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
James comey who saw the trumprussia probe. He testified today he only learned about fbi abuses in the probe reading about them after the fact in government watchdog reports years after he left the bureau. But then comey claiming it was quote, run by the book. All this leading republicans to ask how can comey know so little about an investigation he launch and ran, when it was comey who pushed for the Mueller Probe in the first place . Joining us republican congressman doug collins from house judiciary how the democrats are mounting an even bigger pushback to stonewall president Trumps Supreme Court nominee amy coney barrett. Former federal prosecutor jim trusty on dni ratcliff declassifying information that indicates u. S. Intelligence had evidence from 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 an distract from her own personal email scandals. That president obama kne
Tips, and more information at our website. Former fbi director james comey recently testified on the republican led review of the fbis handling of the russia investigation. [gavel] graham good morning, everyone. We will get started with of the the hearing. I want to thank mr. James comey, the former director of the fbi, for appearing today before the committee to talk with us about crossfire hurricane and anything else the committee would like to speak with him about. So, to give a little brief introduction of why we are here and what we are trying to accomplish, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is a tool that has been around for a very long time for our Intelligence Community, the fbi, to make sure when Foreign Agents, terrorists, or agents of a Foreign Government are in our country, they can be surveilled if they are doing things that are threatening to the National Security. Government are in our country, they can be surveilled if theyre doing things that i think this legis
Coming up, former Trump Campaign 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 tr
The steel dossier and foreign interference in u. S. Elections. This is three hours and 45 minutes. Thank you for coming and we will get started with of the the hearing. I want to thank mr. James comey, the former director of the fbi, for appearing today before the committee to talk with us about crossfire hurricane and anything else the committee would like to speak with him about. So, to give a little brief introduction of why we are here and what we are trying to accomplish, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act s a tool that has been around for a very long time for our Intelligence Community, the fbi, to make sure when Foreign Agents, terrorists or agents of a Foreign Government are in our country, they can be surveilled if they are doing things that are threatening to the National Security. I think this legislation goes all the way back t to the 70s, iand its been used a lot. Its been used in tariff cases when wee suspect someone of beig a terrorist under the Foreign Intelligen