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Sharing comes on the heels of the president sharing sensitive israeli intelligence with the russian officials and he also by the way told the president of the philippines about specific locations of u.s. nuclear submarines around the korean peninsula. both of those very sensitive classified information. so is there now another trust issue with american allies? >> well, look, we've got to straighten this out. we've got to make it clear that we need to share information. we need to do that because terrorists are a dangerous threat to democratic countries around the world. we have to be able to s...

Any of the information in that was valid, but i don't have any firsthand knowledge of it. >> do you know if the bureau ever relied on the steel dossier as any -- as part of any court filings? applications, petitions, pleadings? >> i have no awareness. >> did the cia rely on it? >> no. >> why not? >> because we didn't. it wasn't part of the corpus of intelligence information that we had. it was not in any way used as a basis for the intelligence community assessment that was done. it was not. >> all right. this is my last line and i hope i have waited sufficiently long enough to ask you about l...

By the bureau made to try and understand whether or not any of the information in that was valid, but i don't have any first had knowledge of it. court filings, applications, petitions, pleadings -- >> i have no awareness. >> it was not part of the corpus of intelligence information that we had. it was not in any way used as a basis for the intelligence community assessment that was done. it was not. >> all right, my last line of conference, i hope i have waited sufficiently long enough to ask you about leaks to not inflame the anger of our friends in media that think the republicans are hyper...

His business documents, which may give us the information that we need and where there's a pretty clear argument that they would not be protected by any claim of fifth amendment privilege. >> how much is this holding up the investigation right now? >> it's not really holding us up much, as much as we would like to have these documents, because we're proceeding to issue many other requests for documents from other people who are involved. our staff has conducted some 30 interviews and we've been reviewing information, intelligence information, at cia headquarters in langley. >> is mike flynn th...

>> it's extremely difficult to pick sides since we've been an ally of the saudis for a long, long time. their biggest adversary is iran. there's something of a battle, has been for some time, a battle in the region for influence and dominance between saudi arabia on the one hand and iran on other. we have picked a side. the side we picked are the saudis and the side we're against is iran and we have been since 1979. we cast our lot with the saudis at least partially because of their relationship with the israelis and there's been a lot of trading of intelligence information among us in order t...