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seized as part of the investigation into a leak from the senate intelligence committee. tor ron wide isn't the top exact on the democrat finance member and member of the senate intelligence committee. i'm assuming he will not talk to us about this matter but i'm asking him anyway. senator widen thank you for being with us tonight. i appreciate your time. >> rachel you are quite good as making correct assumptions. and under the senate rules it's just not possible for me to get into it. >> let me just -- i just want to push around the edges of that with great respect for your fidelity to the responsibilities as a member of the intelligence committee, sir. the times is reporting tonight that there is a connection between the justice department surveilling their reporters, reading reporter as emails and looking at phone records while working as a reporter for going back years. the times is reporting a connection between that treatment of their reporter which obviously raises a lot of first amendment concerns, and this investigation into whether or not there were unauthorized
seized as part of the investigation into a leak from the senate intelligence committee. tor ron wide isn't the top exact on the democrat finance member and member of the senate intelligence committee. i'm assuming he will not talk to us about this matter but i'm asking him anyway. senator widen thank you for being with us tonight. i appreciate your time. >> rachel you are quite good as making correct assumptions. and under the senate rules it's just not possible for me to get into it....
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seized as part of that investigation into a leak from the senate intelligence committee. p democrat on the senate finance committee. he's also a member of the senate intelligence committee. i am assuming that he will not be able to talk to us about this matter, but i am going to ask him anyway. senator wyden, thank you very much for being with us tonight. i appreciate your time, sir. >> rachel, you are quite good at making correct assumptions. and under the senate rules it's just not possible for me to get into it. >> let me just -- i want to push around the edges of that with great respect for your fidelity to your responsibilities as a member of the intelligence committee, sir. the "times" is reporting tonight that there is a connection between the justice department surveilling their reporter, looking at a reporter's e-mails and looking at her phone records while she was a reporter going back years. the "times" is reporting a connection between that treatment of their reporter which obviously raises a lot of first amendment concerns and this investigation into whether o
seized as part of that investigation into a leak from the senate intelligence committee. p democrat on the senate finance committee. he's also a member of the senate intelligence committee. i am assuming that he will not be able to talk to us about this matter, but i am going to ask him anyway. senator wyden, thank you very much for being with us tonight. i appreciate your time, sir. >> rachel, you are quite good at making correct assumptions. and under the senate rules it's just not...
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i know the two committees in the house and senate don't have much interactions but occasionally, is james wolfe a senate staffer on the intelligencei don't know, lawrence. i've been in the senate skiff before and encountered some of the senate staff, but i don't know that person by name. so i really couldn't tell you whether i've met him. >> just for people who don't know how this works, that's a very common situation between house and senate. there's little interaction between the committees and certainly less interaction between the senate committee staff and members of the house committee. congressman schiff, there are other developments on your committee. you released today, publically, released a letter you sent to devin nunes a couple weeks ago, asking for something like this. asking that the committee assist in or refer to the justice department for possible investigation for perjury witnesses who appeared before your committee. that was your request to devin nunes to try to get the justice department to take a look at some of the testimony that's occurred in your committee. can you tell us why you released that letter publ
i know the two committees in the house and senate don't have much interactions but occasionally, is james wolfe a senate staffer on the intelligencei don't know, lawrence. i've been in the senate skiff before and encountered some of the senate staff, but i don't know that person by name. so i really couldn't tell you whether i've met him. >> just for people who don't know how this works, that's a very common situation between house and senate. there's little interaction between the...
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today the fbi brought charges against a former director of security for the senate intelligence committeeman wolfe. he was in charge of handling information as it passed from the executive branch to the congress. he had access to huge amounts of highly classified information including intelligence documents. a job like that requires unimpeachable integrity, he is accused of leaking classified material to several reporters and then lying about it to the
today the fbi brought charges against a former director of security for the senate intelligence committeeman wolfe. he was in charge of handling information as it passed from the executive branch to the congress. he had access to huge amounts of highly classified information including intelligence documents. a job like that requires unimpeachable integrity, he is accused of leaking classified material to several reporters and then lying about it to the
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tonight, james will, former director of security for the senate intelligence committee walks past cameras after his first day in court charged with lying to federal investigators about his contact with reporters some of whom were reporting heavily on the russia investigation one of whom was in a romantic relationship with him. catherine herridge is here with the latest. >> reporter: the fbi arrested james will, senior staffer for the senate intelligence committee, securing classified information to include top-secret documents. he made it through his court appearance facing 3 counts of lying to federal investigators. a potential violation, donald trump said he is convinced the justice department has tracked down a major breach. >> interesting they caught a leak or, very important week or so very interesting. i'm getting information on it now. a big believer in freedom of the press but i'm also a believer in classified information has to remain classified. >> the indictment does not accuse wolf of leaking classified information. is accused of making false statements to fbi agents but his r
tonight, james will, former director of security for the senate intelligence committee walks past cameras after his first day in court charged with lying to federal investigators about his contact with reporters some of whom were reporting heavily on the russia investigation one of whom was in a romantic relationship with him. catherine herridge is here with the latest. >> reporter: the fbi arrested james will, senior staffer for the senate intelligence committee, securing classified...
