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Senators who i have so much respect for. i know and love some of them and know and like others, but i have great relationships with everyone of them. i tell you what, i do have a lot of respect for people in this room. i appreciate you being here. just a little bit on the economy. unemployment has fallen to a 16 year low in manufacturing confidence is at an all-time high. just came out with a report, the highest level of confidence in history of the reports, it particularly says -- and history o...

Does the president seem more concerned with . >> well, i see the president of someone never had an utter thought, anything in his brain is going to spill right out. in this contact, he was -- i think comey said it was neither inappropriate and in all of these contacts, director comey never pushed back which was very disappointing to me as someone who loves the organization and certain organization for 25 years. what i was struck struck with o someone of his confidence level being taken back of t...

>> how would you describe the confidence level? >> reporter: press secretary sean spicer declining to answer when asked on tuesday. >> i have not had discussion with him about that. >> you said that there was development. >> im answering a question which is i have not had that discussion with him. >> reporter: the white house still has not clarified the presidents position. one official telling cnn they wanted to avoid giving a definitive answer. the president frequently contradicted his aides i...

Trace: thats great analysis right there, congressman. i want to take you back to back when they had the aviation threat like a decade ago in the uk, they foiled the stress of blowing up airliners over the atlantic and everyone said man, man, they had intel, they are good at this, they been doing it a long time, now you have three attacks in three months and all of a sudden the confidence level of the people over there, it really does, go down a bit. >> it goes down because theres no way you can ...

Be called on to do a whole lot of talking. randy kaye, cnn, new york. >> and our breaking news, late reporting in the "washington post" in an early meeting with the russian ambassador, sergey kislaya kislayak, set up a secret communications with moscow. you were a former cia russia expert, can you just give us a sense of the confidence level that u.s. intelligence officials have about the surveillance in general that they have on russian officials. its not like theyre just getting bits and piece...

So, therefore, there was a unanimous consensus amongst the three agencies and dni about the judgments. there was one thing about the nsas confidence level in terms of the russian advocacy for mr. trump, but with that lone exception, it was a consensus assessment. >> and the report also talked extensively about the role of wikileaks in working with russia on this covert action campaign. can you talk a bit more about how they fit in? >> well, i think as the assessment says, that the russians used ...

But it doesnt make it impossible there are ways to determine who is behind the keyboard, if you will. and we investigate those cases just like we do any other case. unfortunately, in the case of a russian hack, we have a lack of transparency once the information crosses our border and enters into the russian border that means we cant get access to witnesses. we cant examine infrastructure. well cant execute search warrants. which means were very limited in our visibility. that doesnt mean we can...

>> today senator warren joined the richard burr in announcing that the committee has issued the first subpoena, that it has issued since its joint investigation of the 9/11 attacks on the united states. senator burr and senator warner said the subpoena requests documents relevant to the committees investigation. the committee first requested these documents on april 28th. 2017 letter to lieutenant general flynn, but he declined through counsel to cooperate with the committees request. joining us...

Committees investigation. the committee first requested these documents on april 28th. 2017 letter to lieutenant general flynn, but he declined through counsel to cooperate with the committees request. joining us now, connecticut democratic congressman jim hines. he is a member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, what is your confidence level now in rod rosenstein as the deputy attorney general? you just heard senator warner say if he had a chance to vote on that confirmation again...

The pleasure of being confirmed with, was tasked with the job of evaluating the fbis performanc performance. i agree with the recommendation he made, i think he was well within his rights to do it. my focus now, particularly someone who is very much focused on getting the right law-enforcement people and places who will be the next officer. >> jenna: what do you make of the timing of it? we know theres an ongoing investigation into russia and their meddling in our election, you have the russian ...