Special Emergency Edition: Comey and Rogers Versus the Comittee, the Good Parts Version

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🗓️ 21 March 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Yesterday, FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers testified before the House Intelligence Committee on Russian interference in the U.S. election for an exhausting five and a half hours. They made a lot of news, but there were also a lot of refusals to comment and speeches made by members of the Committee. So we've cut down their testimony to less than an hour, giving you only what you need to know.

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0:29.0	So that we can be precise, I want to refer you to exactly what the president said,
0:37.0	and ask you whether there is any truth to it.
0:41.0	First, the president claimed, quote, terrible.
0:45.0	Just found out that Obama had my wires tapped and trumped tower just before the victory.
0:50.0	Nothing found. This is McCarthyism, unquote.
0:55.0	Director Comey was the president's statement that Obama had his wires tapped and trumped tower a true statement.
1:03.0	With respect to the president's tweets about alleged wiretapping directed at him by the prior administration,
1:09.0	I have no information that supports those tweets, and we have looked carefully inside the FBI.
1:15.0	The Department of Justice has asked me to share with you that the answer is the same for the Department of Justice and all its components.
1:21.0	The Department has no information that supports those tweets.
1:24.0	I'm Benjamin Widis, and this is the LawFair podcast Special Emergency Edition March 21, 2017.
1:33.0	FBI director James Comey, an admiral Michael Rogers of the NSA,
1:39.0	faced the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence yesterday for a rare open hearing on Russian active measures.
1:47.0	They made news. They made a lot of news.
1:51.0	There was also a lot of no commenting and protracted member questioning.
1:57.0	We've cut out everything you don't need to hear, and we're giving you only the parts of this hearing that actually contain useful information.
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