Xx senator burr i appreciate your willingness to appear before the committee today and thank you for your years as a member of this body and your recent leadership at the department of justice. As i mentioned when director comey appeared before last week, this committees role is to be the eyes and ears for the other 85 members of the United States senate and for the American People ensuring that the Intelligence Committee is operating lawfulfully and has the necessary tools to keep america safe. The community is a large and diverse place. We recognize the graft of our investigation into russias interference in the 2016 u. S. Elections. While we investigate russia, we are scrutinizing c. I. A. s budget while we are investigating russia, we are still scrutinizing c. I. A. s budget, our nations Satellite Program and the i. C. Effort to recruit and retain the best talent we can find. More oven than not. The committee conducts its work behind closed doors and our methods are protected. The
Election sabotage. Do you feel vindicated in the mueller investigation. What is in the indictment. Russians recruited and paid real americans to engage in political activities. And why whats not in the indictment could mean big trouble for the president. No puppet no, puppet. Youre the puppet. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Robert mueller just revealed again weve only scratched the surface of what he and his team discovered about the 2016 election. He charged 13 russian nationals with interfering in the American American political process through what they caused information warfare. While various aspects have been reported by the press in dribs and drabs, the indictment lays out the full picture in extraordinary detail. It traces the different phases of the operation beginning way back in 2014 and continuing through election day. What it reveals is a highly sophisticated well fund and integrated enterprise. Effectively a Third Campaign. A Thi
Indictment could mean big trouble for the president. No puppet no, puppet. Youre the puppet. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Robert mueller just revealed again weve only scratched the surface of what he and his team discovered about the 2016 election. He charged 13 russian nationals with interfering in the American American political process through what they caused information warfare. While various aspects have been reported by the press in dribs and drabs, the indictment lays out the full picture in extraordinary detail. It traces the different phases of the operation beginning way back in 2014 and continuing through election day. What it reveals is a highly sophisticated well fund and integrated enterprise. Effectively a Third Campaign. A Third Campaign controlled by a kremlin ally that worked against one of the candidates, Hillary Clinton, and ultimately backed her opponent, the man who is now president of the United States. According to t
Agency. I want them to go through the normal classification and declassification process. Kellyanne. Exit question. Oneword answer. Is the president going to release the memo today . Well, the president just one word probably not. Okay, thats two. Close enough. Republicans on the hill voted to release the secret memo which they say reveals shocking abuses at the fbi and doj and which democrats say is nothing but a partisan effort to delegitimize the very body that is investigating the president. The vote was along party lines. As was the following vote to stop democrats from releasing their own rebuttal memo. Folks, it does not get more blatantly partisan than that. This has been his mission, protect the white house, throw up distractions. Its about setting a narrative. Its about the Defense Strategy that says, when the facts are really bad against our client, who they view as the president , put the government on trial, and thats what theyre trying to do. Chairman, can i just ask you
Telling the doj Inspector General that he is providing this for a deep state friend. And the media and Hillary Clintons former top Campaign Aide for decades, mark penn, are starting to admit what a huge abuse of power scandal this is. We have the deep state actors. John brennan, sally yates, all melting down. In now desperation lashing out at President Trump. Its not going to work, a bomb shell report from sarah carter, the fisa memos that the doj is refusing to hand over could hold the key to the obama fbitrump surveillance. Stay with us. This is an important breaking news monologue. Brand new tonight after a meeting between trump, the fbi director chris wray, Rod Rosenstein and other top intel officials, President Trump and the department of justice are asking the Inspector General to investigate the Obama Administration and the spying they did on the Trump Campaign. The white house is also revealing tonight that chief of staff, john kelly, general kelly, is setting up a meeting for