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Situation? >> are you looking halt me? >> yes, sir. >> i dont know. >> do you, miss yates? >> i cant speak to the specific situation but can i try to clarify one point on this unmasking thing. >> very quickly. >> ill try to do it quickly. as a consumer of intelligence, i would, for example, i would receive intelligence reports from various agent significance. >> i get that. >> oftentimes the names are already unmark of the by the intelligence agentit. >> bottom line is i want to know how it got ...

Intelligence assessment about the russian interference. >> david, you have the one bucket. collusion bucket with all of the threads. you have the other bucket. you could argue other than senate judiciary. it goes to the head of oversight. what can clapper and others direct the congress to in terms of what russia did to interfere and how they did it and what protections are needed? do you think the ball will get advanced on clapper today? >> it may. it is more likely, chris, that will get advance...

Sally yates and warnings about michael flynn compromised by the russians. question bs ws about why the wh house did not act sooner. yates will be limited on what she can say, but contradict the white house account. at the same time, the house and senate intelligence committees are sifting through information and struggling to come to consensus. also a sign this could take months and months to reach conclusion on the widespreading investigation. congressional investigators looking into russias ro...

>> again, would i have to do some research to verify that, but it certainly comports with what they chose a candidate, for whatever reason they had an aversion to they would do that. >> okay. general clapper, have you ever leaked information, classified or unclassified to a member of the press? >> not wittingly or knowingly as i said in my statement. >> classified or unclassified? >> well, unclassified is not leaking. unclassified -- >> -- thats somewhat of a non-sector. >> have you ever given i...

That help us or does that help russia? >> well, i guess it could be -- you could rationalize that helps the russians by obfuscating who was actually responsible. thank you very much, general clapper. thank you, miss yates. good to have you here. >> i want to thank both you and the ranking are member for -- for this years -- for these hearings. i want to thank general clapper and attorney general yates for -- for appearing today. fwlrm the intelligence communities have concluded, all 17 of them, ...

Questions why the white house did not act sooner to remove him from the job. at the same time, investigators on the house and senate intelligence committees say the investigation into russia could move into the fall if not next year with one lawmaker says the documents are taller than he is at 510". investigators looking into russias role into the 2016 elections. running into a range of challenges ahead of todays testimony from former acting attorney general sally yates and former head of the in...

Unconstitutional, and one of your colleagues said or even just that would reflect poorly on the department of justice, would i say no, and i looked at this, i made it a determination that i believed that it was unlawful. i also thought that it was inconsistent with principles of the department of justice and i said no, and thats what i promised you i would do and thats what i did. >> i dont know how you can say that it was lawful and say that it was within your prerogative to refuse to defend it...

Logistical arrangements for that. it occurred late in the afternoon. this is friday the 27th. so we told them we would work with the fbi over the weekend on this issue and get back with him on monday morning. and i called him tirs thing monday morning to let him know that we would allow them to come over and to review the underlying evidence. >> was that the phone call or a separate phone call? >> there was the phone call initially to let him know i needed to come see him. two meetings and then ...

Department of justice, but i was not aware of any, no. >> had you not been summarily fired, would you have recommended to the white house counsel that they begin further investigations into the national security adviser or that they restrict his access to sensitive and classified information. >> well, its a bit of a hypothetical. had i remained at the department of justice and if i were under the impression that nothing had been done, then, yes, are would i have raised it again with the white ho...

Good situation, which is why we wanted to let the white house know about it. >> the guardian has reported that britains intelligence service first became aware in late 2015 of suspicious interactions between trump advisers and russian intelligence agents. this information was passed on to u.s. intelligence agencies. over the spring of 2016, multiple european allies passed on additional information to the united states about contacts between the trump campaign and russians. >> i cant answer that....