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To do this. they had the narrative. why would that do this? >> its a little baffling, shep. seems like the presidents directive himself to simply have people out there, particularly on cable tv, which we know the president consumes a lot of, putting up a good fight for him and insisting their talking points are that hes not under investigation and he will slam them home as far as they can. even though how the white house would know what the contours of bob muellers relatively new investigation i...

Anyone else. its not clear that there was collusion or anything like that with the trump campaign, butless understand the russian operatives are very smart, juliette know this better than i, theyre targeting fis hated ways. >> so juliette could the russians have figured this out on their own? >> i think they could have, i think we dont know. i think we just dont know the extent of the evidence on the collusion issue. but i dont think we can say well, it hasnt been fund out yet so tlofr it doesnt...

Back to a focus on that collusion issue and on the russian attack itself. next week on wednesday, the house intelligence committee committee is going to hear from jay johnson who was homeland security secretary to the end of the obama administration. the intelligence committee on the senate is going to take testimony from a bunch of experts and elections officials who are going to be talking about the russian hacking attack as they experienced it, as it targeted state and local election systems....

Whats going to comg down the pike in the next couple weeks. in general, i should tell you over the next week or two it looks like were about to get back to a focus on that collusion issue and on the russian attack itself. next week on wednesday, the house intelligence committee committee is going to hear from jay johnson who was homeland security secretary to the end of the obama administration. the intelligence committee committee on the senate is going to take testimony from a bunch of experts...

Think is extraordinary significant in terms of this particular episode and it may have historic effects. well have to wait and see. if he lays out a pattern of conduct which shows that the president and his team were trying very hard to shut down the flynn investigation, that is going to prove great weight to the whole question of obstruction. were now hearing the democrats like mark warner saying we dont see evidence of collusion, we dont see any smoking gun yet on the collusion question but th...

Particular episode and it may have historic effects. well have to wait and see. if he lays out a pattern of conduct which shows that the president and his team were trying very hard to shut down the flynn investigation, that is going to give great weight to the whole question of obstruction. were now hearing the democrats like mark warner saying we dont see evidence of collusion, we dont see any smoking gun yet on the collusion question, but the obstruction of justice may turn out to be a more s...

There could be illegal collusion between the trump campaign and russian spies as it relates to russias interference with our election with 17 different intelligence agencies have concluded occurred because russia decided that they wanted to intervene to help donald trump, so theres the collusion issue, but there are also issues concerning possible obstruction of justice, abuse of presidential power and authority in terms of these conversations that he was having with jim comey, possibly asking c...

The bureau. >> eric: john brennan threading the needle carefully there. he said russia was aggressive in the election interference but when it comes to the potential gaition of collusion with the trump campaign and the russians he wasnt able to pin it down. indicating that the russians tried to reach out. perhaps tried to influence u.s. persons, as he said the allegation one of those u.s. persons was former general mike flynn. he denied any wrongdoing. but there is adam schiff. lets listen to wh...

The bureau. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> mr. schiff, five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. wanted to follow up on a comment that i made in the opening statement. and that is, with respect to a number of allegations that have been made recently that the president or his aides may have sought to enlist the help of members of the ic or director comey himself to drop the flynn investigation. have any members of the ic shared with you their concerns that the presidentas attempting tenst the hel...

>> thank you, mr. chairman. >> time has expired. mr. schiff, five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i wanted to follow up on a comment that i made in the opening statement, and that is with respect to a number of the allegations that have been made recently, that the president or his aides may have sought to enlist the help of members of the ic or director comey himself to drop the flynn investigation, have any members of the ic shared with you their concerns that the president was attempting...