tonight, remarks fronbn director christopher wray and nsa director at tomorrow mike rogers on intelligence gathering and sharing. they expressed the need for congress to renew fisa section 702, which authorizes the intelligence communityo access communications of not ericans outside the u.s.. it is hosted by the intelligence and national security alliance, and the armed forces communications and electronics association. see tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span. right after that, texas congressman michael mccaul discusses terrorism and its revolution since 9/11. he serves as the chairman of the house homeland security committee, and looked at the challenges the intelligence community currently faces. he spoke in front of the bipartisan policy center, and will show you his comments 50 --t at 950:00 -- mina 9:50 p.m. >> c-span's washington journal, live everyay with news and policy issues that impact you. on sunday morning, cns news editor and chief will join us to discuss. mick troiano, executive director of the project will be on, he will talk about the group's efforts to support centrist cand

i am talking about elaine duke and christopher wray. we are confronting an array of terrorist -- as we sit here today the discipline of prevention is evolving and changing beneath our feet every day as well. it requires that we respond with extraordinary agility. i will briefly discuss two areas to complement what my colleagues have already said. first quickly i will share what we have seen by way of changes or a shift in priority in the terrorism landscape since i was sitting before the committee one year ago. second i will say a few words about we can do a better job tackling the threat of those were mobilized to extremist violence here at home. let's begin with what has changed for his nooses this time last year. the developments in three principal areas. the collision success and shrinking the territory the isis controls in iraq and syria as compared to one year ago. a significant uptake and a task inspired by isis that we have seen against western interest across the globe in the last year. as compared to the number of attacks dire

. >> a hearing on homeland security threats with fbi director christopher wray, acting only security secretary elaine duke, national counterterrorism center director nicholas rasmussen. we will be live with us in homeland security and governmental affairs committee starting at 10 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> veterans affairs secretary david shulkin testifies this morning about preventing veteran suicide at a hearing of the senate veterans affairs committee. live coverage at 10 a.m. eastern on c-span c-span3, online at c-span.org, or on the free c-span radio app. >> saturday booktv has coverage of the 2017 baltimore book festival. >> next, former national intelligence director james clapper spoke about his career in the intelligence community and shared his views on current intelligence issues including evolving technology social media, terrorism, north korea, russia and iran. the george washington university hosted this 90 minute event. >> good evening. welcome to the elliott school and to this beautiful confer

i want to begin with our first public aearance by the new fbi director, christopher wray. how is it going? justice,ack at overseeing an agency not at a lack for being in the news. what is the privacy echoewhat is working -- what is the pri vacy? what is working? >> i still haven't figured anything out. hopefully i will be able to answer as many of your questions as i can. seconds totook me 10 walk back and fbi building to remember how much i missed it and how great it was to be back. walking around the building, meeting people with every division, trng to get out in the field. it has been inspiring and reminded me why i love the place so much. part,say for the most fewer surprises than not. the things that were great about the bureau are still great. mission-focused, no matter what job they have. they are very passionate about it. they are determined to be the best at what they do. they cover the waterfront. detail oriented and bring a kind of integrity that i always found so attractive when i was working with them as a prosecutor, and later afte9/11. noticedthe things i'v

fbi director christopher wray and the nsa director joined other intel officials this week to discuss the importance of intelligence gathering and sharing. they also outlined security challenges they face trying to protect u.s. citizens from potential threats. this is part of the daylong summit cohosted by the intelligence international curitylliance and armed forces communicationand electronics association. >> general. >> thank you. [applause] we love book plugs. christmas, this makes a good christmas gift for us.

. >> grassley and graham have sent a letter to current fbi chief christopher wray asking for more informationthe comey/clinton information. so far no response from comb diop the new developments. jessica castro, abc 7 news. >> thanks, jessica. >>> happening now, long lines outside the russia consulate in san francisco a day before it closes its doors. this is the line tomorrow's closure will leave three russian consulates in the u.s., in seattle, hues top and new york. >>> still to come this midday, more on our heat wave. a live look right now at the beach in santa cruz, the place to be where some people have headed to cool off. >>> hi, everybody. let's open up the weather window until walnut creek. looks awful. nasty air. stay inside if you can. that's your best bet. weekend heat, fire danger and poor air quality. not as hot next week but still warmer than average for most of us. look at these temperatures. 10 to 18 degrees warmer than just 24 hours ago, so let's see where that puts us. mid to upper 80s inland east bay to gilroy and los gatos and low 90s in vallejo, napa, novato and nearly 9

next witness is christopher wray. the director of the federal bureau of investigation. august 2, 2017 mr. wray was sworn in as the eighth fbi director. previously assistant attorney general of the department of justice in charge of criminal division. director wray. >> thank you chairman johnson. ranking member. members of the committee. for the opportunity to talk to you today about the threats here in the homeland and the tremendous work being done by the people at the fbi to confront the challenges. from my earlier years in law enforcement and national security, i already knew how out standing the men and women of the bureau are. to see it i must say over the last few weeks from this position, makes me feel even more honored if that's possible. they are mission focussed, they are passionate, they are determined to be the very best at protecting american people. and upholding the the rule of law. having been away from government for a number of years, some of the changes that i have seen in the first few weeks upon getting back have struck me in particular the evolution

