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Big congressional delegation like this, seven senators and a member of the house all from one party? >> yes, very unusual. it's very unusual to have that many senators, first of all. that's an incredible number of senators. but to have no democrats, that is highly unusual. and also, remember, i could be wrong, but i think almost all, if not all of these members are on the appropriations committee. they're not from the senate foreign relations committee that you just mentioned. that's also unusual. >> in terms of how they have conducted themselves on this congressional delegation, there was an ...

All analysts express that had they were free to debate, object to content, and assess confidence levels as is normal and proper for the analytic process. as the inquiry has progressed since january 2017, the committee has also seen additional examples of russia's attempts to sow discord, undernine democratic institutions and interfere in u.s. elections. quote, the committee conquers with intelligence and open source assessments that the russian influence campaign was approved by president putin. quote, moscow did seek to denigrate secretary clinton. so this is a resounding statement from the i...

President for his stance toward russia. at times they were even opposing him in terms of his friendliness towards russia. at worst they were awkwardly ignoring his friendliness to russia and pretending it wasn't happening. but now look what happened today. i mean, a congressional delegation itself is not a bad thing. congressional delegations happen all over the world to countries we get along with and countries we don't. to countries we are allies with and countries we have a beef with. here is richard shelby and all these other run of the mill republican senators. not only visiting russia ri...

Than go without her. nice, right? bipartisan. nonpartisan solidarity on that one. oh, yeah, russia? one of us can't come? then we're not coming. all three of those senators are on the foreign relations committee together. they were all going to do this trip together. but if the russian wouldn't let the democrat go, then they decide they'd wouldn't go at all. nice. it was nice while it lasted. that was december. this time around, the republicans just decided that they wouldn't invite any democrats to go with them. seven republican senators, including ron johnson of wisconsin, seven republican s...

Johnson of wisconsin, two republican senators, they were scheduled to go, as was a democratic senator, jeanne shaheen from new hampshire. but then the russians said no to the democrat. senator jeanne shaheen has been a sharp critic of russia in terms of them messing with our election. she was outspoken in support of sanctions on russia in response to that meddling. the rt funded by the russian government, they should have to register as a foreign agent in this country. she was pushy as well about kaspersky software which intelligence believes is being used as a spying tool on u.s. government c...