mr. cohen: thank you, mr. speaker. last week i led a bipartisan group to visit lithuania and the osce meeting in vienna, austria. inly the waipa we met with the leaders and assured them of america's article 5 responsibilities and commitments in case russia comes in to lithuania. they are very concerned. we met with our troops who are six kilometers away from russian troops stationed in belarus. we then went to the osce in vienna and led a strong response to support for ukraine and our position to the unbelievable invasion by the cruel putin. the european community was united except for russia and belarus in opposing the intrusion. putin is not operating in a rational manner. his k.g.b. history, his extreme response to covid have driven him to a delusional, paranoid, and dangerous state. it concerns all. i appreciate the actions of our president in supporting our country. i support president zelensky, but the cannel's only lasted so long. we need to get him more oil. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro

cohen of tennessee. mr. cohen of tennessee, you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, madam chairwoman, and thank you for holding this hearing. if i ask you any questions that were asked earlier, mr. carbajal, let me know. these are important issues and i want to make this hearing, and i'm happy i can. the pandemic has highlighted many failings in the federal bureau system. unfortunately, they failed to protect the health of those in their custody and the staff from covid-19 or addressed understaffing. they have addressed important criminal justice reforms such as the first step act, mr. carbajal. what lessons have you learned during your tenure and what advice do you have for your successor to address some of these issues we've seen in the bureau of prisons? mr. carbajal? >> congressman, sorry, i was trying to unmute here. if you're asking about the lessons learned from the pandemic, first off we followed cdc guides from day one. we learned that we need to protect the most vulnerable, the elderly,

trone of maryland, mr. cohen of tennessee, and mr. brendan boyle of pennsylvania, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 6617. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? mr. gomez: as the member designated by mr. khanna, mr. huffman, and mr. gallego, i inform the house that these members will vote aye on h.r. 6617. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? mr. correa: mr. speaker, as the member designated by the following members -- sara jacobs, ami bera, grace napolitano, vicente gonzalez, lucille roybal, henry cuellar, john garamendi, raul ruiz, and juan vargas, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 6617. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from alabama seek recognition? mr. moore: mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. brooks from alabama, i inform the house that mr. books will vote yes on h.r. 6617. the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 272 a

mr. beyer: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. lowenthal, mr. kind, mr. cohen, mr. boyle, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on the buck amendment. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by representative dunn of florida, i inform the house that dr. dunn votes yes on the buck amendment. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from hawaii seek recognition? mr. case: thank you, madam speaker. as the member designated by mr. kahele, i inform the house that mr. kahele will vote yes on the buck amendment. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from alabama seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. bush will vote yea on the amendment. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? mr. garcia: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. grijalva, i inform the house that he will vote yes on the buck amendment. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does

cohen, if you would, please rise, and i will begin to swear you in. >> mr. cohen, if you would please rise and i will begin to swear you in. raise your right hand. >> my loyalty to mr. trump has cost me everything, my family's happiness, friendships, my law license, my company, my livelihood, my honor, my reputation, and soon my freedom. and i will not sit back, say nothing and allow him to do the same to the country. indeed, given my experience working for mr. trump, i fear that if he loses the election in 2020 that there will never be a peaceful transition of power. and this is why i agreed to. before you today. -- agreed to appear before you today. >> he did say to the country if donald trump lost, there would be no peaceful transition for the country. that was a startling thing for his own lawyer to say about him, but it seemed far off at that point to a lot of people. and people have said from the beginning that there is no way he would do that, there is no way anybody would do that. ould ould way anybody woul! verizon is going ultra, so your business c

>> that's that is it, mr. cohen. >> thank you. i'll yield to mr. wilson. thank you very much, chairman cohen, and i want to thank all of the witnesses today. i think it's been very revealing, and truly, it needs to be known how important this issue is to the people of the united states beginning with the fact that it's got 10,000 americans in ukraine currently today who would be at risk, but really positive, we have 1 million ukrainian-americans who have been very important, and i am very pleased, in the audience right here. we have congresswoman victoria sparks of indiana, and i'm not going to pronounce ukrainian correctly, but i mean to do this correctly and i'm sure she'll let me know -- [ speaking foreign language ] and so we have a ukrainian in congress and very articulate on behalf of her love and affection for the people of ukraine and my home state of south carolina. the former president of newberry college collected statewide as state superintendent of education mick zaetz. ukrainian-americans are very important and equally important and we apprec

