the supreme committee decided to employ a man on what was not in the mind of the people and acts as ishmael period of two years the forces with the will to power with representation of the people to. pave the way for the sudanese people to live in dignity and here i declare in my capacity as the defense minister chairman of the supreme committee to get rid of this the regime and to arrest that head of the regime in a safe place i also declare the formation of a major train transitional council to supervise the to be a year of period. to cancel the constitution of sudan phone two thousand and five. to declare the state of emergency for three months. and one month. from ten the evening to food in the morning. air space is closed for twenty four hours and all term result closer to and further notice if you've just joined us we've been reporting for the past ninety minutes or so that sudan's omar al bashir has been ousted by the military in a coup ten hour from out of sarah's looking back at his thirty year rule. and all not a machine a man his career has been defined by rule he lets it down th

and false promises and insist on this security solution hence this supreme security committee has to apologize for those who lost. their lives. martyrs and we wish those ended quicker recovery whether there are citizens or individuals from the security . the police we were quite keen to be very professional in dealing with this crys says despite some pitfalls here and there the masses of sudan have followed since the sixth of april twenty ninth. have followed what's going on and what has been going on around and with then for will says and this. big institution in our country. has some cracks but the security committee won't of the dangerous situation and put some alternatives and for the application of these solutions but the rejean still not responding so the situation is quite complicated and and then we would never need losses and everything should be calculated otherwise alonely knows how big will be the losses so the supreme committee decided to employ a man and what was not in the mind of other people and acts as this little period of two years the forces will take power with

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a called me by one way to earlier this week also earlier this week he created anti arson or supreme committees he plans to tour the country and plans to gain more support from the. cos also the u.s. made a new set of sanctions against. a around one hundred and fifty one. officials are sanction let's hear what mike pence has to say about the venezuelan situation at this moment the united states of america sanction venezuela state oil company. and today. we're taking action against a vital source for the madeira regimes wealth it is important to remark that also a call for marches to support his government today also nikolaus madeira said that this is another intervention and from the u.s. and another mendelian in the business is a bonus well up the government of the bully varian republic categorically rejects the latest u.s. attorney on the venezuelan oil industry and its economic sovereignty venezuela believes it's unacceptable cynical and criminal of government trumps administration to take measures that violate international law as well as economic and commercial principles. journalist paul

supreme court. arejudiciary committee demanding that attorney general william barr turnover the full -- russia reportays he will give cess a redacted version this month. chairman nadler says hegive thee to change his mind. in the first address to congress stoltenbergad, jen acknowledged divisions within the alliance and called to do with challenges such as russia. nato was created in washington 70 years ago this week. stoltenberg told u.s. lawmakers that "questions are being asked on both sides of the atlantic about the strength of our partnership, and that there are differences." stoltenberg held talks with president trump yesterday at the white house. iran said it will not let sanctions imposed by the u.s. prevented from rebuilding after an extensive flood caused major damage. iran

i was actually here as a young staffer on the judiciary committee when richard nixon appointed two supreme court justices who were defeated. during most of those years, our democratic friends were in the majority here in the senate. they could have done whatever they wanted to on the executive calendar to slow down, obstruct, and prevent republican presidents from having nominations confirmed. i can remember during the clinton years, at the urging of both senator daschle and senator lott, when my party was in the majority, to invoke cloture on circuit court nominees that i opposed in order to keep the senate from developing a process of filibustering the executive calendar, which had never been done before. and the clearest example of why it was never done before is the clarence thomas nomination, the most controversial nomination for the supreme court in history, with the possible exception of brett kavanaugh. he came out of committee with a dead-even vote, could have killed him in committee, went to the floor and was confirmed 52-48. we all know it only takes one senator -- just one -- t

supreme court. the judiciary committee is demanding that attorney general william barr turn over robert mueller's full russia report. bar has said that he will give congress a redacted version of the report this month. u.s. china trade talks which resumed today in washington. both sides are warning a number of sticking points, among them, intellectual property protection and how to enforce any agreement. for night at a dinner republican lawmakers, president trump said the u.s. was finally getting tough on trade. >> we are standing up to china's chronic trading abuses and theft of intellectual properties and so many other things that they have done to us. i don't know how you people allowed this to happen for so many years. you have been here longer than me. >> in other news, the city of chicago has made history for the first time ever. it has elected a black woman as my -- mayor. she is also the first openly gay leader of the third-largest city in the u.s.. she won with 74% of the votes over another black female democrat. chicago is struggling with budget problems and gun violence. more details coming

