federal bureau of investigation says iran and russia have obtained information on voters the f.b.i. says the aim is to cause confusion and chaos in the upcoming u.s. presidential elections we have identified that 2 foreign actors iran and russia have taken specific actions to influence public opinion relating to our elections.

federal bureau of investigation says iran and russia have obtained voter registration information theb.i. says the aim is to cause confusion and chaos in the upcoming u.s. presidential elections. former u.s. president barack obama says donald trump is incapable of taking the job seriously urged supporters to vote early. and nigerian protesters have to fight a curfew to continue demonstrating against police brutality the rights group amnesty international says at least 12 people were killed choose day. and there have been mass protests in the colombian capital against the social and economic policies of president ivan dk the demonstrations are part of a broader national strike under being led by union members students and teachers one with a large contingent of colombia's contagion its population and the sundra the reports now from bogota. waving flags and chanting against the president thousands of colombians marched in downtown bogota it's the largest demonstration in the column in capital since the easing of coronavirus restrictions in september was a coalition of union members teac

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time for a quick check of the top stories here an al-jazeera the us federal bureau of investigation says iran and russia have obtained some voter registration information the f.b.i. is the aim is to cause confusion and chaos in upcoming u.s. presidential elections we have identified that 2 foreign actors iran and russia have taken specific actions to influence public opinion relating to our elections 1st we have confirmed that some voter registration information has been obtained by iran and separately by russia this data can be used by foreign actors to attempt to communicate false information to registered voters that they hope will cause confusion so chaos and undermine your confidence in american democracy for us president barack obama says donald trump is incapable of taking the job seriously as he made his 1st campaign appearance to joe biden obama supporters to vote earning nigerian protesters have defied a curfew to continue demonstrating against police brutality the rights group amnesty international says at least 12 people were killed on tuesday. a mass protest has been taking

we owe a special thanks to the united states secret service, federal bureau of investigations, the department of homeland security, and to the clemson university's media forensics club. i will introduce the cochairs of the commission for their comments. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to salt lake city -- beautiful salt lake city. i in a pattern so not too far from home. andcognize the desert mountains. nevadan. nevada and -- we thank the debate society that sponsor this. as you walk to the campus, you can see what a tremendous job they've done and what a beautiful job they've done in here with all the issues with our spacing, as you can see here. believe it or not, there were 60 regular staff members commission to put this debate on. we have to go from cleveland here in salt lake to miami, and then finish up in nashville. airlines for gratuitously flying our entire staff that can force between cities -- back and forth between cities. we owe them a real debt of gratitude, but probably no one do we owe more than the cleveland clinic. those of you who were in cleveland were t

federal bureau of investigation says iran and russia have obtained information on voters the f.b.i. says the aim is to cause confusion and chaos in the upcoming u.s. presidential elections we have identified that 2 foreign actors iran and russia have taken specific actions to influence public opinion relating to our elections 1st we have confirmed that some voter registration information has been obtained by iran and separately by russia this data can be used by foreign actors to attempt to communicate false information to registered voters that they hope will cause confusion so chaos and undermine your confidence in american democracy former u.s. president barack obama says donald trump is incapable of taking the job seriously back says former deputy joe biden on the campaign trail obama urged supporters to vote early. nigerian protesters have defied a curfew to continue demonstrating against police brutality the rights group amnesty international says at least 12 people were killed on choose day. violence between security forces and protesters in guinea's capital has left at least

federal bureau of investigation says iran and russia have obtained some voter registration information the f.b.i. says the aims to cause confusion and chaos in the upcoming us presidential election we have identified that 2 foreign actors iran and russia have taken specific actions to influence public opinion relating to our elections 1st we have confirmed that some voter registration information has been obtained by iran and separately by russia this data can be used by foreign actors to attempt to communicate false information to registered voters that they hope will cause confusion so chaos and undermine your confidence in american democracy al-jazeera as mike hanna has more now from washington d.c. . the f.b.i. and the director of national intelligence holding what they call very important news conference the details being released indicate according to the f.b.i. that 2 foreign players iran and russia have been actively interfering in this election they do not have any evidence directly connected to russia at this point they say however they insist that iran is behind a series of

