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Little weaselly, it looks like to me, with all due respect to their position. a lot of people feel that the house intelligence committee is an oxymoron after the vote on health care. [laughter] a little dressed. but what exactly are you guys investigating? i need to know from the chairman. what exactly are you investigating? >> we have long had an investigation going on on russia. a year ago, i said the biggest intelligence failure since 9/11 was the failure to understand putins plan and intenti...

This. especially the age didnt especially fit of the profile of what you see of terrorists in europe, but, you know, its really hard for the security services and the police on this because they have to track so many people. theres 3,000 people on the intelligence radar that the british domestic intelligence service think could be potential terrorists. khalid masood obviously was on the radar at some point but slipped off. thats not necessarily an intelligence failure. its -- this isnt an exact ...

That break not only protocol but break the law. clayton: thats what bob woodward had said yesterday. americans caught incidentally in these surveillance schemes, their names have to be protected. they have to be masked. >> exactly. clayton: why would were they unmasked. this is what bob woodward said yesterday. i want to get your comments. >> the idea that there was intelligence failure here is really thin. its, again, down the middle. its not what trump said, but this could be criminal on the p...

A year ago, i called the failure to understand putins plans and intentions the largest intelligence failure since 9/11. >> bret: speaker ryan reported to the report done by former dni clapper and former cia director brandon about this topic and that there was not an indication of collusion, collaboration, or communication beyond michael flynn. can you go beyond that? >> thats the case from the briefing. we have had briefings since then and that is still a -- still is the case. what got this is t...

Intentions the largest intelligence failure since 9/11. >> bret: speaker ryan reported to the report done by former dni clapper and former cia director brandon about this topic and that there was not an indication of collusion, collaboration, or communication beyond michael flynn. can you go beyond that? >> thats the case from the briefing. we have had briefings since then and that is still a -- still is the case. what got this going is three american names were in a "new york times" story two w...

Speaking? >> no, lets not. there would be no evidence of that nor is there any evidence that i have been given about trump advisor speaking to russians. we do know for a long time that the russians have been very interested in manipulating elections, manipulating the press. they are very good at propagand propaganda. that is what caused me a year ago to come out and criticized the intelligence agencies for the largest intelligence failure since 9/11, because of the lack of good intelligence that...

House and ask, you know, what conversations actually occurred. but i dont think very many. i think they were pretty simple. >> reporter: can you give us an idea of how far along you are in the investigation? >> just to make sure you understand, what caused me to go out a year ago and say the biggest intelligence failure since 9/11 was our failure to understand putins plans and intentions, what caused that was because we were constantly investigating the russia problems. so all were d is were add...

Evidence of that nor is there any evidence that ive been presented about trump advisers speaking to russians. but we do know for a long time that the russians have been very interested in manipulating elections, manipulating the press. theyre very good at propaganda. and so -- i mean, thats what caused me a year ago to come out and criticize the intelligence agencies for the largest intelligence failure since 9/11 because of the lack of good intelligence we were getting on putins plans and inten...

>> reporter: im just asking -- >> there would be no evidence of that, nor is there any evidence ive been presented about trump advisers speaking to the russians. but we do know for a long time that the russians have been very interested in manipulating elections, manipulating the press, theyre very good at propaganda. so thats what caused me a year ago to come out and criticize the intelligence agencies for the largest intelligence failure since 9/11 because of the lack of good intelligence that...

Allies of america that sent foreign fighters to iraq? wheres pakistan, wheres afghanistan? thats goofy that preposition that this is based on people saying these countries are the threat to america. >> allison, i cant help but laugh at that comment because the reality is, i lived through an intelligence failure with the attack. we do not want to be on the wrong side to react to a problem that might be developing and to sit and say its a funny preposition, clearly you have an intelligence officer...