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Russian hacking of democratic campaign computers. materials stolen by russia had been released online including by wikileaks, and the u.s. intelligence community assessed in august of 2016 that, quote, russia was considering further intelligence operations to impact and disrupt elections, end quote. against this backdrop, the fbi was obligated to investigate possible ties to the trump campaign. according to bill precept, the fbi assistant director who authorized opening the investigation, other officials conveyed a similar obligation and sense of urgency to investiga investigate. david laugh m...

Primary, ted cruz, marco rubio. both are here in the senate. cruz on this panel with an oversight function and senator graham himself. he made self effacing remarks that he wasn't seen as a big enough candidate to wind up in the texts. i wonder if you could walk our viewers through the politics that hangs overall of this with candidates who lost to donald trump, who are now trying to defend him and as you say are trying to carry water for a view of a quote, unquote, witch hunt even on the day of the testimony of the person who debunked it. >> there's such a split screen, including ted cruz, be...

Whether he was a source for the september 2016 yahoo news article that cited western intelligence sources, quote, unquote? if not, why not? >> they did not ask that question despite having the opportunity to do so. and we got a variety of explanations including that, as to some of these issues, that they didn't want to offend him or jeopardize their relationship with him. >> question two, on october 11th, draft of the vice is a application stating fbi believes steele was the source of the yahoo news article but it was taken out in the october 14th draft. why did the fbi originally say steele w...

Gener general. the fbi investigation the subject of this report crossfire hurricane was opened in july 2016 days after the fbi received friendly reporting from a foreign government. the reporting stated in a may 2016 meeting trump campaign foreign policy adviser george papadopoulos, quote, suggested the trump team received some kind of suggestion, closed quote, from russia, that it could assist in the election process with the anonymous release of information during the campaign that would be damaging to candidate clinton and then president obama. following receipt of that information, the fbi...

By as straul yeah, that trump adviser george papadopoulos learned in the month of april that russia had and was willing to release, quote, information during the campaign that would be damaging to candidate clinton, end quote. the ig found that this information provided the fbi with a factual basis that if true, quote, indicated activity constituting either a federal crime or a threat to national security or both may have occurred or may be occurring. the ig also found that when the fbi learned that in late july 2016 the bureau was aware of russian 40s efforts to enter cl in the 2016 elections...