Victor oquendo. We continue to follow the big breaking news. South Florida Community struggling to come to grips with a School Shooting that claimed 17 lives. A gunman opening fire with an Assault Rifle sending panicked students running for cover. Police say the suspect is a former student who was expelled who was arrested without putting up a fight. The white house says President Trump spoke to the florida governor, rick scott, and offered federal assistance in the aftermath of that. And the president sent out a tweet to the victims. No child, teacher or anyone else should feel unsafe in an american school. And former republican president ial candidate was scheduled to make an announcement about his potential run for the u. S. Senate but its on hold in the wake of the florida School Shooting. Last night, he sent out a tweet, as a father and grandfather his heart aches for what he calls a senseless act of violence. Shots fired at the National Security agency headquarters. Police say a
Call this hearing to order. Director comey, i appreciate your willingness to appear before the committee today. And more importantly for thank you for your dedicated service and leadership to the federal bureau of investigation. Your appearance today speaks to the trust we have built over the years, and im looking forward to a very open and candid discussion today. Id like to remind my colleagues, that we will reconvene in closed session at 1 00 p. M. Today. And i ask that you reserve for that venue any questions that might get into classified information. The director has been very gracious with his time, but the vice chairman and i have worked out a very specific timeline for his commitment to be on the hill. Well do everything we can to meet that agreement. The Senate Select committee on intelligence exists to certify for the other 85 members of the United States senate and the American People that the Intelligence Community is operating lawfully and has the necessary authorities an
Franklin d. Roosevelt president ial library and museum in hyde park, new york, sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan. This was the scene thursday as jameseff comey arrived and testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee Investigating russian interference in the 2016 elections. He is being greeted by richard burr and vice chair, mark warner. This hearing is about two hours and 41 minutes. Calling this hearing to order. Director comey i appreciate your willingness to appear before the committee today. Director comey, i appreciate your willingness to appear before the committee today. And more importantly for thank you for your dedicated service and leadership to the federal bureau of investigation. Your appearance today speaks to the trust we have built over the years, and im looking forward to a very open and candid discussion today. Id like to remind my colleagues, that we will reconvene in closed session at 1 00 p. M. Today. And i ask that you reserve for that venue any questio
Franklin d. Roosevelt president ial library and museum in hyde park, new york, sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan. This was the scene thursday as jameseff comey arrived and testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee Investigating russian interference in the 2016 elections. He is being greeted by richard burr and vice chair, mark warner. This hearing is about two hours and 41 minutes. Calling this hearing to order. Director comey i appreciate your willingness to appear before the committee today. Director comey, i appreciate your willingness to appear before the committee today. And more importantly for thank you for your dedicated service and leadership to the federal bureau of investigation. Your appearance today speaks to the trust we have built over the years, and im looking forward to a very open and candid discussion today. Id like to remind my colleagues, that we will reconvene in closed session at 1 00 p. M. Today. And i ask that you reserve for that venue any questio
Senator cotton. Mr. Comey you encouraged the president to release the tapes, did you encourage the department of justice of your friend at columbia or mr. Mueller to release. Sure. You said you did not record your conversations with president obama or president bush in memos. Did you do so with attorney general sessions or any other member of d. O. J. Or mr. Trump . No. Did you report with any uh other Obama Department of justice. Not that i recall. In your statement for the record you cite nine private conversations with the president , three meetings and two phone calls, four phone calls that are not discussed in your statement for the record. What happened in those phone calls . The president called me, i believe, shortly before he was inaugurated as a followup to our conversation, private conversation on january 6. He just wanted the to reiterate his rejection of the allegation and talk about hed thought about it more, and why he thought it wasnt true, the verified unverified and s