and they are great and they looked at that judiciary committee. >> jerry nadler had looked and whetherthey care about me or not armstrong and when we first got everybody together teacher. and they were there with us and went out from the committee and proper procedures and they should. >> so we get to the intelligence committee and hold hearings and i can remember we were second committee prepared to deal hand that important committee a time. and they realize many times during this year because i never felt it was wasteful. it was january 1 and anything before would have been in the house. i know it sounds crazy. and jerry nadler's own words on how we investigate, willing to throw all that away with a bunch of law professors. in saying if you will work in congress and in the next hearings instead of their own investigation and i brought it back several times. and with got nothing out of this. at end of the day they are on both sides and it's what i'm concerned congress may be heading for. if you lose the process. in the potential for majority. and what you can do and you do it. if you

i served on the judiciary committee for some time, all three of us have served on the committee. personally, i reviewed over 1000 judicial nominees in the committee and on the floor. the record is clear. the nominees represent the best of the judiciary, of america. when i became chair of the senate judiciary these vacancies and bringing balance to the court was the highest priority. we face six ordinary challenges. the first two years of the administration coincided with the longest evenly divided senate in history and for the past three years, democrats have held a narrow majority. the biden administration had fewer vacancies to fill day one than the trump administration did in fewer than half. still we succeeded beyond what any hope for. 235 judges confirmed, more than one out of every four judges now serving on the judicial bench were nominated by this president joseph biden. [applause] because of the arcane and challenging rules of the judiciary committee the members had to be sitting in their seats when the roll call was taken for each and every nominee, 235 times. i will gi

president trump's pick to lead the fbi will speak to senators about his nomination before senate judiciary committee. these events stream live on free c-span video app or online at c-span.org. ♪ ♪ >> democracy, it isn't just an idea, it's a process, a process shaped by leaders elect today the highest office and entrusted to a select few guarding basic principes. it's where debates, decisions are made and nation's course is chartered. democracy in realtime, this is your government at work. doctors the c-span, giving you your democracy unfiltered. >> up next we hear from kash patel the president trump's pick to lead the fbi, mr. pa tel national security council in addition to serving as public defender in florida. mr. patel will be on capitol hill on thursday in confirmation hearing. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome former pentagon chief of staff and author of government gangsters, kash patel. ♪ we are going to put an end behind donald trump and we are going to do it together. [applause] >> what i want to talk the about is, you guys have been so kind to make my book best seller, i thought there

people weren't ready for them. >> we get to the intelligence committee delivers report to the judiciary committee, we hold hearings on it and i can remember the time frame of these hearings because it was a christmas party at the white house that we never made. >> exactly. >> we were stuck in committee but you get the report and we prepare in committee to deal with the report the last chance to back them down. this was the time. >> if people haven't figured out, the reason the title of the book, clock and the calendar, i said clock and calendar many times this year because i never felt it was based on facts. we have to present whatever we can because the clock and the calendar was ticking down to january 1st. january 1st was an election year and anything excuse me that they would have done before then, after that would have been in the house would have been perceived as political, more political than it already was. in fact, nadler made a comment and i brought that back search times because we were only a rubber stamp because we had -- remember the hearing when we had staff. we got nothing out of

the top republican on the house judiciary committee, mr. collins that centered on the first impeachment inquiry into than president donald trump. rep. collins: i thank the chairman, and it is interesting that, again, parliamentary inquiries, some of the things are some of the things we will discuss today, in a different arena. for everyone who has not been here before, this is a new room, new rules, it's a new month. we've even got a cute little stickers for our staff so we can come in, because we want to make this important, because this is impeachment, and we have done such a terrible job of it on this committee before, but what is not new is what has been reiterated by the chairman. what is not new is the facts. what is 90 with the same, sad story. what is interesting, before i get into this in part of my opening segment is what was just said by the chairman. we went back to a rebel of mr. moeller. he also quoted him saying the attention of the american people should be on foreign interference. i agree with him completely. i guess the am