ruppersberger of maryland, mr. boyle of pennsylvania, mr. cohen of tennessee, dr. lowenthal of california i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 2842. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition. >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. fallon of texas, i inform the house that mr. fallon will vote no on h.r. 2842. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from virginia seek recognition. ms. wexton: mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. mceachin and ms. porter, i inform the house that these members will vote yes on h.r. 2842. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from alabama seek recognition. >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. hagedorn of minnesota, i inform the house that mr. hagedorn will be voting no on h.r. 2842. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from oregon seek recognition. ms. bonamici: mr. speaker, as the member designated by representative pingree of maine and representative kuster of new hamp

at the end, you're shaking the hand of mr. cohen, but you did not believe what he wasaying, is that right? >> actually, when i looked at some of the footage that madeleine carter had filmed, i was saying i think there will be violence all the way up to january 6, i was amazed that i kept predicting that. but what i had not predicted was it would be so overwhelming that we would not be able to stop it. when tabatha and hank decided to come with me -- of course, we were absolutely devastated on january 6 because we had buried tommy on january 5 in a covid-19 funeral where we could only have 20 people there. when they decided to come with me, they said, will we be ok because donald trump is telling us people to come to washington. i said, of course, we will be inside the capitol. the image i had in my mind, amy, june 2 when black had a protest at the capitol and there was a huge failings of national guardsmen and women holding bayonets and weapons on the steps of the capitol, and that was the image that came to mind. that was the

and that is mr. cohen of tennessee. you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, madam chairman. thank you for holding this hearing. if i ask any questions that were asked earlier, let me know. i've been at a hearing of the helsinki commission. we had the polish foreign minister. been very involved in it those issues. these are important issues as well. i want to make this hearing. pandemic highlight md of the failings for federal prison system. the bureau of pruz system unfortunately failed to protect those in the custody in the staff and address chronic understaffing. the bop has also lacked transparency and reforms such as the first step act. what lessons you have learned during your tenure and what advice do you have for your successor to address some of the issues that we've seen within the bureau of prisons? congressman? >> yes? >> i'm trying to unmute. if you're asking about the lessons learned from the pandemic, we followed cdc guidance from day onest we learned we need to protect the most vulnerable, elde

cohen: were you made aware of that? mr. carvajal: he is a high publicity case but i was not directly involved in that decision. rep. cohen: since mr. epstein committed suicide and the security was awful, have you seen to it that ms. maxwell had better care or supervision to make sure she does nothing to end her life? chrmn. jackson-lee: i will let the director answer the question. mr. carvajal: i don't want to discuss specific security issues on any individual but we appropriately ensure that people in our care have the appropriate supervision and security. chrmn. jackson-lee: thank you very much. this has been an important hearing, insightful approaches by members of both sides of the aisle. as we come to conclusion, as ranking member, do you have any additional points you might like to place in the record at this time? rep. biggs: thank you, director for being here and i look forward to a number of responses that you indicated that you and your staff would get to me. i look forward to getting those and madam chair, i yiel

. >> mr. cohen? >> thank you, mr. chair and i appreciate you holding this hearing and all your work for music and fairness in this area and all the witnesses who testified here today. the american music fairness act for the music industry ensuring artist are compensated, i'm proud to cosponsor. i'm a friend of mr. legeyt's i look forward to coming to memphis and touring the studios and getting an appreciation of some of the great and guide that goes into the records. it is not an easy thing and a lot of people that didn't perform that didn't make a lot of money. a lot of the older performers had to go back onto her that was not easy for them either. it is great to have you here i'm proud to have you with us. you and me around this magazine along with albert and isaac, we have a collection on front. you and your father did so much for music for artists in the industry in the studios, we would have love and happiness. the world goes around with love and happiness. obama wouldn't have been able to say let's stay together

cohen of tennessee. you're we can recognized for five minutes. >> thank you for holding this hearing. if i ask any questions previously of mr. carbajal. and i was at the helsinki committee and the bureau of prisons unfortunately failed to protect those in custody for chronic understaffing. bop lacked transparency and such as the first step act, mr. carbajal. what lessons have you learned through your tenure and what advice do you have for your successor that we've seen with other bureau of prisons? >> mr. carbajal? >> congressman, yeah, sorry, trying to unmute here. if you're asking lessons learned from the pandemic, first off, we followed c.d.c. guidance from day one. we learned that we need to protect the most vulnerable, the elderly. isolate the sick, quarantine the exposed, the same lessons that the rest of the country and the world has known. restrict movement, communicate better and those are some of the lessons learned and i think that we've gotten processes in place and we've worked with the c.d.

