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Inaudible] when you say you have no evidence, you have no evidence. Im telling you that we are conducting an investigation, we are looking for facts. Believe me, if we could find evidence, wed love to have them if they were colluding with the russian government. Nd youre looking at the and the Senate Intelligence committee is looking at it. Mr. Nunes we are looking at the agencies involved and i doubt the f. B. I. Is briefing us differently than they would be briefing the senate. [inaudible] mr. Nunes they brought up many characters today. I dont know who those people are. They have no affiliation when they say they the democrats brought up this cast of name. Reporter are you talking about roger stone here, manafort . Mr. Nunes manafort i know because he worked on the convention. I dont know the other people. Reporter are they relevant . Mr. Nunes i dont know if they are. They arent in the administration. They dont work for the administration. Thats the major concern i have right now is people that are until this gets cleared up, we have this problem. Reporter congressman, some are saying republicans on this committee care more about the unmasking of flynns identity and inns departmental collection than the russians hacking our democracy. What do you say to that balance . Mr. Nunes i say theres one crime thats been committed and thats the leaking of someones name. The other thing we are conducting oversight on this committee and the republicans led by me said a year ago thats the largest intelligence failure since 9 11. Everything to the contrary that is ridiculous. I warned about it. I begged them to do something about it. The last administration. I begged the Intelligence Community to do something about it. They did nothing. To sit here yes because its a crime. There was a crime that was committed. Reporter the hacking of the d. Rlt c. And release of d. N. C. Eis a crime . Mr. Nunes its a crime. I think they can attribute that to a foreign power. Thats what they said today. We cant go arrest the reporter there was less attention from the republicans oday than, say, leaking or the unmasking issue . Mr. Nunes well, i think it was a long hearing. A lot was talked about. I still say we still have the crime thats been committed out there that we dont know about. If there was an overemphasis on that reporter is that where the focus reporter were they as forthcoming as you thought they would be . Mr. Nunes no, i dont think so. Reporter did you learn anything . Mr. Nunes not too much. Reporter is there anything they need to say more . Mr. Nunes i dont think it was nearly as fruitful as it should have been. Reporter donald trump said the russias story is fake news. Do you believe the russian story is fake news . Mr. Nunes well, what do you mean fake news . Reporter thats what he said. He said it was all made up by democrats. Do you believe this is all made up by democrats . Mr. Nunes what part . Reporter any part. Do you think any part of the story is made up by the democrats and is fake news . Mr. Nunes i have no idea. In general do i think ill go back to what i said a year ago. I said this was a major intelligence failure to find putins plans and intentions. Clearly the number one reason was because of their cyber capabilities. I hardly believe this committee, especially, has done anything but try to warn the American People about the risk and the danger that the russian government poses to this country. Reporter does the president share his view on this . Because he says this is fake news and the only real story is the story of the leaks . Mr. Nunes i dont know. Reporter you didnt read his tweets this morning . Mr. Nunes no. Reporter what were you hoping to hear that you feel wasnt addressed . Mr. Nunes i think it goes to the last thing i said today. Until we have all these americans out here who are under this umbrella and well leave this here. If you missed any of the hearing we showed you earlier today it will reair tonight in its entirety here on cspan starting at 8 00 eastern, depending on what time the house finishes their business. Otherwise you can watch it online at our website, cspan. Type house Intelligence Committee in the search bar. U. S. House coming in shortly for the start of legislative business. Members will be taking up eight small bills mostly dealing with the department of homeland security. Votes after 6 00 6 30 eastern today. Later this week the House Rules Committee will debate the Republican Health care replacement. That markup will be this coming wednesday. House debate and votes expected on thursday. Shortly, the u. S. House will gavel in to start legislative business. Live coverage from the floor of the u. S. House here on cspan. Again, waiting for the u. S. House to gavel in shortly to start legislative business. Members taking up eight small