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i want to transition to the judiciary committee now. you're going to be taking on a new role as ranking member, so congratulations on that. >> i appreciate it. >> with democrats in the minority maybe a bull horn, but not some institutional power. when trump does something that crosses someone's line, firing someone, maybe prosecuting someone, what sort of tools do you think you will have at your disposal to push back? >> well, they have the narrowest of majorities, which of course undercuts the fraudulent claim it was some kind of landslide election, started 220-215, now 219-215 and after elise stefanik, 217-215. and they cannot afford to a lose an i think isle vote and a coalition starting to fall apart between the billionaires like elon musk who love cheap foreign labor and want to expand the h1b program and you've got steve bannon who want to cut off all immigration to the country. you've got some people like my friend speaker johnson who you had up here, life begins at conception act the idea of banning abortion nationally enabled b

but before we get into the latest justice department judiciary committee-related news, i want to talkbout joe biden. he is leaving office in less than a week. his campaign in 2020 posited that his election might be ready to turn the page of the trump years and reinvigorate american democracy in the way he envisioned. trump is now coming back, so that project seems to have failed. what do you make of biden's legacy under the circumstances? >> first of all, thanks for having me. it's appropriate to be talking about joe biden here at union station, mr. amtrak himself. i barely recognize union station. pretty amazing that we have done it i. biden did put those trump years behind us and he beat donald trump by more than seven million votes, 300-6200 32 in the electoral college. we should never forget that. donald trump beat kamala harris by 3 million votes in this last election, but i think we need to keep some perspective about where america is. it is one of the great things about democracy that we have these pendulum swings and times and of course, anybody who was an incumbent during the

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and advir in the first trump administration, you can watch confirmation hearing before senate judiciary committee live at 9:30 a.m. eastern on c-span 3. you can also watch on the free c-an now video app or online at c-span.org. and more now from tulsi gabbard in her own words, president trump's pick to be director of national intelligence spoke at the 2024 cpac conference having left the democratic party at that point. she discussed election fraud, government overreach and democrats attempting to remove president trump from voting ballots. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome four-term congresswoman and author of her new book, for love of country, tulsi gabbard. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> thank you. >> thank you so much. aloha. it's wonderful to see you all here again at such a critical time some new attack. now for democratic elite in washington who are doing all that they possibly can to keep us the american people from a very simple thing, wanting to choose who we want to be the very next president. and it is clear through their actions they have no respect for us and they have no respect for our fundamental

senate judiciary committee chairman chuck grassley, chuck is here, thank you.lause you look great. house judiciary committee g chairman jim jordan, special man. mark green, thank you very much. we have many others but i will not introduce because this is about your daughter, something so important. bert jones is in the room, your lieutenant governor, and he was on this like you would not believe. applause thank you very much, i see you sitting there. state, local officials, law enforcement organizations, most of them represented in the room, they are incredible people and i have never seen them come together like that you have for this. i have done many of these, not of this kind but different bills having to do with different things from homeland security to enter security to 2axes, 50 different items. i have never seen such support as you have today and as her great daughter has today. i have never seen anything like it. we have to think your daughter for that. she is going to save lives and be responsible for saving lives. to the angel families, i have been

aguilar: i look forward to a robust debate in the judiciary committee. i'll yield to the vice chair momentarily. that has discussions about what the limits of presidential pardon authority should be. i support that robust discussion. i would live by the law of the land. as i mentioned in this room and i mentioned publicly, i didn't advocate for a pardon. i didn't feel it was necessary. i felt that we did our job in a bipartisan way to tell the truth of what happened on january 6. we did so with the speech and debate clause, a protection to the work we do. i understand why president biden made this decision. it's not lost on me that donald trump doesn't care what a single piece of paper says. he will do what he wants to do. if that means rhett preu pwaougs against -- retribution against members of the committee. a simple piece of paper does not protect anybody from donald trump and his administration. we know that going in. we are going to carry out the work that is ahead of us. but we are also going to continue to talk about the promises that donald trum

we will cover president-elect robb's pick for attorney general pam bondi before the judiciary committee and the intelligence committee hosts cia nominee john ratcliff. we will have those hearings and others live on c-span now our free mobile video app and later in our schedule. president biden will give his farewell address to the nation tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span. on c-span3 we are waiting for the secretary of state confirmation hearing to get underway. [quiet indiscernible background conversations] >> live coverage from capitol hill expecting the senate foreign relations committee to gaveling in. the top democrat on the committee is jeanne shaheen of new hampshire. there are 20 additional members, including two women, senators tammy duckworth and jacky rosen. a handful of other confirmation hearings are also happening today. we will cover president-elect trump's pick for attorney general, pam bondi, who is appearing before the judiciary committee. the intelligence committee hosts cia nominee john ratcliff. we will host those on c-span now, our free mobile video app, and later i

