Injured several others. Senator graham was chairing a meeting of the crime and terrorism subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary committee on extremist content and russian disinformation online. Representatives from twitter, facebook, and google appeared as part of the Ongoing Investigation into russian interference in the last president ial election. The hearing lasted about three hours. And we are going to show you some of that now. Starting with Opening Statements from earlier today. Thank you all. The subcommittee will come to order. Heres sort of the order of battle. Ill make an opening statement, senator whitehouse, i think senator feinstein would like to make one, and if senator grassley come, he will certainly be allowed to do this. The title of this hearing is extremist content and russian disinformation online, working with tech to find solutions. Thats exactly what we want to do. So were here to try to find solutions. Let me describe, i think, the challenge. I doubt if i would
This week she warned the white house that former National Security adviser Michael Flynn had lied about his communications with russian officials and put at risk for blackmail. Miss gates served as acting attorney general in the opening days of the Trump Administration before she was fired to refusing the president S Immigration band. At a judiciary hearing monday she testified alongside director of National Intelligence james clapper. [inaudible conversation]. [inaudible conversation] just a gal. Thank you katie. Testing here. Here we come to order, thank you all for coming, heres the order of the day, a brief Opening Statement along with senator white house and then we will have senator grassley and feinstein follow some questioning and the seven minute rounds initially, we will try to put a second round of five minutes, both of those witnesses, thank you for coming. Will try to make this as short as possible and if you need a break, please let us know. So people,what are we doing an
Director was asking for Additional Resources to investigate russia was the same person that wrote the memo that led to his firing . Sen. Grassley it is my understanding that within a few hours of this interview, that somebody in the Justice Department cleared up that they were not asking for additional money. Ms. Werner you accept that explanation from the Justice Department despite the reporting to the contrary that comey was seeking additional money . Sen. Grassley i usually accept things until i find that people are misleading or its misinformation. Questionse lingering about the way the president about the way the president handled the situation and the firing of director comey . Sen. Grassley i would look at this more my relationship with the fbi generally and i would look at it particularly particularly with my relationship with comey. In my constitutional job of oversight, of having an opportunity to have a new fbi director. Because let us look at how he briefed us recently in s
Director was asking for Additional Resources to investigate russia was the same person that wrote the memo that led to his firing . Sen. Grassley it is my understanding that within a few hours of this interview, that somebody in the Justice Department cleared up that they were not asking for additional money. Ms. Werner you accept that explanation from the Justice Department despite the reporting to the contrary that comey was seeking additional money . Sen. Grassley i usually accept things until i find that people are misleading or its misinformation. Questionse lingering about the way the president about the way the president handled the situation and the firing of director comey . Sen. Grassley i would look at this more my relationship with the fbi generally and i would look at it particularly particularly with my relationship with comey. In my constitutional job of oversight, of having an opportunity to have a new fbi director. Because let us look at how he briefed us recently in s
Senator Lindsey Graham whether or not there is an investigation ongoing into the Donald Trump Campaign and those contacts that allegedly occurred with russian officials during the president ial election. Since they have not confirmed the existence of an investigation, they have not even confirmed with senators, so in a private meeting between graham and whitehouse on march 2nd, james comey would not tell these two senators whether or not there was an investigation ongoing, even though they sit on a judiciary subcommittee investigating the issue of russia. Comey according to Sheldon Whitehouse said he would confirm whether or not that investigation is occurring by this hearing that theyre having tomorrow in this Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee exploring russias meddling in the election. Eastern yoeuropean elections as
committee and the top democrat mark warner told me going into the briefing theres no evidence whatsoever even though he met with james comey last week. One other s