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
Borelli, congressman brian babin on the big headlines of the day. The latest push by house lawmakers to break you will big silicon tech giants over their monopoly power. Conservatives say social Media Censorship of conservatives is building steam. It is getting worse. We have more of bidens gaffs, floppers, flipflops. President obama is saying a flipflop. You wont believe what president obama said, it has to do with a big new democrat push for the selection. This new bombshell, dni John Ratcliffe declassifies more government documents, handwritten notes by former cia director john brennan that top u. S. Intelligence officials were worried about russian misinformation in Hillary Clintons plan to that they personally warned president barack obama about it, and susan rice and former dni james clapper. This is about hillarys alleged plan accusing trump of working with russia to hack into democrat emails in order to distract from her own private email server scandal. The Mueller Probe found
Been someone i been covering for over a decade since he first ran for the u. S. Senate back in 2010, senator rubio thank you for being here. Good morning thank you for having me. We are 49 days away from the election, you serve as chairman of the Senate Select committee on intelligence from that seat, what is the biggest threat to our president ial election in terms of foreign interference. I think first we have to break up foreign interference in the two categories, one is meddling in the architecture and mechanics of the election and the other is a message and psychological operations and warfare designed to get us to divide against each other, let me talk about the second one in terms of putting out messages and the like, that is yearround and what the adversaries basically do, they look at all the preexisting fractures in our society and they push on that, they use social media increasing what they are using to create a website somewhere and maybe hire americans to ride on the webs
Tips, and more information at our website. Former fbi director james comey recently testified on the republican led review of the fbis handling of the russia investigation. [gavel] graham good morning, everyone. We will get started with of the the hearing. I want to thank mr. James comey, the former director of the fbi, for appearing today before the committee to talk with us about crossfire hurricane and anything else the committee would like to speak with him about. So, to give a little brief introduction of why we are here and what we are trying to accomplish, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is a tool that has been around for a very long time for our Intelligence Community, the fbi, to make sure when Foreign Agents, terrorists, or agents of a Foreign Government are in our country, they can be surveilled if they are doing things that are threatening to the National Security. Government are in our country, they can be surveilled if theyre doing things that i think this legis
Future an interview that comes from the Washington Post. Good morning i am bob costa, National Political reporter at the Washington Post, welcome to Washington Post live in another special interview for the Texas Tribune festival. My guest is senator marco rubio republican of florida, he has been someone i been covering for over a decade since he first ran for the u. S. Senate back in 2010, senator rubio thank you for being here. Good morning thank you for having me. We are 49 days away from the election, you serve as chairman of the Senate Select committee on intelligence from that seat, what is the biggest threat to our president ial election in terms of foreign interference. I think first we have to break up foreign interference in the two categories, one is meddling in the architecture and mechanics of the election and the other is a message and psychological operations and warfare designed to get us to divide against each other, let me talk about the second one in terms of putting