finally stephen lee. stephen lee serves as chief sblg the property counsel for the target corporation where he told the position of senior director and assistant general counsel. he put prayer worked in private practice at two minnesota law firms. i know i have a swearing in a statement here, i'm not going to square you and, i know your passes around this issue, i trust you to be truthful, he promised me? that's your swearing in. so let's start with your opening statement. >> ranking member coons, and members of the subcommittee, good afternoon and thank you for inviting me to be a witness. i am the professor of intellectual property law at university school of law. along with our written testimony for the record, i have attended an article entitled, i'll be running out of trademarks, and empirical study of trademark the pollution and congestion. at its best, trademark law promote fair competition and helps newmarket entrance and small businesses and particular to compete on a level playing field. this be

finally stephen lee. stephen lee serves as chief sblg the property counsel for the target corporation where he told the position of senior director and assistant general counsel. prior to joining target mr. lee worked in private practice at two minnesota law firms. i am -- did i know that i've got a swearing in statement here i'm not going to swear you you in. i know your passion around this issue. i promise you promise in me to be truthful that's your swearing in. start withy yoir opening payment. mr. beebe. >> members of the subcommittee thank you for inviting me to be a witness today. good afternoon. i'm barton beebe. i'm the john m damarius professor of intellectual property at new york university school of law. my testimony draws on research with professor jeanne farmer also of nyu school of law. along with our written testimony for the records i have submitted our recent harvard law review article entitled are we running out of trademarks? and empirical study of trademark depletion and congestion. a

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lee votes aye. mr. collins. >> announcer: it's "the late show" with stephen colbert!onight, stephen welcomes saoirse ronan and tom brokaw featuring jon batiste and banned banned"stayhuman," and now lived sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ( theme song playing ) >> stephen: hello! welcome! up there, down here, hello, wonder woman! thank you! ( cheers and applause ) please have a seat, everybody! thank you so much! welcome one and all, in here, out there, to "the late show." i'm your shows stephen colbert. it is -- ( cheers and applause ) oh, it's exciting. it's wonderful. it's crisp in the air. it's 16 days till christmas, but we've got a little present today ahead of time from the inspector general of the justice department. you see, for months now, we have been talking about trump and ukraine, so it's easy to forget about trump and russia. in this case, trump's insistence that the 2016 russia probe started only because of anti-trump bias in the f.b.i. that was the real scandal. well, today, after months of investigating,

. >> stephen: where have you placed your southern accent? >> i listened to a tape, actually, of harper leeew she did. and, you know, she's-- i really like the sound of that. so i kind of based it on that, you know. you she has one line that she says in that. she says, "have ufer found the whole world in the branches of a china berry tree? i have." >> stephen: wow. >> it's a great line. she's talking about being a kid. >> stephen: sure, sure. that's beautiful. that's beautiful. you have ever found the whole world in the branches of a china berry tree? >> not in a china berry tree, no. but some other kinds of trees oak tree. >> stephen: oak tree. >> pine tree. >> stephen: northern new jersey, sure, northern new jersey. >> maple tree. >> stephen: i know somebody who was a friend of expwrurs very important to you artistically sam sheppard. >> yeah. >> stephen: obviously, we know you from being in "the right stuff" with sam sheppard. how did you guys first meet? >> i did a production of "true west" in the south coast reperatory theor in l.a. that sam came to. that's the first time i met him. th

lee of california. >>> now, joining me now for analysis i have with me let's bring in our panel alexander hefner, host of the program the open mind on pbs, and bret stephens, new york times opinion writer and msnbc contributor. i want you to listen to senator roy blunt attacking nancy pelosi earlier today. >> i frankly don't think the speaker has the right to do this or the power to do this. the speaker has a lot of power, but once the house has spoken, the speaker doesn't get the decision as to whether or not she transmits that decision to the senate in my view. >> i think it's a mistake on the speaker's part. i think this has looked pretty political anyway, and this is sort of the icing on the political cake. >> brett, let me start with you. first, does the speaker have the right? is he right in terms of the process or does the speaker have the right to hold this up, and secondly, can this backfire? is this politically a bad move as he implies? >> i think we're in constitutional unchartered water. the constitution is quiet on the issue. once the house votes to impeach, it automatically goes to the senate for a trial, but i think so long as there isn't a

lee about this particular incident? for one thing i am not export enough to ask the question that stephen is getting at but it seems like may it was cut back, that requirement, several years ago. >> we had hinchinbrook on require state pilot. the only vessels that were required where foreign vessels to take on a state pilot in hinchinbrook, we had an injury of pilots starting to get a board in that rough weather in hinchinbrook, but there were only nine vessels that were farm vessels in the system. i think what we should have learned and what we have learned and there will be more lessons coming out of the investigation is not in this day and age we have got to tighten up the application requirements and the background i people coming in for a licenses, we have to have a better feel for a man who comes in and falsify's as is the case here an application by not putting on convictions that he is hot for drunk driving. people could come in and falsified drug use with the application and i think they will. i don't think people will write down drug use on an application for a license. and they will avoid writing down dwi and