Either grammatical or literary additions. One suggested rearrangement of language and one question. On page 4, commissioner could you speak into the microphone . On page 4, under discussion for enforcement and report. The end of the second paragraph theres a reference to ms. Blome noted that bdr attempted an assetb search of mr. Chris jackson and the courts investigation determined that there are no assets. Is the court the right word . Do you remember . I didnt think you said court. It should be bdr. Good catch. Bdr, okay, may i propose that change, mr. Chairman . You may. Then on page 5, above the words Public Comment, and maybe should ask what how we phrase this as a customary practice, is present tense or past tense . Because that sentence says, the individual commissioners acknowledge in the present tense. And im going to suggest this change the individual commissioners acknowledged, and congratulated. Of the executive director pelham on her election to the governing board of the
Leader simply is asking us to appropriate money and do nothing to fix the problem that weve attempted to address in the humane act with congressman cuellar that i mention add moment ago. That i mentioned a moment ago. So, in essence, the president has asked for a blank check, when he himself acknowledged this morning in my presence that he knows we need to address this problem and it will just get worse if we dont. So its quite remark to believe me that the president of the United States acknowledges we have a problem we need to address when the secretary of Homeland Security, who is trying to use the tools available to him to solv solve this crisis bt knows he needs more tools and more authority. At the same time the president makes that acknowledgment, at the same time his own secretary of Homeland Security identifies more authority, the president , its reported, that he actually wanted to expand this deferred action executive order that he issued in 2012 and say to more people who h
Intelligence he suggestions. Thats the big argument. This has been such a contentious issue we saw the whole drama play out with the House Intelligence Committee and their Top Republican leader devin nunes came, saw the material. Out of the protocol of that committee and them adam schiff, came and looked at the same material. Theres answers about this coming from the white house first from the Deputy Press Secretary who says there was no attempt to keep adam schiff responsible. Not that im aware of at all. I think the bigger point is theres something there. Wed love to come see it which is exactly what we said. It turns out if theres something of substance for him to know about, we want him to
see it. Frarjly i think if there wasnt something of sub stns, he would have walked out that moment from the white house and come out and declared that this was a big waste of time and a big dog and pony show. He didnt do that. He doesnt do that. Its very telling in what he probably saw on friday.
After the Justice Department said it would be, quote, extraordinarily reckless to release it. The top democrat on the House Intelligence Committee is accusing the republican chairman of secret altering the memo before he sent it to the white house. We have two cnn exclusives in the russia investigation. First cnn exclusive. Sources tell us that President Trump asked Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein if he was, quote, on my team in a meeting that proceeded rosenstein testifying to the house about very important matters. Whats the question . Obvious. Is this yet another attempt by the president to wrongfully influence his officials, to gain loyalty from someone investigating him. The other exclusive, sources tell cnn the fbi agent whose Text Messages led to bias in the Mueller Investigation played a key role in reopening the Hillary Clinton email probe just before the 2016 election. Youll remember that gut shot when they said there are more emails on anthony weerns laptop. Yes, they