And Exchange Commission chairman jay clayton regarding the work and agenda of the s. E. C. I thank you for your willingness to appear before the committee today, mr. Clayton, your willingness to testify is essential to our oversight much the s. E. C. The mission of the s. E. C. Is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly and sufficient markets and facilitate capital formation. It plays a Critical Role in ensuring our nation has Capital Markets that the public can have confidence and trust in. It provides information to investors so as americans prepare for their futures, they may not only have a wide variety of financial opportunities, but they also have the information necessary to make informed investment decisions. Chairman clay torngs you came before this committee a year ago and assured us you would continue to take steps to ensure that the u. S. Capital markets remain the deepest, moshgt dynamic and liquid in the world. I commend you and the s. E. C. Staff for actions taken o
Members question the fcc chair about Digital Currency, shareholder protection and climate related financial disclosures. This is an hour and a half. Today we will receive testimony from security and Exchange Commission chairman regarding the wor they will testify hes going across the of the sec. I think if youre willingness to appear before the committee today. Mr. Clayton, youre willing to testify is essential to our mission at the sec, which is to maintain fair, orderly and efficient markets and facilitate capital formation. It plays a Critical Role and ensuring that our nation has Capital Markets so that the public can have confidence and trust in. It provides information to investors that that as americans prepare for the futures they may not only have a wide variety of financial opportunities, but they also have the information necessary to make informed Investment Decisions. Chairman clayton, you came before this committee a year ago with assures that you continue to take steps t
Across the of the sec. I think if youre willingness to appear before the committee today. Mr. Clayton, youre willing to testify is essential to our mission at the sec, which is to maintain fair, orderly and efficient markets and facilitate capital formation. It plays a Critical Role and ensuring that our nation has Capital Markets so that the public can have confidence and trust in. It provides information to investors that that as americans prepare for the futures they may not only have a wide variety of financial opportunities, but they also have the information necessary to make informed Investment Decisions. Chairman clayton, you came before this committee a year ago with assures that you continue to take steps to ensure that the u. S. Capital markets remained the deepest, most dynamic and liquid in the world, and actions worth mentioning include the secs final role package on regulation and best interest which strikes the appropriate balance of increased transparency at investors
Senator mark warner say now . Wi firing lin Margaret Hoover is made possible by. Welcome to firing line, senator mark warner. Thank you for having me. Youe the senior senator from virginia, the former governor of virginia, a former tech entrepreneur, and you are now the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence committee, rich is leading an Ongoing Investigation inan election interference in 2016. We have a lot to talk about this week and were going to get to everything. On of those things is impeachment. But, first, id like to focus on Election Security. And id like to, out of the gate, just asyou, are you worried about the russians or other foreign adversaries intervening inur elections in 2020 . Absolutely. L we know they w back. And the reason we know this is, if we look at what the russians our elections in 2016, what they did in the brexit vote in thu. K. , what they did in the french president ial elections add that all up in terms of the cost. Its less than the cost of one new f
Democrats call that witness tampering in real time. More from todays hearing. The president realtime is attacking you. What effect do you think that has on other witnesses willing to come forward and expose wrongdoing . Well, its very intimidating. Ousted ambassador to ukraine murray yovanovitch said everywhere she went turned bad. The democrats call it witness intimidation. s became during the testimony, President Trump remained defiant. Republicans have been treated very badly. The career diplomat before the house intelligent committee. She said state Department Colleagues and her are subject to a smear campaign. How could our system fail like this . How can foreign, corrupt interest manipulate the government . Ukraines president Volodymyr Zelensky , told him he no longer had confidence in her. This prompted an president crane to ask about investigation into joe biden. He argued removing her was his constitutional right. Also he made the point, she was not a firsthand witness. Have y