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Enforcement, and in your judgment, it is up to law enforcement to test, probe, corroborate, contradict, otherwise investigate the full nature of that information you passed on. is that a fairway to put it? >> yes, it is. because it is not cia's job to make a determination about whether a u.s. person is cooperate being, colluding or whatever in some type of criminal or illegal matter. it is our responsibility to give the bureau everything that they need in order to follow that path and make such a determination and recommendation if they want to press charges. >> all right. we'll pick it up nex...

I ent. i never was a prosecutor so i really don't do evidence. i do intelligence. throughout the course of my career. as an intelligence professional, what we try to do is to make sure that we provide all relevant information to the bureau if there is an investigation under way that they are looking into criminal activity. as i mentioned in my opening statement, i was convinced in the summer that the russians were trying to interfere in the election. and they were very aggressive. it was a multi-faceted effort. i wanted to make sure that we were able to expose as much of that as possible. >> b...

Thank you for your service. i have a number of questions i know in an open setting you won't be able to answer, so i'm looking forward to the closed session. but to the extent you can answer in this setting, you were asked what the elements of russian active measures in the campaign of the election were. so are these -- can you be any more specific than your answer with her, about what they were doing, what you saw? >> i think they're all chronicled in the unclassified community assessment, in terms that it is very clear the g.r.u. was responsible for hacking into the networks of the dnc and w...

News stories that tried to denigrate secretary clinton. it was a mixture of prone begpa. it was sicybercollectio collect. it was the release of information seen as damaging to one of the candidates that they were trying to harm. >> so you said a moment ago that you don't believe they'll be deterred from engaging in activity like this in the future. do you think they would attempt to influence the 2018 midterm elections? >> i have, unfortunately, drudging respect for russian intelligence capabilities and their aggressiveness, their pervasiveness and their determination to do what they can to un...

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....