On cspan. On cspan, we are live at the Heart Senate Office Building for a hearing this morning that will feature the acting at ei director, andrew mccabe, mike pompeo, director of National Intelligence dan coats, looking at intelligence threats. Beenr director comey had scheduled to testify this morning before his firing the other day by President Trump. Expecting a lot of questions at the hearing this morning about that issue, and more. Live coverage this morning on cspan. Senator richard burr, the chair of the committee, subpoena Michael Flynn for documents related to the intelligence Intelligence Committee us investigation. This is their worldwide threats hearing, getting underway shortly here on cspan. Sen. Burr i would like to call the hearing to order. I would like to welcome our witnesses today. The director of National Intelligence, dan coats. Good to see our former colleague. Director of the Central Intelligence agency, mike pompeo. Director of defense intelligence, vince stew
For peace. It has become political. Were the mothers bearing the children that are dying in the streets. This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Reporting tonight from the Democratic National convention in philadelphia. Pelley and breaking news, history is just minutes away. The roll call of the states is continuing, and when it is over, Hillary Clinton will be the democratic candidate for president of the United States. A milestone for america, the first woman to win a major Party Nomination nearly a century after women first won the right to vote. Nancy cordes begins our coverage. Nancy . Reporter scott, ive spoken to a number of olden women in the arena tonight who say they never thought that they would live to see this moment. In a few minutes, we expect that senator Bernie Sanders will be arriving here in the vermont delegation, and he will be the one to announce that Hillary Clinton has gone over the top. Pelley if they didnt work this out. 61 votes for the next president
Pentagon 15 years ago while others gathered in a field in shanksville, pennsylvania, to honor the heroes of United Airlines flight 93. We know that our diversity, our patchwork heritage is not a weakness, it is still and always will be one of our greatest strengths. This is the america that was attacked that september morning. This is the america that we must remain true to. And as we mark this somber occasion today, we also take stock and give thanks for an america stronger and more resilient than earlier before. Where are we though in terms of security today . Joining me to talk more, congressman Michael Mccall is the chairman of the House Homeland Security committee. Mr. Chairman, good to see you. Thanks very much for joining us. Thanks for having me, maria. Well, we have been talking all morning about the deadly attacks now 15 years ago, and i guess my first question for you today as we look forward is where are we today in terms of preparedness, in terms of security for the countr
Former intelligence officials from the clinton, bush and obama demonstrations spoke monday about the Government Security clearance process and recommendations for moving the system. From the Wilson Center, this is an hour and a half. Good morning welcome bright and early on monday to the Wilson Center. I and jane harman, president ceo recovering politician for many many years, too many for some of my detractors. I spent time in the house of representatives working on security and intelligence issues and numbers of people sitting here are my friends on a bipartisan basis. Im very excited that we are doing something truly useful this morning, which is to host a Panel Discussion on security clearance, and nextgen overhaul. If you dont understand what nextgen means you probably should leave the room. Todays problems are digital. Too many of our policies and politicians are analyzed. Anyone who has held a secret or top secret clearance knows what i mean. Parts of our system fit the 19th cen
Embassy, got over the fence, set fire to vehicles and did a lot of damage. My analysts believe the guys in benghazi, bad guys come absolute bad guys terrorists, saw what happened in cairo and said lets go do the same thing for the sake of our facility. And they did the assault on the state Department Facility and then they followed the state department guys come the state Department Facility to the cia facility conducted an attack immediately in the cias facility and were pulled by my security guys. They came back four hours later with much heavier works. One of the questions you have to ask yourself is people have pointed to these borders as this is evidence of preplanning. This is evidence and the effectiveness of the mortar fire. One of the questions you have to ask yourself is if there was a lot of preplanning why didnt they bring those borders to the first attack against the state Department Facility for the first attack against the cia facility. Why did they wait until almost nin