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Jeffrey toobin, jonathan painter and jeffrey turley. he amended his security clearance forms not once, but twice. it seems like the second time only after paul manafort according to "the new york times" told capitol hill about this meeting with donald trump jr. at what point should he stop getting the benefit of the doubt that it was just an oversight? >> well, one of the things about security clearances is the more powerful you are in the government, the less likely the officials are to give you a problem on security clearance. i mean, it is not an equitable system. but what is so troubling a...

And he also knows james comey. when he was the assistant attorney general, he reported to the deputy attorney general who at the time was james comey. so he's getting generally positive responses from republicans on -- in the senate. they'll have a confirmation hearing in another couple of weeks. they have not scheduled it yet. he's been through this background clearance process several times before from his other positions in the government. >> the announcement itself seemed a bit odd. typically when a president trots out his new person to run the fbi, is there not a ceremony? >> reporter: i'...

Naveed, as you listened to what we just listened to, as you witness what we just witnessed, your thoughts? >> as a u.s. person who was, in fact, recruited by russians to spy, it appears this russian front really had two silos. the first was to retrieve data and use sort of information warfare attack against us. the second one seems to have been this simple thing that i dealt with, which is to make contact with people within trump's inner circle. and if that is, in fact, the case, you know, that seems like that's an attack that may be ongoing. we heard them taum about sf-86s, documents one subm...

Time was that the cyber dimension and the fact that the release of so much information that they had extracted via signer is a primary tool to try to drive an outcome. >> in this setting can you talk to us about what tools they used? >> i'm not going to go into the specifics of how they executed the hacks. poll ji i apologize, no, sir. >> we'll try to get into that in classified. i'll hold off for now, thank you. >> mr. schiff is recognized for 15 minutes. >> thank you, i just had a couple thought questions. director comey, can you tell me what sf 86 is. >> it's the standard background clearan...

This time. there's a release of information that they had extracted to try to drive an outcome. >> in this setting can you talk to us about what tools they used? >> i'm not going to go under the specifics of how they executed the hacks. i apologize. >> we'll try to bet into that and classify. hold off for now. >> general yields back. mr. schiff is recognized for 15 minutes. >> just had a couple of questions. can you tell me what an sf 86 is? >> sf 86? >> yes. >> it's the standard background clearance form that all of us are hired by the federal government want to have access of classified info...