i asked the president, the defence minister and head of the chairman of the supreme committee, i announcedemoved and is in a safe place. so the formation of a transitional military council that we manage the matters within, during the period of two years, with the constitution of sudan, the constitution of 2020, to announce a state of emergency for three years and a curfew for one month, from 200 hours to 04 hours local time. to close all the exits and the checkpoints in sudan until further notice. you are watching new live broadcasting from sunny westminster. what's it going to be like for all of us? here is the forecast. let me remind you, bbc ask this at half past two. if you've got any questions, you know the drill, you know how to get ahold of us. any questions you got on brexit, we've got a six—month extension taking us to halloween. what does it mean? does it affect you? if you've got any questions get them in quickly. we'll be back with that in the next few minutes. now let's return to the issue of the weather. lucy has the forecast. thanks, simon. we've seen some sunshine today fo

supreme court this morning. congressman elijah cummings of maryland chairs the house oversight committee. we will show the hearing beginning with his opening statements. >> we will hear from secretary of commerce the honorable wilbur ross about preparations for the 2020 census. ourconstitution requires government to conduct a census every 10 years. the constitution also requires personount every

supreme court. >> robert bork is a lightning rod nomination. he has all sorts of provocative writings on american social issues and democrats react with terror. >> as chairman of the judiciary committeewill oversee the bork supreme court hearing, while continuing his run for president. amid everything biden starts to get debilitating headaches but works through the pain. >> so the headaches started. it is not like he said, i got a terrible headache. you will just notice he is popping some aspirin. >> during his campaign, biden is inspired by a speech given by british labor party leader neil kinnock and begins referencing it on the trail. >> neil kinnock was telling a personal story about the dignity of working class life, about the potential of building something better for the next generation, about the role government can play in helping families like that, and so he did start making it kind of a staple of his message on the campaign trail. >> almost every major press person in the country had heard me repeatedly attribute that quotation to kinnock. >> could be made of the time -- >> at the iowa state fair, democratic presidential candidates debate, biden again quotes kinnock in hi

movement now it says the two sides have agreed on a number of principles and established a committee to iron out the supreme it's earlier the coalition of freedom and change forces rejoined in negotiations with the military which is currently in charge of so that after ousting the former president bashir protesters are still on the streets and they're demanding that the military hand power over to a civilian administration immediately. we answered the call for a meeting following the positive statement issued by the military council regarding our demands the meeting was pleasant and in the nation's best interest we expressed our gratitude for how the military protected civilians and we agreed on forming a committee to discuss various issues on forming a transitional phase and roles of all groups involved now. as. we in the military transitional council would like to say together with the coalition of freedom and change forces where we are in this together in order to achieve the aspirations of the sudanese people and to build a prosperous future we are agreed on a number of main principles that is first and

committee. in 1980 the supreme court ordered the federal government to compensate eight sioux indian tribes.8 congress approved o ed billion tlar paymedollar paymen interned japanese during world war ii. he argued reparations would drive a reckoning cthat would lead to a spiritual renewal. democratic candidates elizabeth warren and kamala harris have expressed their support for cash payments. they and a number of other candidates have said if elected they would sign a bill called hr-40 into law. it could show how slavery and segregation still affects african-americans and how to fix it. professor, good to see you. thank you for being with us. the georgetown issue is a microcosm but sit it is an exam that could be scaled across america. >> good afternoon. thank you for having me today. i think the issue of reparations as you outlined and given that great history of the debate speaks to the need to translate symbolic jezturgestures. i think they want to move from these symbolic gestures to actually having something that people can quantify. if you think about why people wanted 40 acres and a m

