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Wikileaks as a nonnation state intelligence service. >> unpack that more. are you saying julian assange is not a journalist? >> you're asking the wrong guy a question about that. absolutely not. >> reasonable people in the american debate are worried when they hear people in the ic talk about something that sounds like it was just information. i'm obviously highly skeptical of mr. assange and i've been pushing the justice department to ask why we have not been taking steps to prosecute him for particular crimes that have endangered american intelligence assets, but across the continuum of jour...

Sessions' recusal is hardly eough. demanding that he resign. >> the fact that the attorney general, the top cop in our country, lied under oath to the american people is grounds for him to resign. >> reporter: senate democratic leader chuck schumer wouldn't say if sessions committed perjury, but called for a special prosecutor. >> it would have of alice and wonder land quality if this administration were to sanction him to investigate himself. >> reporter: but house speaker paul ryan rejected call for an independent investigation. >> if there really is nothing there, there on the whole russia ...

An a special prosecutor -- >> you have to protect the sources and methods of our intelligence gathering capabilities, especially with adversaries like russia. that's why the committee of jurisdiction which is supposed to protect those methodologies should be the intelligence committee. so you know, manu, they've been doing an investigation for some time now. they just recently added more scope to that investigation on a bipartisan basis. so you have adam schiff, the ranking member, devin nunes, the chairman, agreeing to the scope of an investigation going forward. that's exactly where, from th...

Second of all, my own view is you have a check the sources and the methods of our intelligence capabilities, especially with adversaries like russia. that is why the community stomach committee of jurisdiction should be the intelligence committee. just so you know, they've been doing an investigation for some time now. they just recently added more scope to that investigation on a bipartisan basis. so you have the ranking member, the chairman agreed to the scope of an investigation going forward, that is exactly where from the congress standpoint, that investigation should occur, because we me...

Special prosecutor -- >> first of all, we don't have that law -- >> reporter: but you could pass a law -- >> you have to protect the sources and methods of our intelligence gathering communities, especially with sad ver s -- adversaries like russia. just so you know, manu, they've been doing an investigation for some time now. they just recently added more scope to that investigation on a bipartisan basis. you have adam schiff, the ranking member, devon nunnes, the chairman, agreed to an investigation going forward, that is exactly where from the congress standpoint that investigation should o...