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mr. schiff: good afternoon, i wanted to make comments about the emails at a been released today. in the summer of last year, the russians were in possession of information they believed would be damaging to secretary clinton and helpful to the trump campaign. some of this information they stole from the computers at the dnc and elsewhere. in june, we now know that through intermediaries to the russian government thought the trump campaign to see if they were interested in damaging information about hillary clinton. in late july, then-candidate trump urged the russians to hack hillary clinton s emails and said they would be richly rewarded. during the course of our investigation, one of the questions we are sort to answer is, was there private activity by the campaign in parallel with the very public request that now president trump, then-candidate trump made for the russians to hack and release hillary clinton information? we now know the response that the president s s ....
the armed services committee meets today to consider the nomination of richard spencer to be secretary of the navy. i would like to acknowledge the tragedy in mississippi yesterday, 16 service members lost their lives in the crash of a marine corps kc 130 from cherry point, north carolina. it reminds us that these brave men and women put themselves in harms way everyday at home and abroad in training and in combat and service to our nation. we are keeping their families in our hearts and prayers. nation. we are keeping their families in our hearts and prayers. mr. spencer, we think you for training us this morning and we welcome your family and friends with us today as is our tradition at the beginning of your testimony we invite you to introduce those who are joining him. it is standard for this committee to ask certain questions in order to exercise its legislative and oversight responsibility. it is upon that this committee and other committees are able to receive ....
year. you are here to help us understand this new element that is part of the defense authorization bill calling for the development of space corps. what is that? guest: the idea here is to create a separate military service like the navy, the marine corps,, army, and air force. there would be a space corps that focuses specifically on the space domain. it would align authorities and resources under this organization and they are focused on developing and operating military space capability. host: what is behind the development of this? why do we need it and why now? guest: the argument has actually been going on for decades now that space has been a stepchild within the military. most of our military space capabilities are under the air force, but not all of them. the navy actually builds and operates its own fleet of military communication satellites. the army has some space operations as well. the idea is that space has been so fragmented that we are not able to effe ....
true story, and those who live in washington have heard versions of this. i was at a dinner party, and sitting next to me was a pretty senior hhs executive. very nice person. she said, what are you writing these days? i said a colleague and i conducted a survey of washington officials. everyone is always surveying americans to see what they think of washington. let s survey washington see what he thinks of america. so we did a very official and what i will call a policy community that is the contractors, who are interchangeable with officials, people who work in think tanks, everyone involved in developing rules and regulations. i said, we wanted to see what they thought of americans. my original title was, what the government thinks of the people. but publishers never like my titles. i wanted to i think find out what officials thought of ordinary americans. she said, well, that is kind of interesting. but everybody knows that ordinary americans are a bunch of idiots. ....
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