crossfire hurricane was a case that was open against u.s. citizens in a presidential campaign, unprecedented, never been done before and that would be handled withare marked all over that decision-making process but it doesn't appear that way. they literally took fehand informatio fbi received information from a friendl foreign government who we now be australia who in tur headed conversation witheorge papadopoulos who in turn received information now known to joseph [inaudible] that the russians had suggested that they had information damaging to the clinton campaign and i'm not sure how you rally all of that together to make sufficient predication for an opening even a preliminary or limited infestation that they went ahead and opened a full investigaon which gave the ability to use all the fbi in mosquito powers against u.s. citizens and as i pointed out earlier,ot only would they rely on fourth and hearsay within embedded in those statements by the strong and diplomat were toxculpatory statements that should have stopped the show right t

crossfire hurricane was a case opened against u.s. citizens and members of a presidential campaign unprecedented. never been c done before. you would think it would be handled with care marked all over. they literally took the fourth and information the fbi receivd information from the foreign we now know to be from australia who in turn had at conversation with george papadopoulos who in turn received information now known i'm not sure how you rally all of that together to make sufficient predication for opening s even a preliminary limited investigation. they opened up a full investigation that gave them the ability to use all of the investigative powers they were to exculpatory statements that should have stopped the show right thenen but didn't. >> and now we know the source of the dossier that was the principal source for the fisa warrants and we've heard testimony that they wouldn't have issued had it not have been for the steele dossier subject to the counterintelligence investigation. you just can't make this stuff up. this is

>> i would not be proud of crossfire hurricane. this is not by the - - done by the book even remotely. we keep saying it over and over again the fbi cannot walk outside the door without articulating adequate predication to interview us citizen. we should allwa be concerned and vigilant the fbi adheres to those policy guidelines and in this case they did not. >> and the center is on me about this is part of the problem. i think you'll understand i haven't got a great deal of support for these investigations the last six years. the attendance of this hearing shows that what i tried point out with the lack of a accountabity with the hi theer in congress. reason they are not held accountable is there is no way to hold them accountable. who investigates the investigator? who prosecute the prosecutor? problem.n enormous and in the six years to do this and get this out, obviously the bias of the media and the attacks i have had to put up with it doesn't bother me personally but in terms of the reflection and the impact of democracy and fr

>> i wouldn't be proud of crossfire hurricane. i'm proud of fbi agents but this was not done by the book, not remotely. we keep saying over and over the fbi cannot walk outside the door without articulating adequate predication to interview a us citizen. we should all be concerned and vigilant the fbi adheres to those policy guidelines and in this case they did not. >> thank you, mister chairman. senator scott, senator holly is on by remote. i think you will understand i've not gotten a lot of support for these investigations the last six years. the attempts of this hearing shows that and i tried to point out the lack of accountability, congress is a paper tiger. the reason these people are not held accountable is there is no way to hold them accountable. who investigates the investigator? who prosecute the prosecutors? that is an enormous problem and what i have come to understand in six years trying to do this, trying to get this out, the bias in the media, the attacks i have put up with doesn't bother me personally. it bothers

the crossfire hurricane investigation was not an abuse of the fbi. it was an abuse by the fbi, by a rogue band of reckless executives. i'm sorry, i got that backward. it was not an abuse by the fbi, it was an abuse of the fbi by a rogue band of executives because of the duplicity of these disgraced former fbi leaders many americans have lost trust and faith in the fbi, perhaps that is the greatest wreckage of this entire debacle. the trust has been eroded. the shameless former fbi executives collect significant sums of money from book royalties, media appearances, teaching gigs and gofundme scams. americans would like to see accountability but hope wanes. the efforts of this committee to shed light is welcome and commendable. perhaps it will at least help prevent something like crossfire hurricane from ever happening again to any american or future presidential nominee. >> thank you, mr. brock. our final witness is mr. lee smith. mr. smith has worked in the press for more than 30 years. writing on foreign policy, national security and media. he has w

will ganss is here with her story. >> caught in the crossfires, i don't know. some people say maybe a little more than that. lori laughlin's daughter is owning up to her family's big mistake, but not everyone is satisfied with her opening up. including one of the women she sat down with. lori laughlin has already spent more than half of her two-month prison sentence for her role in the varsity blues scandal. but with both her parents in jail, all we've seen of olivia jade lately is this. but now the social media influencer is speaking out. >> i'm not trying to victimize myself. i don't want pity, i don't deserve pity. we messed up. >> reporter: appearing on red table talk, acknowledging her family's part in the legal scheme that got olivia and her sister into usc. >> there is no justifying or excusing what happened, because what happened was wrong. and i think every single person in my family can be like, that was messed up. that was a big mistake. >> reporter: jada pinkett smith, her mother and her daughter not letting her off the hook easy. >> i'm exhausted.

