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So, therefore, there was a unanimous consensus amongst the three agencies and dni about the judgments. there was one thing about the nsa's confidence level in terms of the russian advocacy for mr. trump, but with that lone exception, it was a consensus assessment. >> and the report also talked extensively about the role of wikileaks in working with russia on this covert action campaign. can you talk a bit more about how they fit in? >> well, i think as the assessment says, that the russians used cutout for the wikileaks exposure. and when you look at the wikileaks releases over time, you can s...

But it doesn't make it impossible there are ways to determine who is behind the keyboard, if you will. and we investigate those cases just like we do any other case. unfortunately, in the case of a russian hack, we have a lack of transparency once the information crosses our border and enters into the russian border that means we can't get access to witnesses. we can't examine infrastructure. well can't execute search warrants. which means we're very limited in our visibility. that doesn't mean we can't get to a high confidence level in terms of who was behind it. you're right. the initial inv...

>> today senator warren joined the richard burr in announcing that the committee has issued the first subpoena, that it has issued since its joint investigation of the 9/11 attacks on the united states. senator burr and senator warner said the subpoena requests documents relevant to the committee's investigation. the committee first requested these documents on april 28th. 2017 letter to lieutenant general flynn, but he declined through counsel to cooperate with the committee's request. joining us now, connecticut democratic congressman jim hines. he is a member of the house intelligence commi...

Committee's investigation. the committee first requested these documents on april 28th. 2017 letter to lieutenant general flynn, but he declined through counsel to cooperate with the committee's request. joining us now, connecticut democratic congressman jim hines. he is a member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, what is your confidence level now in rod rosenstein as the deputy attorney general? you just heard senator warner say if he had a chance to vote on that confirmation again, he would vote against it. >> yeah. i think the answer to that question, lawrence, really depends...

The pleasure of being confirmed with, was tasked with the job of evaluating the fbi's performanc performance. i agree with the recommendation he made, i think he was well within his rights to do it. my focus now, particularly someone who is very much focused on getting the right law-enforcement people and places who will be the next officer. >> jenna: what do you make of the timing of it? we know there's an ongoing investigation into russia and their meddling in our election, you have the russian foreign minister meeting with the president right now as we are speaking, why now? what about the ...