now ben, this all came out during testimony before the house judiciary committee. so what sorts of update to the law are needed right now. while there's a number of things that need to be updated here. rachel, i think the biggest thing is kind of what jerry natalie was saying there, which is that there doesn't have to be a warrant in order for many of these justice, department officials to be able to access your records. you know, we would treat cloud services. we would treat cloud email storage and we would treat, you know, social media storage as privacy related to the user, not to the company, but to the user. meaning it is the user's data. therefore, it is the user's property. therefore, you must have a warrant in order to search and sees that information. i think we would have a much better system. instead, we, what we have are federal agents who are able to go and access this information. yes, they're working through the courts, but it's all being done in secret. there are gag orders and the person who has their information being taken from them. their data b

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republican members of the house judiciary committee unveiled their new agenda focusing on holding big tech accountable and increasing transparency around. >> big tex decisions. we will achieve a historic victory for american freedom. >> in washington reshad hudson. >> happy anniversary to former president jimmy carter in his wife today. they are celebrating in the standing 75 years of marriage. the couple a couple began dating back in 1945, when the former president was still at the naval academy. she was good friends with mister carter's sister. they went on a double date. and you know, the rest is history after the navy, they became peanut farmers then of course he went into politics since leaving office. they have remained active philanthropist with the carter center in atlanta and of actively been involved with habitat for humanity for almost 35 years now. coming up, recovery efforts slowed down by severe weather today. how crews at the collapsed condo building are working. round. tropical storm elsa. >> also holding the military accountable why a judge has ruled that the air forc

he serves with a member of the house education and liver -- labor committee and with me and mr. reston on the house judiciary committee. he believes in dreaming big and follows the four guiding principles of his faith. they, family, free markets, and education. -- faith. congresswoman williams has been an advocate for social justice, woman, and families throughout her career. as a member of congress, congresswoman williams continues to uplift the legacy of her mentor and predecessor, congressman john lewis. i fighting to prevent voter suppression and expand free and fair access to the ballot box. she was elected as a freshman class president for the 117th congress. as president, she organizes and advances the interests of her freshman emma credit colleagues to fulfill their oath to work for the people. she currently sits on the financial services committee where she is vice chair of the subcommittee on investigations and oversight. and the transportation and infrastructure committee. the congresswoman is also a member of the select committee on the modernization of congress and mr. davis and i served through

department, prosecutors, and idea that was expressed both by democrats and republicans on the house judiciary committee reporting in new york. trinity chavez, our t investigative journalist, now to husband swung comparing store personal data to private letters, which he said shouldn't be accessed unless there's a police warrant to do so. i think the biggest thing is, is that the cloud computing and cloud storage services, data storage for messaging, text messages for the on social networks as well as your email cloud services all need to be treated like it's in your home. so if you walk into someone's home as a federal agent, you can just go through all the stuff that they have in their drawers and open up their desk and read whatever they've written down, right? you have to have a warrant to do that. when all of these cases there should be required under the law, a warrant from a judge that is issued because there is evidence of wrongdoing in some way. what's been happening here for several years now is what we're seeing. take place is all these law enforcement agencies are literally acting as if they

department, prosecutors, and idea that was expressed both by democrats and republicans on the house judiciary committee reporting in new york, trinity chavez, r t. you basically, journalist not to america has pen swan told his he. com, protect the anonymity of his sources, is a government can access his information. you know, i'm highly critical, big tech companies all the time. here's one area where i think they did the right thing by coming forward and saying, look at the abuse of this program and the abuse of these gag borders and the secrecy orders by the government. as a journalist, as an investigative journalist, i have many sources in the past that i've had to protect them. you don't want them to be disclosed, right? and when government has the ability to go in and they're able to access your information, they can access your cloud services. it puts those sources at risk. but what i would say to that is, i believe that the rights of a journalist stop at the same point, that the rights of any citizen stop. and that is journalists, we should not be a protected class and be treated differently just

