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Heres a quick look at throws. most high-profile probes are actually happening in congress. the house and senate are both leading inquiries within their intelligence committees. the house oversight committee which revealed former national security advisor mike flynns links to foreign sources is conducting its own review, along with a judiciary committee in the upper chamber. meanwhile, the defense department has also confirmed they are looking into michael flynn while the fbi conducts a sweeping ...

Investigations in their intelligence committees. there are also subsidiaries investigations in the senate judiciary committee which brought us the sally yates testimony last week and the house sight in the oversight committee which brought at us revelation that former national security adviser mike flynn spaernl concealed his payments from foreign sources. that led to revelation about further investigations. the defense department confirming this area looking into at least the part of this scand...

>> the washington post says something very similar. the washington post says its withholding the details, including the name of the city at the urging of the cities -- >> we did the same. >> doing so would hamper the intelligence committees. were getting this statement from the house speaker paul ryan, quote, we have no way to know what was said but protect tekting our nations secret is paramount. the speaker is hoping for a full explanation from the administration. >> this is going to show you ...

Committee or the senate intelligence committee or either of the intelligence committees sub the presidents phone? >> yes. it becomes a part of the presidential records. and so, yeah. and, joy, we are going to do everything in our power, if there is a tape, if there is a tape, to get that tape. this whole situation with regard to this conversation is very significant with regard to the investigation, with regard to russia, to collusion and things of that nature. so we need to know and we need to ...

Tv hosts and commentators, like jeffrey toobin and among others. let me be very specific. richard nixon during watergate ordered the attorney general to fired the special prosecutor. and he refused. here, the deputy attorney general writes a memorandum urging the attorney general and president to fire the fbi director. he attaches it to a letter endorses it, and the president of the united states fired him. it has nothing to do with watergate but of course the media and the democrats, one in the...

S its been a steady refrain theres no there there. today it went beyond that. the deputy press secretary suggesting investigators have all but reached such a conclusion. jim sciutto joins us on the fact check. you spoke today to members of congress leading bone the house and senate investigations. what did they say? >> the white house claim is untrue. i reached out to both the republican chairman of the senate intelligence committee, richard burr, and the ranking democrat on that committee who g...

Reports sur fashioned that white house chief of staff reince priebus asked the fbi to push back at a "new york times" report that trump campaign associates had repeated contacts with russia intelligence. the fbi never gave that public defense, but the white house claims mccabe personally told priebus that there was nothing to "the new york times" story which the chief of staff used as a green light to issue this denial. >> i can tell you ive talked to the top levels of the intelligence community...

Trump and russia. its been a steady refrain theres no there there. today it went beyond that. the deputy press secretary suggesting investigators have all but reached such a conclusion. jim sciutto joins us on the fact check. you spoke today to members of congress leading both the house and senate investigations. what did they say? >> the white house claim is untrue. i reached out to both the republican chairman of the senate intelligence committee, richard burr, and the ranking democrat on that...

Thank you. >> will the new director of the fbi be in charge of the russian investigation? that question will be asked tomorrow at a senate russian intelligence meeting where the acting director of the meeting andrew mckay will appear. nbc news reported today that the senior congressional official with direct knowledge told nbc news that james comey briefed congress in recent days that he had requested more staff and money for the russia investigation from deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. ...

This investigation has been going on. i just want to correct that. she is not the vice chair of that committee. that committee doesnt have a vice chair. only intelligence committees have vice chairs. she is the senior ranking democrat on the judiciary committee. now those subpoenas being issued in a criminal investigation, theyre being issued in a criminal investigation. theyre not congressional subpoenas. the federal prosecutor. and those subpoenas are even more chilling than the subpoenas issu...