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Information for folks who potentially only get their news off a twitter feed or a facebook news feed. and that raises serious questions, even beyond this investigation. so with that, i again want to thank the chairman for the cooperation weve had. and i think i speak on behalf of all the committee members. the most important thing we want to let you know is were going to get this right and follow all the intelligence. happy to take your questions. >> yeah, well take your questions. let me set th...

Cancelled a tuesday public hearing, where several officials from the obama administration era were set to testify, including sally yates, top justice department official, who apparently had some information, believing that the former trump national security adviser, michael flynn, could have been vulnerable to potential blackmail from the russians. that testimony were probably going to hear on tuesday. it was abruptly canceled, because mr. nunes said he wanted to hear in a private setting from o...

Information. and part of that is the normal course, i think, of the intelligence community having concerns. and i think weve earned their trust. but it continues -- >> [ inaudible ] one is that paul manafort has written to the community and i understand his lawyers have been talking to your staff trying to set up his interview. can you tell us whether that has happened already? and secondly from a logistical standpoint, hearing that people go and read some of these documents at the cia, for inst...

Going on. >> senator warner, can you give us a sense of the scale of what the russians allegedly did the terms of number ofs of people and the different facets of the -- that? >> let me start off on that. i think -- we know about the hacking and the selective leaking of information. but as a former tech guy, what really concerns me is at least some reports, and weve got to get to the bottom of this, that there were upwards of a thousand paid internet trolls working out of a facility in russia, i...

Intelligence community knows, some have been very responsive, some less so. but to do our job, we have to have this information. >> and let me answer on behalf of the agencies. not every document that an agency holds is the product of that agency. so, it is impossible from a legal standpoint for one agency to provide us another agencys document, so the faster we can work through who has ownership rights, the quicker we can ask the appropriate agency for a specific document. let me go right here....

Convention or the way the president constantly refuses to criticize putin. is that part of what youre looking at? >> thats not in the scope of the investigation. ill leave that up to you guys to report. yes, maam? has the white house or the doj or anybody blocked sally yates from giving you guys information [ inaudible ]? >> i would like to see miss yates at some point. i did see her white house comment from the white house spokesman yesterday, that he said that they would be happy to have her t...

Bipartisan reform at the end of this investigation? >> let me start with the second part of your question. absolutely, in terms of bipartisan. if we dont come to some joint conclusion, with the manipulation that took place in the election and with the spirit of kuf the american people saying, whats going on here, i think we would not fulfill our duty. on the first question, i see no evidence. and i think one of the things that mr. kushner volunteering to testify was a good sign, but, ive said re...

We also, if the chairman has mentioned it, are starting to talk to some of those analysts who helped put together this report. and in many ways, we want to find out what was potentially left on the cutting room floor that may not have met the full levels of confidence, but still might be worthy of further looking. and as the chairman mentioned a number of those interviews are scheduled. the intelligence community, for the most part, in terms of access to people, has been very cooperative. on som...

Five and a half hours to inform anyone? >> well, i think what -- there are a lot of people involved in the decisions and in the process. of course, everyone needed to get informed and in line to make the announcement. but i actually agree with you. absolutely everybody -- i can assure you, all of bp -- want to move on with this as quickly as we can and get this flow stopped and we need to make sure we get you guys information as quickly as we can. hopefully we can get it faster next time. >> so ...

Everyone, absolutely everybody, and i can assure you that all of bp want to move on with this as quickly as we can to get this flow stopped, and we need to make sure we get you guys information as quickly as we can, and hopefully we can get it faster next time. >> are the q 14 and the other producers shut down as well? >> no, they are capturing oil. so the q-4,000 on a typical day will capture 8,000 barrels. as of late this morning, the helix producer was up to a rate of 12,000 barrels a day. of...