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Prosecutor to investigate this russian debacle. >> that is only going to increase given the fact that over the weekend on twitter, the sitting president accused the former president of committing a felony. >> and called him sick. >> and congressman, my question to you is, any president receives a notion of intelligence on a daily basis. you people on the house intelligence service committee, intelligence committee receive some of it. is it possible that the president, in a tweet on saturday morning, perhaps unknowingly, unwittingly, exposed classified intelligence information in a tweet, in th...

President forgot for a moment in the morning saturday that he was actually president and that he actually could have called the acting director of national intelligence and the director of the fbi and asked them questions if the breitbart article or the other articles, which frankly didn't say, which they have alleged to have said, he simply could have asked. >> he could have. i am going to make the leap that he knows he could have asked. so why would he do this? >> well, now you're getting me out of my background lane. but if you're asking me why, he is trying to distract attention from what ...

Literally what the president tweeted it could not have happened the way the president said it, that the president of the united states directed surveillance on someone. he hasn't been able to do that since the mid 1970s. you've got to go to an article iii judge and you got to have problem cause that is a target of the surveillance is either an agent of a foreign power or it's very likely involved in criminal activity. so on its face, that is just incorrect. now, did that happen in another way? now we have had the two agents that would have made it happen, jim clapper, the director of national ...

Immigration and who can come over. >> general, let's go back to the sound clip that we played a few minutes ago of paul ryan being interviewed on fox about the process involved here. the process of getting the warrant to tap or intercept, whatever. does it begin at 1600 pennsylvania avenue? or does it begin with the justice department? >> oh, no it doesn't begin at 1600 pennsylvania -- that is alien to my life experience. now, mike, i will admit, i had some interest in some fisa against legislate foreign intelligence targets that were politically sensitive. all right? so that if exposed, we wo...

Concludes with this statement. political collusion with a foreign power and abuse of intelligence collection to smear an opponent and threaten the integrity of democratic institutions. let's hope the intelligence committees rise above their party leaders and tell americans what really happened. are you confident that your committee, as well as the senate intel committee, can do just that? >> i sure hope so. i've thought all along this is really not a job for the congressional intelligence committees. all of us are a party label and we are in the political fray. and so, you know, any conclusion...