attorney general john ashcroft for his gracious and humbling statement. i am forever grateful for your faith in me. i also want to recognize and thank senator cornyn for his kind words and for my fellow if he cansens-- text a texansa. i'd like to thank my amazing wife michelle and truly wonderful daughters, my mom kathy and five brothers and sisters, kitty, bob, sharon, pam, and larry. watching from above, i'm sure, is my late dad, robert ratcliffe. my career in public service is a direct reflection of my family's selflessness, their sacrifice, their enduring love of country and for me, i simply don't have the words to adequately express my gratitude. my journey here today has been a mixture of public service and private sector experience. i graduated college at eight 20, law school at 23. tried my first case at 24. a decade later, managing partner by my own law firm and my most measures, i was successful, but something was missing. as the son of two public school teachers, i was taught from an early age the virtues of public service and self-sacrifice an

attorney general john ashcroft for his gracious and humbling statement. i am forever grateful for your faith in me. i also want to recognize and thank senator cornyn for his kind words, and my fellow texans for their support. it is been the privilege of my life to represent the constituents of texas was congressional district. finally and most important league there's no way i could be with you today without the encouragement and support of my family. i'd like to recognize and thank my amazing wife michelle, are truly wonderful daughters, and my mom kathy and my five brothers and sisters, kitty, bob, sharon, pam and alert. watching from above i'm sure as my late dad robert. my career in public service is drug reflection of my families selflessness, their sacrifice, their enduring love of country and for me. i simply don't have the words to adequately express my gratitude. my journey here today has been a mixture of public service and private sector experience. i graduated college at age 20, law school at age 23, tried my first case at age 24. a decade lat

i would like to thank john ashcroft for his gracious and humbling statement. i am forever grateful for your faith in me. i also want to recognize and thank senator cornyn for his kind words and my fellow texans for their support. it has been the privilege of my life to represent the constituents of texas's fourth congressional district. i cannot be with you today without the encouragement and support of my family. i would like to thank my wife, michelle, our wonderful --ghters, my mom kathy, mi5 and my five brothers and sisters. watching from above, i am sure, is my late dad robert ratcliffe. my career is a direct reflection of my family's selflessness, sacrifice, their enduring love of country and for me. i do not have doors to attic lee express my gratitude. today has been a mixture of public service and private sector experience. i graduated college at 20, law school at 23, and tried my first case at 24. a decade later, i was managing partner of my own law firm and was successful, but something was missing. as the son of two schoolteachers, i was taught fro

my old boss john ashcroft would have never permitted in a million years. >> laura: we have a real attorneyal now, not hold her, not loretta lynch, not janet reno, we have a real attorney general who is doing his job and he is a hero in all of this. governor christie, congratulations and i'm sorry that all of them had to go through this. thanks for joining us tonight. >> thank you as well and thanks for giving me the chance to come out here and exonerate my team. >> laura: up next, a tale of two states. the media said florida's covid outbreak would be worth the new york's, why didn't that happen? governor ron desantis is here to tell us next. >> laura: for weeks the media they're our neighbors. and they're our friends. they're our parents... our brothers and sisters. and our children. but now, they are more than that. they are forever our heroes, too. at prudential, we're fortunate to know and serve them. and we're grateful to the heroic men and women working on the front line to move our nation forward. to all the heroes, we thank you. i got this mountain bike for only $11. dealdash.com, t

my old boss john ashcroft would have never permitted in a million years. >> laura: we have a real attorneyeneral now, not hold her, not loretta lynch, not janet reno, we have a real attorney general who is doing his job and he is a hero in all of this. governor christie, congratulations and i'm sorry that all of them had to go through this. thanks for joining us tonight. >> thank you as well and thanks for giving me the chance to come out here and exonerate my team. >> laura: up next, a tale of two states. the media said florida's covid outbreak would be worth the new york's, why didn't that happen? governor ron desantis is here to tell us next. i recommend nature made vitamins... because i trust their quality they were the first to have a vitamin verified by usp... ...an independent organization that sets strict quality and purity standards nature made, the #1 pharmacist recommended vitamin and supplement brand i'm a talking dog. the other issue. oh... i'm scratching like crazy. you've got some allergic itch with skin inflammation. apoquel can work on that itch in as little as 4 hours, wh

former attorney general john ashcroft was scheduled to be here to introduce representative ratcliffe, given current circumstances he could not attend. theent us his remarks and senator has kindly agreed to represent attorney general ashcroft today. senator cornyn, the floors years. senator cornyn: you, mr. chairman. always good to be with my colleagues on the senate select committee on intelligence and it is my pleasure to introduce john ratcliffe, the nominee for director of national intelligence. as the chairman said, we do have a letter from the former attorney general and it is rather lengthy. i'm not going to read all of it/ i will refer to some excerpts. i ask for consent that it be made part of the record following my remarks. the reason why i think it is so important for the committee and the senate to hear from former attorney general ratcliffe -- excuse me, former attorney general ashcroft, is because of his intimate knowledge of the professional qualifications of the nominee, as well as the personal qualifications, his intelligence and his integrity. for high-quality decisi