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Work yesterday morning, and broken hearted at what i saw a member of congress doing. a member of congress who listened in on a phone call from the president of the united states to a young wife. and in his way tried to express that opinion, that he's a brave man, a fallen hero. he knew what he was getting himself in into, because he enlisted. >> reporter: so some pretty emotional words there from john kelly, although obviously expressed in his own kind of reserved and, as a marine, as marine would, and -- the question, i think, that has, has many members of congress up here as well struggling ...

He knew what he was getting into by joining the -- that 1%. he knew what the possibilities were, because we're at war. and when he died, and the four cases we're talking about niger, my son's case in afghanistan when he died he was surrounded by the best men on this earth. his friends. that's what the president tried to say to four families the other day. i was stunned when i came to work yesterday morning and broken hearted at what i saw a member of congress doing. a member of congress who listened in on a phone call from the president of the united states to a young wife. and in his way trie...

Work yesterday morning and brokenhearted at what i saw and remember congress doing. a member of congress who listened in on a phone call from the president of the united states to a young wife. and in his way tried to express that opinion. he's a brave man. a fallen hero. he knew what he was getting himself into because he enlisted. and he was where he wanted to be, exactly where he wanted to be with exactly the people he wanted to be with when his life was taken. that was the message. that was the message that was transmitted. it stuns me that a member of congress would have listened in on th...

Continue hammering home this point, but you know, look, what is the government doing, what is congress doing, what is the white house doing? in order to stop the issue of russia hacking political institutions, what is going to happen when it's not a political institution, but it's a hospital, or it's a military institution. i mean, that is really what i think we have to get to the bottom of and senator graham speaking earlier today on the sunday shows hammering home that point saying that, you know, this needs to be addressed and this sanctions bill up for debate on the senate floor tomorrow, ...

If he did write down memos or type up memos that he took contemporaneously with his interaction with the president, if he knows if there were any taped recordings or audio recordings of their conversations and what he could tell us about that. those things and his testimony are going to be critical to figuring this out. >> brennan also testified today that russia will, quote, further refine its meddling tactics in elections. what is the united states government, specifically the congress doing, to try to prevent that from ever happening again? >> well, as part of this investigation, as least f...