received what i would call requests or even demands from other senate committees to include the judiciary committee and the house homeland -- i mean, the senate homeland security and government accountability, whatever the title of that committee is, for information related to that. that took place over a course of several months and the process, just so you're clear, was anititive, collaborative process that included the attorney general, the c.i.a. director, the director of the n.s.a., myself as d.n.i., and again, anitierive process that resulted in a highly redacted product to protect sources and methods. but yet to respond to these requests or demands, to put that information out. so i take that that's -- sen. ossoff: that's useful information. my time is running short. we can discuss further in the closed session if we need. to i appreciate you -- mr. ratcliffe: i very much look forward to that. sen. cornyn: mr. ratcliffe, i think i have the distinction of having known you longer than anybody else on this committee. i remember when you were -- mr. ratcliffe: they call that misfortune. sen. cor

>> yeah, i don't know how many committees do it this way, often done in judiciary committee, we havete for one meeting one day and the next day, opponents and proponents of the candidate can come and speak and answer questions. second day is not quite as important as first day, it is tradition of judiciary committee to do that. >> brian: senator, can i marvel at something. you are none years old, sharp as ever, all this energy, how do you do it? >> well, first of all, i'm in office because voters of iowa voted me in by a wide margin, that is how you do it m politically. physically, i used to call it running, now i call it shuffling along. if it hadn't been eight degrees windchill this morning, i was going to get up at 4:00 and go. i woke up and decided it was to cold. i make a habit of getting out every morning. >> brian: that does it, fitness is a way of life. i'll be watching you. good luck pam bondi. we'll be right back. an alternative to pills, voltaren is a clinically proven arthritis pain relief gel, which penetrates deep to target the source of pain with nonsteroidal anti-infl

in training materials obtained by the judiciary committee, and published in the staff report last yearailed to answer seemingly clear-cut questions such as whether an alien who served a 20-year drug related prison sentence or an alien who discharged a firearm outside of a police station should be priorities for arrest and deportation. until the trump administration can change them, those are the training materials required for all of isis enforcement -- i.c.e.'s enforcement personnel nationwide. instead of making clear that i.c.e. officers should carry out their duties to remove criminal aliens from american streets, the biden-harris administration instructed i.c.e. officers to develop a full profile of a criminal alien before deciding whether to arrest someone who is in the country illegally. in the training examples that included -- that included determining whether an illegal alien has high blood pressure or is a caregiver. the biden-harris adminis administration's absurdity appears to no know bounds n a transcribed interview with the judiciary committee, former top i.c.e. official

it will be my very first hearing as a member of the senate judiciary committee. we've got a lot of great nominees on the hill this week, and they'll be they'll have the opportunity not only to make their case to those on that committee, jake, but they'll have their opportunity to make their case to the american people of why they are best, where they are best suited to move president trump's agenda forward. >> but why would you think somebody who's willing to lie about the election results in pennsylvania is going to restore integrity in the justice department? the way that you are calling for? >> look, jake, i've had very direct conversations with each and every one of these nominees that i've had the opportunity to sit down with. i take my duty as a united states senator seriously. article two, section two mandates that i do. we have an obligation both to the american people and to the president to ask these tough questions. i asked that question very directly, and with each and every nominee, the answers that i have been given with them has satisfied, satisfied

he's he's obviously he's going to be the top democrat on the judiciary committee. but to reinforce your point, he has announced that he is going to support marco rubio, the democrat on that committee. one of the top democrats in the senate, has already announced he's going to be supporting rubio for secretary of state. let us see what happens. it's good to see you, buddy. thank you john. thanks. >> all right. with us now is florida man mark caputo, senior politics reporter at axios. florida's marco rubio has a confirmation hearing today. florida's pam bondi has a confirmation hearing today. is there anyone left in florida? mark? >> there are quite a bit. i guess there's mike waltz. who's the national security advisor? mauricio claver-carone is from orlando. he's going to be at the latin american envoy, kevin cabrera, the miami-dade county commissioner, is going to be the ambassador to panama. >> and there are two other florida men who are going to be and their names escape me, the ambassadors to argentina and there and to spain. >> so lots of florida folks and more

