the substance was there as far as for mrs may. the substance was there as farasi for mrs may.bsolutely clearly offer michael gove to speak in this debate. absolutely clearly offer michael gove to speak in this debatem absolutely clearly offer michael gove to speak in this debate. it is notjust the gove to speak in this debate. it is not just the letter though, gove to speak in this debate. it is notjust the letter though, is it? it isa notjust the letter though, is it? it is a thread conservative sources issued to the press saying they would review channel a's term as a public service broadcaster. that is what people have a problem with.|j would like to hear what michael grade has to say. my view on this is that an organisation like channel a does have to be tremendously careful about the way it acts. i was very surprised, for example, when dorothy byrne made that speech which she made in edinburgh. very surprised. from channel a. she criticised boris johnson, the channel a boss, the edinburgh tv festival, called him a known liar. i am amazed by the ability of people in the pu

mr. keating for as much time's may consume. the speaker pro tempore: gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr.ing: i rise in support of my -- mr. keating: i rise in support of my bill. want to thank the chair from natural resources for yielding and i want to thank both of my colleagues from california for supporting this bill. cape cod national seashore was created by president kennedy in 1961. his vision was to preserve the unique landscape of the outer cape for recreation and enjoyment for all americans. forever. today more than four million people, both americans and those from around the world, travel to cape cod every year to experience the national beauty and recreation that the cape cod national seashore provides. however, when the national -- when the cape cod national seashore was proposed, it presented challenges to residents of cape cod. unique to locating a national park on a peninsula with a limited area and with very small communities within that area. many of the communities in the outer cape the national se

terminate the sanctions were related to the nuclear facility at fordo we don't expect anything else from mr may be disgraceful he defends the much much pressure regime and imposition of sanctions on iran. and in a major policy overhaul the us causes outrage by declaring that it no longer views israelis tell.

mr. roe: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. roe: i rise today in support f h.r. 4360 v.a. overpayment accountability act. a veteran may receive drill pay and disability compensation at the same time. a veteran may reduce their course load after the g.i. payment has been sent to the department of veteran affairs to the school or the marital may have changed but receive additional compensation for depend events. in some instances, the veteran may be aware that he or she may have overpaid and v.a. will ask them to return the money, but in some circumstances they may not. i'm concerned that many overpayments and receiving a debt notification letter can create big problems for veterans and their families especially if they can't afford to pay v.a. back. it is critical that the v.a. has the tools it needs to prevent overpayments and if certain overpayments are unavoidable, v.a.'s recruitment is fair and krt for veterans. this is sponsored by andy kim of new jersey to ensure tha

mr. raskin: i yield myself such consume. may i am proud to have served as the lead democratic co-sponsor of introduced by my friend from ohio, mr. chabot, h.r. 1663, the foundation of the association charter amendmentes act of -- amendments act of 2018. bar association serves as the bar association for attorneys, both in the private and public sectors in the federal courts. this bill will permit the foundation to better fulfill its as the only institution in america chartered by congress to promote the federal justice, the of advancement of federal injured prudence and practice of law in providing courts by it with the organizational flexibility that it needs to contemporary mission. he original 1954 charter created a framework that's erved f.b.a. for the past six decades. it has strengthened federal promoted nce, effective legal practice. the organization's initiatives ave also directly improves the lives of our people. for example, one community foreach program, the willes veterans initiative, is a pro bono project where f.b.a

victory to the concept as main rival the labor party the election will be held next month he inherited mrs may's appalling surrender treaty and he did it with the clock running down to the 31st of october and i don't doubt for a moment that he tried his best to improve it and perhaps the one significant achievement was that great britain is not committed to being in the customs union but the price of that was appalling nay foka has more from london. the bricks of party was formed in january this year by nigel farrar the former leader of the u.k. independence party nigel farage has been at the center of brecht's it politics for many years now he's been a thorn in the side of multiple prime ministers and essentially goaded the former prime minister david cameron into holding the referendum in the 1st place the party did very very well earlier this year in european parliamentary elections winning more seats than all of the established political parties but for a large nose there's a big difference between a european parliamentary election and a general election which is why he's come up with a plan

