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The nature of any links between individuals associated with the trump campaign and the russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russias efforts. we have taken the extraordinary step in coordination with the department of justice of briefing this congresss leaders including the leaders of this committee. in a classified setting in detail about the investigation. but i cant go into those details here. some folks may want to make comparisons to past instanc...

Both had been wiretapped by president obama. im not going to ask you to whether the chancellor was the subject of eavesdropping, but i would like to ask you if snowden disclosures that damaged our relationship with our german ally and whether chancellor herself expressed concern at the time. >> yes, sir. >> in light of this, is it helpful to our relationship with the chancellor or our relationship with german intelligence to bring this up again in a public forum? >> its certainly complicating th...

Court, if their opponent is a corporation. >> okay, but in that case -- >> the real question for that hearing is he going to saddle up with him and recreate the gang of five and keep going on with this highly partisan bayeehavio. >> in that case, if its all about the math, youre not going to ever approve any of president trumps nominees? >> nope, it means it puts the burden on him to convince us that hes not going to ride along with that posse and that he will actually stand as an independent ju...

But it will continue until folks come clean. >> rick, whats your opinion? which is closer to the truth? >> well, theres no chance that barack obama wiretapped trump tower. i think thats been pretty well established. if the president had evident on that, he should have offered it up instead of tweeting it out. did the trump campaign collude with the russians? theres no evidence of that either. but, you know, that remains to be seen. well see how it evolves. what trump did is guarantee people will...

Week it gets more confusing. the president admits that she had nothing to do with libya, didnt know anything about d it, yet she was sent out as the administrations spokeswoman, and she st ays that she relied n four sentences of unclassified talking points. now, if that were true, that would be the height of irresponsibility. she has access to all the classified top secret information and to think that you were going on five national shows relying on four sentences makes no sense. she had to hav...

Of fbi director comey at mondays hearing. heres a sample. >> knowing what we know now, would the fbi have done anything different in trying to notify the dnc of what happened? >> oh, sure. >> what measures would you have had done differently? >> wed have sent up a much larger flare. wed have just kept banging and banging on the door. >> one of many intriguing questions asked by the congressman. thank you for joining us. what do you think the major developments were from the hearing yesterday, an...

Is one in a series of hearings that will be happening. >> reporter: president trumps official government twitter account firing off defensive tweets in realtime, throughout the hearing. leading one lawmaker to press comey to clarify the record. >> is the tweet, as i read it to you, the nsa and fbi tell congress that russia did not influence the electoral process, is that accurate? >> weve offered no opinion, have no view sw, have no information on potential impact, because its never something we...