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Was concerned about contacts between the trump campaign and russian operatives raising the possibility of collusion in his mind. cnn's jessica schneider joins me now. brennan stopped short of saying that there was direct evidence of collusion. >> reporter: that's right, he did, jake. republican congressman trey gowdy repeatedly pointed out direct evidence has not been presented and brennan stressed while he couldn't make the leap to conclusion there was clear contact by rushes and -- >> reporter: the cia director concerned about the contact he saw between the trump campaign officials at the he...

Hearings up on capitol hill today. a lot to un pack. let's bring in our panel. cnn legal analyst paul callen is here, dana bash, and chris. dan nark t, the former cia dire said russia brazenly interfered in the presidential elections and trump campaign had contacts with russia but stopped short of further than who was in a posit know at the time. is really bad news for the trump campaign. excuse me, for the former trump campaign, trump white house and is a perfect example of why the justice department and rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, decided that it was appropriate to have a sp...

John brennan left the investigation to the fbi but stopped short of calling it collusion. >> i don't know whether or not such collusion, that's your term, collusion existed but i don't know. but i know there was sufficient basis and information in intelligence that required further investigation by the bureau to determine whether or not u.s. persons were actively conspiring concluding with russian official. >> brennan led the cia into the final obama administration. he told congress he received information that the -- >> by the time i left office on january 20th i had unresolved questions in m...

Campaign and then you have to link it to the president and you also have to lit collusion with respect to criminality. it's not a crime to influence an election. everybody hires consultants to try to influence an election. you have to engage in criminal activity. in other words, you'd have to show that people on the trump campaign were actually assisting the russians in getting into the computer system to get the e-mails or doing other criminal acts that the president was aware of. that's a very steep hill to climb and i don't see it being climbed effectively in what i've heard so far today. >...

So, let me first ask, any reaction at all from the trump cache ca camp to this? >> nothing yet. i just checked his twitter feed during the break sure. wouldn't be surprised if he would react later today. we reached out to transition officials and yet to hear from them. we'll pass that on as soon as we get it. bottom line, in the waning weeks before the election, before this case was, in effect, revisited by the fbi, before that announcement on october 28th, donald trump basically said he wants to investigate the investigation. he called it collusion and corruption of the highest order. said it...