federal bureau of investigation has released a short film warning that chinese headhunters are usingake social media accounts to recruit spies. the agency says hostile foreign actors are targeting americans in a search for government secrets and cutting-edge technology. in the film, a former u.s. intelligence agent accepts a job through a professional networking site, but he ends up being duped into handing over national defense information to a chinese agency. the 26-minute account shows the man flying to shanghai and selling classified documents. in a final warning to viewers, night was great. we've gotten tremendous reviews on it. we're hitting what people want, law and order, which biden was unable to talk about because his radical left followers. >> from what i saw last night on that debate stage, self-entitled, self-serving president who thinks everything is about him. he tnks hithat if he just yells louder and louder, throws out lie after lie after lie, he'll get his way. >> organizers are now looking at ways to ensure a more orderly discussion during the remaining debates. no

this is al jazeera and these are the headlines the us federal bureau of investigations as iran and russia have obtained votes are registration information the f.b.i. says the aim is to cause confusion and chaos in the upcoming us presidential elections we have identified that 2 foreign actors iran and russia have taken specific actions to influence public opinion relating to our elections 1st we have confirmed that some voter registration information has been obtained by iran and separately by russia this data can be used by foreign actors to attempt to communicate false information to registered voters that they hope will cause confusion so chaos and undermine your confidence in american democracy former u.s. president barack obama says donald trump is incapable of taking the job seriously stumped on the campaign trail his former deputy joe biden obama urged supporters to vote early. violence between security forces and protesters in guinea's capital has left at least 9 people dead it falls a tense presidential election race with the president of a condé and his main rival. little are th

federal bureau of investigation says iran and russia have obtained voter registration information the f.b.i. says the aim is to cause confusion and chaos in the upcoming u.s. presidential election we have identified that 2 foreign actors iran and russia have taken specific actions to influence public opinion relating to our elections 1st we have confirmed that some voter registration information has been obtained by iran and separately by russia this data can be used by foreign actors to attempt to communicate false information to registered voters that they hope will cause confusion so chaos and undermine your confidence in american democracy former u.s. president barack obama says donald trump is incapable of taking the job seriously as he made his 1st campaign appearance for joe biden obama supporters to vote on a nigerian protesters have defied a curfew to continue demonstrating against police brutality the rights group amnesty international says at least 12 people were killed on tuesday. a mass protest has been taking place in the colombian capital bogota against the social and e

to thank all of the public servants, attorneys and investigators and support staff from the commercial litigation branch and consumer protection french -- protection branch. federal bureau of investigation, the department of health and human are services, personnel of management on these matters to achieve these tremendous results. i would like to give a special shout out to the efforts of my two deputies. thank you. ok. at this juncture, what we do is open it up for questions. will call on folks as needed, but i will try to mediate. whenever the questions are ready. >> we will know big and the question-and-answer session. task a question, you may ask star then one on your touchstone phone -- touch tone phone. to withdraw your question, please press star, then two. we asked you limit yourself to one question. we will pause momentarily to assemble the roster. our first question today will come from susanna with politico. please go ahead. a two-part question. the first was timing wise, when did doj start this probe into peru -- into purdue? could describe the timing of that. you have any response? i know last week, 25 state attorneys general rejected the idea of a public

federal bureau of investigation says iran and russia have obtained information on voters the f.b.i. says the aim is to cause confusion and chaos and the upcoming u.s. presidential elections. we have identified that 2 foreign actors iran and russia have taken specific actions to influence public opinion relating to our elections 1st we have confirmed that some voter registration information has been obtained by iran and separately by russia this data can be used by foreign actors to attempt to communicate false information to registered voters that they hope will cause confusion so chaos and undermine your confidence in american democracy. former u.s. president barack obama says donald trump is incapable of taking the job seriously as he stumps on the campaign trail for his former deputy joe biden obama urged supporters to vote early. and israeli delegation has made a rare visit to sudan to discuss normalizing ties as according to israeli media force a deal between washington and cartoon to remove saddam from the u.s. list of state sponsors of terror the u.s. has been instrumental in

the us federal bureau of investigation says iran and russia have obtained information on registered u.s. voters it alleges that attempted to influence public opinion by causing confusion and chaos and the upcoming us presidential election the russian government is describing the allegations as absurd and as dosage of bar reports from to iran iranian reaction is just a strong. the spokesperson for iran's mission of the united nations tweeted that this is dangerous and malicious accusations against iran and that iran has absolutely no interest in whoever wins the us elections and that iran doesn't interfere with other countries' elections in their proper electoral processes this is a sentiment that's also been shared by president hassan rouhani prior to these accusations during his weekly cabinet meeting on wednesday the president said that iran has absolutely no interest in who becomes the next president of the united states because regardless of whoever that is they will have to kneel to the rayney a nation that is the official position of the iranian government but when we speak to ana

