Deeply held beliefs on all sides. The bill we intended to consider last night strengthened privacy protections and made substantial improvements to the law. The bill as amended by the senate is a good and important package of reforms. Now you may disagree with that assessment. You may genuinely believe that the bill doesnt go far enough to reform the fisa system or perhaps that it goes too far with those reforms. If you disagree with me on the merits of the bill i respect that disagreement. I cannot accept and what i accept Many Americans will not accept is a transparent, inexplicable, totally unjustified flipflop on this bill. A bill important both to the security and the privacy of the United States. Just a few weeks ago, 126 republicans joined 152 democrats in support of a nearly identical measure. Differed only in that the senate added one amendment, a good amendment with almost universal support. Virtually all of those 126 republicans change their position in the past 24 hours. Mr
On growing doubt in washington over the foundation for the fbi launching the trumprussian collusion probe as more documents are declassified. Senator Chuck Grassley declaring, quote, we could not find a single shred of evidence to support it. More on what critics now say are the fbis weak and feeble efforts to launch it. Plus, joe concha on [inaudible] controversy as the probes bear down on the Obama Administration abuses of power in the trumprussia probe and the flynn probe, Top Democrats either running away from questions about it or trying to revice and come up with new narratives that avoid their initial scorched earth attacks that trump a russian asset, and hes going to jail. And dr. Alveda king on seattles leadership in chaos. The mayor and the police chief now at odds. And the mayor downplaying protesters seizing six city blocks calling it, quote, just a block party, the summer of love as reports come in demonstrators threw rocks and improvised explosives at Police Officers, pla
Perhaps that it goes too far with those reforms. If you disagree with me on the merits of the bill i respect that disagreement. I cannot accept and what i accept Many Americans will not accept is a transparent, inexplicable, totally unjustified flipflop on this bill. A bill important both to the security and the privacy of the United States. Just a few weeks ago, 126 republicans joined 152 democrats in support of a nearly identical measure. Differed only in that the senate added one amendment, a good amendment with almost universal support. Virtually all of those 126 republicans change their position in the past 24 hours. Mr. Speaker, the American People see through those excuses. Nobody believes that the sudden reversal has anything to do with complaints about proxy voting. Nobody believes that the flipflop is about Michael Flynn or roger stone or even President Trump whose cases have nothing to do with the authorities we hope to reform. There have been no real policy demands to expla
You your school the gypsy king is prone to give you a champion twice and few rigs storm still going to war to win the w. B. C. Dont think its really. Chinas president says his country faces the biggest Public Health emergency in its history is it battles to contain the deadly coronavirus xi jinping told high ranking officials that measures taken to counter the virus were effective but despite that nearly 650. 00 additional cases in the past 24 hours has taken the total to just under 77000. 00 more than 2400. 00 people have died iran is now another major hotspot with 48 cases and 8 deaths the highest toll outside of china several neighboring countries have close the borders but its a city that has the largest outbreak outside of asia in a matter of days confirmed cases jumped from 3 to 13083. 00 people have died and a cluster of cases is confounding scientists as has no link to china meanwhile south koreas president says the next few days will be critical for an outbreak the. Struck mor
Testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god . Let the record show that the witnesses answered in the affirmative. You may be seated. The microphones are sensitive so you will need to speak directly into them. Without objection, your written statements will made be made part of the record. Mr. Holmes, you are recognized for your Opening Statement and when you conclude, dr. Hill, you will be recognized thereafter for your Opening Statement. Mr. Holmes thank you. Good morning, mr. Chairman. Members of the committee. My name is david holmes. Im a Career Foreign Service officer with the department of state. Since august 2017, i have been a political counselor at the u. S. Embassy in ukraine. While it is an honor to appear before you today, i want to make sure make clear i did not seek this opportunity to testify today. Since you determined i may have something of value to these proceedings and issued a subpoena, it is my obligation