mr. zeldin for as much time as he may consume. mr. zeldin: i thank the ranking member and my colleagues on both sides of the aisle for their passionate advocacy on this important issue and after listening to gregory meeks, remind him as he heads towards the i represent the represent the 1st congressional new york. we as americans, republicans and democrats having worked together and need to continue to together. ranking member mchenry has had a great open door for republicans to hear our feedback on this important issue to make sure there isn't a lapse. i'm rising in support of this re-authorization act, which builds on our continued efforts to keep our promise to the victims of terrorism. the u.s. continues to face one of the most challenging threaten virmentse and terrorists will try to find any way to instill fear and destroy the american values and way of life that we endear and love, cherish for the terrorists, their efforts nclude destabilizing our markets. the terrorism risk insurance act is a back stop that provides important

mr. huffman: madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. huffman: h.r. 255 introduced by representative cook would authorize an equal value exchange between the u.s. forest service in san bernardino county. this exchange would enable the county to build a resource consequence tation and recovery

so that was a legal requirement, to trigger the beginning of leaving, and mrs may was going to do thatt and that would have changed and not just our constitution but actually the powers that sit in with the executive and the prime minister going forward because when you don't have a written constitution, its precedent and procedures that then set what happens next and so it was very alarming to me that we were going to, in effect, close down parliamentarians‘ voices, close the door of parliament. reading up on your background for this interview, it is striking to me the degree with which you talk about your father, both your father's commitment to the law, he was a barrister in british guyana. and eventually attorney—general, yes. and his instilling in new the notion that, as you lived far away as a child, britain was somehow the model of a sort of much vaunted parliamentary democratic system governed by the rule of law. do you think, now that you reflect on what you've done over these past three years, that somehow you are following your father's values? it's very interesting because

because so many tories were badly burned by mrs may's catastrophic manifesto last time.h crumbled. the tories have been over and over through the manifesto stripping out anything they think in anyway might cause any wrinkle of... added to which, they want to simply keep the focus on brexit. so they are not in the market to change the narrative of this and —— of this election. why ta ke of this and —— of this election. why take a needless risk? we are going to get a fairly, shall we say, modest manifesto, i would say. we know they're big announcements are more police officers, more cash for schools, six more hospitals, a lot of the other nonsense we are expecting our relatively small and no doubt worthwhile. things like mending potholes or stopping nurses on night shift having to pay parking fees £250 million for wraparound school care. it is more money but it is not a humongous amount. instead it has been a defensive posture. they have sought to reassure pensioners that the triple lock pensioners that the triple lock pension rises, that stays and also to reassure taxpaye

this time they have probably learned the right lessons, and disastrously back then, mrs may then saidhe denied there was a challenge and that destroyed or helped destroy her image as being strong and table. now totally different situation. i mean boris is, he is 3—1 up in a match, coming into the second half, and you don't want to take risk, you want to now put all your effort into defending your position, you don't wa nt to defending your position, you don't want to open up the possibilities of the other side scoring goals, and borisjohnson, your star the other side scoring goals, and boris johnson, your star player, perhaps a bit accident prone, you are wanting to protect him and keep him away from the action where ever you can, so, a modest, careful, ma nifesto, you can, so, a modest, careful, manifesto, taking no risks and trying to preserve the very clear majority the party has at the moment. 0k, very good to have your thoughts, sorry we don't have longer. lots to cram in but our thanks to antony seldon. we will go back to norman smith in telford. norman. thank you, i am joined b

without a deal he inherited mrs may's appalling surrender treaty and he did it with the clock running down to the 31st of october and i don't doubt for a moment that he tried his best to improve this baps the one significant achievement was that great britain is not committed to being in the customs union but the price of that was appalling let's go now to our correspondent named bach and he's joining us live from london for coming out fighting launching the election campaign. he certainly is he certainly laying down the gauntlet for boris johnson to really understand what's going on here you need a bit of context to break that party was formed only earlier this year in january by nigel farrar the former head of the u.k. independence party for just being at the center of the brakes at debate from the start he's been a thorn in the side of multiple prime ministers but earlier this year the party did very very well in european parliamentary elections the party won more seats than all of the established political parties but for ours knows the european parliamentary election is very diff

