it is not previously. mr. chairman. >> in light of these actual. >> no, no, no. >> everyone -- everyone will suspend. you told the gentlemen he could briefly. >> he has not finished answering. >> we will now turn to the gentlemenwoman from washington, d.c. for her questions. >> thank you, mr. chairman. in order to allow this witness continue. let me ask, let me ask questions. you are a senior. and experienced person f. that is not right? >> i would consider myself a senior and experience the yes.ers, >> now, you had been involved in investigation of the last election involving hillary and donald trump at the highest level. that is not the case? highest level by that i had interagos with those cases with the deputy director staff of the department of justice, yes. >> ta is what i mean. now. reading from your phone and your, and it occurcial phone did personalat your political messages if they became public may be misinterpreted in light of the the investigation? >> congresswoman, to be very honest. i didn't anti

of course, this does not include mr. manafort himself who is scheduled to begin his criminal trial later this summer. he is sitting in solitary confinement after allegedly engaging in witness tampering. this also does not include michael cohen, the president's long-time lawyer. at this moment, he may be considering whether to cooperate with special counsel. at the year chairman gowdy said that if the special counsel has evidence of a crime, he should submit it to the grand jury. as chairman gowdy himself said, if you are innocent, act like it. today i urge our chairman to change course and to keep their promises to protect the integrity of the special counsel's ongoing investigation and instead of asking hundreds of questions that undermine it, to work with them. with that, mr. chairman, i yield back. >> we welcome our witness, and mr. strzok, if you would please rise i'll begin by swearing you in. do you swear that the testimony that you are about to give shall be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so h

mr. kmarm i move to adjourn. >> second. >> you're not recognized for in a purpose. >> mr. chairman, i think you have no choice but to recognize such a motion. >> i do not -- >> are you just going to make up rules as we go along? >> the motion is not in order. during the time controlled by the gentleman from south carolina. >> i appeal that ruling of the chair. >> mr. strzok, will you answer -- >> i appeal your ruling that my motion is not in order. >> the gentleman is not in order. >> the gentlemen is not recognized. knowing this, will you answer the committee's question as directed or do you refuse to answer the committee''s question? >> mr. chairman, as you know, counsel for the fbi has directed me not to answer questions about the ongoing investigation. as you also know, counsel for the fish bi is sitting here beh me. may i consult with him? >> you may consult with your own counsel. >> bau i may not -- >> only with your own counsel. >> mr. chairman, there's no basis for that. he can consult with the fbi counsel. he's an fbi employee. >> the gentlemen is not recognized. >

mr. gowdy, it wasn't. i do not have bias. my personal opinions in no way -- >> well, then, why did you get kicked off? >> mr. gowdy, my understanding of why i was kicked off was that based on understanding of those texts and the perception that they might create is the thing that -- >> hang on a second, agent strzok. hang on a second. you're saying it was the perception the 13 democrats on the special counsel probe, including one who went to what he hoped was a victory party. that's a perception problem, too. they weren't kicked off. you were. why were you kicked off? >> mr. gowdy, i cannot speak to special counsel mueller -- >> how long did you talk to him? when he let you go? >> the witness will answer the question. >> the witness will be afforded an opportunity to answer the question. if there is a question he wants to answer after mr. gowdy's time. >> my recollection was a short meeting, somewhere between 15 to 30 minutes, probably around 15 minutes. >> and your testimony is, bob mueller did not kick you off, because of th

of course this is not including mr. manafort himself who is scheduled to begin his criminal trial later this summer. he is sitting in solitary confinement after allegedly engaging in witness tampering. this also does not include michael cohen, the president's long-time lawyer. at this moment he may be considering whether to cooperate with special counsel. at the last judiciary committee hearing chairman gowdy said that if the special counsel has evidence of a crime, he should submit it to the grand jury. as chairman gowdy himself said, if you are innocent, act like it. today i urge our chairman to change course and to keep their promises to protect the integrity of the special counsel's ongoing investigation and instead of asking hundreds of questions and undermine it, to work with him. and with that, mr. chairman, i yield back. >> we welcome our witness, and mr. strzok, if you would please rise, i'll begin by swearing you in. do you swear that the testimony you are about to give shall be the truth, the whole truth and n

