Good morning and welcome to the Cato Institute. My name is julian sanchez, im a senior fellow here and im grateful to everyone has come out bright and early to the auditorium at cato for our 2019 surveillance conference. Weve been doing this for some five years now. When we launched this in the aftermath of disclosures about both a fake election by former contractor snowden, the nsa itself was a fairly obscure agency unfan with most americans and as we kick off our 2019 conference, we find that now even intelligence oversight is itself very much in public headlines. We have an impeachment proceeding kicked off in significant part by reports from the from the Intelligence Communitys Inspector General. We have forth coming next week a breathlessly awaited report on allegations of misuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act during the 2016 president ial campaign. We have proceedings aired, going to be from the house Intelligence Committee. So even intelligence overseers now are at
Some of whom i havent seen in a year or two, it seems, but there is a little bit more to my background than what harvey said, and i want to recall it for some of the law students or younger attorneys here because its kind of integral to my life in Public Service. In 1982, im sure we have people who werent born then, i was a law clerk, and its a law clerk and you immediately have to start looking for your next job, which i was, and i had a background in finance and im a cpa, and i thought well, i would be a perfect commercial litigator, so i thought, and i was interviewing with the chicago law firms and to date myself further, the largest law firms then had about 230 partners in the chicago area to show you how things have changed, but i needed litigation experience, i thought and so i applied for the attorney generals honors program, and lo and behold they wanted a fouryear commitment. When youre 27 years old, four years seems like a lifetime and i very much run my hands over that deci
To know to stay safe. The white house fires back, President Trump and a his attorneys will not participate in the impeachment hearings this week. Weve got the latest from capitol hill as the first impeachment draft is reviewed and republicans ramp up their calls for adam schiff to testify under oath. Mornings with maria begins right now. The city never sleeps at night. Its time to begin, isnt it. I get a little bit ill admit im just the same as i was. Maria weve got a great show this morning. Joining the conversation, Dagen Mcdowell, pwc partner mitch rochell and James Freeman. Great to see everybody this morning. So here we are, hope everybody had a great thanksgiving. We are now in december, three weeks left, legislatively, for congress. Usmca expected to come to the floor in the next two weeks, youve got china, you had a great op ed this weekend. Thanks. Maria on making mexico pay for doing a deal with trump. Its kind of amazing. People have been living in a cave for the last year.
Maybe back but probably ahead, im the Legal Affairs correspondent for National Public radio. If you dont know who these people are in detail, look it up. [laughter] we have to five minutes and were big talkers. This is the former he acted for a long time. Emily chief Legal Correspondent for cbs news and the solicitor general for the United States for four years. And before that, the deputy solicitor general so he was there a long time in both of these guys are often and they went a lot and they lose occasionally. But theyre both very good advocates and im going to start by talking about news. And theres two cases up for the Supreme Court pending, waiting for justice to say what you want to do with them. One is from the d. C. Circuit in the d. C. Circuit ruled when Congress Asked for information in this case President Trumps Accounting Firm related to whether or not they wanted to pass legislation that would require the disclosure of a president taxes. The d. C. Circuit said yes you hav
The 2015 usa freedom act banned bulk collection of private records. The Senate Judiciary committee recently held a hearing on reauthorizing the legislation. Among the witnesses were officials from the fbi, the Justice Department and the nsa. This is two hours. 2015. We have two panels, basically, four parts of the act. I want the panel to tell us the good, the bad and the ugly why we need these four people, why we need to reauthorize the program n your view, what happens if we dont. Would you accept any changes . What would those changes be. And other than recite your testimony, im very interested in hearing from the National Security perspective how the usa freedom act of 2015 is still relevant in 2019 and beyond and the tools available, how theyre relevant to the fight were still in. I would end with this. Baghdadi is dead but the cause lives. The effort to penetrate our country is ongoing every day. Terrorists groups with a lot of different names are trying to come here to do us har