. >> fbi director christopher wray and nsa director mike rogers joined other intel officials this week to discuss the importance of intelligence gathering and sharing. they outline security challenges they face trying to protect u.s. citizens from potential threats. this was of a daylong summit cohosted by the intelligence and national security alliance and armed forces to medications and electronics association. it is just over an hour.

committee republicans issued subpoenas for christopher wray and attorney general jeff sessions after their department failed to provide records last month. lawmakers investigating the fbi's relationship with former british spy christopher steele who compiled the unverified salacious trump dossier and to what extent the bureau relied on unverified information to open the russian case. the bureau has yet to say whether it paid christopher steele at the same time he was on the payroll of fusion gps. glenn simpson has not been forthcoming. despite questions, the ranking democrat suggested subpoenas were heavy-handed. >> we don't subpoena parties unless they turned down our request for information which the fbi and doj hadn't done. we opposed it. we thought it wasn't warranted. >> congressional sources confirm donald trump jr. will take questions from senate judiciary committee staffers thursday behind closed doors. a central line of questioning will be the june 2016 from tar meeting between the presidents on and paul manafort, jared kushner, a russian lawyer and others. the president's so

republicans on the same committee issued subpoenas for fbi director christopher wray and attorney generaleff sessions after the department failed to find records requested in august about the fbi's relationship with the british spy who provided the unverified trump dossier. the committee wants more information about the fbi's relationship with this british spy who put together the dossier. the dossier was commissioned by this man, former journalist glenn simpson. they key question is whether the fbi knew that simpson was at the same time allegedly working with the russians to appeal u.s. sanctions levied against the murder of a russian whistle-blower. they have not responded to repeated questions from fox news for comment. the republican chairman of the intelligence committee are running their own investigation investigations. >> the special counsel is on a different lane than we are, they are looking at criminality, we are looking at russia's meddling in our election and potential collusion of either campaign. we extend to bob mueller the same courtesy he extends to us and we will contin

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christopher wray was formally sworn in. noticeably absent were his two predecessors, one robert mueller and james comey in addition to the president himself. there is some new information on mueller's investigation this morning the we're learning that vice president mike pence's attorney spoke to his counsel over the summer. the meeting which has not been previously reported was held at pens's request to express his willingness to cooperate with mueller's investigation. joining us now ken starr is with us. former federal judge, slit or general and independent counsel in the whitewater and monica lieu win ski investigation during the clinton investigation. counselor, i understand you're of the belief that the president should be much more weary and on guard and worried about these congressional investigations than the mueller investigation and if we have that correctly, why is that? >> well, no. i think he's got to be weary on guard about both. i think there's a tendency to ignore what congress is doing when famously during

new fbi director christopher wray was formally sworn in. notably absent, mueller and comey. there is some new information on mueller's investigation this evening. we're learning that vice president mike pence's attorney spoke with special counsel mueller over the summer. politico reporting it this way. the meeting which has not been previously reported was held at pence's request to express his willingness to cooperate with mueller's investigation. joining us tonight is someone who knows quite a bit about special investigations, ken starr is with us, former federal judge, former solicitor general and independent counsel in the whitewater and monica lewinsky investigations. i ins you're of the belief that the president should be much more wary and onguard and worried about these congressional investigations than the mueller investigation, and if we have that correctly, why is that? >> well, no, i think he's got to be wary about both. i think there's a tendency, brian, to ignore what congress is doing, when famously, during the watergate investigation so many years ago, the ex

your chairman, devon nunez, a letter threatening to hold sessions and the fbi director christopher wraypt of congress if they don't hand over documents related to that so-called dossier compiled by a former british intelligent agent. the dossier contains allegations about trump's personal and financial life. as you know, chairman nunez removed himself from the russia investigation. why is he doing this now? >> he shouldn't be. this has been a continuing issue. the chairman, when he recused or stepped aside, should have delegated the authorities, as our rules permit, to mr. conaway, but he was unwilling to do so. so he still informally issues subpoenas, he still writes letters to the department of justice and the fbi taking issue with their production, which is also something frankly i don't understand, and we raised the issue with the majority when they said they wanted to subpoena the department, and that is we hadn't even sent them a voluntary request for the information, and our practice has been we request voluntary compliance only when they refuse to issue a subpoena. it seems like

