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Co lugs. that was sort of to make the case the investigation was ovr. ment he told mitchell that he hasnt been briefed on the situation so he has no way to know. sean spicer saying its actually d and j clapper. ed, youre a former senior director at the national security counsel at the white house. talk again. when you hear that the president might have been recording conversations between themselves, whats your interaction. >> katy, its taken now more than 100 days, but i think i identified a ...

Are donald trump and his wife trying to influence the investigation. it may be in another tweet that he sent out, when james clapper and everyone else are not concluding this, when does it end? >> hes making a trump campaign and the russians snz what message is that sending? not only that, kristen welker former dna counsel was on with andrea mitchell at the 12:00 hour trying to clarify what he meant when he was talking and russia. he had in r this year view it would just be where clapper came on...

>> jim and i spoke briefly and he mentioned he had been invited to the white house for dinner with the president, and that he was uneasy of that, because even compromising the optics, the an answer of independence of not only him but the fbi. >> im sorry, that was about the dinner the director and donald trump had with both of them. james clapper was saying theres just no y that the fbi director would have told drumpd, a, that he was not under investigati investigation. kristen welker, the time ...

Firing-- >> michael flynnflynn -- sall t jatsajat -- >> reporter: but yates said it was much more than a heads up. she spoke with the white house three separate times, warning that the presidents closest advisor on national security was in danger of being blackmailed by russia. >> we felt it was critical that we get this information to the white house. in part because the white house was unknowingly making false statements to the public and because we believed that general flynn was compromised ...

Flash the picture of the president. the answer was not available when i asked. >> thanks. appreciate it. todays testimony by a former acting attorney general and james clapper was highly anticipated. what they said and the tweet storm it sparks from president trump next. at red lobsters seafood trios you dont have to choose just one thing. choose your trio with any 3 of 9 selections for $15.99. like new creamy lobster pasta toasted parmesan shrimp and southern-style crab cakes. come create you...

About it and so was jake clapper. >> its really a tale of two hearings, its democrats like yourself that were asking about any potential collusion in the election, and essentially all the republicans are asking about are leakings and we saw that again today, we saw that in the house and on the senate side. >> thats right, it is a tale of two hearings, except they are importantly for senator graham, some of the republicans and my hope is there will be more of them who will see what jim clapper de...

>> i cant speak to this specific situation. >> jim sciuto joins us, despite all these different topics, this was actually learning about russian interference in the u.s. election. >> reporter: general clapper confirmed this before that russian hackers targeted both republican and democratic party officials, but only leaked on the democrats. looking forward, agreement that russians will, they believe attack again and attack both parties, oddly we did not hear much about what to do about that in t...

President. >> and matthew, the president tweeted again a short time ago, director clapper reiterated what everybody already knows, there is no collusion with russia and trump. based on what he had seen on january 6 when he left, he saw no evidence. but he also didnt even know about the fbi counter intelligence investigation. >> clapper made it pretty clear that he was staying out of this. and we heard that from the white house too, that they saw the investigation as separate and they couldnt med...

Dont unmask it for everyone that got the report, just the person who unmasked it and theyre told not to share it. >> the issue here that has been raised, when he did this, it was routinely part of his job and there is a record of it. >> you had them focus on a core issue, which is the trump team and those in russia. they were focused on a grab bag of issues from e-mails to unmasking and you saw exasperation from jim clapper saying unmasking is an important issue, but not what we should be focuse...

Fbi building -- perp walked out of the fbi building. how implausible. if hillary clinton complains that comey cost her the election, then here you have trump firing comey for costing hillary the election. this doesnt make any sense. its clear this has been prepared for days, but why this way? and why was it done with malice? there would have been so many ways of having comey sort of stuff aside, say he was in an untenable position. in his defense, and i am somewhat sympathetic to him, i wouldnt ...