adam schiff.he is the top democrat on the house intelligence committee. thanks for sticking with us. >> you bet. >> devin nunes said today that, quote, it appears that the democrats aren't really serious about this investigation. he said, quote, as far as i know, they have done very little to even look through the documents that the intelligence agencies have provided. i just wanted to get your response to that and find out what you think he is talking about there. >> you know, i'm not sure, rachel. and i don't want to get into a back and forth with the chair. i will say this. we've submitted witness lists to the majority. we offered the majority and for days we made this offer to try to get things started. and that is if they would like to bring directors rogers and comey back in closed session, we're fine with that let's schedule that and the open hearing. but what they're really trying to do is essentially prohibit sally yates from testifying publicly. we're not okay with that. we think the pub

adam schiff supported hillary clinton. he wasn't necessarily on her transition team, but he supported hillary clinton. that's not the issue. the issue is here and now, how are they conducting themselves. are they following standard procedure? are they consulting each other? are they going where the facts lead them? or are they behaving in a fundamentally political way? and in going down to the white house instead of going to his committee, the chairman behaved in a fundamentally political way. >> you know, phil mudd, a lot of people are going to conclude if it was in fact the russian intention to cause some disruption here in the united states, we sure saw that today. >> they sure did. but let's step back. if you're looking at this from a russian angle or an american angle, i think they may have a covert action that over succeeded. if you wanted donald trump in in moscow, your hope was presumably in place like syria or iran or crimea, eastern ukraine. he can do more for us than hillary clinton. what is his latitude to go t

get together and honestly not even adam schiff's fault. devin nunes's fault for the break down of bipartisanship in the house. but what is interesting is the senate is following this idea here in washington that it's always a little bit older, little more mature. >> grown up? >> little bit more grown up than the house which tend to be a little bit more rockish and rowdy an partisan and more following that pattern certainly in this investigation. >> what did you make, david, of senator warner's comments about actually obtaining a lot of the documents they want because there could be complications? >> yeah. i think the way it was phrased, he wants to push but at the same time do it in that methodical way. not get ahead of themselves. because this he have this opportunity to do a do-over here, wolf. to do it in a way that speaks confidence not the sort of amateur hour that unfolded the last several dayes with congressman nunes and i think that's the way he wanted it. >> they are saying rebecca they are open to subpoenaing documents, individua

congressman adam schiff will join me right after the break. >>> joining me now, adam schiff. congressman schiff, welcome back to the show. let me start basically, when did you first learn what devin nunes shared with the public? >> well, i think i first learned, chuck, when you did, when the chairman had his presser and made this statement. we got notice they were going to do a press availability. we've done those jointly and much as we ask what the subject was we weren't informed, and that was iort of guess the beginning of our concern. and bring it to the white house instead of bring it to your own committee. today's actions, i think, have really been a body blow to the credibility of the committee and we're going to have to have a real heart to heart about this tomorrow. >> well, let me -- have you had a conversation with him since though? with chairman nu necessary? >> i expressed my grave concerns with what the chairman did today, the fact that none of us have seen the intercepts that he has seen and i don't think either democrats or republicans on the committee really h

adam schiff is here tonight live. it's a big show tonight. meanwhile, today was the start of the biggest rupture in europe, since the end of world war ii. the british people voted narrowly last summer to leave the european union. today, britain's represent tich at the eu presented the formal paperwork that starts the process of the uk getting out of europe, getting out of the european union. the president of the european union ended with a statement that included these four words, we already miss you. it will take britain four years to fully extract itself from europe financially and legally. it's an unprecedented process. nobody knows how it will end up in the details. we know the bottom line result. it will result in a smaller europe and a question whether the process will result in a smaller uk. this is a big deal for us, right? this is our closest ally in the world, at least the closest ally in the world that doesn't touch our own borders. the uk prying itself out of europe will have the effect of breaking up europe and may break up the u

that is adam schiff. just finishing up u a press conference there on capitol hill. adam schiff the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee, of course, the house intelligence committee had been pursuing interference of -- the status of that committee's investigation now some quwhat i question. there's been all sorts of controversy about actions, about statements from the republican chairman, devin nunes, in that statement you just heard there, that press conference, rather, that you just saw there, from adam schiff coming on the heels of an explosive report a few hours ago from "the new york times," a report that has all of washington talking right now. the white house saying nothing. what is the "times" reporting? "the times" naming two trump administration officials that it says played a role in providing information to devin nunes, chairman of the house intelligence committee. that information leading nunes to announce that president trump may have been surveilled by the obama administration before he took office. now, those officials, again, accordin

