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you tweeted about that, saying the curious thing about the memo is it does not accuse the fbi or justice with any particular law. there are legal standards for warrant applications, but it does not reference them. why is that important or do you think this memo is just meant to make a statement? mr. heath: i do not know what the intention is. i am wary of anybody, including the authors of this memo, who are trying to make assessments about people s motives. but it is interesting to me that there is a pretty clear fourth amendment standard. there are hundreds of fairly recent cases on this about what kind of information the government has to put into a warrant application. and the memo does not really say how, leaving out the fact that steele was a paid opposition researcher would violate the standard. it is a hard thing to do. the memo talks about what was left out of the fisa application, but not what was included. we do not know what other evidence the fbi had. do n ....
what does the release of this memo mean for the overall house intelligence committee investigation into russian interference? mr. heath: it is hard to know. it is hard to assess whether this is a legal or political document or something else, and it is hard to assess the claims that it makes. it is saying this is surveillance that was legally questionable, but it does not really say what the legal standard was or what law might have been broken, and it is not clear as a reader where that comes from. you tweeted about that, saying the curious thing about the memo is it does not accuse the fbi or justice with any particular law. there are legal standards for warrant applications, but it does not reference them. why is that important or do you think this memo is just meant to make a statement? mr. heath: i do not know what the intention is. i am wary of anybody, including the authors of this memo, who are trying to make assessments about people s motives. it is interesti ....
is a clear thinker, a straight talker, and says what he thinks. he is, i think, serving the administration and the country extraordinarily well. the format we are going to use today is question-and-answer. i m going to lead off with a question or two for kevin and then he s kind enough to be willing to accept questions from the audience. he has a hard stop at 1:30 p.m. so let s keep that in mind. please join me in a round of applause for our panelist this morning. [applause] whether it s charlie rose or david rubenstein, don t want to talk about that. let me start, kevin, with a very broad question. on the recent tax reform bill. what in your view are the three most important changes that that bill accomplished? mr. hassett: thanks so much and let me begin by thanking john for his leadership for all these years. i think it might ve been that i wrote a paper for the very first meeting, but if it wasn t the first, it was the second. mr. samuels: we take credit for your ca ....
good morning, we meet to receive testimony on the situation in afghanistan, i am pleased to welcome general john ,icholson back to the committee we thank you for your many years of distinguished service and leadership of u.s. and allied forces in afghanistan at a critical time. we would ask you to relate to the brave men and women fighting under your command how appreciative and how proud we are of their service. at war ins been afghanistan for more than a decade and a half. it is always worth remembering that american forces went to afghanistan because that was where, under the century of the under the taliban regime, now counted planned and trained for the september 11 attacks that killed 3000 innocent civilians on american soil. our mission was to ensure that afghanistan would never again be a safe haven for al qaeda or other terrorist groups to attack america or our allies and partners, that mission has been successful for 15 years but it is not over. american f ....
ladies and gentlemen, guests, fellow oklahomans, the governor of the great state of oklahoma, governor mary fallin. [applause] gov. fallin: thank you. lieutenant governor lamb, statewide elected officials, speaker mccaul, president pro tem shultz, members of the court, honorable senators, representatives, cabinet members, our tribal leaders, guests, and citizens of the state of oklahoma. it is my pleasure to be here with you today as we discuss the state of the the state of our state. i am joined today by my husband, wade christianson, and our wonderful cldren,hristina and adam and our daughter-in-law elizabeth and other family members. welcome, guys. [applause] i look forward to working with our new legislative leaders, pro tem schultz and mccaul, and house leaders. i want to thank our legislators for all your dedication and commitment to better government. i especially appreciate the second bond issue enacted last year to renovate this wonderful, irreplaceable bu ....