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in the united states senate intelligence committee. republicans and democrats have seen the information, classified information which i have not seen. shannon: chuck grassley is seeking more information on how it uses informants. let's talk with bob goodlatte. i saw the announcement that you set a date on the hearing in the inspector general's report that we got next week on the investigation into hillary clinton's email. there's a lot of investigating going on. what are you learning from the inspector general's report? >> we have waiting for a long time. we are hopeful we will see it because it will answer a lot of questions about how the federal bureau of investigation and the department of justice handled the investigation into matters related to former presidential candidate hillary clinton and contrast that, continuing to conduct the investigation into the trump russia collusion alleging collusion between the trump campaign and russia. it is important to see this because what we have seen from the stzrok page texts is incredible b
in the united states senate intelligence committee. republicans and democrats have seen the information, classified information which i have not seen. shannon: chuck grassley is seeking more information on how it uses informants. let's talk with bob goodlatte. i saw the announcement that you set a date on the hearing in the inspector general's report that we got next week on the investigation into hillary clinton's email. there's a lot of investigating going on. what are you learning from the...
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talked about this, paul ryan, representative gowdy, richard burr in the united states senate intelligence committee -- >> i'm asking you, why is that not spying? >> they have seen irrelevant information, including the classified information, which i have not seen. >> shannon: we should point out that senate judiciary committee chuck grassley seeking more information from the fbi and how it uses informants. let's talk about it with house judiciary chairman bob goodlatte. create a happy with us. i saw the announcement today that in the coming days, you've set a date for hearing on the inspector general's report that will get next week on the investigation into hillary clinton's emails. there's a lot of investigating going on. what are you looking to learn from the inspector general's report? >> this is a very important report, we've been waiting for a long time, was promised earlier in the air, april, may. we are hopeful that we will finally see it, because it will answer a lot of questions about how the federal bureau of investigation and the department of justice handled the investigation into matt
talked about this, paul ryan, representative gowdy, richard burr in the united states senate intelligence committee -- >> i'm asking you, why is that not spying? >> they have seen irrelevant information, including the classified information, which i have not seen. >> shannon: we should point out that senate judiciary committee chuck grassley seeking more information from the fbi and how it uses informants. let's talk about it with house judiciary chairman bob goodlatte. create...
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the senate passed a resolution allowing the senate intelligence committee to help the justice department quote, a pending investigation. but that resolution gave no details about the investigation. in other words it gave no details on what the senate was voting on. here's the statement from the senate intelligence committee chairman, richard burr, and vice chairman mark warner. the department of justice has sought the assistance of the committee in a pending investigation. the committee is cooperating with the department on this matter. any questions about the investigation should be directed to the department of justice. so united states senators had to just vote blindly on having the intelligence committee help out the department of justice and they did. it was a unanimous vote. they didn't have a roll call vote on it. >>> also today we learned special prosecutor robert mueller is asking witnesses to turn over their cell phones and witnesses have reportedly com y complied because the alternative would be a subpoena. cnbc reports it's to inspect their encrypted messaging programs. since
the senate passed a resolution allowing the senate intelligence committee to help the justice department quote, a pending investigation. but that resolution gave no details about the investigation. in other words it gave no details on what the senate was voting on. here's the statement from the senate intelligence committee chairman, richard burr, and vice chairman mark warner. the department of justice has sought the assistance of the committee in a pending investigation. the committee is...
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investigating donald trump on the senate intelligence committee and investigating donald trump and hiscommittee. and as a member of the senate judiciary committee she had the memorable moment in the cabinet room where she got donald trump to follow her lead and abandon the republicans and join diane feinstein on daca. >> what about a clean daca bill now? >> i have no problem. that's what dick is saying. we're going to come out with daca and do immediately phase two, which would be comprehensive. >> would you be amenable to that? >> yeah i think a lot of people would like to see it. but i think we have to do daca first. >> republicans then rushed to get donald trump back on the leash and they pulled him back to the republican side and, of course, nothing has happened on daca, but california spoke last night on what is now the two-year battle between diane feinstein and donald trump, and donald trump lost very, very badly. democratic lieutenant governor, gavin newsome will face john cox in the november election. and today president trump tweeted, he can win, about john cox, about the rep
investigating donald trump on the senate intelligence committee and investigating donald trump and hiscommittee. and as a member of the senate judiciary committee she had the memorable moment in the cabinet room where she got donald trump to follow her lead and abandon the republicans and join diane feinstein on daca. >> what about a clean daca bill now? >> i have no problem. that's what dick is saying. we're going to come out with daca and do immediately phase two, which would be...
