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Subcommittee on cia democratic congressman eric swalwell from california. >> what did you learn yesterday? >> weve long been concerned about donald trump and dots that connect his deep financial ties with russia and now a convergence with the campaign. the director confirmed that saying there is an investigation, there are u.s. persons investigated and they are members of the campaign. >> republicans on the committee seem to be slafishly following the cues of the president while failing to retra...

Do you retain full confidence in him for everything? for all of the things that hes doing? >> i do, and katy, you know, thats the past. it actually seems like its the distant past. right now, what we want to be assured that that theres a full investigation under way. that evidence will be followed and that all leads will be pursued. and for most americans, i think its quite disturbing that another country would attack us. and theyre wondering, do these deep political personal and financial ties ...

Into this investigation to connect the dots and iran. he and the teams connections to russia. its important we clear that up to proceed with the investigation. right now, the american people want to know, were they mere coincidences theies wit russia or a convergence with working with russia as they were running their interference campaign during the 2016 election. >> help us understand what you know, your colleague, adam schiff says there was collusion between the trump campaign and the white h...

Investigation during the campaign? >> im not going to answer that. >> is he under investigation. >> im not going to answer that. please dont assume what im saying. im not going to answer about anybody in this forum. >> congressman, do you believe director comey was forthcoming enough? did he answer the questions you wanted answered? >> he did. he confirmed that an investigation is underway. i dont want him to disclose anything that would compromise the election. i want to ask the questions that ...

Saw it? >> yeah, ill stick to what i said before about prominent people should assume. >>. >> mr. director, was donald trump under investigation during the campaign? >> same answer as before. im not going to answer that. >> is he under investigation now? >> im not going to answer that. >> please dont overinterpret as what ive said as chair and ranking know. we have briefed them in great detail on the subjects of the investigation and what were doing but im not going to answer about anybody in th...

Extensive counterintelligence, could it influence the election in which donald trump was candidate, do you consider these number of connections between well-connected russians and donald trump, the trump organization, the trump family, and the trump campaign to be a coincidence or a convergence? >> im not going to answer, mr. swallow. >> from your perspective, have you ever seen in the history of american politics or since youve been alive any political candidate have this many connections, pers...

From san antonio toll d.c. >> later i learned did he it in guest and never thought i would accept et challenge. we ended up in a chevy impala for 1600 miles and 36 hours. brian: you tend to get along. where did you realize that you could come together, that you might even relay to the president if you have a chance with the speaker. where do you realize the rubber hits the road there is not going to be any convergence. of the things you did begin to converge on? >> go ahead. >> i think yesterday...

Have, having to do with pay for personnel, global operations and an unbelievable amount of accusation of various advanced level platforms. >> all right. lets talk about russia. david petraeus, what he had to say about the motives of russian president vladimir putin, lets listen here together. >> its very clear what vladimir putins objectives are. in many cases they are unacceptable to us and nato and our allies and partners around the world. having said that, there could be some convergence of i...

Russian contacts thats consuming the white house, the former head of the cia said its in u.s. interest to find areas of cooperation with russia wherever possible. he says the most important thing is to be realistic about goals. >> its very clear what vladimir putins objects are. in many cases they are unacceptable to us and nato and our allies around the world. having said that, there could be some convergence of interests when it comes to the defeat of the islamic state and al qaeda and stoppin...

Putins objectives are, in many cases they are unacceptable to us, nato, our allies and partners around the world. having said that, there could be some convergence on interests defeating the islamic state al qaeda and stopping the bloodshed in syria. >> could that be a spring board towards better relations, do you think? >> i would go into this with my eyes wide open. with very, very realistic appraisal of what russia has done and what putin would like to do. i think strategic dialogue with ones...