mr. cohen. dave cowens -- mr. cohen: i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will entertain requests for one-minute speeches. for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee seek recognition? mr. cohen: to address the house for one minute and respect the constitution of the united states. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. cohen: today president trump held a press conference and he referred to the emomolments clause in the constitution as the phony emoluments clause. well, i take an oath to support the constitution, as does he, as do all 435 of us. and i'm also the chairman of the subcommittee on jish on the constitution -- judiciary on the constitution. i take hum raj -- umbrage at his remarks. the emoluments clause was -- the dutch put it in their documents to protec

mr. cohen: there are two different kinds of arguments, even injustice past afternoon, as people have argued about why this is a bad idea. one is the one you laid out, which is you take your eye off the ball, isis comes back, it is destabilized in a variety of ways. mr. petraeus: there is also something about the commitment from the united states. that is another factor. mr. cohen: i want to draw you out on that. you mentioned earlier, talking about kkr facing reputational risk. mr. petraeus: yep. mr. cohen: how important is consideration should be america's reputational risk? the reason i ask that is i think it is fair to say the president of the things that makes this , one president unusual is he does not really think that reputational risk, in the sense we have been using it, matters a heck of a lot. reputations or fidelity for a certain kind of commitment to allies, to following through, for staying the course, all of those things. if we were to make the case for reputation, how would you m

mr. cohen: mr. masterson. mr. masterson we worked with our government coordinating council which has 24 state and local election officials to identify identify priorities. states have taken that information which is dated based on our work with the states and used it to apply. prior to the 2018 election the state of wisconsin deployed two factor authentication out to its local election officials for the database which may seem unremarkable null realize they have 1800 local election jurisdictions in the state of wisconsin and 3200 users of the statewide voter registration database. that's a focused targeted step that they have taken. mr. cohen: mr. masterson, the director has emphasized the importance of protecting the campaigns based on what happened in 2016 with interference with the d.n.c., clinton combain. shame on us if we are not ready this time around. if you consulted with the president or anyone involved in his re-election campaign? mr. masterson we have made contact with not just the trump

mr. cohen was an economic correspondent for dow jones and "the wall street journal." mr. cohen received his a.b. from harvard university and m.s. from the london school of economics. our second witness, matt perault, head of global policy development at facebook, leading the company's global public policy planning efforts on law enforcement and human rights officers and also overseen public policy for whatsapp, oculus, and facebook, artificial intelligence research. before joining facebook he was counsel at the congressional oversight panel as well as a consultant at the world bank. he received his bachelor's degree from brown university. mpp from duke university stanford school of public policy and jd from harvard law school. our third witness is nate sutton. oversees all competition-related litigation and regulatory matters for the company. before joining amazon, mr. sutton was a trial attorney with the department of justice antitrust division. he also worked at the law firms of william & con

mr. cohen: then i'd like to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia is recognized for five minutes to close. mr. cline: thank you, mr. speaker. again, i commend those who have pursued the introduction and passage of this important legislation and, along with the comments of my colleague from new hampshire we will never -- they will never be forgotten and we will continue to fly the pow-mia flag alongside the american flag. and with that, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from tennessee is recognized. mr. cohen: thank you, mr. speaker. as mr. cline said, this is a straightforward bill that would rightly require that the flag be flown effectively every day at certain locations of great significance to our country. it's an appropriate to honor all those who served -- served and those who remain missing because of their service to our nation in bar time. therefore, i -- wartime. therefore i urge prompt passage of

mr. cohen: well, it is in turkey's intere to do that. whether they focus ononeople who might be escaping into turkey itself or other parts of syria or into iraq. i think certainly the kurds are not going to be interested in holding onto the prisoners while they are trying to fight. they will try to fight and that the prisoners go and the turks will have that responsibility. it comes bacto the president ying, well, the turksent it in a way that is a bad idea. wellab, it was fores and certainly should have been foreseen that turkey was going toowseful forces going in without regard to the human esconseque when the president says let's do it in a humane way, it wasn't very were terrible bombing civilian areas-- barrel-bombing civilian areas and it will not be huma t as far as thks are concerned. laura: secretary cohen, thanks for being with us. in germany, at least twoeople have been killed and two other s injured a shooting in a synagogue in the eastern city of halle.pe onon has been arrested. witnesses saw a gunman wearing a military styl

