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Has directed the department not to follow that policy and to defy that policy? >> i'm not, but i'm also not aware of a situation where the offers of legal counsel was advised not to tell the attorney general about it until after it was over. >> thank you, miss yates. i would note that might be the case if there's reason to suspect partisanship. >> senator klobuchar. >> thank you. i want to thank you very much for your service, miss yates. from beginning to end, your distinguished career as a prosecutor, and i was just putting this timethat i believe together, and i realized the second meeting ...

Today? >> no, not wittingly, no. >> okay. and -- and general flynn received $37,000 for sitting next to putin at the tenth anniversary of russia today. it seems -- all this seems very odd to me and raised a lot of questions. i was struck that mr. mcgann did not ask you in the second meeting why doj, general yates, would have concerns that the -- that the national security adviser had lied to the vice president. in the first meeting did you mention that, that that -- that he might be compromised? >> certainly, we went through all of our concerns in the first

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...

Policy and to defy the policy? >> i'm not, but i'm also not aware of the situation where the office was not advised to tell the attorney general after it was over. >> that thank you. i would note that might be the case if there's reason to suspect there's partisanship. >> thank you. i want to -- thank you very much for your surface, mrs. yates. from beginning to end, your distinguished career as a prosecutor. i want to -- i was putting this timetable together. i realize your second meeting when you went to the white house to warn them of general flynn's lying and his connections with russia wa...

>> 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...