house of representatives what action did they take? so i mentioned earlier that the house committee, some of the staff on the house judiciary committee reached out to the senate, watergate in the summer of 1973 and quietly began conversations how those two committees. right. cooperate with one another. that is could the senate watergate committee provide information that it was gathering in the course of its investigation to a house judiciary committee that may be convened to explore impeachment options? eventually the house judiciary committee does in 1974 vote and approve three articles of impeachment. that's powerful. speech by barbara jordan, texas. really helps to define the historical context in which this vote is taking place. the last presidential impeachment trial had happened more than a century before, when congress when the house had impeached andrew johnson. so 100 years later, the house was now considering these articles of impeachment. and barbara jordan, i think, explained so well the gravity of the moment that members of the house judiciary committee and even the larger house membership felt themselves in. this was an extrem

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trump's quote of my guys she made a bookkeeping error documents trial in new york and new house judiciary committeeort is saying we have been telling you all along radical manhattan da alvin bragg has allowed his political motivations and his promises as a candidate to drive the prosecution of donald trump in this report over 300 pages the committee highlights the fact that bragg used a novel legal theory we've been telling you to bootstrap these allegations as a felony in new york they'd be a misdemeanour and the statute of limitations that already past here with more chairman of the house judiciary committee jim jordan mr chairman and congressman welcome back back and anatomy of a put a prosecution the manhattan da office vendetta against president donald jay trump usually in report when you get to 300 plus pages you have a lot of information that's goes through some of the fundamentals >> well first of all alvin bragg bragged about it bragged about the idea that he would sue president trump or went after president trump hundreds of times when he was campaigning but once he gets into office he re

subsequently, the house judiciary committee in may of 1974 began hearings on whether or not president nixon should be impeached for his involvement in the watergate break in and cover up. they also issued subpoenas to the president, and he declined to comply with those as well. again, citing executive privilege. a couple of months later, the house judiciary committee did vote to adopt three articles of impeachment of the president and just two weeks, less than two weeks later, president nixon facing sure impeachment and conviction in the senate, decided to resign and his resignation letter is also here in the case on the back wall over there. there was a substantial legislative legacy from this investigation. there was a number of the investigation revealed, a number of problems that had been exploited by the nixon administra ation. and there was a number of needs for new legislation, just some of the laws that passed in the aftermath of watergate include the privacy act of 1974, the freedom of information act of 1978, and the foreign intelligence surveillance act, pfizer of 1978 as w

political panel republican political analyst campaign strategist, democrat skrunlt former house judiciary committeeou so much for being here i want to kick off with you your reaction. >> well shouldn't come as surprise to nobody the biden n bragg manhattan case legal absurdity scam never should have been brought in the first place election interference abuse of law to get trump starts, alvin bragg state prosecutor should not be prosecuting federal election law has no authority to do so the legal gymnastics you have to make from a misdemeanor to felony even a first year law student can see through. >> thank you for having me again, i think this is a completely abusive prosecution by prosecutor campaign raised money going after trump there is no precedent for use of the law, the way alvin bragg is attempting to use in this case using a business, records miss neenor alleged invitation hush money not reported, under the law, there is an intent requirement, so follow me for a second, two fec chairs federal election commission chairs agency enforces election law have said on separate occasions hush money

here now with more, house judiciary committee chairman jim jordan. merrick garland had until noon on monday to turnover the interview, the transcripts, the videos, whatever they had of robert hurr's interview with biden. he failed to comply by it. a guy named navarro is now spending four months in prison for contempt of congress. >> yeah, so never forget the facts here. the report said that joe biden knowingly kept and disclosed classified information. he said that the reason he did that, page 231, biden had strong motivations to ignore classified procedures because he was writing a book. a book for which he got paid $8 million. so we have motive, 8 million reasons why, we have motive, we have the elements of the crime being met, he knew the facts, he disclosed it and he kept that information, but he doesn't get charged because robert hurr says he's a forgetful old man. we think it's incumbent upon the justice department to give us all of that evidence. we would like to here the audiotapes and frankly i think the american people would like to know, s

