investigations into the current president s family. ted lieu, democrat of california, set to orient facts as they exist on earth one. watch. let me ask you a series of basic questions to get facts out to the american people about our system of justice. trump adviser roger stone was convicted in a federal court, correct? that s my recollection. trump donor elliott brady was convicted in a federal court. correct? also my recollection. the attorney general at the time for those two convictions was bill barr, which president nominated bill barr for attorney general? president trump. you were the fbi director for all of those cases at the time. which president nominated you? president trump. okay. what these facts show is we don t have a two-tiered system of justice. we have one department of justice that goes after criminals regardless of party idealogy. all of these folks were convicted under the administrations of three separate republican attorneys general. i
vetted. in this case, we know that he has not told the truth to the fbi, and let me tell you something, nicole, from prosecuting cases in federal court for ten years, the prosecutors in the southern district of new york where i worked and where this case comes from do not charge false statements lightly. we when i was there, was lied to numerous occasions by defendants that we didn t charge false statements against. and that s because it s a high bar to charge them. the credibility of this witness is not whether or not he was in similarly situated to hunter biden which i don t believe he was, but it s whether or not he tells the truth. and what we know is that he has not told the truth to the fbi. he s a fugitive, he s literally on the run. he jumped his bail and has not appeared for his extradition proceedings in cypress, i believe. he s on the lam trying to use the oversight committee to help
investigations into the current president s family. ted lieu, democrat of california, set to orient facts as they exist on earth one. watch. let me ask you a series of basic questions to get facts out to the american people about our system of justice. trump adviser roger stone was convicted in a federal court, correct? that s my recollection. trump donor elliott brady was convicted in a federal court. correct? also my recollection. the attorney general at the time for those two convictions was bill barr, which president nominated bill barr for attorney general? president trump. you were the fbi director for all of those cases at the time. which president nominated you? president trump. okay. what these facts show is we don t have a two-tiered system of justice. we have one department of justice that goes after criminals regardless of party
what the republicans wanted to talk about which was really just two cases donald trump s case and hunter biden s case. and it is remarkable that the judiciary committee and house republicans more broadly are acting as taxpayer-funded defense attorneys for donald trump and that the attacks on the fbi, the effort to defund the police in the form of the fbi is all done in service to donald trump and in an effort to not only undermine the fbi and the credibility of the fbi with americans around the country, but that s done to protect donald trump and then to attack the bidens for purely political purposes. you have focused in today on i hate even calling him a star witness, but that s what he was. the republicans star witness i their efforts to reignite i
new york. he sits on the house oversight committee, is very familiar with the attacks and smears launched by republicans today, as well as the judiciary s weaponization of the federal government subcommittee. congressman, i imagine none of this surprised you from republicans today. but it was stark and jarring watching them malign donald trump s appointee, the lead of the fbi, as someone who has really seemed to want to keep his head down and keep the bureau out of just about every debate in washington, around any of these cases. your thoughts about his testimony in this hearing today? well, there was such a sharp distinction between what director wray was talking about in terms of the breadth and depth of the fbi s work. from counterintelligence to counterterrorism to criminal investigations to keeping fentanyl off the streets to keeping gangs off the streets, to keeping americans safe versus