first, this is not included mr. manafort himself who scheduled to begin his criminal later this summer. he is sitting in solitary confinement after allegedly engaging in witness tampering. this also does not include hen.ael: -- co the president's longtime lawyer. at this point, he may be considering whether to cooperate with the special counsel. -- last hearing, german said that if the special counsel has evidence of a crime, he should submit it to the grand jury. himself said, dy "if you are innocent, act like it." i ask him today to keep the integrity of the investigation and instead of asking hundreds of questions to undermine couple work with him. and with that, i yield back. >> we welcome our witness. would please rise, i will begin by swearing you in. use where swear the testimony she'll be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. is a deputy director of the human resources division of the the eye. he has worked there for 22 years. was a deputy in the counterintelligence division. this assignment

mr. powell: certainly not. mr.mmer: the european central bank is convinced the region economy is strong enough to withdraw its crisis era support. our economy by contrast has been hunting for more than one year. off of itsas lifting unconventional stance, should we be slowing or stopping returned to fundamentals, and would doing so leave us stuck with a balance sheet that remains conflicted between monetary and macro credential policy? we are much more significantly down the road in the normalization process. the european central bank has said that a one-stop asset purchases, assuming certain conditions are met by the end of the year. raiseen i began to interest rates until at least the end of the summer of 2019. there are's -- they are years behind our process to we have been raising interest rates since december of 2015 to our balance sheet has been shrinking since last october. we think our path is working well. we think the gradual rate increases are has your committee device a strategy for how and when to chan

mr. o'rourke: not consistently. rep. higgins: what can we do as to hope you enforce within the executive to follow the timeline? are you familiar with use in law enforcement -- confidential informant use in law enforcement? mr. o'rourke: guess. rep. higgins: do you know what happens if they reveal the identity? mr. o'rourke: yes. rep. higgins: we pretty much find them in a ditch somewhere. whistleblowers are pretty much confidential informants. should come on the other side of the aisle, discuss regarding the protection of whistleblowers' identity. how can we discuss protecting the identity of whistleblowers? mr. o'rourke: you bring up a great point, because with retaliation cases, the idea of the whistleblower is no longer protected. rep. higgins: exactly. there can be no retaliation if there is no identity exposed. i think we should have great concern amongst executive and amongst this body regarding the crucial importance, the protection of whistleblowers' identities, because they are, in effect, confidential informant

mr. strzok: absolutely not. veryu had several disparaging text messages with your friends about this but you didn't let's think that maybe someone out should have taken this case? mr. strzok: no, sir. i didn't especially care for president clinton and i investigated that is effectively as anything out. >> i have struggled listen to testimony because i think abandon your position and power in the two should have but that people should have for you because of your position in the fbi that you would have stopped to think that maybe there was someone who could do a better job they did not have such disdain for this president to you claim to be such a patriot, but once he was elected, you continue to do this and i think you have to set that elections have consequences, but i will yield the balance of my time to the chairman. >> i thought you did not recall typing it, ending you said you recall it was late at night and that somehow mitigated the content of what you typed. so do you recall it, or was it late at night, a

meanwhile mr not good zuma has arrived in the foothills of mount fuji where he i'm sorry but about to have a photo shoot. so . good. anymore all. that's. good to hold. is. the old. me. today. took a look at the. people criticize us or they question us and they want to know why we're not more book critical of russia and the real question is how come we're not tooting russia's horn more because they are been genius during this crisis but that would be i think a little bit you know over the top to simply point out all the good things that they're constantly doing so we just try to take a more balanced middle of the road approach that's you know the fact is that they're making all these other economies look stupid by comparison. you know world's big partners. a lot and conspiracy it's time. to dig deeper to get the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now for watching closely watching the haw

you either do or do not? mr. pickles: somebody who is not the lawyer. >> you are the senior public policy -- official for twitter before us. and you will not answer the question whether or not you believe your company enjoys rights under the first amendment? mr. pickles: i believe we did. i would like to confirm. >> what i understand is i enjoy rights under the first amendment, and i'm covered by section 230, and section 230 itself says no provider shall be considered the speaker, do you see the tension that that creates? mr. pickles: yes. i also see worked with previously to identify what is important to remove content -- >> let's explore some of those extremes. i know twitter would never do this. i'll just claim that. could twitter remove someone from their platform because they are gay or a woman? mr. pickles: we would remove someone make breaking our rules. >> it's your intention that twitter does not have the ability to remove somebody because they are gay or a woman? mr. pickles: i would say context is not p

