volumes. jack, what is the potential upside for russia and kislyak in this idea of forming a secret communications line? why would russia be interested in using a challenge to discuss security issues? i don t think it has so much to do with secret communications. we re blowing this a little out of proportion if you think we re going to get into this situation where you think there s going to be that secret communication from the white house to the creme lib bypassing everything else. i think it s more or less, the whole idea what they re trying to do is create chaos and we re hopi hope helping a dprael by acting the way that we are in our leadership here. bob, in effect russia has done what it intended and that is to create more questions in the system here in the united states. yes. whoever the kgb is running this koe very action campaign should
have a real debate about 702 that ensures that security and liberty are not mutually exclusive. we have to have that number. senator king, i understand you have some? thank you, senator. if this hearing had been held two weeks ago, we d be spending the last two hours talking about north korea. i think we ought to pay some attention to. that director pom pay koe pom could you give us an update on the nature of the threat, some of the pressure we were feeling is relieved? is there anything going on that should make us feel better about that situation? senator, i don t see anything that should make us feel any better about this threat. we have a threat from flash points that something could spark and have a conventional war wholly apart from the issues we talk about with icbms.
just became possibly the most important investigation going, that looks like possibly the most bipartisan one, mark warner is going to join us later, he is the democrat who is the koe chair of the senate intelligence committee. the pressure is on him now. the pressure is on that committee now in a way that it wasn t before. yeah, and they re right in the middle of it. right now today was their deadline for documents they had requested for four trump associates from mike flynn, manafort, paige and roger stone. yes. that today was the four the deadline for them handing over documents. as far as we understand it, at least three of those people did not hand over their documents to the senate intelligence committee by that deadline today. i think it s also crucial. you can talk to senator warner about this, they made a request today to the financial crimes
the democrat who is the koe chair of the senate intelligence committee. the pressure is on him now. the pressure is on that committee now in a way that it wasn t before. yeah, and they re right in the middle of it. right now today was their deadline for documents they had requested for four trump associates from mike flynn, manafort, paige and roger stone. yes. that today was the four the deadline for them handing over documents. as far as we understand it, at least three of those people did not hand over their documents to the senate intelligence committee by that deadline today. i think it s also crucial. you can talk to senator warner about this, they made a request today to the financial crimes unit which investigates things like international money laundering asking them for documentation that they got about president trump himself or people associated with him. that request went into treasury today. mark warner made public disclose sure of that request today.
responsibility and cast blame instead of to one that makes it. i wonder, in order stay employed, find show on another network doesn t he have to keep arguing this? that is certainly his position. he is backed up but the preponderate of the united states who defended him right after emily s story came out saying i don t think he did anything wrong. if you watch fox news and you see carlson this stomacher there were examples of what her koe host was saying to her. you have seen bill oh lislely can this is just the way things