Companies, but like i said earlier, the government is in possession of information that if shared with the private sector could help them stave off certain Cyber Attacks. The government, as you heard from admiral rogers through its foreign Intelligence Mission has come into possession of certain malware and other information that is of use to the private sector. That alone people like to say, well, thats not very much or its not a finite amount of information, its going to continue to evolve, and thats absolutely true, but what Congress Needs to be able to do is to try and eliminate the baybay barriers to information sharing. Most people have written about the antitrust problems. Most of those have been debunked so far, but certainly we need to be able to give Liability Protection to companies. This is where we had a lot of the controversy in the house of representatives on the legislation that passed twice with bipartisan majorities, by the way, but that was before Edward Snowden. One
The Attorney General was questioned for several hours by muellers Team Last Week on wednesday, according to a source close to sessions. Former fbi director comey, he spoke with investigators last year. The interviews, we know, focused on two things. First, russias meddling in the election. And second, whether or not President Trump obstructed justice since taking office, especially as it concerns his firing of james comey in may. Jeff sessions and james comey, they are of key interest. Sessions for his meetings with the Russian Ambassador during the campaign, and of course the fact that he was involved in the firing of james comey. Of course, as for former fbi director james comey, he took many notes that hes talked about, about his interactions with the president , and of course the Special Counsel will be interested in comey expanding upon those. The president weighed in on sessions interview on tuesday. Are you concerned about what the Attorney General told the Special Counsel . Not
That assessment today by intelligence officials at a house hearing on countering violent islamic extremism. Mike emanuel in washington following the hearing and the threat we are apparently facing big time. Hi neil. A serious tone was set on by the chairman of the Homeland Security committee and danger close to home. In more than 150 citizens have attempted to or succeeded in getting to the battlefield and we know that some of them have already returned to our shores. Reporter a big challenge for those in relevant intelligence agencies and others responsible for protecting the homeland tracking those with american or friendly western ally passports. Dhs is increasing efforts to track those who enter and leave syria and may later seek to travel to the United States without a state department issued visa. The terrorist threat is dynamic and those who operate individually as a part of a terrorist organization will continue to challenge our security measures and our safety. Reporter for th
Investigation. Caught off guard. With most of the country, reporters, lawmakers, james comey himself stunned by the news, the white house found itself unprepared for the blowback from democrats and republicans. The Trump Administration scrambling with an all out blitz to defend the president s decision. And just a coincidence . Hours after firing the man leading the investigation into the Trump Campaigns possibl ties to russia, the one person President Trump is meeng with today in pers, russias foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov. Is the comey firing cast a sh shadow over your talks, gentlemen . Was he fired . Yes. Youre kidding. Youre kidding. Good morning, everybody. Im Chris Jansing in new york. This morning, President Trump clearly following the coverage of his sudden and dramatic decision to fire fbi director james comey, both defending the ad decision and going after his critics in a series of tweets. Crying Chuck Schumer stated recently, i do not have confidence in him, james comey,
Good afternoon, 18 seconds in. Im ali velshi from washington one day away from President Trumps first tate of the Union Address and he is expected to strike a note on bipartisanship, tout the economy and call on congress to pass Immigration Reform and a trillion dollars infrastructure package. Well get to those topics. But looming in the background Robert Muellers russia investigation and this. Today weve learned that Andrew Mccabe is stepping aside as deputy fbi director. Opting to take his un used leave timele he can retire in a few months. The news comes days after President Trump attacked mccabe during a press gaggle. And it comes on the same day that the House Intelligence Committee could vote to publicly release a memo spearheaded by devin nunez alleging that the fbi abused a surveillance law to obtain a warrant for former Trump Campaign visseradvice page. Julie ainsley is with me for nbc news. Jeff, lets tastart with you. Sarah huckabeesanders just stopped the briefing and what