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Community, including the former cia director, john brennan, the former director of national intelligence, john clapper, under president obama, and to look for some of those early roots of how did it begin that there was any kind of search for information about people affiliated with president trump, that time donald trump candidate. so, part of what is a question about this is, is there any criminal wrongdoing that's been identified? one of the questions is, what is the legal authority here? because typically, you would have the fbi identifying potentially a crime and then investigators pursui...

President will say, oh, let's agree not to meddle in each other's affairs. if he says that, trump is effectively saying, i'll stop beating my wife. if he admits we are, you're creating a false intelligence. that's what i see coming out of this meeting. >> chris, your thoughts on this? >> look, the united states has a record of meddling in about 80 countries trying to meddle with the outcome of their elections and the governments that rule them between 1996 and 2000. john clapper in his own book conceded that. putin believes very strongly that the west has been trying to undermine his authorita...

Knowing the truth and fulfilling their constitutional role. chairman nunes, he's now putting his foot down. in this standoff with rosenstein and the doj. take a look. >> we had what i thought is a productive meeting. after that meeting, they have done nothing but leak and leak. we don't know who it is over at the department of justice or fbi. i'm not pinning in i blame on people. we're not going to another meeting where we don't get documents and the meeting leaks out. >> sean: the chairman is getting close. the entire truth is starting to come out. thankfully. by the way, despite rosenstein s...

We have had hearings in our community about how russia operates. we have brought in sally yates and john clapper and a bunch of people who are worried about the trump campaign association with the russians. we haven't found any evidence of collusion but mueller is doing his job. the chairman and i have looked close at the fbi investigation of the clinton email scandal and i have come away believing it was shoddily done. there were conflicts of interest in political bias that may have resulted in giving clinton a pass. the steele dossier was paid for by the democratic party and fusion gps, mr. ...

Collusion. ohio republican jim jordan is a member of the house oversight committee and joins us now. is the case closed? >> we learned two things from the republicans on the report. the first is they told us something we already know, namely, there was no coordination between the trump campaign and now they've confirmed that clapper actually was the guy leaking information, specifically leaking information, i believe, from the january 6 meeting where they briefed president trump, then president-elec trump. those were the two key takeaways. no coordination and mr. clapper was leaking informatio...