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Somebody catalog. >> thats astronomically high. 6 to 700 a week. dont give me this is all work related. unless you have the worlds best thumbs. this is an integrity issue. thats part of the problem. we talked about the texts. youre right, they werent all on official time, like making fun of trump people at the walmart. some of those were in your spare time. but i believe there is a credibility issue and thats probably one of the reasons mr. mueller decided to take you off this particular case. i...

Insulting. i am here under oath. i am not lying, have never lied under oath. the insinuation, not only the insinuation, direct comment saying you have an integrity issue is insulting. did i take offense. >> i never mentioned your personal life. i said the amount of time you were spending on the taxpayers dollar wasting it when youre supposed to be doing your job texting back and forth is a problem. >> the gentleman answered that question. the gentleman from maryland is recognized for five minute...

September gave you personally -- >> no. >> you the fbi information relative to the dossier. >> i never personally received dossier. the fbi in mid september, the first time i am aware of the fbi having that information, the first entitlementtime i saw it september. that came into the fbi. thats when i became aware of it and first read it. >> one more time. bruce orr gave the fbi documents relating to and supporting or part of the dossier, is that accurate? >> mr. orr gave the fbi documents that ...

Meddle in the election to help president trump win? >> i do not believe that ive seen that conclusion. what i do -- that the specific intent was to help president trump win. im not aware of that. but i do generally have no reason to doubt any intelligence assessment. i think what they are trying to do in my opinion, and i defer to the intel community, is disrupt our belief and our own understanding of what is it happening. it is an integrity issue of who is saying what or why and how that may or...

>> reporter: she came back to me afterwards and tried to say that, well, that russia tried to sow discord on both sides. and i said do you believe that russia tried to help donald trump win the presidency and she would not answer directly. >> what we have seen the russians do is attempt to manipulate public confidence on both sides, right? weve seen them encourage people to go to a protest on one side, weve seen them simultaneously go to the same protest on the other side. so i think what they a...

2017 conclusion from the intelligence community that said it was putin that orchestrated a campaign to help donald trump win the presidency. now, when i asked a secretary specifically about whether or not she agrees with that intelligence community assessment, she seemed to push back. >> secretary, to that point, do you have any reason to doubt the january 2017 intelligence community assessment that said it was peutin who tried to medde in the election? >> i do not believe ive seen that conclusi...

That level, there shouldnt be leaks, okay, fair point. are you worried about the president of the united states trying to undercut the legitimacy of a functioning process of our democracy which is this inquiry? doesnt that bother you as an integrity issue as well? >> look, i have said a bunch of times that i think the president ought to comply with the investigation. we ought to bring it to a close. if they cant find collusion with the russians, i dont think theres much political consequences he...

To ask for more whistle blowers. its the only way you can really get into the intelligence community. you have to have people bringing information to you. the second thing is it appears like a lot of these documents were that sensitive. the other concern, they were not national security issues. theres a good chance that they could probably or perhaps get these documents declassified so that we could all see what was in them. pete: boy, i think that would be interesting and it would inform the de...

20th is a policy. and people to execute that policy. i think part of the problem with flynn was he really was very much out there on his own. he was freelancing, having conversations, he wasnt being well briefed. >> heres the question. we know that flynn will speak at an rt conference in 2015, sat with vladimir putin at the event. if he was working on behalf of turkey, is it conceivable he could have been working for russia too? >> well, first lets get to the idea of this extreme vetting you wer...

Which didnt end well for him, theres the integrity issue. when you go to russia, as an intelligence officer, he was intelligence officer for most of his career. seems some how to think its okay to go to russia, its okay to sit next to vladimir putin, which doesnt happen by accident. its okay to get paid and associate with r.t., a propaganda outlet of the kremlin. i mean, how do you miss that? how do you figure, yeah, this is the guy i want to be doing this? that to me doesnt make a lot of sense....