. >> before miss selby is given an opportunity to respond, i want to apologize to mr. cohen for calling him mr. allen, my apologizes. thea? >> thank you for that and i would be happy to have mr. cohen stewart talking about the one-cent sales tax. the voices for public transportation has no interest in that being the primary revenue source and i want to be clear about that. but i wanted to address the other things about the west side, un-equity, getting people in san francisco around san francisco. a lot of problems are stemming from 40% of our carbon emissions are from cars and trucks. muni says .1% which i have a hard time believing but let's say between 1% and 2%. were that means is that if we want to hit carbon eminister's s goals and make it safe for san francisco, we have a vision zero presentation, if we were to get those cars off the road or a lot of those cars off the road with significant investment, this doesn't happen for free, but with significant investment, perhaps it is railed to garry and if we are able to get the people out of their cars because public trans

mr. schiff. he did the same thing. michael cohen. he did not tell us his staff met with him hours to prior to mr. cohen testifying. last summer, he met with mr. simpson in colorado. this is a pattern. we were hoping to hear from the ambassador today. we are to stand exactly why the administration and the state department have chosen to say if it's going to be this kind of process, selectively leak text messages, 67 pages we had. they take a handful and release it to you and not give it full context or transcript, we understand why they made this decision at this moment. reporter: ambassador sondland says he is disappointed he was not allowed to attend this deposition today. >> we wish he would've been able to testify but we understand why the administration made the decision they did. when you have a chairman release certain parts of what was said in a closed-door interview and not release the entire transcript and give a context, you can see why they didn't want to subject ambassador sondland to the same kind of treatment. reporter:

he didn't tell us his staff met with mr. cohen for hours prior to mr. cohen testifying. he met with mr. simpson in colorado, palling around with the guy. so this is a pattern. we were hoping to hear from the ambassador today but we understand exactly why the administration, exactly why the state department has chosen to say, look if it's going to be this kind of process, if you'll selectively leak text messages, 67 pages of text messages we had. they take a handful of them and release to all of you and not give the full context and not release the transcript, we understand why they made this decision at this moment. i'm going to let some of my -- >> ambassador sondland said he's -- >> that republican view of the world and the democratic view of the world. interesting to hear jim jordan, a staunch defender of the president, say he and republican members of the committee were looking forward to hearing from sondland as well, but defending the decision to block his testimony calling the impeachment inquiry an unfair and partisan operation. of course, schiff there, the news,

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mr. steve cohen who represents the great state of tennessee, bring his remarks. mr. cohen: thank you, mrs. lawrence. i i was freshman in 2007, was the only member of the house who chose judiciary as their first committee choice. at least the only democrat. that gave me the opportunity to be on john conyers' committee, him being my chairman for 10-plus years. that was a blessing to me. he taught me much. i would consider him my mentor. he taught me about life. he taught me -- taught me about judiciary issues and the congress, an he taught me about life. john conyers was a spirit. i sometimes thought of him as kind of a hippie buzz he had these ethereal thoughts about the way people ought to be and about caring about people and about justice and about civil rights that was unlike thoughts you'd hear from most people but he was ahead of the hippies. he was ahead of bernie sanders. he was ahead of so many people. we talk here today so many people about him being -- which is all true -- longest serving african-american member of congress. but it was more than that. he was

mr cohen can you hear me. apologize we do seem to have lost our connection with our guests will come back to later if we can. now the unrest in barcelona shows no signs of easing independence demonstrations are into their 2nd week with riders targeting police again last night amid the violence police vehicles were banned allies and protesters also demonstrated outside a government building they want madrid to open talks on calumnious future and say they will not back down. everyone has become a rebel everyone in catalonia is together young and old people right wing left wing old people outraged we're going to be out on the streets every day we have been protesting peacefully for a lot of years and no one has the only thing that we get from the government is beatings and disparagement people have had enough we've reached our breaking point for protesters also booed at the spanish prime minister on his visit to barcelona on monday sanchez spoke to injured officers in the hospital but he refused to meet with the