in terms of the warrant, this is an amendment is being pushed by the house judiciary committee in leadership there. the idea is that anytime anywhere in the intelligence community, not to see if beckham wants to conduct a search there would need to get a warrant from thee fisa court. if they want to look up information about americans. there have been instances reported by the fisa court which oversees this program, it is a bit secret like every thing else in the intelligence agency, but there have been reports of inappropriate searches of your senators, of state senators. the idea is that for whatever reason during an investigation someone is to search and americans information in this database that we need to get a war. the intelligence community will tell you this is a lengthy process. this will impede their ability to look up information quickly. you don't always have probable, what maybe meets the merits for probable cause would get investigation in your early days, and perhaps trying to get information -- confirmation something hard and information of 702 would probable cause but you c

my view he's lied on multiple occasions to congress under oath and he's done it to me on house judiciary committee and my view i believe my evaluation is he's probably the least effective and i think most dangerous in erm its of his policy implementations of any cabinet secretary in the history of the united states. and if there's ever been a -- cabinet secretary that deserve to be impeached, he is that and the idea that the senate and under chuck schumer leadership voted on party lines to not even allow american people to evaluate evidence is shameful ig it is a violation of their constitutional responsibility, and i think there will be a reckoning for all of this in the election cycle in the fall i really do. >> that was a speaker mike johnson just after impeachment proceedings ended in the senate's talking to reporters on capitol hill from statuary hall one more statement for you this afternoon, this from the department of homeland security a spokesperson for alejandro mayorkas by the senate to reject house republicans baseless attacks on secretary mayorkas, proves definitively there's no evide

here now with moreh more house judiciary committee chairman jim jordausn.et's start with that last part first. merrick garland had till noon on monday to turn over the interview. the transcript, the videos,d of whatever they had of robert, her his interview with joe biden. he failed to comply with it. a guy by the name of peter navarro has is is now spendingon three months in prison for contempt of congress. for empt o yeah. >> so never forget the facts here. robert hersh's report said thatn joe biden knowingly kept and disclosed classified informatioowingly dn. he said that the reason he didth that, he at page 231, joe biden had strong motivations to ignore classified procedurevs because he was writing a book, a book for which for he got pai8 million. so we had motive, 8 millionhave reasons why we have motive. we have the elements of the crim wmente being met. the he knew the facts. he disclosed it and he, kephete that information. but he doesn't get charged because robert harris sayst he's a forgetful old man. >> so we think it's incumbentge upontful the

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when we come back, while the trump witch hunt in new yorke co continues, the house judiciary committee just released a report which allegesl that alvin bragg's office allowed political motivationlegs to, quote, infect their prosecution of donald trump. congressman jim jordan of ohio is straight ahead as we continue this program has been brought to you by the south dakota governor's office of economic. south dakota has the blueprint for success. recently, we led the nation in new home building, but we're still growing so fast we need to hire more builders to keep up. so i am pitching in. south dakota is the freest in the nation. we have no state income tax and we offer apprenticeship training so you can get right to work. south dakota freedom here. we're going to call that a skylight. >> on the left, your mouthwash with the burning sensation. and on the right close is the alcohol free, gentle mouthwash that works without the burn. closest mouthwashes freshen breath improve gum health and strengthen teeth close. >> this works without the burn plus. super vader is the number one selling b

on july 19th, 2023, the house committee on the judiciary with a vote of 23-0, that doesn't often happen in the house judiciary committee, 23-0 favorably reported on the protect reports from exploitive act. the press act was written to prohibit the federal government compelling journalists from identifying a source as well as any records, contents, communication, documents obtained or created by journalists in the course of their work. the significance of the press act cannot be understated. it ensures a free press independent from an executive branch that seeks to attack or harass journalists in order to identify their confidential sources. now that the house has done its job and stood up to fight for the freedom of the press, it's now the senate's turn to take up this legislation and continue congress's commitment protecting our freedom. it's our job to stand up for that right and to protect journalists and their sources, i look forward to hearing from all of our distinguished witnesses today who will all bring unique and professional perspectives to this important issue. please note t

