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Should be a complete preservation of evidence. >> do you have any reason to believe they've destroyed evidence in the meantime? >> i don't want to get into any of the facts of our investigation. but the request to preserve documents is made prophylactically at the very beginning of an investigation so that we don't have any issue like that come up in the future. >> are you aware of any information, about contact between russian officials, people tied to the kremlin in any way and the trump campaign during the election season? >> i'm not going to go into any of the specifics. and that would go ...

Something the president said shouldn't happen, people using sources, but so it goes, this is just another partisan attack by democrats. i want to push back on that. it's a familiar response from any white house when questioned like this. but did the democrats make jeff sessions say no when he was asked at his committee hearing if he had any contact with the russians? >> as mel brooks would say that's authentic frontier gibberish. they didn't put a name on it so i can attack the unnamed person. the bottom line here is there's a fact set. so we're talking about messaging and pivoting and states ...

Fbi director or any other intelligence director to withhold information when talking with the intelligence committee or is that normal for them? is he just following routine procedure here? >> you know, i would say that certainly there is a cultural, as well as a policy framework for when individual members of congress approach the department and when committees do. what the department has to look at is, is this within the scope of the committee's responsibilities and clearly it is. is this in the public interest and, clearly it is. in this case, it's the subject of a bipartisan agreement. thi...

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. it's bipartisan. we have a bipartisan agreement. and this was a long, ongoing investigation and concern that we've had into russia, russia activity, not only in the cyber realm but involving elections and other elections across the globe. >> now that you have set the scope of your investigation, what's the timeline and the next step?...

Anyone connected to any part of the russian government about the 2016 election either before or after election day. one word answer, no. if you accept senator sessions at his word, the conversation was about senate business. that is a factual answer. but is it the right answer? is it -- is the answer a good lawyer gives when they know this -- there's a hunt under way. you say, no, but -- >> and the remarkable thing is there are many people in donald trump's cabinet who don't have experience with this process, who have not been around politics who have not been around questions of law and congr...