Analysis and as we refer to as ona. Left the committee, no choice but to issue a subpoena on tuesday for his appearance at this hearing today. The department has persistently slow walked security clearance requests from counsel for their clients mr. Brian murphy, a lawful whistleblower and the former acting head of ina and the element within dhs in proceedings before this committee. The committee repeatedly offered to dhs that it would withdraw the subpoena for mr. Maurers appearance if the department authorized the attorney clearances in time for mr. Murphys often rescheduled deposition. Unfortunately dhs refused to do so. Therefore, were Going Forward today with his testimony. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. On august 3rd, amid public reporting of american citizens being scratched off the streets of portland by Law Enforcement officials from the department of Homeland Security, this committee launched an investigation into serious allegations that dhss intelligence a
In your house. Yes, my children have seen every one of them. Right. Were a little different. Thats okay. You have to wait until youre 13 to see those films. I saw return of the jedi in the theater when i was 8 years old. My dad spent half of it covering my eyes because it was kind of too much for me at that tender age. But then i see the San Francisco symphony is going to be playing the score to the star wars film. Thatll make you want to go see the films. Oh no. The only reason i would take them is because San Francisco symphony, such a majestic way to see star wars. What is it about the movies you think is objectional for someone so young . You know, i think there will be some violence. Think about the violence and all the other movies. They dont see those either. There is no real blood in star wars, you know what i mean . You can see the laser, all of that. Yes, the return of the jedi. I get there is a culture, i like that, but seeing them at the symphony might be a nice first entre
So im with the American Consumer institute. Its a pleasure to be here today and thank you all for coming. Of importance is on thursday the federal Communications Commission holds one of its December Open meeting and deals with one of several very important topics and the issue today is the order to restore the Internet Freedom which includes a number of important provisions, one is classifying Broadband Access services as an Information Service as it was once before, removing the ambiguous internet conduct standard and the bright line rules, reestablishing the private mobile Service Classification for mobile broadband and promoting Internet Service provider transparency among other things and the transparency issue is very important to us because it helps give consumers better information to make better decisions. But theres a lot of noise out there, confusion, misinformation on what will mean for consumers and today we have a panel of experts that will address the issues but first id
A tax cut now expected next week as the dow hit a new intraday high earlier but then closed down 76 points, as senator marco rubio now says he will vote against the deal unless it includes a larger tax break for children. Tonight, how that tax break creates big payout from uncle sam for people who never pay in. And of course, the course against Robert Mueller grows gop leaders including Senate Judiciary chair Chuck Grassley now demanding the Justice Department get real with more information about alleged anti trump proHillary Clinton bias in the fbi. Weve got exclusive analysis from former fbi director Jim Kallstrom tonight plus a bomb threat clears the offices of the chief internet regulator in d. C. Which voted on new Game Changing rules affecting how you watch and shop online. It was a false alarm but well bring you more on that vote and speaking of streaming, a mega deal. Disney buying a big chunk of 21st century fox for 52. 4 billion. Again that is a landmark deal that will redraw
Not one inch on the serious bipartisan negotiations that will take to solve issues such as immigration and Border Security, healthcare, defense spending, and many other matters , so im glad we can finally get back to work here. Admit that political gainsman ship the past three days have highlighted many of my colleagues commitment to honest and bipartisan work. Id like to particularly thank senator graham, senator collins, senator flake and several democratics who worked tireless ly to bring this impasse to a conclusion. Soon federal operations will be getting back to normal for the American People. We all know what comes next, the challenging negotiations on a host of serious issues. The weeks ahead will require the best for all of us. I hope we can remember some lessons from this regrettable incident. Hostagetaking do not work and they make bipartisan progress harder, not easier to achievement senators must focus on the common good of the American People, not the warped priorities, t