i think kristin clark -- i thank kristin clark and all of our witnesses on the panel today and await their testimony. ms. clark will be our first panelist. i now recognize the ranking member of the subcommittee, the gentleman from louisiana, my friend mr. johnson of louisiana. >> i think all of us in the judiciary committee and every member of congress must first address the outrageous national security and foreign policy disaster that took lace over the weekend. people look up to another incomprehensible disaster created by the incompetent biden administration. after 20 years, trillions of dollars and thousands of american lives were spent standing up afghanistan's army and government, the country has been ceded back to the taliban in one week. americans are being killed along with their families. people are hanging on the side to b-52s as they evacuate for fear of their lives under taliban rule. there should be top to bottom accountability at the pentagon and within the administration for this disaster. this stunning failure has been met with silence from president biden, causing a

then, kristin clark testifies on the 1965 voting rights act before a house judiciary subcommittee. later, john kirby and hank taylor briefed on the u.s. evacuation efforts and -- in afghanistan for u.s. citizens and afghans who are applying for a special immigrant visa or siv. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these television companies and more, including media,. >> mediacom is ready, and we never slow down. schools and businesses went virtual and be powered into reality, because we are built to keep you ahead. >> mediacom supports c-span as a public service, along with these other providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. continues. host: he served as a sport -- spl assistant to rogers of dunford from 2015 to

. >> assistant attorney general kristin clark along with civil rights leaders and law professors testified on the 1965 voting rights act before a house judiciary subcommittee. they discussed ongoing threats to voting rights and things that would improve the legislation.

they were led until recently by a lawyer named kristin clark. you might recognize kristen clarke from having been a guest on this show. she ran it until earlier this year. she ended up giving up leadership of that organization when she became president biden's nominee to run the civil rights division at the united states department of justice which is the position she now holds. but her group's request from back in the day to the fcc to please investigate these racially targeted disgusting voter intimidation calls that went out by the tens of thousands, well, that has led somewhere quite spectacular. the fcc ended up taking up that complaint and investigating it. they ended up working interestingly with the attorney general from the state of ohio, one of the attorneys general who pursued this matter and, again, ohio's one of the states where they were facing felony charges related to these calls. but as for the fcc doing anything, nobody had high hopes that anything would come out of an fcc investigation. the fcc is one of those federal agencies

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