movement it says the two sides have agreed on a number of principles and the stablished a committee to iron out the supreme law of. the united nations says pro-government forces in afghanistan have killed more civilians this year than the taliban and i saw a new report says the afghan and u.s. military were responsible for most of the three hundred five civilian deaths in the first three months charlotte bellus has more now from kabul. in the village of to local province there are thirteen mounds of they are fresh graves fifteen children two women and one man killed in the home by a u.s. airstrike. when the bomb dropped back into a wall in the house when i opened my eyes i couldn't see anything but dust pulled myself after the rubble it was raining and i just thought these two let me be the only one to survive. we filmed with this family exactly a month ago the day of the strike the family piled the children's bodies into the back of a truck travelling tin bumpy kilometers into. looking for accountability now they may have got it. a u.n. report has revealed that in the first three months of this year the l

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supreme court. >> reporter: last week house weighs and means committee chairman, richard neil, made a formal request with the irs for six years of president trump's personal and business tax returns. it is the first such demand for a sitting president's tax information in 45 years. on friday, trump's personal attorneys hit back asking the irs not to comply with the demands. >> this idea that you can use the irs as a political weapon which, is what is happening here, is in correct as a matter of statutory law and constitutionally. we should not be in a situation where individuals, individual private tax returns are used for political purposes. >> reporter: on fox news on sunday, acting white house chief of staff said democrats will never see trump tax returns. >> oh, no, never. nor should they. keep that in mind a issue litigated during the election. voters knew the president could of given and they knew he didn't and elected him any way which drives the democrats crazy. they know they will not get that. they want the attention on the issue because they don't want to talk to us about policy. >> usual

this evening, justice stephen breyer will talk about the supreme court and a recent case on acceptable trademarks. tonight, a house judiciary committee hearing on white nationalism in hate crimes. a north carolina father talks about how his daughters and son-in-law were killed execution style. facebook and google officials also testified. you can watch the hearing on c-span starting at 9:30 eastern. before we move on to the supreme court, can i just say the 10 topics are what you really need to know. and here we go. write them down. foundations, federalism, public opinion, participation,, political parties interest groups, campaigns and elections, congress, the president and courts. those are the big ten. the entire test covers those 10 topics. >> are you a student preparing for the advanced placement united states government politics exam? don't miss your chance to be a part of washington journal's annual cram for the exam program on saturday, may 4 and 9:00 a.m. eastern for a live discussion with high school government teachers. >> our question is about logrolling and its significance. >> logrolling is one of those words our studen

as senate judiciary committee chairman, a 48-year-old biden ran the confirmation hearings for then supremert nominee clarence thomas. >> can you tell the committee what was the most embarrassing of all the incidences that you have alleged? >> reporter: anita hill famously testified that thomas had harassed her. in turn, many feel she was eviscerated by lawmakers. hill tells "the new york times" that after that conversation with biden which happened earlier this month, she is not convinced that he accepts the harm she says he caused her. i cannot be satisfied by simply saying i'm sorry for what happened to you. i will be satisfied when i know there is real change and real accountability and real purpose. the biden campaign responds gently saying over the decades joe biden has tried to change bringing women onto the judiciary committee and sponsoring the violence against women act. but this is one example that biden is going to face with that long track record in the senate. george? >> that's one example. we also heard from president obama. lots of praise for his former vice president but he

they said they breached common ground on a number of principles and agreed to set up a committee to iron out to supreme tree lanka's president has about to stand against security officials following sunday's suicide bomb attacks and has formally asked for the resignation of the defense secretary and the chief of police. iran says the u.s. must be prepared for consequences if it tries to stop selling its oil president hassan rouhani says he is open to resuming talks but only if the u.s. apologizes fast. the israeli military is set to demolish the house of a palestinian in the occupied west bank israel accuses. of killing an israeli soldier and a settler and march who died after what israel said was an exchange of fire rights groups say the demolition is a form of collective punishment need to abraham reports from the occupied west bank . after a month it is. also has been detained and her other son was killed by israeli forces in the summer. and also killed. and injured a pregnant woman who lost her baby during two separate shooting attacks in the occupied west bank. but she says she knew nothing about

