former doj acting assistant for national security mary mccord said that would be unusual. >> i would say this is something that would have had to go all

mccord says perjury has been committed in the trial. the presence of legal counsel, john dean, realizes the white house is being blackmailed. he is afraid he could be implicated, he will be sent to prison. he is not willing to be sent to prison for the crimes as he sees it of other people. so he turns on nixon first wealthy turns on mcgruder and tries to get mcgruder to shoulder responsibility started this infighting between mcgruder and dean. as nixon puts it, his aides are passing on each other and they start to sing on the president to be crude about it. which is what nixon was. so, what's the taboo has been broken, there is just one person, james mccord is not willing to go along with the cover-up. starts blowing the whistle on it. in this whole "house of cards" begins to fall apart. >> the mostly attorneys and lawyers? from my memory seems like nixon was quite the law student. several of the aides were law students. did they not? >> that is one of the points john dean makes actually. at one point writes up a list of everybody who i

mccord. we are in the process of withdrawing our combat forces save for embassy protection personnel. it is going rapidly. the projections i read is perhaps july we could have all forces out. i think also, too, the taliban are aware if they would encroach upon our forces that would not only delay the departure but reengage us in active operations. so i think the questions now are, after the departure of our forces, do you believe you have the appropriate authorities and funding to continue to support the afghan national security forces and to conduct counterterrorism operations after? >> what we said is that we intend to maintain a good and productive relationship with the afghans post our withdrawal or retrograde. and that entails making sure that, with your support, we can continue to provide funding for their military and support for their government as well. i think that support is critical in ensuring that the government remains -- retains the ability to function and that the military re

so for a deeper look at the actions of the department of justice joining me now is mayor mccord formerctor for constitutional advocacy at georgetown law. mary, originally we booked you today, we wanted to discuss what was happening with these leaks. we wanted to discuss this, you know, what we're learning about subpoenas that were issued to apple. and then we also have what is technically a separate story, but to me, perhaps converges with this story and that is the release of those e-mails in and around after the election with the chief, with the president's chief of staff at the time, mark meadows trying to orchestrate a department of justice coup of some sort. so i guess i ask it this way, considering everything now that we don't know that was happening at this trump department of justice, this feels like an investigation that's much bigger than simply an inspector general investigation. is it? >> well, i think the inspector general investigation is a good start. certainly a lot of pieces that a lot of threads to pull here and whether they're all connected remains to be seen. undoub

the idea of climate denied tackling climate change is one of the issues french president, emanuel mccord says, will be easier now that washington wants to partner up. you have to say to kansas prices, climate change them. and for all this issues, what we need to corporation, and i think it's great to have us present part of the club and a willing to, to, to cooperate. i think we can do a united states. i said before, we're back us back. we feel very, very strong about cohesion of nato and i for one think that the european union is an incredibly strong and vibrant entity. the spirit of cooperation is working provided as he won g 7, support for the bill to back better world initiative, which will mobilize public and private capital to help closure. 40 trillion dollar infrastructure gap with developing countries. us wants to create a counter wait to chinese investment, although german chancellor, uncle america emphasized the plan is not against beijing. it's for assisting poor countries. so this is because we know there's a huge goal for infrastructure in africa. for example. it's in our in

mike mccord. let me say at the apps out i erbelieve there are budget requests will help us match resources to strategy, strategy to policy and policy to the will of the american people. informed by the president's in rome national guidance and my own message to the force and funds the right mix of capabilities that we need most to defend this nation now and in the future. it invests in hypersonic weapons, artificial intelligence, microelectronics, 5g technology, space space systems, ship building a nuclear modernization to name a few. in fact, this budget asks you to approve nearly $28 billion to modernize our nuclear triad and 112 land dollars for research development test and evaluation, the largest r&d request ever put forth by this department. our request also gives us the folks ability to divest ourselves of systems and platforms that no longer adequately meet our needs, including older ships, aircraft and isr platforms the demand more maintenance, upkeep and risk then we can afford. as you k

mike mccord. i believe our budget request will help us match our resources to strategy and strategy to policy and policy to the will of the american people. this budget is informed by the president's international security guidance and by my own message to the force. we believe it finds the right mix of capabilities that we need most to defend this nation now and in the future. it invests in hypersonic weapons, artificial intelligence, micro electronics, 5g technology and space-based systems, ship building a nuclear modernization, to name a few. in fact, this budget ask you to approve nearly $28 million to modernize our nuclear triad, and $112 billion for research development testing and evaluation which is the largest r&d request ever put forth by this department. i request also gives us the flexibility to divest ourselves of systems and platforms that no longer meet our needs, including older ships, aircraft, isr platforms that demand more maintenance, upkeep and risk than we can afford. the dep

