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About extensive contacts between trump officials and russian intelligence officials. he explained his position. go ahead and tell us what he said. so seemed to downplay that there was anything wrong with this. he said, listen, the white house might have given me a phone number of a reporter to talk to. i talk to reporters all the time. this is just normal back and forth, and he said, in fact, it's an example of greater transparency. let's put that through something of a smell test here. i mean, based on you are on own reporting, we know that this was coordinated from the white house, that the ...

And the hacks that are on it. now, russia carried forward on these attempts trying to have some kind of impact on public opinion and the election. so you know that, and hopefully congress will get to have a briefing this week. can you believe we still have not been able to see a report and have the briefing and our intel committees come before us and give us the information. >> you just had a hearing and the intel community says that any time you want to know, give them clearance and they'll tell you. >> that's exactly right. we are looking forward -- usually what they will do is a briefing wh...

? >> there's just chaos or lack of coordination. that's why i believed for quite some time that we are not going to know the full story here until the trump administration comes in, when dan coats becomes director of national intelligence, mike pompeo, director of cia and senate and house intel committees finish their investigation. you mentioned núñez, i think on a closed basis so they can look at the sensitive information and the administration refuse refused to let the heads of the agencies it have. it's -- testify, it's that kind of activity that leads núñez to say something is going o...

No, the content that is in those emails, you didn't have putin taking charge of john podesta's or donna brazile or anybody else's email. >> congresswoman we're out of time. what would it take for you to be convinced by the president, like the cia, like the fbi that putin was directly involved in these cyber attacks against the democrats? >> i'm going to provide the time for our intel committees to do their appropriate work, and to do their due diligence and respond back to us. i think at this point in time, we all need to allow those committees to gather the information, to sort that informati...

I mean, this really theoretically could put innocent humanitarian workers at real peril. >> absolutely, jake. i mean, you have to look at abbottabad we were trying to collect dna. and, you know, vaccination programs completely went under there. and pakistanis turned on them. and this puts at risk all christian missionary groups across the world working in hostile areas. they're going to be called spies. they're going to be looking at this north korea thing, yeah, puts them at risk absolutely. >> matthew, this program was secret with very little oversight throughout both the bush and obama admi...