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Showing up? no one. >> the people we asked to show up came because we can't compel the fbi or somebody like that to come at a gathering like this was because it was not a formal hearing. we were just, you know, wanting to gather information and hopefully our leadership would become more interested because this is serious stuff. it turns out that not only was he of often operating computers remotely we found out that congressman basara, now attorney general out in california, that there were 5700 -- 5400, at least, unauthorized accesses to his computer. and it turns out the awans had loaded dif...

Supportive. house speaker paul ryan, a town hall with him earlier in the week. had know town hall i think today, and he was asked about how he can influence president trump. take a live. a listen. >> it's a day-by-day deal. i'm kind of joking. first, control your own accesses and lead by example. if you saw what i was saying in racine and saying pretty much every day since, what i think needs to be said over and over again about repulsive bigotry and racism in the country how we can never get normal with this. we must always, every single time, stand up and repudiate it and condemn it, unequiv...

The national reconnaissance office has no analytic responsibility or capability. it would not be included nor would the services to include the coast guard really wouldn't have anything to contribute to this. because of the sensitivity of the accesses, the sources, we wanted to restrict that and because of the timeline we did not have all components participate. >> bottom line, though, without those 17 agencies, do you have any doubt or was there any objection from inside the intelligence community on the inclusion that russia was behind the attack? >> absolutely none. >> you have trump meetin...

Pattern here, where a lot of these leaks have come through have been contractors. edward smoednowden worked for a contractor, she worked for a contractor. these are not full-time government employees who have really been inculcated with the importance of holding on to classified information. and you would have thought that with the snowden situation, that the government would have changed this outsourcing of our top security clearances and secrets to people who are consultants. i mean, that just should not happen. i mean, we are outsourcing just too much of our government to private industry, ...

I believe there's some surveillance programs that are up for reauthorization. what would you say to the american people as names or unmasked on the last day that people are in office and classified information appears on the front pages of major u.s. newspapers? how would you tell your constituents let's reauthorize this program again despite the fact that we have abuses? help us make that argument when we go home. >> you and your colleagues are going to have to make that argument based on the merits of the program and the importance of it to our national security as well as trying to send a r...