Public citizen talks about conflict of interest among Family Members of politicians. Later, National Journals joins us to discuss the politics of impeachment. Against President Trump. Host President Trump yesterday appeared to widen his appeal to Foreign Governments to investigate his main political rival. This time it was china. The morning and welcome to cspans washington journal for friday, october the fourth, 2019. We will start the program asking about the appropriateness of seeking foreign intervention or assistance. What is appropriate . Republicans, your line is 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. For independents, all others, that is 2027488002. If you are watching or listening outside the u. S. , that line, 2027488003. You can also use that line if you want to text us, 2027488003. Make sure you include your name and where you are texting from and on twitter we are cspanwj. Facebook, your thoughts, facebook. Com cspan. We will get to the president s comments, the story about ch
Today, its not just democracy integrity andlection but in the 2020 election. So we have a time horizon of 14 months. I think i can put it very well, what is the scenario, its sort of a butterfly balance on steroids. If we have a postelection and if we have a contested result, and even just a couple of counties, and there is a been a Disinformation Campaign that is exposed that may have skewed the results. But i worry about is i dont know how we quite survived the second election here in this country. A second president ial election that comes into serious question. We come at this from a slightly different angle. We are Free Speech Organization but we also see ourselves as guardians of open discourse and of truth. We are not digital specialists and we are not election specialists we are an organization of writers and journalists and editors and publishers and people who are invested in the quality of our discourse and her ability to get facts from falsehood. All of that, we see is very
Provisions including wiretap authority, Business Records authority and the lone wolf provision which were set to expand at the end of the year. This is about two hours, 10 minutes. Committee on the judiciary will come to order. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on oversight of the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. I will now recognize myself for an opening statement. The Judiciary Committee is holding todays hearing to carry out one of its most important tasks. To ensure that the tools used by our government to keep us safe are consistent with our values and with the freedoms guaranteed by the constitution. This committee has long exercised its responsibility to shape the Legal Framework under which intelligence and Law Enforcement agencies investigate threats and collect evidence of crimes. Although we conduct daytoday oversight of intelligence agencies, hearings like this to conduct a broad review of how our government exercises its legal authorities and whether that
We have an important guest with a limited timeframe, so we are going to get started. I am ellen weintraub, chair of the federal Election Commission and i am delighted to welcome you to digital disinformation and the threat to democracy, information integrity in the 2020 election. A symposium i am cosponsoring with pan america and the digital policy incubator. This information has become a newly potent threat in the digital era. It has weaponize dare most cherished freedoms, some discord and undermined democracies worldwide. In the west we saw russia deploy disinformation as one of its tools, when, in the words of the mueller report, the russian government interfered in the 2016 president ial election in sweeping and systematic fashion. Alarms are being sounded throughout americas intelligence community, in the halls of congress by the departments of Homeland Security and justice, and by many of the experts who have generously taken time to speak to you today. They worn these attacks ar
Provisions including wiretap authority, Business Records authority and the lone wolf provision which were set to expand at the end of the year. This is about two hours, 10 minutes. Committee on the judiciary will come to order. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on oversight of the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. I will now recognize myself for an opening statement. The Judiciary Committee is holding todays hearing to carry out one of its most important tasks. To ensure that the tools used by our government to keep us safe are consistent with our values and with the freedoms guaranteed by the constitution. This committee has long exercised its responsibility to shape the Legal Framework under which intelligence and Law Enforcement agencies investigate threats and collect evidence of crimes. Although we conduct daytoday oversight of intelligence agencies, hearings like this to conduct a broad review of how our government exercises its legal authorities and whether that