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Facts and the truth get out there. that the conclusions be reached. theyve investigated everything and interviewed everybody and have had months and months of this now to do this and i think its time for them to begin to start winding this down. i hope that happens sooner rather than later because i dont think its anybodys best interest to drag these sorts of things out forever and for them to become an unending sort of campaign. my fear is that if this starts heading down different rabbit trail...

Election was not quite on point. quote, "the facts, had they surfaced, might have devastated the trump campaign. mr. trumps future national security adviser was under investigation as was his campaign chair. one adviser appeared to have russian intelligence contacts. another was suspected of being a russian agent himself. quote, "but when "the new york times" tried to assess the state of the investigation in october 2016, law enforcement officials cautioned against drawing any conclusions, resul...

Republican on the house intel committee. he joins me now. congressman, what do you think of the two pretty different conclusions that are coming out of this? one from the senate and one from the house? >> yeah. well, i respect the senates work, and i would just respectfully disagree, at least with one part. if i could make maybe a larger observation -- i said this earlier, by the way, many times. when it comes to was russia trying to hurt hillary clinton or trying to help donald trump, thats nea...

Earth one, but this statement today from the intelligence committee does directly contradict what pro-trump republicans in the house said just a few weeks ago when they called off and shut down their own russia investigation on their side of the capitol. the senate intelligence statement today from republican chairman richard burr and the democratic vice-chairman mark warner, it basically asserts that the intelligence community was correct last year when they issued their report blaming the russ...

Over a president, over our elected officials, so if these forms are inaccurate, sometimes theres a clerical error and thats generally forgiven but if its knowing concealment, willful efforts to conceal or hide payments, places where the president is indebted, thats a federal crime. if we uphold the standard that the president is no more above the law than anybody else, anybody unless our government. anybody else in our society, i agree with frank, the president has some explaining to do. >> lets...

Committee staff have spent 14 months reviewing the source, trade craft and analytic work. we see no reason to dispute the conclusions there is no doubt that russia took an unprecedented effort to interfere with our 2016 elections. quote, after a thorough review, our staff concluded that the intelligence community conclusions were accurate and on point. the russian effort was extensive, sophisticated, and ordered by president putin himself with the purpose of helping donald trump and hurting hill...

That to get out. hell wait until that comes out to explain how they came to their conclusions. the republicans on that panel are more isolated in their insertion that it was not putins intention to help trump win the presidency, brianna. >> next, two months after he was fired, today former secretary of state rex tillerson delivers a very interesting commencement address. the theme of his speech, defending truth in america. was this a not-so-subtle jab at someone specific? more on that in a momen...

Isolated in their view disputing central assertion of the intelligence community assessment that vladimir putin orchestrated a campaign in 2016 with the express intention of elected donald trump president. richard bur issued a statement with mark warner backing up the intelligence committee finding saying we see no reason to dispute the conclusions of the 2017 assessment. and i talked to a number of other top republicans on the senate intelligence committee, john cornyn and james langford and se...

The gaping holes that he leaves here. hes making sure he mentions that the conversations are happening between lawyers to try to implicate attorney-client privilege. and hes signaling that he didnt talk to the president, although he doesnt say that directly. so we have previously seen reporting that indicates the president played a great deal or big role in editing those statements that were issued by donald trump, jr. >> the republican chairman of the judiciary committee says hes glad these doc...

>> reporter: the big headline is the disagreement that the senate intelligence committee has with the house intelligence committee. they both investigated what happened in 2016. the intelligence community concluded that there was a cyber campaign orchestrated by vladamir putin to help president trump become president trump. now, the house intelligence committee republicans said they disputed the analytical trade craft behind that assessment, saying there was no real way to verify that putin was ...