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Part? >> yes. >> do you think the russians did it when it came to the hacking into the dnc and podestas emails? do you believe the conclusions conclusions -- >> as i said to your colleague, i have no reason to doubt the conclusions. >> that make you a good candidate to be an enemy of the united states? >> and an effort to interfere with our elections as an adversarial act as you said before. >> did you see the press conference james comey gave about the hillary clinton investigation? >> not life...

Meeting in the first place and telling everyone it was about russian adaungsz and explaining away every other version of the truth. its insulting to the american people and the fact we continue to get misleading statements from the administration chips away at their credibility and were seeing e stands for emails. and for them to continue to say theres a big nothing burger, these -- >> so, i know you have lots of c contacts with trump folks and republicans in washington. >> they continue to say ...

Elections? >> as i said, senator, i have only been able to review the public summary, but i have no reason to doubt the conclusions of the intelligence community. >> probably the nonpublic portions would be even more confirming. the public information as to russias attempts to interfere with our elections, so should you be con filled, what would use do to prevent this kind of interference. >> i would want both the fbi and other parts of the intelligence committee on what we know about how any na...

Have seen these e-mails. its insulting to the american people and the fact that we continue to get misleading statements from the administration chips away at their credibility. and what were seeing now is the outright new information that the "e" in these e-mails stands for evidence. and it will be used in the mueller investigation. and for him and the administration to say theres a big nothing burger, these e-mails put a little meat on the bones. >> can i ask you something? so you have lots of...

Are taking a closer look at this meeting and top democrat of house intelligence committee adam schiff, outraged. >> it is absolutely not only a breach of norms but civic responsibility to the country. if you get approached by foreign government offering to interfere in a presidential election you go to the fbi. that is what a decent citizen would do. i dont want to see is lower the bar. the question is whether this is illegal. this was unethical. >> reporter: legal experts looking at this with c...

But i have no reason to doubt the conclusions of the intelligence community. >> probably the nonpublic portions would be even more confirming of the public information as to russias attempts to interfere with our elections. so theres also been testimony, not only by former director comey, but others in the intel community, that we can expect russia to continue to interfere with our elections. so should you be confirmed, what would you do to prevent this kind of interference? >> well, i would wan...

This committee has an important role to play as i think you have acknowledged to ensure that law enforcement investigations are done free from political influence. clearly there has been a lot of emphasis and concern on the part of this committee in light of why this vacancy for the fbi director occurred. the independence of the fbi and you should you be confirmed of any political influence. i want to return to some questions about russias interference with our elections and the continuing posit...

>> do you think trying to interfere with the election is an adversarial move on their part? >> yes, do you believe the hackings did with it the hacking and the dnc e-mails, do you believe the conclusions? >> as i said to your colleague, i have no reason to doubt the intelligence -- >> would that make you a good candidate to be an enemy of the united states? >> i think an effort to interfere with our elections is an adversarial act. >> did you see the press conference last year of come in? >> not...

Foreign adversary like russia, that. hey, this is part of the russian governments effort to try to help in this case mr. trump and derail hillary clinton. no one would take that kind of meeting. most folks would turn that kind of information over to the fbi before they would take that kind of meeting on. >> do you believe the accounts that have been given about the content of the meeting? >> again, i think im not going to reach any conclusions. i know some of my colleagues have. until we as a co...

Hear from attorney general sessions and others to get a public accounting. this committee has an important role to play, as i think you have acknowledged, to ensure that law enforcement investigations are done independently and free from political influence. so clearly, theres been a lot of emphasis and concern on the part of this committee on the reason as to why this occurred. the independents of the fbi and you, should you be confirmed, of any political influences. so i do want to return to s...