Franklin d. Roosevelt president ial library and museum in hyde park, new york, sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan. This was the scene thursday as jameseff comey arrived and testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee Investigating russian interference in the 2016 elections. He is being greeted by richard burr and vice chair, mark warner. This hearing is about two hours and 41 minutes. Calling this hearing to order. Director comey i appreciate your willingness to appear before the committee today. Director comey, i appreciate your willingness to appear before the committee today. And more importantly for thank you for your dedicated service and leadership to the federal bureau of investigation. Your appearance today speaks to the trust we have built over the years, and im looking forward to a very open and candid discussion today. Id like to remind my colleagues, that we will reconvene in closed session at 1 00 p. M. Today. And i ask that you reserve for that venue any questio
Franklin d. Roosevelt president ial library and museum in hyde park, new york, sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan. This was the scene thursday as jameseff comey arrived and testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee Investigating russian interference in the 2016 elections. He is being greeted by richard burr and vice chair, mark warner. This hearing is about two hours and 41 minutes. Calling this hearing to order. Director comey i appreciate your willingness to appear before the committee today. Director comey, i appreciate your willingness to appear before the committee today. And more importantly for thank you for your dedicated service and leadership to the federal bureau of investigation. Your appearance today speaks to the trust we have built over the years, and im looking forward to a very open and candid discussion today. Id like to remind my colleagues, that we will reconvene in closed session at 1 00 p. M. Today. And i ask that you reserve for that venue any questio
Senator cotton. Mr. Comey you encouraged the president to release the tapes, did you encourage the department of justice of your friend at columbia or mr. Mueller to release. Sure. You said you did not record your conversations with president obama or president bush in memos. Did you do so with attorney general sessions or any other member of d. O. J. Or mr. Trump . No. Did you report with any uh other Obama Department of justice. Not that i recall. In your statement for the record you cite nine private conversations with the president , three meetings and two phone calls, four phone calls that are not discussed in your statement for the record. What happened in those phone calls . The president called me, i believe, shortly before he was inaugurated as a followup to our conversation, private conversation on january 6. He just wanted the to reiterate his rejection of the allegation and talk about hed thought about it more, and why he thought it wasnt true, the verified unverified and s
Franklin d. Roosevelt president ial library and museum in hyde park, new york, sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan. This was the scene thursday as jameseff comey arrived and testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee Investigating russian interference in the 2016 elections. He is being greeted by richard burr and vice chair, mark warner. This hearing is about two hours and 41 minutes. Calling this hearing to order. Director comey i appreciate your willingness to appear before the committee today. Director comey, i appreciate your willingness to appear before the committee today. And more importantly for thank you for your dedicated service and leadership to the federal bureau of investigation. Your appearance today speaks to the trust we have built over the years, and im looking forward to a very open and candid discussion today. Id like to remind my colleagues, that we will reconvene in closed session at 1 00 p. M. Today. And i ask that you reserve for that venue any questio
Unfolds daily. In 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Week, the Senate Intelligence committee considered reauthorization of the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act, which is set to expire at the end of the year. Those testifying were Deputy Attorney general rod rosenstein, director andrew mccabe, National Intelligence director dan coats, and nsa director admiral michael rodgers. Lawmakers also asked about the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 president ial election and private conversations between the witnesses and President Trump. This is just over two an half hours. Afterwards, we plan to take your calls on this hearing and others like it this week that focused on the rush investigation. Id like to call this hearing to order. I call this hearing to order. O thank our witnesses today, director of National Intelligence, dan coats, dan welcome back to your