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mr. chairman. i do not want to, no, mr. chairman. i think that is an issue i have not been involved in. >> i know you have not been involved in it, but now we are trying to find out your values. you have not criticized certain people, and somebody may say you have not answered the question, so let's go beyond the hypothetical or let's go beyond the criticism, and let's take up the values, which is what i am asking you now. now, you did not want to criticize justice scalia orjustice thomas, but when you were asked the question would you consider yourself in their mold, you selected justice byronwhite and justice robert jackson. now, mr. kavanaugh, there may be some implicit criticism there, but we will move beyond that. why do you choose justice white? what are his qualities distinguished from justice scalia or justice thomas that you choose justice white? brett kavanaugh: i do not want to comment on currently sitting justices. the reason i chose justice white is for several reasons, he was a rock of integrity. his work as deputy attor

we want that relationship based on honesty and trust, not mr. putin's terms. mptty: you are clearly not happy with the way mr. ts handling this, but what can democrats do about it? you are pretty powerless to change the actions of the president and the words of the president. sen. cardin: congress is an independent branch of ment and i expect my colleagues to speak out and take action to -- katty: but senator, it does not look like republicans are prepared to do that. sen. cardin: i must tell you that i've talked to a lot of republicans and they will be chlenged to stay silent. icam demands action. the global community expects the ws. to lead the free world. what happened thk with mr. putin and mr. trump needs to be repudiated. katty: you say americans demandn acbut there is a new reuters poll that says that only 32% of republican voters actually side with the u.s. intelligence community's assessment that russia meddled in the 2016 election. what do you make of that? sen. cardin: the facts are the facts.di there is ngreement that russia interfered at mr. putin'

mr. putin's day. he ' not dispute mr. putin' account. made it clear that the russian probe in the united states is a witch hunt, andhefore discredited our own investigations in our country . he sided with mr. putin's accounts of what is happening. he did not use the opportunityto peak out about mr. putin's aggressive behavior in ukraine and the u.s. elections. no, mr. trump jeopardized t u.s. foreign policy, national security, u.s. leadership. it was a dark moment for the united states. katty: you are a ranember on the senate foreign relations committee. you have seen a lot of information about the state of virussian relations and aces around the world. woulyou agree with president trump's characterization that during the coursef four hours, he managed to take the america-russia relationship from the worst it has ever been to something much better? sen. cardin: we certainly want a relationship with russia, but we want it on our terms, not . s putin'rms. we have got to be very clear that russia is an adversary. they have violated the sove

mr. rosenstein: no i have not. i didn't approve it. congressman: you said you approved it but you took out the words that you read it. gentleman from texas will suspend. mr. deputy attorney general, you will be afforded a full opportunity to respond. congressman: and my time continued to run while the chairman took up some of my time, and actually i was being interrupted. i did not have a question. i was taking the words that the deputy attorney general himself said. let me ask you about this. you said earlier, bruce orr was not working on the rush investigation. mr. rosenstein: to my knowledge. congressman: to your knowledge. did you not know that bruce orr was meeting with christopher steele, getting information about the dossier, and supplying that information to the fbi at the same time his wife, nelly, was working for fusion gps that was helping hillary clinton? did you not know he was doing that for the fbi? mr. rosenstein: correct. congressman: you did not know that? mr. rosenstein: correct. congressman: so his office was a coupl

not party to that agreement. there may have been an agreement between mr. gowdy and mr. goodlatte but at no point where we asked. >> it was stated on the record in the hearing. >> it was stated as a decision, as a fact, as a fait accompli. we were not asked. we agreed to nothing because we were not asked. and we think that the transcripts ought to be released for the reasons stated. and if the witness doesn't object, i don't know why the majority should object. i yield to mr. meadows. >> if the gentleman will yield. in earnest, i will be glad to work with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle about releasing all relevant information. i mean, i think we're talking about full transparency. let's talk about full transparency in a variety of other things. it's interesting, we want to release one thing but yet we're somehow allowing peter strzok to suggest that there's whole lot of things that are off the record. but i will work in earnest with my colleagues. >> i appreciate the gentleman. let me simply say that we are not disrupting a legitimate investigation into the