congressman devin nunus is threatening to put attorney general jeff sessions and fbi director christopher wray not complying with his order. remember, nunes had supposedly stepped aside but now he has threatened to hold sessions and wray in contempt for not handing over documents about that much-talked-about russia dossier. this is a dossier that you may recall was an explosive report by a former british spy, christopher steele. it contained unverified claims that russian operatives had compromising personal information on then-candidate trump. joining me now is a democratic member of the house permanent select committee on intelligence, mike quigley, congressman, thank you so much for taking the time to be with us today and i just want to know right off the top, what's your reaction to this letter. >> yeah, it's extraordinarily unfortunate. this is the most important investigation in our lifetime, certainly of the white house. perhaps more important than watergate. it is our standard practice to try to act on a bipartisan basis. it's never been more important than an investigation like this,

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judiciary chairman chuck grassley and lindsey graham have sent a letter to current fbi director christopher wray requesting all fbi records relating to james comey's public announcement that there would be no criminal prosecution of hillary clinton for the use of a private e-mail server while she was secretary of state. based on documents the senators have already reviewed, including transcripts of some interviews conducted in the justice department's own investigation of comey's handling of the clinton announcement, the senators say, it appears that in april or early may of 2016, mr. comey had already decided he would issue a statement exonerating secretary clinton. that was long before fbi agents finished their work. mr. comey even circulated an early draft statement to select members of the senior fbi leadership. the outcome of an investigation should not be pre-judged while fbi agents are still hard at work trying to gather the facts. the senators' letter came up today during the white house press briefing. >> senators grassley and graham revealed today that they have evidence suggesting tha

general jeff sessions last week about the subpoenas, threatening jeff sessions and fbi director christopher wray with a public hearing if jeff sessions did not produce the subpoenaed documents to the committee. and tonight's breaking news on the investigation is "the washington post" report that, quote, representatives of facebook told congressional investigators wednesday that it has discovered it sold ads during the u.s. presidential election to a shadowy russian company seeking to target voters. according to several people familiar with the company's findings. and reuters is reporting tonight that facebook has turned over all information about those russian ads to special prosecutor robert mueller. that includes copies of the ads and the identity of the buyers. joining us now, mieke eoyang, former house intelligence committee staff member. also with us, jill wine-banks, former assistant water special prosecutor and an msnbc contributor. mieke, first to the activities on your old committee, the house intelligence committee, translate for us what's going on here with devin nunes, who we thought

christopher wray is going to have his swearing in as the fbi director, obviously he's already on the job, and the secretary of states show up as well as all the former directors. is this going to be a reunion of sorts? >> i doubt it. we don't know whether the president is going or not. certainly all the former directors have been invited and there still are several out there. the big question is whether robert mueller, who is running the russian investigation, will show up. one former justice department official told me today he very much doubts mr. mueller will go there. a question whether mr. comey will show up along with president trump. that would be, shall we say, awkward. we're all going to be watching to see. they've all been invited. we don't know how many will show up. it will certainly be an interesting moment. >> people you should not have at the same dinner party. pete williams, thank you very much. >>> and time could be running out. mexican officials racing to free any survivors trapped in the rubble following tuesday's devastating earthquake. we'll have an update on the

. >> fbi director christopher wray and nsa director mike rogers joined other intel officials this week to discuss the importance of intelligence gathering and sharing. they outline security challenges they face trying to protect u.s. citizens from potential threats. this was of a daylong summit cohosted by the intelligence and national security alliance and armed forces to medications and electronics association. it is just over an hour. >> i am honored to be asked to conduct this conversation we will draw you into in a few minutes. i will ask each of the directors and the deputy director support an opening assessment of their agencies and i will follow up with a little bit of detail and we will go to some general discussion and turn to you. with our first public appearance by new fbi wray, and director i want to ask the simple as question. how is it going? agency inerseeing an the news. what surprises you? what do you want to fix? >> at first, i would say i would love to be here when i still haven't figured anything out. , am only a month into the job so hopefully i can answer as many

they are reportedly calling on now-fbi director christopher wray and attorney general jeff sessions thaty have requested is not provided. here now, one of the people leaving that investigation, congressman trey gowdy, house intelligence committee, good to have you here this evening, congressman. so they want to know, you want to know, and the american people want to know if this dossier, which was later discredited or can be substantiated, at the very least, was used on mass people in the trump campaign, correct? >> was that the evidentiary basis that the bureau used to launch either a criminal probe or an intelligence probe? it's fine if it were or important, as long as you let me know your vet if the information in the dossier. i need to bureau and doj to say, either be relied upon it or we did not rely upon it, and if we did not rely upon it, this is how we fit of the information before we used it. >> martha: that's pretty significant. you want to understand if this dossier -- also the generation of that dossier. what did they know about the generation of that and who was essentially

