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Testifying on capitol hill about the Russian Investigation into the published report released by his office. The house judiciary hearing was the first of two hearings that focus on the reports findings relating to the Trump Administration and allegations of obstruction of justice. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the Judiciary Committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. We welcome everyone to todays hearing on oversight of the report and the investigation into the russian interference in the 2016 president ial election. I will now recognize myself for a brief Opening Statement. Thank you for being here. I want to say just a few words about the themes today. Responsible ....
Captioning performed by vitac although your report states collusion is not a specific offense and you have said this this morning, or a term of art in federal criminal law, conspiracy is in the colloquial context are collusion and conspiracy essentially synonymous terms . You are going to have to rethat for me. Collusion is not a specific offense or a term of art in the federal criminal law, conspiracy is. Yes. In the colloquial context no public context collusion and conspiracy are essentially synonymous terms, correct . No. If not on page 180 of volume 1 of your report you wrote in as defined in legal dictionaries collusion is largely synonymous with conspiracy 18 usc you said at your may 29 press conference and here today you choose your words carefully. Are you testifying Something Different from what your report states. What im asking is if you can give me the citation i can look at the citation and evaluate whether it i ....
[indiscernible] [indiscernible] [indiscernible] call to order. [indiscernible] attorney general sessions welcome and for all of the people in the audience we welcome you as well. I think dash and i think general sessions for being here for this oversight. Is just one of the critical functions of our branch its is an opportunity for congress to investigate and question the policieses and actions of any executive branch its an opportunity for the executive branch to take responsibility for any of the policies and actions. And check any abuses high and overreaching executive branch. Its been that way for 230 years. Some have complained we havent had oversight hearing with this attorney general. My reason for deferring was that the attorney general attorney general should have his team in place before appearing before us certainly attorney general holder did have the respective teams in place by the time they appeared here. The other side has been blocking executive nominations for the pas ....
Using American Labor and energy and american diner. He calls it the best infrastructure in the world. Thats what we need. And all of that on the same day that the president named his nominee to take his place. The former Justice Department official chris ray. We have fair and balanced coverage of. The democratic congressman. They are both here on infrastructure healthcare. On wall street today the markets looking pretty good right now. A little nervous earlier they have a jampacked schedule. As of today is not busy enough. It is getting crushed on the stockpile a surge. Here we are less than an hour to the close fell. Im Connell Mcshane in today. Lets start the countdown. A lot to get to hear. The stocks are breaking up a little bit. The final hour of trade as we get into that this afternoon. Investors are waiting. ....
Democrats outrage saying they is Defunding Police and he comes on the eve of a visit by joe biden to kenosha, wisconsin. And a plan of and one where he is signaling that the Police Officer who shot jacob blake in the back should be charged. The ministrations is shooting for the moon, ending for an october surprise. The doctor is here to that the Covid Response is getting politicized, and he wants to correct the record. Welcome to fox news at night, im mike emanuel in washington in for shannon bream. Lets kick things off with Jackie Heinrich looking ahead to bidens trip to kenosha. Good evening, mike. After President Trump declined to visit with jacob blakes family because they wanted their lawyer present, f ....