last week the house judiciary committee, under chair jim jordan, released a scathing report highlighting bragg's political investigation and prosecution of president trump, calling it a direct threat to our republic. democrats' corrupt and desperate witch-hunts against president trump must come to an end. this is law fare and blatant election interference and the american people know it. that's why today i filed an official complaint with the department of justice office of professional responsibility on joe biden special counsel jack smith for his clear and illegal efforts of election interference. we will fight the democrats' unjust lawfare and expose this corruption whether it's in new york, atlanta, or here in washington, d.c. this is an important responsibility of over oversight. in addition to this important oversight work, legislatively, house republicans are continuing to lead on behalf of the american people. this week on the house floor we have a series of bills to protect america's public lands while ensuring the safe, reliable development of our natural resources. we are also

joining me now congressman jim jordan, chairman of the house judiciary committee.gressman, to the doj's point, what law enforcement purpose would the recordings or could the recordings in your mind advance. >> i think we got to go back to the facts. remember the facts here. joe biden knowingly kept and disclosed classified information. robert hur says in the report the reason he did that on page 231 he said he had strong motivations for doing so and ignoring classified procedures because he was writing a book. a book by the way that he got paid $8 million advance. we know he met the elements of the crime. he knowingly kept and disclosed information to the ghost writer. we know that we have a motive, $8 million motive. but yet the special counsel said we're not going to recommend charges because he is a forgetful old man. okay. so he met the elements but you are not going to do it. we want to decide then and yes, sir up the democrats say oh no, no, no he is not a old man and gratuitous for them to say that. >> let us have the tapes. we have the duties to do oversigh

house judiciary committee pushing mayorkas to hand over d data.dan renewing the request saying dhs failure to provide the requests document is unacceptable and preknow vents the committee from doing their duty. joining me is josephine dunn. she lost her daughter to fentanyl. you testified against secretary mayorkas during his impeachment inquiry. here is your emotional testimony. >> every time i close my eyes, i see all of the tubes. when it is quiet, i hear all the machines that were keeping her alive. in my opinion, mr. mayorkas border policy is partially responsible for josephine's death. >> todd: why do you feel he is partially responsible for her death? >> he insists on allowing the border to be open. he has not completed his job as head of homeland security. he was installed on february 2 of 2021 and fentanyl is pouring across our border. if he had done his job, fentanyl would not have crossed into this country as it has been over the last three years in his position. he gets paid $200,000, that is ta tax dollars, a year, to kill our childre

20 as house judiciary committee congresswoman, laurel leave fro. the great state of porto.t mas when it goes to trial but is he doing what biden wants him to do and if so why impeach him and not the puppet master?s be >> well, alejandro mayorkaswi llbears responsibility for willl refusal to follow the law. secretary of homeland security, he has arityn obligation to detn and deport people who enter this country unlawfully. w what we know is that he has abused pro process to instead allow millions of people into our country. what is important to understand about this is that it is something we demonstrated through our many hearings andes through witness testimony thatti was done knowingly and intentionally. so he has subverted the law.di he directly defied court orders podirecting him and the policies unlas unlawful. he came to congress time and again and gave testimony to us that wasn't truthful. he said to congress the border was secure and that he had operational control of the border, and we know all of those things simply aren't accurate. at the end of the day, we know h

you had open hearings with the house intelligence committee and the house judiciary committee, and and in january of 2020, that's when they move to the impeachment trial. and the difference with the viewers saw that point is a heard of the impeachment managers, adam schiff from california, hakeem jeffries from new york, now the democratic leader present the case and end that abode with the envimac up and down yes or no, guilty or innocent, are we going to remove him from office? we had a process in 2021 after the ride at the capitol. remember the right have been january 6, it was shortly after president biden was sworn in, it was early february and it was a shorter trial about five days whereas the first trump impeachment trial covered 19, 20 days including weekends. this is a much more abbreviated process but there were two hearings before the house of homeland security committee which is prosecuting this case. >> martha: thank you very much. we will check back in with the abate. as you watch this play out over the next several hours, it was supposed to be very brief but that has been

