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Director comey had said, i expect to see them back in 2018 and especially in 2020. those are his words. do you agree with that? >> absolutely. >> thats why an independent commission would allow us to come up with some ideas in how to stop this from happening again. whether its how the media handle these things, how intelligence agencies when they find out handle these things. we cannot allow foreign countries to influence our democracy. do you agree, collector clapper? >> i certainly do. i under...

>> had you not been fired, would you have recommended to the white house counsel that they begin further investigations into the national security adviser or that they restrict his access to sensitive and classified information? >> its a bit of a hypothetical. had i remained at the department of justice and if i was under the impression that nothing was done, yes, i would have raised it with the white house. >> thank you. >> mrs. yates, dr. clapper, thank you for your years of service to the ame...

Arrange for me to talk on background with reporters about a particular issue to educate them about that, no. i certainly never provided classified information. that will be the only kind of background information. >> i might have done this same thing. but certainly -- doesnt -- doesnt include sharing classified information. >> down anybody else that has ever leaked classified or unclassified information to the press? >> no. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i went over. i apologize. >> okay. >> thank ...

>> well, i guess it could be -- you could rationalize that that helps the russians by obviskating who was responsible. >> thank you. >> i want to thank you and the ranking member for this hearing and these hearings. i want to thank general clapper and attorney general yates for appearing today. the intelligence community has concluded, all 17 of them, that russia interfered with this election. we all know that is right.

Blackmail? >> any time the russians have compromising information on you, then youre certainly vulnerable to blackmail. >> let me ask general clapper this. you looked at the other case. the sergeant government officials, if that had hidden financial information, things that normally disclose, they could see your official position. is that an area where they could be blackmailed? if its discovered. >> yes, it is. of course. >> and is it your experience that the russians search for that kind of th...

It proved successful. >> thank you. >> until they pay a price. >> thank you for being here. collector clapper, how likely do you think that foreign intelligence services are trying to compromise congressional i.t. systems? >> congressional i.t. systems are a target and have been. i saw examples of that during my time as dni. this is one case where we expeditiously informed congress when we saw evidence of that. that is not just russians. theres others. >> what intel value would it provide to the...

Delaware, former collector clapper, former cia director morale, they are the ones who said these things on the record, they have been brief booed by the intelligence community, by the fbi and said there is no collusion. at some point to fact check the president for merely quoting them is not -- the question should be directed at them, not us. but over and over again it has come to the same conclusion. caitlyn. >> john. >> john, authenticate listen. that was nice of you. its national ago day. >> ...

Falsely tries to link the trump -- the president for white house into any of it. they continue to see that there is nothing there. every single fern who has been briefed who has come out and publicly talked about it, republican, democrat, former dni, former cia directors, obama appointees, have said, no evidence. so i get that we keep getting asked -- >> thats not my question. >> my point is thats one of the tweets that he addressed, former dni continues to note, that is true. these are their qu...

Out. >> shepard: the democrat, adam schiff at the beginning of the hearing. heading into that, congressman schiff said not only was there circumstantial evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia but as he saw it, direct evidence of deception. now the white house is responding. >> investigating it and having proof of it are two different things. look at the acting obama c.i.a. director who said theres smoke but no fire. senator tom cotton. not that im seeing, not that im aware o...

The world how it is. he could havent said a more devastating thing at a more inappropriate time. this is the third time around. three strikes, youre out. >> i think you need to look carefully at what director clapper said on gaddafi. he said if the dynamics dont change, gaddafi could prevail [ you heard lindsey graham called for him to step down or be fired. mentioning three strikes, he is referencing two other events. this was an interview with diane sawyer, which which director clapper did not...