new president and russia and then seeing how he fired comey over the russia investigation. and this profound worry that the president was a counterintelligence risk, that he was, perhaps, not doing the bidding of the united states but doing the bidding of russia. it is exactly what adam schiff has been saying about why he s doing an investigation in the house intelligence committee. this issue has not gone away which is the stuff of spy fiction which is like which side is the president on? jeffrey, susan, chairman, thank you very, very much. we have breaking news right now. first on cnn, the top commander of u.s. forces in the middle east is publicly breaking with president trump. general joseph votel who leads the war against isis tells cnn that he disagreed with the president s decision to pull u.s. troops out of syria and
jeff sessions struggled to do that and would not commit to answering questions behind closed doors, so after the hearing democrats very frustrated, did not get their answers to some key questions, republicans trying to move on to other areas of the investigation. thank you. democrats fumed over sessions testimony, republicans used lighter touch. here s senator tom cotton down playing these allegations while nodding at sessions taste for espionage thrillers. do you like spy fiction? daniel silva. jason matthews? yeah. david ignatius. you like jason bourne or james bond movies? no. yes, i do. have you ever in any of they fantastic situations heard of a plot line so ridiculous that a sitting united states senator and an ambassador of a foreign government colluded in an open
executive privilege that was claimed by the white house. instead saying there was some sort of department of justice policy that prohibited him from discussing this matter with the committee. democrats will point to that provision within the department of justice guidelines. jeff sessions struggled to do that and also would not commit to answering questions behind closed doors, so after the hearing democrats very frustrated he did not get their answers to some key questions. republicans trying to move on to other areas of his investigation. thanks. democrats fumed over sessions testimony, republicans used a lighter touch. here s senator tom cotton down playing the collusion allegations while nodding to sessions taste for espionage thrillers. do you like spy fiction, daniel silva, jason matthews. yeah. david ignatius. do you like jason bourne or james bond movies?
other areas of the investigation. while democrats fumed over sessions testimony, republicans used a lighter touch. here s senator tom cotton down playing the collusion allegations while nodding to sessions taste for espionage thrillers. do you like spy fiction? daniel silva, jason matthews. yeah. david ignatius. do you like jason bourne or james bond movies? no. yes, i do. have you ever in these fantastic situations heard of a plot line so ridiculous that a sitting united states senator and an ambassador of a foreign government colluded at an open setting with hundreds of other people to pull off the greatest caper in the history of espionage? thank you for saying that, senator cotton.
the democrats, members of the liberal mainstream media, they don t care about any of that. why? because their goal is to destroy and discredit president trump now by any means necessary. in this case, it means embarrassing themselves by pushing debunked conspiracy theories. the left in this country has become so unhinged about the trump russia collusion conspiracy that doesn t exist that in today s hearing, senator tom cotton decided to call it up for what it really is. a fantasy, and something you would only read about and a tom clancy spy novel. take a look at this. mr. sessions, are you familiar with what spies call tradecraft? a little bit. things like dead drops, and brush passes, right? that is part of it. do you like spy fiction? daniel silva, jason matthews? yeah, david ignatius.