[indiscernible] housecer this week, the Intelligence Committee between inquiry will hear from a total of nine witnesses. Four of them testified today over 10 hours. Jennifer williams, an advisor to mike pence, lt. Col. Alexander vindman, a ukraine expert on the National Security council. This afternoon, they heard from former special envoy to Ukraine Ambassador volker and jim morrison, advisor to europe and russia. On cspan we would like to hear from you. Here is how to join the conversation. For democrats we welcome all others at we will take about 20 minutes or so of phone calls to hear from you on this tuesday evening, the first of three hearings we will cover this week on the cspan networks. Lets go to the republican line in starlike, wisconsin. Caller thank you for taking my call. I have been watching all day. Alln, the witnesses testified that they witnessed no primary, extortion, quid pro quo, all that. And ir thing i noticed, will challenge the democrat callers to flollow they
With ukraine what is a whistleblower and what about ukraine lets call in rally a retired f. B. I. Special agent and former Minneapolis Division Legal Counsel she was a whistleblower about the f. B. I. s preening 11 failures testifying to the joint Intelligence Committee inquiry the Senate Judiciary committee and the Inspector General staff of the department of justice she was named along with 2 other corporate whistleblowers as time magazines 2002 persons of the year colleen how uncomfortable did it get for you when you have followed your conscience by speaking out about 911 failures where yes shunned. Well actually in my case it took 4 senators. Grassley lazy and our 2 minnesota senators to. Begged the attorney general and the f. B. I. Director not to fire me and so i did i was able to hang on to retirement and a pension but thats about what it takes it takes a lot because when youre standing alone revealing fraud waste and abuse the classic case of. Telling truth to power the classic
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the meeting will come to order. Good morning, everyone. This is the second in a series of public hearings the committee will be holding as part of the houses impeachment inquiry, without objection the chairman reserves the right to call recess. make an Opening Statement and representative nunes will make an Opening Statement and well turn to the witness for Opening Statement and then to questions. For audience members we welcome you and respect your interest in being here. In turn, we ask for your respect as we proceed with todays hearing. It is the intention of the committee to proceed without disruptions. As chairman ill take all necessary and appropriate steps to maintain order to ensure that the committee is run in accordance with house rules and House Resolution 660. With that i now recognize myself to give an Opening Statement in the impeachment inquiry into donald j. Trump, the 45th president of the United States. In april, 201
Suggestions. One of them fundamentally altered the core of that document. Wwor they were trying to grapple with how the dynamic works and how does the structure play out. Those are complicated issues for people to understand. Its one thing to turn around comments on am radio as much as we love it. For Something Like dynamic reserve pricing to understand how it works and affects your ability is something terribly different. The only thing i have to conclude when i see Something Like that happen with the comment deadlines is the fact that the proposal is being made by republican and if you look at my track record under acting chairwoman clyburn there are any number of areas where even though i didnt agree with the overall framework and nonetheless agreed to adopt it and work within it to prove the document. I like chairman wheeler and i get along with him personally and i hope we have a collaborative spirit Going Forward that but to this point by and large we were shut out on matters of
Based on sfaemfamily alone integratets got to be based on sommer it and family contribution. That has to be dealt with as well. Yet you have 12 to 20 Million People in this country that have lived here for more than a decade, otherwise havent violated the laws. I get all that. What ive learned is you cant even have a conversation about that until people believe and know not just believe but its proven to them that futile Legal Immigration will be controlled. That is the single biggest lesson of the last two years. I think everybody in this room would agree with this. Whenever there is a budget deal made and they talk about tax increases and were going to have spending cuts. You get the tax increase on day one and then the spending cuts ten years later never happen. Yes. Isnt it the same thing with immigration . That was the strongest argument made against the bill, and its proven to be true because the president once, but not twice, has basically said by executive order i wont violate