That was the only person i could think of. Prior to working for the yurt council worked for Ranking Member nunes, is that right . I only found that out after the fact. I wondered why i was being asked about him, so i looked it up. You cautioned us on dangers that members of this committee pedaling any Conspiracy Theories that could benefit russia, i want to ask if you heard the nameless parness who was questioning Rudy Giuliani about the Conspiracy Theories. Are you aware he was indicted october 10 for making foreign contributions to republicans in u. S. Elections . I am aware of the reports, yes. Are you aware of yesterdays daily beast story reporting the indicted Ukranian Parn as is working with nunes on his overseas investigations . I am not aware of that. I ask unanimous consent to put in the daily beast story from yesterday. First two paragraphs reading lev parnas, indicted associate, helped arrange calls. Nunes aid derek harvey participated in meetings which were arranged to help
trump for a second, if the congress allows a president of the united states now or later to ask a foreign government, head of state, to investigate a political rival, what precedent does that set for american diplomacy, safety of americans overseas, and for the future of our country? that s a very bad precedent. very bad precedent and going forward, if that were ever the case, i would raise objections. thank you both. i yield back. mr. ratcliffe. thank you, chair. want to return the favor, recognize, yield to my colleague, congressman conaway. thank you, mr. chairman. dr. hill, i don t think there s a lot of questions one of putin s primary objectives in the united states is to foe meant unrest with the nation to cause us to have lost confidence in the elections, results of elections, those kinds of
gone on for more than a year and i challenge the democrats, since donald trump became president saying this collusion but they have no evidence of anything and after all of these gyrations they still don t have anything, there is no evidence out there to point to so-called collusion. i want to read something from congressman conaway who is overseeing this investigation and get reaction from you. i m disappointed with the overzealous rejections by the intelligence county, my team and i will challenge the unnecessary rejections with the hopes of releasing more of the report in the upcoming months. he was very disappointed he promised the american people something much more transparent than what they were able to issue today. i saw the report and there is a tremendous number of rejections all over the place. i would like to know more about
about this, some of them were a little more, you know, energetic in their responses than others. but director of national intelligence dan coats said, this is i want to raise an alarm here that we have been attacked. this is a really serious problem. and everyone acknowledged that nothing has been done about it. so it is on the congress to come up with laws or at least have the conversation with the public about the active measures and what they re doing to mitigate the threat. frankly they re not doing anything. you re right. they should focus on that, but you know what they re focusing on? a stupid narrative that somehow the trump campaign was colluding with the russians. paris, first of all you can be an unwitting colluder. basically congressman conaway admitted there were inappropriate meetings and it s source of the bumbling theory they did some things wrong. it is unwitting collusion. when someone offers you oppo and it s someone connected to the russian government and you
the conversation with the public about the active measures and what they re doing to mitigate the threat. frankly they re not doing anything. you re right. they should focus on that, but you know what they re focusing on? a stupid narrative that somehow the trump campaign was colluding with the russians. paris, first of all you can be an unwitting colluder. basically congressman conaway admitted there were inappropriate meetings and it s source of the bumbling theory they did some things wrong. it is unwitting collusion. when someone offers you oppo and it s someone connected to the russian government and you say, that s awesome. let s set up the meeting. even if you don t mean to break the law or do anything wrong, you re an unwitting colluder. that sounds like witting to me. and roger stone predicted the release of john podesta he did not know. he predicted he did not. that s actually roger stone that s not a fact.