Political advertising on social media and other platforms. Witnesses discussion certain diz closure rules for online advertisements and the implications of russia purchasing facebook ads during the 2016 election. This is just under two hours. Subcommittee on Information Technology will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Good afternoon. Todays hearing is part of a series of hearings the i. T. Subcommittee has held to analyze existing laws and regulations that may have become obsolete updating technological advances. Weve held hearings on health i. T. , drones, autonomous vehicles, internet of things and many other issues. Today we turn attention to laws and regulations governoring political advertisement hearing. Civil Campaign Finance laws, Disclosure Requirements from Public Information for campaign candidates, parties or Political Action committees related to federal offices. In addition, the fcc enforces additional disclosure an
Hud, to the secretary of hhs, to the secretary or the assistant secretaries, and they say, my constituent smith has a matter before you that has been pending for 18 months, we would appreciate it if you would review that and take action. And then the elected official says to smith, i did my best on this. And smith thinks, good, hes used his influence. Mr. Francisco right. Justice breyer a crime . My goodness. Mr. Francisco absolutely not, your honor. Justice breyer all right, fine. Mr. Francisco absolutely not. Justice breyer you say absolutely not. Thats what i thought that you would say. Mr. Francisco and i think that Justice Breyer so i want to know but the words you used were attempt to influence. And so though i dont think thats the right word, and i want to know what the right words are mr. Francisco sure. Justice breyer in the instruction that the judge is going to give. Not in your case mr. Francisco mmhmm. Justice breyer but in general. Mr. Francisco well, can i give you an ex
The president said im going to veto the legislative appropriations bill and we will let the Voters Decide in november whether we want to pay these legislators, you are effectively stopping an institution from working. If the senate said the justices are coming to us, they want security for the institution, and we are going to decline to in an appropriations bill because we are matt at them, you them, you are preaching a duty thats implicit in the document. To make the other branches function as intended. Finally, theres a certain irony here, any members of a certain part are very upset with president obama for taking executive action on some subjects and not changing the statutory law. There is a statute on the books that says there shall be nine members of the Supreme Court. If you want to change it to eight, passed a law, ok . Pass a law. Thats not what i think anyone wants to do the everyone recognizes there is a duty. The question is i think everyone agrees want of timing and one o
Good afternoon. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with the world lead and one of the most important Foreign Policy decisions of the trump presidency, the president announcing the u. S. Will withdraw from t with the Iran Nuclear Deal and defying president obamas Whose Administration negotiated the agreement. America will not be held hostage to nuclear blackmail. We will not allow American Cities to be threatened with destruction and we will not allow a regime that chants death to america to gain access to the most Deadly Weapons on earth. The president also called the deal a great embarrassment to him as a citizen and he declared, quote, we have definitive proof this iranian promise was a lie. That is a reference to the presentation by israeli Prime Minister netanyahu. And though top Trump Officials should be noted, secretary of state mike pompeo and dan coates before the senate in recent weeks that iran was in compliance with the agreement. President trump also revealed tha
Electronic messages as part of the special counsels quest to solve one burning mystery. Did longtime trump adviser roger stone or any other associate of the president have advanced knowledge of wikileaks plans to release hacked democratic emails in 2016. The post also explains whats going on behind the scenes in the Mueller Probe in what seems like a quiet period but may turn out to be anything but. While outwardly quiet for the last month, Robert Muellers investigators have been aggressively pursuing leads behind the scenes about whether stone was in communication with wikileaks whose disclosures of emails believed to have been hacked by russian operatives disrupted the 2016 campaign. And on the potential significance of the stone and wikileaks piece of the collusion puzzle, the post writes this. The question of whether Trump Associates were in contact with wikileaks is at the heart of muellers inquiry. Today in a statement to nbc news, roger stone vigorously denied accusations that h