mr. jordan, you may n witness'sns wasn't an answer. it was a filibuster. >> mr. jordan, we will hear the witness's answer. have you concluded, mr. holmes? >> i have. >> thank you. mr.you, mr. chairman, dr. hill, thank you for your testimony. fairly opening statement to which they tike exception. you said some of you on this committee appear to be russia and security services did not conduct a campaign against our country and that perhaps somehow for some reason ukraine did. i'm really much more interested in the ukraine piece of this i do want to defend you briefly. i don't know what my colleagues believe. but do i have a pretty good sense of what the effects are of creating ambiguity, of lacking clarity and conviction around the russian attack on the election of 2016. in response to your comment, the ranking member offered up a report, which varies in material respects from report that was created by the 17 agencies of the intelligence committee. a day does not go by in which ranking member nunes does not speak of the russia hoax and this is an area in which con

mr. biden may have received. this is not something i'm aware of. >> did you no he that burisma's legal representatives met with officials after he forced the firing of the chief prosecutor? >> i'm not aware of the meetings. >> did you know that lawyers pressured the state department that they invoked hunter biden's name as a reason to intervene? >> i'm not aware of any of the facts. >> did you no he that joe biden called ukrainian president at least three times in february 2016 after the president and owner of burisma's home was raided by the state prosecutor's office? >> i'm aware of the fact that president biden -- or vice president biden was very engaged on ukraine and had numerous engagements. that's what i'm aware of. >> ms. williams and lieutenant colonel vindman, as you may or may not know, this committee spent three years conducting many many investigations starting with the russia collusion hoax, democratic hysteria over the lack of collusion and the mueller report and now this impeachment charade. one o

>> i would like to ask mr. may, was there a shadow study done?if there is indeed a public park nearby? i have never seen the department verse themselves on the findings >> yes, for buildings that are below 40 feet, we do not require a shadow study. >> so there may be a study? >> i guess there could be, but construction that are less than 40 feet in height, we don't devalue that just evaluate that. >> is in the structure higher than 40 feet? >> a talking about the elevator penthouse? >> those are permitted above the height limit. the proposal is not subject to prop k. does not require the shadow analysis. >> thank you. >> commissioner fung? >> several questions. the issue of public health, i understand it is in their jurisdiction to deal with any type of cleaning up. what is the status of that? >> our planning staff ever viewed the application and the categorical exemption. it does state that the project sponsor has enrolled in the program, which i believe director ram has mentioned earlier that is administrated by the department of public health.

mr. estes, and i yield such time as he may consume. mr. estes: thank you to my friend and fellow colleague from colorado, representative lamb born for hosting this special order tonight as we honor national bible week. every president since franklin delano roosevelt inaugurated the first one in 1941, every president has since declared the week of thanksgiving as national bible week. it follows a long history stretching back to the founding of our country, of our leaders turning to their faith and the bible as guidance for our nation. this is just as important now as it was at our country's founding and during the midst of terrible world wars. this week i'm reminded of a passage in luke 17 verses 5-6. the apostles said to the lord, increase our faith. the lord replied if you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you would say to this tree, be uprooted and planted in the sea and it would obey you. also luke, chapter 17, verse 10. when you have tone all has been commanded, say we are unworthier is vans, we have only done our duty. in this pas

this is mrs may's deal with new wrapping paper. this is not brexit and boris is not good enough.put up with a total bill that will be £65 billion. and the hell, will not put up billion. and the hell, will not put up with regulatory alignment on everything from financial services to fisheries because we will never be free, we will never take back control of our laws, our money and oui’ control of our laws, our money and our borders with this con job that you call a great new deal. james williams is political correspondent for bbc cymru wales. hejoins us now. fair to say he joins us now. fair to say that there is a softening their of mr farage's redlines? somewhat. nigel farage's redlines? somewhat. nigel farage said this morning there are still a few days left for the conservatives and the brexit party to form a so—called leave alliance. when mr farage launched the election can be last friday heat said the deal would be the scrapping of boris johnson's deal with the european union. speaking in newport here tonight, he seemed to be softening his redlines. he said borisjohnson needs