the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from tennessee, mr. cohen, for five minutes. thank you, mr. speaker. times.in interesting think it was confucius who in interesting times is a great opportunity. is. unfortunately, the rule of law and democracy are at stake, and they are and as the intel committee, foreign affairs the oversight and eform committee have hearings, and later there will be public hearings, we are seeing american heroes emerge. an american hero, earned a colonel urple heart, will be testifying. vendon listened to the onversation between president zelensky and president trump, and he will testify as to what happened. a memorandum. it will be what really took place on that call and why it so much.im the administration doesn't want colonel to testify. he's testifying because he is a because it's his duty, because he knows what's at stake and what's at stake is what's at stake is our constitution, what's at stake is our republic. we've had other people testify. ambassador who was removed wo months early because she refused to go along

remember, what mr. cohen said is mr. trump plays -- >> how much vending out do you get to do here? you have to show a time when we get to look at his finances. maybe something would pop in and out that would not be covered by 2011 22013, but there has got to be something mysterious has happened in the six-month period that will not show up anywhere else, really? to 2019. -- 2014 >> i'm sorry, we want to know when do they start showing up, especially when dealing with complex things and new york state assets, when did they start showing up, why did they -- >> i thought the rationale for 2011 -- i don't know why they cannot go back to when he was 18 . >> it probably would not be ,ertinent to go back that far but it is so complicated and losses going forward, and remember, mr. trump has said he has been under audit for years. he himself recognizes that these are the types of things that can carry over from year-to-year, and here is here's a key thing. he detailed why he disappeared, and that may show up in financial statements. the supreme court said quite sometimes get -- congression

four hours prior to mr. cohen testifying. he didn't tell us last summer he met with mr. simpson out in colorado, palling around with a guy with fusion gps. this is a pattern. we hope to hear from the ambassador today but we understand exactly why the administration, exactly why the state department has chosen to say, look, if it's this kind of process -- if you're going to selectively leak text messages, 67 pages of text messages we have, they take a handful and release to all of you and not give the full context and not release the transcript, we understand why they made this decision at this moment. >>> the house will be in order. >> for 40 years, c-span has been providing america unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court and public policy events from washington, d.c., and around the country so you can make up your own mind. created by capabble in 1979. c-span is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. >>> now, deborah lee james, former air force secretary under president obama, she

the border but not everywhere agreed under the terms of the troops before heading to sochi is what mr cohen had to say. vladimir putin and i will discuss all the steps to be taken in order to maintain the territorial integrity of syria and to cleanse the northern parts of syria from terrorists and terrorist organizations we will also be revisiting the efforts made for drafting a new constitution and we will also discuss it live and the significance attached to this area including a ceasefire we want a lasting peace in syria i hope our meeting will make progress meanwhile bashar al assad has called president a thief he made the remarks during a visit to areas of italy a province taken from turkish backed rebels by government forces not to gambia and the whole of the thief he stole our plants and factories our produce and he stole our oil with the help of ice so now he is stealing our lands and who we are called . but i do want to ledges to have entered syria of his own choice however over the past 9 years he's been trying but couldn't or rather not authorized he said to have informed the ame

mr. cohen's comments. you know, you think that we have to one, sharpen the tools in our toolbox and that's really the work that is focused here and then think about how we can move forward with those tools. and i think, you know, at every, i would say, at least once a month, we have issues of drs, where people are living or have potentially outlived or evicted from units and feel kind of lake we don't have the right tools to understand what's happening and follow through and protecting tenants. so whether it's hiring somebody within the department, with tenants' lense or a check-box or both, which is what i would advocate for, i think closing the loophole on that is important and also, of course, agree on demolitions and losing housing stock. also, just think that there is incredible innovation that's happening around stablization. you really appreciated the comments around land trusts and there are people of colour and indigenous women in the east bay that are making national and international news that a

