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Enforcement, and in your judgment, it is up to law enforcement to test, probe, corroborate, contradict, otherwise investigate the full nature of that information you passed on. is that a fairway to put it? >> yes, it is. because it is not cias job to make a determination about whether a u.s. person is cooperate being, colluding or whatever in some type of criminal or illegal matter. it is our responsibility to give the bureau everything that they need in order to follow that path and make such a...

I ent. i never was a prosecutor so i really dont do evidence. i do intelligence. throughout the course of my career. as an intelligence professional, what we try to do is to make sure that we provide all relevant information to the bureau if there is an investigation under way that they are looking into criminal activity. as i mentioned in my opening statement, i was convinced in the summer that the russians were trying to interfere in the election. and they were very aggressive. it was a multi-...

Thank you for your service. i have a number of questions i know in an open setting you wont be able to answer, so im looking forward to the closed session. but to the extent you can answer in this setting, you were asked what the elements of russian active measures in the campaign of the election were. so are these -- can you be any more specific than your answer with her, about what they were doing, what you saw? >> i think theyre all chronicled in the unclassified community assessment, in term...

News stories that tried to denigrate secretary clinton. it was a mixture of prone begpa. it was sicybercollectio collect. it was the release of information seen as damaging to one of the candidates that they were trying to harm. >> so you said a moment ago that you dont believe theyll be deterred from engaging in activity like this in the future. do you think they would attempt to influence the 2018 midterm elections? >> i have, unfortunately, drudging respect for russian intelligence capabiliti...

Everything and could provide transcript of that meeting. is that just further efforts to weaken the president? disrupt our political process? how do you explain those events? >> lot of questions there, mr. schiff. first point i would like to make is that i shared classified information with the russians while i was director of cia. cia on a routine basis shares classified information with russians on terrimatter it doesnt mean that it becomes unclassified. it means that it retains the classifica...

Further provide to you information related to that. but my understanding is that this committee has access to the documents that we would have provided to the bureau. >> all right. last question because im out of time. we can use the word evidence. we both know what the other one is talking about. how did you test, probe, examine, cross examine, otherwise test the reliabity or believability, credibility of that evidence you uncovered? >> i made sure that the components within cia that have respo...

>> i encountered and am aware of information and intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions between russian officials and u.s. persons involved in the trump campaign. that i was concerned about because of known russian efforts to suborn such individuals, and it raised questions in my mind, again, whether or not the russians were able to gain the cooperation of those individuals. i dont know whether or not such collusion -- thats your term -- such collusion existed. i dont know. but i k...

Needs to be handled the right way and it needs to make sure that it is not exposed. he didnt do that, again, if the press charges are accurate. secondly, before sharing any classified intelligence with foreign partners, it needs to go back to the originating agency to make sure that the language in it is not even just providing the substance going to reveal sources and methods and compromise the future collection capability. so it appears as though, at least from press reports, that neither did ...

The language that was being used. but it would have been that internal interagency process that then resulted in the intelligence community assessment. that is the traditional way that these assessments are drafted, are coordinated, and are published. >> without even getting into the final conclusion, if there were other evidence though that indicated contrary, should that have been listed or not? >> youre dealing with a lot of information when you put together an intelligence assessment. it com...

Trump campaign and russian state actors? >> as i said, mr. gowdy, i dont do evidence. and we were uncovering information and intelligence about interactions and contacts between u.s. persons and the russians, and as we came upon that, we would share it with the bureau. >> i appreciate that you dont do evidence, director brennan. unfortunately, thats what i do. thats what i use. i use the word evidence. the good news for me is lots of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle use the word evid...