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Representative schiff and i told him, very smart guy democrat from california, i said if you can do this in a nonpartisan way, you're going to become a star. my only question about the special prosecutor is everything is way up here. i'd like to get on a steady path to getting this resolved and i think there's more hype. but i want to get to the truth. if senator warner says this won't work, if the growing numbers say there's a white wash, then we have to do something else. i want to do this in a serious and sober way without raising the lights even brighter than they currently are. >> i want ...

Knew that. i thought what was interesting was him talking about the level of leak activity we've seen. in his words, how much of it was dead wrong. that does speak to the coordinated campaign we've seen. reference to how few people would've known the name mike flynn and how that was caught up in surveillance. only a few people at the highest levels of the obama administration would've had access to that information. that somehow made it into the press. we've seen this ongoing campaign and we have a lot to learn about how those things came out and what it means about what the obama administrati...

And nsa director couldn't possibly answer. ask the question for the purpose of getting the premise of the questions, the allegations or the claims into the record. they did that again and again. the ranking member, mr. schiff, dragged out the idea that there was a softening of a plank inimical to russia. the reporting is that during the republican convention, that link and the platform was toughened but there is still working on that idea anyway. it's at peace with the hearings i've covered over the years. >> bret: seems like representative schiff and representative gowdy were the respective p...

Possible ties between the trump administration and russia. katy tur joins us in our studio, who has covered the trump administration since the start. what do you make of today? >> well, i think it's very important to point out that this probe began in jushlly, around time that donald trump said at that infamous press conference said, russia, if you're listening, i would love you to find hillary clinton's e-mails. we didn't know about that probe until after that. there will be questions why the fbi didn't come out much sooner they had this probe, given the fact they were talking the probe into ...

The hearing room. kasie, what was the activity like while we were under way? >> reporter: it was like you could hear a pin drop, which is unusual for running around in these hall ways outside because i think this is something where every kind of deliberate set of words from comey mattered very much. to the point that adam schiff wouldn't even tell us what it was he learned in this hearing that was new or interesting or that we should focus on. but i do want to pick up on one thing you all were just discussing around the table is that, yes, we clearly saw some partisanship on display in that he...