State for Political Affairs david hale. Order. Good afternoon, everyone. This is the sixth in a series of public hearings the committee will be holing as part of the house of representatives impeachment inquiry. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. There is a quorum present. We will proceed today in the same fashion as our other hearings. I will make an Opening Statement and the Ranking Member nunes will have the opportunity to make a statement and we will turn to our witnesses for their Opening Statements if they should choose to make one. For audience member, we welcome you and respect your interest in being here. Rep. Schiff the committee will come to order. This is the sixth in a series of hearings. There is a quorum present. We will proceed in the same fashion as the other hearings. We welcome you and respect your interest in being here. Ordance with house rules and House Resolution 660. With that, i now recognize myself to gi
Defense strategic advic advisort zest likovich. Your initial thoughts on this and the fact that they reportedly have a new leader in place this morning. The fact they have a new leader is nothing that wouldnt be expected. Isis is like a business, so they know exactly who is going to take over. In my opinion, who cares l. The number two, as far as im concerned, hes already dead. We signed his death warrant when he took over that position. He is now enemy number one. What is prove from the operation to kill Abu Bakr Albaghdadi shows the u. S. Military can reach into any place it wants to to hunt terrorists down and theyll be hunting the number two, number three, for the next Going Forward. Maria are you expecting any retaliation here from isis . Retaliation in terms of domestically in the u. S. Or something in syria. Maria getting the u. S. Back for taking down its leader, yeah. No, i dont think so. I think if isis wanted to hit us that, would. Theyre always looking for targets of opport
Continues to pose risks. But first, our top story. Mark zuckerberg will get a firsthand look at the growing opposition to facebooks plan to create a cryptocurrency. He will testify october 23. The hearing will examine facebooks impact on the financial and housing industries. My first question is, how significant that it is zuckerberg . It is very significant. Anytime the ceo testifies, it is a big deal. I was there in april of 2018 when he last testified and it was a total zoo. Everyone wants to see him and asking questions. I imagine this will be the same. I know they had been trying to get sheryl sandberg. We wrote about that a couple of weeks ago. It looks like they got someone even better which is her boss. Taylor what do we know about the content of the hearing . Kurt this committee focuses on financial services. They also do housing staff. Stuff. Accused withbeen issues around its advertising businesses. People are being discriminated for housing related issues. I imagine that wi
Boston University Law review. After clerking for one year with the u. S. Court of appeals for the district of columbia, he joined kirkland and ellis where he spent the next 17 years establishing his reputation as one of the countrys leading courtroom lawyers. In 1993, mr. Beck and his colleague founded one of the most highly respected firms of trial attorneys in the nation. Mr. Beck has litigated hundreds of cases over the course of his career, but he is perhaps most wellknown for his work as the lead attorney representing the george w. Bush campaign in bush versus gore, which ultimately determined the outcome of the 2000 president ial election. We are grateful to mr. Beck for funding this lecture series and establishing the philip beck establishment, currently held by my colleague gary lawson. Professor lawson is a leading scholar of constitutional law and as i learned last week, he is also a huge billy joel fan. He twice worked for antonin scalia, once on the court of appeals for the
To the bottom get of the campaign to deport critically ill children and their families. It appears this policy has thankfully been reversed after congress and the American People outcry at the cold inhumanity on display in this policy. I am going to treat this hearing is not only an honor of the memory of our late beloved chairman, elijah cummings, but as a hearing indirect pursuit of a policy directive that was close to his heart, the threatened deportation of Sick Children that his very last official act before his death was to issue subpoenas to hold the administration to account. On wednesday, in the waning hours of his life through all pain and difficulty, chairman cummings recognized the stain this policy would leave on our nation, and he made holding the government accountable his final official act. And we now have a sacred obligation to follow through on his subpoenas to make sure that we defend some of the most Vulnerable People on the planet, Sick Children who have come as s