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And directed that there be a classified and unclassified version of that. the effort to uncover the russian activities took place prior to that. and in both instances, i believe that the right people with the requisite array of skills were involved in the initial collection effort and assessment effort about russian activities up to and even in the aftermath of the election in november, and then there was additional individuals who were added to that, to a group that could draft that assessment so that it could be produced in early january. >> and let me ask you, how and why did all three agen...

Committee and have met with us and we'll have a chance to visit later today in classified setting. i want to go back a little bit to your discussion with senator wyden. one of your last comments you made there was that you gave ground to no one in respecting america's privacy. and if you want to give any examples of that in your house career, that would be fine. but as i understood what i thought was that discussion about a more expanded collection effort, it was collecting things that people had chose to no longer keep private, collecting things on social media that people had put out there. ...

Classified setting. i would go back a little bit to your discussion with senator senator wyden. one of your last comments you made there was that you gave ground to no one in respecting america's privacy, and if you want to give any examples of that in your house career, that would be fine. but as i understand, as i understood what i thought was that discussion about a more expanded collection effort, it was collecting things that people had chose to no longer keep private. collecting things on social media that people had put out there. and i believe at some point you mentioned that if somebo...

A chance to visit later today in the classified setting. i want to go back a little bit to your discussion with senator wyden. one of your last comments you made there was that you gave ground to no one in respecting america's privacy and if you want to give any examples of that in your house career, that would be fine. but as i understood what i thought was that discussion about a more expanded collection effort, it was collecting things that people had chose to no longer keep private, collecting things on social media that people had put out there and i believe at some point you mentioned if...

The ground. trying to witness or gather statements from the eyewitnesses. and you're trying to get that information. at the same time, a collection effort to reach out -- you're reviewing all of the past coms analysis. was there chatter? anything that might be deemed significant. all of that is focused on basically identifying the support structure inside paris. they could not have carried this o out, frankly, without support in paris to handle everything from coms to money to hardware, weaponry, explosives. so the first step is find out, a, are there any other attacks eminent, and who else is...