The subcommittee on water oceans and wildlife will come to order and the meeting for testimony good morning, the subcommittee on water oceans and wildlife, hear testimony about hr 2245, the cecil act under Committee Rule 4f, statements limited to the chairman, Ranking Member and vice chair and vice Ranking Member, this helps us hear sooner and keep the schedule. Therefore i ask unanimous consent that all members Opening Statements be made part of the hearing record if they are submitted by 5 p. M. Today or the close of the hearing whichever comes first. Hearing no objection, it is so ordereded. One other bit of housekeeping. Im told that votes are expected in about 30 minutes. One other bit of housekeeping. Im told that votes are expected in about 30 minutes. We will resays for the votes. Sometimes thats what we have to do. We will discuss International Trophy hunting today. Trophy hunting needless to say can be an incredibly devicive issue. For Many Americans it can be deeply disturbi
Benefited efforts and whether it could lead to an increase in poaching. This is an hour and 20 minutes. The subcommittee on water oceans and wildlife will come to order and the meeting for testimony good morning, the subcommittee on water oceans and wildlife, hear testimony about hr 2245, the cecil act under Committee Rule 4f, statements limited to the chairman, Ranking Member and vice chair and vice Ranking Member, this helps us hear sooner and keep the schedule. Therefore i ask unanimous consent that all members Opening Statements be made part of the hearing record if they are submitted by 5 p. M. Today or the close of the hearing whichever comes first. Hearing no objection, it is so ordereded. One other bit of housekeeping. Im told that votes are expected in about 30 minutes. One other bit of housekeeping. Im told that votes are expected in about 30 minutes. We will resays for the votes. Sometimes thats what we have to do. We will discuss International Trophy hunting today. Trophy h
Okay. Youre fired. [ laughter ] in an interview today, President Trump called former fbi director james comey a showboat and a grand stander. Hes a showboat. [ laughter ] if your ego was any bigger, youd start putting your name on your name. [ laughter and applause ] in the same interview, President Trump said that comey told him at dinner that he was not under investigation. Okay, but if you if you were under investigation, do you think an fbi agent would just tell you . [ light laughter ] do you also think s. W. A. T. Teams send a save the date card . [ laughter and applause ] a Confederate Monument was removed today from new orleans. No word on if theyll relocate it to d. C. , like the Confederate Monument they removed from alabama. [ audience ohs ] [ applause ] President Trump will meet with the president of turkey next week. He has a lot of questions you want to ask, like why does turkey have a president , but chicken has a colonel . [ laughter ] it doesnt seem fair. Its very uneq
Youre fired. [ laughter ] in an interview today, President Trump called former fbi director james comey a showboat and a grand stander. Hes a showboat. [ laughter ] if your ego was any bigger, youd start putting your name on your name. [ laughter and applause ] in the same interview, President Trump said that comey told him at dinner that he was not under investigation. Okay, but if you if you were under investigation, do you think an fbi agent would just tell you . [ light laughter ] do you also think s. W. A. T. Teams send a save the date card . [ laughter and applause ] a Confederate Monument was removed today from new orleans. No word on if theyll relocate it to d. C. , like the Confederate Monument they removed from alabama. [ audience ] [ applause ] President Trump will meet with the president of turkey next week. He has a lot of questions you want to ask, like why does turkey have a president , but chicken has a colonel . [ laughter ] it doesnt seem fair. Its very unequal. And a
All right. Im going to take the opportunity of this lull to begin the session. So im not going to spend a lot of time on introductions. I do just want very briefly, with us from brookings and law affair, this is a real opportunity, because matt, my copanelists interviewee, im not sure what to call him when theres only two of us, has a real remarkable diversity of experience with 702. And so i actually met matt way back when he was working on gaugh guantanamo issues once upon a time. He became general counsel at nsa and went from there to run National Security. As i think youll hear a lot of 702 material. And so let me start by just asking you, on a scale of 1 to 10, how important is 702 to u. S. Counterterrorism mission and to other national skuecurity progrs and what other interests . If i can channel the movies, ill say 11, for those of you who have seen the movie. The amplifier goes to 11. Ive had a lot of conversations about and it is you know, it is important i think to understand