Happy to oblige the interagency consensus is winning again. Cross talking American Foreign policy im joined by my guess ivan eland in washington he is a senior fellow at the independent institute and author of the book war and the road presidency we have scott ritter is a former Intelligence Officer and a United Nations weapons inspector and in los angeles we cross to joe collins he is a former california Congressional Republican candidate and u. S. Navy veteran all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to scott 1st and elmore i want to go offer my introduction here we have a new president we have a new administration we were told that would be Everything Different from tom but in terms of Foreign Policy theres an enormous amount of continuity and i think its very. And to point out too is that as i said is that. The bipartisan consensus any largely lost. With joe biden seems to be really quite willing to
Address the potentially systemic policing issues in minneapolis. The challenges we face are deeply woven into our history. They did not arise today or last year. Martha the president of the United States also signalling that he believes its not time to move on. Vice president just referred to systemic racism is a stain on our nations soul. Such a verdict is much too rare. So we cant leave this moment or look away thinking our work is done. Martha well talk about that. Minneapolis was quiet last night. Homicides are up 70 in minneapolis, this is a problem that is widespread for the everyday life there. We know from our time on the ground there, people live in the neighborhoods where Violent Crime is daily, they dont want fewer Police Officers. They want more. They have already lost because of all of this about 200 of their roughly 800 Police Officers. Lawrence jones is standing by. He spent a lot of time on the ground there. We begin with former federal prosecutor andy mccarthy. Good to
You were doing with it and how were going to evaluate the bureaus conduct if we if we dont know what authorities youre invoking what precisely youre doing what youre retaining i mean this is youve said to him repeatedly were familiar with the specifics youve now said it to be i dont know im not sure how this committee is supposed to evaluate anything that the bureau is still youre basically saying Just Trust Us i mean how we how were going to know to have to wait till the end of your investigation to find out what youve done. You know to give us all the details fair and fronsac joins us fair and you 1st brought this to our attention as this was coming out youre not going to believe this story right from capitol hill and guess what not many people are covered thats shocking in itself so lets start off from the very beginning when did the f. B. I. Start collecting at them out of data and how did congress find out about it yeah great to be with you scott is so 2 sources who have knowledge
Our appropriate legal tools and working with heres im going to try to get it and i think its what senator lee was trying to get at how are we going to know what you were doing with it and how were going to evaluate the bureaus conduct if we if we dont know what authorities youre invoking what precisely youre doing what youre retaining i mean this is youve said to him repeatedly were familiar with the specifics hes now said it to be i dont know im not sure how this committee is supposed to evaluate anything that the bureau is still youre basically saying Just Trust Us i mean how we how were going to know to have to wait till the end of your investigation to find out what youve done. You know to give us all the details fair and fronsac joins us fair and you 1st brought this to our attention as this was coming out like youre not going to believe this story right from capitol hill and guess what not many people are covered thats shocking in itself so lets start off from the very beginning
Confirmed that the f. B. I. Tapped members of congress phones as well as possibly acquitted other data without their knowledge and education imagine they were not happy. Again whatever were doing with all phone data im confident were doing it you know in conjunction with our appropriate legal tools and working with heres im going to try to get it and i think its what senator lee was trying to get at how are we going to know what you were doing with it and how were going to evaluate the bureaus conduct if we if we dont know what authorities youre invoking what precisely youre doing what youre retaining i mean this is youve said to him repeatedly were familiar with the specifics hes now said it to be i dont know im not sure how this committee is supposed to evaluate anything that the bureau is still youre basically saying Just Trust Us i mean how we how were going to know to have to wait till the end of your investigation to find out what youve done. You know to give us all the details f