i just testified in the house judiciary committee on the surveillance of reporters.nt memory that there was bipartisan agreement with all of us who testified as exports. all of the members in the room agreed we needed to investigate when journalists were intercepted. that hasn't been the response to this story. there are a couple of ways your email would have been intercepted that were lawful. you could be corresponding with someone subject to an nsa surveillance. but it doesn't explain the more troubling questions of how that information was circulated and also how your name was not masked. you can unmask people in surveillance documents of that kind. but it requires someone to ask for unmasking. there would be no legitimate reason to do so here. if reporters were given that information, it would be even more serious. even if your email itself was know classified. the intercept is. the nsa and foa material is highly classified. takes years for me to get access to an nsa surveillance document. the mere fact that they engaged in surveillance is classified. it would be

host: a few minutes before the house judiciary committee gavels in. if you want to keep calling and we will take your phone calls. sherry is in maryland, enrolled in medicare part d on that line, go ahead. caller: i appreciate erin's work . if we had a cosco here i would shop at costco. until the government rang in the drug companies and the insurance companies because they work together, the prices will never go down. i have purchased prescriptions from other companies. they are manufactured by the same company. we are the only country, maybe there is one more in the world that allows drug companies to advertise on tv. that should not be allowed. we pay way over half, more than is necessary. that is all i will say for now. host: thanks for the call and bringing up some of those issues. as you talk about her question, did costco say anything about your report? how did they feel about it? guest: they are very happy to get the word out. , sometimes we go for the samples. it turns out costco is quite effective at delivering on low prices to patients and

i just testified under the house judiciary committee under the surveillance of reporters andndt was onetimes in recent memory that there was bipartisan agreement with all of us who testified as experts, all the members in the room, theyoo agreed that we needed to fully investigate whether generalists were at intercepted. that has not been the response to the story. their hair are a couple of ways that your emails might have been intercepted.e and it would be lawful. you could have been corresponding with one, can someone who is subject to nsa surveillance or that person mayn have forwarded your email to someone who is intercepted but it doesn't explain the more troubling questions. how that information wasla circulated and also how your name was not masked. now, you can unmask people and surveillance documents of that kind but it requires someone to ask for unmasking and there would be no legitimate reason to itdo so here. now if reporters were given that information, it would be even morein serious because even if your email itself is not classified, the intercept is. nsa and foia mate

the house judiciary committee today senior microsoft executives said most americans would be stunnedw how often the federal government used secret orders to collect information on them. >> the secret investigations ist shocking. most shocking is just how routine secrecy orders have become when law enforcement targets americans email, text messages or other sensitive dat, stored in the cloud. throughout the obama, trump, and biden era, up to one-third of demands from law enforcement include secrecy orders, up to 3,500 in just one year. these are just the demands on microsoft. add the demands likely served on facebook, apple, google, twitter and others, and you get a frightening sense of the secrecy orders used by federal law enforcement in recent years. >> tucker: so what we need is an investigation into what exactly is going on. the largest bureaucracy in the history of mankind. there has never been a organization larger than the american federal government. so we need to know what thee important parts of it, the parts with a lot of power are doing in our name. we need an investigati

colorado republican congressman ken buck, member of the house judiciary committee, he's also the rankingber of the house judiciary's antitrust subcommittee. so in this scary covid time, big tech could be helpful? it could also be a weapon if used incorrectly. what to you see as the problem with the way some of these companies are operating right now? >> well, they're clearly censoring material, and they -- this is an ongoing situation where we don't know exactly what the truth is and what the best answer is. and the best thing we could do in america is to have an open and hively debate. -- lively debate. and for a group of people to suggest that covid didn't only nate in china or to suggest that masks should be used in a particular way without any debate, without any open discussions is a mistake. and i think for the biden administration to try to shut down discussion, it's disgraceful. i think people are making decisions right now about their own health, whether they want to take a vaccine, whether they don't want to take a vaccine, how they want to use a mask, who they want to associat