. >> joining our discussion now is a member of the house judiciary committee and homeland security committees as an impeachment manager and the second impeachment trial of donald trump. we don't know how you do it. we do not know how you share a workplace with marjorie taylor green. >> well, lawrence, it is a workplace where i know the majority of the congress stands with ukraine, and the majority of americans stand with ukraine, so i try every day to separate the signal from the noise, but right now, what is very concerning is in vladimir putin's battle plans, he looks at his air, land, sea, and now maga resources. it is almost as if they have a fourth level of resources to take on ukraine, and that is not from outside of russia, but from inside the united states congress. >> let's listen to more of what -- this is republican mike turner now, what he had to say about this, about the way the propaganda takes hold in the house of representatives. >> there are members of congress today who still incorrectly say that this conflict between russia and ukraine is over nato, which of course, it is n

he investigated donald trump as a special counsel to the house judiciary committee during trump's first and he literally, as i just said, wrote the book on this case. okay. i don't know if more people know about this, maybe d.a. bragg probably argues you would, but let me start by asking the arc of what happened in 2016. as a way to explain trump's motive and intent. this is part of what we heard today and it was an important reminder to me about all of the details around this. >> one of the stunning things about being in court today, jen, was to see that theory of the case unfold in full display both in the morning session when the d.a. laid out a chronology of election interference, as i say in the title of the book. in the afternoon session, when the first words of substance that the judge said to the prospective jurors was, this is a case about allegations of election influence in 2016. so, both have the were expressing the narrative that you ask about. it starts in 2015, actually, with the meeting at trump tower . david , the publisher of the national enquirer, michael cohen -- so,

johnson's agenda yesterday as house rejected renewal to fisa my next guess invited merrick garland christopher wray to testify on fisa abuse in front of his committee the house judiciary committee chairman ohio congressman jim jordan is here don't miss it. he is mexico. you are watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. ♪ ♪ . ♪ maria: we're going to find a way to -- i think possible. >> -- yes. >> -- abuses of the fbiing terrible abuses over and over and over, the confidential briefing from sort of the other expert on that understand the necessity of section 702 applies national security gefz perspective. >> house speaker mike johnson saying lawmakers will keep working to renew section 702, of the controversial government surveillance program fisa 19 republicans voted to politic the measure yesterday, ahead of the vote former president trump wrote on truth social, quote kill fiez avenue it was illegally used against me many others spied on my campaign former trump official carter page george papadopoulos told me federal authorities supplied on them illegally. >> were you -- you had no idea that you actually you will were being surveilled. >> conversations wi

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the department of homeland security -- alejandro mayorkas and with that i want to bring a house judiciary committeerepublican jim jordan. gaddafi with us, thank you for joining us. >> you bet. >> martha: you just heard set -- senator cruz talk about what happened to laker riley and that if the law had been upheld he said, this never would have happened, and the reason that the impeachment was brought in the house was because of the belief that mallorca's -- mayorkas is not a part -- reporting a lot and it's a violation but i just want to play this exchange between -- between mayorkas and then bishop earlier about the laken riley case. and want to get the facts on the other side of this. here we go. >> which was it in mr ibarra's case. humanitarian reasons or significant -- group -- >> i don't have the case details with me today. >> are not really asking detail i'm only asking for one simple fact. >> my answer remains the same. >> you don't know? >> other said, i don't have the details with respect to the individual's case. >> martha: i mean, given the loss of life of this young woman, how is it eve