. >> mr. manafort and mr. cohen, to your knowledge, not 50% of the sentence is that correct? >> i'm not going to talk about individual specific cases, congresswoman. but we have procedures in place and a a committee that reviews them and i can certainly go through that process if you like. >> i would appreciate if you could provide in writing if you're not going to discuss it on the individuals release under the 50% rule. let me ask what are you doing to prevent more deaths in the facilities? >> congresswoman, we've been in lockstep with the cdc and other entities from day number one and we are doing the same thing everyone in the country into the world is doing, learning how to mitigate this virus as stated earlier that it's hard to social distance inside of a prison. that's why we appreciate the ability under the cares act to transfer people out because we were able to lower the population with security facilities and the one you described. we are following cdc guidance and we do everything in collaboration with them and the pandemic plan actually assisted in writing the co

>> mr. cohen the purpose of sanctions unlike the purpose of movement of military forces is best done after they move and two sentences on that and i know you want a short answer. military forces -- move them before the invasion comes. in order to demonstrate that this is a serious deterrence the goal is to tour him from invading ukraine. so move those forces like the administration decided to do this morning. the sanctions as congress knows very well can go on in a hurry and off very slowly. that's not a deterrent if you put those on in advance. it's a deterrent if those serious sanctions are promised and detailed and are incredibly coordinated with the europeans so that when he does come across they go on. once they are on if you'd do it in advance they lose their deterrent value. >> you could do in advance would that give putin an opportunity to say the west is done as a way tofu proceed further and we must be the provocateur in an economic sense? i >> that's the issue. >> thank you and i

there has been an individual i have been in touch with, michael cohen, who was an attorney for mr. trump, who has been incarcerated. he's on -- he still has certain limitations. he is got parole, i guess. but those could be -- those conditions of the restrictions on his liberty could be removed if they completed the fresh start act and gave him the very he deserves for the time he spent in prison as, really, a political prisonerie because wh he did was just facilitate mr. trump's work with miss stormy daniels. and individual one has not been punished. but michael cohen should get his credits, and hopefully the biden administration will see that everybody who deserves their credits get them. ms. levi there is nobody in the system that is supposed to work on compassionate release, you just make your application to the warden? do you think there ought to be a person in the system like an oms budsman who looks over the system and tries to make recommendations of those people who should qualify for compassionate release? >> i certainly do. i think some of the -- not just compassionate r

. >> thank you for those questions, thank you vicki, let me yield to mr. cohen for five minutes. >> thank you, it has been hectic here, i've got a few minutes but i wanted to address a few things and i think your address to best and i think all of our members have the same problem, this is a serious issue and it's great you have this hearing and the witnesses have been marvelous. you are a hero didn't know the members of the congregation whether you live or not, he all did great heroic and i don't know if you know rabbi but you know that's an honor. the republicans talked about some people on the committee, what they said and members of this committee have talked about defined police. i know of only one member of the committee who might have talked about defunding police and i wanted to ask them to name the members they are talking about so the members can tell them you are right or no, you are not. i can say with the exception of one person, democrats have not called on the front the police. >> i am here if he wishes to ask me a question. >> who are the m

mr. secretary, thank you so much for joining me. what do you want to hear from president biden? >> i want to hear that president biden is going to impose very heavy sanctions upon putin, upon russia, the oligarchs. but i also need to say that i don't think this will deter putin from launching an attack. he has already invaded ukraine, but kind of a salami-type approach. a slice here, slice there. take crimea, donbas, just keep taking a slice out of the country. but i don't think he'll be deterred no matter how heavy these sanctions are going to be. what we have to do is what happens after the sanctions. what happens if he goes in. what is the policy here in the states. what do we do in terms of supporting ukraine and help them to sustain themselves against an overwhelming force. what do we do about putting more troops along all of the nato countries right now while certainly there are those who are vulnerable as a result of russia moving so many forces into the region. poland, romania. others are now vulnerable to a potential attack in the future. so we've got to reinforce all o