mr. trump who was not a democrat, mr. comey, who was appointed by mr. trump, he's not a democrat. i happen to know that robert mueller is not a democrat. so these are not political designates made by political operatives. they should be following the evidence. i just would like to note that if, you if you had wanted to harm and interfere with the election of president trump, you could have leaked information that the investigation was ongoing. but none of that came out. as a matter of fact, we asked the leaders of the department of justice and fbi about whether there was an investigation of mr. trump prior to the election and we were told they could not comment on it, which was, in fact, the appropriate response. you should not comment on an ongoing investigation if you find something, you have an indictment, if you don't find sorry you say nothing. that's where mr. comey erred. he violated that policy and damaged the campaign of one of the candidates and the rest is history. so i just think that this hearing's extraordinary hearing, i've been here a member of congress for 24 year

i can tell you i have not spoken to mr. simpson. not spoken to mr. simpson. i asked you that the first time. i thank you the chairman and the gentleman from south carolina, i yield back to the sent l mgentl. >> several of the questions asked by the gentleman were not answered ton advion the advise counsel. we'll note those questions so that we can address them at a future time because i find it stunning that they are not allowing you to answer those questions mr. strzok. the chair recognizes mr. gutierrez for five minutes. >> thank you very much. >> the gent leman started the hearing by saying i wish this hearing is not necessary. sorry, i don't believe. obviou of course he wants this hearing and it is necessary. there a there are 3,000 children separated from their moms and dads and the government don't know where they are and can't bring them together. that's something that the judicial committee should be investigating. we start a policy in this country where we ban, ban muslims from coming in and we make a religious test. sounds to me something that the c

i can tell you i have not spoken to mr. simpson. >> all right, i thank the chairman and the gentleman from south carolina for yielding. >> the chair would note several of the questions asked by the gentleman were not answered by the witness on the advice of his council and i presume through the fbi. we will note those questions so we can address them at a futher time because i find it stunning they are not allowing you to answer those questions. chair now recognizes mr. gutierrez for five minutes. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman, the chairman started this hearing by saying i wish this hearing wasn't necessary. well, sorry if i don't believe that. of course he want this is hearing and it isn't necessary. now, i think there are hearing that are necessary and we see them everyday. there are 3,000 children separated from their moms and dads and the government doesn't know where their moms and dads are and can't even bring them together. that seems like something the judiciary committee should be investigating. we start a po

mr. blankfein: sometimes, it is even worth it. not always. mr. micklethwait: in terms of that period, you have had a lot of time to reflect on it. what do you think you did badly during that crunch, and what do you think you did best? mr. blankfein: the worst thing we did -- look, our risk manager was pretty good. we participated in the market -- the crisis was real estate. real estate prices went down, that was the crisis. there was real estate going down and all the debt in the world that was collateralized by real estate went down as a result. and that was the biggest part, 95% of it. in risk management, we did not know what would happen. we bought stuff, we sold stuff, we basically ran a balanced book. the crisis was two halves for us. it was the existential part -- did you lose a lot of money? do you have existential risk? could you be insolvent? we navigated that very well. and then the reputational part of it. for having navigated it so well, that went to how did you do it? when you sold things to people, you must have known, you should ha

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>> i am not. >> mr. strzok, in a footnote, 197 of the inspector general's report, it is noted that, quote, supervision of the russia investigation was briefly transitioned from strzok to another counterintelligence division, d.a.d., in early 2017. why were you transitioned from the russia investigation in early 2017? >> sir, let me see if i can answer that question without getting into operational detail. the investigation was brought. what russia was doing against our country encompassed a variety of things. there were actors in the cyberarena. actors by their agents and their intelligence services. there were actions by subjects of investigation that are currently ongoing. the prospect of how the fbi would investigate that was a multi-tiered effort. and so some of those efforts that traditionally fell into line with that other d.a.d. and their span and scope of responsibility were moved to their -- to their supervision. >> so the footnote goes on to state that, quote, however, a.d. preseptold us that f

not consult with the fbi counsel? >> only with your own counsel. >> mr. chairman, he can consult with the fbi counsel. >> the gentleman is not recognized. >> and the chairman is not being proper. >> i guess you were not recognized there. for the sake of transparency, you're recognized here, sir. what were you getting at and what was the chairman trying to do? >> it was rather pointless of the chairman because mr. strzok's counsel was next to the fbi counsel, she or he just leaned over and one told the other and then his counsel told him. but the point is that as an employee of the fbi, fbi policy, justice department policy has been for many years. we have a letter to the committee in 2000 from the then deputy attorney general saying we cannot comment on active criminal investigations. at the end of the criminal investigation then you can get materials, you can look into it, but you cannot comment, mr. strzok cannot comment, nobody in the fbi can comment on an active criminal investigation because it would undermine the investigation. it might jeopardize se