confirmation hearing for kash patel as director of the fbi will be held in the senate judiciary committee. senator sheldon white house asking questions of the nominee who has publicly said he wants to eliminate the intelligence unit in the fbi that investigates terrorist plots and has successfully stopped many of those plots before they were carried out. here what is kash patel said he wants to do with that unit of the fbi and with the rest of the fbi. >> the fbi's footprint has gotten so frickin' big. and the biggest problem the fbi has had has come out of its intel shelves. i'd break that component out. i'd shut down the fbi hoover building on day one and reopening the next day as a museum of the deep state. >> leading off our discussion is democratic senator sheldon white house of rhode island. i've got to ask you about what we just heard there. there's someone saying, i want to make the fbi completely unable to either investigate plots and stop the kind of thing that happened in new orleans, or unable to even respond and investigate after the fact what happened in new orleans. >> well

. >> they will push the anti-immigrant agenda and there are serious flaws before the judiciary committee to the normal process. i personally voted against it. they committed a crime. and it is border security. people accused of crimes and to respond. so we believe in the rule of law. [inaudible] >> to go directly. >> a lot of things and it will continue. will the american public to know donald trump is working publicans that will assure them they will have the potential social security and medicaid bill from their ability to qualify for supplemental attrition. but they are talking about is behind closed doors, you're trying to cut a deal cut a deal to hurt american people and that's what this is about. there was a lot of things and that is the fundamental millionaires and billionaires. back on think the matters price them out of the numbers. >> i didn't have my hand up but i'll take one. [laughter] mehta announced they would do away with this. get your reaction submitted. the concern of the democratic caucus in the information it is clear companies are. and that is the world we live in.

homeland security and judiciary committee. director of national intelligence, i have the privilege of working closely with president trump andnd overw agencies of the u.s. intelligence community the agency i have the honor of being nominated to believe in each of these roles i served with fidelity to the constitution and the rule of law that voice prioritized american civil the, something i will continue to do if confirmed to serve again. national security professionals and together prepared through a tumultuous time the world and thee cia's more indispensable than ever before. demanding relentless execution. we will collect intelligence, especially intelligence in every corner of the globe, it's difficult never allowing personally biases. in going places. brave cia officers around the world and buckle up and get ready to make a difference. if it doesn't, it's time to find a new line of work. it will unapologetically and empower the hardest working. i will not tolerate anything or anyone distracts from our mission. happy to do

then the senate judiciary committee began its questioning. look at them right now. i'm looking at you. you're voting on a look at them. democrats are trying to paint patel as unqualified and a trump loyalist. they have expressed concern. patel would use the fbi for political retaliation at the behest of the president due process must be provided without bias to all americans. and if we cannot provide due process to the worst, then there can be no due process for anyone and our constitutional republic fails during one exchange with ranking member durbin. patel seem to break with the president on his recent clemency for january 6 insurrection us checked. and i do not agree the commutation of any sentence of any individual who committed violence against law enforcement. >> patel is a former aide to the house intelligence committee next federal prosecutor who served in trump's first administration. the fbi in recent years has become entangled in numerous politically explosive investigations into president trump and president biden as well as his son hunter, who he pardo

speaker johnson to set up a select subcommittee that could part of the judiciary committee.at some the things you talked about. but speaking of january 6, i want to know this. we got a report from the inspector general a month and a half ago we learn 26 human sources on the capitol. seventeen of those individuals got into restricted space, they were not permitted to do. four enter the capitol but two of the four who entered the capitol were told here to be that day by our fbi. i think they're all kinds of questions the american people deserve answers to like how long of the sources been worked with the fbi? how much have we paid them over the time they work for the fbi? were they paid for activities and information they gave that particular day? were they the first ones to go into the capitol? did they go to the door? did they go into broken windows? they were not permitted to be there but none of them were charged by the way. i think that is one place we start and then we go from there. but the nice thing is, as you pointed out we have kash patel, pam bondi all great people

attorney general she begins her second avenue confirmation hearing before the senate judiciary committee and scott bessent the nominee for treasury secretary test before the finance committee on friday at south dakota governor kristi noem cap to lead the department of homeland security prison for the senate homeland security watch live on the sea spent network. she spent now are free mobile video app or online at

