permanent select committee on this the same thing. people need to understand russia, china, iran, every hostile intelligence service in the world listened to his comments yesterday. and the number one, number, two and number three priority for every one of those intelligence services is the united states. if you throw out the steele dossier and you throw out the mueller report, just go back to the social media tampering with the presidential election and all the e-mail hacking that was done by the gru, their military intelligence, and i think it lets you know right where we're at. >> it's deeply troubling to hear all of this. i have to say. and while folks might say don't listen to what the president's saying because he hasn't done it yet, what i'm hearing from you, robert, is damage is already being done by these words. >> well, it's not only being done -- i said this yesterday, i'm telling you, these attacks started in 2014. and they've never stopped. mark my words. just because we're having hearings, just because this is out in the public domain, it