Impact on our election. And how Rudy Giuliani had access to that information when he did. I think the comey letter was dispositive. Should we have had more fortified to be able to with stand the hit, thats part of the after action review evaluation. We could just see it in the numbers. We thought we were like at 20 and trying to go for more. Hillary was like this in those districts. She went like that in those districts. Im talking from the stand point of what the numbers i have seen in our races. In terms of hillarys race, i think the minute he came without he came out with that letter, that was totally wrong. Thats a twopart i think everybody has to be vetted in terms of giuliani. Hopefully theyll have a vetting. As you may know, yesterday, in our previous question on the floor, we were saying, dont vote for this, let us bring up a bill that says, no lobbyist should be on the transition team. No funds in this act following the legislation thats already there, but codifying that they
The committee will come to order. I want to remind our members, our guests and our staff that we are at the unclassified level for todays hearing. Im also obligated to remind the witnesses that providing false information to this committee or concealing Material Information from the committee is a crime punishable by law. Today we welcome director of National Intelligence, james clapper, deputy secretary of defense robert work and the under secretary of defense for intelligence, marcel lettre. Thank you for all three of you for being here today. The United States faces grave security threats today from terrorism threats to aggression by nation states to cyberattacks. The Intelligence Community provides our military with critical information across the full spectrum of conflict. Yet when the ic and dod do not integrate effectively, we risk intelligence failures that put our war fighters lives at risk. Were here today because the dod and ic have failed to adequately respond to the concer
Last night, Vice President elect mike pence took a break from the president ial Transition Team to attend a performance of Broadway Musical hamilton. When that show was over, one of the cast members addressed the Vice President elect in from of the audience. A portion of those remarks were then posted on twitter. [cheers and applause] you know, we have a guest in the audience this evening. Vice president elect pence, i out, but i walking hope you will stay for a few more moments. There is no need for booing, no need for booing. [indiscernible] vince, wedentelect welcome you, and we truly thank you for joining us here at hamilton an american musical. We, sir, are the diverse america who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us [cheers and applause] ourefend us and uphold inalienable rights, but we truly hope that the show has inspired you to uphold our American Values and work on behalf of all of us. [cheers and applause] a wonderful american story told b
In the suburbs of paris, they are there trying to figure out if the body killed was the mastermind behind the attacks. Good morning, welcome to your world, im del walters. And im stephanie sy. In france, the government is voting whether to extend the state of emergency. Police are allowed to carry weapons even when offduty. Adam raney is there, what is the latest from the body. Theres a lot of unconfirmed repor reports swirling around that Abdelhamid Abbaaoud was one of those killed. We were there, it was as if grenades were used, it was a heavy raid by police with a push back and response from the suspects in this apartment on the edge of paris. They are trying to find out who are the individuals killed. Now, theres no confirmed warns that it was abdelhammed abbaaoud or indeed salah abdeslam, the person who fled after the ahacks friday night. Theres no confirmed reports that he was killed there. Theres a sit of emergency in effect there. What does that mean in the city . Well, it mean
They go to bed at night, who is going to be coming in the window. Including introduction of significant fighting ground force, hypothetically international but including u. S. Forces. Even in the absence of capable motivated ground forces, while we certainly have the capability to furnish a u. S. Component, we have not recommended this course of action for several reasons. In the near term it would be a significant undertaking that as much as we may wish otherwise we would embark upon largely by yourselves and it would be our comparative advantage of special forces mobility and fire power instead fighting on the enemys terms, in medium term we could tell turn those fighting isil or incline to resist their rule into fighting us instead. As chairman dunford testified last week, quote, isil would love nothing more than a large presence of u. S. Forces on the ground in iraq and syria so that they could have a call to jihad. And lastly, in the longterm there could still remain the problem o