. >> i look forward to a robust debate in the judiciary committee. i will yield to the vice chair here momentarily that has discussions about what the limits of presidential pardon authority should be. i support that robust discussion and i would live by the law of the land. as i mentioned in this room and i have mentioned, you know, publicly, i didn't advocate for a pardon. i didn't feel it was necessary. i felt that we did our job in a bipartisan way to tell the truth of what happened on january 6th. we did so with the speech and debate clause as a protection to the work that we do, but i understand why president biden made this decision, but it's not lost on me that donald trump doesn't care what a single piece of paper says. he will do what he wants to do, and if that means retribution against members of the committee, he will do it whether it's through the burleson bill or whether it's through other means. a simple piece of paper does not protect anybody from donald trump and his administration. we know that going in. so we are going to carry ou

committee. probably won't be judiciary. i don't know. it is a tragic situation. we feel for the families and individuals who have lost their homes, some people have lost loved ones. maria: terrible. >> it's tragic. i do think it underscores some of the policies that are in place in california when it comes to water. i heard former speaker mccarthy talking yesterday about decisions made in california relative to the governor there and other leaders that just made no sense. no common sense on having the resources you need to combat something like this. so that's important i think as we move forward too. that's largely the folks in california are going to have to decide that and who they have in elected positions making those decisions. maria: underlines how important policy is, right. you're dealing with policy, trying to get the policy right and we appreciate your work on it but look how important the right policy is. so we'll be watching that. mr. chairman, good to see you this morning. thanks very much. >> you bet, maria. maria: jim jordan in d.c. stay with us.

attorney general she begins her second avenue confirmation hearing before the senate judiciary committee and scott bessent the nominee for treasury secretary test before the finance committee on friday at south dakota governor kristi noem cap to lead the department of homeland security prison for the senate homeland security watch live on the sea spent network. she spent now are free mobile video app or online at c-span.org. ♪ democracy, it is not just an idea. it is a process. oppressive treatment leaders elected as the highest office and entrusted to a select a few regarding its basic principle. it's where debates on both decisions are made the nation course is charted. democracy in real-time. real time. this is your government at work. this is c-span giving you your democracy unfiltered. house lawmakers discuss california wildfires loss of life material personal damage, family displacement and relief effort this is just over 10 minutes. >> this week i returned from my district in southern california which has been completely devastated and altadena fire took our neighbors lives destro

she to the house judiciary committee for, the cause of women's rights and women's. and after one of her famous speeches concerning suffrage at the chicago world's fair in may of 1893, the chicago record said this about her, quote mrs. dr. martha hughes. is considered one of the brightest exponents of the women's cause in the united states. pretty high praise her position gave her gave rise to her popularity within utah territory where she became the first female state senator anywhere in the country. and that's an amazing feat. she served to a term there and she used her position for the good of others in the legislature. martha led the effort to establish a state board of health and she introduced bills to establish a school for the deaf and blind. she wasn't when she wasn't in office, she was running her practice and she had a lot going on and as the youngest head surgeon at the newly established hospital, which is an female medical institution, she used her skills, talents and experience to serve others and all grateful that she did. it's to our disappointment th

after serving on the staff of the senate just dish -- senate judiciary committee david went on to becomeional business leader and philanthropist. from advancing cutting edge cancer treatment, to restoring our nations monuments his leadership reminds us that at our best we learn from, preserve, and share our history so that everyone sees themselves in the story of america. [applause] accepting on behalf of george soros is alex soros. [applause] the presidential medal of freedom is awarded to george soares. born to a family in hungary, george soros escaped nazi occupation to build a life for himself and others around the world. educated in england, he settled in america as he became a philanthropist, supporting key pillars of open society. rights and justice, equity and equality, freedom now and in the future. his generosity reminds us all of our capacity and our obligation to stand up to the abuse of power and to be guardians of democracy and all people yearning to be free. [applause] george stevens, jr. [applause] the presidential medal of freedom is awarded to george stevens, jr., born