now, that is a huge change because ever since mrs may's abject speech in florence, we've been aiming, that actually sounds a bit more like the brexit that we voted for. trade, cooperation, reciprocity, with our european neighbours is what we all want. we all want to get on well with our neighbours, what we don't wa nt with our neighbours, what we don't want is to be part of their political institutions. the prime minister is saying he will make sure we aren't part of political alignment then that is, i think, a significant step in the right direction. so, last night, iweighed up direction. so, last night, iweighed up boris's promises and is he going to stick to them against the threat, particularly in the south and south—west, that we let in a lot of remaina south—west, that we let in a lot of remain a liberal democrat mps. —— remainer liberal democrat mps. remain a liberal democrat mps. —— remainer liberal democrat mp5. i will tell you know exactly what we are going to do. the brexit party will not contest the 317 seats the conservatives won at the last election. but what we will do

mr. brown may be. >> reporter: police say he's likely on foot armed and dangerous after killing his mother's boyfriend on saturday. he was believed to be driving this town car but somehow ended up in this rv which investigators are now searching. public schools were closed and this neighborhood was asked to shelter in place. >> he could be anywhere i hope they catch him soon. >> reporter: brown is listed as awol from the marines. investigators say the combat engineer deserted his post at camp lejeune in north carolina last month and made his way to franklin county, virginia police say he's an experienced outdoorsman and could survive in the woods >> with his military training, he pushes the threshold a little higher of the concern. >> reporter: his friends, through an attorney, are pleading for him to surrender >> michael, please turn yourself in we're here for you. >> reporter: today the shelter in place order was lifted after the search turned up nothing. federal authorities are offering a $10,000 reward for any help leading to an arrest lester >> gabe, thanks. >>> in chicago police are se

>>happier watching some mrs may about a jim at home or get ready for and we just heard lot. action is going to be one of the big story talking about today so stay tuned for more than a time he's a lebron was following you and tell august following the burgess started off so clear now they're just covered fog and that's impacting the traffic to ca. >>stir slow right now. >>audience following all of us this morning. well, some of us that actually patchy but where you are seeing the fog you are definitely seeing is a dense fog advisories in effect for both the golden gate and bay bridges right now as so the right into the bridges and the bay itself so give yourself that extra moment or 2 as you're going to work it's cleared out for some spots and other spots. it is just the search show signs of clearing just yet the afternoon ahead though will bring abundant sunshine so just around the corner. we do have some better weather to be looking for too. as for this morning. yeah, give yourself that extra time to get to work and put the jacket on 2 were in the 40's and 50's across the

yet here we still were. >> mr. maysr you finally had to sit down with kimberly and explain this whole thing to her. what did she say? how do she take it. >> she only showed a great deal of concern at one point in the presentation. that was whaen she became aware that i was maybe indicating she was somebody else's girl. >> she may have to leave me. >> he was able to present himself as a sympathetic figure and say, i love kimberly. this is the only family she's ever had. why should anybody snatch her away and take her to a family she knows nothing about. >> i remember for the twiggs, them being villainized, she was cruel. hocked they be wanting to get the child back it had been raised by somebody else. if they really cared about their child they would let her go. >> the only priority here is kim we a berly. that has got to come to an end. >> bob wanted regina to give up. if you knew her you knew she was never going stop. >> she was not going to go away. probably never. like 4 lines for $25 per line per month plus unlimite

and between them the speaker of the parliament mr may be very. they have come to the conclusion that no one among them is able to press pass the others or marginalize others in the cabinet so i think. prime minister how do you see who is now heading a caretaker government and is calling for a formation of a new government to be a technocratic government i believe that this is difficult to achieve why because politics is the mother of all domain is in society including the. administrative political matters and economic matters so it is very difficult to simply. form a new cabinet without some political presence in it after all most people particularly in lebanon especially 11 are they are politicized and even in other countries this is the same phenomena so after much trouble between the major actors political actors that is now a believe that we should work together to form a new cabinet there are 2 major issues still being debated whether hezbollah will be in this cabinet or not this is what. prime minister is demanding and. i'm saying it is bec