. >>> we're live here on c-span3 for a hearing on the fbi's investigation known as crossfire hurricane, that looked into possible ties between the 2016 trump campaign and russian officials. >> still waiting for senator -- #. >> we're waiting for the start on a senate homeland security committee, crossfire hurricane, possible ties between the 2016 trump campaign and russian officials. live coverage here on c-span3. >>> good morning, this hearing is called to order. the title of this hearing is congressional oversight in the face of executive branch and media suppression, and in particular case study of the crossfire hurricane, corrupt investigation. i'll add that. the hearing is actually quite a bit broader than that. but we'll certainly focus on that.

seems like it's an about-face , we were expecting a real investigation into what took place and why crossfire investigation into donald trump still has no accountability. can you give us some sunlight on that? >> well, from my position in the intelligence community, one of the things that you know, maria, that i spend a lot of time on this issue as a member of congress before i game the d ni, but one of the things i wanted to look at was from the intelligence community perspective was there any intelligence at all, anything to support the opening of crossfire hurricane and from the position that i'm in now, i'm able to tell everyone, there wasn't and you don't have to take my word for it. the other officials from the obama-biden administration have said so as well. one of my predecessors james clapper, you know, has admitted that he never saw intelligence of russian collusion with the trump campaign. i declassified documents to show that not only that was the case, but that also there was intelligence that showed those trump russia collusion allegations were created by the democratic party, p

she wrote in her book is that chemical war is never one and all life is caught and it's finally crossfire and her idea there was the chemical war is never won because the pests are constantly evolving resistance which means you have to use more and more chemicals more and more toxic chemicals to achieve the same fact and all life is caught in its violent crossfire because all life is impacted by these chemicals not just the targets and not only are we killing the passenger culture we're killing the birds and the spiders and the mites and the parasite toward wass that normally would control those who were removing the biological control at the same time as are damaging wildlife and human health in the farm workers and everything else so i don't think there were any better at anticipating these unintended consequences than we ever were and we just seem to keep making the same mistake over and over now let's talk about why we keep making the same mistakes over and over because i think every chapter in your book is a testament how humans are very bad for the ration and whenever they find some

and in london we have marcus papadopoulos he is the editor of politics 1st magazine high jumping crossfire president that means jumping up and i was ok i was going to marcus in london give us a day on break said all year long they have had to get this trade deal into place and of course at the very end at the end of the wire we still don't have one and of course the from what i've been following is that it is unlikely and there's a lot of scaremongering but there's still a lot of questions as well what my question is after 4 long years of this why are there still questions i mean you've got a lot of smart people in your country maybe not politicians but c'mon explain to us why we're still talking about. well ok to the press it story is off the perch and it's and again because wast groups unless you're in union in political terms almost that's the 1st of january of this year on the facts you press them december of this year britain will leave the e.u. both economically and legally britain is in a transition after martin's and after the frenzy fest of the senate this year the transition cann

so, as the enemy approached the individual fort walls, there could be crossfire from different anglesf the fort, on the enemy. it also has a moat. this moat was originally designed to allow them to move materials around the fort to help with its construction. after the fort was completed, the moat obviously becomes another level of defense for fort monroe. fort monroe, the largest stone fort in the united states, even today, started its construction in 1819. it would take them all the way until 1834 to finish the construction of the fort. the original intention of the fort was to house 32 pound artillery pieces to fire upon ships entering the chesapeake bay. it had water exposure and did not worry much about defense of the land behind it. fort monroe would remain the strong force of artillery might all the way up until the american civil war. we are looking at a 32-pound artillery tube. we know that this tube was built in 1846. every casemate that we are standing in would have one of these beasts inside of it to fire out through the fort's window at the approaching enemy, usually upon