joining me is democrat consultant, former house judiciary committee chief counsel, jeffrey epstein ando see you both. thanks so much. give us your reaction when you see the split screen of donald trump talking to construction workers and then you see president biden saying four more years, pause, your thoughts? >> well, joe biden i record this rememberthis when he was in thee and i was in the senate he wanted to be a relateable person but it comes across as forced and scripted. in truth today he's not very relateable and donald trump is very relateable at least to working class voters. the polling numbers i think reflect the fact there is widespread economic dissatisfaction with this administration and their results. the elites in my party have an arrogance of believing that if they talk about things like the inflation reduction act and chips act and the infrastructure bills that voters will care and voters will be moved. the problem with that is there are performance issues with all of those legislative accomplishments and secondly voters don't care about them. what voters care about

edward lawrence, no junction fee there jim jordan, chair of house judiciary committee and economic expertrt. here, even the imf is criticizing us. that is not exactly supply-siders over there. you have this guy from penn wharton model, no supply-siders there. too much spending, too much borrowing, too many deficits. inflation, interest rates, i mean, joe biden is out there today talking about junk fees and how we shouldn't have to pay baggage fees or whatever. if i had any hair i would be pulling it out, jim jordan. this "bidenomics" thing, it ain't working. >> "bidenomics" ain't working and even the imf knows it and tells us about it. for goodness sake, record deficits, record debt caused by record spending, bad tax policy, actually raising taxes, bad regulatory policy and certainly bad energy policy. and you wonder why we have record inflation and why eggs, milk, everything cost more than it did under president trump. it is because of "bidenomics." it is just, it doesn't work. everyone understands that. that is one of the key reasons why i think, we talked about this a lot. >> larry, wh

author of this book you should buy, he investigated donald trump as a special counsel to the house judiciary committee during donald trump's first impeachment. he was at the courthouse today and literally wrote the book on this case , "trying trump: a guide to his first election interference criminal trial" . okay, i don't know if more people know more about this, maybe d.a. bragg. let me just start by asking you to layout the arc of what happened in 2016 as a way to explain motive and intent. this is part of what we heard today and it was important, to me, as a reminder of all the details. >> one of the stunning things about being in court today was to see that theory of the case on full display, in both the morning session, when the d.a. laid out a chronology of election interference, as i say in the title of the book, and in the afternoon session, when the first words of substance that the judge said to the prospective jurors were, this is a case about criminal allegations of election influence in 2016. both halves were really expressing the narrative that you asked about. it starts in 2015, actual

republican congressman and chair of house judiciary committee jim jordan said the case and other indictments are all about politics. >> bragg, the crime is kind of trying to get this president trump was involved trying to conspiracy to obstruct the 2020 -- 2016 election it seems to me the truth really is alvin bragg and jack smith are in a conspiracy to impact the 2024 races. and frankly fani willis as part of that as well that's what the american people see. >> the first full week of testimony also included a key witness -- make another key witness for the press of former tabloid publisher david a packer. he paid one or $50000 to silence former playboy playmate karen mcdougall's claim of having an affair with trump and 2006 and 2007 put something trump also denies bread there also several subplots of this ongoing criminal trial. a decision on one and content motion is pending the judge has scheduled another hearing for this upcoming thursday for prosecutors to argue trump has violated more parts of the gag order which prevent him from making public statements about jurors, court staff and f

the house judiciary committee came out with a great report earlier this week about how this was the d.a targeted a person in donald trump and then tried to wrap misconduct around him for years. one of the former assistant d.a.s even wrote a book about it. that's not how you properly predicate an investigation or an indictment. and you would think that for the first prosecution of the president of the quites in american history that we'd -- of the united states in american history that we'd have serious people bringing serious charges. instead we have a porn star, a per jurorrer, a d.a., a judge with appearances of impropriety, a perilously vague charging trumpets and a pecker. jon: yeah. when you put it that way -- >> that's all the alliteration i have tonight, jon. jon: -- it doesn't quite reach the bar. you don't think the judge are recuse himself? -- will recause himself. >> i'm sorry, jon, say again? jon: all right. well, the judge, you know, his daughter is a fundraiser for a lot of democrat candidates including adam schiff who was the head of the president's impeachment trial. you

