Only those recognized to speak will be allowed to. And those who are not in compliance will be removed from the committee room. I would like to welcome our first panel today. The director of the National Intelligence James Clapper Deputy Attorney james Cole National security or Keith Alexander the Deputy Director of the nsa chris ingalls. Following the first panel we will move immediately into the second panel of nongovernment experts who are very knowledgeable on fisa and privacy issues. Todays hearing will provide an open forum to discuss amendments to the surveillance act and possible changes to the way fisa applications are handled at the department of justice and the nsa. I hope that all of our witnesses will give clear answers about how the proposal is under consideration in congress would affect the nsas ability to stop terrorist attacks before they occur and encourage members to answer questions about fisa amendments and nsa programs. Today im going to submit my statement for t
This allows them to go ahead and believe they are under danger and take a life. Thank you for letting me. Yeah. I would like to make a couple comments. One is if you actually look at the data, look at the tampa bay tribune data that,ing the for the factors in the cases, you find that minorities both blacks and hispanics are much more successful in raising stand your ground defenses than whites are. Theres another point that needs to be made, and that is the ambiguity. Its one type of ambiguity was discussed, but theres the ambiguity having to face the person who is agenting in selfdefense. Whats the appropriate amount to retreat when they have to defend themselves, and the issue here might be who do we want to make, have to make deal with that ambiguity. When somebodys facing very quick decisions that they have to make in terms of life and death. Do we want to make them bear the burden to fry to figure out if at that time how far they are going to retreat, and then make them realize th
A report on military Sexual Assault. Senators john mccain and as a grim talk about the obama administrations response to the benghazi this libyan attacks and later the house hearing on the humanitarian crisis in the Central African republic. On the next washington journal the head of the center for politics of the university of virginia talks about political tv ads. He wrote a recent article in political about the more than two and a half billion dollars expected to be spent on ads this year. We will talk about the effectiveness of sanctions as a Foreign Policy tool. So jennifer de pauley with Civic Enterprises take your questions about u. S. Highschool regelation rates. Washington journal is live on cspan every day at 7 00 a. M. Eastern peaking join the conversation at facebook and twitter. Almost 5,000 students and did this years cspan student can video competition on the most important Issue Congress should consider in 2014. We talked to the top five winners about the documentarys.
Officials testify on National Security agency Surveillance Programs followed by a hearing onthe washington shooting the shooting at the Washington Naval yard. Next, the house intelligence onmittee hearing testimony the National Security Agency Intelligence programs in the u. S. And abroad. Witnesses included National Intelligence Agency Director James Clapper and Homeland Security department officials. This hearing is twoandahalf hours. I remind all guests that i will only accept civil the koran and only those recognized to speak will be allowed to speak andhe core him decorum only those recognized to speak will be allowed to speak. I would like to recognize our first panel today. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper James Clapper, Deputy Attorney the deputyes cole, director of the nsa, chris inglis. We will move immediately into the second panel of non governmental experts knowledgeable on fisa issues. We will discuss possible changes to the way fisa applications are handle
Five to ten times bigger than the weapon it dropped on hiroshima. Just think about that for a moment. And now the threats that they are getting ready to launch another muscle, so we have lots on this tonight, and resume supporters speaking out in pyongyang. Watch this. We will smash and he kind of sanctions, and the great power of selfdevelopment, if the u. S. Imperialists try to play around with us, we will wipe them out. Martha it here now on how the white house is responding to all of this. Boy, busy weekend. No time to relax on this one. You think about how much he is facing from the democrats, day one, not up to the job of commander in chief, yet over the last 24 to 48 hours, from yesterday, to u. S. Investor nikki haley today, they have noted that the war has seen a Trump Administration taking control of this crisis. After he met them at the white house on sunday. Tweeting specifically about putting it on china, the president tweeting among other things. North korea is a rogue na