Advisor carter page and former director keep james comey who saw the fbi trump russia probe testified today saying he only learned about fbi abuses and the probe by reading about them after the fact and government watchdog report years after he left the bureau. And then comey claiming it was run buy the book, all this leading republicans ask how does comey know so little about an investigation that he launched and ran with it was comey who pushed for the Mueller Probe in the first place, then joining us republican congressman doug collins from house judiciary on how the democrats are now mounting a bigger push back to stonewall President Trump Supreme Court nominee amy coney barrett, former federal prosecutor on dni ratcliffe, he is classifying information that indicates u. S. Intel intelligent of russia in the summer of 2016 that Hillary Clinton and her team had personally signed off on a plan to make up the russia collusion story in order to damage trump and distract from her own per
Good morning, everyone. Thank you for coming. Well get started with our hearing. I want to thank mr. Comey, james comey, the former director of the fbi for appearing today before the committee to talk with us about cross fire hurricane and anything else the committee would like to speak with him about. So give a little brief introduction of why were here and what were trying to accomplish. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is a tool thats been around for a very long time. For our Intelligence Community, the fbi to make sure that when Foreign Agents, terrorists or agents of a Foreign Government are in our country, they can be surveilled if theyre doing things that are threatening to our National Security. I think this legislation goes all the way back to the 70s. And its been used a lot. Its been used in terrorist cases when we suspect someone of being a terrorist under the foreign intelligence act. We have the Legal Authority to surveil those people. And you can get a warrant u
Hard work. The bipartisan support youve received is well deserved and i share the sentiments. The release of this report is an important step to answer the questions that have festered for far too long. The scope is narrow and many important questions remain unanswered. Much attention has been paid to the reports conclusion that the crossfire hurricane investigation did have adequate predicate. But that inaccuracies and omissions in the fisa application and renewals call into question the integrity of that process. Yesterdays order by the presiding judge is a dramatic rebuke and underscores how serious a fisa warrant abuse is. I would argue that based on what the report reveals about early knowledge within the fbi, we should be asking more fundamental questions. At what point should the investigation into the possible collusion between russia and the Trump Campaign had been shut down. Although the ig concluded the investigation was properly initiating, consensual monitoring of Trump Ca
Thank you all very much. Mr. Horowitz thank you very much. Mr. Horowitz, thank you. I appreciate what you have done. Do you have your team with you . Would it be ok if they raised their hands . If they are ok with it, im ok with it. Thank you all. You have labored hard and your work product is impressive. I just want to thank you all for what you have done for the country. Mr. Horowitz, i am dying to hear from you. I will take a little bit longer to try to lay out what i think is before us as a nation to crossfire hurricane was probably the best name ever given to an investigation in the history of investigations, because that is what we wound up with, crossfire hurricane. There has been a lot of media reports about your report before it was issued. And i remember reading all these headlines lawful investigation with a few irregularities. Everything ok, lowlevel people kind of got off track. If that is what you get out of this report, you clearly didnt read it. If that is your take awa
This morning about his report on the russia investigation during the 2016 president ial campaign. He took questions from members of the Senate Homeland security and Governmental Affairs committee. The chair is senator ron johnson of wisconsin. This hearing will come to order. I want to thank Inspector General horowitz and his team for being here. I know in the hearing you had everybody raise their hands. If youve raise your hands and identify yourselves all the people who did this excellent work, i appreciate that. I want to thank you for all your hard work and efforts for preparing the report. The bipartisan praise you have received for your effort is welldy served and i share those sentiments. The release of this report is an important step in providing the public many of the answers to the questions that have festered for far too long. As thoreau as it is, its scope is narrow. Many important questions remain unanswered. Much attention has been paid to the reports conclusion, but the