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And compromising politicians, same, we dont know the full extent of whether or not politicians have been corrupted. >> i certainly dont. i did not and dont. >> so if we were to go down this. yes, yes, no, no, question mark, question mark would be our tally at the end. are we agreed on that? >> yes. >> anything else? >> not from me. >> terrific. yield back my nine seconds. >> youre trend setter. >> mr. clapper, you said yes when i asked you if you ever unmask ad will trump associate or a member o...

It will be very fact specific. it is hard to gave hard fast answer. >> senator -- >> im sorry. thank you very much. >> were going to do a second round and it will be quick. there are votes at 5:30. i know senators have questions starting with me. ill have four minutes myself. general clapper, during your investigation of all things russia, did you ever find a situation where a trump business interest in russia gave you concern? >> not in the course of the preparation of the intelligence communit...

>> yes. thats right. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. were at the end of the day and youve been great. i think the public is better educated, i hope about, what russia did. there seems to be bipartisan consense us that russia interfered with our election. for some housekeeping, you will provide to the committee if you could, mr. clapper, he know youre a private citizen now. but if you can help determine the pool of people who could do unmasking, we would appreciate it. when it comes to inci...

Further responsibilities. so let me go on. others of my colleagues have mentioned, and you yourself said that rt is a russian mouthpiece to spread propaganda and went that general flynn attend ad gala in 2015 where he sat next to president putin and got paid over $33,000 for that. mr. clapper, given the information miss yates provided to the white house, this is during january 26 and 27 time frame regarding general flynn, should he have sat in on the following discussions on january 28. he parti...

>> well, this was a person who was the career lawyer who was assume vising this matter. first of all, she had been the one who was most intatel familiar with it. second will you, we knew my tenure would be short and wanted to make sure there was continuity there. >> you didnt know it would be that short. >> right. >> lets do three minutes. >> i can be very quick. >> mr. clapper, does mr. putin have any assets in the united states? >> i dont know the answer to that question. >> who would know tha...

That i know what shes going to say because i dont. but there are so many questions here as to who knew what when, what was done with this. why did russia that always responds to sanctions, when president obama, pngd 35 russian -- >> kicked them out of the country. >> right. immediately. there was no response from russia, and that in itself was a message because russia always responds. this time they didnt. what changed? thats what we need to know. >> what we now know is that the trump transition...

Statement from a podium. this is going to be one of the questions that jim clapper will be asked today. >> james clapper and sally yates both testifying today before that judiciary subcommittee. donald trump is tweeting, general flynn was given the highest security clearance by the obama administration, but the fake news seldom likes talking about that. that is one tweet hes talking about when it comes to general flynn in the news out today. the other one is ask sally yates under oath if she kno...

>> i wouldnt know the answer to that. >> does it raise suspicions in your mind? >> it raises suspicions because he was fired by jim clapper from his job running an intelligence agency. signal. when i saw a three star general shouting lock her up, i thought oh, my goodness. this would never happen. never happened before. this is a three star general of the united states military doing this with no evidence. and it made a big impression on me. >> dianne feinstein, we have to leave it there. thank ...

>> an important one. lets discuss whats going on in the world with kimberly dozier from "the daily beast." in north korea this american detained in the midst of all this other tension right now. u.s. military exercise, the idea of another nuclear test, at a time just a coincidence or a bargaining chip? >> well look at what happened the last time north korea had three americans in custody. they got the director of national intelligence, jim clapper, to visit. that was one of the last times you ...

>> it has to be said, jim, you have to make the points you are making. yes, he is the president of the united states. he is held to the same standard of truth as everybody else. he has no to snow. chris cillizza, go ahead. >> very quickly to bolster jims point. this is not a he said-he said conversation. this is a federal court saying yes, there is enough information here we are willing to grant a wiretap on carter page. these are senators and lawmakers saying we did not see what devin nunes sai...