Id like to call the hearing to order, please. Attorney general sessions, i appreciate your willingness to appear before the committee today. I thank you for your years of dedicated service as a member of this body and your recent leadership at the department of justice. As ie mentioned when director comey appeared before us last week, this committees role is to be the eyes and ears for the other 85 members of the United States senate and for the American People, ensuring that the Intelligence Community is operating lawfully and has the necessary tools to keep america safe. The community is a large and diverseth place. We recognize the gravity of our investigation into russias interference in the 2016 elections. Butt i remind constituents that while we investigate russia we are scrutinizing cias budget while were investigating russia, we are still scrutinizing cias budget, nsas 702 program, the nations Satellite Program and the entire i. C. Effort to recruit and retain the best talent w
Id like to call the hearing to order, please. Attorney general sessions, i appreciate your willingness to appear before the committee today. I thank you for your years of dedicated service as a member of this body and your recent leadership at the department of justice. As ie mentioned when director comey appeared before us last week, this committees role is to be the eyes and ears for the other 85 members of the United States senate and for the American People, ensuring that the Intelligence Community is operating lawfully and has the necessary tools to keep america safe. The community is a large and diverseth place. We recognize the gravity of our investigation into russias interference in the 2016 elections. Butt i remind constituents that while we investigate russia we are scrutinizing cias budget while were investigating russia, we are still scrutinizing cias budget, nsas 702 program, the nations Satellite Program and the entire i. C. Effort to recruit and retain the best talent w
Xx senator burr i appreciate your willingness to appear before the committee today and thank you for your years as a member of this body and your recent leadership at the department of justice. As i mentioned when director comey appeared before last week, this committees role is to be the eyes and ears for the other 85 members of the United States senate and for the American People ensuring that the Intelligence Committee is operating lawfulfully and has the necessary tools to keep america safe. The community is a large and diverse place. We recognize the graft of our investigation into russias interference in the 2016 u. S. Elections. While we investigate russia, we are scrutinizing c. I. A. s budget while we are investigating russia, we are still scrutinizing c. I. A. s budget, our nations Satellite Program and the i. C. Effort to recruit and retain the best talent we can find. More oven than not. The committee conducts its work behind closed doors and our methods are protected. The
Somalia and lebanon. It rules the president does have the power to control immigration but exceeded his Authority Given to him by congress. Cases should be decide on the rule of law. When you look at the when you look at what the law is that allows the president to do this. Thats what we were deciding on. Any lawyer with their salt fully agrees the president is within his rights and responsibility to do what is necessary to protect the country. Reporter the u. S. Supreme court is asked to throw out the injunctions and allow the travel ban to be implemented. And rule on the legality of the travel ban. If the Court Decides to hear arguments on the legality of the ban, those could take place in the fall. Gerri what does this mean for trumps efforts to ban this. There is nothing in this decision about tonight comments president elect made, the rhetoric and comments as indicative of intent. The reason for that is they knew full well the 9th circuit that its not at all clear such comments ca
That today, as nations top Law Enforcement officer gave his side of the story, defending himself, the Justice Department he leads and a president in a hearing that lasted 2 hours and 23 minutes. Sessions making it clear, there no evidence for the democratic claims of collusion with russia. As for the dems, they reveal themselves to be, very little more than partisan hacks pursuing their own agenda trying to undermine the Trump Administration, they were in short be on horan in abhor ant in their handers and questioning, Catherine Herridge with our report. Suggestion that i participated in any collusion that i was aware of which collusion with the russian government, is an appalling and detestable lie. Reporter testifying before Senate Intelligence committee, sessions defending himself and Trump Administration allegations they colluded with russia. After recusing himself from ongoing probe, sessions said it was not about russia but his position on the campaign, and regulation this more g