why does the federal bureau of investigation sit on this laptop and e-mails for so long.is so clear what is happening. that joe biden had a wink and nod deal with his son as he traveled around the world, sold access to him and every so often called on his father to execute a favor for a foreign company. then when the biden campaign is asked about this, they just then lean on their friends at twitter who then say well twitter took down the story therefore we don't have to answer. that does not answer the question. just because your big tech ally censored the story, that does not satisfy the questions we have about it. this is a very scary moment steve for freedom of expression and democracy. if you cannot distribute a story from the fourth biggest newspaper in the christy nome christy nome making life's journey, just better. but we are hoping things will pick up by q3. yeah...uh... boss: doug? sorry about that. umm...what...its...um... boss: you alright? [sigh] [ding] never settle with power e*trade. it has powerful, easy-to-use tools to help you find opportunities, 24/7 s

, if the material was out there, this gentleman has the computer, he turns it over to federal bureau of investigationomething like in the may time frame. so it's been out there. there is no reason why senator graham or somebody else there on the judiciary committee can't bring up the fbi -- here we are again, director wray doing nothing -- and going back and understanding from attorney general barr and director wray what are they doing? because it appears as if they're doing nothing. and that's the role of congress. that's the role of the senate, is to go after and make sure that these things are happening. but, again, you have the senate finance -- or not senate finance, but you have homeland security that could look into this, ron johnson, i think has been doing oweman's work trying to get this out. he's the hero in this type of thing. lou: absolutely. >> and one other point i want to point out though is i do believe that there is exposure to facebook and twitter and others from the ftc. the federal trade commission. because i think they have been selling to the american people access, they've been

i'm hella mohit in doha with the top stories on al-jazeera the us federal bureau of investigations says iran and russia have a say and information own voters the f.b.i. says the aim is to cause confusion and chaos in the upcoming u.s. presidential election we have identified that 2 foreign actors iran and russia have taken specific actions to influence public opinion relating to our elections. first we have confirmed that some voter registration information has been obtained by iran and separately by russia this data can be used by foreign actors to attempt to communicate false information to registered voters that they hope will cause confusion so chaos and undermine your confidence in american democracy nigerian protesters have defied a curfew to continue demonstrating against police brutality the rights group amnesty international says at least 12 people were killed on tuesday. an israeli delegation has made a rare visit to sudan to discuss normalizing ties that's according to israeli media it follows a deal which in washington and her tune to remove sudan from the u.s. list of state

that in a sensitive nature had an unusually high level of review in both the doj and the federal bureau of investigation have called into question the reliability of the information proffered in other fbi applications. do you remember that order from the court? >> it came after i left as i recall, but i remember reading about it, yes. >> have you ever known the court to issue such an order? >> yes. >> you have known the court to issue such orders in the past? >> yes. shortly before 9/11, there was a significant criticism by the fisa court and fisa applications. >> and the court said the frequency and seriousness of the errors led it to doubt the reliability of all fbi applications and all other cases? >> i don't member the exact words, but something similar as i recall. at least one agent from appearing for making fisa applications. >> that isn't what they did here. the fisa court said they have reason to doubt the reliability of fbi applications across cases because of the level of misleading information that you personally signed off on. do you regret your role in this unprecedented misleading of a fi

federal bureau of investigation the f.b.i. says iran and russia have obtained information on registered voters it's alleging have attempted to influence public opinion by causing confusion and chaos in the upcoming u.s. presidential election other news from washington a vote on the confirmation of the u.s. supreme court nominee amy honey barrett will be held on monday after the senate judiciary committee approved the move in a process boycotted by the democrats so it now goes to a full senate vote. and of course republicans hold the majority of the assad berets confirmation looks certain they will democratic presidential nominee joe biden has told the c.b.s. 60 minutes program that he would look into alternatives before expanding the supreme court. if elected what i will do is put together a national commission a bipartisan commission of scholars constitutional scholars democrats republicans liberal conservative and i will ask them do over a $180.00 days come back to me with recommendations as to how to reform the court system

