Service providers such as spotlight and satellite radio. This is just over an hour welcome, everybody. I apologize for the lack of space. More people showed up and we were expecting. If you were expecting jayz will be o on the panel, i apologize. This is an Academy Briefing and we have been doing these things since about 1996, which is pretty remarkable. These are meant to be informative issues, discuss things on as we see them and we try to provide a good baseline understanding some of these key issues. Todays panel is in the era of streaming who is a bigger music mogul, jayz or congress, and in conjunction with the congressional hearing caucus and the cochairs on this and inside or senator john thune and senator Patrick Leahy and the house side is anna eshoo and a few weeks ago the congresswoman announced that the congressman from georgia would be the cochair of the house side of the caucus and we are thrilled to have him. Without any particular policy approach or advocacy is a brave
This is just over an hour welcome, everybody. I apologize for the lack of space. More people showed up and we were expecting. If you were expecting jayz will be o on the panel, i apologize. This is an Academy Briefing and we have been doing these things since about 1996, which is pretty remarkable. These are meant to be informative issues, discuss things on as we see them and we try to provide a good baseline understanding some of these key issues. Todays panel is in the era of streaming who is a bigger music mogul, jayz or congress, and in conjunction with the congressional hearing caucus and the cochairs on this and inside or senator john thune and senator Patrick Leahy and the house side is anna eshoo and a few weeks ago the congresswoman announced that the congressman from georgia would be the cochair of the house side of the caucus and we are thrilled to have him. Without any particular policy approach or advocacy is a brave thing to do and they want to have more information and e
[indiscernible] gavel. Rep. Nadler the judiciary. Ommittee will come to order without objects in the chair is authorized to the great recesses of the committee at any time, we welcome everyone to the hearing on oversight of the report in the investigation into russia interference in the 2016 president ial election. I will now recognize myself for a brief Opening Statement. Director mueller, thank you for being here. I want to say a few words about our themes today, responsibility, integrity, and accountability. Your career is a model of responsibility. You are a decorated marine officer, awarded a purple heart and a bronze star for valor in vietnam. You served in senior roles at the department of justice and the beaded aftermath of 9 11 as director of the fbi. Two years ago you return to Public Service to lead the investigation into russia interference in the 2016 elections. You conducted that investigation with remarkable integrity. 22 months you never commented in public about your w
[inaudible] reform of the United States house of representatives. Good morning. May it please the court [inaudible] private financial records, foremost, in many cases, have rules to name president. [inaudible] do you dispute that the House Authority . But it has the power to issue a subpoena, the house itself . Not the constitutional power. The house itself. Your argument sounded to me all about the delegations of the committee not being explicit. The house itself did not have you just said the house had to be explicit that it was giving to the committee. Right. Im sorry [inaudible] could have subpoena power. [inaudible] yeah. Im sorry. On your first nonconstitutional argument, but set aside, im taking, given your issues about within the legislative, but just to understand im trying to understand your statement and that is, yes, the house itself could issue the subpoena and would be over so the house has it and whether it gave it to the committee . Correct. [inaudible] whether the Comm
Platform. Some republicans on the Committee Also skeptical of facebook plans. The chairman of the committee saying he applauds facebook for trying to utilize their platform to serve underserved communities in the Digital Currency platform. The bottom line comes following a host of different hearings scheduled for this week. David marcus will testify before the House Financial Services committee tomorrow. Lets not forget Steven Mnuchin yesterday at the white house raising concerns the administration has with regards to the Digital Currency field. David before that we had chair powell from the fed raising concerns last week. ,f you were mr. Marcus listening to everything you are hearing from the senate, would you walk away having a better sense of what congress once from him . Kevin that is a great question. The short answer would be no. In talking with the Internet Community and the lobbying groups in washington, d. C. , as sympathizerschain who believe this is the future, they make tha