as betsy said, i agree with mary mccord, it would go to the highest levels of our justice department, rosenstein or jeff sessions would have to red-flag it because of sensitivity. i guess if there is a predication, a factual reason to believe that, say, adam schiff uses his son's cell phone to try to disguise the origin of his phone calls, that seemed in light of the fact that donald trump was tweeting away how these very people were his enemies. i think it's a good step to have him investigated to find the leakers. >> if sessions ordered this basically under duress without real justification, what are the long-term consequences here. >> that's the real question, geoff, although there could be trouble if justice department officials participated in this activity. i just want to underscore both of my colleagues alluded to, which is adam schiff issed part of the party of eight. so even the fact they're briefing him, they better have had a darn good reason. that's the bottom line here. my thanks to the tleef tu. across the pond it's just about time for dinner, and that means it's time fo

all t doesn't condone violence, but what happened to mccord's policy has been particularly brutal in several regions. that party, it was eliminated from the 2nd round of voting offered fail to reach the 10 percent threshold needed the vote even for government ministers being knocked out. it's something of a surprise blue for my call and this is personal popularity. the theme, the surgeon recent month, it also shows that his tool, the products, which just took place, which was seen as him trying to sure up the boat to have the election, didn't succeed. so why has his policy failed to connect with voters? it shows it's even he, it even not much more unpopular that it was supposed to because his results are, are catastrophe g. it's a vote against him for last year, a lot of misconduct. and that was shown by the yellow as movement on by the fact that the government didn't react to do all the situation is going worst and worst. and the only new ways to government behave with our organs and you know, new people like our goods. so day it shows the government is complete and micro, especiall

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lloyd austin joined chief of staff chair general mark milley and the defense undersecretary michael mccord, testifying thursday before the senate armed services committee on the presidents 2020 to budget request. live coverage begins at 9:30 am eastern on c-span 3. online at c-span.org. with some live on the free c-span radio app. >> weeknights featuring american history tv programs as a preview of what's available every weekend on c-span 3. chris mackowski is the author of grants last battle, the snow right behind the personal memories of ulysses s grand. he talks about his book which re-counts grants life post presidency, including his financial ruin at the hands of unscrupulous business partners. his diagnosis with terminal throat cancer, and his decision to write his memoirs as a way to support his family. mackowski is the editor and chief of the emerging civil war block. and this talk kicks off a night of programs from the group's spring symposium. watch american history tv, thursday, beginning

a patriot and he talked about what was going through his head at the time when he slept president mccord in the car. when we were waiting, we planned to do something striking to challenge him on political matters to take a yellow vest or french flag. but we changed our minds. well, no point in the court hearing, did he dispute that he had just sorted the president of the french republic, the even described that the soldiers being a roll, them violent laugh and he said, but the point where he did it was filled with disgust that seeing president black calling, when i saw his sympathetic and lying gaze, which wanted to make a voter of me, i was filled with disgust. i think my reaction was a little bit impulsive, but my words had an impact. my crohn and all the yellow vests and the patriots. he had quite a lot to say if our president michael saying that he represented the fall of the country. he talked about people feeling injustices under president michael's mandate. so what do we know about this 28 year old book, quite a lot from that court hearing today, much of what he said confirmed of

defense secretary lloyd austin, join mark milley along with general undersecretary of defense michael mccord and testifying before the senate armed services committee. live coverage here on cspan3.

it's a bit trail of women, another slap in the face for president mccord as his political party. flops in french regional elections. the anti lockdown protested scuffle of police in london. the mid extended cobit restriction, while the number of cases continues to rise in england. ah, there were a good morning for russia, kevin, i would here with a headlines. so you from this tuesday, the 22nd of june. first and as you heard the 1st ever transgender athlete to set to go to the lympics this year. laurel hubbard, a weight lifter will join new zealand team in tokyo, sparking theory though from various campaigns to save women, sports which point out that a muscle mass is unfair competition. and then pick committee. those says she's met all the necessary criteria and he put trunk picks up the story. its official new zealand laurel hubbard, 43. hu transition to female and 2012 is heading to the olympics this summer. no. transgender asked the have ever done it before for laurel, there's absolutely no doubt it is a dream come troop. when the cameras zoom in on her and her team at the olympics,

and it's likely that this will be michael mccord's, last formal encounter, as the chancellor is not standing for reelection in september. yeah, my, my dearly, we spoke to our political correspondent manual shares about what the to have achieved together as neighboring you leaders. well, it did achieve a lot during those 4 years. my co said that in terms of your defense, france and germany went a bit further done before that was now and the, when i said the french president of european for the need of a strategic autonomy in terms of defense by the europeans themselves. so that's a step forward. and america said that she was very happy that there was a new corporation, a trans atlantic corporation between europe and the you with us has been achieved by a constant dialogue not only from france and germany with the was but also a european dialogue with the us but for which france and germany were instrumental, develop a lot of common ground when it, when it comes to foreign policy elsewhere for us on germany still don't see eye to eye as to how to communicate with russia, for example. and both

