Good morning, this hearing is called to order. The title of this hearing is congressional oversight in the face of executive branch and media suppression, and in particular case study of the crossfire hurricane, corrupt investigation. Ill add that. The hearing is actually quite a bit broader than that. But well certainly focus on that. I became chairman of this committee in january of 2015 and will complete my sixyear term at the end of this month. We can all be proud of the more than 100 piece of legislation we worked on together as a committee that became law. The other than more than 200 bills we passed out of committee, although not signed into law, can still serve as the basis for future legislation. Our committee and subcommittees also have broad oversight jurisdiction, and responsibilities that we have not ignored. We investigated and exposed problems within the Va Health Care system, human trafficking, National Security leaks, and systemic violations of the hatch act within the
O the computer histy museum i hope everyone is well and fe but the pandemic we are close but the dital doors are wide open im pleased to welcome you today featuring the director of mit initiative on the Digital Economy and conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist markoff. And those with the generosity under these unprecedented times we need your hp more than ever to sustain museum to dever on our mission for technology for everyone. In the future impact on humanit humanitys please continue to join and giv now to iroduce mr. Hancock to introduce todays program and speakers. I am delighted you can join todays program. And deeply influenced by social media conctions sometimes a love hate relationship and the power for od. And directorf mit initiative with Technology Writer for questions such as e aftermath of the us election and interference in 2016 and 20 what steps can we take a look at social Media Companies do on the platform without cial and with these actions we can take
Remind the viewers about the purpose of your organization. Also could you tell viewers how you are funded . Voluntaryough donations from the American People. We are a Nonprofit Educational Foundation that tries to bring more transparency, accountability, and the rule of law to our nations public life. Host one of the issues of transparency that your organization spends a lot of time with is looking into the Russian Investigation and the backdrop of it. What wasople again essentially your take on what was done in that investigation. Guest my take is the Obama Administration and Hillary Clinton campaign were nervous about the legal issues surrounding Hillary Clintons emails and other misconduct of 2016bama administration in as it related to Hillary Clintons emails and the targeting of President Trump. They doubled down on it, manufactured false allegations against President Trump to excuse unprecedented spy operations and later criminal investigations into trump and his team. Host what s
Donald trump and joe biden face off for the 1st time in the u. S. President ial debates. With fellow very still gripped in a political crisis the french president makes the countrys self exiled Opposition Leader and agrees to mediate in negotiations. And watching r. T. International neil harvey on the team will be back with your close a morning run down and then our best to stay tuned for the kaiser. Hey you know back in 2008 when the had the Global Financial crisis and banks went under Lehman Brothers bear stearns and some European Banks are going to go under that old like meetings all the weekend long and the policy was not to reform banks but to give them a bigger credit line 1020. 00 times bigger at the time we said you know it intended 12 years so if theres going to happen but a lot bigger well here we are 12 years later and the states are just as you said. Its all unraveling again especially with European Banks because they are not the center of the empire they are not rome they
Were back together now with the latest 1st its the kaiser reports. Hey you know back in 2008 when the had the Global Financial crisis and banks went under of Lehman Brothers bear stearns and some European Banks are going to go under that all of meetings all the weekend long and the policy was not to reform banks but to give them a bigger credit line 1020 times bigger at the time we said you know it in 10 to 12 years so if theres going to happen but a lot bigger well here we are 12 years later and the states are just as you said. Its all unraveling again especially with European Banks because they are not the center of the empire they are not rome they are outside so they must suffer but before we get to that fin send story about the European Banks i want to say once again we find toilet paper roll is a precious commodity as lockdowns began apparently there are rush mad rush on toilet paper all over the western world and were seeing shortages of toilet paper again that was also somethin