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In just hours, former acting attorney general sally yates and former intelligence director james clapper will testify on capitol hill. what can we expect to learn today? joining us to discuss is national security analyst and nsa director general michael hayden. great to have you here. >> thank you. >> sally yates will be hamstrung in the open session. what do you expect to learn? >> this is fascinating, alisyn. let me say at the end of the day thes white house is not going to be enthusiastic with regard to what is said in the committee. this will not settle the issue down. what we have here ar...

Answer before as well. because i think you may have misunderstood me. you asked whether i was aware of evidence of collusion. i declined to answer because absenteeing would reveal classified information. i believe that's the same answer that director comey gave when he was asked this question as well. and he made clear, and i'd like to make clear that just because i say i can't answer it, you should not draw from that an assumption that that means that the answer is yes. >> fair enough. >> this illustrates what i was trying to get at in it my statement about the unique position that the fbi st...

Russians did in the actual election and the second question was what the ties of those around president-elect trump and candidate trump and president trump. it is on the second we will hear the most, i think from sally yates because clearly she had access to this fascinating trove of conversations that were picked up by american intelligence that go back after the time general flynn was fired from the obama administration as head of the defense intelligence agency. he goes to russia. he is working as a lobbyist for turkey. it is that area of intelligence that the u.s. clearly has intercepts to...

>> other than situations where the department of justice would arrange, for example, for me to talk on background with reporters about a particular issue, to educate them about that, no, i've certainly not provided classified information, and that would be the only kind of background. >> and i've done the same thing, but certainly not -- that doesn't -- doesn't include sharing classified information. >> do you know anybody else as justice who has ever leaked classified or unclassified information to the press? >> no. >> miss yates? >> no. >> okay. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i went over. i apo...

Evaldated during the review. >> i would have to consult with the analysts that were involved in the report to definitively answer that. i don't know whether they considered that or not. >> can you submit that as an answer in writing? >> well, i'm a private citizen now, sir. i don't know what the rules are on my obtaining potentially classified information. so i will look into it. >> mr. clapper, you testified that the intelligence community conducted an exhaustive review of russian interference and the analysts involved had complete access to all sensitive, raw intelligence data. do you have r...