sean: as we continue on hannity, go back to your report, i was actually on vacation. a lot of people speculated otherwise, sara, but welcome to my world. [laughter] go back to the report on i t believe it was thursday night when you guys wrote that. well, john and i both put together the story, we were able to expose the documents releasee by the foreign intelligence surveillance court with the fbi. regarding the fbi, and it was called the search for warrantless data. this is basically not information gathered by the fbi with a warrant, but information that has been gathered through the nsa, by the fbi warrantless. james comey said during a hearing that all of the data that was collected by the fbi was actually carefully collected, there was a lot of oversight. there were precautions taken. what we found out from the documents, from the foreign
there was this outrage when he was in moscow and should the president be meeting with lavrov albeit under this awful timing? he s here and there are things to be discussed like this plan that the russians have agreed with turkey and iran for de-escalation zones which would stop some of the fighting and violence in syria, so it is an opportunity to discuss that face to face, but let s be honest, until these investigations are over, every single interaction between this administration and russia is going to be problematic. timing from yesterday to today? yeah, awkward and i don t see how you get around that. so steve hall, overnight you wrote, interesting that potus first goes after cia. now fbi. is nsa next? intel trifecta? what do you mean? it just struck me when i tweeted that last night that, you know, this is an interesting pattern that appears to be
it is. my answer would require me to reveal classified information. i think director clapper said he was unaware of the counterintelligence investigation. bret: you have this report said to be signed off by the fbi, cia, nsa. not every but the intelligence giving this report and giving the conclusion they didn t have evidence of collusion. sally yates is saying i can t talk about it because there was an ongoing investigation he didn t know about. clapper stood by the testimony saying that the best of his knowledge, again today, it wasn t happening. it appears there was an investigation happening, for whatever reason, people weren t giving him that information. bret: because it was in its infancy? didn t make it into the report? seems like a big disconnect. we are well into the administration and we still
names. there s a paper trail somewhere at the nsa of who ordered it. there are several story lines, in these hours and hours of hearings advanced not one of them. we learned nothing today that we didn t know yesterday. classic case of a video event that lives only to dramatize things but not to add to our fund of knowledge. we live in an age where that can sometimes work. the video of the united airlines guide. if it hadn t been on video, we never would have talked about it. because it was dramatized, it became a huge event. there is nothing that was said today that we didn t already know. the only result of these hours of hearings is that sally yates is now a democratic star and she needs to pick a state and run for the senate. she is a rising candidate for the future. her answer on the question why
flynn was still attending classified briefings. bret: senator franken posited that perhaps he was concerned about other people and other communications and he just threw that out there in the hearing, saying maybe it s one of the reasons. nobody answered. but he threw it out there. clearly that s the thinking of where the democrats are. i want to play this sound bite. this is from meet the press. senator lindsey graham was asked whether clapper sticks by it. we include any evidence in our report, that is nsa, fbi, cia with my office, director of national intelligence, that had anything to do, any reflection of collusion between members of the trump campaign and the russians. no evidence of that included in our report. but does it exist? not to my knowledge. is that still accurate?