I am pleased to welcome fbi director james comey in his first appearance before the committee and let me also please thank the men and women of the fbi for the great job they have done. They are really doing an incredible job and on behalf of the American People and congress i just want to thank and if you would give my best to former director mueller. He really did i met with him when he first came in and i watch and he really did an incredible job so please pass on my regards to him. I would appreciate it. Let me add that immediately following the directors testimony the committee will hear from the three commissioners leading the congressionally directed review of the fbis implementation of the 9 11 commission recommendations. Director comey is the seventh director, a good man, good choice to lead the pirro following a distinguished government career. His assistant u. S. Attorney in the gambino crime family and the terrorists responsible for the 1996 cohort khobar tower bombings. He
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Of information act and that was something that had taken place from 1940 to 1966 when the fbi for that period of time had a formal relationship with the American Legion in which members 100,880 members of the American Legion acted as informers for the fbi in their communities and regularly filed reports with the fbi. The americans had no idea that kind of informing was taking place and they were untrained informants. Budget request for the next fiscal year. Over the next two and a half hours before House Appropriations of committee he also talked about the threats of terrorism and cybercrime. The hearing will come to order. I am pleased to welcome fbi director james comey in his first appearance before the committee and let me also please thank the men and women of the fbi for the great job they have done. They are really doing an incredible job and on behalf of the American People and congress i just want to thank and if you would give my best to former director mueller. He really did
Of very angry people that are seeing it. Its a very sad thing to watch. I will tell you that. Loved it. All right. So the president is is speaking a lot. Hes making a lot of headlines heading to quantico. We will bring you more of those in a moment. A lot going on here in new york at the u. N. Meantime secretary of state Rex Tillerson about to address the u. N. Security council on north korea. The world will be listening for more apparent disconnections potentially between what the president has said on north korea and what his secretary of state Rex Tillerson has said on north korea. Lets go through all of this. Abby philip at the white house with more. Quite a busy friday morning there . It definitely is. Bright and early, the president is heading out this morning for quantico, but hes actually not meeting with fbi agents while hes out there. Hes going to be speaking at the Graduation Ceremony for fbi state and local officials and on his way out the door you just heard that he double
Heading into 2018 . Reporter the president optimistic in the interview, and serving up a poison pill on twitter today. Uhhuh. Reporter the president set several times in the interview he wants 0 work on a bipartisan basis including on daca. Today tweeting about a deal on immigration, yes, sure, hed like to deal with were the d. R. E. A. M. Ers, also there has to be border wall, a border wall and internal enforcement and end to chain migration end of the visa lottery system. That border wall part of this will be a problem. Democrats wont touch it. Even most republicans dont want it. A short time ago, jeff flake, soon to be retiring senator from arizona, whos been really running point for republicans who want to see daca fixed. Something done on the d. R. E. A. M. Act tweeted his own response to the president saying heres all the things we can work on and even hes not mentioning the wall. If, indeed, the president wants to work on a bipartisan basis he has to decide what hes willing to g