i'll read a letter to the house judiciary committee explaining why they're not going to give this audiots of contempt over audio files and the committee's seemingly low need for them. they say they've already received accommodation of transcripts and that again, the fear is that prosecutors wouldn't be able to get the same level of cooperation as they were able to get here if they were to go about releasing these files. now, they mentioned that lingering threat of contempt for the sitting attorney general. that's one of the threats we're following here in congress and of course the other piece of this, too, is the fact there are news organizations including ours who are pushing for the release of that audio because we think it's in the public interest to hear it and of course after seeing the transcripts, we think it might be a nice way to get further insight into what was done. >> about 30 second, how are dems reacting to this? >> reporter: you've got to imagine it's going to fall along party lines. they are coming back to town today so just in a few hours, we'll be able to ask them th

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. >> john, it's interesting kelly because mike johnson when he was on the house judiciary committee was actually vehemently opposed to the re-authorization of fisa, taking issue with the 702 position his colleagues on the hard right are taking issue with, which is essentially this 9/11 passion that gives u.s. agencies about to surveil non-u.s. citizens threatening national security. and the major point at issue here is whether spy agencies can then analyze communications with -- that americans at home are having with these foreign threats. but in terms of this issue, republicans have been amplifying a lot of misinformation around it. mike johnson has now come out and said now that he's got access to the highest levels of intelligence, that he's in support of re-authorizing 702 as is without this warrant reform as people who have rallied around the reform have called it, which is essentially issuing a warrant so there can be a proper review internally of whether or not certain people can be spied on. but a lot of national security hawks and mike johnson, and a growing cohort of republica

a member of the house judiciary committee. it has been a while since we spoke.'s go a little bit over the politics of it. to what extent will democrats work with speaker johnson to pass aid to key u.s. allies, ukraine, israel? >> well, thus far, i think we have been keeping our powder dry to see whether the speaker delivers what he says he is going to deliver and that is clean opportunities to vote on ukraine, on israel funding, on humanitarian assistance, on aid for taiwan. if he follows through with that and does the right thing, i think many members of our caucus are going to not want to see him punished for doing that. at the end of the day, democrats want to get things done, we want a house that can be governed, if we're not in the majority, we need at least speaker who can bring things to the floor without constant threat of being unseated by the most extreme elements of his conference. so, my guess is a number of our members are going to want to help if that's necessary. we'll make that decision in consultation with our leadership. >> so, the possibility

anyway, joining us now, he's the heag d of the house judiciary committee. jim jordan is with us. e commitordawelcome back to the you know, you have your committee lookinge your ino the weaponization of our justice system. jonathan turley, a democrat, called this trial today an embarrassment. he watched, he said, in utter disbelie i f. he pointed out that, you know, the statute of limitations had passed. it's over eight years ago, this case. and they bring it with just 196 days before an election. they're trying to use a federal law that doesn't exist that was rejected doesn'tt wa. biden's own doj. i if this isn't the weaponization of justice. >> jim jordan, i don't know what is. >> by the way, thisy new york city know what? >> but what? e flamg ouhang on. repor you'd have a reporter on the air saying it's mostlyhe peaceful, but go aheadai. >> yeah, you're exactly right. a and this is a continuation of what they've done to president trump now for eight years. so but what what what gets me ou is the department of justice wouldn't bring the cas e to federal elections commission, woul

i know this has been a contentious issue between you and house judiciary committee chairman jim jordan, who have different views on this. are you going to vote for this latest version of the fis of bill? and do you think it will have the votes to pass? >> absolutely you know, it was the intelligence committee was instrumental in drafting the bill that's going to the house floor. jake, i appreciate you. raising this issue because this is surveillance surveillance of foreigners who are abroad they were not surveilling foreigners in the united states were not surveilling americans. united states, those individuals who say that this is a warrantless search of americans data are just not telling the truth. these are foreigners abroad there a select group of individuals who are national security threat. if you're an american and your corresponding with isis? yes, if it's worth if we're spying on isis, your communications are going to be captured you would want us to do that. all americans would want us to try to make certain that we keep ourselves safe from these terrorists outside terrorist

