The presiding officer under the previous order, the Senate Stands adjourned until stands adjourned until the altered President Trump and Melania Trump will have dinner at his ministration as he welcomes australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his wife jenny morrison. Watched guest arrivals and dinner toast in our live coverage begins at 6 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan and online at cspan. Org or listen on the free cspan radio app. Cspan is back in des moines, iowa this saturday for Life Campaign 2020 coverage of the polk county democrat. Were 18 president ial candidates will take the stage for speeches. Watched the polk county iowa state fry, live on cspan, cspan. Org or listen live on the feet and turn free cspan radio app. Vice president pens tuesday afternoon, the ceremony from the Eisenhower Executive Office building is just over 30 minutes
Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing, oversight of the federal Intelligence Surveillance act. Ill now recognize myself for an opening statement. The Judiciary Committee is holding todays hearing to carry out one of its most important tasks. To ensure that the tools used boby our government to keep us safe are consistent are our values and the freedoms guaranteed by the constitution. This committee has long exercised its responsibility to shape the Legal Framework unto which intelligence and Law Enforcement agencies investigate threats and collect evidence of crimes. Although we do not conduct daytoday oversight of intelligence agencies, it falls to us in hearings like this to conduct a broad review of how our government exercises its legal authorities and whether that conduct accords with our values as americans. The outset, i want to acknowledge two things. First, the men and women in
Country in the history of the earth you are deemed as matter. For more information go to our website www. Studentcam. Org. Here to talk about security of the Global Oil Market is brian scheid, the oil news a Senior Editor for smp global plats, thank you for being here. Things or have any. Tell our viewers what exactly was struck in saudi arabia and how it impacted supply. About a week ago the oil market was in almost a general malaise over and over supply situation, there wasnt a lot happening with the crisis was very volatile market. Then saturday morning happened and there was an attack on the ad quick processing facility the largest in the world in saudi arabia and the crew raise field which is the second Largest Oil Field in saudi arabia there is still a lot of debate about what actually occurred during this attack and whos to blame, the u. S. Is already can blame on iran and we will see a lot more as that goes forward but what happened with prices was this knocked out 5. 7 Million
Democracy regarding Disinformation Campaigns. The remarks came during the symposium hosted by the office of the federal commission chair, pan america and Stanford University cyber policy centers digital incubator. This is two hours. We have a very important guest with a limited timeframe. So were going to get started. I am Ellen Weintraub, the chair from the federal Election Commission and im delighted to welcome you to digital disinformation and the threat to democracy information integrity in the 2020 elections. A symposium i am cosponsoring with pan america and stanfords Global Policy inkub incubator. This has weaponized our most cherished freedoms to sow disorder. Here in the u. S. , we saw russia deploy disinformation as one of its tools when in the words of the Mueller Report, the russian government interfered in the 2016 president ial election in sweeping and systemic fashion. Alarms are being sounded throughout Americas Intelligence Community in the halls of congress, by the de
Whistleblower complaint and the process of trying to get access to it. What you know about it . I only know what has been put out there in the media, but what we seem to know is that on more than one occasion the president has had conversation with a particular foreign leader in which explicit, either threats or promises were made that this whistleblower was witness to and felt sufficiently alarming that he felt he had to go to the Inspector General anden report. The words used were alarming and urgent, urgent. Now these are the words from Inspector General . Guest from Inspector General. Those are not words often used by anos Inspector General. And so thats get everyones attention, and the other speculation that involves ukraine. Was it a a conversation with te new president of the ukraine . Was it a conversation with Vladimir Putin about the ukraine . We dont know that yet. What we do know is that in this timeframe remember the president suspended over the actions of congress a quart