Good morning, everyone. Thank you for coming. Well get started with our hearing. I want to thank mr. Comey, james comey, the former director of the fbi for appearing today before the committee to talk with us about cross fire hurricane and anything else the committee would like to speak with him about. So give a little brief introduction of why were here and what were trying to accomplish. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is a tool thats been around for a very long time. For our Intelligence Community, the fbi to make sure that when Foreign Agents, terrorists or agents of a Foreign Government are in our country, they can be surveilled if theyre doing things that are threatening to our National Security. I think this legislation goes all the way back to the 70s. And its been used a lot. Its been used in terrorist cases when we suspect someone of being a terrorist under the foreign intelligence act. We have the Legal Authority to surveil those people. And you can get a warrant u
Harrington, the National Spokesperson for the Republican National committee. She is here to discuss campaign 2020. Liz, good morning. Guest good morning. Host we have to ask about this New York Times story that claims President Trump paid 750 in income tax, federal income tax in 2016 and 2017. What do you think about that story . Guest first of all, the president said a lot of it most of it is inaccurate. A couple of other things to point out, the New York Times, all these years later, it is nice to have them say no connection to russia after releasing tens of millions of our hardearned taxpayer dollars on this complete scam. More is coming out that we are learning what president obama and Vice President did to disrupt the incoming peaceful transition of power in 2016. More importantly, the American People care more about what is in their tax returns. T it shows that they paid where it shows that they paid less taxes under President Trump. They dont care about this issue. This is the 1
Spend that we meet with global newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter to 0. I am fairly ok look into History Today were looking at activists in iraq being in danger is simply protesting some headlines couper i which is why were looking at todays story how we look here only not till theres some high profile assassinations of activists to siena summer in france or according to the workers against terrorism was q who political reasons. Prominent female activists killed by unknown gunmen ambassador we got to youre going to hear more about in just a moment even a high profile terrorism expert has shami was shot dead in baghdad now according to government figures for the last few months from more than 560. 00 protesters including security personnel have been killed that is our story today i know if youre going to want to weigh in and you too can be part of the string. Such a panel today looking forward to introducing them and then they will introduce themselves to you hello jill s
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The dpa is finally being utilized. They got entrusted with such an important task. Frankly, it is a joke. Knowing the circumstances around , the options granted, the early leak of the announcement, there is potential here for unlawful insidertrading. I would go beyond that. In terms of potential violations. I think there is potential that the sec could find a range of violations. Regarding individuals involved in manipulation. We do not know. We go back to insidertrading enforcement. There is also a broad range of federal statutes that can apply. In the scope of the investigation, it is real. The questions that were posed by the internal investigation, they are very narrowly framed. Committee, there is still plenty to look at. There is the potential for the commission to find and recommended forstmann actions. Thank you. I appreciate that response. Can you discuss where the harm and causes shareholders Capital Markets and taxpayers . The core issue is credibility. We have to go back to