all of these conversations were happening as the house judiciary committee moves on its package of anti-trust bills and the white house has big tech critic lina khan as heads of the the ic they're urging the ftc and the doj to ramp up scrutiny of big tech in particular one thing is for certain the lobbyists will still have plenty of work for the foreseeable future back over to you >> how do investors and citizens for that matter gauge where whether tech with all this lobbying and spending is getting what it's paying for >> you know, i was thinking of that myself. quite frankly, i'm really not sure on the one hand, you can say how much worse might the tech backlash be if they did not have all this money to make their case, saying they support minimum wages for amazon or for facebook saying these support open regulation. but on the other hand, you could make the argument that it hasn't squelled the backlash. the scrutiny is still there. the personnel are being put in place. is this money getting the roi these companies wanted tbd. >> i think you just did the segment for tomorrow morning thank y

something members of congress are also targeting with the bills that just advanced out of the house judiciary committee last month in a lot of ways these efforts are complimentary and taking on the same issues. i think the challenge will be for the agencies themselves to implement them >> one of executive orders is challenging prior bad mergers. exactly how could that impact some tech companies? do you have some in mind maybe the president might be viewing as a bad one-and-one that is potentially a good one because it's nebulous when you say a prior bad merger >> so certainly when you see that and you're talking about where democrats have landed on these tech mergers one of the big ones is facebook instagram the ftc filed a lawsuit challenging facebook's fast mergers of competitors like instagram and whatsapp that case was recently before a judge who tlhrew out the lawsuit this shows broader interest to take on some of these acquisitions if you look at companies like amazon, look google, one of the ways they've built dominance is by buying up other companies often when they see them as a threat and neu

the house committee and judiciary come to order. objection from of the chairs authorized to declare recess of the committee at t any time. we welcome everyone to today's hearing on secrecy order prosecuting potential legislative response to the prosecutorial abuses of power. before we begin, i like to remind them to establish e-mail dedicated to other written material members may want to offer as part of our hearing today. if you'd like to submit materials, send them to the e-mail addressed previously district to your offices and we will circulate materials to members and staff asci quickly s we can. for those inn the room, the attending physician is individuals fully vaccinated recovered 19, do not need to wear a mask or maintain social distance. fully vaccinated individuals may choose to continue based on the specific risk of consideration. if you're not fully vaccinated, your position requires you to wear your mask and maintained 6 feet of social distancing. finally i asked off campus in person hearing remotely from mute their mic

money back, ralph moreland marjorie taylor green in our friend thomas massie here to discuss house judiciary committee member, thomas massie himself. author of the lawsuit, you sued goldberg, didn't you. >> this is kind of delicious, a year ago she called me and dangerous nations on television, not a moron but a dangerous nuisance we filed in washington, d.c., is unconstitutional what she did she's trying to use her salary to modify our behavior in the 27th amendment says you cannot do that you cannot bury a member salary and there's another part of the constitution that says you can only very the salary based based on the law the law has to pass the senate to be signed by the president, she is queen pelosi and doing whatever she wants, she goes in there without a mask in the speaker's chair, it's only the venture republican the have to wear a mask or pay the fine, this is an about us this is about what's going on and rest of america thought about $500 for three congressmen it willmbe standing up for them in this lawsuit. kennedy: were talking about vastly different america, northern california from w

here to discuss kentucky congressman house judiciary committee member, thomas massie himself, author of that lawsuit. so you sued the old bird did you? >> this is kind of delicious. a year ago she called the a dangerous nuisance on television. not a moron but a dangerous nuisance. we filed in federal court here in washington d.c. for its unconstitutional what she did. she's trying to use our salary to modify our behavior. the 27th amendment said you cannot do that you cannot bury a member salary for this another part of the constitution that says you can only bury the salary based on law. it is not has to pass the senate be signed by the senate she is queen of pelosi she wants to do it ever she wants. she goes out there that a mask in the speaker's chair. it is only the republicans that will have to wear the mask or pay the fine. so this is not about us, kennedy, this is about what's going on in the rest of america it's not $500 for three congressmen. this is going to happen to our schoolchildren and people just going to work and to members of the military we are standing up for them

