The committee on Foreign Affairs will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare a recess at any point and all members will have five days to submit statements, materials and questions for the record subject to the length, limitations in the rules. To insert something in the record please have your staff email the previously mentioned address or contact of the full committee staff. I see that we have a quorum and before i go forward i understand the speaker of the house, miss pelosi, will be stopping by this hearing and i ask unanimous consent she participate in any point she arrives during the hearing. So ordered. There she is. Madame speaker, would you like to make some remarks . Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. I thank you and mr. Mccaul, mr. Eliot engel for having this hearing today. It is with Great Sadness that i come here because we had such optimism and such hope. The u. S. Congress has always spoken in a bipartisan house and senate, democrats and republicans, with one
A bill to limit the President Trumps ability to attack iraq. In the libyan war Khalifa Haftar rejects a call for a cease fire going against a plea by turkey and russia. And the top stories including. Trying to cash in on celebrity status public shock and anger part time. And in sports the tennis world number one makes a losing start to the new year actually barty sapper is a shock to a dinner opening match the brisbane national. So we begin this news with breaking news u. S. President donald trump says that he has suspicions about the crash of a ukrainian airliner outside tehran on wednesday all 176 people on board were killed when it came down shortly after takeoff u. S. Intelligence sources of concluded that it was shot down accidentally by an Iranian Missile a view that donald trump shared with reporters. I have my suspicions it was very i dont want to say that because other people have those suspicions also. Its a tragic thing when i see that its a tragic thing. But somebody could
Campaign, the democrats have dismissed that claim and they claim President Trump has been politicizing the Justice Department. President trump has hypedru this report for over a year saying this is going to be very historic and expose a lot of wrongdoing. To some degree he was right because this report is a blackeye for the fbi. How tbi so . It found that the fisa application which is the application to surveilled carter page was riddled with errors, things from they left our key information. In other things they put in the fisa report and they left that out, they did not present that to the judge of the fisa court. There were all kinds of errors erand they found for one of the renewals and fbi lawyer had doctored evidence to make sure that the fisa application to wiretap mr. Page got renewed. So all in count, according to your story 17 inaccuracies or envisions, was there any explanation by leadership on why the fundamental mistakes are being made . No theres no explanation, nor is th
Page. The president and his allies spying onat lead to his campaign, democrats have dismissed that claim and they claim President Trump has been politicizing the Justice Department and President Trump has hyped this report for over a year saying this was going to be historic and expose a lot of wrongdoing and to some degree, he was right because this report is a black eye for the fbi. Host how so . Guest it found the fisa application to surveilled carter page was riddled with errors, keygs from they left out information, they had information that contradicted other things they put in the report and they left that out, they did not present that to the judges. There were all kinds of errors and they found for one of the renewals, and fbi lawyer had doctored evidence to make sure wiretap mr. Ion to page got renewed. Ort 17 inaccuracies admissions, was their explanation from leadership on why these mistakes were being made . Guest there is no explanation nor is there an explanation from Mi
Look at actions of the fbi and joining us on the phone to talk about it is jeff murdock, has the lead story taking a look at the warrant application looking at carter page. Good morning. Guest thank you for having me. Host can you remind viewers what the exact goal of this report was when it was put into place . Guest the exact goal was to find out if the fbi abused authority when it applied for a warrant to surveilled carter page. The president and his allies spying onat lead to his campaign, democrats have dismissed that claim and they claim President Trump has been politicizing the Justice Department and President Trump has hyped this report for over a year saying this was going to be historic and expose a lot of wrongdoing and to some degree, he was right because this report is a black eye for the fbi. Host how so . Guest it found the fisa application to surveilled carter page was riddled with errors, keygs from they left out information, they had information that contradicted othe