areas they are still holding say there is fighting ongoing meaning there is a possibieyty re in the crossfire may not be able to get need as quickly. sun is undergoing an economic peal to aimhas to both from the human and international commuty and given those pressures on the economy not just as a result of this conflict but perennial conflict -- they have been ized and not been able t access aid. rithe s coming out are quite worrying and there are reports about unethicalreatment of refugees and the re-traumatizing should of their experice. if these areas do not receive aidof there is a possibilit bigger crisis. >> thank you very much for joining us. the situation is clearly very fragile for people in the area. we will be keeping an eye on what happens in that region. this year will be one of the three hottest ever recorded according to the meteorological office and today the secretary-general has told the bbc that planet earth is broken. he was speaking as part of a meecial event on the envir and here is what he had to say. >> the state of our planet is broken. armanity is waging war on each

they say san jose's 46th fatal traffic crash this year. 500 busy battling a crossfire san leandro early this morning. here's look at the damage, this one broke out about 5:45, on navy street. the crews cleared the structure and had the fire knocked down in about 30 minutes. >> some california sex offenders may be eligible for early parole under a ruling by the state supreme court today. they ruled inmates who have been convicted of nonviolent sex crimes may qualify for early parole consideration, as part of the ballot measure approved four years ago. former gov. jerry brown says it was never intended to cover sex offenders but lower appeals courts have ruled they cannot be excluded from consideration, and the high court agreed. >>> coming up, boeing 737 max is getting ready to fly. passengers for the first time in nearly 2 years, but will people actually get on board. >>> why lottery players are rushing to buy scratch off tickets right now. >>> coming up, all new tonight at six, it is pretty obvious, not everyone is following the travel quarantine rules, so what is the best way to stay

suspected that we were supporting the military i mean those were so we got caught in the crossfire and to save ourselves we fled to mexico. but me. as a result of peace talks in 1995 the maya families from whom we still returned and founded a co-operative at the foot of the fire. now they must once again search the new land it's a never ending odyssey. we take a journey back in time to explore the past of what a model as indigenous peoples. back to the region rubin dario pacquet comes from. he's visiting a co-op operated by the pub the maya people in us it was here that the history of coffee production began in guatemala. so you that i mean i'm from the catchy ethnic grown mother love that up around this area of without our better parts of the world and like me these company arrows have learned how to plant coffee from their forefathers. got for me. now it's time to harvest the coffee. that. europeans 1st brought the plants to the americas in 1720 to this day coffee is one of guatemala's principle cash crops. for the coffee has historically been a source of those dependency and liberat

the crossfire her can investigation between the chimp campaign and russian officials.atch live starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3. at c-span.org, or listen live on the free c-span radio app. with a peaceful presidential transition of power and question following the 2020 election, sunday night, on q&a, historian susan shoulders and erik rush we talk about two of the most contentious presidential transitions and you and history in 1861 -- in u.s. history in 1861 between james buchanan and a blinken and then between herbert hoover and frank lynn was about. >> some states did not recognize the election of abraham lincoln as legitimate. they considered him a sectional president due to by and large his support came from non-placed states. than south carolina makes good on its promise to proceed towards receiving from the union. >> overheated the election on election day and really had no choice given the resounding nature of the way it was reported. it's clear he had lost the election. he never conceded the argument. he continued to believe that the represented a fun

hello and welcome to crossfire for all things considered i'm peter lavelle at this point no one knowswhen the code crisis will abate however it is undeniable that this health crisis has negatively impacted the economy what does it mean to return to normal is that even possible now and will the divide separating the rich from the poor continue to update. to discuss the economy and more i'm joined by my guest peter bergen great american he is an economist at the american institute for economic research in miami and we have made rezko he is in xenos chief investment strategist and we also have eric townsend he is host of the macro voices podcast original macross up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciated ok let's go 1st to peter you know in looking at the very the. the broadest picture of what's going on in the economy right now i think we all have to be very honest with ourselves that the election cycle influenced people how they look at the economy how bad it is or how good it is and it's all been kind of changed and now as we move out of that

