thank you very much, mr. comey.as i told you we do except at this job, i appreciate the fact of your record in both democratic and republican administrations. i appreciate the fact you were willing to step forward in this position. i was also one of those who bill thatward the made the term of the director of one, a a non-partisan seeding that of the president. i think that was a good move for law enforcement. we stand in recess. thank you. >> thank you, sir. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] does care. today. one is -- or two sections of our discussion. one will be presentations, one will be a panel discussion about what to do about it. let pe first thank you to coming to this briefing on the ip transition what it means that america's telephone networks are essentially merging with the internet and how to regulate that. we have an interesting panel here today but let me introduce for those who don't know what the ip transition is, it's s

thank you very much, mr. comey. as i told you we do except at this job, i appreciate the fact of your record in both democratic and republican administrations. i appreciate the fact you were willing to step forward in this position. i was also one of those who bill thatward the made the term of the director of one, a a non-partisan seeding that of the president. i think that was a good move for law enforcement. we stand in recess. thank you. >> thank you, sir. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> tomorrow, e-house hearing on the management of the u.s. postal service. house oversight subcommittee listened to officials. and from executives representing companies relying on the postal service. that is at 9 a.m. eastern on c-span three. at 2:00 eastern, assistant attorney general john collin will be at the brookings institution to talk about security threats. see both the live on c-span3 and c-span.org. >> what i'm trying to say is that frsau

anywhere near the appreciation i got after i came into this job how virulent the affiliates had become, mr. comey. they are stronger than i appreciated. though bin laden was killed in the 2011 compound raid in pakistan the network proved resilient and ideology spread to affiliates in yemen, north africa and west africa as the head of the powerful senate intelligence committee explained sunday. >> i know they will come after us if they can. i see the intelligence. terror is not down in the world, it is up both deaths, injuries, in many, many different places. al qaeda has metastasized. the question comes, how do we prevent an attack in this country? >> reporter: the latest example of al qaeda's growth is now in nigeria. the u.s. and nigerian authorities now sharing intelligence including satellite photos to locate the nigerian girls kidnapped by the group of called boko haram which means western education is sin. they are going under forced conversion from christianity to islam. at a briefing yesterday the spokeswoman downplayed the al qaeda connections. >> at this point the united states does not

mr. comeyreau is struggling with modernizing its marijuana policy, which says if you smoked pot in the last three years, forget about it, you're not fbi material. >> comey later said he's anti-pot and he isn't planning to change the way the three-year ban operates. but the fact is, folks, this is 2014. look at this. medical marijuana is legal in 21 states. smoking for fun is okay in two. some cities have even made it legal. and more than a dozen states are rethinking their current pot laws. so should the fbi and for that matter should corporate america be rethinking their policies, too? >> we are joined again by marc lamont hill and kevin madden. so gentlemen, you know, what do you make of this? the fbi is, you know, ruling out people who smoked pot in the last three years. so many businesses drug test people when they come in for pot. should these companies -- should the fbi be concerned about marijuana use anymore? marc, you start. >> i think -- i see a reasonable argument for the fbi being c

comey suddenly realizes that the president had no idea what had been happening. the president thinks this just began yesterday. he doesn't know it's been going on for three months. and so he says, "mr. president, if that's what you've been told, you have been very poorly served by your advisors." >> the president certainly did not want a situation where the fbi director and the deputy attorney general would resign,

mr. chairman. good to see again, director comey. i think of you as my law school classmate. i'm very glad you are the director and pleased with the work you are doing. i know you brought up human trafficking. i was chairing a here men about retirement -- chairing a hearing about retirement. i wanted to ask you about this. is a horrendous crime that gets overlooked. it it has been overlooked for too long. we are finding statistics in our own country where we have learned that 83% of victims are from our own country. we see women being trafficked from other places. predominantly mexico. a few weeks ago, i was leading a trip with cindy mccain who has been focused on this issue. we met with your counterpart with the federal police as well as the attorney general of mexico and others. i know they are starting to engage in this issue and pass legislation. work with their law enforcement on persecutions. i wanted to know what the fbi is focused on what this issue. there is some prosecutions that have been brought federally. we are leading a bill version that passed the house yester

mr. chairman. good to see again, director comey. i think of you as my law school classmate.i'm very glad you are the director and pleased with the work you are doing. i know you brought up human trafficking. i was chairing a here men about retirement -- chairing a hearing about retirement. i wanted to ask you about this. is a horrendous crime that gets overlooked. it it has been overlooked for too long. we are finding statistics in our own country where we have learned that 83% of victims are from our own country. we see women being trafficked from other places. predominantly mexico. a few weeks ago, i was leading a has with cindy mccain who been focused on this issue. we met with your counterpart with the federal police as well as the attorney general of mexico and others. i know they are starting to engage in this issue and pass legislation. work with their law enforcement on persecutions. i wanted to know what the fbi is focused on what this issue. there is some prosecutions that have been brought federally. versioneading a bill that passed the house yesterday along with

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mr. sherman, congressman sherman, in answer to your first question or further answer to it, we had -- there was testimony from the fbi and i'll just give you their quick response. fbi director james comey testified that boko haram has communications, training and weapons thinks with al qaeda as well as al shabaab based in somalia and al qaeda in the arabian peninsula based in yemen and then he also testified that these links in his words may strengthen boko haram's capacity to conduct terrorist attacks against u.s. or western targets in the future. so in terms of the weapons movements, that's the fbi's testimony. >> it's good to have expertise both from there and from here. >> right. we go to mr. mike mccall of texas. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to follow up -- well, let me say last night i watched the video again of boko haram, the leader, with these 270 girls. it is horrific. and it's hard to stand back idly and watch that happen, knowing that we could do more to help them. the chairman raised the issue of the waiver process, and i guess my question to dr. sewall is if that waiver is granted, what additional assistance could be given to this situation? >> i think one of the --

comey suddenly realizes that the president had no idea what had been happening. the president thinks this just began yesterday. he doesn't know it's been going on for three months. and so he says, "mr. president, if that's what you've been told, you have been very poorly served by your advisors." >> the president certainly did not want a situation where the fbi director and the deputy attorney general would resign, so he was not too happy to learn that this had risen to a level of angst that it had risen to. >> narrator: the president then sent for fbi director mueller. >> mueller is waiting downstairs a level, outside the situation room. some aide goes and says, "the president wants to see you right now, get in there." and bush says to mueller, "go tell jim comey to fix this. i withdraw the order. you go make it right." >> narrator: the warrantless email data collection was shut down. the crisis was averted. but at the white house, they were determined to resume it. >> and so they're sort of sifting through the fisa law, they're sifting through the patriot act trying to find existing laws, existing authorities, you might call it loopholes, to justify these programs. >> narrator: g

director james comey may have had a change of heart with the authority to hire two thousand new employees this year most of whom will be fighting cyber crime mr cohen he is now faced with a population of young computer programmers and hackers many of whom have an affinity for pot and the manual conference for the white collar crime institute the f.b.i. director said i have to hire a great work force to compete with those cyber criminals and some of those kids want to smoke weed on the way to the interview. so comey says the f.b.i. is grappling with the question of losing its no tolerance policy so the country can hire the best of the best talk about an agency with high standards get it right boom bust is coming up next year in our t. aaron a joins us for a quick preview parent who may not find. room votes are too skinny pilbeam was in shanghai covering the historic gas deal between russia and china and she brings us her full report event edward harrison and i are talking about junk bonds and bear markets in today's big deal it's all coming up the state sounds good see you later thanks i'm all right that does it for now everybody for the stori