>>happier watching some mrs may about a jim at home or get ready for and we just heard lot.ng to be one of the big story talking about today so stay tuned for more than a time he's a lebron was following you and tell august following the burgess started off so clear now they're just covered fog and that's impacting the traffic to ca. >>stir slow right now. >>audience following all of us this morning. well, some of u

mr. freeman: i think it may. i think it may in the sense that we are basically asking the same question. we are saying there is a fundamental incongruity between rule 60 and its ordinary operation in federal criminal employing that rule for the purpose for which it is sought to be employed here, i think the answer to that is to conclude that on ordinary textual grounds, you apply the is not aules that it judicial proceeding at all, but i think you conclude that you may have more fundament of questions. judge rogers: do you give no credence to when rule 60 was -- that had been outstanding? mr. freeman: it was adopted in 1946. the committee noted it was meant to codify prior practice of the use of grand jury material in civil cases. cited were for information gathered a criminal grand jury's, and a 1977, enacted rulectly 16. there were reports that impeachment, a judicial proceeding exception. it is the problem of a criminal grand jury with ordinary american law, and civil litigants always want access to it. of cou

that he speak -- we want to know yes or no, lieutenant colonel dash or mr., may i say, vindman, or not? we want to know all about this, whistle-blower, because the whistle-blower wants to bring down the presence of the united states. moreover, we want hunter biden! we want hunter biden not because of anything in our imagination or right-wing conspiracy theory, because you folks at politico in "the new york times" and other places, you've told us about hunter biden. you've told us about the bidens. don't we have a right as the mega people to know if the individual who may be nominated as the democratic nominee for the president of united states as a core? is that the only family in american history who is not to be investigated? i don't think so. one other thing, this is the so-called whistle-blowers complaint. this has been adam schiff's playbook from day one. adam, did you write this? adam, were you involved in writing this? because adam needs to be a witness, too. we want to know all about -- we know he's a liar. but we need to put them under oath under penalty of perjury. when you g

mr. chief justice may i please the court. the plaintiff may succeed in the 1981 claim merely by showing that it was a factor considered in the defendant's decision-making even if the decision would have made and was made for entirely appropriate business reasons having nothing to do with race. on this basis they saved them from dismissal. we submit that the decision is wrong and should be reversed for three reasons. first it is contrary to the decisions holding that it is the backbone congress must pursue in the federal statutes unless they provide otherwise which we would submit it does not. second, in 1991, congress amended title vii to provide for the motivating factor standard but did not amend to provide the same even though it was amended in 1981 and other respects at the same time. this shows section 1981 as it requires with respect to the aea in retaliation provisions of title seven. third, if affirmed it would be easier to recover the damages under section 1981 for the course of actions under any under the law for th

so one of them that you may have met it was. mr david holmes and the other one was. i don't know i mean i guess i could it's another foreign service officer keith bean ok if we met mr holmes last friday evening i understand. the lights will fall. and you said when you returned to the united states yes. your paper got up given your you know with sci clearance whenever a foreign government makes an overture like that you have to paper it up and you tell your chain of command i did but i also don't know if i fully entertained it as a legitimate offer i was just making sure that i did the right thing in terms of reporting yes ok and did any of your supervisors dr hill at the time or or dr copperman or about your bold never ever follow up with you about that it's rather significant you know the ukrainians offered you the post of defense minister . you know did you tell anyone in your chain of command about it after i spoke to and i believe it was the deputy our deputy senior director john earth was there i spoke once i mentioned it to both of them i don't believe there wa

going on here for over a year now because we had 2 elections a coast in papa mr netanyahu himself that were inconclusive now both may lead as 1st mr netanyahu he failed to put a coalition together and just this week his main opponent benny guns also had to give back the mandate you couldn't form a coalition and one of the problems than the coalition talks was that blue and white mistake on his part he has always said they're not going to sit in a unity government with a prime minister who is indicted now this is official now it will not become easy and mr netanyahu has spent may rickly he will not stand down he will fight for his political life he says it's all political politically motivated he attacked again as he did before and the media the left wing and the police the prosecution and i think it will go on with this uncertainty here for quite some time now can certainly and perhaps a discussion moving to the possibility of a national unity government without benjamin netanyahu will talk about that at some point don young sure thanks very much for being here. this preview now on some of the other stories making n

mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. smith: mr. speaker, i rise in strong support of s. 2710. a bill that would prohibit the commercial export of covered munition items to the hong kong police force. i especially want to thank my good friend and colleague, chairman mcgovern, for his legislation, which was pretty much a companion bill, that passed one month ago, a little over a month ago. again, on the whole idea of u.s. equipment being exploited in hong kong against these protesters. i want to thank him for doing that and we have raised this in hearings and his bill was a great bill. as the largest protest movement in hong kong has ever seen continues, major concerns have arisen about the hong kong police's independence and their professionalism. the people of hong kong are rightfully furious about well-documented cases of excessive force, brutal tactics and tolerance of violence against protesters. the hong kong police themselves are now a cause of the protests. t

mr. castor, may i address two specific points? >> of course. >> one is, i'm reminded that the meeting with ambassador bolton and mr. dimiliuk took place july 10th and i did not become aware of the hold on security assistance until july 18th. that's another reason why that did not come up. >> that point in time you did not know the potential cause in security assistance was brewing? >> i did not, no. i heard about it for the first time on the 18th. may i make a second observation? i do remember having seen some of the testimony of mr. kent, a conversation in which he had asked me about the conspiracy theories that were out there in ukraine. i don't remember what the date of this conversation was. and my view was, well, if there are things like that, then why not investigate them? i don't believe that's anything to them, if there is, 2016 election interference is what i was thinking, we wanted to know about that but i didn't think there was anything in there to begin with. >> you testified to the extent ukrainians were going to inves

reported that mr giuliani had quote discussed the breeze my investigation and its intersection with the bidens with the ousted ukrainian prosecutor general and the current prosecutor on may 9th the new york times reported that mr giuliani said he planned to travel to ukraine to pursue investigations into the 26 you know lection interference and into the involvement of former vice president biden's son in a ukrainian gas company over the next few months mr giuliani also issued a series of tweets asking quote why biden should be investigated attacking quote the new president of ukraine zelinsky for being silent on the $26000.00 election and by investigations and complaining about the new york times attacking him for quote exposing the biden family history of making millions for ukrainian criminals around this time ukrainian presidential election was approaching and political newcomer an entertainer of a load a mere zelinsky who had played a president on television was surging in the polls ahead of mr loosing his political ally president poroshenko on april 20th i was president i was present for a battery of one of its just 3rd and final meeting with then candidate zelinsky

mr. chairman, i ask unanimous consent to enter the may 27th photograph depicted on the screen into the record. >> without objection. mr. hurt? >> thank you, dr. hill. mr. holmes for your years of service to this country and i appreciate y'all being here today. throughout this process, i have said that i want to learn the facts so we can get to the truth. so why are we here? because of two things that occurred during the president's july 25th phone call 'president zelensky. the phrase do us a favor though in reference to the 2016 election and the mention of the word by biden. i believe both statements are inappropriate misguided foreign policy and certainly not how the executive current or in the future should handle such a call. over the course of these hearings, the american people have learned about a series of events that, in my view have undermind our national security and undercut ukraine a key partner on the front lines against russian aggression. we have heard of u.s. officials carrying uncoordinated confusing an conflicting messages that created doubt and uncertainty in kiev at a time

mr. speaker, i'm sorry if i seem to rant at the right honorable judgment that if i may so he doesn't rant quite a lot -- [laughing] -- about independence for scotland. he wants to consider what the snp government is actually doing, mr. speaker, and they are wrecking and their diabolical for the scottish economy. they have the highest taxes in the uk. they are not running either health or education grid that is why -- smashing the union and actually when you look at the good things that are happening in scotland, it is very often thanks to scottish conservatives. [shouting] who are delivering 200 million pounds come 200 million pounds, mr. speaker, for scottish farmers all thanks to the intercession of the scottish conservators, the biggest ever block grants from london to scotland, mr. speaker, and, of course, it is scottish conservatives who could be relied upon unlike any other party in scotland, unlike labour, unlike snp, to keep the union together. the most successful political labour partnership in history. >> order. the truth is one persons rant is another persons string of passion

