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I mean what was the nature of the evidence? >> i think, mr. gowdy, this committee has now been provided information that relates to that issue in terms of information that the agency shared with the bureau. that is something that is appropriately classified. >> all right. and you learned that when? when in this chronology did you learn of the contacts between these official members of the trump campaign or -- because there's kind of a triparteid hierarchy. trump himself, higher members of the campaign and folks who have associated themselves with him. >> i'm not going to try to identify indivi...

Investigation by the bureau to determine whether or not such cooperation or collusion was taking place. >> that doesn't help us a lot. what was the nature of the information? >> as i said, mr. gowdy, i think this committee now has access to the type of information that i'm alluding to here. it is classified and i'm happy to talk about it in classified session. >> that would have been directly between the candidate and russian state actors? >> that's not what i said. i'm not going to talk about any individuals. >> but that was my question. and you answered it. you didn't answer it that way. >> ...

Doing proactively to enable not just the cia but the fbi and the nsa for -- to thwart future meddling? >> sure. >> okay. based on what happened here, do you think there are ways we can assist our allies in thwarting what the russians are doing? is it simply sharing information? are there additional measures that can be taken? because i think if one of us is successful, more of us can be successful. >> i think it is a combination of things. i'd be careful here, again, in an open setting. certainly, sharing information. making sure they're aware of the techniques, the tactics, the procedures, as...

Community's ability to do our jobs and to make a report, a recommendation, to you and the new administration as to how we better defend ourselves against what russia and/or others may be trying to do with regard to affecting our republic and our democracy. and in doing so, if we do find any kind of criminal behavior, i think that the minority would agree that those type of -- that type of information would be referred to the justice department which is the proper jurisdiction. but with regard to the main question at hand, and your experience with the russians trying to involve themselves in ou...

No. but it was taken into account. and so therefore, again, some decisions had to be made about it. but i am unaware tha anything was intentionally excluded because of intelligence that was, for some reason, one of the agencies didn't want in there for any reason that was not a very legitimate intelligence reason. >> mr. gowdy, i'll yield the rest of my time. >> thank you my friend from new york. director brenbrennan, last time were talking about the inception of your investigation in 2016, i want the next question to include the inception, the pendency, up until your very last day at the cia....