reporter: the secretary called for federal and local cooperation but declined an invitation to meet with the san franciscmayor who issued a statement when i learned that ben carson was coming to san francisco i invited him to discuss the decades of federal funding cuts to public housing. protesters said the administration is not doing enough.