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to try to repair three decades old damage back in 1991, a chairman of the judiciary committee, biden ran the supreme court confirmation hearings for clarence thomas. you'll remember law professor anita hill testified at the hearing, leveling sexual harassment allegations and came under fire for the treatment that she received that they gave her. today "the new york times" is reporting details of their conversation with professor hill about her recent conversation with joe biden. sharing the byline of the reporting, sheryl gay stolberg. she joins us now. so what did anita hill say to you about the conversation she had with the former president? >> well, she didn't want to detail exactly what the former vice president said to her, but she made very clear that she was not satisfied with the conversation. she said that she can't accept someone saying i'm sorry for what happened to you without engaging in real change and real accountability. she made very clear to me that she does not think that joe biden has fully accepted responsibility for his conduct at the hearing. she faults him for failing to call

supreme court justice clarence thomas. biden was chairman of the judiciary committee at the time and has faced criticism for how are panel handledl's accusation of sexual harassment by thomas. today, biden declined to directly apologize to hill. >> i am sorry she was treated the way she was treated. i wish we could have figured out a better way to get this thing done. >> reporter: he also avoided a full apology when asked about recent accusations by women that he made them feel uncomfortable. >> i have to be-- and everybody has to be-- much more aware of the private space of men and women. it's not just women, but primarily women. and-- and i am much more cognizant of that. >> reporter: biden's campaign said it raised $6.3 million in its first 24 hours from nearly m7,000 people in all 50 states. 00at's a new one-day record topping fellow contenders beto o'rourke and bernie sanders. rkff? >> glor: ed o'keefe for us in r shington. ed, thank you. a russian woman who admitted to being a secret agent for the kremlin was sentenced today to 18 months in prison. maria butina pleaded guilty for conspiring to infiltrate the national rifle

supreme court this morning. congressman elijah cummings of maryland chairs the house oversight committee. we will show the hearing beginning with his opening statements. >> we will hear from secretary of commerce the honorable wilbur ross about preparations for the 2020 census. ourconstitution requires government to conduct a census every 10 years. the constitution also requires person the every latest census begins next year and significant challenges have been raised by the government accountability office either about whether we will be ready. today's hearing will be our andt of several this year we will look to our able subcommittee on civil rights and civil liberties headed up by the honorable jamie raskin to follow-up with additional hearings. we're to make sure tracking progress. highlighting small problems before they become large problems. that outstanding recommendations are being implemented effectively and efficiently. today we'll examine secretary ross's decision to add a new citizenship question after up, at thesten census bureau warned and i quote quality ofarms the the cen

committee. white house officials are preparing for battle, warning they'll take the fight to the supreme court. the opening skirmish in that fight is playing out as president trump visits the border with mexico and warns would-be migrants, and i'm quoting him now, our country is full. after a week of threatening mexico, then climbing down from those threats, the president then headed to look at a section of the border barrier. he calls it a new wall, but it's more of a fence and a replacement for what already existed there. >>> i'll speak with congressman hakeem jeffries of the judiciary committee. and our correspondents and analysts, they will have full coverage of today's top stories. let's begin with our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. jim, the p lawyers play defense back home over his tax returns. >> that's right, wolf. president trump is down at the border to promote his call for a wall, and he's using some extremely incendiary language on the issue of immigration saying today, quote, and you just said it a few moments ago, quote, our country is full. the white house is also g

that they were ordering and in 1954 the supreme court ruled and then with the supreme court we got it together and the committee named george schultz chairman and to be on that committee and then to get it worked out. . >> so around the country personally around the south who is the head and then working with them for 20 or 40 years and told them you would have a president but i'm just telling you before you get there we are not going to stand for any trouble to put it out and stamp it out. and each one of those committees we brought those people to the white house to meet president nixon. but he told me. [laughter] and discussed from the beginning. and then in september thank god not one incident throughout the south. we only have one incident that's the kind of president nixon was. you can believe it if you want to. . >> mister brown use subtitle a child in poverty but you have lived a very rich life and all those years, obviously with this country and god. but every generation is worse than everywhere before and we hear people say that but looking back is it really worse now than it had been in the past? hav

