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Currently with the administration. >> yeah, and, in fact, one of the things we understand that the administration is nervous about is the comey memo that you mention that the senate and house demanded but the fbi is sort of dragging their feet on providing to the senate and house intel committees, that they might characterize in a way that priebus would not want his conversations with the fbi with both comey and comeys deputy director about a request that the fbi come out and sort of rebut some ...

They all thought, well, the fbi is working on this in this same territory. they have all the equipment. they have all the tools. they are going to do the best investigation. were just trying to get as much as we can out there to the public as soon as we can. but there is a much more powerful investigation going on kind of behind our backs. they dont necessarily feel that anymore. what are you hearing from those staffers, from those committee members who now have possibly a heavier responsibility...

Case of intel committees. er going the hear increasing calls for an independent commission or select committee with extra staff, some paid staff to do more investigative work. but i want to go back, i have been speaking to former fbi officials tonight about their concern that the intention here is to quash this investigation. there are two views of that. look, you cant do that, its political suicide. it would leak. the fbi is independent and its going to go where the evidence leads. heres the th...

Fbi director james comey back in the hot seat. today comey will testify behind closed doors on the russia investigation. it follows a day of stiff questioning before a senate hearing. heres a taste. >> is it fair to say the russian government is still involved in american politics? >> yes. >> is it fair to say we need to stop them from doing this? >> yes, fair to say. >> do you agree with me the only way theyre going to stop is for them to pay a price for interfering in our political process? >>...

>> they are saying no smoking gun. thats according to both republican and democratic sources on the senate and house intel committees. multiple lawmakers and aides have reviewed those documents that chairman nunes showed unproper masking of names and theres no evidence that obama administration officials did anything unusual or illegal. in fact, the sources personally viewed the classified documents at nsa headquarters in maryland and after finding what they call a, quote, normal and appropriate...

Received any additional resources. they have no additional staff they have no additional funding. if we think back to the benghazi committee, there were about 40 staffers, millions of dollars spent on that. this russia intervention in our do de -- democracy. both of intel committees are extremely busy and very short staffed already. theyve got very full plates. and so to put this on top of that and expect it to be a serious investigation, i think is imagination. >> i want to take a look at what ...

I guess i wouldnt be surprised, either. i think we just need a serious investigation and we need to go where the facts lead us or the investigators need to go where the facts lead them. i, as ive said, many times do not believe the congressional investigations so far are serious. >> why are they not serious. >> because neither of the intelligence committees have received any additional resources. they have no additional staff they have no additional funding. if we think back to the benghazi comm...

Im not sure thats an amateur hour. that may be a different motivation. so just as there doesnt seem to be -- i agree with joel that there is no proof or evidence that trump was the target of surveillance. there still remains to date that theres been no evidence of -- despite owl the dots all the do piece of paper, no ones connected them to show any actual collusion, cooperation or coordination with the russians in messaging in the campaign. >> how much longer can they survive this drip, drip, dr...

The president tookde to twittero defend former national security advisor michael flynn and the president tweeted, this comes after reports say that flynn is willing to testify in front of the house andft sene intel committees in exchange for immunity. joining us now with reaction, conservative commentator monica crowley and we continue with jay secular from a legal perspective. monaco, you were there with general flynn. what happened to him, i dont thinki any doubt that leaking this intelligence...

"if you guarantee this confidentiality, i need to share this information with you. you need to see this." this is what sources do in the right way. instead of leaking informationea to the press which as we know its a a felony. we have to make sure that that gets out there in terms of that. >> sean: well said. mercedes, we are going to lose you. thank you as always for being with us. jay stays with us. coming up after the break, former national security advisor michael flynn, general flynn, is of...