News reports about the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election. The hearing is twoandahalf hours. I call this hearing to order. I would like to thank our witnesses today, director of National Intelligence dan coats, welcome back to your family here in the United States senate. Department of Justice Deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. Director of National Security rogers, andral mike acting director of the federal bureau of investigation, andrew mccabe, welcome. I appreciate you coming to discuss one of our most critical and publicly debated foreign intelligence tools. Title vii of the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act, commonly known as fisa, is set to expire on december 31, 2017. Title vii includes several crucial foreign intelligence collection tools, including one known primarily as section 702. Section 702 provides the capability to target foreigners who are located outside the United States, but whose Foreign Communications happen to be routed to and a
Unfolds daily. In 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Week, the Senate Intelligence committee considered reauthorization of the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act, which is set to expire at the end of the year. Those testifying were Deputy Attorney general rod rosenstein, director andrew mccabe, National Intelligence director dan coats, and nsa director admiral michael rodgers. Lawmakers also asked about the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 president ial election and private conversations between the witnesses and President Trump. This is just over two an half hours. Afterwards, we plan to take your calls on this hearing and others like it this week that focused on the rush investigation. Id like to call this hearing to order. I call this hearing to order. O thank our witnesses today, director of National Intelligence, dan coats, dan welcome back to your
Good afternoon the commission will control to order and the secretary will call the roll. Commissioner chow. Present. Commissioner loyce. Present. Commissioner sanchez. Present. Commissioner pating. Present. Approval of the minutes of january 3rd, 2017. The minutes are before you for approval. I heard a motion for approval. Is there a second, please . Second. Are there any corrections . I would like to make one correction, if i could . First i would in the page 5, after the formal report of the director, then i would have a space in between for after the item on the faces for the future, and as you do, you have a paragraph, but it looks like it belongs to the previous topic and i think i might put in there a topic called the tom waddell incident. Or something . Yes. I see, commissioner. I can add a line, too, so it breaks up the space. If you could do that . Then under the last page, page 8, i think the intent that commissioner singer was reporting on item 11, which was the sf general
First i would in the page 5, after the formal report of the director, then i would have a space in between for after the item on the faces for the future, and as you do, you have a paragraph, but it looks like it belongs to the previous topic and i think i might put in there a topic called the tom waddell incident. Or something . Yes. I see, commissioner. I can add a line, too, so it breaks up the space. If you could do that . Then under the last page, page 8, i think the intent that commissioner singer was reporting on item 11, which was the sf general joint Conference Committee report was that they deferred the medical staff report action items, because it was felt there should be a physician to review the medically oriented rather than myself being specifically mentioned there. Oh, sure, im happy to make that change. The issue there being that there were medicallyoriented issues, but no physicians at that time on the j cc from the commission. So i think that would be clearer. Those
First i would in the page 5, after the formal report of the director, then i would have a space in between for after the item on the faces for the future, and as you do, you have a paragraph, but it looks like it belongs to the previous topic and i think i might put in there a topic called the tom waddell incident. Or something . Yes. I see, commissioner. I can add a line, too, so it breaks up the space. If you could do that . Then under the last page, page 8, i think the intent that commissioner singer was reporting on item 11, which was the sf general joint Conference Committee report was that they deferred the medical staff report action items, because it was felt there should be a physician to review the medically oriented rather than myself being specifically mentioned there. Oh, sure, im happy to make that change. The issue there being that there were medicallyoriented issues, but no physicians at that time on the j cc from the commission. So i think that would be clearer. Those