Former attorney general lynch with respect to former fbi director missouri decision to not prosecute former secretary clinton. I am in receipt of the departments letter from yesterday stating that senior prosecutors will review our letters and make recommendations as to whether any matter is not currently under investigation should be opened require further resources for merit the appointment of a special counsel. Do i have your assurance that these matters will proceed fairly and expeditiously smart. Yes, you can, mr. Chairman. You can be sure that they will be done without political influence in the be done correctly and properly. You also reference an ongoing Inspector General investigation into many of the matters we have raised. Will you ensure that the i g brisas committee on his findings in close session, if necessary. I will do my best to comply with that. The Inspector General is able to announce investigations in a way that we do not on a normal criminal side of the departmen
Leading the department of justice, an agency that by its very nature is prone to controversy because of the publics varied opinions on what it seeks to what it means to seek and obtain justice. However, you clearly understand that the department you lead must have the confidence of the American People even when your decisions are not always well received. Your first year leading the department of justice has not been without difficulty which is expected at the outset of a new administration. While much has been done to correct the improper Political Engagement by the department of justice under the obama administration, more work must be done to insure the department is operating to impartially administer justice. Our last doj oversight hearing was beyond disappointing. Attorney general Loretta Lynch gave the least full many and least fulsome and least transparent testimony that i can recall in my time in congress. It was plainly a disservice to the American People. Ms. Lynch failed to
Respond accordingly to the rogue nations next move. Will this be more sanctions . Will this be Something Else . Were going to ask Lieutenant Colonel ralph peters. News today that Loretta Lynch used an alias to send top secret emails when she was attorney general including one about the now infamous tarmac meeting between her and former president bill clinton. Not unusual for federal officials to use email aliases for security reasons but you have got to wonder here, was there something in those emails that she was trying to hide from reporters . We are on it for you. First i want to go to blake burman. He is in washington with the very latest on the north korea situation. Fill us in, blake. Reporter hi, there, trish. This is a potential gamechanger from reporting at the Washington Post. We report solely from the Washington Post which reports that the Defense Intelligence agency concluded last month that the north korea is able to produce a minute a miniaturized Nuclear Weapon to fit in
Territory of guam. We will get a live report from washington. The threat of a Nuclear North Korea leading back to back losses for the stock exchange. I have to say the market was down a lot further before if the threat of a nuclear war doesnt bring this market down nothing well. You make it great point. It really is trying to understand what is going on. With back to back losses. It changes the way that it moves to gold. Such as disney for example. It came out with the earnings after the bell. And obviously now the ties with netflix. It is down about 4 . About 30 negative points. We watch that so closely. It has been under ten all year. The biggest today gain that we have seen in three months so you can see a pop there. There is certainly really some jitters. Is a little better than expected. It is jumping up to a half percent. They make tomahawk missile. This as now theyre they are getting some inquiries about finding Missile Defense system. In what could come into big sales. Thank yo
The United States and United Nations and not a good day for north korea. You saw all the countries come together and say this has to stop. This is not something that we can be reckless and casually dealt with. Thats what he has done. They hit him and basically we hit him hard. Lets begin live in london. Greg palkot picks up the story from there. Hello. Hello, bill, thats right. A lot to update you on this morning. The rhetoric, the warnings, diplomacy heating up on both sides. Secretary of state tillerson is in thailand. Thats important because there is a lot of Business Done between north korea and thailand via false front dummy companies that pyongyang sets up in that country to help raise revenues for those nuclear and Missile Programs. Tillerson is trying to convince the government there to crack down on these government to get in line with the u. N. Sanctions approved over this weekend and following the two icbm missile launches by north korea last month, neighboring japan today w