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As long as they didnt hack the voting machines, whats the big deal? >> the real problem is it works. the ability to go in and manipulate an election is what intelligence organizations do. the idea that donald trump tried to make the argument that this never happens is laughable at best. we can look back at the interview that was done by vladimir putin where he denied it. the reason you cant do it is because youre incompetent. the russians did this effectively, consistently, and thats whats impor...

Spies reinvent themselves after the russia hacks?" >> they did this specifically by trying to interfere with one donald j. trump and the election was interrupted. that campaign was successful. it impacted maybe not the physical, numerical value of the vote, it nonetheless impacted the way people vote, it undermined the confidence in our federal election system, and the russians were successful and the counter intelligence community failed to detect and neutralize this threat. >> i want to make s...

Going to have to answer to them. >> there was a piece that malcolm wrote this morning that was tweeting out saying, you may end up proving infiltration, not collusion, but that still remains a scandal, right? >> what? infiltration is my worst nightmare. ive been saying this since last july. it could be possible that someone on their team -- and ive got a candidate but im not going to say it here -- could have actually been a turned agent for russian intelligence, and all of them could be people ...

That innocence and do you polup some kind of excuse. if he hasnt figured out in six months how to be president, he should step down. >> and theyre trying to say the premise of this, forget the obstructive justice, but the underlying offense just never happened. heres probably the strongest defender of donald trump questioning jim comey on thursday trying to clear donald trump. take a look. >> on february 14th, the "new york times" published a story the headline in which "trump campaign aides had...

Duty to protect the fbi director to ensure that the president wasnt behaving in improper and perhaps illegal ways. i have never seen a record this short of time of an attorney general who has been this d derilect. >> if we stipyou late that jeff sessions did something wrong, maybe even illegal, who would enforce that? hes the attorney general. >> thats right. this could come under the per view of bob mueller. but right now the senate intelligence committee has the opportunity to ask some questio...

It is not about republicans or democrats. theyre coming after america and they will be back because we remain as difficult as we can be with each other, we remain that shining city on the hill and they dont like it. >> and they dont like it. >> giving us insight into trumps modus operandi at the white house, he also told us how this all began. russia interfered with our election. another issue in the equation, the failure of our intelligence community to identify and stop the interference. accor...

Affect, i wont vote for hillary clinton because she murdered 40 people or getting people to believe that, what can counter intelligence do about that? thats what people are getting off facebook articles. >> thats exactly right. we live in a free society. weve got to respect that. on the other hand, to jacks point. look, just being aware that the russians were, in fact, launching a campaign. and look, my goodness, come out and say it was successful. to have the president of the united states -- w...

Jurisdiction to some extent. i am on both committees, as you know. >> the judiciary and intelligence. >> yes. i believe the judiciary committee has the oversight responsibility for the justice department. >> so congressman, if there is now a question about which committee actually has jurisdiction over sessions, oversight is provided by the judiciary committee, do you think the delay caused by those questions could mean we wont hear from jeff sessions? >> it is possible. i think the most importa...