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Justice department policies kind of got us to this point where he felt he could come out and say that, yes, this investigation is ongoing, that has come because there has been increasing anger and frustration among people in both political parties up here on capitol hill. the chairman of this committee, yes, gave the trump administration some covering in his questioning here. he had been giving them cover in what have become regular news conferences. last week he came out and said on the wiretapping allegation, the president is wrong. that was a key turning point here. it was the moment when c...

As well. >> it could easily be as dni clapper says there's no collusion between trump campaign and the russians. but could be causing mischief they could have been doing this all themselves. it's reported that at least -- and then comey today said putin hates hillary. >> i think that's an important point. what happened here was not just the russians trying to help donald trump. they were punishing hillary clinton because she had bn an advocate for human rightsn russia. that should be scary to everybo everybody. that if an american politician speaks out. we've got to speak out about this. i wan...

The white house, in my view, should have presented it with this tweet. you can't say things without backing them up if you're the president. erbut on and off camera today, they take this seriously and he alluded to it, they have information that they will present as evidence. >> i totally agree that everyone needs to put up or shut up. there is been far too much information put out theree without any evidence to back it up. we are months into a selective releasea campaign, selectively releasing information that did come from surveillance. transcripts of phone calls, all these nefarious reports...

Presumably the intelligence community has known about this for a long time. roger stone admitted long ago to having a back channel with wikileaks and he posted his conversations, screen grabs of his conversation with guccifer 2.0 when he says were innocuous. these are things dni clapper knew but he still says there is no evidence he's seen of collusion between trump and russia. >> collusion is a very technical term. what we want to know is, were they working with russia. you know, it's okay to have business ties with russians. i think it shows bad judgment, they're not our friend, but what we ...

About whether or not the fbi and doj sought a fisa warrant and used wiretapping. that's something that they have every authority to do. but dni clapper also said that didn't happen. so it's unclear why we're talking about this still. but this is a tactic, to your point, that they've used, calling for internal and external investigations to distract from the issue at hand, whether it's obamacare or ties to russia. >> jen psaki, david drucker, senator santorum, stick around for us. coming up next, the white house prepares for a hard sell on the health care bill. and the congressional budget offi...