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i think folks need to understand the senate intelligence committee and house intelligence committee have oversight over the fbi, cia and nsa and as a result the folks on the committee and work for those committees have access to our most sensitive national security matters. it's always a good thing we see investigation and prosecution of folks if they're not handling that information appropriately. >> bill: what did you think about the president's comment about james comey, "james comey and his band of thieves." >> the president always has colorful language to describe mr. comey. i'm interested in the language general horowitz uses to describe mr. comey when we see the report next week. it's expected next week and we'll have hearings following that over in the house and in the senate. i think what i would remind your viewers as we call it the hillary clinton e-mail investigation but it's an investigation whether the secretary of state violated the espionage act and that would be serious and we saw a case where no grand jury wasn't convened and witnesses representing each other and witnes
i think folks need to understand the senate intelligence committee and house intelligence committee have oversight over the fbi, cia and nsa and as a result the folks on the committee and work for those committees have access to our most sensitive national security matters. it's always a good thing we see investigation and prosecution of folks if they're not handling that information appropriately. >> bill: what did you think about the president's comment about james comey, "james...
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passed, without objection, a resolution to turn over documents for crying out loud from the senate intelligence committeethe justice department even though the justice department won't cooperate with the senate in its oversight role demanding documents of the justice department. >> well, and on top of that, recall the senate intelligence committee was largely run by the democrats despite being nominally controlled by the republicans and was very unfriendly to the trump white house and the trump administration on russiagate. and now it turns out the security chief for that committee was leaking anti-trump material to the media it looks like and lying to the fbi about it. so, you know, the senate's on the chopping block here too, and it ought to be examed on how, what else was going on at that committee. lou: and, as we wrap up here, the inspector general due to file and make, release his report to the public on the. 14th, next week. your expectations of that report. >> well, be good and bad on it, in it for both sides. hillary clinton's going to feel vindicated because it criticizes comey for going after
passed, without objection, a resolution to turn over documents for crying out loud from the senate intelligence committeethe justice department even though the justice department won't cooperate with the senate in its oversight role demanding documents of the justice department. >> well, and on top of that, recall the senate intelligence committee was largely run by the democrats despite being nominally controlled by the republicans and was very unfriendly to the trump white house and the...
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the senate quietly passed a resolution authorizing the senate intelligence committee to share information with the justice department. it's part of an investigation about a former staffer of the senate intelligence committee about unauthorized disclosure information. we're hearing that there's some charges that maybe are being prepared by the justice department about this very issue. it's still uncertain who this individual is and exactly the nature of the disclosure of this classified information. but an unusual move in richard burr told me earlier today that this is a very rare for something like this to happen. they say they're fully cooperating with this requirement. >> the stakes are significant in this particular case. thank you very much. you'll be back in a little while. he's done some serious investigation of the president's spy claim. how it originated. we'll have the report that's coming up, as well. >>> right now joining us democratic senator mark warner. senator, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. >> quickly, if you can. what can you tell us about what manu
the senate quietly passed a resolution authorizing the senate intelligence committee to share information with the justice department. it's part of an investigation about a former staffer of the senate intelligence committee about unauthorized disclosure information. we're hearing that there's some charges that maybe are being prepared by the justice department about this very issue. it's still uncertain who this individual is and exactly the nature of the disclosure of this classified...
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wolfe was the first recipient, the sole protector of all classified documents sent to the senate intelligence committeewas a trusted long-time aid who has chief of security for the senate intelligence committee had unparalleled access to secret info. is he facing three counts of making false staples to the fbi. in fact, misleading agents about leaking sensitive information to reporters. one of those reporters is ali watkins of the "new york times" presently. in february, the department of justice notified her in writing that as a part of a leak investigation, it had obtained her phone and email records. the first such intrusion we know of under the trump administration. the indictment also alleges that watkins was dating wolfe at the time she was covering the intelligence committee. and that the two exchanged encrypted messages through what's app. and other software. in a joint statement, the senate intelligence committee's chairman and ranking member said, and i quote: while the charges do not appear to include anything related to the mishandling of classified information, the committee takes this mat
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first of all, his circumstances of his departure from the senate intelligence committee in december were somewhat suspicious. also, it's hard to understate what a breach this is. wolf is charged with protecting classified information that's in the protection of the senate intelligence committee. also to note this is a committee that had avoided a lot of these both political and procedural headaches. the fact this is an individual who was charged with protecting the secrets, the classified and sensitive information of the committee, is the one who may have been responsible for leaking it is really casting a shadow on the committee. >> want you to listen to what congressman schiff had to say about this ordeal. >> leaks are a problem. attacks are a problem with this administration. i have to hope with the extraordinary use of their national security letter or subpoena or whatever device the justice department used to seize the reporter's records, that they followed all the proper procedures, that this was a remedy of last resort. >> all right what do you make of this, considering the admini
first of all, his circumstances of his departure from the senate intelligence committee in december were somewhat suspicious. also, it's hard to understate what a breach this is. wolf is charged with protecting classified information that's in the protection of the senate intelligence committee. also to note this is a committee that had avoided a lot of these both political and procedural headaches. the fact this is an individual who was charged with protecting the secrets, the classified and...
