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That information? >> yeah, i don't have anything that would lead me to believe that that's the case. >> and do you have any concerns about the other piece of that reporting which was that the obama administration was concerned that this intelligence might be destroyed or ignored? >> it seems pretty far fetched. i don't even know -- i think those were unnamed obama officials. if those obama officials -- former obama officials have those concerns, it would be easy to stand up in front of a press conference like i'm doing now and talk about those concerns with all of you. i would suggest that you...

But in fact, that they share with us the length and breath of what they may be doing. >> what was the rationale that director comey gave for not giving that information today? >> i don't want to go into specifics but there were certain questions that we were asking that he would answer and others he would not. and when members asked questions, he referred to us earlier a decision to decline to answer the question. again, i hope that when we next meet with the director, we'll have a different point of view. i hope the department will. because we're going to need that information and we are bett...

Any information is going to ultimately be withheld from us. i will say there's a lot more information that the fbi and the intelligence agencies need to provide to our committee so that we can thoroughly go through all the information and process it and do an investigation. >> without get -- >> -- said the other day he wasn't really convinced. he hadn't gotten the assurances from the fbi that they would be cooperative. did you get that -- >> the director was very up front with us. i think we were very direct with him that he want to continue to get this information. and he, you know, i think h...