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With that. he is still the president, he is supported by his party. all this talk of republicans abandoning him is -- just a couple of politicians saying theyre concerned. >> let me play something he said at the news conference today. the president gave a blanket denial on behalf of his campaign and then suggested he was more comfortable speaking only for himself. let me play that. >> there is no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign but i can always speak for myself and the russian...

But we also reported that there were contacts after the election between the russian ambassador, mr. kislyak and michael flynn after the election. these dealt with the setting up of a possible direct channel between russian president vladimir putin and president-elect trump, and that this cnnel could have bypassed the u.s. national security bureaucracy because both sides viewed it as hostile. lets not forget that the department of defense and the u.s. intelligence community were extremely oppose...

All these months, clapper, comey, admiral rogers all said no evidence at all. at what point do we say this is ridiculous? >> we should be saying that right now.s so incredible to me is how the medias setting up -- when president obama leaned over and after my reelection i will have more flexibility to the russian present, they said nothing when hillary clinton was involved with the uranium deal with russia. >> sean: not uranium deal, they made millions. while she was secretary of state. he is gi...

>> sean: james comey. all these months, james clapper, comey, admiral rogers all said no evidence at all. at what point do we say this is ridiculous? >> we should be saying that right now. the thing is, what is so incredible to me is how the medias setting up -- ill have more flexibility, the russian president. they said nothing when hillary clinton was involved with the iranian deal with russia. >> sean: not uranium deal, they made millions. while she was secretary of state. he is given speeche...

Amount of intelligence there so what can it possibly be? >> well, i think secretary tillerson had a pretty balanced sensible approach to it and so did secretary mattis a few weeks ago when he was in korea. north korea is a train wreck pending. its highly unlikely that were going to take unilateral first strike against their nuclear weapons. theyre onhe verge of having an rational icbm, of having a submarine launch ballistic missile, they will probably have 100 or more nuclear weapons in a fairly...

Said with respect to the fbi director testimony last week ranking member schiff was concerned that director comey did not answer a lot of questions put to him and didnt seem to bother devin nunez that much. when we feel its necessary to subpoena somebody as the minority we cant do that on our own. we need a majority. does that support materialize? as a minority we can go on tv and say this is critical and the majority is not helping us here but that is when its going to be clear whether we are g...

Predicted as many as 250,000 people would flee the fighting from western mosul. the estimates vary by a maximum of 800,000. we have seen the iraqi government and various international human care yan groups are busy setting up refugee camps and whatnot. the problem is, when these people first arrived, we were at one of the assembly points where people go. it is pandemonium. the iraqis are very worried that isis has put infiltrators among the refugees. many are arriving without shoes and traumatiz...

Play a role, and its not news, by the way, that he and eric holder, the former attorney general say they want to do something about the tremendous success replicas of had across the country. the next lines will be drawn for congress and he wants to play a role. speed and i thought he was on richard bransons island kite surfing. i cant believe that he wants to get back involved so quickly. the only reason i can think of is preservation of the legacy, that he sees things being dismantled honey wan...

Surrogates and the russians? is your committee still equipped to handle this? >> this is the appropriate place for this to be done. we have the legislative branch has the house intelligence committee that has very broad jurisdiction over the intelligence agencies. its bipartisan. we have a bipartisan agreement. and this was a long, ongoing investigation and concern that weve had into russia, russia activity, not only in the cyber realm but involving elections and other elections across the globe...

We are still awaiting some of that. and we are setting up -- well also be looking at what the fbi can provide us. then also waiting to determine if we can figure out who may or may not be part of these leaks that have occurred. >> you said you meet with ambassadors all the time. but the real issue here is failure to disclose that when he was asked about this during the confirmation hearings. -- oversee this investigation into the campaign contact with russian officis if he did not disclose it hi...