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Intelligence leader, was under fire from some of his democratic colleagues from having exceeded to the white house and made calls to reporters to try to offset what was being reported by the "new york times" and others about the russian investigation. >> reporter: thats right, andrea. what you just saw unfold which was a 40-plus minute press conference, pretty unusual event on capitol hill, was aimed at doing exactly that. he was coming here to say, hey look, im transparent with you, i talked to...

Same team. vladimir putin is not on our team. >> go ahead and react to, that congressman. >> i would agree with him. we are all on the same team and vladimir putin and people who would hack into an american elections are not on our team. and i think that, again, moving forward and looking at the presidents 90-day deadline for coming up with solutions, i think thats a positive thing. it might be something also where it will white house, the current presidents team could sit down with the presiden...

Any credibility on julian assange in a tweet. casting doubt on this intelligence community assessment that russia was behind the hacking and john mccain asked jim clapper whether he put into credibility in julian assange and james clapper said no, he did not. he was backed up by the other leaders who were at that table in that hearing room. we should point out what he played in the story that the director of national intelligence went as far as to say he doesnt mind a healthy skepticism. the pre...

Hacks by today. the congressman tweeting this week real donald trump promises new info about russian hacking. next week, what really happened at roswell. the director of national intelligence he is not scheduled to be where trump is until later in the week. >> once the final report on the current situation in russia is made final by the intelligence community they have asked for members of the intelligence community. >> officials noting that until now trumps team has not scheduled a meeting with...

>> until now trumps team has not scheduled a meeting with the heads of the top intelligence agencies. president obama met with the intelligence leader shortly after being elected in 2008. for months trump continued to cast doubts over the conclusion reached by 17 u.s. intelligence agencies that russia was behind the election cyberattacks. >> it could be somebody else. >> it could be russia but also china and lots of other people. it could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds. ...

>> youre the top democrat in the house intelligence committee. you get access to a lot of intelligence. the chairman of the committee is part of donald trumps transition team right now. do you have confidence that, in the trump transition team, to appoint qualified men and women to these top intelligence positions? >> i have a lot of confidence in devin nunez. i think hes a very thoughtful, pragmatic, non-idealogical, intelligence leader. and i think he wants to see an intelligence core that is ...

Taliban commander was inside. that jibes with what reports that i was receiving shortly after the strike, that they thought that the taliban was inside the hospital at the time. in fact they said they were shooting out at the time. they believed he was killed in the strike, that pakistani intelligence leader, but theres no evidence of that. shep. also mounting evident from the cockpit recordings that the pilots knew it was a hospital and questioned whether they were authorized to strike. >> i li...

Hostage taker. we know one police officer took a pellet to the face. the police officer has a bullet proof vest will protect them pretty good. you can see on the video at least three bursts of police gunfire as they enter. they are engage d with the gunman. hes shooting back. an officer injured. thats happening in the brief few seconds. >> what could lead up knowing it happened in the 17th hour at 3:00 a.m. theres the advantage of all this time in the middle of the night, the fatigue that happen...

On the u.s. senate floor earlier today, he said the president should replace his entire national security team and put retired army general david petraeus in charge. here is more of what senator mccain says. >> iraq is a far away place. but ask any intelligence leader in this country and that leader will tell you that this poses a takeover of iraq and the iraq-syria area, which is now the largest concentration of kd al qaeda in human rights is a direct threat to the united states of america. at ...

There we dont know the about that would be violating our privacy? >> we need to make those reforms i just outlined. what was troubling about what james clapper did is he wouldnt even correct it after the fact. in other words, this issue has been put in the public square not by the congress but by ineffective intelligence leader. they stated something in a public hearing that was flag grantley inaccurate. do you still have confidence in clapper? >> i think we need an upgrade in the intelligence l...