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Democrat congressman back in his home. a member of the intelligence committees. congressman, thank you for joining us on this day of faster moving developments. i this i you were listening in to what you heard from senator burr. give me your reaction. whats your takeaway? >> senator burr was measured in his response. i do disagree with the chairman. i think this raises questions of obstruction. quite honestly, this is somebody in director comey who five weeks ago had announced that members of pr...

The acting director was at the center of ethics questions. white house chief of staff reince priebus asked the fbi to push back at "new york times" report that trump campaign associates had repeated contacts with russian intelligence. the fbi never gave that public defense but the white house claims mccabe personally told priebus there was nothing to that "new york times" story, which the chief of staff took as a green light to issue this denial. >> i can tell you, i talked to top levels of the ...

Senator paul raises an important question that i think will carry on for weeks. >> sean: sara, welcome back from vacation. good to see you, john. senator, this is beyond chilling. what did you hear and when you hear the numbers of john and his sara, what does that tell you? >> it is mind-boggling. sources have been telling us for a couple months now that they believe the obama administration was spying on other presidential candidates other than trump and that it may be politically motivated. i ...

Answers to those questions. senator paul raises an important question that i think will carry on for weeks. >> sean: sara, welcome back from vacation. good to see you, john. senator, this is beyond chilling. what did you hear and when you hear the numbers of john and his sara, what does that tell you? >> it is mind-boggling. sources have been telling us for a couple months now that they believe the obama administration was spying on other presidential candidates other than trump and that it may ...

He was not active in briefings. he wasnt getting security information, but he was sharing information from russian intelligence. thats what sally yates went and warned the trump white house about. so you know, i think the real issue is why is it that president trump did not seem to care at all about michael flynns subversive connections with russia until it became public that he lied to the vice president and embarrassed the vice president so much that he had to essentially fire him? so, you kno...

And politicizing it is one way for them to do it. look, to your point, he might not have had any pause about hiring general flynn, but i bet he has a lot of regrets about it now. we were talking about it off camera with the panel of four, but general flynn is a story that doesnt go away. its like friday the 13th. every time you think jason is dead, he pops right back to life to terrorize the unsuspecting teens at crystal lake, and thats what general flynn is for them, and this problem isnt going...

Our intelligence committees to find out so they dont impact future elections. susan rice was invited, was all know now under pretenses that suggested this was a committee invite. it was not. it was one senators invite. therefore, she declined. >> yes. >> if a republican were invited under false pretenses, if the departments were in the majority they would probably be doing the same thing. >> cory booker came on last night and told me i wish she would come and testify. lindsay grahams a straight ...

There are inspector general investigation. everybody in washington is waiting for the conclusion of the senate intelligence committees look at this stuff. nothing needs to move forward on russia, sanctions or any of this stuff until comey and his team have concluded their work. he still has the football. >> shannon: one thing that hasnt gotten a lot of attention that i wanted to bring up that i think that senator grassley the chairman of the senate judiciary committee sent a letter last week. it...

Joining me now is john mclachlan, acting director of cia now at johns hopkins university. from everything were hearing from the intelligence community and even from republicans, and democrats on the intelligence committees, this just didnt happen. what -- how do you explain the disconnect the president still seems to believe that president obama somehow surveilled him? >> its a complete mystery to me when i reread what the intelligence community said with my confidence. its very hard to deny tha...

Would derive some of that information. i know there is a big difference between opening an investigation and coming to begin win conclusions. so asking for a new investigation does not necessarily mean theyre going to turn up anything new and you already have the intelligence committees particularly in the senate looking aggressively at these questions. im not quite so sure what new information will come through the department of defense that is not available to the intelligence committees that ...