it would have been different if he had brought adam schiff with him over there. but the white house now is under federal criminal intelligence investigation so it's a conflict to work with them with anything that has to do with the russian investigation. >> does it concern you that he would go to the white house ground, or the white house building, one night at night, meet somebody, look at some stuff that he said could only be seen there and then the next day have to go back to the white house to brief the white house, when that information is apparently available throughout the executive branch? >> he hasn't shown us what he has. but what he is claiming he has could be viewed from the u.s. capitol and the white house seems to want to work with him to obstruct our investigation. i think this is just another smoke bomb that they're rolling into this investigation to prevent us from making progress. >> so can your committee continue this investigation or do you think this should go elsewhere? >> i think we have to continue to per sue all leads, however, i wanted a

do you believe adam schiff saying there was some level of evidence out there?re's something else we don't know? >> this is the first part of the investigation. as ranking member schiff says, there is a lot of circumstantial evidence. as a former pr and mr. schiff was, too, you can prove a case on circumstantial evidence. however, we think there's a lot of evidence like the guilt with jeff sessions. twice he met with the russian ambassador. he lied about it under oath, which shows guilt. he's trying to cover up something he does not want us to know. there's a lot of evidence here. we want to learn more. what we are going to ask of the fbi director is pursue the leads, follow the evidence. if donald trump was not involved in the campaign, it would help this country for that to be cleared up. if there are connections that need to be further explored, we hope they continue to do that. >> in terms of further exploration, the republicans say the leakers, they need to be investigated. leaking is the clear point of illegality they say. in terms of leaking, the leaks le

we're back with congressman adam schiff. thank you for sticking with us. i appreciate it. >> you bet. >> the issue of nato and the united states and that was raised in this mysterious dossier from a former m.i. 6 officer as a quid pro quo and the allegation there was that the trump campaign knew about russian intervention and cooperated with it or aware that it was going on and what they promised to do in return was to downplay ukraine, sew dissension in nato. you raised that today in today's hearing. i wonder if that means we should read into that. when you cited with that dossier, should we stop describing that as an uncorroborated dossier? has some of that been corroborated? >> i can't go through the dossier and disclose what we've been able to corroborate or not but in response to the reuters story, i have to hope that that story is not true. we've already sent a terrible message to nato. the only message that has gotten through is not that we support you, not that we value you or thank our nato allies for coming to our assistance in afghanistan and ir

and adam schiff saying, this ought to be in the open. playing off very, very different pages here. >> congressman schiff points out that sean spicer wants sally yates to receive. spicer said that from the white house podium. don't democrats have chairman nunes backed into a corner on that one? >> i don't know if they have him backed into a corner. one of the things that's not being observed here, all of this inference that chairman nunes is somehow colluding with the white house, let's remember here, the american political system, the minority leader of the house is the leader of the political party that is the minority. that's nancy pelosi. the question, if we're going to start going down this road, is adam schiff colluding with nancy pelosi. they're putting out statements on the same day, on the same subject. what members of the intelligence committee are doing this that are democrats? if you want to go town this load, not just you, if you want to go down the road, we need to go down the road in full. we need to get all of this out. ev

adam schiff is well aware of that.m the nsa, it has no influence from nunes or any of us. it's here are the facts. the democrats are so worried they're taking awhile putting together a lot of information we're going to get. if this leads as it could all the way to the white house having improperly used intelligence communications of the transition team, that's pretty serious. you have to acknowledge that. >> are you saying this came from the white house then? there's been no suggestion at all that any of this came from the obama white house to this point. it's just been that there was improper surveillance unmasquing of legal legal surveillance of the transition team. i know this gets into the lead, but you're pointing it back to the white house now. >> no, the next step is who saw the information. that's an important step. we all know this goes back to leaks, right? this information was leaked. there were people in the administration saying there's information that shows there was connections and collaboration between

i think when we coming out, we'll see, "a," if we can get a question to him, adam schiff, ranking member of the house intelligence committee, and number two, we'll be listening very closely to his rhetoric. as we all know, mr. schiff is a man, former prosecutor, harvard law, chooses his words very carefully. we'll be monitoring that very closely. now, there's this separate story taking place, that is this offer to testify for the grant of immunity. president endorsing that, as you said, in a tweet. sean spicer in the press conference earlier today saying that he doesn't think they have he gave a one-word answer. he said, no. and listen to spicer berate reporters for following what he says is the wrong story. >> i think it is really getting lost in this debate that american citizens who were not government employees at the time, who were not targets of stuff, potentially were surveilled, had their information unmasked, made it available, was politically spread. >> reporter: kasie, that is sean spicer being the assignment editor for the entire white house press corps. he's not the first pr