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were it not for the senate intelligence and house intelligence committee and their intention for the matter, on both sides, the house and the senate, they had a unique interest in the conduct and outcome. if that had not been the case and moved on, that may have tipped in independence and authority issue for them. j -- daven over what just said. when theyot it right read the act. ig can requires that the keep both congress and the department or agency they work in fully and currently informed. clash, the ig is obligated to tell congress about it, which is what he just said. that made things start moving. that's the beauty of that act. >> in the legislation committee, there was a piece of legislation that was required all open recommendations that had been over for over one year be posted on oversight.gov, if they can get it up and going to that extent. congress has to pay attention to the fact that there are recommendations being made. beingare a lot of implemented. that's how they are trying to handle that. i know that is a issue that came up. the other thing is, when the ig did get
were it not for the senate intelligence and house intelligence committee and their intention for the matter, on both sides, the house and the senate, they had a unique interest in the conduct and outcome. if that had not been the case and moved on, that may have tipped in independence and authority issue for them. j -- daven over what just said. when theyot it right read the act. ig can requires that the keep both congress and the department or agency they work in fully and currently informed....
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we do notice the democrat and republican heads of the senate intelligence committee have cooperated. they're not pushing back on this. they're not casting it as some kind of intrusion into their committee's work. so the suggestion from them seems to be this is a legitimate case. >> jon: james wolf was an army intelligence analyst for something like 30 years. in a position like that, you'd expect he could be trusted with some of the nation's top secrets. then he goes to work for the senate intelligence committee. people on both sides, republicans and democrats say it's a -- tries to be a nonpartisan committee. they do a pretty good job of that. he was as nonpartisan as they get. but he also had a romantic relationship for this woman who is a reporter for "the new york times." >> if you're looking to defend press freedom, maybe this isn't your favorite case. a lot of readers are wondering, she's at politco and buzz feed before "the new york times," throughout the period had a relationship with him. >> jon: and published a lot of stories about this committee. >> yeah. readers have to won
we do notice the democrat and republican heads of the senate intelligence committee have cooperated. they're not pushing back on this. they're not casting it as some kind of intrusion into their committee's work. so the suggestion from them seems to be this is a legitimate case. >> jon: james wolf was an army intelligence analyst for something like 30 years. in a position like that, you'd expect he could be trusted with some of the nation's top secrets. then he goes to work for the senate...
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the senate intelligence committee wants the ceos of facebook, google and twitter to answer questionshe security of the platform, including relationships in china. senator john thune spoke earlier ion bloomberg. sen. thune: it seems like the only time they are disclosing information if there is a story that breaks that forces them and that is wrong. we did follow up after the hearing with a series of record which the are written questions. they have not responded yet. haidi: bloomberg technology reporter sarah frier has been following this. record which are written questions. not a great week when it comes to headlines on facebook, but what are the senators concerned about? sarah: facebook said earlier this week that these deals with chinese manufacturers are commonplace in the industry and now they have proved that google and twitter also have relationships. this is just bringing another example of how the ways that things worked in the past, we may be were not that aware. even if these are public arrangements, even if we were not aware how they affected user data. now we are much mo
the senate intelligence committee wants the ceos of facebook, google and twitter to answer questionshe security of the platform, including relationships in china. senator john thune spoke earlier ion bloomberg. sen. thune: it seems like the only time they are disclosing information if there is a story that breaks that forces them and that is wrong. we did follow up after the hearing with a series of record which the are written questions. they have not responded yet. haidi: bloomberg technology...