supreme court have not said anything. got it together in the president name to the committee. and there were several others on that. you are on the committee. it was my responsibility to make sure that there were not to be any trouble. we went around the country personally. he knew a lot of these things. we are neck and a stand for any trouble. we are going to put it out. and then we got each one of those. we brought all of those people to the white house. when i can have no stuff. all the sudden in september when all of the schools are opening up we do not had one incident throughout the south. we do not had one incident. that was the kind of president that richard nixon was. you don't believe him at your own peril. he's in a find out what he did to take care of these. >> we have a question right here. you have lived a very rich life. and all of those years that you would cherish this country. i think every generation feels like things are worse than they ever are before. looking back and all your years had you been in worse situations before and got through it. i think we've tried to come together. it's a very ch

i still believe he's supremely unqualified and i hope that the banking committee and the senate agrees>> so what happens from here in terms of where this goes? >> well, the question is whether the -- whether he will be officially nominated. you know, besides the gold standard, he's -- he wanted the fed to hike interest rates at the beginning of the great recession. you know, he has some issues, i guess, with unpaid taxes and a lien. i'm not sure he's the best candidate. so whether the nomination becomes finalized still remains to be seen. but ultimately he would have to be vetted and confirmed through the senate banking committee. >> all right, congresswoman, i appreciate your time. thanks so much. >> thank you. >>> next, a federal judge takes on president trump and his attack on judges. >> when politicians attack the courts, it's dangerous, political and guilty of egregious overreach. you can hear the klan's lawyers. >>> plus jeanne reading between the blacked-outlines in mueller's report. she has it? you know that look? that life of the party look. walk it off look. one more mile loo

supreme court. the chairman of the house ways and means committee, richard neal, who is spearheading this effort of transparency, he said he believes this is perfectly legal. listen. >> the last eight presidents have released their tax forms, and we think here there is an mechanism where these forms could be reviewed in a nonpartisan basis and then we would have a chance to decide from there what to do with them. >> you heard acting chief of staff mick mulvaney say this was a political stunt. some of the president's attorneys said this request is ill legit my. i want to you listen to jay sec sekulow, one of the president's attorneys said -- >> he decided not to because he has an ongoing irs audit. the idea you can use the president as a political weapon is incorrect as both a statutory law and constitutionally. we should not be in a situation where individuals, individuals' private tax returns are used for political purposes. as you just said, george, what stops another party from doing the thing? >> ana, we have to point out president trump broke with precedent. he was the first candidate in more

supreme court hearings for clarence thomas. that's a point he has also recently made in public. >> when anita hill came to testify, she faced a committee that didn't fully understand what the hill was all about. >> hill telling "the new york times," i cannot be satisfied for saying i'm sorry for what happened to you. i'll be satisfied when i know there's real change and real accountability and real purpose. >> senator elizabeth warren questioning biden's ties to wall street. >> at a time when the biggest financial institutions in this country tried to put the squeeze on millions of hard working families, they just didn't have anyone, and joe biden is on the side of credit card companies. >> bernie sanders sent fundraising e-mails attacking biden for launching his fund with a fundraiser in the home of a corporate lobbyist. >> biden was in philadelphia for the first big donor event. he lamented the idea that the way to gain power and control is to split the nation, today biden will be on the view. for the next few weeks he'll campaign in florida, nevada, iowa, new hampshire, and south carolina. i should have said nevada. people hate that

what we do know is that the supreme court has had two separate instances where they've flagged conflicts like this and said it's not clear whether congressional committees or congress in general can force the executive branch to do anything. if this does end up before the supreme court, we don't know whether they're going to punt this decision as they have in the past or if they're actually going to come to a conclusion on it. >> let's turn now to the battle of the release of the mueller report because mueller investigators are expressing their frustration that their evidence was more damaging than what the attorney general released. sara, are there any indications as to why mueller's investigators waited 11 days to finally speak out to journalists? >> i think you can see the frustration building. this is a very tense time on both sides here and what's going to be really notable is attorney general barr will be speaking on capitol hill next tuesday. he'll be appearing for an appropriations hearing. i can guarantee you the questions will be beyond just the funding for the department of justice, but i think we did see the -- we're starting to see the publ

