merry christmas. he looked weak and unsteady but george michael was appearing in front of the cameras near his north london today to speak about the illness he said nearly ended his life. i got strep or something. they spent three weeks keeping me alive. i spent the last ten days since i woke up literally thanking people for saving my life, which is something i ve never had to do before. i think teary eyes were mainly because he felt he had one last shot at life and felt remorse over the drug usage and the incidents in the past. i really from the bottom of my heart thank everybody who sent messages and everybody in the i.c. unit that made sure i m here today. then there was a really
five minutes of questioning each. we have over 40 members here. it will be an interesting hearing, guys. dana: thank you for setting us up on that and we ll get back to you if anything else breaks. bill: as we wait for this to begin let s bring in john ratcliffe. former director of national intelligence. a couple basic questions. what do we learn today from this witness? when i became dni, i met with him and we reviewed the intelligence i had from the i.c. and intelligence he was finding from the department of justice and f.b.i. and asked him where is the evidence or intelligence that justifies opening crossfire hurricane and he said there isn t any. that s reflected in the report. what is significant about that and the focus today will richlyy be on the fact that when you talk about spying on a presidential campaign, the
documents. how embarrassing do you think this is? i think it s really embarrassing, and i think it s an opportunity for us to really rethink our national security classification system. i think it s evidence that it s pretty broken. for a long time, people like me have been calling for reassessment of our classification system. i think these events really hammer home how important it is for us to rethink how we manage our national security secrets. surely something the i.c. and military are thinking about right now. thank you very much for your time and expertise on that. thank you. now, before the indictment came out, trump was arguing that it would be unfair to charge him because of president joe biden. daniel dale is back with another fact check right when we come back. plus, a new cnn analysis after a dozen horses died at church hill downs in the week
hearing in 50 years since project blue book was to encourage folks in the i.c. and outside the intel community to come forward with their stories. congress approved language in last year s defense policy bill requiring investigations of uaps. previously lawmakers said the military dismissed ufo reports as kooky. gillian: you are not going to tell us either whether we are or not alone. i m in congress, there are 535 members here. we are not alone on capitol hill. gillian: thanks for nothing, chad. talk to you soon. try to imply that it was either rudy giuliani or somebody else as the human informant and the fbi saying this is a valuable human informant. the reason we are in this situation is because the fbi has not been truthful and we don t have confidence in the fbi. john: house oversight chairman james comer defending his criticism of the fbi and plans to hold christopher wray
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