the house judiciary committee held a hearing on voting rights following the u.s. supreme court's decision to uphold arizona's voting restrictions this year. more than a dozen states around the country have passed or are considering new voting restrictions. democrats say the laws make it harder for minorities to vote. what the republicans are doing throughout the country right now is to suppress the vote. republican lawmakers and conservative groups like judicial watch say the new laws make sense. you need rules. >> okay. kitchens should be clean. voting should be clean. >> and on the anniversary of the death of congressman john lewis. it looks increasingly unlikely that the senate will pass the john lewis voting rights act. top republicans say the legislation is unnecessary reporting in washington. alexandra limon. >> still ahead, new covid cases have just arrived at the olympic village just ahead of the tokyo games. what this means for the competition. >> texas lawmakers now testing positive for covid-19, know what's being done to make sure that others while they

the house judiciary committee held a hearing on voting rights following the u.s. supreme court's decision to uphold arizona's voting restrictions this year. more than a dozen states around the country have passed or are considering new voting restrictions. >> democrats say the laws make it harder for minorities to vote. what the republicans are doing throughout the country right now is to suppress the vote. republican lawmakers and conservative groups like judicial watch say the new laws make sense. you need rules. >> okay. kitchens should be clean. voting should be clean. >> and on the anniversary of the death of congressman john lewis. it looks increasingly unlikely that the senate will pass the john lewis voting rights act. top republicans say the legislation is unnecessary reporting in washington. alexandra limon. >> still ahead here tonight. a day. family and friends. remember the victim of san jose's latest traffic deaths. authorities search for the hit and run driver. >> in the south bay tonight. one man is dead. another remains on the run after a deadly hi

let's bring in congressman jim jordan, ranking member on the house judiciary committee and member ofee on the coronavirus crisis, which is calling for transparency in the investigation to the covid origins. your thoughts on what dr. collins is saying now in this interview that we just saw with dr. siegel. >> it's about time. remember, martha, dr. fauci was on notice at 10:30 p.m. january 21, 2020. he gets a notice to do grant research. in the e-mail, dr. anderson said the virus looks engineered, it's not consistent with evolution theory. so he was on notice 19 months ago, over the next 13 hours, if you look at the e-mails, dr. fauci learned that gain of function research was in fact funded and done. grants were done in wuhan, china and he learned that that research grant didn't go through the proper oversight screening committee called the p3 frame work. so by february 1, 2020, dr. fauci knows four key facts.he knows there's a lethal virus on the loose. he knows it was gain of function research that american tax dollars funded. he knows it didn't go through the oversight and he knows

you know, we had the house judiciary committee's vote, and we've been frantically trying to make leadershipa real testament to the hard work of the bill's sponsors, both hakim jeffrey, and kelly armstrong, republicans from north dakota, two men who have very little in common, but work together on criminal justice reform. and i'll be honest, it's one of the reasons that we called you. because we know that powerful members of congress watch your show. and we're right to make them aware that if you put the equal act, this historic bill on the floor of the house of representatives right now, we have more than enough republican votes to pass this bill on suspension. >> okay, hello, so more republican votes to pass the bill out of the house, if the speaker brings it to the floor for a vote. however, it then goes over to the senate. how likely is it that senate majority leader chuck schumer can get ten republicans to sign on or to vote in favor of invoking cloture, so that the bill can actually get to the floor for a majority vote? >> i'll take you back to 2018 with the strategy and the first step