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the making and released just before the current chair richard burr took the chair of the senate intelligence committee now the first thing he did was recall the copies of that senate for your report what does that tell you all right he was involved he was in the house and the senate intelligence committees when all this was going on there joe. and at the hip the overseers are not overseers they're over lookers and what they do is kind of take care of people like gina has spoiled and instead of requiring her to answer the questions they let her go to executive session boss in fairness to gina many people in the mainstream newspapers of record whatever they say say that is the context of the nine eleven and surely you're not suggesting nuremberg rules should apply the f.t. here the japanese own financial times said a hospital coworker said the torture was okayed by the white house the department of justice and the cia's had caught is not put. you can't ok torture ok. the us is signatory to the universal declaration on torture the un declaration which says no no circumstances civil war emergencies of any
the making and released just before the current chair richard burr took the chair of the senate intelligence committee now the first thing he did was recall the copies of that senate for your report what does that tell you all right he was involved he was in the house and the senate intelligence committees when all this was going on there joe. and at the hip the overseers are not overseers they're over lookers and what they do is kind of take care of people like gina has spoiled and instead of...
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a long time senate intelligence committee staff ser dharjed with lying to the fbi during a leaked investigation. did he share secrets about the russia probe with reporters? i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> breaking news. special counsel robert mueller hits former trump campaign chairman paul manafort with a new indictment charging him and the russia ally with obstruction and conspiracy for alleged witness tampering as president trump refused to rule out a pardon for manafort andin fury ated allies at the g-7 summit along with the republicans by saying russia should be readmitted to the group of nations. i'll speak with foremaner obama adviser and author ben rhodes and our correspondents are standing by with full coverage. but to the breaking news. a new indictment by the special counsel robert mueller. we begin with our justice correspondent evan perez. walk us through these new charges. >> reporter: these new charges represent the latest effort to pile on pressure on paul manafort to make a deal and tell prosecutors what he knows
a long time senate intelligence committee staff ser dharjed with lying to the fbi during a leaked investigation. did he share secrets about the russia probe with reporters? i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> breaking news. special counsel robert mueller hits former trump campaign chairman paul manafort with a new indictment charging him and the russia ally with obstruction and conspiracy for alleged witness...
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intelligence community, the bipartisan membership of the senate intelligence committee, even occasionally the trump administration itself, everybody on earth 1 admits now that russia, the russian government, russian military, russian intelligence interfered in the u.s. presidential election in 16 to try to help donald trump win that election. to put a finer point on it, we got that indictment in february filed against 13 russian individuals and three russian corporate entities. indictment filed in federal court in washington that spelled out the findings of robert mueller's office, the special counsel's office on how exactly russia conducted that operation, at least the part where they conducted their own influence operation from outside t united states targeting the u.s. plic opinion in ways that would benefit trump during the election. we've got that spelled out in that indictment. we n'have any denitive public findings on thus far is the question of whether or not the russian government also found ways to directly assist the trump campaign as an entity rather than just targeting u.s. p
intelligence community, the bipartisan membership of the senate intelligence committee, even occasionally the trump administration itself, everybody on earth 1 admits now that russia, the russian government, russian military, russian intelligence interfered in the u.s. presidential election in 16 to try to help donald trump win that election. to put a finer point on it, we got that indictment in february filed against 13 russian individuals and three russian corporate entities. indictment filed...
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the senate intelligence committee chairman, ranking member mark warner issuing a statement saying we e troubled to hear charges filed against a former member of committee staff. the charges do not appear to include anything related to the mishandling of classified information but the committee take this matter seriously and they will be cooperating with the investigation. the new york times reporting the doj seized email and phone records from their own reporter, the times is the information predates her work at the paper but the fbi talks about a previous relationship with as they were investigating unauthorized leaks. reaction has been swift. >> the have been a cascade of leaks and no one is has been held accountable for any of those things which i need more information about what is happening here. i know there is a former staffer on the senate intelligence committee. >> this comes nearly a year after atty. gen. sessions issued this morning to leakers in washington. >> who illegally used their access to our most sensitive information, to endanger our national security, are in fact
the senate intelligence committee chairman, ranking member mark warner issuing a statement saying we e troubled to hear charges filed against a former member of committee staff. the charges do not appear to include anything related to the mishandling of classified information but the committee take this matter seriously and they will be cooperating with the investigation. the new york times reporting the doj seized email and phone records from their own reporter, the times is the information...
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were it not for the senate intelligence and the house intelligence committees and their attention to that matter -- on both sides the house and the senate and both sides of the aisle has a unique interest in the conduct and the outcome -- if that had not been the case, that may have tipped an independence and authority issue for the organization. thank god it did not. >> you have to remember that congress got, i think got it right when they read the ig act because that act requires that the ig keep both congress and the department or agency they work in fully and currently informed. so if there's a clash, the ig is obligated to tell congress about it, which is what he just said. when the committees found out about it, that's when things started moving. that's the beauty of that act. >> in the legislation committee, there was a piece of legislation that passed the senate recently that would require all open recommendations that have been open for a year be posted on oversight.gov if they can get it up and going to that extent. i think congress does pay attention to the fact that there
were it not for the senate intelligence and the house intelligence committees and their attention to that matter -- on both sides the house and the senate and both sides of the aisle has a unique interest in the conduct and the outcome -- if that had not been the case, that may have tipped an independence and authority issue for the organization. thank god it did not. >> you have to remember that congress got, i think got it right when they read the ig act because that act requires that...
