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Director comey had said, i expect to see them back in 2018 and especially in 2020. those are his words. do you agree with that? >> absolutely. >> thats why an independent commission would allow us to come up with some ideas in how to stop this from happening again. whether its how the media handle these things, how intelligence agencies when they find out handle these things. we cannot allow foreign countries to influence our democracy. do you agree, collector clapper? >> i certainly do. i under...

This hearing, begrudgingly though i admit it, serves that purpose to the extent that this can be shared openly. i do think there needs to be more done in the way of sanctions to the russians or any other government that attempts to interfere in our election process. >> im done. >> senator . we were glad that you are here. when i asked before, i asked about the general fact, if a high-ranking national security advisors caught on tape with a foreign official saying one thing in private and says so...

Director comey had said "i expect to see them back in 2018 and especially 2020." those are his words. do you agree with that, director? >> absolutely. >> and that is why an independent commission would allow us to come up with some ideas on how we can stop this from happening again, whether it is how the media handled these things, how campaigns handle these things, how intelligence agencies when they find out handle these things because we cannot allow foreign countries to influence our democra...

Rules are. the rules were there for a reason. director comey made a decision to break both of those rules with respect to the investigation into hillary clintons e-mails and he made a decision to follow the rules and keep silent about the investigation into the trump campaigns connections with the russian effort to destabilize the election process. the fact that he -- oh, no, i didnt say that. im just saying director comey testified this week and he made it very plain that he broke the fbi rules...

Over alaska, from their propping up of the assad regime as ambassador hailey as talked about, by their threats to nato, everything theyre doing in the world not to mention trying to undermine our own election process. its obvious russia is the greatest adversary and for the white house to deny that is to deny a major threat. >> where do you put the momentum of the investigations going on under the umbrella of the fbi and under the umbrella of congress? >> well, its hard to go, brian, one of the ...

Still being involved in our politics and existing as the greatest threat to us on earth got your attention as a veteran of government service. were you surprised at the kind of, again benign normalization effort by sean spicer who said in effect thats the opinion of the fbi director. >> that has to be the policy of the united states government if you look at everything theyve done from their bear fighters over alaska, from their propping up of the assad regime as ambassador hailey as talked abou...

Investigate a sitting president to undermine the election. >> and what he said about russia still being involved in our politics and existing as the greatest threat to us on earth got your attention as a veteran of government service. were you surprised at the kind of, again benign normalization effort by sean spicer who said in effect thats the opinion of the fbi director. >> that has to be the policy of the united states government if you look at everything theyve done from their bear fighters...

In march this committee, subcommittee crime and terrorism held its first hearing. i think senator graham and senator whitehouse for that. i raise the issue of protecting our election infrastructure with former bush department of justice official ken weinstein, and he agreed this is a very important issue. as the ranking member of the rules committee, im particularly concerneded about ensuring our elections are safe from foreign interference. i recently led a group of 26 senators and calling for ...

And dont work. part of our greatness in america, the american idea, is to have checks and balances. part of that is the election process, and look, we have challenges in our process. theres no doubt. but this is still the greatest country -- >> neil: president trump doesnt like this process. hes even intimated that, you know what? we got this budget measure approved in the house and now its going to the senate where its expected to pass. democrats are spiking the ball and the president doesnt li...

President trump made the accusation back in november. a series of details, how low has president obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process. this is nixon/watergate. members of both parties as well as the head of the fbi say there is no evidence to support the claim. that is not stopping president trump. heres what he said in an interview with john dickerson. >> he was very nice to me, but after that we have had some difficulties. words are les important to me than deeds...