republicans unveiled this legislative agenda to break up big tech and crackdown on censorship, the house judiciary committeen said he is spearheading the effort and once big tech, his targeted conservative for far too long, house judiciary republicans have had enough. so my question for you, sir, we have been hearing for months, years, really for threats from both sides of the aisle to rein in and really legislate big tech, the social media companies coming you guys excel add to these marathon hearings where you drag the ceos up to the hill and demand answers from them, but we have seen very little by way of legislation. is this a big cook who now push that we have all been waiting for, do you think? >> this has been growing for a long time, and republicans and democrats both have concerns with big tech for different reasons. on our side, we are very concerned about the censorship that you are seeing of conservative voices way, way more than you see other voices being censored by big tech. i think that that's what president trump was getting at, but with wee what to leader mccarthy did was roll out the task

the the house committee on judiciary will come to order. out objection the chair authorized to declare a recess is of the committee at any time. time. we welcome everyone to this morning's hearing on secrecy orders and prosecuting leaks, potential legislative responses. before we begin i would like to remind members we've established an e-mail address and distribution list dedicated to circulating exhibits, , emotions or other written material, materials that members may want to offer as part of our hearing today. if you'd like to submit materials please send them to the e-mail address that has previously been distributed to your offices, and we'll circulate the materials to members and staff as quickly as we can. for those in the room, current guidance on officer guillotine position is that individuals who are fully vaccinate for covid-19 did not need to wear masks or maintain such discussing. fully vaccinate interviews may choose to continue wearing masks based on their specific risk considerations that if you're not fully vaccinated the o

the house judiciary committee held a hearing on voting rights following the u.s. supreme court's decision to uphold arizona's voting restrictions this year. more than a dozen states around the country have passed or are considering new voting restrictions. >> democrats say the laws make it harder for minorities to vote. what the republicans are doing throughout the country right now is to suppress the vote. republican lawmakers and conservative groups like judicial watch say the new laws make sense. you need rules. >> okay. kitchens should be clean. voting should be clean. >> and on the anniversary of the death of congressman john lewis. it looks increasingly unlikely that the senate will pass the john lewis voting rights act. top republicans say the legislation is unnecessary reporting in washington. alexandra limon. >> love john. this. my favorite coat. it's ok to start trouble as long as it's good trouble. words that we should all live by. but let's take a look outside. we're tracking that fog out there for your saturday night with the threat of fire danger and

republican members of the house judiciary committee unveiled their new agenda focusing on holding bigcountable and increasing transparency around. >> big tex decisions. we will achieve a historic victory for american freedom. >> in washington reshad hudson. >> now the latest in florida. tropical storm elsa the first major storm of the atlantic hurricane season is battering the gulf coast of florida, bringing life threatening storm surge with it. the severe weather is also causing problems for rescue crews in surfside as they dig through rubble from last month's condo collapse looking for survivors. kareen wynter brings us the latest. >> a somber scene at the side of the florida condominium collapse. nearly 2 weeks after the disaster search teams sifting through twisted metal broken concrete and scattered debris facing the grim reality of no longer finding more survivors alive. saying they've detected no new signs of life today are engineers. >> and our staff are in the north building. the champlain north, the building that substantially the same as the one that collapsed. without expl

>> let's talk about this with cnn legal analyst norm eisen, a special counsel to the house judiciary committee during former president trump's first impeachment trial. i wonder, norm, what you think hearing that self-own from the former president. >> well, brianna, thanks for having me back on the program. it does add to the quantum of evidence in the existing case. very serious tax fraud case. trump's lawyers and others try to poo-poo it as mere fringe benefits but we know these are serious cases. people go to jail as leon a did in her tax fraud case but adds to the own growing risk of the former president, this case is not just pointed at weisselberg, not just pointed at the trump organization but also at the man whose name is on that company. >> he says in those remarks at that rally, does anyone know? he's talking about does anyone know about, i guess, these rules when it comes to, quote unquote, fringe benefits. but there's something in that indictment that may be contradicts what he' saying there and that is this separate ledger. >> yes. brianna, the most interesting part of the indictme

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