us suspected that we were supporting the military i mean we were so we got caught in the crossfire and to save ourselves we fled to mexico. but me. as a result of peace talks in 1995 the maya families from who we still returned and founded a co-operative at the foot of the fire. now they must once again search the new land it's a never ending odyssey. we take a journey back in time to explore the past of what a model as indigenous peoples. back to the region rubin dario pacquet comes from. he's visiting a co-op operated by the pub maya people in us it was here that the history of coffee production began in guatemala. so you know i'm from the catchy ethnic grown mother love that up around this area of without are better parts of the world and like me these company arrows have learned how to plant coffee from their forefathers. for. now it's time to harvest the coffee. europeans 1st brought to the plants to the americas in 1720 to this day coffee is one of them on this principle cash crops. for the coffee has historically been a source of both dependency and liberation. coffee created ri

so we got caught in the crossfire and to save ourselves we fled to mexico. with me. as a result of peace talks in 1995 the maya families from who we still returned and founded a co-operative at the foot of the 5 ok now. now they must once again search for new land it's a never ending. we take a journey back in time to explore the past of what a model as indigenous peoples. back to the region rubin dario pacquet comes from. he's visiting a co-op operated by the pub my a people in us it was here that the history of coffee production began in guatemala . so you know i'm from the catchy ethnic grown mother love that up around this area of where out are better parts of the world and like me these company arrows learned how to plant coffee from their forefathers. for me. now it's time to harvest the coffee. that. europeans 1st brought to the plants to the americas in 1720 to this day coffee is one of guatemala as principal cash crops. for the coffee has historically been a source of both dependency and liberation. coffee created riches for the few that's the cost of the ma

a woman who called 911 was shot in the crossfire. she's expected to be okay. no word on any arrests. >>> returning to our coronavirus coverage, california's covid outbreak is one of the worst in the country right now. this map shows the average number of daily cases in the country over the past week. the darker the blue, the more cases. california, which consistently has been a lighter blue, now one of only four states in this darkest blue. our positivity rate right now, 109 cases per 100,000 people. only oklahoma, texas, and tennessee have a higher rate. for example, oklahoma has the worst outbreak right now with 151 cases per 100,000 people. now, the state seeing the lowest rate right now is hawaii. it's reporting just 9 new cases for every 100,000 people. >>> the relentless covid surge means california's stay-at-home order will likely extend into the new year. in fact, governor newsom said an extension is, quote, very likely. some parts of the state could have the restrictions expire at the end of the month, but cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are showi

she was hit in the crossfire. >>> the trump administration says $600 stimulus payments are on their way to bank accounts tonight. the first paper checks are said to go out tomorrow. the senate minority leader, chuck schumer, triton failed to approve $2000 really payments for americans. the majority leader, mitch mcconnell, shot it down. now he is introducing a new bill that will include $2000 payments. >> working families need help now. >> the largest covid 19 relief bill includes the latest includes $600 for eligible adults. a family of four could receive $2400. people earn less than $75,000 and those married filing jointly that earn less than $150,000 last year are eligible for the full amount. >>> the pandemic is being tied to the largest increase in home prices and more than 6 years. a new study examining 19 u.s. cities found home prices jumped 7.9% in october when compared to october of last year. the analyst say many homes are trading hands due to the economic and health crisis. the pandemic has many americans working from home. that is causing many people to search for a bigger h

covered many times here but now it seems that $76.00 mosques him fronts are going to be caught in the crossfire of that the interior minister has confirmed the reports in french newspapers that those mosques are now in the next few days going to see what he described as being unprecedented action. in accordance with my instructions the student services will launch massive precedented action against bridges and 76 mosques suspected of supporters must be checked in the coming days and those that have to be closed will be where the mosques that are due to be targeted are said to have clandestine rooms or have more moms who are on alert for the prevention of terrorist radicalization these are some of the reasons why these mosques are said to be targeted now muslims have already been saying that they fear of reprisals and there have been allegations of attacks taking place on muslims because of their faith most recent emerged on wednesday of this week this took place at a mosque just in the south of paris and as you can see from the images it said that the car deliberately drove into the front of th

welcome back to crossfire where all things are considered peter lavelle to remind you we're reflecting on the year that is about to end. in john let me go back to you i mean right before we went to the break we were talking about. a different i denying people personal responsibility does this whole mantra of safety for of 1st i mean to my face value that's all nice and fine but that means i cannot make any decisions about my own personal behavior and once you go there it's not much of a leap about what your thoughts should be go ahead john well listening to patrick just now and the best i was reminded of the quotation from good as doust which will go confuse is as the epigraph to the muster of marguerite's and when spouse that he's been dead guy says there are states just those that belong states that scooter shop i am the spirit that always wants evil but does good in other words there is a there are all dictatorships have been as it were for the good of their people and do you know here we are again as far as the issue of thought control and the influence of thinking goes again what

