Work of institutions that to oversee the secret you seven telogens collection ranging from the fisa court to the inspectors general to the Government Accountability office to the Intelligence Committee of congress and one of the newer and in many ways most publicly useful entities overseeing the Intelligence Community is the privacy and Civil Liberties has produced ah number of valuable reports that have given us unique insight into some of the programs that were discussed earlier, like section 215, the authority used for the phone records collection. Will be aure fascinating discussion, i will pass off to our accomplished. Oderator you, julian, and thank you all for being here and to those watching online. It is an honor and a pleasure to be a part of the conversation with the members. We have three of the five members with us today. Two had conflicts and were not able to attend. Am going to basically do something nontraditional and allow them to introduce themselves. Ive seen this do
The speaker pro tempore the yeas are 227 and the nays are 189. The previous question is ordered. The question is on adoption of the resolution. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes have it. Mr. Burgess i won that on a voice vote. I request the yeas and nays. The speaker pro tempore yeas and nays are requested. Those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. A sufficient number having arisen, yeas and nays are ordered. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a fiveminute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 222, and the nays are 190. Adopted. Ution is the motion ion, heard. On is pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the Unfinished Bu
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] we recessed about to hear from mr. Castor, you are recognized for 45 minutes. Good afternoon chairman and Ranking Member collins, members of the committee and the staff, thank you again for having meto back. And giving me the opportunity to testify about the evidence gathered during the impeachment inquiry. At the outset let me say the evidence does not support the allegations that my democrat colleagues have made. I dont believe the evidence leads to the inclusion they suggest. I am hopeful that some important perspective and context to the facts under discussion today. The chief obligation as a Democrat Impeachment inquiry is trying to assess over the last 76 days is this, whether President Trump abuse the power da his office through quid pro quo, bribery, extortion or whatever by withholding a meeting or Security Assistance as a way of pressuring president zelensky to pressure the
You very much mister chairman that the Ranking Member Mister Collins relative to the Telephone Company subpoenas to include certain information in the majority report from the Intelligence Community. There are two issues involved in one is not involved in word it is fully authorized under the law and procedures but where i do have a problem is ace fact that somebody made a decision to attach the metadata to the subpoena of phone numbers of journalists and members of congress that is the beginning of the absolutely outrageous with the freedom act of 2013. Had chairman schiff decided to man up rather than hiding behind Mister Goldman and his team of investigators we couldve gotten to the bottom of this to make sure that this never happens again. I do not want to see members of congress with their subpoena power without any type of cause and then to go the next step to publish the results in a report that is an abuse of power here we see a clear abuse of power on the part of the people th
Good friday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. I am Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt at post nine of the new york stock exchange. Morgan brennan is in simi valley at the Reagan National library we start with jobs numbers, sending stocks surging, near session highs, up 303 on the dow, flirting with 1 gains in the session. Joining us to morning, mike santoli covering the up swing in the best of both worlds. The market was craving a good number, good news is good news no implications for the fed trying to restrain things. It is interesting, you look at the week, we did a v in psychology and the stock market, a week ago yesterday hit the alltime high, 3150 in the s p 500. We ran into ism numbers that challenged the rally u. S. Growth close to 2 . Weaver an overbought market, little shakeout. Now it seems like numbers since then restored that premise that things are Getting Better or never got that bad as we thought late summer. The question now, we return to the highs. Still have valuation r