he inherited mrs may's appalling surrender treaty and he did it with the clock running down to the 31st of october and i don't doubt for a moment that he tried his best to improve it and baps the one significant achievement was that great britain is not committed to being in the customs union but the price of that was appalling need baka has more from london. the breaks of party was formed in january this year by nigel farrar the former leader of the u.k. independence party nigel farage has been at the center of brecht's it politics for many years now he's been a thorn in the side of multiple prime ministers and essentially go did the former prime minister david cameron into holding the referendum in the 1st place break the party did very very well earlier this year in european parliamentary elections winning more seats than all of the established political parties but for a large nose there's a big difference between a european parliamentary election and a general election which is why he's come up with a plan he's asked boris johnson to scrap his withdrawal agreement to leave the euro

he inherited mrs may's appalling surrender treaty and he did it with the clock running down to the 31st of october and i don't doubt for a moment that he tried his best to improve it and perhaps the one significant achievement was that great britain is not committed to being in the customs union but the price of that was appalling well i also spoke to jonathan ileus who is the deputy director of the think tank british influence a pro europe and business advisory group he says barra's johnson may have to face the repercussions of falling short all his promise to leave the by the 31st of october. i think that boris johnson is defined by his confidence and that's why he was determined that we would leave it on the 31st october even though parliament was saying we would and so i think confidence is the issue for when i think that the real problem he has is that he has broken this cardinal pledge he made to leave the e.u. by the 31st but either he is also angered people here in favor of no deal by nailing his slide to the mast over deal and of course he's inferior to the us in northern irela

he's threatening to run candidates against the conservatives and every single seat he inherited mrs may's appalling surrender treaty and he did it with the clock running down to the 31st of october and i don't doubt for a moment that he tried his best to improve it and perhaps the one significant achievement was that great britain is not committed to being in the customs union but the price of that was appalling. iraq's president has promised to hold early elections and says prime minister the man the rove resigned but only once a replacement is agreed protest as a 6 protest rather a still ongoing in baghdad 30 square large crowds of people gathered on thursday night more than 200 people have been killed in weeks of violent anti-government protests now protesters in algeria rallying for the 37th friday in a row. the crowds began marching before friday prayers to mark the anniversary of the uprisings against french colonialism demonstrators are rejecting plans for an election in december fearing they'll be neither fit free nor fair they want everyone like the former president of the diseas

may be seated. you will need to speak directly into the microphone, your written statements have been included. mr. holmes you may conduct your opening statement. >> thank you, good morning mr. chairman. ranking member nunes and members of the committee. i'm david holmes and i'm a career foreign service officer. since august 2017 i have been a political counsellor in kiev, ukraine. while it is an honor to appear before you today, i want to make clear that i did not seek this opportunity to testify today. since you determined that i may have something of value to these proceedings, it is my position to tell you what i know. i hope that everyone who testifies will do so truthfully and accurately. when they do, the oversight role will have been reformed. that is my only goal to testify truthfully and accurately to enable to you to make a decision. by way of background i spent my entire professional career as a foreign service officer. like many dedicated servants my entirese career has been in the service of my country. i'm a graduate in clarmount, california, and from the woodrow wilson school of in

mr. kaster did anyone bring concerns to you that they believe colonel vindman may have leaked something, mr. morrison replied yes. so your boss had concerns about your judgment. your former boss dr. hill had concerns about your judgment. your colleagues had concern about your judgment, and your colleagues felt na there were times when you leaked information. any idea why they have those impressions colonel vindman? >> yes, representative jordan, i guess i'll start by reading drf dr. hill's own words as she attested to in my last evaluation that was dated middle of july right before she left. alex is a top 1% military officer and the best army officer i have worked with many any 15 years of government service. he is brilliant, unflappable and exercises excellent judgment. >> so -- >> i'm sorry. exemplary during numerous visits so forth and so on. i think you get the idea. >> mr. morrison, yeah, the date of that was -- let's see. i'm sorry. july 13th. so mr. jordan i would say that -- i can't say what mr. morrison -- why mr. morrison questioned my judgment. we had only recently started work

