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This is not surprising. >> what are they looking for, what do they want to do? >> i don't know. if we knew that, probably somebody has a better guess than i do. but, you know, in the old days or whatever you can get your hands on. i don't know if that ever changed. >> ali, is the state department or the fbi intelligence, are they concerned about this that we're sort of losing track of these diplomats? i say diplomats. fsb, whatever, they're spies. >> this all came to a head last year because it was enough of a concern that the intelligence committees on the hill tried to legislate as part of t...

Anything. we might slightly adjust what we're doing. >> mr. chairman, just inquiry, and i appreciate your thoughtfulness. in your departure as we work through it it's still acceptable to get another five minute round? >> up to five minute round. >> senator cotton. >> inmates running the asylum. so i think everyone here in this room and most americans have come to appreciate the aggressiveness with which russia uses active measures or covert influence operations, propaganda, call them whatever you will, as your agencies assess what they did in 2016 and hacking into those e-mails and releasing t...

Accept that and move on or otherwise does this become the stunt even the look? >> it's very very early for counter intelligence criminal investigation that involves foreign entities. we're talking about witnesses who are abroad and complex financial transactions and a number of different individuals so this isn't even a year into the investigation. typically investigations of this magnitude could take years and during our legislatoring we did put forward a number of piece of evidence that show ties between the trump team and russia's interference campaign like going to moscow with permission a...

We have a lot further to go. i want to see a plan that doesn't contain them but defeats them. i think that's what you've seen come out of the house and the bills that we've had here, sending to the president, we want to see a strategy that actually defeats isis. and this is a start. >> one of the bills you're talking about is the intelligence authorization act. you're trying to get more money devoted to gathering intelligence. >> well, intelligence as we watched from all the challenges, 9/11 and others, are the real gap or the vulnerabilities that america had. we just passed the intelligence a...

Activities in pakistan, and iran and africa and elsewhere. >> there is a new twist on the story, the editorial in the wall street journal that details perhaps what happened when the white house heard what was in the papers. our national security correspondent is reporting more on this development. jennifer the head of the house intelligence committee wants all bin laden raid documents made public, why is that? >> reporter: jenna chairman of the house intelligence committee inserted language in the 2014 intelligence authorization act to demand all 1.5 mill yoin documents seized in the bin laden...