will come to order, thank our witnesses, the honorable christopher wray, director of the federal bureau of investigation, the honorable chris miller, director of the national counterterrorism center and the honorable ken cuccinelli, senior official performing duties of the deputy secretary. this is the annual threat hearing. when you look at the threats, and interesting how many hearings you held on so many of these things. i want to ask for my opening statement to be entered into the record. if you consider these threats, down the list, cyberattacks, ransom, intellectual property theft, something we are concerned about if you try to develop a vaccine, hundreds of millions of dollars of economic loss due to intellectual property theft. cyber attacks and threats against our critical infrastructure. drug trafficking and the overdose crisis, gains like ms 13, emp and gmp threats to our electrical grid. drones, human trafficking, election security, school and other mass shootings was these are threats this committee not only held hearings on but past significant pieces of legislation. when hearing talking a

commission doesn't work, we are left with no other alternative but to cooperate with the federal bureau of investigation, and i hope you all understand we are in dire straits and our city does not deserve this. we do not deserve the [indiscernible] system improvement project that started with a $6 billion project and now $12 billion. >> thank you, caller. your time has expired. next caller. >> good to be back with you. as i look forward to future events sfpuc certainly start off with the idea of awareness. as sfpuc is now the default provider of electricity in san francisco, i would like that to be something that is more made known, because sfpuc through clean power sf should not just be a seller of kilowatt hours but a developer of relationships. and so how resiliency is essential to be involved with increasing our renewables percentage and building distributive storage throughout the city and hopefully putting solar panels on the rest of the sunset reservoir, we don't have to be so dependent on getting electricity from beyond the borders of this city, especially considering fires and power shutoffs. a

. >> director comey, is it appropriate for the federal bureau of investigate to influence a presidential election? >> the fbi should do everything it can to avoid having any impact on an election. >> are you aware of the allegation against you that your handling of the hillary clinton email investigation, your press conference on july 5th, the subsequence announcement based on anthony weiner's laptop investigation, you're reopening the investigation in the run-up to the election, are you aware of the allegation you were responsible for hillary clinton's defeat? >> yes, i'm aware of that allegation. >> does that concern you? >> it concerns me whenever anyone has questions about whether the fbi is conducting itself in a competent, honest, independent way. >> did you call the steele dossier salacious and unverified? >> i called a portion of it that related to alleged sexual activity, i think that's the term i used to refer to that. >> you did not refer to that as unverified? >> i think the term salacious and unverified, it's not all that important, but i think i reserved that for the sex pa

want to first welcome and thank our witnesses, christopher wray, the director of the federal bureau of investigation, christopher miller, the director of the national counterterrorism center, and kenneth cuccinelli, the senior official performing the duties of the deputy secretary. this is our annual threat hearing. when i take a look at all of the threats that this committee has considered and all of the threats facing this nation, i think it's pretty interesting, you know, how many hearings we've held on so many of these things. before i proceed, i guess i would ask for unanimous consent to have my written opening statement be entered in the recor record. if you consider these threats, cyberattacks and these cyberattacks, ramsonware, intellectual property threat, the hundreds of billions of dollars of economic loss due to intellectual property theft, potential cyberattacks and threats against our critical infrastructure, drug trafficking, and the overdose crisis. gangs like ms-13, emp threats, the use of drone, human trafficking, election security, and school and other mass shootings. these are is

passengers in fiscal year 2014. 38 instances of in-flight sexual assaults were reported to the federal bureau of investigation. this number increased to 63 reported cases in 2017. but many instances of in-flight sexual rault remain unreported because victims are fearful of contacting authorities. f.b.i. statistics indicate as many as 75% of incidents go unreported. on cruise ships, sex crimes outweigh any other major offense and 2013 congressional report found that minors were victims n one-third of reported sexual assaults. there was bipartisan support for provision in the federal aviation re-authorization act of 2018 to establish a sexual misconduct working group to address sexual misconduct. addressing sexual misconduct on flights, employee training and law enforcement notification. this legislation builds upon that work requiring passenger transportation carriers to establish formal policies, training and reporting structures for sexual assault and harassment and adds penalties for individuals who physically or sexually assault or threaten to assault transportation personnel. support the passage of h.r. 5