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. >> the fbi arrested and indicted james wolf, former staffer for the senate intelligence committee whoseob it was for 21 years to see to the security of classified information accused of making false statements last december during the leak investigation when they were investigating russian interference, charged with lying about repeated contacts with with reporters including his use of encrypted messaging apps, us attorney jesse lou calling it betrayal of public trust placed in him. the until committee chairman and vice chair issued this statement saying we are troubled to hear the charges filed against a former member of committee staff. the charges do not appear to include anything related to classified information but the committee takes this matter seriously, cooperating with the feds. the new york times reporting the doj seized phone records from allie watkins. and the previous 3 romantic relationship with as they were investigating. the times says the information was released at both feed predating her work at the paper but this comes a year after the atty. gen. issued this mornin
. >> the fbi arrested and indicted james wolf, former staffer for the senate intelligence committee whoseob it was for 21 years to see to the security of classified information accused of making false statements last december during the leak investigation when they were investigating russian interference, charged with lying about repeated contacts with with reporters including his use of encrypted messaging apps, us attorney jesse lou calling it betrayal of public trust placed in him. the...
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lou: we have known from jump street with the senate intelligence committee. asically turned over the committee to the vials-chair, mark warner. to me i hope your inference is correct. you have a great track record in that regard. it just doesn't make any sense that anyone could keep and secret in washington, d.c. this long. if they had something we would know about it. if there had been any collusion, we would know by the. it's the things being covered up by the dems, the deep state, the fbi and the justice department that's giving this country fits. because we have such a raging corruption in that agency and that department. >> a lot of the interesting revelations have come from the house intelligence committee. the much-criticized chairman devin nunes discovered things like who paid for the dossier. there was an informant of some sort working for the fbi. a lot of that interesting information has come from the investigation that has been cite sides as partisan and out of control. lou: we have to remember who the critics are. they certainly aren't on this bro
lou: we have known from jump street with the senate intelligence committee. asically turned over the committee to the vials-chair, mark warner. to me i hope your inference is correct. you have a great track record in that regard. it just doesn't make any sense that anyone could keep and secret in washington, d.c. this long. if they had something we would know about it. if there had been any collusion, we would know by the. it's the things being covered up by the dems, the deep state, the fbi...
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>>> and a shocking story today concerning the justice department now investigating the senate intelligence committee over leaks of classified information. the senate intelligence committee described by many conservatives as the most corrupt committee on capitol hill, today passed a resolution authorizing the committee to provide the department of justice with the documents demanded by the department for the purpose of that investigation. ironically the intel committee is all too eager to provide document to the department of justice while the department refuses, refuses to honor the oversight authorities of congress refusing to provide the documents requested by those oversight committees. while few in the senate are as incompetent as intel chairman richard burr and as politically corrupt as the ranking member mark warner. the two men have produced nothing of substance of their one-year investigation except for, well, nonsensical and extraordinarily bizarre rhetoric about the russian collusion. of course it was warner who tried to talk to christopher steele, the former mi6 agent who manufactured the
>>> and a shocking story today concerning the justice department now investigating the senate intelligence committee over leaks of classified information. the senate intelligence committee described by many conservatives as the most corrupt committee on capitol hill, today passed a resolution authorizing the committee to provide the department of justice with the documents demanded by the department for the purpose of that investigation. ironically the intel committee is all too eager...
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he's walking as he has so often escorting witnesses for the senate intelligence committee. at's been his role for years. he's now been arrested and charged with lying to investigators about contacts with the reporters. and improperly handling sensitive committee material. nb's julia anne'sly is here to break down the story. i know you've been working this with some of our colleagues for days. wolf, it's my understanding, has not been charged with leaking classified information, right? yet at the same time the department of justice has taken what say rather extraordinary step of pulling records from a reporter as part of its investigation. what warranted that? >> yes, that was going to be my first point to you. james wolf was the security director at the senate intelligence committee so he should know official what information he did and cannot leak and he should know to hand this will information very sensitively. what he was interviewed about was the mishandling of sensitive information, not classified information. what he did is that he lied to federal investigators about
he's walking as he has so often escorting witnesses for the senate intelligence committee. at's been his role for years. he's now been arrested and charged with lying to investigators about contacts with the reporters. and improperly handling sensitive committee material. nb's julia anne'sly is here to break down the story. i know you've been working this with some of our colleagues for days. wolf, it's my understanding, has not been charged with leaking classified information, right? yet at...
