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Believe -- the people to know about their president in order to investigate conflicts of interest. hes talking about tax reforms. the tax reforms need to be for everybody, not just for him. >> all right. so thats on the issue of conflicts of interest. what gives you the specific authority to get those tax returns? how do you get around sort of the privacy interests of a citizen? >> well, we certainly want to -- we dont want to violate anyones privacy. but the rule and the law of 1924 right after...

In a republican-dominated house. but is your request, then, to the treasury department who i guess would have sort of custody of the returns, or is your request to president trump under that law? >> it goes to the treasury department through the chairman of the three committees, either ways and means, the senate finance committee, or the joint committee on taxation. then they would decide in executive session if that -- if those should be made public. thats what the law says. the law is on our s...

I hope -- i dont want director comey to speed up the investigation but i hope it can be finished so well find out exactly what happened. so far as i know, there is no real evidence of collusion between the russians and the trump campaign. >> so why do you think the fbi director has launched since july -- you say youve known him for a long time -- your committee chairman says he has only known about it for a couple of weeks. why has it been going on since july? >> sometime in the last month direc...

Shoulder-to-shoulder with his republican counter part and his republican counter part has basically affirmed theres nothing there on the wiretap charge and kept these questions and the legitimacy of an investigation into the russian-trump team contacts alive. >> ari, again, this is all viewers leading up to what we expect to be a 10:00 a.m. start here in a couple of minutes. do we expect comey to say, perhaps that question is better answered in executive session? this is the intelligence committ...

Again, the viewers guide today will be the fbi directors not wanting to go into great detail. he may say that some things have to be answered in executive session. he may take a pass entirely. here you have it from the real donald trump, james clapper and others stated there is no evidence po dus colluded with russia. this is fake news and everyone knows it. the democrats made up and pushed the russian story. big advantage in the electoral college and lost. finally, the real story that congress,...

Confirm or deny it. its the worst kept secret, cnn reported theres a counter fbi looking into it. this is an open hearing. i would be shocked if he admits theres one and discusses it in detail. >> what if they go into executive session? >> good point but thats different, but i dont think youre going to see that on cnn in open forum. >> im not done with you, but russian spies have been indicted for this massive hacking of yahoo e-mail accounts. also ahead the republican health care bill in seriou...

On the fourth monday of this still new presidency, this new presidency has claimed its first victim, michael flynn, former u.s. army three-star general, intelligence specialist most of his adult life who became the national security advisor to the president. he is now the former national security advisor. a dust-up, a ruckus over russia has done him in. interestingly, some have already observed tonight this leaves him vulnerable should senators mccain and graham, to name two on the republican si...

Became the national security adviser to the president is now the former national security adviser. a dustup, a ruckus over russia, has done him in. interestingly, some have already observed tonight, this leaves him vulnerable should senators mccain and graham, to name two on the republican side of the u.s. senate, senate foreign relations, should they have some questions for him. now that he is no longer an employee of the west wing. there is no executive privilege that would bar him, i dont bel...

Has done him in. interestingly, some have already observed tonight, this leaves him vulnerable should senators mccain and graham, to name two on the republican side of the u.s. senate, senate foreign relations, should they have some questions for him. now that he is no longer an employee of the west wing. there is no executive privilege that would bar him, i dont believe, from raising his right hand and swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, to direct questions on...

Has done him in. interestingly, some have already observed tonight this leaves him vulnerable should senators mccain and graham, to name two on the republican side of the u.s. senate, senate foreign relations, should they have some questions for him now that he is no longer an employee of the west wing, there is no executive privilege that would bar him, i dont believe, from raising his right hand and swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth to direct questions on th...