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Fell in that category of vulnerable to blackmail? >> certainly any time russians have compromising information on you youre certainly vulnerable to blackmail. >> let me ask general clapper. youre looked at a lot of these. the case of senior government officials, if they have hidden financial information things that are normally disclosed when they take a senior official position, is that an area where they could be black mailed, if its discovered. >> why i, of course. and is it your experience t...

Before. senator graham, you may have misunderstood me. you asked me if i was aware of any evidence of collusion. i declined to answer because answering would reveal classify information. i believe thats the same answer that director comey gave to the committee when he was asked the question as well. he made clear and i make clear that you shouldnt draw from that assumption that the answer is yes. >> okay. >> this illustrates what i was trying to get at in my statement about the unique position t...

Unconstitutional and one of your colleagues said would reflect poorly on the department of justice would i say no. i looked at this and i made a determination that i believed it was unlawful and i thought it was inconsistent of principles of the department of justice and i said no. thats what i promised you i would do and i did. >> i dont know how you can say it was unlawful and left it for the courts to decide. >> i did not say it was lawful. i said it was unlawful. >> i have one quick question...

Was there unmasking of the situation? >> are you looking at me? >> yes her. >> i dont know. >> do you, ms. yates? >> i cant speak to the specific situation. can i clarify one point on the unmasking thing. as a consumer of intelligence, i would receive intelligence reports from various agents. often times the names are already unmasked by the intelligence agents. >> the bottom line is, i want to know how it got to "the washington post" ." somebody had to have access to the information, and they g...

Would arrange, for example, for me to talk on background with reporters about a particular issue, to educate them about that, no, ive certainly never provided classified information and that would be the only kind of background information. >> do you know -- >> i have done the same thing, but certainly not -- that doesnt -- doesnt include sharing classified information. >> do you know anybody else of justice who has ever leaked classified or unclassified information to the press? >> no. >> miss ...

To get very much out because anything that is pertinent would be classified and would have to be given in a private session. we have already had meetings with sally yates. we meet with comey, rogers, clapper a number of times in executive sessions, private sessions. so i dont know really what more we could get out of it at this stage. what i would be asking general clapper is that as far as he knew as director of national intelligence, there is no evidence of any collusion between the trump camp...

Two-pronged campaign since this investigation began. obstruction and distraction. it makes it very difficult to go forward, but we will go forward. >> do you believe that someone in the white house, someone on the white house staff actually gave the information, which the next day, he then discussed publicly and actually went to see the president and reported that information to the president? >> that information could have come from any number of sources. we have absolutely no way of knowing. o...

Classified conversations. >> unauthorize disclosures. its very, very hard. oftentimes it doesnt come from the people who actually know the secrets. it comes from one hop-out. people who heard about it or were told about it, and thats the reason so much information that reports to be accurate -- classified information is wrong in the media. people that heard about it, dont hear about it right. it is an enormous problem whenever you find information that is actually classified. >> if possible, pro...

Where more information would come out. but there are a few things that i hope we hear about. first, many of us have been asking a fundamental question, which is any americans cooperated or conspired with the russians who interfered with the 2016 presidential election. what i would like for the director to discuss in open session is whether anybody is being investigated, whether any americans are being investigated because of that. and then also, basically the scope of the investigation, and then...

To. ed, let me start with you. i know you didnt hear the entire press conference but you heard the clip we played earlier. >> yep. >> the president standing by his claims. does he owe the american people an explanation, an apology? do you think hes right to continue to stand by these claims? fox newsust put out a statement saying, because some of what he was -- they were citing yesterday was based on a fox analyst, a fox commentator. fox news knows of no evidence of any kind that the now preside...