you've got 14 democrat co-sponsors but jerry nadler, the ranking member of the house judiciary committeeyou would think he would be on board. he says your bill is a piece of you know what nadler was a co-sponsor of this very bill just just a few congresses ago. the bill would have done the same thing. adopt this working definition of anti-semitism so that we can define it and enforce it. and the fact that he has turned, you know, done a 180 here is insane. and why? because democrats are petrified of their progressive left base, and so concerned about the electoral consequences in november that they are willing to throw jewish students under the bus. it's shameful. >> steve: that's why we haven't heard from chuck schumer on this. where is the president on this he is doing both sides thing again. you think given the fact you think there is a big problem brewing for the democrats at their connection this summer. this could be 1968 all over again. >> history repeats itself. and that's why i referenced the 1969 letter from the president of notre dame. you are seeing the democratic party splin

. >> now, republican congressman from ohio, jim jordan, who of course chairs the house judiciary committee congressman, good to see you again. how are you this evening i'm fine, laura. >> good to be with you. >> it struck me listening to the arguments today. the signature question, and i wonder what your answer is do you think there should be any limits on presidential immunity? >> well, i think the standards are real clear. it was was he president at the time the answer to that is clearly yes. was he engaged in official duties? official conduct? i think the answer to that question is yes. so i think there should be immunity for that. i think i think all sides agreed. i thought i thought john sauer did a great job in making that case at the supreme court so i think that was that was clear that the court has been clear in the past that they want to make sure a president, i think the words they used and the nixon case was fearlessly and in be able to conduct the duties of his office. and you can't have this idea that you're going to get charged with some, some decision you make in your offic

and around at the time the stormy daniels saga was playing out, she testified before the house judiciary committee in 2019, those phone calls were about the access hollywood tape, but the timing is interesting. what might we hear from her when she testifies? so >> again, let's just repeat for the record she says she did not know so anything about stormy daniels in till november and she is sticking with that story that said to your point october was a bad month for the trump campaign. first access hollywood, then all of these phone calls we don't know what's in those phone calls. but we are hearing that there are text messages, emails, other evidence. so i think we have to wait to see what she testifies, but it does raise the question what did she know and when did she know? >> yeah. and the judge wouldn't i presumably wouldn't let her testify if she didn't have information germane to this issue, not the access hollywood issue, per say, but this issue having to do with stormy daniels should donald trump theoretically be nervous about who picks testifying? she was with him for all of this journey, v

on the ethics and the supreme court and recusing i think there's a good chance that the house judiciary committee might have some snap hearings into this last episode. this is now twice that there are allegations of of decisions were being cooked up in sam alito's office. and this there's a live witness saying i was told i knew and he's got a whole array of contemporaneous and things like that where he's telling people you're going to be really happy with this decision. know and he sent the hobby lobby executives up to sit there in the alito and scalia seats and the decision which don't know if you do if it was going to be you like dagger into the case they are trying to make so there are all there's all this evidence that in fact he did know he actually acted as if he knew. he didn't just say it so it's going to be to dig into that particular of the and i strongly suspect that between my coordinate chairman hank johnson and house chairman jerry nadler and departing speaker nancy pelosi, the decision will be made to move out into a on that. and they can move more quickly than can because of the w

the house judiciary committee should start shortly. live coverage here on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> three journalists are testifying on capital hill this morning on protection of a free press. among the witnesses, former correspondent catherine herridge who had her personal finals seized when she was laid off in february. this hearing is scheduled to start shortly. live coverage on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> three journalists are testifying on capitol hill this morning on the importance of a free press and p