i can tell you i have not spoken to mr. simpson. >> you've not spoken to mr. simpson. >> i asked you that the first time. all right. i thank the chairman and i thank the gentleman from south carolina for yielding. i yield back to the gentleman. >> the chair would note that several of the questions asked by the gentleman were not answered by the witness on the advice of his counsel and i presume through the fbi and we will note those questions so that we can address them at a future time because i find it stunning that they are not allowing you to answer those questions, mr. strzok. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. gutierrez, for five minutes. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. the chairman started this hearing by saying i wish this hearing wasn't necessary. well, sorry but i don't believe that. of course he wants this hearing and it isn't necessary. and i think there are hearings that are necessary. and we see them every day. there are 3,000 children separated from their moms and dads and the government doesn't know where their moms

meanwhile mr not good zuma has arrived in the foothills of mount fuji where he i'm sorry but about to have a photo shoot. so . good. anymore all. i've been good to hold. is that. the old. me. today. took a look at the. so . what politicians do something that. they put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or something i want to be honest. that's why the press that's what the forty three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters of my calls. right we're all set to start in five guys in the studio has a signal. each morning to talk about. just maybe right after the mars explorers one who would have their new. record. to see what we. call to. welcome to sophie and joe i'm so sorry share or not said today we've got lots to talk about in our program and our guest is. little rock little. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going for him do you shouldn't let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that stra

it's not briefly. mr. chairman -- >> may the witness be permitted to answer. >> no, no. >> everyone -- everyone will suspends. i told the gentleman he could answer. >> he's not finished answering. >> we will now turn to the gentle woman from washington, d.c. for her questions. >> thank you, mr. chairman. in order to allow this witness to continue, let me ask, let me ask a question. mr. strzok, you are a senior or were a senior and experienced fbi staff person, is that not right? >> i would consider myself a senior and experienced fbi staffer, yes. >> now, you had been involved in the mueller investigation of the last election involving hillary clinton and donald trump at the highest level, is that not the case? >> if you mean by highest level that i had interactions with those cases with the director and deputy director and senior staff of the department of justice, yes. >> that's what i mean. now, we've been reading from your personal phone and your -- and your official phone. did it occur to you that your

not badger mr. of order is not well taken. >> it is right on point. >> no, it is not. mr. strzok, are you objecting to the question and if so please state your objection. >> mr. chairman, two things one i do not believe i'm here under subpoena but here voluntarily. secondly, i will not based on direction of the f.b.i. to me, based on that i will not answer that question. because it goes to matters which are related to the ongoing investigations being undertaken by the special counsel. >> mr. strzok you have not stated a valid legal basis for not responding to a question directed to you by a member of the united states house of representatives and you are overruled. >> point of order, mr. chairman. >> let me continue. your testimony is essential to this hearing and to our oversight and information gathering functions with regard to the actions taken and decisions made by the department of justice and the federal bureau of investigation in 2016 and 2017. i'm specifically directing you to answer the qu

mr. orr did not hand you the dossier. >> mr. orr did not hand me anything. mr. orr provided information to the fbi that included material that everybody is calling the dossier. >> say that again. mr. orr provided what? >> some elements of reporting that my understanding is originated from mr. steele. >> so bruce orr did give the fbi information relative to the dossier? >> yes. >> sean: that pause was revealing. one of the explosive revelations during the marathon hearing. and congressman jim jordan. welcome to the club if you support donald trump. you had to know the lies, the smears against you are obviously a political attack. i'm sorry you're going through that. >> you've been through it. you know what it's like. so thank you. but today -- you're -- >> sean: i know it every day. it's all of us, anyone who supports the president. >> exactly right. >> sean: and i'm sorry you and your family have to go through that. >> think about that. the top doj official, bruce orr hands parts of the dossier to the fbi. and remember, bruce orr's wife nelle worked for fusion g