with fbi director christopher wray and acting homeland security secretary elaine duke. you can watch that live at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. and at the same time va secretary david shulkin testifies before the senate veterans affairs committee about suicide prevention among veterans. you'll find that live here on c-span 3. a reminder that all our live coverage is available online at c-span.org or free to listen to on the c-span radio app. >>> the c-span bus is traveling across the country on our 50 capitals tour. we recently stopped in harrisburg, pennsylvania, asking folks what's the most important issue in their state. >> my name is larry roper, and i'm from harrisburg. i'm concerned about the libraries. i feel that they are the hubs of small communities, they're resource centers to large cities, and a knowledge base to the state. and i am here to make sure that they are able to get the funding that they need and the keystone grant is not taken away from them. >> eye sue helm, state legislator for the 104th legislative district here in central pennsylvania. and as

. >> comey's actions are under new scrutiny after chuck grassley spoke to christopher wray this weekg whether the road warned the trump campaign about the risk of russian interference. this comes after trauma campaign chairman paul was the subject of two surveillance orders, one before and one after the election. the fbi had to convince a national security court that surveillance of an american citizen was warranted based on the evidence. the grassley letter reads in part, "if the fbi did provide a defensive briefing or similar warning to the trump campaign, that would raise important questions about how the trump campaign responded," grassley wrote. "on the other hand, if the fbi did not ask the campaign, that --" after the controversial handling, comey became the subject of multiple investigations, including a possible hatch act violation which prevents government officials using their influence for elections, and they want him to the conflict testimony about the lenten email case lately next month, bret. >> bret: did senator john mccain save obamacare again, or did he kill a bad a

. >>> the senate homeland security committee held a hearing withfy director christopher wray. acting homeland security sec toir e lain duke. and nick

thank you for letting me appear >> now next witness is christopher wray, the director of the fbi buryof oinvestigationes 'on august 2, 2017 he was worn in as the eight in fbi director, was previously assistant attorney general att the department of justice in charge of the criminal division. director wray. >> members of in the committee for the opportunity to talk to you today about the threats here in the homeland and the tremendous work being done by the people at the fbi to confront those challenges. from my earlier years in law enforcement and national security, already knew how outstanding the men and women of the bureau are, but to see it, must say, over the last few weeks from this position, makes me feel even more honored, if that's possible to be their director. they're are police focused. they are passionate. they're determined to be the very best at protecting the american people and upholding the rule of law.nate, having beenway from government for a number of years, some of the changes i've now seen the first few weeks upon getting back have struck me in particular. the e

threatening to hold the attorney general of the united states, jeff sessions, the fbi director christopher y wray in contempt if they don't provide documents showing if the fbi relied partially on the verified russia dossier. do you support that effort by the chairman? >> well, wolf, a lot of us are puzzled by this effort by the chairman. me included. it's not clear what the chairman is after here. of course, politically speaking, if we look at this politically, this is a republican-run department of justice. it is an fbi appointee of president trump. the process by which the chairman decided to make these subpoenas was not one that included the minority, the democratic minority or, to my knowledge, other people who were involved in the russia investigation. as you know, the chairman recused himself from that investigation. and one of the many, many questions that we have about this new effort with respect to subpoenaing the fbi and the justice department is why the chairman, who has recused himself from the russia investigation, would be pursuing something that is very clearly linked to the ques

. >> up next we will hear from the fbi director christopher wray. acting homeland security secretary, elaine duke and nicholas rasmussen.the director of the national counterterrorism center. and testified at his senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee this morning. this is about two hours and 15 minutes.

tonight, remarks from christopher wray and mike rogers on intelligence gathering and shing. they stressed the need to renew pfizer 702 two access communicions of non-americans outside of the u.s.. the events hosted by the intelligence and national secuty alliance and the armed services electronics association. that, michael maccoll discusses terrorism and its evolution since 9/11. he serves as the chairman of the house homeland surity committee. he spoke in front of the bipartisan policy center. we will show you his comments tonight on c-span. line, val us on the demings of the 10th district in florida. here to talk about the latest a. florida to talk about the latest in hurricane irma preparations there. thank you for joining us. guest: good morning and thk you for having me on. what is happening in your district? know florida well is no stranger to powerful storms. as we all heard over the last few days this one is quite different. it is extremely powerful and bigger than florida is wide. under hurricane warning at this time and are being told to evacuate. there been makin