The hearing will come to order we will look at and linkedin but hopefully we can resolve that at some point sebecause former diversification board discussed the declassification policy and in particular to protect their classified material and safely they can get their moment in the sun. I prepared to defer my Opening Statement because there is a chair hearing at 330 and also has to go in between so is it okay if i give my time so he can open with comments that way he can share on chair his hearing at 3 30 p. M. And i reserve a special favor do you want to see your comments and not miss your hearing . To make it is a privilege to testify to be in front of this committee and i recognized it is Important Role to secure the safety of our citizens and i appreciate that consideration you and senator warner gave in the timing. Members of the committee they give her the opportunity to advocate for declassification reform and for having an open setting as you may be aware i am a sponsor along
It could be open to a ceasefire as fighting rages in the disputed are going to occur about. Crowns in india defy a ban on protesters anger grows over the gang rape murder. So that the white house says the donald trump is in isolation and is experiencing mild coded 1900 officials are now rushing to find those the president has come in close contact with in the past few days the 1st lady and a senior aide have also tested positive a month out from election day theres new uncertainty over the campaign. The president does have miles sent to him and as as we look to try to. Make sure that not only his health and safety and welfare is good we continue to look at that for all of the American People he he continues to be not only in good spirits but very energetic weve talked a number of times this morning where the 1st lady has also has also mauled coronavirus symptoms however she said in a tweet that shes feeling good and thank people for their concern and lets cross now to alan fischer whos
In tehran, the American Embassy is in the hands of several hundred iranian students. 52 americans were being held hostage in iran, during an Election Year and there was no end in sight. It must be made clear that the failure to the release the hostages will involve increasingly heavy cost to iran and to its interests. In 1980, jimmy carter and his staff believed that if they could show progress in freeing the hostages that would be enough, that would take him over. Larry is director on of the university of Virginia Center for politics. What they did not count on, is that the promises from the cy before the tuesdays election. So, basically americans were told right before they went to the polls, that it was either hopeless or they had better try somebody new who would try new things to get the hostages back. So that was an october surprise that jimmy carter thought was going to help him, but it reversed. It helped reagan instead. 1980, might have been when the term october surprise was
Break. We will see you at 12 45. Senator holly will be next. [inaudible conversations] thank you. Appreciate the break. Mr. Comey, are you with us . Yes sir. Thank you very much. Was that a sufficient rate for you, are you okay . Yes, thank you. Senator holly. Thank you mr. Chairman. Weve heard a number of things this morning and we heard you say a number of times that the oig found problems in the fisa applications across the board, but of course it was only this fisa application, these involving carter page that you signed off on that drew an unprecedented review from the pfizer court, which im sure you remember. Let me quote from that fisa court order the frequency and seriousness of these errors in the case that in a sensitive nature had an unusually high level of review in both the doj and the federal bureau of investigation have called into question the reliability of the information proffered in other fbi applications. Do you remember that order from the court . It came after i
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