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mr. hoyer: the house is still not in order. the speaker pro tempore: the house will come to omplt please take your conversations off the floor. mr. mccarthy: votes will be postponed until 6:30 p.m. tuesday own wednesday the house will meet at 10:00 a.m. for horning our and noon for business. thursday the house will meet at 9:00 a.m. for business, last votes expected no late than 3:00 p.m. friday, no votes expected in the house. the house will consider a number of suspensions next week a. complete list of which will be announced by close of business tomorrow. in addition the house will consider several bills aimed at giving americans more affordable health care choices. first the protect medical innovation act, sponsored by representative eric paulsen. this would permanently repeal obamacare's burdensome medical device tax. doing so will create jobs, promote research, and allow for innovation that could lead to the next generation of lifesaving medical technologies. next, the increasing access to lower premium plans and expanding

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mr. gowdy, it wasn't. i do not have bias. in no way -- >> why did you get kicked off? why did you get kicked off? >> mr. gowdy, my understanding why i was kicked off, based on understanding of those texts and per separating that they might create -- >> hang on a second, agent strzok. hang on a second. perception. you're saying it was perception. there are 13 democrats on special counsel probe, including one hoped was a victory problem. that was perception problem too. they weren't kicked off. why were you. >> mr. gowdy i can't not speak to special counsel -- >> how long did you talk to him when he let you go? >> witness answer the question. >> witness afforded opportunity to answer the question, any question he wants to answer after the -- [inaudible] >> my recollection is, it was a short meeting, somewhere between 15 to 30 minutes, probably around 15 minutes. >> your testimony is, bob mueller did not kick you off because of the content of our texts? he kicked you off because of some appearance he was worried about? >> my tes

not acted. i'm here today to ask congress and you, mr. chair, to continue doing what this committee and congress has done best on this issue over the last 26 years, and that is to -- nothing. not act. the reason for that, when congress found -- excuse me, when the supreme court found the physical presence was not a violation of the commerce clause, states across the country have now begun to deal effectively, deliberatively with this issue. this is something that states can effectively address. it's interesting that the decision, it was a 9-0 decision that quill was bad policy. it was a 5-4 decision saying that congress would -- that the supreme court would fix that, which it broke and shouldn't be congress. in conclusion, it's true that states, red states, blue states, purple states, states across the country, we're not looking for a tax advantage. we're looking for tax parity. the chaos that's been talked about in this committee, the chaos that's been of by witnesses today that chaos exists with the tens of thousands of businesses that h

not working. so how do we things better? mr. defazio: wasn't there concern, particularly to puerto rico, if they provided state and mutual aid? mr. byard: maybe. how did fema get involved in that? we expedited category b under the public assistance that would reimburse the commonwealth to do that type of payment. we expedited that. that was our priority at the time, obligation to the commonwealth. there were concerns. that's a question better asked to the commonwealth or to others. we -- to combat that, what we did in 2018, we hired 1,500 on the island. they're fema employees. they're going through the national qualification system now. we have over 4,600 staff on the ground. we have people embedded in every municipality. we've done a tremendous amount of effort from 2017 response-wise into 2018. we put that to the test as i elieve somebody mentioned with a tropical storm. we can turn that into a response organization within 24 hours. we ins creased commodities five-fold. generators are still connected to critical infrastructure

mr. cicilline: i ask the gentleman would he yield. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is out of order is not now recognized. mr. cicilline: i ask if the gentleman would yield for a unanimous consent request. the speaker pro tempore: the chair understands that the gentleman from washington has not yielded for that purpose. therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. as the chair advised on january 15, 2014 and march 26, 2014, even though a unanimous consent request is the not entertained, embellish kpping such requests constitute debate and would become an imposition on the time of the member who yielded for that purpose. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: i don't know what else we can do over here. i appreciate the fact that that the gentleman from washington only wants to yield for debate only, how about yielding so we can act? i think the american people want us to do something. what happened in the 2016 election? what russia did to our country was a serious matter. i'll tell you, it's not just democrats that are concerned. i know republicans and independents are concerned as we

that's not what this is about, this is about for the american public, mr. ally not about you. they want to damage and destroy our democracy. one of the ways they do it is by taking the institution like the fbi is regrettable. okay, kremlin. another good day for you. you influenced the election. you wanted donald trump to win. you won that one. now you want to destroyed your institutions. congratulations, kremlin and congratulations to everybody helping them. >> gentleman to illinois yields back. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i just have a couple of questions for you, mr. strzok. i'd like to yield the balance of my time to chairman gowdy. in light of the last round of questioning, it's fair to say that you wanted to stop president trump from being elected in your own words, didn't you? >> no, sir. that was my expression that i had a preference not for candidate trump to be president but that i did not and would not -- >> did i not hear you read your own text correctly that you would stop him? stop it? >> no. you misheard me. i said my sense of not recalling wri

