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Situation? >> are you looking halt me? >> yes, sir. >> i don't know. >> do you, miss yates? >> i can't speak to the specific situation but can i try to clarify one point on this unmasking thing. >> very quickly. >> i'll try to do it quickly. as a consumer of intelligence, i would, for example, i would receive intelligence reports from various agent significance. >> i get that. >> oftentimes the names are already unmark of the by the intelligence agentit. >> bottom line is i want to know how it got to the "the washington post." somebody had to have access to the information, and they glare it t...

Intelligence assessment about the russian interference. >> david, you have the one bucket. collusion bucket with all of the threads. you have the other bucket. you could argue other than senate judiciary. it goes to the head of oversight. what can clapper and others direct the congress to in terms of what russia did to interfere and how they did it and what protections are needed? do you think the ball will get advanced on clapper today? >> it may. it is more likely, chris, that will get advanced in a closed session. general clapper was up at harvard last week. he gave an interview in which he...

Sally yates and warnings about michael flynn compromised by the russians. question bs ws about why the wh house did not act sooner. yates will be limited on what she can say, but contradict the white house account. at the same time, the house and senate intelligence committees are sifting through information and struggling to come to consensus. also a sign this could take months and months to reach conclusion on the widespreading investigation. congressional investigators looking into russia's role in the 2016 elections. running into a range of challenging ahead of the high profile testimony f...

>> again, would i have to do some research to verify that, but it certainly comports with what they chose a candidate, for whatever reason they had an aversion to they would do that. >> okay. general clapper, have you ever leaked information, classified or unclassified to a member of the press? >> not wittingly or knowingly as i said in my statement. >> classified or unclassified? >> well, unclassified is not leaking. unclassified -- >> -- that's somewhat of a non-sector. >> have you ever given information to a reporter that you didn't want to have your name connected with but you wanted to se...

That help us or does that help russia? >> well, i guess it could be -- you could rationalize that helps the russians by obfuscating who was actually responsible. thank you very much, general clapper. thank you, miss yates. good to have you here. >> i want to thank both you and the ranking are member for -- for this years -- for these hearings. i want to thank general clapper and attorney general yates for -- for appearing today. fwlrm the intelligence communities have concluded, all 17 of them, that russia interfered with this election, and we all know that's right.