welcome back to crossfire all things are considered i'm peter lavelle to mind you were discussing what a potential buy foreign policy would look like. go back to nickel and right before we went to the break he said you want to make a point go write it ya want to talk about something we haven't mentioned yet which is sanctions and thanks unions have been a mixed bag for russia but on the whole i think more benefit more beneficial than negative thanks in part to sanctions the russia i would say has outgrown the us in terms of its foreign policy thinking and it's going to continue there for its long term global. strategy of building security greater security for itself and for the world through multipole r.t. and what the us does if it's going to be involved in all sorts of shenanigans overseas and trying to make regime changes is just going to wait for the us to come to terms with the with the creation of a new role the global reality which is going to be increasingly shaped not by the united states and western europe. but by the brics and the shanghai cooperation organization and other

welcome back to crossfire where all things are considered i'm getting about a minute we're talking about some real news. ok let's go back to markets in london when we talked about the divorce. breaks had seen the european union finally let go of the u.k. after the reformation referendum in 2016 but now we have the ramifications of the 2020 alexion in the united states now coming up into the election and actually ever since the trump brand president and to that they 2016 campaign there's been this hot of a cultural civil war in the united states and it's actually very real it's very rare culturally here now as a result of this election here it's a bizarre election i will leave it at that it is rekindled a lot of very strong. passions among people in the united states and we used the. terms of red and blue here and those those tensions are only simmering here particularly when you have the media and the professional elites all on one side and then you have these people that were supporters of donald trump donald trump got 10 more 1000000 votes than he did 4 years ago though somehow he lost

welcome back to crossfire all things are considered i'm peter let me remind you we're discussing a rare and a possible new administration in washington. go back to scott scott i mean you know kind of going back to the tail end of our conversation for the break here i mean he i suppose it's kind of built in is that iran must want to bomb or it must have a bomb and that's why it's so dangerous because if you can prove like i said today i and other intelligence agencies that it doesn't then it kind of puts the responsibility on the u.s. for walking away from an agreement that actually was working to one extent or another here i mean in the the the whole iran's threat kind of crumbles if it's not this evil country with his ear. evil leaders when he needs terrible weapons go ahead with it there's 2 aspects to this one is. a bomb and the other is the potential for a bomb neither acceptable for israel saudi arabia or the united states. and as a former weapons inspector i have to say that you know in 20022003 iran was going to get the benefit of the dow for me. because we had the historical pre

dangerous subject to cover while murders rose overall this year but number of journalists killed in crossfire fell to its lowest level since 2000. courtney rogers the advocacy director at the committee to practice or protect journalists in washington d.c. and she says mexico's government needs to do more to protect reporters mexico is a democracy and yet there is a lot of violent crime in criminal gangs and drug cartels are routinely murdering journalists with impunity they even have a president they even have a journalist protection mechanism in mexico and yet there were journalists who were murdered while under the protection of that mechanism so it's clearly ineffectual and the fact that you know a democracy can year after year allow its journalists to be murder with impunity is not acceptable and should be a top priority for the over to our ministration to address one of the biggest impact to be seen as the responses that governments have need to the coronavirus pandemic which is included you know efforts that seem less designed to combat the pen demick and more designed to combat indepen

conservatism and in london we have marcus papadopoulos he is the editor of politics 1st magazine crossfire president that means in jumping time you want and i was. going to marcus in london give us a update on breaks it all year long they have had to get this trade deal into place and of course at the very end at the end of the wire. we still don't have one and of course from what i've been following is that we it is unlikely and there's a lot of scaremongering but there's still a lot of questions as well what my question is after 4 long years of this why are there still questions i mean you've got a lot of smart people in your country maybe not politicians but c'mon explain to us why we're still talking about well ok to the press and story is last approach and it's endgame because wast groups unless you're in union in political terms almost that's the 1st of january of this year on the facts you pass the december of this year britain will leave the e.u. both economically and legally britain is in a transition after martin's and after the sensex rest of the send off this year the transitio

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