Smith’s hearing comes after an eight-hour closed-door deposition with the Republican-led committee in December in which Smith spoke about his investigations into Donald Trump. Per NBC News, Smith had requested a public hearing before his December testimony, but Republicans refused.

President Trump is speaking at the White House press briefing, highlighting immigration arrests and his record in office.

Trump announced that starting February, a 10% import tax will be imposed on goods from eight European nations that have rallied around Denmark in the wake of his stepped up calls for the United States to take over the semi-autonomous Danish territory of Greenland.

President Trump rescinded on Thursday his invitation for Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada to join his “Board of Peace,” an organization that he had founded to oversee a peace deal between Israel and Hamas in Gaza but that he has now tried to broaden into an institution to rival the United Nations.