. >> the judiciary committee so congratulations on that. >> tried to push back. >> undercut fraudulent claims it is started to 19. if you do the math, he will figure out it will not lose a single vote. elon musk loved cheap labor, they wanted the program and you got the van and in the majority and they want to cut off all to the country. you got speaker johnson appear in sponsors the act advancing the idea banning abortion nationally enabled by the supreme court roe v. wade and others and i would maybe include donald trump who don't really care about abortion and doing everything they can to run away from the issue they did overturn a woman's right to sue. the press act. and the documents. it was held up by one or two senators and push that through and you are not be enemies. >> he has come in and what advises it somehow and use this purchase. >> i feel like american people are exhausted and sick of the right wing conspiracy theories and don't appetite for prosecuting the prosecutors, investigating the alligators and so on. substantive different analysis come forward and tell america w

no. >> you are on the judiciary committee.g to be some hearings coming up and i wonder which ones you find the most alarming, whether they are in your committee or not, the confirmation hearings. you have pam bondi that's coming up. you obviously have a secretary of defense who is a television host from fox who will be replacing a four-star general, and who has some allegations against him from women and also from his former colleagues regarding his use of funds. marco rubio is obviously coming up for secretary of state. we got up on the screen a lot of the people who are coming up. is there one that particularly concerns you? >> well i think the one that is so clearly, patently unqualified is kash patel, the nominee for fbi director. this is someone who is essentially an internet troll who rose to the level of his willingness to debase himself to the president. he has no business running the premier law enforcement agency in the country. he has said he wants to close down fbi headquarters and open up a museum to the deep stat

and someone who i served with on the house judiciary committee, delegate mary louise price. mary, mary louise, nice to see you as well. and you know, we're so grateful that all of you are here. and i also to thank my family for being here. they've been instrumental this. so in the front row here, next to priscilla john's wife, we have my my sister, danielle, my sister jenny lee, and my nephew. thank you all for being here. finally, i want thank john frece john has spent spent years of his life full time researching and my father's life. and it wasn't it wasn't an easy task. my father's life was all over the place. and so john and priscilla, literally all over the world. so they went to ireland and research there. they went up to to new haven, connecticut to go through the library at yale. they went up to my father's prep school at st paul's in concord, new hampshire, an and the work that they put in was absolutely incredible. and john's written a great book, so i really you all enjoy it and on the last year on the campaign trail, even though i'm not in politics, i ran into j

he's a member of the judiciary committee in the senate, which means he will be able to question mr.earing for fbi director this week. senator, it's really nice to see you. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> good to be. >> with you. >> so i've tried to shed a little bit of light on the context of mr. patel's nomination. what's going on at the fbi and the justice department right now, and also a little bit of his history. do you feel like mr. patel's history and his qualifications or lack thereof, for this position, are well understood by the judiciary committee? >> i think. >> they are well understood. >> the question. >> as with so many of these nominees. >> who. >> shouldn't be in a million years confirmed for their positions. >> will it just. >> be democrats that oppose. >> them, or. will republicans also acknowledge what should. >> be plain? >> someone like kash. >> patel is. >> not fit to. >> run an agency of. >> this significance? >> the only. added context that i would mention. >> in addition. >> to what you went through, is. the fbi. not only. is i. >> think the premi

so it never ended up getting out of the house judiciary committee. however, the president has the authority to issue a posthumous pardon just on his say so. so we've gone that route starting in 2016, the end of the second term of president obama. so that's where we are at the present time. you know, president biden was vice president at that time. so he should be familiar with the case. so we're using it as a means to exonerate and clear my dad's name. and as you mentioned, there's abundant legal evidence that the trial itself was a farce. it was a political trial. there was no evidence, et cetera.. so it's a matter of clearing his name and, you know, restoring, you know, not only his name per se, but his activity because he had an organization that had, you know, more than 6 million members worldwide, which is the largest member organization of african people in the diaspora, at least. so he was a significant person in the black community. >> yes, sir. let me get the professor in here. let me get the professor in here. because you said professor han

i was a member of the house intelligence, homeland and judiciary committees. i had the privilege of working closely with president trump and oversaw the 18 agencies of the u.s. intelligence community including the agency i now have the honor of being nominated to lead. in each of these rules i served with fidelity to the constitution and strict adherence to the rule of law and i have always prioritized americans civil liberties, something i will continue to do if confirmed to serve again. each of these experiences has shaped me as a leader and national security professional. together they have prepared me to steer the cia into a future where the cia's mission will be more difficult and more indispensable than ever before. if confirmed by leadership as cia will focus on setting and communicating priorities and demanding relentless execution. above all, we will be a strict adherence to the cia's mission. we will collect intelligence, especially human intelligence, in every corner of the globe, no matter how dark or difficult. we will produce insightful, objectiv