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2017 conclusion from the intelligence community that said it was putin that orchestrated a campaign to help donald trump win the presidency. now, when i asked a secretary specifically about whether or not she agrees with that intelligence community assessment, she seemed to push back. >> secretary, to that point, do you have any reason to doubt the january 2017 intelligence community assessment that said it was peutin who tried to medde in the election? >> i do not believe i've seen that conclusion. what i do -- that the specific intent was to help president trump win, i'm not aware of that. b...

That level, there shouldn't be leaks, okay, fair point. are you worried about the president of the united states trying to undercut the legitimacy of a functioning process of our democracy which is this inquiry? doesn't that bother you as an integrity issue as well? >> look, i have said a bunch of times that i think the president ought to comply with the investigation. we ought to bring it to a close. if they can't find collusion with the russians, i don't think there's much political consequences here. i agree. i think go along with the investigation, comply with it. i think the frustration i...

To ask for more whistle blowers. it's the only way you can really get into the intelligence community. you have to have people bringing information to you. the second thing is it appears like a lot of these documents were that sensitive. the other concern, they were not national security issues. there's a good chance that they could probably or perhaps get these documents declassified so that we could all see what was in them. pete: boy, i think that would be interesting and it would inform the debate a lot. there is so much information about mask, unmasking, names. no one let's you see it. yo...

20th is a policy. and people to execute that policy. i think part of the problem with flynn was he really was very much out there on his own. he was freelancing, having conversations, he wasn't being well briefed. >> here's the question. we know that flynn will speak at an rt conference in 2015, sat with vladimir putin at the event. if he was working on behalf of turkey, is it conceivable he could have been working for russia too? >> well, first let's get to the idea of this extreme vetting you were talking about. how about extreme common sense? i have to agree, the conversations with kisliak ...

Which didn't end well for him, there's the integrity issue. when you go to russia, as an intelligence officer, he was intelligence officer for most of his career. seems some how to think it's okay to go to russia, it's okay to sit next to vladimir putin, which doesn't happen by accident. it's okay to get paid and associate with r.t., a propaganda outlet of the kremlin. i mean, how do you miss that? how do you figure, yeah, this is the guy i want to be doing this? that to me doesn't make a lot of sense. could he have been working for the russians as well? i would have been -- i was asked recent...