mr. mchenry: if i may inquire of the chair how much time i have. absolutely. the gentleman has six minutes remaining. the gentlelady from california remaining.inutes mr. mchenry: sure. i would say, yes, there is an opportunity for bipartisanship. that will be in the c.r. to export-import bank. it's an important institution. 2% of all american exports, a small amount of global trade. it's important. want to make sure the bank continues to function. this is not the bill to do that. we will do that in another and i'm hopeful we can have a bipartisan vote there. with that, i'd like to yield to y colleague from colorado, mr. tipton, for two minutes. the chair: the gentleman from colorado is recognized for two minutes. tip mr. tipton: thank you, mr. speaker. we lear the president is for the extension. the senate is for the extension -- we hear the extension.s for the the senate is for the extension. they are not for this piece of legislation. it's important to note that the member, once again, on the financial services committee, had a deal in principle with the chai

what might nigel farage said that this is mrs may's are pulling surrender treaty and boris's deal willt you are standing aside in several seats across the uk to enable boris johnson to get that deal through, so i don't quite understand. this is just i don't quite understand. this isjust their i don't quite understand. this is just their withdrawal agreement. the important bit is next year, when we negotiate what is going to happen. this is where it comes down to trust. do we trust boris to keep to his promises? he has promised we will leave next year. again, he said do or die, leave on the 31st of october, and he also said we would not have market alignment so that we could do free trade deals around the world. so you would be happy with no deal next december? if we can get mps from the brexit party into westminster to hold the tories to account, we will work with the conservatives to help push through that deal. but we will hold him to account. we will not be whipped like the tory mps, by boris. we will be there as independent voices standing up for you basically to represent and make

mr. biden may have received. this is not something i'm aware of. >> did you know that burisma's american legal representatives met with ukrainian officials days after vice president biden forced the firing of these prosecutors? >> i'm not aware of these meetings. >> did you know that after the raid and a month before the firing of shokin, they invoked hunter biden's name as a reason to intervene? >> i'm not a ware of any of these facts. >> doe no joe biden called ukrainian president poroshenko three times in february 2016 after the president and owner of burisma's home was raided on february 2 by the state prosecutor's office? >> i'm aware 69 fact that president, or vice president biden was very engaged on ukraine and had numerous engagements, that's what i'm aware of. >> ms. williams and lieutenant colonel vindman, this committee has spent three years on investigations starting with the russia collusion hoax, fisa abuse, democratic her tearia over lack of collusion in the mueller report and now this impeachment

mr. jordan you may not like the witness's answer. >> there wasn't an answer. it was a filibuster. >> mr. jordan we will hear the witness's answer. have you concluded mr. holmes. >> vicious sir. >> thank you. mr. hymes. >> thank you, mr. chairman, dr. hill, mr. holmes, thank you for your testimony. dr. hill, you made a fairly dramatic comment in your statement to which the ranching member took some exception. i'm more interested in the ukraine piece of this. but you said some you on this committee appear to believe that russia in its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country and that somehow for some reason ukraine did. i'm really much more interested in the ukraine piece of this. but i do want to defend you briefly. i don't know what my colleagues believe, but i do have a pretty good sense of what the effects are of creating ambiguity, of lacking clarity and conviction around the russian attack on the election of 2016. in response to your comment, the ranking member offered up a report, which varies in material respects from the report th

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mr. freeman: if i may that is right. judge rogers: that is not right. it is what they say. judge rogers: so i am giving you the option to tell me, what more is involved. mr. freeman: one is to ensure candor of witnesses to the grand jury. i appreciate that, but i don't think it was very persuasive. judge rogers: i understand you may not agree with it. the question, was she erroneous in making that finding? do you think it is a question of law? mr. freeman: i do think it is a question of law. she said there is no reason for grand jury secrecy, so they can have all the evidence. judge rogers: know, in the context that she has been dealing with, i mean, this is not you can look at anything you want. that is what i am trying to get across. this is not a fishing expedition . given the mueller report, and the specifications come at i understand you say were not enough, but there was specifications as to why the need. mr. freeman: i think the fact that there was an extremely detailed opinion against the disclosure rather than in favor, shows that they had an interest -- look at the