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Happened. the russians did break in, steal this investigation to hurt hillary clinton. i think the other piece thats not getting talked about is its not so much that it was to help donald trump, they were punishing hillary clinton. she was outspoken against vladimir putin for his terrible record on human rights so thats why -- >> in fact, he thought that -- he accused her of meddling in the russian election based on comments he made in the runup to an election that happened there. >> thats right...

Communication he was referring to that could have been swept up under section 702. >> but thats not what the president said in those fweets tweets, but ill leave it on that. >> he was precise. >> more than imprecise. how low has president obama gone? he tweets how low has president obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process. this is nixon [ inaudible ] bad or sick guy. he was very, very precise in those four tweets and as of yesterday the white house still, after all of ...

Information from them at that point in time. so far, russian officials known to comment on twitter, are really staying silent. the only comment we are getting from the state broadcaster in russia. heavily mentioned in the hearings. they say to them this seems like a 1970s soap opera they are seeing in america. the plot is flat and you want to hear the outcome of it all. certainly the comments we are getting are critical of the hearings, but the russians standing by they had nothing to do with th...

I see the young people -- i teach them, i get law clerks, they really care about this country. and they give me hope every day. senator coon serks s share the scholars and picking the next crop every year. harry trueman didnt want a monument as a memorial here in washington. think about that. the humility of that. instead, he wanted a living monument. a scholarship to young people who will go on to do public service. well, got two of them here. and every year when i go down that selection proces...

Credibility of the president of the united states to insist that something that is totally untrue is somehow true in his own mind. and i just think its hurting his ability to deal with all of the other issues hes got to confront as president. >> also for the white house, for their official presidential twitter page today to tweet out just a blatant falsehood, suggesting that what comey said is that there was no evidence that russia influenced the election process, which is not at all what he tes...

Secondly we are worried about until it integrity we dont know how information he changed if information changed in december, beginning december assessment was hey radiussance trying to get into our election process cause problems in our system, that changed a month later, it said no, no, no, they are trying help donald trump we need to get to the bottom of that, also whether or not, they did try to help trump if any trump associates or anyone else was involved. >> i guess because there is confus...

Good to highlight that, he secondly we are worried about until it integrity we dont know how information he changed if information changed in december, beginning december assessment was hey radiussance trying to get into our election process cause problems in our system, that changed a month later, it said no, no, no, they are trying help donald trump we need to get to the bottom of that, also whether or not, they did try to help trump if any trump associates or anyone else was involved. >> i gu...

>> rebecca, let me get your reaction to the white houses response to comey and the testimony of the national agency secretary, director rogers. the white house tweeted this @potus account. the fbi and nsa tell that russia did not affect electoral process. thats not exactly what the director of the nsa or the fbi said. they confirmed there was no evidence of russian involvement and changing votes and getting into election ballots and stuff like that, but clearly they were trying to influence the ...

Good to highlight that, he secondly we are worried about until it integrity we dont know how information he changed if information changed in december, beginning december assessment was hey radiussance trying to get into our election process cause problems in our system, that changed a month later, it said no, no, no, they are trying help donald trump we need to get to the bottom of that, also whether or not, they did try to help trump if any trump associates or anyone else was involved. >> i gu...

Youre humiliating yourself saying that a country can intervene in your election process. america, huge country, country with the most powerful country in the world. this is simply impossible. >> we will get at the truth of all this. but to do that, we need to go back to the final days of the country vladimir putin loved. >> i think that down deep in putin there is this sense of extraordinary humiliation over the collapse of the soviet union. because it wasnt just the soviet union. it was the rus...