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I'm not going to respond to your -- >> i think that's what we're -- again, i'm trying to get some understanding of what sets off a red flag. you know, when do you refer to law enforcement? i know you weren't the director at that time. boy, that hits all the things you were talking about in the playbook. elections, influential american and building a relationship. trying to get to the substance there. but it's interesting you can't respond to a personal conversation, but this is what we're talking about. anyway, i yield back. >> i try to avoid getting involved in political issues, partisan issu...

Look at upcoming elections. would you agree with that. >> in general, yes. >> i yield the remainder of my time over to, i believe, mr. gowdy. >> director brennan, why is it important to protect the identify of u.-- identity of u. persons as part of our surveillance programs? >> because there is a right of all americans to privacy, and that sometimes, information is collected about u.s. persons who may or may not be involved in any manner of criminal activity. therefore, respecting that privacy of u.s. citizens, the intelligence community goes to great lengths to cover the identities of u.s. pe...

Collusion or collaboration, they'd be misrepresenting the intelligence, would they not? >> i don't know what else they have seen that could corroborate or -- >> only what you saw. they'd be misrepresenting the intelligence, correct? >> i presume they would be misrepresenting what it is that i saw. again, i don't know -- >> thank you. i appreciate that. i do believe that there are members of this committee that deserve that council. your specificity tells us what we are reviewing. i believe some reviewed what you have seen and represent it to the public absolutely incorrectly and misrepresent i...

And try to influence the political campaign of last year? >> i was aware that both campaigns were being contacted and notified about it, yes. >> you said, i believe, to mr. gow gowdy, that you believe there was information of conct between people in the trump universe and moscow, wther or not that was collusion or not remains to be seen. you said you didn't know if it was actual collusion. i think your words were, i don't know. can you tell us whether or not, from the information that you've looked at, it looks like the intelligence shows that moscow was actually rooting for donald trump or we...