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Currently with the administration. >> yeah, and, in fact, one of the things we understand that the administration is nervous about is the comey memo that you mention that the senate and house demanded but the fbi is sort of dragging their feet on providing to the senate and house intel committees, that they might characterize in a way that priebus would not want his conversations with the fbi with both comey and comey's deputy director about a request that the fbi come out and sort of rebut some of the characterizations that were out there about communications between trump's team and russia i...

They all thought, well, the fbi is working on this in this same territory. they have all the equipment. they have all the tools. they are going to do the best investigation. we're just trying to get as much as we can out there to the public as soon as we can. but there is a much more powerful investigation going on kind of behind our backs. they don't necessarily feel that anymore. what are you hearing from those staffers, from those committee members who now have possibly a heavier responsibility as senator warner indicated to me, they kneel a much heavier responsibility with the possibility ...

Case of intel committees. er going the hear increasing calls for an independent commission or select committee with extra staff, some paid staff to do more investigative work. but i want to go back, i have been speaking to former fbi officials tonight about their concern that the intention here is to quash this investigation. there are two views of that. look, you can't do that, it's political suicide. it would leak. the fbi is independent and it's going to go where the evidence leads. here's the thing, they can't investigate -- if the investigation is quashed, they can't leak what they haven'...

Fbi director james comey back in the hot seat. today comey will testify behind closed doors on the russia investigation. it follows a day of stiff questioning before a senate hearing. here's a taste. >> is it fair to say the russian government is still involved in american politics? >> yes. >> is it fair to say we need to stop them from doing this? >> yes, fair to say. >> do you agree with me the only way they're going to stop is for them to pay a price for interfering in our political process? >> i think that's a fair statement. >> no mention of china there. much to the president's sue grin. ...

>> they are saying no smoking gun. that's according to both republican and democratic sources on the senate and house intel committees. multiple lawmakers and aides have reviewed those documents that chairman nunes showed unproper masking of names and there's no evidence that obama administration officials did anything unusual or illegal. in fact, the sources personally viewed the classified documents at nsa headquarters in maryland and after finding what they call a, quote, normal and appropriate requests by susan rice to unmask certain names, they say that it followed proper protocol and the...