some people didn t like rex because he got along with leaders of the world. you have to understand, that s a good thing. that s a good thing, not a bad thing. he is respected all over the world and i think he is going to go down as one of the great, great secretaries. rex is a good man. i like rex a lot. i appreciate his commitment and his service. stay tuned after the break to find out what ruffled the president s feathers today. you are watching hardball. s fy you are watching hardball. get it! get that butterfly!
law conduct important forensic interviews that help law enforcement needs and meet the needs of child victims, and i m pleased the president s fy 18 budget request fully funds these programs. so i thought we d start with at least one positive thing we could talk about. thank you. as has been discussed by several others, it is the scope of recusal that is utterly unclear, both to lawyers and nonlawyers on this committee. you re here instead of the attorney general, and you re here as acting attorney general with regard to the special counsel, and you exercised the hire and would exercise the fire decision with regards to special counsel bob mueller. that s because attorney general sessions is recused from that matter. on may 9th, you delivered a memo to attorney general sessions entitled restoring public confidence in the fbi, and your memo exclusively focused on director comey s conduct during the clinton e-mail investigation and concluded, the way the director handled the conc
cybersecurity order and that was signed intentionally. and lastly, the president s fy 18 budget allocated $819 million. it dedicated an increase of $1.5 billion across all departments involved in protecting cyberspace. so for my perspective, both his first budget request and his future ones have right sized that amount of money for keeping america safe and that might answer all three components of your question. so with that, thank you so much for your time. appreciate it. political motivations that these cybersecurity you mentioned facebook, they re very political, or crowd strike i m sure he ll be happy to come back to questions later. actually, he was wrong about one thing. i would gladly let him stay up here and talk cybersecurity. a few announcements and i ll get to all of your many pressing questions. i would like to announce that the president just signed