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People had come to the same conclusions including chairman devin nunes had been knocking this down, telling reporters -- we shared a number with him of a reporter that had contacted. when the reporters contacted us and we said no to the best of our knowledge thats not true. they were asking can you point to anybody else who can substantiate this. i think we did a good job of saying sure we will share with reporters other people who have come to the same conclusion. i wont go into the specifics. ...

Conclusions, including at that time chairman nunez told us, ive been knocking this down, telling reporters we shared a number of a reporter that contacted us. and, again, when the reporters contacted us and we said, no, to the best of our knowledge, thats not true, they were asking us, can you point to anybody else that can substantiate this. and i think we did a good job of saying, sure, we will share with reporters other people who have come to the same conclusion. so i wont go into the specif...

About the accuracy of the reporting in the claims that were made in there. plain and simple about whether or not a story that appeared in "the new york times" was accurate. individual after individual continued to say as far as they knew, they were not. most of you probably saw chairman nunezs comments this morning. he was very clear number one that he reached out to us to say ive been telling people, and then we shared that information with him. but he came to us to share that he equally had th...

I think most of you probably saw chairman nuness comments this morning. he was very clear, number one, that he reached out to us to say ive been telling people, reporters, that these allegations and descriptions in the "new york times" are not accurate. and then we shared that information with him. but he came to us to share that he equally had that issue brought up to him. he was briefed and saw, quote, no evidence that the story was accurate. so the answer is, you know, we have continued to gi...

Havent provided anything to lead me to believe or should lead you to believe -- and i continue to see reports coming from media sources saying when they checked in with law enforcement or intelligence community sources there is nothing more that happy been previously reported over and over again. at some point you have to ask yourself what are you actually looking for? how many times do you have to come to the same conclusion before you take the answer. mara. >> just to follow up on that, did yo...

Push back on news reports about alleged contacts between the trump campaign and russian intelligence operatives. >> respectfully, i think its interesting that i am being asked whats appropriate when what were doing is urging reporters to engage with subject matter experts who can corroborate whether or not something is accurate or not. >> the white house did enlist republican chairman of the house and senate intelligence committees to talk to reporters urging them to speak out against news accou...

Our election, havent provided anything that lead me to believe or should lead to you believe, and i continue to see reports coming from different media sources saying when theyhecked in with law enforcement or intelligence community sources theres nothing more than priously reported over and over again. so, at some point you do have to ask yourself, what are you actually looking for? how many times do you have to come to the same conclusion before you take the answer? and thats -- thats what i w...

Time come at chairman devin nunes who said id been knocking these down, telling departments, we share the number with him of reporters that contacted us. when they contact us and we state that is not true to the best of our knowledge, they would say to point to someone else i can substantiate this. i think we did a good job of saying, sure, we will share with reporters other people who have come to the same conclusions. i would not go into the specifics. i will say i think we did our job very ef...

Came to the conclusion that they did not want to get in the process of knocking down every story that they had issues with. we then were informed that other people had come to the same conclusions, including at that time come at chairman devin nunes who said id been knocking these down, telling departments, we share the number with him of reporters that contacted us. when they contact us and we state that is not true to the best of our knowledge, they would say to point to someone else i can sub...

Fake news media. listen to what he said about them just yesterday. >> and i want you all to know that we are fighting the fake news. its fake, phony, fake. [cheers and applause] a few days ago i called the fake news the enemy of the people, and they are. they are the enemy of the people. [cheers and applause] because they have no sources, they just make em up when there are none. >> reporter: president trump not backing down, and his war with the media exploded even more right after that speech ...