Transcripts For CSPAN3 20170606

Intelligence Committee Thursday as part of the committees investigation into allegations of election tampering in the president ial election. In march, thendirector comey testified before the House Intelligence Committee about his goals for the investigation. Heres what he had to say. I have been authorized by the department of justice to confirm the fbi as part of our counterintelligence investigation is investigating the russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 president ial election, and that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and the russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russias efforts. As with any counterintelligence investigation, this will also include an assessment of whether any crimes were committed. Because it is an open, Ongoing Investigation and is classified, i cannot say more about what we are doing and whose conduct we are examining. At the request of congressional leaders, we have taken the extraordinary step in coordination with the department of justice of briefing this congress leaders, including the leaders of this committee in a classified setting in detail about the investigation. But i cant go into those details here. I know that is extremely frustrating to some folks, but that is the way it has to be for reasons that i hope you and the American People can understand. The fbi is very careful in how we handle information about our cases and about the people we are investigating. We are also very careful about the way we handle information that may be of interest to our foreign adversaries. Both of those issues are at issue in a counterintelligence investigation. Please, dont draw any conclusions from the fact that i may not be able to comment on certain topics. I know speculating is part of human nature, but it really isnt fair to draw conclusions simply because i say i cannot comment. President trump fired mr. Comey last month. The former fbi director will testify thursday before the senate Intelligence Committee investigating russian activities during last years election. Well have live coverage here on cspan3 of the open hearing at 10 00 a. M. Eastern. You can also watch live online at cspan. Org or listen live using the free cspan radio app for apple and android devices. Sunday night on after words, new America President and ceo Anne Marie Slaughter examines global networking in the digital age in her book the chessboard and the we web strategies of connection in a networked world. Ms. Slaughter is interviewed by denis mcdonough, former white house chief of staff from the Obama Administration from 2013 to 2016. What would strike me was that we knew there was a world of states and state threats. Today if you think about north korea or iran or sometimes china and russia, that world of statetostate relations is still very, very important, and i think of it as the chessboard world, because its the world of how do we essentially beat our adversaries and we think about a move and we try to anticipate what move they are going to make. And that world is there and very important, but equally important is what i call the world of the web, that world of criminal networks, including terrorists, but also arms traffickers and drug traffickers. The world of business, which increasingly big Network Supply chains, global corporations, and the world of nongovernmental organizations. I think of all those actors as web actors, as increasingly important actors, but we dont have strategies for how to bring them together. Watch after words sunday night at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan2s book tv. Next a hearing on president trumps 2018 budget request for Cyber Command held by a house subcommittee on emerging threats with testimony from the commander of u. S. Cyber command, admiral mike rogers. This hearing is just over an hour