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To get very much out because anything that is pertinent would be classified and would have to be given in a private session. we have already had meetings with sally yates. we meet with comey, rogers, clapper a number of times in executive sessions, private sessions. so i don't know really what more we could get out of it at this stage. what i would be asking general clapper is that as far as he knew as director of national intelligence, there is no evidence of any collusion between the trump campaign and russia. as far as john brendan -- again, i have to watch what i say because we have had a ...

Two-pronged campaign since this investigation began. obstruction and distraction. it makes it very difficult to go forward, but we will go forward. >> do you believe that someone in the white house, someone on the white house staff actually gave the information, which the next day, he then discussed publicly and actually went to see the president and reported that information to the president? >> that information could have come from any number of sources. we have absolutely no way of knowing. obviously, if there are white house logs, we would have a little bit better idea. >> when do you expe...

Classified conversations. >> unauthorize disclosures. it's very, very hard. oftentimes it doesn't come from the people who actually know the secrets. it comes from one hop-out. people who heard about it or were told about it, and that's the reason so much information that reports to be accurate -- classified information is wrong in the media. people that heard about it, don't hear about it right. it is an enormous problem whenever you find information that is actually classified. >> if possible, prosecuted so people take as a lesson. this is not okay. this behavior can be deterred, and it's de...

Where more information would come out. but there are a few things that i hope we hear about. first, many of us have been asking a fundamental question, which is any americans cooperated or conspired with the russians who interfered with the 2016 presidential election. what i would like for the director to discuss in open session is whether anybody is being investigated, whether any americans are being investigated because of that. and then also, basically the scope of the investigation, and then finally, a timeline for resolving that question and so many others that have to do with russian int...

To. ed, let me start with you. i know you didn't hear the entire press conference but you heard the clip we played earlier. >> yep. >> the president standing by his claims. does he owe the american people an explanation, an apology? do you think he's right to continue to stand by these claims? fox newsust put out a statement saying, because some of what he was -- they were citing yesterday was based on a fox analyst, a fox commentator. fox news knows of no evidence of any kind that the now president of the united states was surveilled at any time, any way, full stop, is the statement out of fo...