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Lies he made about president obama and tweeting further lies. we need him to be a president. there are too many questions about his involvement, his teams involvement with russia as the interference campaign went on that we should suspend any changes towards russia, lets put on the brakes with respect to the supreme courts nomination but thats the senates business. >> do you have confidence in devin nunes ability to steer this investigation into any impartial manner whatsoever? >> right now we h...

Just the deep personal political financial ties that donald trump and his team has with russia. we want to now know, did these ties extend to helping russia during the interference campaign and are we seeing dramatic changes in foreign policy toward russia because we owe russia something? because they helped these individuals. >> given that, are you going to subpoena paul manafort to appear in front of this committee? >> our investigation will not be complete if he does not testify. he should be...

Congressman eric swalwell. first, can you react to the chair of your committee saying he has never heard of roger stone? >> the evidence shows the contrary. the world knows who roger stone is, the world knows who carter page and paul manafort and michael flynn are. they are individuals, a part of this trump orbit, who had deep personal political and financial ties to russia and now we are starting to learn there may have been a convergence of those ties with russias interference campaign. >> was...

>> i want to ask your reaction to the move by the secretary of state to skip a nato meeting and visit russia instead. rex tillerson will go to russia but skip the nato meeting. state is saying this is a logistical scheduling issue, theyre trying to arrange it so he can go to a nato meet, the president may go as well. do you think there are signals being sent by this administration to this day of a kind of almost public, if tacit, quid pro quo? >> yes, chris. and what we tried to show yesterday w...

This trump orbit, who had deep personal political and financial ties to russia and now we are starting to learn there may have been a convergence of those ties with russias interference campaign. >> was the chair of your committee -- i want to be clear. was the compare of chair of your committee devin nunes, saying he hadnt heard of roger stone, was he lying? >> i dont know how he could not have heard of roger stone. we told the world yesterday who roger stone was and over the last few months we...

Leaks, which are important. but to talk about the leaks while hes saying that the president of the united states and his team are being investigated, another country attacked us with this interference campaign, that was just over their head. i think they are missing an opportunity for us to unite around this and move forward. >> congressman, where does this go now? we all watched with complete fascination yesterday as you listened to comey. comey pleaded for a chance to finish the investigation....

Ties taking place. look at individuals like carter paige, the senior foreign policy adviser to donald trump. one month after its revealed russia is attacking us with, with permission of the campaign, courter paige travels to moss cow. roger stone, another associate of the campaign, advising donald trump, he is intimating before the wikileaks report comes out. he was communicating with an online group releasing the hatched john podesta e-mail. you have individuals working with russia as the inter...

Devastated with respect to russia. which is unfortunate, katy, because we need our president to be credible on national security issues. >> democratic colleague in the senate, richard said today during the that he believes that donald trump, the president of the united states could be subpoenaed. could your committee subpoena the president and would you consider it? >> we should hear from any witness that had ties to russia, especially any witness that was talking to russia while the interferenc...

For that. but what i hope is going on is an investigation into individuals on his team who were traveling over to russia as the interference campaign took place. carter page, for example, one month after it was reported that russia was attacking us, he with permission of the campaign as a senior foreign policy advisor traveled over to russia. those are the types of relationships we want to find out if they extended to working with russia as they were attacking us. >> but the president also said ...

You. jessica snyder reporting. were back with democratic congressman eric swalwell. do you have an answer to that, congressman? is it a positive sign that russia has made at least one arrest? >> no, would have. this is the same thing they did after the interference campaign. if you remember back in december and january, they announced arrests of their sfb officers from their computer unit there and this is the team that was responsible for hacking us during the election. and we think it was just...