what mr. cohen said is mr. trump -- >> how much spinning out do you get to do here? you have to show us a time and get to look at his finances. there's a gap there that going well, maybe something would have popped in and out that wouldn't be covered by 2011 to mid 2013 and 2014 to 2019 but there's going to be something mysterious that happens in that six-month period that won't show up anywhere else. really? >> or things may show up for a while. >> you got a while you got 2014 to 2019. >> no. i'm sorry. you want to know when did they start showing up? especially if we're dealing with collects things and real estate assets, etc. when do they start showing up? when did they -- >> well, how far back -- i gunshot you did 2011. that was the lease. but i don't know why under that theory they can't go back to when he was 18 or birth for goodness' sakes? >> it probably wouldn't be pertinent go back that far but for somebody who has so much -- that's so complicated and losses going forward. and mr. trump has said he's been under audit for years. so he himself recognizes that

i >> now recognize mr. cohen from tennessee for five minutes of your questions. >> thank you madam chair. miss big loughlin, new started the pregnant world act with undue hardship and provision by limiting these options. in your testimony you state that section 2.4 up the bill suggest that they not placed a worker on leave if a combination exist to address the low rotation. even if the nomination results in the shoe. would you agree that if it's placed on leave as an accommodation that it should be paid leave? (inaudible) well, that would depend on the financial resources. some employers can't afford paid leave and others cannot. >> do you believe that a woman who has a job, to his pregnant, who's doing the most essential thing on this earth which is to reproduce and keep the human species going. without that, none of us would be here. do you believe that woman should be getting paid leave if the lawyer under the law will support suggest that instead of doing accommodation on her work that best suits that employe

. >> mr. cohen.ily stopped doing international business deals. is that accurate? >> obviously not even remotely close to a factual statement. eric is in charge of the golf courses. in charge of the winery. president trump is talked about having the g7 meeting next year at the country club in florida. that he owns. and deutsche bank is lent money to. so it's all one big head fake. nothing to do with what president trump did with the ukrainian prime minister. he's trying to deflect attention to hunter biden when it has nothing to do with the real story. >> is your police chibelief the profiting off the presidency? >> of course they are. they haven't sold businesses or put nem a blind trust. the only poeblt interesting aspect is nobody wants to live in tlump buildings anymore. they are taking the names off of buildings here. the obviously a lot of the golf courses are struggling and condo projects have been pulled or struggling. to some extent it's been a negative. not ivanka. who does business and her

i note for the committee that miss mcbath and mr. cohen of tennessee are permitted to participate in the hearing. members who sit on the subcommittee and are present shall have first priority to ask questions followed by members who sit on the full committee and present and only after all committee members who are present have gone, shall members who are not on the committee of education and labor ask questions. pursuant to the committee reel 7-c, the opening statements are limited to the chair and the ranking member to allows us to hear from the witnesses sooner and provides all members can adequate time to ask questions. i recognize myself now for the purpose of making an opening statement. as a mom and a policymaker, i know how important it is to protect the economic security of pregnant women and working families. unfortunately the current laws are inadequate, and the workers are placed on unpaid leave or not accommodated with a simple adjustment to keep their job during pregnancy. we are holding a legislative hearing on the pregnant w

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cohen. others merely cooperating, like mr. wieselberg. others talked a bit, pleaded guilty, and went back to lying during investigations. you remember them. and others, of course, out of their public service work, stood up and said "no," including law enforcement officials like mr. comey and miss yates. that's all up until, say, a month ago. boom, then you have the ukraine scandal kicking off with what you see on your screen are not faces, but the absence of faces, two anonymous whistle-blowers who decided to take a risk. that was a few weeks ago which set off the new round of these public servants and diplomats, most of whom we have never heard of, but who have long records, many of them bipartisan. and the stories we've heard are largely from these people over the past few weeks. diplomats, ambassadors, civil servants, as i've said. they prove john bolton's concerns, who has now become a sought-after witness, along with these other people who appear to quote the defense of trump's dirty work, like mr. gordon sondland, who says he was ec

