Good afternoon everyone. On behalf of the archivist of the United States, i like to welcome you all to the theater located in the National Archives building in washington dc. Id also like to give a special shout out to our good friends from cspan2 who are also joining us today. Before we hear from philip about his new book, the cia and the post 911 world, like to be about two upcoming programs taking place in the theater. This friday august 16th, at noon, William G Hyland junior will tell us about a forgotten family father george mason the founding father who gave us the bill of rights. Then on tuesday september 10th at noon, Sidney Blumenthal will tell us about his recently released volume three of his biography of Abraham Lincoln all powers of earth the political life of Abraham Lincoln 1886 to 1863. To find out more about these programs and error exhibits, please visit our website at archives. Gov challenger. Weve also find some printed materials of the lobby about upcoming coming e
Shout out target friends from cspan who are also joining us today. Before we hear from Gloria Venlet about his new book id like to tell you but to upcoming programs taking place in the theater for this friday august 16 at noon when t. Jr. Will tell us about a forgot founding father george mason the founding father who gave us the bill of rights. On tuesday december 10 Sidney Blumenthal will talk about his biography of Abraham Lincoln all powers of earth the political life of Abraham Lincoln in 1856 to 1863. To find out more about these programs and our exhibits please visit our web site at www. Archives. Gov account and you will find. Material in the theater lobby about coming events as well as sign up sheet so you can receive an electronic version of her monthly calendar. Philip mudd joined the Central Intelligence agency in 1985 on a panel specializing on asia and in the middle east. After the september 11 attack he was a cia member of the small Diplomatic Team that helped piece toge
Testing. Is this live . Okay. Good afternoon. As i said before, im congressman jerry nadler, chairman of the judiciary committee. As ive said before, we are facing a constitutional crisis. We have a president who believes he is above the law. Which he is not. And refuses to be held accountable. Which he will be. For two years under republican control, President Trump and hiS Administration were able to evade accountability and transparency with the American People. I am standing here with my colleagues today to say that era is over. President trump as vowed to fight all of the subpoenas from all of the house committees. He has claimed absolute immunity to prevent witnesses from showing up. He has loosely and inappropriately invoked executive privilege to prevent us from seeing millions of pages of documents. Despite the continued stonewalling, delay tactics and distraction by trump and the administration, we will move forward with holding this president accountable to the American Peop
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The most significant foreign actors targeting u. S. Elections include china and most notably russia. Remaining the most active threat the hearing is one hour and 45 minutes. I want to call this hearing to order and i want to welcome todays witnesses. I want to warn them we are finishing up one vote. We will have another one. We will work through that process. People slipping in and out, i think you understand. The director of National Intelligence, director of cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and lisa knapp executive assistant director of the National Security branch at the fbi. Welcome to all of you. Todays hearing builds on the bipartisan effort and 2016. To educate the public on the intentions of adversaries seeking to undermine the integrity of our systems. And to ensure that u. S. Government is postured to protect our elections from those foreign threats. An Interagency Task forces tasked with protecting two forms of election interference. We have seen this since 2