mr. conaway who with mr. peterson helped steer this congress toward a successful 2018 farm bill and recognize him for five minutes. >> i thank my fellow senator for those remarks. it was a group effort. and i appreciate us getting that done. i just want to thank you for coming up again. ask a couple of this and that because most everything has been covered. you were talking about the impact of having fellow farmers around you go out of business or whatever. actually made a poor credit decision of your own across the neighbor -- the neighbor across the street. what impact does that have on land values and equipment values and others in terms of collateral value for i guess your loans and your bank -- what's the impact there? >> thank you, mr. conaway. the impact -- we haven't seen a dramatic fall in land values yet for which we are incredibly grateful because ultimately that's part of what we use as collateral. and in this environment, there's no liquidity without some of those pieces of collateral. the proble

mr. conaway. >> thank you mr. chairman. confident you can do it in three. the amendment would talk about is created by the tackle in the united states the territorial possessions and armed forces instead of an attack by iran and proxies, someone unrelated altogether what triggers the attack? which section is this referring to? that is how yo you interpret it thainterpreted thatis and what . it's the implication that iran is the attacker and should have been better clarified in the amendment itself to lay that out, but i oppose that implementopposed it imeth rpect? >> are you yielding time to somebody? i will take that. >> the president hasn't declared a national emergency again iran. always of great concern is the language coming out of the administration officials to suggest that they have authorization to go to iran and to clarify that they do not. we are in a national emergency situation with respect to iran and it's been certified and renewed in every single administration. we worry that actually in section three, we attempted to restrain the branch and

mr. conaway: i want to thank the chairman and the good work that they've put in for. i do, though, rise in opposition to this amendment. for the past several years the house intelligence committee has spent a significant amount of time overseeing the intelligence community's ongoing efforts to counter foreign maligned influences targeting the united states. although russia gains significant and necessary attention given the events of 2016, the committee's also concerned about chinese, iranian and other foreign powers that have designed on sewing discord in the united states, or covertly influencing the american pop us will. the amendment today would establish -- populous. the amendment today would establish a foreign assessment threat sent -- foreign threat assessment center. it is redundant to existing efforts and creates bureaucracy within an organization that may not be best suited to take the lead on these actions. this issue is not new. last congress we worked with the gentleman from massachusetts in adding a report to the fiscal 2018 and 2019 that would examine

mr. conaway. >> thank you mr. chairman. confident you can do it in three. the amendment would talk about is created by the tackle in the united states the territorial possessions and armed forces instead of an attack by iran and proxies, someone unrelated altogether what triggers the attack? which section is this referring to? that is how yo you interpret it thainterpreted thatis and what . it's the implication that iran is the attacker and should have been better clarified in the amendment itself to lay that out, but i oppose that implementopposed it implementsa. >> thank you. mr. brown. >> thank you mr. chairman. i initially had concerns with the amendment and worked closely with the representative to make sure that we did a few things and i will use the previous general man's question as an example. we list from the powers resolution the three conditions under which we could introduce our armed forces into hostilities and the same question might have been asked about the war powers act. we can't introduce the hostilities unless we are attacked, implicit

mr. conaway. i had the pleasure and honor of serving in the last several years the topic has been front and center at every single word speech. workpiece. superintendents and the dean's this is a top priority of theirs. they are sincere about it. the frustration is the students at the academies are the best this nation has to offer they are screened for all kinds of things. there's an overabundance of eagle scouts in the academies. these are the best we've got, and yet we are still having the issue, and it's stunningly frustrating that we can stop this. they don't have the discipline to not be able to let this this happen and it is frustrating. i worry though that a pilot project will be a self-fulfilling prophecy in that for whatever is communicated, that is what will happen. and it may be a little distasteful to say this, bu but you're innocent until proven guilty. if someone is guilty of assault, put them in jail but there are those that will be caught up who are not guilty, and i very special

mr. conaway:. it is a fabrication and a lie. and that is something that we want to call out to make sure people understand what is going on now isal direct result of the zero tolerance policy. we want to make sure that a lot of the decisions were based on politics, not on personal belief and want to seem tough, they want to implement the policies without understanding how did on theplement the policy ground. i went out to victorville and i went to texas, so i have been to the border quite a bit of times. and when you start talking to the people who are response i will for implementing these policies, the men and women who are customs and border control, some of them are trying to do a good job, they are saying they are being put in a impossible situation by this administration. . when you're making policy on not rational decisions but on politics, then you end up with a big mess on the border. i actually spent a night at the border with my -- one of my colleagues. >> that's right. you and annette barraganment and you saw the met

mr. conaway? >> thank you. mr. mueller, did anyone ask you to exclude anything from your report that you felt should have been in the report? >> i don't think so, but it's not a small report. >> if somebody asked you specifically to exclude something? >> not that i can recall. >> i yield the balance of my time. thank you. >> i think the gentleman for yielding pretty good afternoon, director mueller. in your may 29th press conference, again, in her opening remarks this morning, you make it pretty clear you want the special counsel reporto speak for itself. you said that your press conference that it was the offices final position, and "we will not comment on any other conclusions or hypotheticals about the president." he spent the last few hours of your life, from democrats trying to get you to answer all kinds of hypotheticals about the president, and i expect it may continue for the next few hours of your life. i think you have stayed pretty much true to what your intent and desire was. but i guess, regardless of