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Role that the russians are trying to do in western democracies beyond the united states? >> i think theres plenty of open source reporting to reach that conclusion and the french will tell you that. i was in france about two months ago, and they said theyre involved particularly in undermining mccron, who is the candidate running there, and theyre trying to prop up le pen. shes taken out massive loans in order to fund her campaign and her political operations. as far as the general behavior of t...

Relationship that they were building. i think carter page is someone that we know from open source that has had relationships in russia for a very long time and has been very engaged with gas prong, a very potent and powerful gas company that exists in russia. so im not surprised at all that he might have become a target by russia to use him. the question is, was he used wittingly or unwittingly, and thats certainly something the fbi will look into. >> what is your suspicion? witting or unwittin...

Course the intelligence exities will look at it. wolf. >> thanks very much, jim sciutto with his reporting. back with democratic congress woman jackie spear, a member of the intelligence and armed services committees. first of all, does your committee, the house intelligence committee, have any evidence that this individual, a rm toer former policy adviser acted as an agent of russia? >> well, i wouldnt be able to speak to that, but if you recall during the very first hearing we had to discuss t...

>> that remains to be seen. the u.s. disposition in syria is that you have special operations forces in the northeast. you have an artillery battery from the marine corps and some logistics elements. it is a squishy number, between 800 to a thousand, almost pretty much in a completely different country siloed off from the rest of the could not zplikt the west. as far as where this goes militarily, that remains to be seen. this was lobbying a few $1.5 million warheads at a very specific target. a...

Information especially about questions between ties between trump administration members and russian officials. >> anything we will talk about will be information thats in the public, thats open-source information. so hell be able to opine based on open-source information. >> this is being billed, as you said, as an open source, as an open hearing and do you think parts of this would have to be moved behind closed doors due to the classified information? >> im sure there will be closed sessions,...

Those come from credible new sources in the president wants to get to the bottom of it. what is everybody afraid of? they want to investigate everything yet they are afraid of connecting hear what the president has asked for witches if youre going to investigate russia, why not add to that investigation of these allegations. >> are we saying that theyre not leaks? the real issue is that the house intelligence committee raised again today which is leaks. these bureaucratic leaks are hurting every...

>> is it appropriate for a president to accuse another president based on open source reporting or with an open-ended question? even more important, if the head of the fbi essay and pushing back and asking the doj to push back on this, are we now facing a constitutional crisis for the first 100 days are over? >> i would not say that. if mr. come a has something we would like to say ensure we are willing to hear it. all i saw was a published news news report. i do not see statement from him. i do...

Ordered surveillance on any u.s. citizen and any suggestion otherwise is false. operative word to me, ordered. >> that many right. there is a big difference between ordered and knowing everything else about it. ben rhodes doesnt deny they knew of everything else about this fisa warrant tapping into the trump campaign in the middle of the fall election. if this happened, folks need to understand this is what the tactics of a police state are, to use intelligence gathering against political oppone...

Ordered surveillance on any u.s. citizen and any suggestion otherwise is false. operative word to me, ordered. >> that many right. there is a big difference between ordered and knowing everything else about it. ben rhodes doesnt deny they knew of everything else about this fisa warrant tapping into the trump campaign in the middle of the fall election. if this happened, folks need to understand this is what the tactics of a police state are, to use intelligence gathering against political oppone...

Hayden, the head of the nsa said this actually helps propagate the isis motives to get more people in their ranks, that hurts our spies, hurts our connections around the world? >> i cant talk about classified threat assessments. i can talk about what we know in open source. your viewers should check it out. theres an isis magazine called dabiq. they have said in english on numerous occasion, we will ke stroi you the infidel, your countries by inserting our operatives into the refugee stream. the...