i d like to call this hearing to order. i d like to welcome our witnesses today, director of national intelligence, dan coats, director of the central intelligence agency gina haspel, director of the defense intelligence agency general robert ashley, director of the federal bureau of investigation chris wray, director of the national security agency general paul nokasoni and director of national geo spatial intelligence agency robert cardillo. i d also like to welcome the committee s two newest members who in typical senate fashion are not here yet, senator ben sasse of nebraska and senator michael bennet of colorado. they are both great additions and i look forward to working with them and with you to fulfill the committee s critical oversight mandates. before i go to my formal remarks, i want to extend my condolences of this committee to general ashley and his workforce at the defense intelligence agency as well as general nokasoni. on january 16th a dia employee and a nav
institute at johns hopkins university. that s a mouthful. let me start by thanking acknowledging elizabeth smyth who is sitting in the first row for her extraordinary work. [ applause ] conceiving, organizing, championing this event and to the stavros niarchos foundation for its unyielding support of our mission. we re grateful to the leadership iniof niarchos. we re pleased visily samos is here tonight and thank you for your support for agora. james madison in 1787 warned of a condition in america s society that he called the rage of the part y party. in occurred when a political party abdicated its responsibility of a public good in order to satisfy the interest of one faction of citizens against all others, against the public interest. mad dis son belie madison bel it was a threat to the ideals of compromise essential for robust governance. the rage of the party is now a dominant factor in our politics. today as you know a record 45% of republicans and democrats view the
my guest is a national security and federal law correspondent for the new york times. let me begin with you, mike. tell me that headline out of the fbi director s testimony today. what comey said was if he could do it again, he would do it the same way he had, that he thinks he had no choice but to tell congress and if he didn t do that, he would ve been concealing something from them. and that would have been disastrous for him and the fbi s reputation. what his critics would say is that it was not a question of concealment or disclosure. why didn t you just take time to look at the emails, figure out what they were, and then inform congress? you saw a lid a bit of a different jim comey today. comey is usually a cool cat, on an even keel. today he was much more animated, his voice was louder, he used his hands, used more expression, and he seemed frustrated. he said at one point he s almost nauseous to think he had some impact in the election. charlie: was he defensi
i commend those of you around the room who have been involved in them. they have been very interesting and very productive from what i have seen or when people send me reports and so forth. . think this is an really solid. we do have discussions of these matters on an official level as well. we have a strategic dialogue with india. we also have so-called snap-talks with india. for, it what snap stands think security, national security, and strategic problem-solving. take this discussion out of regional ghettos. eurasianct a whole community, they affect a whole international community. we need to talk about them any broader community of countries who are either deploying or attending to deploy these kinds of capabilities with any of the other systems that you might name, including a merv system. opportunity to discuss these in a regional setting is very important and i hope we can accomplish them. good morning. i am interested in your state , and would askt you to elaborate
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