This morning about his report on the russia investigation during the 2016 president ial campaign. He took questions from members of the Senate Homeland security and Governmental Affairs committee. The chair is senator ron johnson of wisconsin. This hearing will come to order. I want to thank Inspector General horowitz and his team for being here. I know in the hearing you had everybody raise their hands. If youve raise your hands and identify yourselves all the people who did this excellent work, i appreciate that. I want to thank you for all your hard work and efforts for preparing the report. The bipartisan praise you have received for your effort is welldy served and i share those sentiments. The release of this report is an important step in providing the public many of the answers to the questions that have festered for far too long. As thoreau as it is, its scope is narrow. Many important questions remain unanswered. Much attention has been paid to the reports conclusion, but the
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] this meeting will come to order. I want to thank Inspector General horowitz and his team for being here. I know in the Judiciary Committee you have everyone raise have everyone raise your hand so cute raise your hand identifier so all the people hooked on this excellent work. Appreciate that. I want to thank you for all your hard work and efforts preparing the reports is a subject for hearing today. We have received for your efforts well deserved those sentiments. The release of this report is an important step in providing the public answers to many of the questions that have festered for far too long but as thorough as this report is the scope is narrow and many important questions remain unanswered. Much attention is paid to the ports conclusion that the crossfire hurricane investigation did have adequate predicate that in accuracies and omissions from the fisa application and renewals call into question the integrity of the proces
A senator are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer no, we are not. A senator thank you, madam president. I rise today because its my honor to introduce my colleague who actually needs no introduction but still for this speech today. Mr. Hoeven i have the pleasure to introduce kevin cramer who will be thriferring his delivering his official maiden speech to the senate. Ive known kevin for many years. Hes always been incredibly diligent worker for the people of north dakota. And he served our state in many different capacities. He served as tourism director and did a tremendous job promoting our state, promoting tourism, and really promoting the beauty and the history of our state in a way that brought a lot of National Attention and really made a difference in terms of tourism for our state. He also served our state as Economic Development director, something that is certainly near and dear to my heart. Ive always believed that job creations are job one. To me thats the engine th
Thank you all very much. Mr. Horowitz thank you. I really appreciate what you have done. Do you have your team here with you . Would it be okay if they raised their hands, is that all right . If theyre okay with it, im okay with it. Thank you all. You have labored hard and your work product is impressive. I just want to thank you all for what youve done for the country. Mr. Horowitz im dying to hear from you, but i bet i havent made 20 minutes of Opening Statements in a year. Im going to take a little longer to lay ow what i think is before us as a nation. Crossfire hurricane was probably the best name ever given to an investigation in the history of investigations, because i think thats what we wound up with, a crossfire in a hurricane. Theres been a lot of media reports about your report before it was issued. I remember reading all these headlines, lawful investigation with a few irregularities. Low level people kind of got off track. If thats what you get out of this report, you cle
The hearing will come back to order. I hope you had a little bit of a break. Weerie, if we do this right, will be done in time for multiple loads. Let me join my colleagues in thanking you and your professional staff for the outstanding work that you have done. This has to be one of the hardest government jobs in government to be impartial and i just want you to understand how much we appreciate your work and your teams work. I think the rank and file agent in the fbi and their colleagues in the Intelligence Community need to know that we are there for them and we support them in their responsibilities. I had the privilege to serve on the committee and i would like to think that there is no more Ardent Supporter of our Law Enforcement agency than i and. That general hayden, when he wrote his book about his experience had it right. Plaintiff the edge, we are authorities in the interest of our National Security. It makes it important for us to mendacity,legality, deception and the exerci