That was the only person i could think of. Prior to working for the yurt council worked for Ranking Member nunes, is that right . I only found that out after the fact. I wondered why i was being asked about him, so i looked it up. You cautioned us on dangers that members of this committee pedaling any Conspiracy Theories that could benefit russia, i want to ask if you heard the nameless parness who was questioning Rudy Giuliani about the Conspiracy Theories. Are you aware he was indicted october 10 for making foreign contributions to republicans in u. S. Elections . I am aware of the reports, yes. Are you aware of yesterdays daily beast story reporting the indicted Ukranian Parn as is working with nunes on his overseas investigations . I am not aware of that. I ask unanimous consent to put in the daily beast story from yesterday. First two paragraphs reading lev parnas, indicted associate, helped arrange calls. Nunes aid derek harvey participated in meetings which were arranged to help
2011, in november, 2011, i sat next to vladimir putin at a conference where he made precisely that point, the first time he had done so to a group of american journalists and experts brought to something called the valdar discussion club. he started in 2011 making it clear he saw american fracking as a great threat to russian interests. we were all struck by how much he stressed this issue. and since 2011, since that particular juncture, putin made a big deal of this. americans pay attention to rt and whatever propaganda s sends out is in our interest. mr. holmes, in your role you re privileged to an awful lot of stuff, official things and things that are best kept between you and the official folks that you deal with. is there an expectation among the principals you represent that you will exercise some discretion in what you share with others about what goes on? yes, sir.
and russia. and in fact, we also believed at that point that russia might attack ukraine. this was in 2008 when georgia and ukraine sought membership action plan in nato, russia threatened them openly if they proceeded with the request for nato membership, there would be consequences. in the wake of the attack on georgia, president putin made it clear to the president of georgia at the time, this was related to me at the highest levels of the georgian government, putin said to him your western allies, your western partners promised a great deal. they didn t deliver. i threatened, i delivered. we had made all kinds of promises to georgia and ukraine in that time frame and we didn t come through. so putin is always looking out to see if there s any hint that we will not follow through on
trusted? yes, it does. so the rt, would you agree with me, rt is putin s propaganda machine in the united states? i would agree with you, yes. is it appropriate for the rt to be used to effect public policy on our nation, as an example, there have been a long series of advertisements or programs on rt going against fracking, saying it is bad, trying to effect public policy in the united states. is that appropriate use, should americans be paying attention to that? in the terms that americans should be paying attention to rt and other outlets used to propagate this, absolutely. i wasn t sure what you meant about paying attention. fracking is a controversial issue with the nation. if we did away with fracking, the united states is not in position to dominate oil production in the world, would play into strengthening putin s hands. that s correct. i would like to point out in
things. there s tension though in conducting our businesses the way we should, playing into putin s hands. as an example, i disagree with what we re doing here today, it is under our constitution, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle believe they function under that constitution. these hearings, this issue is divisive within the country and is continuing to push that way. i think that plays into putin s hands inadvertently, nothing we can do about that, but there are certain things we can do as individuals that wouldn t play into his hands. one of them would be the loser in the 2016 election has for three years continued to argue that because she won the popular vote, she and her friends won the popular vote, somehow the election was inappropriate and that we shouldn t trust it, that the electoral college victory which was resounding shouldn t be trusted. does that help putin or play into the narrative he would like for us, that our elections are somehow rigged, shouldn t be