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The nature of any links between individuals associated with the trump campaign and the russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russia's efforts. we have taken the extraordinary step in coordination with the department of justice of briefing this congress's leaders including the leaders of this committee. in a classified setting in detail about the investigation. but i can't go into those details here. some folks may want to make comparisons to past instances where the department of justice and the fbi have spoken about the details of some investigatio...

Both had been wiretapped by president obama. i'm not going to ask you to whether the chancellor was the subject of eavesdropping, but i would like to ask you if snowden disclosures that damaged our relationship with our german ally and whether chancellor herself expressed concern at the time. >> yes, sir. >> in light of this, is it helpful to our relationship with the chancellor or our relationship with german intelligence to bring this up again in a public forum? >> it's certainly complicating things but i would like to think our relation is such that we'll be able to keep moving forward. >> ...

Court, if their opponent is a corporation. >> okay, but in that case -- >> the real question for that hearing is he going to saddle up with him and recreate the gang of five and keep going on with this highly partisan bayeehavio. >> in that case, if it's all about the math, you're not going to ever approve any of president trump's nominees? >> nope, it means it puts the burden on him to convince us that he's not going to ride along with that posse and that he will actually stand as an independent judge and make the kind of decisions that he said he would make in his testimony yesterday. but we...

But it will continue until folks come clean. >> rick, what's your opinion? which is closer to the truth? >> well, there's no chance that barack obama wiretapped trump tower. i think that's been pretty well established. if the president had evident on that, he should have offered it up instead of tweeting it out. did the trump campaign collude with the russians? there's no evidence of that either. but, you know, that remains to be seen. we'll see how it evolves. what trump did is guarantee people will look at it closer by the reckless tweet he sent out claiming obama committed a felony. >> we'l...

Week it gets more confusing. the president admits that she had nothing to do with libya, didn't know anything about d it, yet she was sent out as the administration's spokeswoman, and she st ays that she relied n four sentences of unclassified talking points. now, if that were true, that would be the height of irresponsibility. she has access to all the classified top secret information and to think that you were going on five national shows relying on four sentences makes no sense. she had to have been told what really happened over there. >> not only because of that, because she had access t...