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Recounting this episode and as they were discussing this because, lets be clear, for the gchq to be spying on a presidential candidate in the u.s. would be a direct violation of the five is agreement. this is one of the most important mechanisms for gathering and sharing intelligence between the u.s. and its key allies. its just not embarrassing almost insuling to be accusing the brits to be involved in that kind of activity. i think you heard admiral rogers who works with the british allies som...

The house intelligence committee chairman over there. whats been the reaction so far, manu? >> its been surprise. i dont think members expected james comey to make that rather bombshell statement out of the gate that the investigation is ongoing between the trump campaign, its alleged contacts with russian officials. this is a question that a lot of members sitting on the committee have not gotten an answer to themselves, only that so-called gang of eight, the top leaders of congress have gotten...

Trump soerkts and the russians. heres a statement they just released. former director of national intelligence james clapper has been clear while he was not aware of any conclusive evidence related to collusion between trump campaign and russians prior to leaving government he could not account for intelligence or evidence that may have been gathered since the inauguration of john 20th. they add, it is in the best interest of americans that we get to the bottom of what has been happening. has th...

Assume all of the meetings were the russian ambassador were acceptable. they have created a lot of this on their own, whether through stubbornness, or refusing to meet with the media. we have no evidence that any of those meetings were nefarious. none. but the fact we have gone through months of it never happened, well, this happened. plus the presidents tweets about the wiretapping, a lot of this is a mess of their own making. >> if those comments were not enough from the fbi director and the d...

Question. not mention the fact that the president is sending tweets, at least somebody from the official potus account during the hearing that real time one of the democrats on the panel had gym comy, the fbi director dispute. >> yeah, they included clearly, john, 16 days ago, the president leveled those four tweets, posted those four tweets accusing his predecessor, president obama, of basically committing a felony and illegally ordering a wiretap of trump tower in new york. comey, i have no in...

On this with regard to getting to the bottom of the critical questions people have been raising without some sort of independent commission. schiff himself indicated this was the case. that was a big deal for me. >> the main point i think they were make being what russias motivation was, first their motivation, they said, was to try to undermine democracy here in the united states, embarrass the united states. their second motivation was to hurt hillary clinton as much as possible because they h...

Department, main justice, donald trumps justice department says president trump was wrong. you just have to underline that and.line that and but then the fact that president trump wouldnt let it go. that they wouldnt say let it go. the tweets they are sent by the official potus account by the staff and mischaracterizing or taking out of context things that that the fbi director was saying at a congressional hearing. you start this spiral. to the point where we ended, chairman nunes at the end wa...

Extremely complicated. its going to take time. director comey said i cant tell you when. its because of the complexities and the intelligence gathering and the using of them in fact and prosecutions. >> everybody stand by, i want to bring in congresswoman jackie spehr, a democrat from california arc member of the house intelligence committee. congresswoman, thanks for joining us. we heard director comey say there is no evidence that he knows of to suggest that president trump was wiretapped by p...