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About it and so was jake clapper. >> it's really a tale of two hearings, it's democrats like yourself that were asking about any potential collusion in the election, and essentially all the republicans are asking about are leakings and we saw that again today, we saw that in the house and on the senate side. >> that's right, it is a tale of two hearings, except they are importantly for senator graham, some of the republicans and my hope is there will be more of them who will see what jim clapper designed very, very powerfully. if there is another takeaway here, it's jim clapper's reference to ...

>> i can't speak to this specific situation. >> jim sciuto joins us, despite all these different topics, this was actually learning about russian interference in the u.s. election. >> reporter: general clapper confirmed this before that russian hackers targeted both republican and democratic party officials, but only leaked on the democrats. looking forward, agreement that russians will, they believe attack again and attack both parties, oddly we did not hear much about what to do about that in this hearing. for the most senior level, they are normally subject to a far more invasive clearance ...

President. >> and matthew, the president tweeted again a short time ago, director clapper reiterated what everybody already knows, there is no collusion with russia and trump. based on what he had seen on january 6 when he left, he saw no evidence. but he also didn't even know about the fbi counter intelligence investigation. >> clapper made it pretty clear that he was staying out of this. and we heard that from the white house too, that they saw the investigation as separate and they couldn't meddle and they shouldn't be talking about it. so what clapper knew and didn't know is a big question...

Don't unmask it for everyone that got the report, just the person who unmasked it and they're told not to share it. >> the issue here that has been raised, when he did this, it was routinely part of his job and there is a record of it. >> you had them focus on a core issue, which is the trump team and those in russia. they were focused on a grab bag of issues from e-mails to unmasking and you saw exasperation from jim clapper saying unmasking is an important issue, but not what we should be focused on. i'm here to talk about the influence of russia on our 2016 election. >> he is as concerned a...

Fbi building -- perp walked out of the fbi building. how implausible. if hillary clinton complains that comey cost her the election, then here you have trump firing comey for costing hillary the election. this doesn't make any sense. it's clear this has been prepared for days, but why this way? and why was it done with malice? there would have been so many ways of having comey sort of stuff aside, say he was in an untenable position. in his defense, and i am somewhat sympathetic to him, i wouldn't have done what he did. but he was in a position that was utterly impossible. we have never had a ...