mr. ryan: she is not in congress yet. jonah: the new republicans told me she is going to save the world. mr. ryan: progressism. that is the hip and cool thing. jonah: one of the reasons why this emerges is that the memory of the cold war is gone and we don't teach people to be grateful to the incredible prosperity we have. and people say that looks pretty cool because that is how our brains are wired. do the members of your caucus have the words to talk about sosmism and talk about it on terms that younger people are thinking about. mr. ryan: which members of my caucus are you talking about? louie gohmert. mr. ryan: i'm not going to touch that. [laughter] mr. ryan: for the most part, yes. but what i worry about is we came of age when that was a fresh lesson and we were all steeped in it and now we are victims of our success and we got lazy and it's not being taught anymore. then you have the progressives pushing constantly and building the whole life of juliet. i forgot about that until i saw reference in your book which i

orr but fbi did. >> correct. >> and different source than whom. >> it was not mr. orr who provided the initial documents. >> he did not hand you the dossier? >> mr. orrdid not hand me anything, he provided information to the fbi that included material is what everyone is calling the dossier. >> wait, wait. say it again, provided what? >> some elements of reporting that my understanding is originated from mr. steel. lou, a bombshell development, fox news chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge with more on the hearing. reporter: agent strzok claimed hearing is a victory for russia president, and those who want to tear america apartment he acknowledged his text-messages were used to attack the fbi's integrity. >> so help you god? reporter: sphro strzok is singlt for political bias. >> after months of investigation, there is no evidence of biased in my professional actions. reporter: republicans on house panel reject strzok's claims his 2016 text explained with lisa page were political opinions not anti-trump sentiment. >> agent strzok has a most unusual an

meanwhile mr not consumer has arrived in the foothills of mount fuji where he i'm sorry but about to have a photo shoot. which is on the. look so. good. anymore old. people the locals who. still good to hold. the old. me. today. took a look at them. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. people criticize us or they question us and they want to know why we're not more books critical of russia and think the real question is how come we're not tooting russia's horn more because they are been genius during this crisis but that would be i think a little bit you know over the top to simply point out all the good things that are constantly doing so we just try to take a more balanced middle of the road approach that's you know the fact is that they're making all these other economies look stupid by comparison. when lawmakers manufacture consent in student of public wealth. when the room in closest to protect themselves. when the financial merry go round lifts only the one perce

meanwhile mr not good zuma has arrived in the foothills of mount fuji where he and some hoary got about to have a photo shoot. so . good. only moral. of the. good old. is. the old. me. today. took a look at the. the idea of spending money to acquire region to acquire territory to acquire wealth is an oxymoron there is no more wealth to acquire the ecosystem is collapsing. the economy is flooded with worthless feel paper and the species is migrating over to the digital sphere feasibly these networks and platforms people are uploading their minds into cyberspace and hope to become immortal so every dollar spent on defense every dollar spent by the pentagon is a wasted dollar it's a nineteenth eighteenth seventeenth sixteenth century mindset it's completely antiquated and it's utterly worthless. zia's says harlan kentucky. the old disprove them boys you go grocery bunnies leave. a co money since it was almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the coal mines a sudden down that it was a love to see these people the survivors of disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when

there is a crisis, but not because of us but because of mr trump. tates because he represents not alone the united states. it is clear that we need to meet our interest in defence, we need to work faster on our own trade agreements as we have done today with japan and many other countries and this means that new alliances in that question in trade matters and so on in order to be fit for the future, but please try to keep the collective security agreements of nato so long it is as possible, despite we have now feeling that there is no total credibility in that any more. all right, elmar brok, we have to end it there. thanks for being on hardtalk. thank you very much. hello there. i think there's a little something for everyone in this forecast, some rain and also some warm sunshine, but on wednesday it was a case of high pressure and mostly to seeing some sunshine. also quite a bit of cloud around as well but that could lead to some dramatic sunset photos sentin lead to some dramatic sunset photos sent in by our weather watchers. high pressure was th