like mr. cohen so many people in my district were reaching out and expressing their condolences and sharing their stories with me this past weekend. i attended a church service where, again, people talked about elijah cummings. and his influence has gone far and wide. and that should give us all great heart to move forward and press forward as we fight the battle to preserve our democracy in the constitution and rule of law. having said that. i have another colleague who has joined us and would like to share his sentiments and his insights into the life of alige after cummings and that is a classmate of mine, mr. peter welch. i yield the floor at this time. mr. welch: thank you, mr. speaker. it has been so wonderful to be sitting here and listening to members of the congressional black caucus talk about their work, their friendship, their respect for a giant that walked --ng us and that is aligeave alige after cummings. and the congressional black caucus is the conscious of this congress and no bett

mr. cohen in jail now, flipped. these two asoes ats of rudy giuliani flip. there's a lot here that terrifies people at the white house. >> is there enough here to allow you, and you are a lawyer, to be able to say i know what this narrative could look like, in other words, do we know, they had their hands in a lot of stuff, they're involved with rudy giuliani, and we know rudy giuliani is involved in a lot of stuff, some of that connects to donald trump. can you get from a to f? >> great question, ali velshi known for great questions. there are two theories. here's one good for the white house. a theory many are accused of crimes, innocent until proven guilty, if convicted did bad things, associated with people, that's as far as it went, bad apples defense and that's it. the other theory is that the people on the screen you see now and other individuals close to trump and rudy giuliani did know about the extent of this, that there was a larger criminal plot to take over u.s. foreign policy, not for the benefit of the united states, not for ideological reason

. >> thank you mr. cohen. next speaker please. >> hello. i'm from the housing program. our organization provides access to housing by helping people to navigate affordable housing. over the years, we have seen changes in our demographics as well in terms of who is looking for affordable housing. for the last five-years or in the last five years or five years ago, i would say 90 percent of our clientele were about from 40 percent ami to 80 percent ami. last year, our demographic has changed from 60 percent where they are extremely low income meaning lower than 30 percent ami and about 40 percent are very low or low income. so that means like 40 to 8 percent. so that means there's a big change already of people who are living or working here in san francisco. and that means the people are working here in san francisco are not living here in san francisco anymore. and there's an increase of homelessness. one thing that i really appreciate, it really gave a perspective of the bigger picture about when there is loss of feature office developments meaning the ami will also de

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mr. steve cohen who represents the great state of tennessee, bring his remarks. mr. cohen: thank you, mrs. lawrence. i i was freshman in 2007, was the only member of the house who chose judiciary as their first committee choice. at least the only democrat. that gave me the opportunity to be on john conyers' committee, him being my chairman for 10-plus years. that was a blessing to me. he taught me much. i would consider him my mentor. he taught me about life. he taught me -- taught me about judiciary issues and the congress, an he taught me about life. john conyers was a spirit. i sometimes thought of him as kind of a hippie buzz he had these ethereal thoughts about the way people ought to be and about caring about people and about justice and about civil rights that was unlike thoughts you'd hear from most people but he was ahead of the hippies. he was ahead of bernie sanders. he was ahead of so many people. we talk here today so many people about him being -- which is all true -- longest serving african-american member of congress. but it was more than that. he was

mr cohen, it is clive myrie here in london. you we re is clive myrie here in london.hey were not informed prior to this raid of what was going to happen, and and the turks were given advance notice? i think it is consistent with what the president is attempting to do, and that is to politicise the military. he has done this in the past, where he will grip go to a group of our soldiers, airmen, marines, and say that the democrats are not your friends. marines, and say that the democrats are not yourfriends. it marines, and say that the democrats are not your friends. it is the republicans who are supporting a strong military. that is a very dangerous thing for him to do. it is one thing to politicise some of our other institutions, even though i have questions there, but the military is sacrosanct. it is nonpartisan, nonpolitical, and hear what the president is suggesting, i couldn't trust the leaders of the democratic party, they would leak this and you would be in jeopardy. yet i trust vladimir putin, i trust the russians, but i don't trust you. this is his way of se

