Transcripts For CSPAN 20170606 : vimarsana.com

Admission policies, that they will not be allowed under your program to discriminate against lgbtq students . Secretary devos senator, i said it before and say it again. Schools that receive federal funds must follow federal law. I just said federal law is foggy. In your understanding of federal law, will such discrimination be allowed . Secretary devos on areas where the law is unsettled, this department will not issue decrees. That is matter for the congress anticourts. Description would be allowed or not allowed . Your understanding . Secretary devos on areas of unsettled law so you are saying refusing to answer the question . Secretary devos im going back to what i said earlier. What you said earlier didnt help us since its an area of unsettled law. If its unsettled such discrimination will continue to be allowed you under your program f thats incorrect, please correct t how about discrimination based on religion . Will such discrimination be allowed with charter or private schools . Secretary devos again, for schools that receive federal funds shall, federal law must be followed. What is that law in your case to your staundyng . Will such religious description be allowed . Secretary devos schools that receive federal funds will receive federal law. You are refusing to answer the question. Thats very important for the public to know that today the secretary of the education of education before this committee refused to affirm that she would put forward a program that would ban discrimination based on lgbtq status students or ban discrimination based on secretary devos that is not what i said. I asked you to clarify. Secretary devos discrimination in any form is wrong. I dont support discrimination in any form. Does your program ban such discrimination . Yes or no. Secretary devos what program . Your private school and Charter School program. Secretary devos let me say it again. They need to follow federal law, period. A reminder later this week former f. B. I. Director james comey will be testifying before the Senate Intelligence committee. Investigating russian activities during last years election. That will be live thursday morning at 10 00 eastern. It will be on cspan3. Well also take your phone calls and look for your social media comments. Also listen to it on the free cspan radio app. If you miss any of our live coverage during the day, the hearing will well also take your phone reai eastern on cspan2 at night. Then later back here on cspan. Heres a look at his march testimony confirming the russian investigation. Mr. Comey i have been authorized by the department of justice to confirm that the f. B. I. As part of our Counterintelligence Mission is investigating the russian governments 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 antirussian government, and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russias efforts. As with any Counter Intelligence 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 were doing and whose conduct were examining. At the request of congressional leaders, we have taken 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. I cant go into those details here. I know that is extremely frustrating to some folks, but it is the way it has to be. For reasons that i hope you and the American People can understand, the f. B. I. Is very careful in how we handle information about our cases and about the people were investigating. Were also very careful about the way we handle information that may be of interest to our foreign adversaries. Both of those interests 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 cant comment. You can watch his testimony live online at cspan. Org or listen live using the cspan free radio app for apple and android devices. Live coverage of the hearing starts 10 00 a. M. Thursday on cspan3. U. S. House about