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
Strong bipartisan congressional support for ukraine, senator johnson cautioned president zelensky that President Trump has a negative view of ukraine and t that president zelensky would have a difficult time overcoming it. Senator johnson further explained he had been shocked by President Trumps negative reaction during an Oval Office Meeting on may 23rd. On september 8th ambassador taylor told me, now theyre insisting zelensky commit to the investigation in an interview with cnn, which i took to refer to the three amigos. I was shocked their request was so specific and concrete. While we advise our ukrainian counterparts to follow the rule of law in investigating corruption allegations, thfis ws a demand that president zelensky commit on a cable news channel to an investigation of President Trumps rival. The hold was finally lifted after significant press coverage and expressions of concern about the withholding of Security Assistance. Although we knew the hold was lifted we were stil
Been. As well as others both in president bush and as administration as well as in others lenski administration has been a good partner to the United States as i think i told you before hes a very practical man and looking for partners and getting the job done im shocked that social media would be the site of negative comments on. The. You certainly can understand that. The president aware of minister of archives you know statements aware of what mr le shankar was up to with ambassador charlie was our view. And these other elements that weve discussed that there certainly forms a reasonable basis to wonder whether there are influential. You know elements of the ukrainian establishment that were out to get the president. I you know again i mean i cant speak for what President Trump thought or what others thought i would just say that those elements that youve are cited dont seem to me to be the ukrainian you know kind of a plan or a plot of the Ukrainian Government to work against. Pres
Are joined by Bill Mccollum, former congressman from florida. Joining us this morning to talk about the impeachment effort in the house, and a former member who has an intimate knowledge of the clear whether the u. S. Supreme Court Whenever finder was due process required here what ever find there was due process, again, because the constitution gives us power, sending all of it to congress. ,n the other hand, it is silent and inherently in American History, due process has been accorded. I think that is what this process is right about right now. The president rightfully claiming that he is not being given the same kind of opportunities that were given to president clinton, or, in the rightsaying, this is not i wouldve had no opportunity to present and crossexamine. It is clear that there is discretion, and he might get it under the rule that was passed last week on the floor. It is not mandated or directed. Did president clinton testify . Caller there were people that of and he had a
Operations budget for the state department and the u. S. Agency for International Development. Committee members asked about the high number of personnel vacancies within the department and hiring from a diverse pool of candidates. This is about an hour and a half. The subcommittee will come to order. We meet today to discuss the state department and u. S. I. D. Fy 2020 operations budget. Without objection, all members may have five days to submit statements, questions, extraneous materials for the record, subject to the length limitations in the rules. Ill now make my opening statement, and then turn it over to the Ranking Member for his opening statement. Ive noticed that the republicans are a little bit faster getting over here after votes. I want to thank the Ranking Member mr. Zeldin members of the subcommittee and our witnesses for joining us for todays hearing for the fiscal year 2020 operations budget, also want to thank the witnesses for being accommodating knowing that our vo