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Try to substantiate themselves in the campaign or to influence or leverage it. so, if there was someone that was observing that sort of thing, thats a good thing because the russians posed a threat to our -- the very basis of our political system. >> tucker: jim central is on thkim strafl is onthe board. you heard jim clapper say its a good thing. do you think it would be a good thing putting a spy in every presidential campaign going forward. >> why not? it sounds like it would be a good thing,...

The russians were doing to try to substantiate themselves in the campaign or to influence or leverage it. so, if there was someone that was observing that sort of thing, thats a good thing because the russians posed a threat to our -- the very basis of our political system. >> tucker: kim strassel is on the board of "the wall street journal" editorial page and she joins us tonight. you heard jim clapper say its a good thing. do you think it would be a good thing putting a spy in every presidenti...

Elections. they touched 21 of our states electoral systems. they radically used social media in ways that never have been used before and with the intent to hurt mr. trump and hillary clinton. >> a republican congressman from you that you who is on the house intelligence committee was telling me earlier today, he spent hours overt the cia looking at things. he saw no evidence he says the russians were trying to help donald trump. how is it that he says hes seen no evidence? >> i dont have the fo...

Now. they indicated until they brought in jim clapper, mike rogers of nsa, and former director of cia and questioned those three people before they went final with their assessment. i view it to be complete validation of what they have been saying all along. it was bipartisan. that is the refreshing aspect of this. >> the rope this is relevant is the president of the united states says that is a lie. that this is manufactured to undermine him by political enemies and they exist on both sides of ...

Problems with falsehoods being said also by james clapper, who gave inconsistent testimony about his leaking to the media. and weve also had problems with james comey himself, whether he understands what a leak is anded how he has been involved in it. but one of things thats interesting is clapper and comey have been so much a part of this story and we have seen their names a great deal, but brennan has been able to kind of stay out of the limelight until recently where people are starting to pi...

Contributor, needless to say. to top former intel officials dispute his claim. if you just heard that the dossier formed no part of the corpus of intelligence used by our government to spy on the trump campaign. he retired national security agency michael rogers and former director of national intelligence jim clapper both admit now that the steele dossier and its clinton campaign-funded allegations did in fact influenced the community assessment. we knew that, but its nice to hear it confirmed....

Welcome back. on this very busy day of breaking russia news we figure we should use some of our experts, john brennan joins me now. mr. brennan i know we are keeping you busy today. thank you for sticking around. >> sure. >> let me start from what we learned from the senate intelligence committee versus the house intelligence committee. you and i have had conversations about sort the house committee being broken. what you read and saw from the senate intel committee today i wanted to get your in...

Investigation underway when i spoke with jim comey in late july. maybe it was the 31st of july or so, and the first few days of august when i talked about these matters. i knew they had an investigation underway. and i knew that both jim and myself and jim clapper, mike rogers at nsa, we wanted to make sure that we handled this matter appropriately, but also delicately because we were in the midst of a presidential campaign and it involved a very sensitive and ongoing counter intelligence invest...

Congress dutyfully, which we did. talking to the american people and a statement that came out from jim clapper and jeh johnson in october basically was forthright in terms of saying the russians were trying to interfere. when i look back at that time, it was a challenging one. and i think that the fbi was sharing information with us, with cia, with nsa, but they had their own law enforcement investigation underway that i think was paralleling what the intelligence community was doing. i created...

Talking to the fbi, and, two, it was a failure ever imagination. can you imagine a parallel in the analysis to this? was the cia sharing everything with law enforcement? and did we fail to imagine that perhaps at the highest levels of the trump campaign there were russian agents? >> well, i was up on the hill this morning testifying along with jim clapper and former director of nsa mike rogers to the senate intelligence committee on russian interference in the election. first of all, i think the...