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justice department investigation into this guy james a wolf a former high ranking ate at the senate intelligence committee who's suspected of leaking classified information to reporters and he also happens to be the former boyfriend of what kids during their three year romance that what kids they excelled in her career even being shortlisted for a pulitzer her skills in gauging tipoffs from elusive unnamed sources were praised by her university breaking national story was the direct result of tips she received through unnamed sources with whom she's developed trusting relationships she denies ever using her former lover as a source however now some of her old tweets are coming back to haunt her i wanted to be zoe barnes until episode four sleeping with your source especially in the decks of congressman gary gray area ethically he could be which i'm ok with storyboards of the washington herald morning a source close to the president exactly sure how many. actually i want to go over i'm sorry mr president but i will not get. into. well. so on a scale of one to ethical how does everyone feel about pulling a
justice department investigation into this guy james a wolf a former high ranking ate at the senate intelligence committee who's suspected of leaking classified information to reporters and he also happens to be the former boyfriend of what kids during their three year romance that what kids they excelled in her career even being shortlisted for a pulitzer her skills in gauging tipoffs from elusive unnamed sources were praised by her university breaking national story was the direct result of...
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as involved he was in the house and the senate intelligence committees when all this was going on they're joined at the hip the overseers are not overseers they're over lookers and what they do is kind of take care of people like gina hasbro and instead of requiring her to answer the questions they let her go to executive session but in fairness to gina many people in the mainstream newspapers of record whatever they say say that is the context of the nine eleven and surely you're not suggesting nuremberg rules should apply the f.t. here the japanese own financial times said a hospital coworker said the torture was okayed by the white house the department of justice and the cia's had caught is not put. you can't ok torture ok. the us is signatory to the universal declaration on torture the un declaration which says no no circumstances civil war emergencies of any kind exempt a party from the prohibition on torture worse still torture doesn't work no matter what president from says you know i go i was an army officer an infantry intelligence officer i know the drill ok if that's the case w
as involved he was in the house and the senate intelligence committees when all this was going on they're joined at the hip the overseers are not overseers they're over lookers and what they do is kind of take care of people like gina hasbro and instead of requiring her to answer the questions they let her go to executive session but in fairness to gina many people in the mainstream newspapers of record whatever they say say that is the context of the nine eleven and surely you're not...
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i had informed the committee i expect to testify before the senate intelligence committee. again i would like that testimony to be in public and not behind closed doors. certainly i am prepared to discuss this then. i have said through my attorney letter to both inspector general and the house chairman of the intelligence committee telling them everything i know about this brief meeting. i cannot speak to the 11 other contacts. only based on my own experience are you worried about being indicted? >> i'm not worried but it is interesting they are poking through every molecule of my personal life to subpoena former employees who were not working for me during the 2016 election and other associates who appears to be an effort to frame me in an effort to silence me because i remain a critic of the mueller investigation. if the effort is to find extraneous or a bogus offense to pressure me to testify against the president, i will not do that. but clearly they are empty-handed on the question of russian collusion and in terms of receiving anything from wikileaks or julian a staun
i had informed the committee i expect to testify before the senate intelligence committee. again i would like that testimony to be in public and not behind closed doors. certainly i am prepared to discuss this then. i have said through my attorney letter to both inspector general and the house chairman of the intelligence committee telling them everything i know about this brief meeting. i cannot speak to the 11 other contacts. only based on my own experience are you worried about being...
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intelligence committee. >> laura: how ironic for the senate select committee. he is the guy who ensured that to the rules are followed on secrecy and walking people in and out of the special meeting rooms where no one else can go in. he locks it down. and he is the guy who is trading secrets for a little on the side. i don't know what was going on with the gal pal. >> we should point out to that the reporter is not expected of any wrongdoing. nothing like that. this guy was in charge of all of that. and there have been terrible leaks in this administration. the leak of michael flynn's phone calls with the russian ambassador. and the leak with the president's actual conversations with foreign leaders. this carter page leak was a big deal. there was a court case in which some russians have been suspected of trying to recruit page, and page was referred to as mail number one in the courts pages. the court papers. he could be viewed as a confidential fbi informant who was outed and in the press. and page confirm that yes, he was male number one, but this is somethi
intelligence committee. >> laura: how ironic for the senate select committee. he is the guy who ensured that to the rules are followed on secrecy and walking people in and out of the special meeting rooms where no one else can go in. he locks it down. and he is the guy who is trading secrets for a little on the side. i don't know what was going on with the gal pal. >> we should point out to that the reporter is not expected of any wrongdoing. nothing like that. this guy was in...
