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Time was that the cyber dimension and the fact that the release of so much information that they had extracted via signer is a primary tool to try to drive an outcome. >> in this setting can you talk to us about what tools they used? >> i'm not going to go into the specifics of how they executed the hacks. poll ji i apologize, no, sir. >> we'll try to get into that in classified. i'll hold off for now, thank you. >> mr. schiff is recognized for 15 minutes. >> thank you, i just had a couple thought questions. director comey, can you tell me what sf 86 is. >> it's the standard background clearan...

This is coming from the house oversight committee. what they've documented are payments that general flynn received for a visit and a speech to russia in december 2015. the speech was known about. you've probably seen the pictures. our viewers have of general flynn sitting next to russian president vladimir putin at a banquet in moscow. jen flynn has acknowledged the speech before. what he has not acknowledged was he was paid money by the broadcaster, which is backed by the kremlin in the view of u.s. intelligence. that's important not just because of how it looks but because of u.s. law. u.s....

Security clearance as a former director of the defense intelligence agency. retired lieutenant general. but when you get a new job as national security adviser to the president, you have to update your security clearances and part of the process is reporting income. especially income from foreign sources. so the question is, if he didn't report this income, would that have been a violation of that entire security clearance vetting process? >> it would be a violation of the law if he did not report that income on what's known as the sf-86. your security clearance form. a violation of the law. s...

Campaign. cnn's chief national correspondent jim sciutto, anybody who watches knows it is an arm of the russian government and funded by the russian government. >> two potential issues here, one is legal, one is military. from the military side, if he took this payment, which we now have records that he did, and did not let the army know, which it has no records of him telling them, that violates military regulations even for a retired officer. but this is more important. if he did not report these payments from russian government on his security clearance form known as the sf-86, that breaks ...

While at the same time writing op-eds in defense of turkey advancing their political prospects. so navid, how damaging is this for the trump campaign and is it damaging for them to have somebody of that stature, the national security adviser retroactively register as a foreign agent, especially when that administration says that anybody who works in the government shouldn't be allowed to lobby with a foreign power, period, after they leave the government? >> you know, katy, this is the heart of where i think any investigation is going to end up going. i think it's less likely you're going to s...