That was the only person i could think of. Prior to working for the yurt council worked for Ranking Member nunes, is that right . I only found that out after the fact. I wondered why i was being asked about him, so i looked it up. You cautioned us on dangers that members of this committee pedaling any Conspiracy Theories that could benefit russia, i want to ask if you heard the nameless parness who was questioning Rudy Giuliani about the Conspiracy Theories. Are you aware he was indicted october 10 for making foreign contributions to republicans in u. S. Elections . I am aware of the reports, yes. Are you aware of yesterdays daily beast story reporting the indicted Ukranian Parn as is working with nunes on his overseas investigations . I am not aware of that. I ask unanimous consent to put in the daily beast story from yesterday. First two paragraphs reading lev parnas, indicted associate, helped arrange calls. Nunes aid derek harvey participated in meetings which were arranged to help
just mentioning that you can t have these non-state legislative actors changing how the election was administered. it should be noted that while the violence you saw at the capitol, the looting, the people breaking into the capitol, that is not welcome on any day. it wasn t welcome that day, it can t be welcome in the past or at any point. i was on the house floor. as soon as i learned of it, i instantly condemned it. it s not welcome. as far as what happens on the house floor, every single time a republican has been elected president over the last few decades, congressional democrats argue their objections on the floor of the house. it s part of the constitutional process. so as far as that process that takes place on the floor of the house, that wasn t something that, you know, was new or unprecedented. i was on the floor of the house on january 6th of 2017 when congressional democrats were objecting that the russians got donald trump elected. by the way, if the congressional democra
false allegations attributed to russian sources claiming that donald trump is a russian agent. fast forward to january 6th of 2017, fbi director james comey briefs president-elect trump on the steele dossier. the briefing is leaked to cnn and soon afterwards buzzfeed publishes the dossiers. january 20th, on president trump s inauguration day the the washington post runs a story headlined, quote: the campaign to impeach donald trump has begun. january 30th, 10 days later, the whistleblower s current lawyer tweets #coup has started, first of many steps, #rebellion, #impeachment will follow immediately. march 22nd, democrats on this committee falsely declare on national tv that they have more than circumstantial evidence that the trump campaign colluded with russia.
gps hires christ fear steel to write the steel dossiers, a collection of false allegations attributed to russian sources claiming that donald trump is a russian agent. fast forward to january 6th of 2017. fbi director james comey briefs president-elect trump on the steel dossier. the briefing is linked to cnn. and soon afterwards buzz feed publishes the dossiers. january 20th. on president trump s inauguration today, the headline. january 30th, ten days later the whistle-blower s current lawyer tweets hashtag coup has started, first of many steps, hashtag rebellion, hashtag impeachment will follow immediately. march 22nd. democrats on this committee falsely declare on national tv that they have more than
has the president directed you and your agency to take specific actions to confront and blunt russian influence activities that are ongoing? uh, we re taking a lot of specific efforts to blunt russian directed by the president? not as specifically directed by the president. not specifically directed by the president. before we get to what more we could be doing to stop russia s interference, here s what has been uncovered. on june 14th, 2016, the washington post reported russian hackers got into the democratic national committee servers. it is the first public report about that breach. then, on october 7th, 2016, the department of homeland security and the office of the director of national intelligence declared the intelligence community is confident the russian government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from u.s. persons and institutions. on january 6th of 2017, the office of the director of