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lloyd austin joined chiefs of staff chair general mark millie and defense undersecretary michael mccord testify thursday before the senate armed services committee on the president's 2022 budget request live coverage begins at 9:30 am eastern on c-span 3 online at c-span.org or listen live on the free c-span radio app. on lectures in history george washington university professor chad heap teaches a class about the origins of the gay rights movement. he describes how activists found common ground with communists the black power movement anti-war protesters and other groups fighting against the status quo in america. so welcome back to class today. we are topic is going to be gay and lesbian liberation and i want to spend a little bit of time setting that up for you and then we will move right into a discussion of some of the issues for the last couple of weeks. we've been talking about the ways that cold war conformity gave rise to new forms of sexual and social order in the first decade or two after the second world war and we've talked about how the cold war conformity established a w

the timeline, would have gone out when jeff sessions was the attorney general and i spoke with mary mccord, who is a career justice department official who is the acting head of the national security division in the early part of the trump administration and she was a little bit careful in what she said. let me just read you what she said to me. she said attorney general sessions was very interested in pursuing leak investigations early in the new administration. and she added that under department practice, any investigation into an elected official would have been considered a sensitive matter that would have required high-level approval. ultrasensitive, aman, because we're talking about two members of the intelligence community which is entrusted with the nation's most closely guarded secrets. briefed on covert action and they are by definition trusted by the executive branch. you would think there would need to be a really significant piece of information to prompt this kind of investigation. >> all right, ken delaney and pete williams starting off this hour on multiple fronts. thank y

>>> defense secretary lloyd austin, general mark milley, and michael mccord testified on the president's 2022 budget request. c-span.org or listen live on the free c-span radio app. washington journal doctor doctor kristin englund, she's an infectious disease physician at the cleveland clinic. joining us from your studios in cleveland, ohio. thank you for being with us again. >> good morning steve, thank you so much for having me on. >> i want to begin more broadly on where we are at as school begins to and for summer vacations, summer camps, graduations, family travel, where are we from your perspective in this pandemic? >> well, thankfully we're seeing numbers across the country that are at the lowest of any time in the last at least six months. so numbers are continuing to decline of new cases. and that certainly great news. we are still seeing pockets of infection though, so there are some areas where there are still seeing a significant number of patients in the hospitals and increasing numbers of cases. so i think it's really important for everyone in the country to know what it's

. >>> defense secretary lloyd austin joined chief of staff mark milley and undersecretary michael mccord who testified thursday before the senate arms committee on the president's 2022 budget request. live coverage begins 9:30 a.m. central on c-span3 and online at cspan.org or listen live on the free c-span radio app. >>> next, a senior executive with fisher-price and the ceo of its parent company mattel testify about a range of products that are recalled for safety. the house oversight committee members also asked about flaws in the product safety system. >> the meeting will come to order. without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. i now recognize myself for an opening statement. today's hearing addresses the tragic consequences of companies selling dangerous consumer products, and the federal government's failing to protect americans from these products. specifically, we will examine the rock and play, an infant sleeping product sold by mat mattel, while these were sold on the market at least 50 infants died. that is 50 young lives cut

joint base louis mccord was proud to host the pilot program. as you consider requirement in the indopacific, will you commit to keeping one of the task forces at jblm? >> congresswoman, we are also very proud of the first multidomain task force and pleased it's part of our ability to experiment with new concepts and new operational approaches. certainly it's going to be very important to be able to have a west coast orientation for our mdtfs. we'll want to look overall at our strategy, particularly as this administration is -- a revised national defense strategy, so we'll want to look an at our global posture and capabilities but we're pleased with the work they're doing already and it's in a good place right now. >> great, and one -- issues my colleagues raised already. i hear from members coming here and spouses housing is hard to find. in many cases we have a baseline for housing that just doesn't keep up with the cost of housing in our department and spouses are required to work so they can meet basic needs and put food on the table. can yo