portion from back in january and what was said today. >> if it's true, it's obviously extremely serious. and if there is any evidence that any one affiliated with the trump campaign communicated with the russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do? >> senator, franken, i'm not aware of any of those activities. i have been called a surrogate at the time or two in that campaign and i did not have communications with the russians. and i'm unable to comment on it. >> he was asked about that by vice chairman warner. >> this is what happened. senator franken asked me a rambling question after some six hours of testimony that included dramatic new allegations that the united states intelligence community, the u.s. intelligence community had advised president