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Hes somebody who takes a lot of meetings all the time. time is our most precious resource when youre at that level, anderson, and you dont want to have your time wasted. >> the ranking member of the house intelligence committee has said thaemts the committee to interview donald trump jr. i assume you would like that as well. is there something in particular you would like to ask him? >> i certainly support our ranking member. we want to interview all relevant witnesses. we want to find out any w...

Relevant witnesses and review other relevant documents, but we just want to know if people were talking to the russians at the time of their interference campaign, what they were up to, what the russians were up to, and then well draw conclusions after that. >> what do you make of him saying he had a meeting with kislyak and the guy gordon was there, the naval commander. i think a credible witness who talked about it. then they had all these meetings about how to improve russian relations, deal ...

Him. what do you make of comments the los angeles times reported he made at a fund-raiser. these were made shortly after he was ousted as chair of the select intelligence committee. devin nunes saying the democrats dont want an investigation on russia. they want an independent commission? why? because they want to continue the narrative that vladimir putin and donald trump are best friends and thats the reason he won because hillary clinton would have never lost on their own. it has to be someon...

Dont want an investigation on russia. they want an independent commission? why? because they want to continue the narrative that vladimir putin and donald trump are best friends and thats the reason he won because hillary clinton would have never lost on their own. it has to be someones fault. he says they tried to destroy the investigation. theyve never been serious about it. essentially blaming the democrats on the committee for just trying to use this investigation to hurt donald trump and ex...

>> cant say yes or no to that. however, we did hear last week from former director brennan that part of the russia way is to seek to influence people in the united states. and we heard also through directors comey and rogers that they do this whether its through financial entanglements or what they can use with embarrassing or illegal behavior they can use against them. at this point we want to investigate whether this exists. i hope were back on track as republicans and democrats on the house c...

Youve got jared kushner. were showing all these incredible pictures of how close he was to this president. what value would he be to your investigation if he were to talk to y honestly? >> well, again, chris, i dont want to go into who our witnesses are. >> no. if he were to be a witness, what would he tell you? >> yeah. we just want to know if any witness was communicating with russia, was involved in the interference campaign that they were running, you know, had information about what the cam...

First i want to get your reaction to the naming of a special counsel. >> its welcome news. this investigation was disrupted last week when president trump fired the chief investigator, director comey. i hope this say way to get that investigation back on track and that the american people can learn whether anyone in the united states worked with russia during its interference campaign. >> called for an independent commission to investigate russian interference. is that no longer necessary? >> mo...

Reaction to the naming of a special council in the russian investigation. >> its welcome news, anderson. this investigation was disrupted last week when president trump fired the chief investigator, director comey. i hope this say way to get that investigation back on track and that the american people can learn whether anyone in the united states worked with russia during its interference campaign. >> you called for an independent commission to investigate russian interference. is that no longe...

Lives. so i think a line was crossed and we need to know now, in congress, just exactly what was told and what does this mean for the future of information sharing with allies and for the troops are serving abroad. >> congressman, its willie geist, good to see you up early for us in california this morning, good to see you. youre on the house intel committee. what are your specific concerns about what president trump admitted to doing, which is communicating this information to the russian forei...

Comey. how do you ask when that? >> i would feel a lot better about all this if donald trump is morning wasnt meeting with vladimir putins top aide and the person who supposedly helped run the interference campaign in the american campaign and the spymaster for the russian government and the united states. the optics of this, a private meeting with no photographs, somebody who -- right now, donald trump is morning met with the guy who is considered to be the intelligence chief for the russian go...