Senate Intel joint press conference with Burr and Warner on NOW..

[dixiegrrrrl]

I am linked to Cspan site, says they are waiting to begin...

[femmocrat]

1. It is on MSNBC and CNN, too.

Thanks!

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Dont see it

shows 3 cspan channels and this isnt any of them

on msnbc now and have it but dont see how on cspam

[randome]

3. I have it here.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?426177-1/senators-richard-burr-mark-warner-brief-reporters-russia-probe

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. Thanks, for some reason I am terrible navigating that site

[randome]

6. Most of the time CSPAN videos won't play in Chrome for me but they do in IE. Go figure.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]

[dixiegrrrrl]

20. Piss poor navigation for me in Firefox

but can play C-span well in chromium. go figure.

[wishstar]

4. Sen. Burr says they have 7 Full-time staffers working on probe

They have thousands of docs to be reviewed within weeks.

[wishstar]

7. Sen. Warner says they will get to bottom of Russian interference in election

Says it will not be done as quickly as he and other might like since it must be done right. They are talking to analysts and have scheduled interviews and trying to get access to everything. Jared Kushner is to be scheduled, Carter Page, Manafort and Roger Stone also and any others, when they have enough information to know all the questions they need to ask.

[tallahasseedem]

8. This is scary stuff...

[janx]

9. It sounds as if the Senate committee

is working more smoothly with the intel community than the House committee is.

[dixiegrrrrl]

21. I liked the way Burr explained everything

Very logical process, very clear in how he laid out the manner the Committee would proceed.
Impressive.

[janx]

25. He seems serious.

Here's hoping...

[GliderGuider]

10. Sounds like they're both on the right frequency.

Hope springs eternal...

[wishstar]

11. Sen. Burr said they are not coordinating in any way with WH

Says they have high hopes their entire committee and staff has trust so that intelligence community will provide all the info without being afraid of leaks. One of biggest investigations Burr has ever seen in his tenure in Senate. They have access to all the most classified info given to Senate Gang of 8 and there is already great deal of documents available to them-thousands of docs

[Tom Rinaldo]

14. The fact that he even has to say this. In contrast to another Cogressional "probe" n/t

[OldHippieChick]

26. This may actually be the first time Burr has had to

work in his entire time in the Senate.

[littlemissmartypants]

27. Bingo. eom

[wishstar]

12. Sen. Warner says they will speak out if any stifling of info or access to info occurs

They do want to see Sally Yates and access to her has not been blocked to scheduling her at this point.

[janx]

13. Yates has not been blocked from the investigation,

according to Warner.

[Mr. Ected]

15. Why would Nunes obstruct the House investigation

When he has to know the Senate investigation will turn up the very same intelligence, intercepts and information?

I can't wrap my brain around this.

[dixiegrrrrl]

22. Paul ryan is Speaker of the House and Nune's boss.

Nune's political career depends on doing what his boss says.
his boss told him to obstruct, so that is what he did. Whatever hopes or plans or dreams ryan had about the obstruction is unknown, but Ryan is not the sharpest knife in the drawer.


Mitch Mcconnel is Ryan's counterpart in the Senate, but the Senate Comm. has a couple of Republicans who are interested in the investigation, and more independent of McConnell pressure...or feel they are.

[wishstar]

16. Sen. Burr says we are on brink of 2 European countries being in direct danger- Germany/France

from Russian interference. Says involves Character assassination of candidates- he mentions Montenegro and Netherlands also having been targeted by Russia

[wishstar]

17. Sen. Burr says we know a lot more today than back in December before the January report was issued

so they will have to go back to review all the underlying documentation that went into that earlier report in light of new information

[wishstar]

18. Sen. Warner says they are trying to access even more raw intelligence than Gang of 8

Still says he feels even more firmly than ever this is is most important thing he has done in his professional life

20 people being scheduled for interviews at this point

[dixiegrrrrl]

23. I hope they look at the investigators who have been on twitter

cause several of them have found amazing stuff.
they are, for the most part, independent of MSM, so can be uncensored.

[wiggs]

19. Senate needs to go beyond election tampering...we want to know the degree to which

the president and his administration and his advisors are compromised by russia, russian oligarchs, and russian mobsters. What are all the dozens of connections about?

[dixiegrrrrl]

24. That will come out.

"election tampering" is merely the topic that they can use to start digging.

remember, the FBI ended up sending Al Capone to prison for tax evasion, not for all the stuff he did that was too hard to prove, even tho everybody knew what he had done..murder, illegal booze running, etc.