mr. cohen? titus, morning, chairman ranking members of the subcommittee. thank you for the opportunity to testify here today regarding the inspector generals evaluation of the gsa management and administration of the post. >> i'm sorry, can you hold the mic closer so we can hear you better? >> sure. as you know, gsa manages the leaves through the old post office building on pennsylvania avenue in washington, d.c. the old post office llc is the tenant of the lease. on july 28, 2017, my office initiated an evaluation of battered with an administration of the lease based on numerous complaints from members of congress and the public. we focused our evaluation on gps -- gsa of v s decision-making -- gsa's decision-making process and determining whether the president's business caused the tenant and breach of the least among the president's inauguration. we did not seek to determine whether the president's interest of the hotel violates either of the clauses of the u.s. institution or the interest in section 37.19 of the lease, or whether any violations breach

underwood of illinois and mr. cohen of tennessee are permitted to participate in today's hearing. members who sit on the subcommittee and are present shall have first priority task questions, followed by members after all only committee members who are present have gone shall members who are not on the committee on education and labor asked russians. pursuant to committee rule seven c, opening statements are limited to the chair and ranking member. this allows us to hear from our witnesses sooner and provide all members with adequate time to ask questions. i recognize myself for the purpose of making an opening statement. as a mom and policymaker, i know how important it is to protect the economic security of pregnant women and working families. unfortunately, our current laws are inadequate and many pregnant workers are placed on unpaid ,eave, or forced out of work when they only need a simple accommodation to stay on the job during pregnancy. today, we are holding a legislative hearing on hr 269 four -- 2694, the pregnant workers fairness act. reason will accommodations that wil

bass of georgia and mr. cohen of tennessee are permitted to participate in today's hearing. members who sit on the subcommittee and our present shall have first priority to ask questions followed by members who sit on the full committee and only after all committee members who are present have gone show members who are not on the committee asked questions. pursuant to committee rule seven opening statements are limited the chair the ranking member. this allows us to hear from her witnesses in her and provide all members with adequate time to ask questions that i recognize myself now for the purpose of making an opening statement. as a a mom and a policymaker hih know how important it is to havo economic security. unfortunately our current laws aree inadequate in many pregnant workers are placed on unpaid leave or forcedd out of work whn they only need a simple accommodation to stay on the job during their pregnancy. today we arele holding a legislative hearing on h.r. 269 for the pregnant workers fairness act. this bill takes an important step to guarantee the pregnant women

ask about the mill operation, mr. cohen did. existing procedures, that's the runaway stable later trim but they're not the same procedure, are they? >> into, procedure. >> when you haven't mcas them it's not a failure but when the mcas is the fact that it's not the same emergency procedure as of right away stabilizer trim. >> actually, when the mcas were to fail or if a a motor or to refill the various causes runway stabilizer speedy let me ask you this. stabilizer trim fails, i i cane manual trim button or i can control the column, and if it is a true run away stabilizer trim i won't be able to disrupt that failure, is that correct? >> no. with the runway stabilizer you can counter it -- >> if i can write and adopted the result that it want than i go to the cutoff, greg? >> then go to the cutoff procedure. >> but with the mcas failure i can interrupt the stabilizer trim failure, isn't that correct? >> that's true. >> it happened 15+ times in the indonesian air, didn't it? >> yes. >> right. you would think you don't put in the d

mr. michael cohen. another reason this matters, well, and i haven't even hit this in much detail yet because this has got a cull couple of pieces. if you stop right here and said that's a lot of different stuff, think about this one fact in this indictments the links to donald trump, not only by giuliani but also by following the money. both these men broke the law with illegal donations to a trump pac and tried to funnel money to a russian national who wanted to get funds to trump. you take this all together right now, what you have is any one of these things quite damning, not only for these individuals who we always mention are presumed innocent legally, but who are facing a written indictment and a paper trail, but also damning for mr. rudy giuliani because the best case scenario for him now tonight is that all of this stuff is documented but he is not charged or hit with anything, and that's a possibility. but even that is really bad because these are the people who are carrying out the ukraine plo

