Good morning, everyone. Thank you for coming. Well get started with our hearing. I want to thank mr. Comey, james comey, the former director of the fbi for appearing today before the committee to talk with us about cross fire hurricane and anything else the committee would like to speak with him about. So give a little brief introduction of why were here and what were trying to accomplish. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is a tool thats been around for a very long time. For our Intelligence Community, the fbi to make sure that when Foreign Agents, terrorists or agents of a Foreign Government are in our country, they can be surveilled if theyre doing things that are threatening to our National Security. I think this legislation goes all the way back to the 70s. And its been used a lot. Its been used in terrorist cases when we suspect someone of being a terrorist under the foreign intelligence act. We have the Legal Authority to surveil those people. And you can get a warrant u
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Sen. Graham good morning everybody. We are making progress, we are somewhat closer together now. Hello senator grassley. A little brief update and we will take up the business, next week we are having a hearing about policing, community policing, use of force, we will have two panels, it will be a long day and hopefully an important day. Last time we talked about witnesses regarding the inquiry to the Mueller Investigation to senator feinstein and her friends on the other side, i promise you if you want to call mr. Mueller or his designee, thats fine with me. Over, whenynn cases that ever happens, i want the doj to tell us why they decided to drop it and if you want to call mr. Gleason or judge , we willr anybody else do that. I think theyll be a good topic for this committee. Having said that, the business before the committee was senator feinsteins amendment. Would you like to vote or talk or what would you want to do . Like to maken id Opening Statements. Sen. Graham yes maam. Its y