The steel dossier and foreign interference in u. S. Elections. This is three hours and 45 minutes. Thank you for coming and we will get started with of the the hearing. I want to thank mr. James comey, the former director of the fbi, for appearing today before the committee to talk with us about crossfire hurricane and anything else the committee would like to speak with him about. So, to give a little brief introduction of why we are here and what we are trying to accomplish, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act s a tool that has been around for a very long time for our Intelligence Community, the fbi, to make sure when Foreign Agents, terrorists or agents of a Foreign Government are in our country, they can be surveilled if they are doing things that are threatening to the National Security. I think this legislation goes all the way back t to the 70s, iand its been used a lot. Its been used in tariff cases when wee suspect someone of beig a terrorist under the Foreign Intelligen
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
His selection will be a woman and that there is ample time for the senate to confirm his nominee before the election. Im more than hopeful. I think its going to happen. We have great people. We havent made the final determination, i havent, but i will be soon. But we have fantastic, very talented, very brilliant people, and well make a decision by saturday. Im going to announce it on saturday, and i think everybodys going to be very happy. We have a lot of time. We have nothing but time. Especially since we have the support, you know, we have senatorial support. People have come out, and i guess we have all the votes were going to need, and theyre going to be very happy with the candidate. They know most of the candidates anyway. I think they know many all of the candidates. And we have great support, great support from the people also. Lou as President Trump and Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell move the president s nominee forward in this confirmation process, the radical dems h
His selection will be a woman and that there is ample time for the senate to confirm his nominee before the election. Im more than hopeful. I think its going to happen. We have great people. We havent made the final determination, i havent, but i will be soon. But we have fantastic, very talented, very brilliant people, and well make a decision by saturday. Im going to announce it on saturday, and i think everybodys going to be very happy. We have a lot of time. We have nothing but time. Especially since we have the support, you know, we have senatorial support. People have come out, and i guess we have all the votes were going to need, and theyre going to be very happy with the candidate. They know most of the candidates anyway. I think they know many all of the candidates. And we have great support, great support from the people also. Lou as President Trump and Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell move the president s nominee forward in this confirmation process, the radical dems h
A judge throws the book at alleged rioters in lancaster, pennsylvania. Three protesters in pittsburgh hit with charges for harassing diners at a restaurant. Retired nypd Police Officer John Cummings is with us tonight. He sick and tired of the violence. He is challenging alexandria ocasiocortez for her house seat. Also with us, house judiciary Ranking Member jim jordan on the vote by Senate Homeland security tomorrow to subpoena 41 former Obama Administration officials to testify about their role in the fbis botched trumprussia probe and the unmasking of trump team members. Weve got the names of who they want to subpoena and who they want to testify. Also with us former independent counsel ken starr joins us as President Trump now demanding that, quote, action must be taken against prosecutors and team members of the Robert Mueller trump russia team after they were found to have wiped clean dozens of government phones used during the russia investigation. The debate, what were they cov