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Allegations of retaliation against cia whistleblowers. Mr. Sharply served as acting cia Inspector General since 2015. This hearing is an hour and 20 minutes. I call this hearing to order. I would like to welcome our witness, christopher sharply, President Trumps nominee to be the next Inspector General of the Central Intelligence agency. Chris, congratulations on your nomination. I would like to recognize the family that you have brought with you here today. I understand your wife, kimberly. Yes...

California. If you dont mind me saying i dont think you very good and retiring. [laughter] through 2015 serving as the Inspector General of the cia. He has served as deputy and acting ig of the cia. The Inspector General is critical to the Intelligence Community and i trust you will lead with integrity ethically and morally. As i mentioned with the nominees this committee will faithfully followed the charter with realtime oversight over the Intelligence Committee and its activities. To wrasse di...

Of the plane crash at a memorial in st. Petersburg. She goes to school in the morning and teaches in the afternoon. Meet the girl dubbed afghanistans malala. Im in doha and your top sports story this sunday motor gp has a new World Champion lorenzo changes the title from the teammate valentinorossi. Now voting has passed off smoothly in what has been billed as myanmars freest election ever and 80 with many voting for the first times in their lives and results wont be seen for days and wrangling ...

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Foreign hackers constantly target u. S. Companies in such ways in order to get every piece of competitive intelligence information they can. We simply cannot allow this to continue to happen. In response to this growing threat in our 2011 annual report, the u. S. Intellectual property coordinator called upon congress to increase the penalties for economic espionage and this bill is consistent with that recommendation. I would like to commend the members of both sides of the aisle for their work ...

President s complaints there was fraud. He has proven none in the venues he had opportunity to do so. That was noon hour on the east coast. Now moving to the 1 00 hour in the east. Six states, 43 more electoral votes to be counted, and some significance this hour, including state of wisconsin. Absolutely key to President Trump in 2016. Pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin. President trump flipped the blue wall four years ago there. Ten more into joe biden. Another of the flips for joe biden. Michig...

Much, everyone. I wanted to wait for senator blunt and not much waiting at all. I did that just because we have shared this committee together. We are good friends and certainly, as we approach this important bill, the electoral count act, it is really important that the spirit of bipartisanship gets us through and gets this thing passed. I want to thank our roy blunt and our colleagues will be here shortly. I want to mention senator king who we are going to hear from this morning, who has been ...

Strongest. This ball is off the monster. One run scores. Red sox with their third world series in a decade and most importantly their first at fenway in 95 years. Now the town that endured so much since the marathon bombing in april has plenty to celebrate. It hasnt happened at fenway park for 95 years. The red sox are world champions. Boston strong boston strong boston strong good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. The president s messaging on health care coupled with a faulty website had t...

My ambassador of assistance as well . They did. And if i said that number ambassador sondlands use of was circa in the military that term was that the three assistance around 270 million. Would that probably be people three people in accurate . Close. Charge of the ukrainian about right . Yeah. Did they get aid in policy. He ambassador volker and secretary perry. What did you come when did you come to learn about fy18 . Yes, sir. Including security mr. Giulianis role and what do you consider his...

26. What did that come to mean . My understanding, ambassador sondlands use of that term was the three people in charge of ukraine policy during the summer where he, gordon sondland, ambassador volker and secretary perry. What did you come to, when did you come to learn about mr. Giulianis role and what do you consider his role to have been . I first heard about former mayor giulianis interest in ukraine in january of this year, that was a different phase than what happened during the summertime...