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
Washington Ken Cuccinelli hes the acting number 2 at the department of Homeland Security which caused uproar after reports of its agents used Excessive Force during recent protests in Portland Oregon can these departments keep the peace in critical period. Welcome to conflict zone 3 weeks to polling day in the u. S. Can have faith in their electoral system yeah absolutely this is the most well protected election weve ever had and at the federal level the federal government has different responsibilities than the states we focus on Cyber Protection and dealing with nation states and people attacking the whole system weve got better service. And weve ever had before on the system and unlike 4 years ago we have great communication with all 50 states and the district of columbia about what were seeing in the threats that exist that didnt happen 4 years ago so all of us gas deliveries we have all of our states participating in our surveillance effort unlike only about a 3rd of them 4 years
Protests in Portland Oregon can these departments keep the peace in this critical period. Welcome to conflict zone 3 weeks to polling day in the u. S. Can that americans have faith in their electoral system yeah absolutely this is the most well protected election weve ever had and at the federal level the federal government has different responsibilities than the states we focus on Cyber Protection and dealing with nation states and people attacking the whole system weve got better surveillance and weve ever had before on the system and unlike 4 years ago we have great communication with all 50 states and the district of columbia. About what were seeing in the threats that exist that didnt happen 4 years ago so why does gas deliveries we have all of our states participating in our surveillance effort unlike only about a 3rd of them 4 years ago so all the scare stories about massive vote by mail fraud are simply untrue is that right now let me be careful i said the federal government fo
Like boycotts the senate vote, government shutco down. Impeachment. And more. Leading to this simple question, instead of tearing up the system because you are not getting your way, is this really about important of winning elections with policy that voters want. Attorney general william barr with a big announcement, thousands of federal arrests in 9 states as the Trump Administration moves to help cities and states stop violence now slamming u. S. Cities. This is operationall legend. Tonight, formerun acting attorny general Matthew Whitaker will break it down. With us republican doug collins, as washington braces for Senate Republican report, their probe to what could out thisis week on biden alleged conflict of interest allegation. And Peter Navarro, telling President Trump today, hold china accountable for covid19. Beijing firing back, accusing the president of quote, lies. Also with us, retired i. C. E. Acting director thomas homan on a major bust. Well tell you what they were doin
Borelli, congressman brian babin on the big headlines of the day. The latest push by house lawmakers to break you will big silicon tech giants over their monopoly power. Conservatives say social Media Censorship of conservatives is building steam. It is getting worse. We have more of bidens gaffs, floppers, flipflops. President obama is saying a flipflop. You wont believe what president obama said, it has to do with a big new democrat push for the selection. This new bombshell, dni John Ratcliffe declassifies more government documents, handwritten notes by former cia director john brennan that top u. S. Intelligence officials were worried about russian misinformation in Hillary Clintons plan to that they personally warned president barack obama about it, and susan rice and former dni james clapper. This is about hillarys alleged plan accusing trump of working with russia to hack into democrat emails in order to distract from her own private email server scandal. The Mueller Probe found