Clapper Wasn T News Today

Remember used by about 19% of americans. but they were russian bots and others were launching tweets this weekend about this nfl mess. >> yeah, its amazing. quickly on clapper he said on friday night that the findings on the u.s. intelligence committee about russian interference in the election casts doubt on the legitimacy of the outcome of election. now, clapper wasnt saying that the russians had successfully altered the outcome, but he was saying it did cast a shadow. and brian, before we get...

Times" report out tonight that russian interests are still in the game on twitter. remember used by about 19% of americans. buts they were russian bauts and others were launching tweets this weekend about this nfl mess. >> yeah, its amazing. quickly on clapper he said on friday night that the findings on the u.s. intelligence committee about russian interference in the election casts doubt on the legitimacy of the outcome of election. now, clapper wasnt saying that the russians had successfully ...

Counterintelligence investigation on a presidential campaign lightly or on hunch? >> no. >> he would need some evidentiary information basis to do so? >> based on everything i know about jim comey and the fbi, yes. >> i yield back. >> thank you. good morning, mr. johnson. i want to start by asking you, mr. gowdy questions and your responses established this is not a new thing, this meddling in our election. we have seen it before. wasnt to come back to that. you also stated and we heard from oth...

The presidential election. >> correct. >> do you stand by that? >> yes. thank you for that cl clarification. >> its not the job of the intelligence agency to determine whether the information dumped had an affect on the outcome, only whether machines were impacted, not people? >> correct. you would need a social scientist to do that. >> i wanted to ask you about the information concerning potential coordination with the russians. are you aware of the basis -- we heard testimony that the fbi inve...

I think lindsey graham asked that question because he wants to know more about trumps dealings. and he asked that question to clapper and he knew that clapper wasnt going to answer him and it gave him a reason to start talking about it. i think it was classic lindsey graham very smartly stirring the pot because he does believe that you cannot do a russia investigation without looking at donald trump. >> including his tax returns. >> donald trump will never be fully exonerated in this, which he c...

where they only talk about one side needing to de-escalate. this time both sides. >> that is the ukraine, now back to james clapper, director of national intelligence, made these candid remarks about the phone data collection by the government. this is what he said in this interview here. he said, "had we been transparent about this from the outset right after 9/11, we wouldnt have had the problem we had with the explosive public reaction." it is worth pointing out, phone data collection proc...

Affirming or confirming these conversations since even though theyre in the holy realm of classified, i will tell you that my dashboard warning light was clearly on and i think that was the case with all of us in the intelligence community, very concerned about the nature of these approaches to the russians. >> so clapper wasnt willing to go into any detail, again, because this is some classified information but how significant was his comment, steve? >> jim clapper has been around intelligence ...

Today between clapper and yates is on surveillance. why doesnt the media report on this #fake news. he tweeted a lot yesterday. some of the tweets were saying there is no evidence of collusion with russia and trump that she said nothing but old news. and he is exactly right. we didnt learn anything new yesterday. we learned they werent the leaker es and they did ask for the unmasking. brian: the president shouldnt be tweeting. this forget it. there is no there there. ainsley: seven months since ...