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National intelligence, which president trump appointed the head of it, is also standing by that 2017 assessment. so what did the republicans on the intelligence committee see that the fbi, the cia, and the dni missed? >> yeah, you know, i agree and then i disagree with the former dni. i agree they initially were trying to sow discord to break down the foundations of trust. no question about that. but i have done something now that he has not done, and that is i have spent a couple days out to th...

>> this is important. they gave us a list of 83 witnesses. some of them are russians. one of them has passed away. no longer living. there is no way in the world those russians are going to talk to our committee. do we not issue a report until we talk to them? in that case we will never issue a report. we feel the responsibility to tell the american people what we learned. and we are coming up on the next election. lets tell them our conclusions and see what we have learned. and the second point...

Moving forward in perhaps from more tweets from the president or wherever its going to come from? >> well, i think its pretty obvious based on what happened last night with the house majority releasing some talking points about what their conclusions were going to be and then very quickly within minutes or an hour the president tweeting, it looks pretty clear that they are coordinating in some way, so that he was expecting these results and that their investigation was intended to reaffirm what ...

No evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia to sway the 2016 election. >> you never know what you never know, but we found no reason to think that theres something were missing in this regard. weve talked to everybody we believe we need to talk to. >> reporter: president trump touting the announcement in all caps on twitter, but democrats insisting that the investigation was incomplete and that a number of witnesses and documents still need to be subpoenaed. >> they would ask,...

Transparency, theyll come out. i dont want to do anything that compromises bob muellers investigation. you want to hold the information close and dont want witnesses what others said. i wro et that legislation after the attack in 2016. republicans have joined us in it. o now more than ever its the best way to tell the american people who is responsible. >> the idea of what chris stewart came out and said, the intelligence community just got it wrong. they came to wrong conclusions on data that t...

This morning with some reason to be happy after republicans have suddenly closed their investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election and made some conclusions that echo his view that russia did not try to help him. now 150-page draft report from the republicans will be shown to democrats on that committee as soon as today. >> reporter: republicans on the house intelligence committee abruptly ending their russia probe without telling democrats. announcing that they have found no ev...

Conclusions. i think once you do, youre going to say this seems reasonable. it doesnt seem partisan. we tried very, very hard not to be partisan. we tried very hard not to accuse people. we tried very hard to provide positive recommendations for how we can avoid this in the future. >> just for the record, at the beginning of the interview you quoted senator dianne feinstein as saying there was no collusion. she was asked months ago, and she said not so far. >> if she has anything between now and...

Thats actually a separate topic, and i look forward to talking about that because well be able to release some of that information to the american people. >> isnt that, then a -- arent we talking about the entire intelligence community having come to this conclusion? if what youre saying is true, that is a massive failure of u.s. intelligence. >> well, theres this one thing thats often said. at least it was said initially. all 17 agencies have concluded, and that wasnt true at all. it was the ci...

Often said at least said initially. all 17 agencies concluded and that wasnt true. those were the only ones who draw this conclusion and director of nsa said i agree with it, but not with the same type of high degree of confidence. but once again, some of those individuals many of them havent had access to the raw intelligence like those of us on the committee have and all we can do is go look at it and try to report on our conclusions on it and try to do it in a fair manner. >> are you saying p...

Conclusions that they have released, that the primary goal that the russians had. in 2016 was to sow discord. fine, but also, that they saw -- that they do not believe that putin was trying to tip the scale in favor of donald trump. that explicitly flies in the face of what the intelligence community said in their report in january of 2017. and still right now, today, say that they stand by, done by not political people, but career professionals. and that is going to be the very, very interestin...