underway of the cyber security vulnerabilities. have you requested a review of what laws need to be updated in order to protect our elections from foreign influence? we have discussed those matters, but no completion has been done. are you conducting a review at this time? yes. our team is looking at that. the fbi has real skills in that area. i think we are not anywhere near where i would like us to be yet. but let me ask you this question. what an individual with department is leading the inquiry? we are working with voting rights section, criminal section, national security section, probably is the most knowledgeable in the hacking area as well as the expertise in the fbi. the gentleman s time has
not know that the fbi was requested to conduct a new review of turkish 2016 extradition requests for mr. google and? did you know about that? i m aware that the turkish government continued to press the federal government with regard to seeking the return of him to turkey. they had a role to play at and that although i m not at liberty to discuss the details of that. did you know that the turkish government allegedly offered $15 million for mr. flynn to kidnap mr. gulen? absolutely not. no.
the u.s. attorney for u.s. attorney in district made a decision not to enforce that. the statute as we understand it is not a statute that says you will look at this and decide independently, it actually says it shall be presented to the grand jury. will you commit to review that, and if you agree with us as to what the statute says, and we think it s pretty plain english, order a u.s. attorney to present to a grand jury, and if they know billet, fine, but presented consistent with statutory law? i will review that more personally but the department of justice view has been it takes the full load of the house to accomplish that act and i will give it a personal review which have not done. if you could stop the clock for one second. if the entire house voted to the
representative jackson lee that the ethics people at the department of justice, and i talk to them about that when this campaign started at the feet i used to hold that they advised me that the attorney general should not be involved in this campaign. i have friends in the campaign. i want to make sure that if he comes to the united states senate that there would be the possibility of referring his case for at least a federal review by the department of justice. we will do i.d. may also refer you back to the meeting on march 31st, 2016 with mr. papadopoulos. you will know that mr. papadopoulos in addition to his comments in the meeting regarding the meeting between trump and mr. putin had a series
regarding that at&t-time warner accusation? first, i would say that i don t accept and cannot accept the accuracy of that news report. we have a professional your department has not told time warner that at&t that they must shed turner broadcasting? our words were professional, they do meet with is that a false report or a true report? ago i would just tell you, i don t think i m able to accept t that have coming out on that. let me ask you this question. on october 18th when testifying before the senate judiciary committee, senator sasse asked you if the department had taken adequate action to prevent election meddling in the future, you stated there was no review