supreme court. the next big fight in washington kicked off this week when democrat richard neil, the chairman of the house ways and means committee sent this letter to the irs politely asking to see six years of tax returns from the president and his business. he cites an arcane piece of tax law that allows him to see any american's tax returns as long as it's for a legitimate legislative reason. now, in this case congressman neill says this has nothing to do with partisan politics. he says he needs the president's tax returns to check in on how the irs, quote, audits and oversees the federal tax laws against a sitting president. now, right away the president was adamant that he would not release his tax returns without a fight. he says the law is 100% on his side, that the irs has no reason to give in to the democrats' request and turn over his returns. and today the president escalated that fight over this by hiring a lawyer. a lawyer who sent this letter to the irs calling into question the legal ground that democrats are standing on. quote, i write to explain why chairman neal cannot legally request and the irs cannot legally

conversation with anita hill about her treatment before the judiciary committee which biden shared during the 1991 clarence thomas supremert confirmation hears and the demographics and the ideology and the identity of the democratic party not what it was when biden first entered politics and this could loom in his presidential campaign. controversies from, for instance, the 1990s or about things that happened in the '90s so we thought we would take a look at what the politics were like back then on some issues that have become potential hot buttons for biden as he runs for president in 2020. so let's take this anita hill/clarence thomas 1991 she stepped forward with accusations of sexual harassment and biden and democrats were against thomas' confirmation but hill said the deck was stacked against her before the judiciary committee. politically this after the judiciary committee hearings is where the country stood on confirming clarence thomas. in the moment folks watched those hearing and they sided with thomas, more than two to one supported his confirmation after the hearings and look at the breakdown. it waep-- it wa

i wonder what your committee is prepared to do as trump is clearly prepared to fight this, he says, all the way to the supremert. are you willing to threaten to put people in jail if they don't abide by these subpoenas? >> well, i actually serve on two committees that are in conflict with the administration about its new policy of trying to choke off all production of documents and witnesses to the legislative branch of government. the judiciary committee and the oversight committee. i think both of our committees are going to vindicate the people's interest in getting to the truth of the different kinds of corruption and lawlessness that are engulfing the trump administration. so we will use the subpoena power, we will enforce subpoenas, we will go to court if we need to to charge the administration with criminal and civil contempt. we also have the inherent contempt power that congress has used as long ago as the 19th century to declare that people are in contempt of congress by not complying with us. so, you know, we consider this a really scandalous and unprecedented situation that the administration has

supreme court will save the day for the president. and if they're true in their oaths and what they swore in front of the judiciary committee, they have that's what the statue says, turn them over or change the statute. >> does this end up in the supreme court? >> it will. i also don't think six years are enough. they need to go back 15 years p a lot of cash came into his business from sources that are murky, i think they would answer a lot of questions about his relationship with russia, for example. and i don't think six years is going to do it. >> that's one heck of a tease. thanks tim for coming up. >>> a new movie that might prove to be chicken soup for the political person's soul. that's next. he political person's soul. that's next. just go together. now kayak and opentable let you earn travel rewards every time you dine. earn points with each restaurant reservation on opentable and redeem them for hotel discounts on kayak. get started at kayak.com/diningrewards. termites, we're on the move.24/7. roger. hey rick, all good? oh yeah, we're good. we're good. termites never stop trying to get in, we never stop working to keep them

to court suing one of the committees here that wants to get a look at the trump organization's financial records. > to a major guy rights case taking center stage at the supremou crt. looking at whether existinl civi rights laws make it illegal to fire workers based on their identy. we have the rdetails. >>orter: richard, this could produce a landmark decision and the first big hot button issue the supreme court has agreed to take since brettavanaugh arrived here. the question, civil rights lma ke it's a crime to discriminate on the basis of sex. does that law also outline gender discrimination. the court will not hear this case untilhe next term which begins in october. >>> aramatic change in the price you pay at the pump could be on the way. the trump administration moves to punish iran with cost of a barrel of oil on the rise. to begin imposing sanctions. we have more. >> reporter: after threaning for months to tighten its grip on iran, the trump administration is making it officialaying the u.s. will sanction several countries if they keep importing iraniane oi. goal, to cut iran's oil exports down to zo. >> we are going to zero across the board. reporter:

