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>> senator risch. >> madam secretary, thank you for your service and thank you for the kindness youve shown this committee over the time youve been there. particularly appreciate youre facilitating the meetings at us at the state department with yourself when we had issues. moving to the issues at hand, this morning the national media is reporting that some of the, or a number of the attackers in algeria are people who participated in the attack in benghazi. can you confirm that for us this morn...

We were not made great as a country by indulging in or even exalting our worst impulses. turning against ourselves. glorifying in the things that divide us. and calling fake things true and true things fake. and we did not become the beacon of freedom in the darkest corners of the world by flouting our institutions and failing to understand just how hard-won and vulnerable they are. this spell will eventually break. that is my belief. we will return to ourselves once more. and i say, the sooner,...

Words, i took it as a direction. it is the president of the united states with me alone saying i hope this, i took it as this is what he wants me to do. >> well hear more from senator risch shortly. here is democrat from north virginia drawing something he sees. >> you are in a meeting and the attorney general is in the meeting as well and tyet the president asked everyone to leave including the attorney general to leave before he brought out the manner of general flynn, what was your impression...

What the fbi telling the senators in a closed session this afternoon. his testimony today before the senate intelligence committee did many things including making clear that the fbi was not investigating the president when director comey was running the bureau. the white house is seizing on that item. his testimony told a story and some argues adding up to the department of obstruction of justice. before getting further, laying down the laws, it is drawn from title 18th, section 1503 and two ot...

Because i dont know where our investigation is going to go. im a prosecutor, former prosecutor. ive been through thousands of investigation. this is not unfamiliar territory to me. i look forward to getting through it and writing an accurate report that the american people can read. >> shannon: are you confident youll get answers today? >> i think we already have. i think it will be clear today. >> shannon: all right. senator risch, thank you very much for making time for us. as we say in the bu...

The damage to -- to intelligence cooperation for the u.s. could can be severe. national security adviser general h.r. mcmaster insists the information-sharing was wholly appropriate suggesting harm was appropriate because the president was never briefed on the source of the intelligence and another top security adviser raised alarm feeling the intelligence community needed to know what specifically was divulged to the russians. with an increasingly dysfunctional white house communications team u...