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Questions why the white house did not act sooner to remove him from the job. at the same time, investigators on the house and senate intelligence committees say the investigation into russia could move into the fall if not next year with one lawmaker says the documents are taller than he is at 5'10". investigators looking into russia's role into the 2016 elections. running into a range of challenges ahead of today's testimony from former acting attorney general sally yates and former head of the intelligence agency james clapper. >> we will ask her about russia and what she knew about trump ti...

Unconstitutional, and one of your colleagues said or even just that would reflect poorly on the department of justice, would i say no, and i looked at this, i made it a determination that i believed that it was unlawful. i also thought that it was inconsistent with principles of the department of justice and i said no, and that's what i promised you i would do and that's what i did. >> i don't know how you can say that it was lawful and say that it was within your prerogative to refuse to defend it in a court of law and leave it for the court to decide. >> senator, i did not say it was lawful....

Logistical arrangements for that. it occurred late in the afternoon. this is friday the 27th. so we told them we would work with the fbi over the weekend on this issue and get back with him on monday morning. and i called him tirs thing monday morning to let him know that we would allow them to come over and to review the underlying evidence. >> was that the phone call or a separate phone call? >> there was the phone call initially to let him know i needed to come see him. two meetings and then a phone call at the end to let him know that the material was available. he had to call me back and ...

Department of justice, but i was not aware of any, no. >> had you not been summarily fired, would you have recommended to the white house counsel that they begin further investigations into the national security adviser or that they restrict his access to sensitive and classified information. >> well, it's a bit of a hypothetical. had i remained at the department of justice and if i were under the impression that nothing had been done, then, yes, are would i have raised it again with the white house. >> thank you, miss yates. >> miss yates, dr. clapper, thank you both for your years of service...

Good situation, which is why we wanted to let the white house know about it. >> the guardian has reported that britain's intelligence service first became aware in late 2015 of suspicious interactions between trump advisers and russian intelligence agents. this information was passed on to u.s. intelligence agencies. over the spring of 2016, multiple european allies passed on additional information to the united states about contacts between the trump campaign and russians. >> i can't answer that. >> general clapper, is that accurate? >> yes, it is. it's also quite sensitive. the specifics are...