cohen of tennessee, dr. lowenthal of california, and mr. boyle of pennsylvania i inform the house that these members will vote yes on the previous question. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from alabama seek recognition. >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. brook of alabama, i inform the house that mr. brook will vote no on the previous question. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition. >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. louie gohmert of the great state of texas, i inform the house that mr. gohmert will vote nay on the previous question. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from florida seek recognition. mr. wasserman schultz: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. crist and mr. soto of florida, i inform the house that these members will vote yea on the previous question. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by

. >> let's bring in former defense secretary under president clinton, william cohen. mr. secretary, thanks for being with us. let's start with this phone call between president biden and putin. we heard the white house readout that biden told putin and the u.s. and allies will respond decisively and impose swift and severe costs on russia and he urged putin to choose diplomacy. putin has heard all this before. do you think that message is going to act as any kind of deterrent at this point? >> i don't. sadly, i don't. i listened to former ambassador william taylor earlier on your program and i wish i had his sense of possibility and optimism that there's an off ramp. i think what putin wants is for the ukraine to raise a white flag and for the united states to do the same in terms of pulling our troops out of all of the other areas in europe where we have expanded nato membership. that's simply not a possibility. so i tend to be far more skeptical about putin. he could say theoretically, i told you the truth. i'm not planning to attack. it's simply a training mission to s

he says his agents physically were close to mr fakhrizadeh for years. i can say mohsen fakhrizadeh, for years, was definitely the most disturbing target on the scientific level and his knowledge of iran's nuclear military project. yossi cohen says mossad delivered a warning to iranian nuclear scientists that if they wanted to see theirfriends again, they should look for another job. if a man expresses an ability, which endangers israeli citizens, he must be stopped. he should cease existing. yossi cohen has signalled israel's responsibility for a series of attacks targeting iran's nuclear programme, but many israelis are against mossad officials talking about their operations. i'm against any publicity. if you want to shoot, shoot. don't talk. the mossad, its reputation is to do fantastic operations — allegedly — clandestine without publicity. israeli officials avoid talking directly about the assassination of mohsen fakhrizadeh. we have our intelligence capabilities. we have our defensive capabilities, which are the state of the best in the world.

. >> given my experience working for mr. trump, i fear that if he loses the election in 2020 that there will never be a peaceful transition of power. and this is why i agree to appear before you today. >> michael cohen did issue a stark warning to the country that if donald trump lost there would be no peaceful transition, there's no way he would accept it. that is a frightening and

mr. chair? >> thank you. and we have stephanie cohen from d.p.s. to present on this item. >> thank you. on behalf of the with the health departments to support the h.i.v. epidemic in the united states. next slide. >> it's not going to advance. and with the epidemic is an initiative announced by the federal and is a coordinated effort from the federal agencies and is a 10-year that is that plan. to reduce h.i.v. and press star 5. and to respond to h.i.v.. to reduce sexually transmitted infections. next slide. >> we were originally awarded this grant on august 1 and it is a five-year grant and can extend to 2030. the initial award was a total for 2.90 and going to the community health equity to support the community-based h.i.v., hep-c and prevention work. in addition, we were awarded a competitive supplement called comp c which was for $450,000 to support the integration of h.i.v. prevention work at city clinic. and for fiscal year 2021, the comp c award increased by $350,000 so to a total of $800,000. starting in fiscal year 2021, the total award i

mr. chair? >> thank you. and we have stephanie cohen from d.p.s. to present on this item. >> thank you. on behalf of the with the health departments to support the h.i.v. epidemic in the united states. next slide. >> it's not going to advance. and with the epidemic is an initiative announced by the federal and is a coordinated effort from the federal agencies and is a 10-year that is that plan. to reduce h.i.v. and press star 5. and to respond to h.i.v.. to reduce sexually transmitted infections. next slide. >> we were originally awarded this grant on august 1 and it is a five-year grant and can extend to 2030. the initial award was a total for 2.90 and going to the community health equity to support the community-based h.i.v., hep-c and prevention work. in addition, we were awarded a competitive supplement called comp c which was for $450,000 to support the integration of h.i.v. prevention work at city clinic. and for fiscal year 2021, the comp c award increased by $350,000 so to a total of $800,000. starting in fiscal year 2021, the total award i

