But first, lets take a lookback on the top newsmakers in this weeks edition of the weeks talkers. First, lets get your thoughts on this big admission, comey going rogued. She got rolled by jim comey, and it was the third time that it happened. Remember now its january 24th with the interview of michael flynn. January 5th with the briefing of president obama, and the third time was in connection with the announcement of the conclusion of the Hillary Clinton investigation. Maria parents are suing the popular videosharing act in illinois. Those parents allege that tiktok collects information about their children, sends it to servers in china. Its designed to vacuum up all the data op your phone, your emails, text messages, your photographs, even your browser history and key strokes. Its all sent back to china where it is subject to access by the Chinese Communist party. Maria where are we right now in terms of this, in terms of this virus . Are you expecting a second spike in the fall . I
Assistant attorney general and the office of Legal Counsel under the bush administration, was a member of the domestic policy staff under president reagan, served in the Central Intelligence agency, and was a law clerk for the u. S. Court of appeals for the d. C. Circuit judge in addition to his he did get public service, he also has ensive Service Plaque to practicing law in the private sector. He received his ma from Kobe University and a jd from George Washington school of law. We welcome the attorney general and we thank him for participating today. If you would please rise, i will begin by swearing you in. If you could raise your right hand, or lefthand. Do you swear or affirm the testimony you are about to give is true and correct to the best of your knowledge, information, and belief, so help you god. Let the record show the witness has answered in the affirmative. Thank you and please be seated. Please note the written statement will be entered into the record in its entirety.
But first, lets take a lookback on the top newsmakers in this weeks edition of the weeks talkers. First, lets get your thoughts on this big admission, comey going rogued. She got rolled by jim comey, and it was the third time that it happened. Remember now its january 24th with the interview of michael flynn. January 5th with the briefing of president obama, and the third time was in connection with the announcement of the conclusion of the Hillary Clinton investigation. Maria parents are suing the popular videosharing act in illinois. Those parents allege that tiktok collects information about their children, sends it to servers in china. Its designed to vacuum up all the data op your phone, your emails, text messages, your photographs, even your browser history and key strokes. Its all sent back to china where it is subject to access by the Chinese Communist party. Maria where are we right now in terms of this, in terms of this virus . Are you expecting a second spike in the fall . I
Starting with what you will see before you. And then second beginning at 315 with the problems of tackling disinformation and we are delighted to start off today with remarks of those run the frontline we have the director performance security and infrastructure security at the department of Homeland Security and then coming right from the frontlines to deal with these issues he will give us an overview of what that government is trying to do to tackle the issue head on. And then most recently was the National Security council and the director for resilience and then to be engaged in Election Security and integrity. At that the Harvard Institute of politics and with that Public Outreach and the various issues so we would be concerned since the 2016 election. Mark will be joined by a david founder for the center for election and research one dad is devoted to this precise issue and has spent many years at the Pew Research Foundation looking at public am pulling opinion. And last but not
The House Committee on the judiciary will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare recess at any time and we welcome, we welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on oversight for the department of justice. I apologize for getting the hearing late, as many of you know i was in a minor car accident on the way in this morning. Everyone is fine, except perhaps the car. But it did cause significant delay. I think the attorney general and the members for their patience and flexibility and we will now begin. Before we begin, i want to acknowledge and note that we are joined this morning by the distinguished majority leader, the gentleman from maia maryland, leader hoyer, who has long recognized the need for vigorous congressional oversight of the executive branch under both parties and we appreciate his presence today as we question the attorney general. Before we begin, i would like to remind members that we have an established email distribution list dedicated to circulating exhib