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Session, who was the ceo, is the ceo of one of the largest oil companies, he had done a deal with him. they were friends. i don't want our secretary of state to be so cozy with our biggest adversary. >> congresswoman spear, thank you very much for joining us on "new day". >> thank you. >> let's get to chris. talking about the hearing yesterday, the big question was why. why did russia want to ber serene in the 2016 election. we have tom pickering coming on. how does that filter into his take about how russia interacted the this election and what they might do in the next one. see me. see me....

And said, we didn't realize how organized the democrats would be coming into this hearing because they were very effective at fomenting the notion that the president was illegitimate. and there is a cloud over the actors in the white house at this point. and the democrats left this hearing with more questions out in the twitter verse and the news than when they came in. so republicans did not like that. they really wanted to focus on this issue of the leaks and the sustained leaks that have been coming out of the administration. >> molly, given that there was that reference that you just made,...

Staffers, and then comey wound up being asked about it yesterday in the hearing and wound up divulging there is, in fact, an investigation. it's been going on since july. we never heard about it until yesterday. >> i think these issues would have come to light, because the house intelligence committee, at a minimum, is looking at four areas. tools that we're using, and any american that was potentially colluding or corroborating with russian intelligence. so that was -- that is, that was one of the major planks of the house permanent select committee on intelligence's investigation. so i think...

Did not seem to think that it was over. and in fact, sean spicer seemed to suggest that investigations into this will continue. let me play this for you. >> is the president prepared to withdraw that accusation, apologize to the president? >> no, we started a hearing, it's still ongoing. >> what does that mean, congresswoman? we've started a hearing and it's still ongoing. >> i think he was just flummoxed. i don't think he knew where to go with it. he's oftentimes put in a very difficult position. but the truth of the matter is, there's no way any president, not even president trump, can order...

Russian government. >> interesting question. i want your head on this. for the people at home, by the way, will hurt isn't just a congressman, although that would be plenty enough as a pedigree, but he worked in intelligence, worked for the cia, so he has unique insight into these things. the president was tweeting yesterday, trying to create his own narrative, certainly within his rights and he's clever with it, but he brought up that there was no look into potus about connections to russia. and i'm wondering your take on this. do you think that it would have come up at the hearing yesterday,...