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Senate are reluctant to either review russian tactics or ignore them. >> the russians are not our friends. invaded crimea, and senator mccain and i and some of our democratic friends met with the delegation from the baltic countries just this past week to say that they are nervous about the russians, to put it mildly, and the senate intelligence committee is more than capable of conducting a complete review of this matter. senator schumer will soon join us on the committee and he can review this matter through the regular order. i think we ought to approach all of these issues on the assumptio...

Read that statement is i think that pretty thoroughly covers what i'm prepared to say about that issue. >> you talked about an investigation, you support a bipartisan investigation, do you want to do -- [inaudible] >> we have -- we are going to follow the regular order. it's an important subject and we intend to review it on a bipartisan basis. >> in your statement and obama administration -- [inaudible] >> does it like wise concern you the signals from the new administration of a different attitude orientation and more friendliness toward russia? >> well, let me speak to myself. the russians ...

Vladimir putin must disregard the fact that vladimir putin is a murderer, a thug, a kgb agent whose airplanes as we speak have been targeting with precision hospitals in aleppo who have committed atrocities throughout the region and has destabilized ukraine, invaded ukraine, trying to destabilize baltic countries, and the list goes on and on. this guy is a thug and a murderer and i don't see how anybody could be a friend of this old time kgb agent. >> let me turn to china if i could, senator. cnn has learned that this month for the first time china flew nuclear capable bombers over a dispute a...

Let's begin with the showdown in washington where president-elect trump is not only at odds with congress, including members of his own party, but also the cia. what is this about? this is all involving russia interfering with the 2016 presidential election. the cia says that russia did it with the intent for trump to win. now, let me show you these four senators, two dechlt ms, two republicans, making a bipartisan call for an investigation. the second one announced in less than a week. earlier today we heard from senate majority leader mitch mcconnell strongly condemned russia while praising ...

Than a week. house speaker paul ryan also just released this statement saying, in part, quote, any intervention by russia is especially problematic because under president putin, russia has been an aggressor that consistently undermines american interests. earlier senate majority leader mitch mcconnell expressed his confidence in the work of the cia while strongly condemning russia. >> belief that somehow republicans in the senate are reluctant to either review russian tactics or ignore them. the russians are not our friends. invaded crimea, senator mccain and i and some of our democratic frie...