chairman into our witnesses, i want to echo the sentiment that my colleague for an appearance by mr. cohen was a, terribly disappointing and i hope that it is something that we can quickly rectify, former diplomat and the endowment for peace told us and recently said quote, any attempt at reconciliation through a negotiated bargain through negotiations and insurgents would fail to deliver stability that the u.s. seeks, do you agree with that statement, they are set up both of you. >> the administration is exploring or has been exploring whether or not you can create a political framework that produces the dialog that gives confidence an american security will be met, so obviously i would not agree with doctor tell us. >> so why would you choose to enter negotiations with such little progress, strategically, is that something, is that a question we should be asking? >> this is not a conflict that will be solved on the battlefield and you have seen over the last ten years the number of troops and soldiers go up and go down, what hasn't been able to move forward is the conversations that need

he didn't tell us his staff had met with mr. cohenours before testimony or that he met with mr. simson from gps. this is a pattern like i said. we were hoping to hear from the ambassador today but understand why the administration and state department has chosen to say look, if it will be this kind of process. if you selectively leak text messages, 67 pages of text messages we had. they take a handful and release to all of you and not give the full context and not release the transcript, we understand why they made this decision at this moment. i'm going to let some of my -- >> ambassador sondland said he is disappointed he wasn't allowed to attend the deposition today. >> i said the same thing. we wish he would have been able to testify but understand why the administration made the decision they did. when you have a chairman release certain parts of what was said in a closed-door interview and not release the entire transcript and give a context, you can see why they didn't want to subject ambassador sondland to the same kind of tre

mr. cohen's provision and we were asked to look at pitch size and divisions and the construct of safety which is what our mandate is. we are going to perform testing including human testing and later thisiary we're going to establish the necessary seat pitch with length based on safety which would be the basis for any rule making. >> let me stop because he's going to hit the gavel in a minute and will you have more videos and feedback? >> do you have an update on the timing of it? >> pardon me. i understand it's supposed to occur before the end of the year. we set up the aviation advisory committee as well that will also look at the evacuation study. so taking all of that data in will will be the rule. >> we have 12 days of testing planned in november with 720 live bodies and the collection of 3,000 data points. >> he like that gavel. >> thank you very much. i do yield back, sir. >> you were doing so well, mr. mitchell. >> i appreciate your questioning. and i roo your absence from the congress and i understand your logic and i commend you on it. in the past congress we had the authorization a

enough i recognize mr. cohen. >> thank you, madam chair, it is miss ochoa? >> how do you mow nouns your name? commissioner, how too you pronounce your last anytime. >> ochoa. >> thank you. you talk about section 37.19. >> correct. that seems to be clearly obvious that the exception put in here to say the public officials could engage in a lease is if they are for in the general benefit of a corporation or other entity, that -- and the corporation or other entity is publicly healed and the idea being that if an individual owns stock in hilton or another hotel company or a -- they weren't the significant owner, significant beneficiary or involved in management 2005 be okay because it's like de minimis involved and that's clear but the gsa has privileges at the odc's opinion on that section when they look to enter tet it. why have an -- exert a privilege that's right than just release their opinion? as a lawyer it's clear that the other entities connected to the public ownership and its exemption for people who own stock, it's a de minimis amount of influence a

the democrats did in this congress with michael: he did not tell us his staff admitted met with mr. cohentestifying. he didn't tell us last summer he met with -- we were hoping to hear from the ambassador today but we understand exactly why the administration and state department has chosen to say " if you are going to selectively , 67 pages ofsages and not give the full context and not release the transcripts, we understand why they made this decision. [indiscernible] says hesador sondland is disappointed he was not allowed to attend this deposition. >> i said the same thing. when you are going to have a chairman release certain parts of what was said in a closed-door interview and not release the entire transcript and give us context you can see why they did not want to about subject him -- [indiscernible] >> if there is no wrongdoing isn't that all the more reason why he should be able to come up and testify and answer your questions? >> there is no wrongdoing. ambassador volcker was clear. he says he was as clear as can be, no print -- quid pro quo. the democratic chairman after they