Phone call by the president of the United States calling upon a foreign power to intervene in his election. This is a breach of his constitutional responsibilities. The facts are these. The Intelligence Community Inspector General, who is appointed by president trump, determined that the complaint is both of urgent concern and credible. And its disclosure relates to one of the most significant and importance of director of National Intelligence responsibility to the american people. On thursday, the Inspector General testified before the House Intelligence Committee stating that the acting director of National Intelligence blocked him from disclosing the whistleblower complaint. This is a violation of law. The law is unequivocal. The d. N. I. Director of National Intelligence shall provide congress the full whistleblower complaint. Or more than 25 years, our i served on the Intelligence Committee as part of the gang of four even before i was in the leadership. I was there when we creat
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Provisions including wiretap authority, Business Records authority and the lone wolf provision which were set to expand at the end of the year. This is about two hours, 10 minutes. Committee on the judiciary will come to order. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on oversight of the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. I will now recognize myself for an opening statement. The Judiciary Committee is holding todays hearing to carry out one of its most important tasks. To ensure that the tools used by our government to keep us safe are consistent with our values and with the freedoms guaranteed by the constitution. This committee has long exercised its responsibility to shape the Legal Framework under which intelligence and Law Enforcement agencies investigate threats and collect evidence of crimes. Although we conduct daytoday oversight of intelligence agencies, hearings like this to conduct a broad review of how our government exercises its legal authorities and whether that
Ukrainfor election help. And that the white house tried to cover it up. On thursday, the acting director of national intelligence, joseph mcguire, testified before congress about the complaint which he called itote unprecedented. Enters on a phone call the president held with the ukraine president in july where he asked him repeatedly to open a corruption investigation into his 2020 president ial rival, joe biden. Ea on tuesday, house r nancy pelosi announced the start of a formal impeachment inquiry against the president accusing him of betraying his oath of office. Impeachment inquiry quote a e witchhunt and attacked the credibility and character of ujoining us now via skype from washington dc political reporter jessica taylor. And here in studio the editor afer. Cs and government, Scott Jessica taylor and scott shafer, thank you for being here. Scott, of course given californias representation and congressional leadership, we are playing a prominent role in this. Nancy pelosi today
Provisions including wiretap authority, Business Records authority and the lone wolf provision which were set to expand at the end of the year. This is about two hours, 10 minutes. Committee on the judiciary will come to order. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on oversight of the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. I will now recognize myself for an opening statement. The Judiciary Committee is holding todays hearing to carry out one of its most important tasks. To ensure that the tools used by our government to keep us safe are consistent with our values and with the freedoms guaranteed by the constitution. This committee has long exercised its responsibility to shape the Legal Framework under which intelligence and Law Enforcement agencies investigate threats and collect evidence of crimes. Although we conduct daytoday oversight of intelligence agencies, hearings like this to conduct a broad review of how our government exercises its legal authorities and whether that