supreme court. let's bring in a key member of the house ways & means committee, democratic congressman dan hilde. thank you very much for being with us. so many people thought you all would do this on january 3 when the new congress came in and democrats took over the house. do you know why your chairman waited three months to make the request? >> well, the chairman took a deliberate approach and wanted to make sure we get it right, not just get it fast. he was in consultation with house counsel and developed this request. we expect the president and his team to push back. obviously we want to make sure everything was done completely within our authority. we had to establish the legal basis and the factual basis for this request. we have done it in terms of public hearings we have held and in the work that the chairman himself has been conducting over the last few months. the result is a specific request to the irs commissioner. it's provided under section 6103 of the tax code which says the chairman of the ways & means committee can seek tax returns from taxpayers when there is a public interest

criticism by libeor his role as chairman of the senate judiciary committee in 1991, when attorney anita hill testified that then-supreme court nominee arence thomas had sexually harassed her. lawmakers from both parties then eviscerated hill's testimony. recently, biden has alsoaced allegations of inappropriately touching women and not respecting their personal space. biden didn't apologize, but said he would do better. at times gaffe-prone-- this is biden's third attempt at the presidency. his 1988 bid was marked by allegations of plagiarism. after a short 2008 presidential bid, biden agreed to runs barack obama's vice presidential nominee. and, while biden helped to win over the "obama coalition" of black and northern white voters that helped win the white house in 2008 and again in 2012, he faces now a serious challenge from vermont senator bernie sanders and a host of rising,r youngeogressive democrats.um president trtook note of biden's announcement today and the bruising primary that awaits wem. mr. trump tweeted,lcome topy the race, slee joe." >> mr. vice president, how do you feel?t! >> i feel grea >> woodruff:

he was the chairman of the senate judiciary committee at the time when anita hill testified and accused the supreme court nominee at the time, clarence thomas, of sexual harassment. yesterday, we learned that biden and anita hill, after all these years, they did recently speak, and a spokesperson released a statement saying biden expressed his regret for what she endured during those hearings. but then we also heard from anita hill, giving an interview to "the new york times," where she basically said that that type of apology was not enough. that simply saying i'm sorry for what happened to you is not enough. anita hill saying she's not ready to support joe biden until he acknowledges his role in those hearings. these are questions that joe biden is going to continue to face in these early days of the campaign. we'll see if he gets any questions about it on "the view" or on his way in there. >> arlette, stay with me. you're outside abc because the interview for the vice president is going to be on "the view." david chalian back with us again. david, trump saying there, i think we beat him easily.

you'll remember that he chaired the senate judiciary committee back in 1991 when anita hill testified and accused the supreme court nominee at the time, clarence thomas, of sexual harassment. yesterday, our colleague, brianna keilar, asked the deputy campaign manager if the two of them had in fact spoke and that's when we found out biden did recently speak with effeta hill, and later, a spokesperson told me that the former vice president expressed regret for what she endured during that hearing. then, anita hill gave an interview to "the new york times" where she described her feelings on the interview. i want to read you a quote from that. she said i cannot be satisfied by simply saying i'm sorry for what happened to you. i will be satisfied when i know there is real change and real accountability and real purpose. anita hill said that she is not prepared to support biden unless he acknowledges his actions during that hearing. maybe on "the view" we could hear from biden more if the hosts decide to press him on that topic. we also learned about another phone call that he had just yesterday with the mother o

and to remind those at home, he was the head of the judiciary committee when she spoke out against clarence thomas' nomination for the supreme court. but here's what the "the new york times" are reporting anita hill said about that conversation. she said, i cannot be satisfied by simply saying i'm sorry for what happened to you. i will be satisfied when i know there is a real change and real accountability and real purpose. it doesn't look like that particular element of this story that has a lot of layers is going away anytime soon for joe biden. >> there are many issues that the vice president will have to confront. that is one of them, of course. there is the crime bill that he was a major champion of, and bill bennett laid out some of the other positions that the vice president will have to clarify now that he is a candidate for president of the united states and is not the vice president running with barack obama. he is trying to be at the top of the ticket and he is going to have to respond to, not just the anita hills of the world, but many democratic voters, as well as others who want a real answer to some of those q