mr. chair. >> chairman: thank you so much, mr. clerk, and we have emily cohen who's here to present on this item. >> thank you. i have a very brief presentation to share with all of you. the resolution before you is to approve a grant 0 that is intended to serve approximately 250 adults experiencing homelessness. the total not to exceed the grant is just over $18.7 million and the term is through the end of june 2024. under the proposed agreement, urban alkami would provide 24-7 support and operation services as well as street activation. we're so excited about the property, this facility really offers a unique building type for the shelter. we have learned from the 25s.i.p. hotels that a less congregate version of shelter is powerful for the guest and an operable model going forward. this has 123 individual rooms that range in size from singles to quads. as i said before with an estimated capacity of about 250 people. there are bathrooms and showers on each floor. really significant community space for services and for lounging a

mr. chair. >> chairman: thank you so much, mr. clerk, and we have emily cohen who's here to present on this item. >> thank you. i have a very brief presentation to share with all of you. the resolution before you is to approve a grant 0 that is intended to serve approximately 250 adults experiencing homelessness. the total not to exceed the grant is just over $18.7 million and the term is through the end of june 2024. under the proposed agreement, urban alkami would provide 24-7 support and operation services as well as street activation. we're so excited about the property, this facility really offers a unique building type for the shelter. we have learned from the 25s.i.p. hotels that a less congregate version of shelter is powerful for the guest and an operable model going forward. this has 123 individual rooms that range in size from singles to quads. as i said before with an estimated capacity of about 250 people. there are bathrooms and showers on each floor. really significant community space for services and for lounging a

2019 before congress. >> it was my experience that mr. trump inflated his total assets when it served his purposes. and deflated his assets to reduce his real estate taxes. >> joining me now, neal katyal. good to see you. talk to me about, of all this stuff, what do you think gives donald trump the greatest exposure? what is the greatest threat, if he were ranking what went wrong for him legally in the last week? >> it's a triad of losses. they're all significant. but it's not just that he's facing them, but that he's lost them. starting with the judge's decision in d.c. 100-plus page opinion by a really respected federal judge saying trump very well may have plausibly led to the january 6th attack on the capitol. he isolated out trump's statements, saying he was the only official to suggest marching to the capitol while the vote certification was under way, and the like. i think that looks like a real clear and present danger to donald trump. >> let's talk a little bit more about that. it was the judge who said, the first ever presidenti

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once said, nearly to boost his status. >> it was my experience that mr. trump inflated his total assets when it served his purposes. such as trying to be listed amongst the wealthiest people in forbes and deflated his assets to reduce his real estate taxes. >> so three years later, here we are. cnn's kara scannell joins us now with the very latest. what did mazars say in the letter to the trump organization. >> they said telling the trump organization they should no longer rely on ten years of financial statements. these were the financial statements that mazars are compiled for the trump organization, and they said this is based on a couple of things, one is the new york attorney general's investigation. they made a public filing that went into great detail about various misstatements, allegations of misstatements and omissions in these financial statements, everything from the size of donald trump's apartment at trump tower to how much cash they had on hand to how they were valuing golf courses. so a significant move, but in this, though, interestingly,

. >> given my experience, working with mr. trump, i fear that if he loses the election in 2020, that there will be never be a peaceful prat transition of power. this is why i agreed to appear before you today. >> michael cohen did issue a stark warning to the country that, if donald trump lost, there would be no peaceful transition. that is a frightening and startling thing for a presidents own lawyer to say about him. but, it seemed far off at that point to a lot of people. people have said for the beginning, there is no way he would do that. there is no way anybody would do that. >> there does seem to be this constant inability for all of us, for a lot of people, to wrestle with why it is happening. i thought that today's resolution was a sort of stark moment like that. i wonder if that has an effect. >> well, you know, the rewriting of the history of january six, to be legitimate political discourse, is a fascist tactic. that is what authoritarian movements do. that is what they say. i think we have to reckon with the reali