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of classified information that members could be, would be the security director for the senate intelligence committeewhose job it is to protect secret info. james wolf, the long-time former director of security for that committee was indicted for making false statements to the fbi. one of the reporters, allie watkins from "the new york times." she was notified in writing that the fbi had gotten her phone records. the indictment says that wolf used encrypted messages to communicate with the three reporters. one of the stories written by ali watkins said that carter page was summoned to testify before the committee. also watkins at wo-- and wolfe were dating. >> it's interesting they caught a leaker and a very important leaker. it's interesting. i'm getting information on it now. it happened last night. could be a terrific thing. i know i believe in freedom of the press. i'm a big believer in the freedom of the press but i'm also a believer in classified information. has to remain classified. >> in a joint statement, the ranking members for the intelligence committee said this news is disappointing at
of classified information that members could be, would be the security director for the senate intelligence committeewhose job it is to protect secret info. james wolf, the long-time former director of security for that committee was indicted for making false statements to the fbi. one of the reporters, allie watkins from "the new york times." she was notified in writing that the fbi had gotten her phone records. the indictment says that wolf used encrypted messages to communicate...
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i've been asked to testify for that intelligence committee on the senate side.nd i request that that is in public, let the tv cameras roll. >> laura: you just want to sell your book, roger. let's be honest. what is possibly going to be involved. i think that they know, they know that they have come up with goose eggs and they do not want to be humiliated. you cannot get between them and a camera usually. because if they do not wanted to be on camera, it is not because of classified information. also wanting to testify, he said that he would testify, did not claim that he wanted immunity, he wanted to do it in public. the billionaire who they tried to get roped into the collusion think that he said, you are ridiculous. and they would not have him testify. they have not brought the russian lawyer in, but she said i'm happy to come. they will not talk to her. either the key figures like this lawyer, why would they not bring the russian lawyer in, it is curious. >> coming up empty-handed with any evidence of russia collusion, and empty handed of any hijinks regardin
i've been asked to testify for that intelligence committee on the senate side.nd i request that that is in public, let the tv cameras roll. >> laura: you just want to sell your book, roger. let's be honest. what is possibly going to be involved. i think that they know, they know that they have come up with goose eggs and they do not want to be humiliated. you cannot get between them and a camera usually. because if they do not wanted to be on camera, it is not because of classified...
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top republicans, including the senate intelligence committee chairman richard burr, and the house speaker paul ryan, are now openly, publicly siding with republican congressman trey gowdy over president trump today, saying they have seen no evidence to support the president's claim that the fbi placed a spy inside the trump campaign. first, listen to the speaker, paul ryan. >> i think chairman gou maman g initial assessment is accurate. i think -- but we have some more digging to do. we're waiting for more document request. we still have some unanswered questions. it would have been helpful if we got this information earlier, as chairm chairman nunes said, if we got this earlier, we could wrap this up faster. >> the president has been repeating this unproven claim now for weeks, even as recently as last night. let's go straight to our correspondent manu raju. it was your question that elicited the response from the speaker. how significant is that, and maybe even more significant, the chairman of the senate intelligence committee, richard burr, also a republican, once again siding with tr
top republicans, including the senate intelligence committee chairman richard burr, and the house speaker paul ryan, are now openly, publicly siding with republican congressman trey gowdy over president trump today, saying they have seen no evidence to support the president's claim that the fbi placed a spy inside the trump campaign. first, listen to the speaker, paul ryan. >> i think chairman gou maman g initial assessment is accurate. i think -- but we have some more digging to do....
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i expect to testify before the senate intelligence committee. i would again like that testimony to be in public not behind closed doors. certainly prepared to discuss this then. i have sent through my attorney a letter to both the inspecter general and to the house chairman of the intelligence committee telling them everything i know about this brief meeting. i can't speak to the 11 other contacts. i can only speak based on my own experience. host: are you worried about being indicted by robert mueller? guest: well, i wouldn't say that i am worried about it. i find it interesting that they through every ng molecule of my personal, political, and business life, former o subpoena through evey employees who weren't working for me during the 2016 election and other long-time associates in what appears to be some effort to frame me in an effort to silence me because i former critic of the mueller investigation. if the effort is to find some extraneous bogus else, and pass it on to the trump campaign. yeah, i think this is a witch hunt and i think it
i expect to testify before the senate intelligence committee. i would again like that testimony to be in public not behind closed doors. certainly prepared to discuss this then. i have sent through my attorney a letter to both the inspecter general and to the house chairman of the intelligence committee telling them everything i know about this brief meeting. i can't speak to the 11 other contacts. i can only speak based on my own experience. host: are you worried about being indicted by robert...