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Everything and could provide transcript of that meeting. is that just further efforts to weaken the president? disrupt our political process? how do you explain those events? >> lot of questions there, mr. schiff. first point i would like to make is that i shared classified information with the russians while i was director of cia. cia on a routine basis shares classified information with russians on terrimatter it doesn't mean that it becomes unclassified. it means that it retains the classification but is releasable then to russia or to other partners. so that in itself is not unprecedented....

>> i can't hear right now. i'm not getting this. oh, there he is. go ahead. i can hear now, senator. >> okay. jim comey is a guy who goes by the book, so a record he kept is pretty powerful evidence. the white house apparently, a few minutes ago, said that it never happened. they've categorically denied it. i think it's up to them now to come forward with what evidence they have that the conversation didn't take place. and if there are tapes, we want those tapes. and i think the president is the one who brought tapes into the discussion. we want to know if there are tapes. if there are, i can ...

Recuse himself until now. >> reporter: no question about that. i had asked mr. nunes repeatedly over the last week would he step aside amid those growing calls for him to recuse himself, but the revelation that the house ethics committee is investigating whether he miss handled classified intelligence was the latest in a string of controversy that became too difficult for him to overcome. tonight the chairman of the house intelligence committee forced to step aside from leading the investigation into russia amid growing accusations that he had grown too close to the white house. >> strict proc...

>> this has been a big story as well, what chairman nunes has seen in reports, and what that means as far as surveillance on the trump campaign and the trump transition team. we'll be back with our panel. mollie hemingway, chris stirewalt, karen tumulty, national political correspondent for "the washington post," and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. your thoughts? >> on the whole surveillance thing, the report there is a smoking gun. that is such a broad characterization, it will be really interesting to see what is behind that. it does seem like, at a minimum going to the white house...

A new classified intelligence report identifies russian hacked e-mails to wikileaks which released to the public. it sounds confusing. we are talking about the chain of hacked e-mails and how they got to wikileaks and to the public. helping us break this down is tal kopan in washington and eugene scott. eugene, let's talk about this. julian assange had said it wasn't the russian government that directly gave them the e-mails. this classified report we have is there was a chain that came from russia. what is the new information? >> i think the new information is going to give voters the