, intel chairman burr, now add jim comey on monday what adam schiff expects him he is going to say and what president trump retweets doesn't equal endorsement. he didn't take any ownership or responsibility for the fact that his spokes person went before the white house press corp. and cited this story about the british intelligence service. >> which the white house has apologized for. >> but some brits say a formal apology was offered i believe we had some reporting earlier from white house sources that it could be construed as an apology. sean spicer saying we regret nothing, taking his queue from his boss but the basic question, two weeks ago you tweeted that barak obama wiretapped your phones. it has been completely debunked by everyone. do you withdraw, we can't that tweet? that question wasn't posed to him and he was able to sort of sidestep by laughing off the tweets and talking about the british moment but we still have this fund mental question of whether president trump was telling the truth. >> totally, none of this whole thing, but why at the end was he saying you go talk t

what did adam schiff see? and what will it mean for the controversy surrounding the russia investigation? we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> breaking news tonight, cnn has new information about how isis and other terror groups have developed bombs small enough to be hidden in electronics and other devices. fbi shows those bombs can evade commonly used airport screening. we're told u.s. intelligence suggests the terrorists have gotten hold of sophisticated airport security equipment to test how well the new bombs can avoid detection. stand by for our exclusive reporting on this threat and how it figures into the new electronics ban on some u.s. bomb flights. also breaking, sources tell cnn there's no indication the fbi wants to reinterview michael flynn or give the national security adviser immunity. flynn is seeking immunity exchange for information about rush why's context with the trump

we'll see if they can reach >> shannon: and we're outside the office of adam schiff the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee. what do we know about the schiff-nunes meeting today? >> shannon, we've been camped outside ranking member schiff's office for the last hour. there hasn't been a lot of activity and we don't know what they'll talk about in their one-on-one closed-door meeting but has said it's about getting the house intelligence committee russia hearing back on track and said he will not let chairman nunes freelance by going straight to the white house when he finds out something good and in the next few days -- we don't know when this will happen but nunes says he'll sit down with the other representatives and share with them what it is he found out -- [no audio] >> shannon: all right, we're having a tough time with peter's signal on capitol hill. back to you, bill, in new york until we re-establish connection. >> bill: devin nunes was around there when mike emanuel stopped him. remember democrats want to go public and republicans said we can go public but no one

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a short time ago, congressman adam schiff, that committee's ranking democrat says he will join comey see the face-off between nunes and schiff on the committee, as we wait to hear from director comey, what do you make of,these key players, whether it's the director himself or sally yates have become sort of chess pieces for the house intelligence committee? >> their have, and they have become completely partisan, it's almost as if you can see that devin nunes didn't want partisan testimony that could potentially be damaging to the administration. we know that, sally yates, for example, who went to the white house council about her concerns about then-national security advisor mike flynn, saying he may well have been compromised in his conversations with the russians, we know that having her public testimony would have been really damaging. we know that comey's testimony publicly was already really damaging to the white house when he said, there is an ongoing investigation publicly. so i think what you see in devin nunes is somebody who wants to troo try and push in perhaps to closed

adam schiff has been invited to the white house, so as the ranking member and majority members of the intelligence committee, and this all comes on the same day the "new york times" published a report saying two white house staffers, two people who worked in the white house are the ones that shared with republican devin nunes that information which chairman nunes indicates to him that trump associates were picked up in incidental surveillance. i want to get to mother yo raja on capitol hill who was listening to that. it was fascinating. >> reporter: it was. and also him not saying whether or not the "new york times" report was accurate because he, frankly, doesn't know. adam schiff met with devin nunes earlier today in an attempt to try to get this information to move forward, and it is essentially as we know have broken down in the aftermath of devin nunes going to the white house, briefing the president of the united states on this secret information he got, but not telling the committee about it and not sharing that information. now, schiff says that they actually do not discuss th

but i go back to adam schiff at the white house today leaving.t to be asked, did you see anything that concerns you ranking membership, and if so, was team obama abusing incidentally collected surveillance. dr. far cass, by the way, was not on the staff. she's not in a position to comment on whether or not that hand. but she's in a position to gossip about what she heard, and the gossip that she gave voice to on this network is very alarming. i asked reince priebus about that as well on my radio show, and he said -- >> 30 seconds, bill. >> the point that they didn't find anything substantive in these documents is very important. it proves that donald trump was lying when he said that president obama wiretapped trump tower. >> that did not happen, though. you're right about that. he was not wiretapped. you're right about that. >> hugh, bill, nice talking to you. i hope youome back next week. >>> and president trump, comedy and some very happy comedians. one joins me next. what if technology gave us the power to turn this enemy into an ally? micros

. >> nancy pelosi and adam schiff both say nunes must step aside. his behavior has tarnished that office. here is what schiff told cnn. >> it would be very difficult to maintain the credibility of the investigation if the chairman did not recuse himself formatters involving involving either the trauump campaign or transition team. there's no reason to have gone to the white house at night and late ar shari later sharing it with the white house instead of sharing it with his own committee. >> son-in-law jared kushner volunteered to testify before the senate intelligence committee. now the latest development on that, kushner is facing questions about a russian banking official. >>> coverage begins with manu raju on capitol hill. >> reporter: good morning, christine and dave. the partisans standup on the house intelligence committee intensify after the chairman of the committee made the surprising revelation yesterday saying he met with a source on white house grounds to discuss information pertaining to the incidental collection of information regardi

democrats came out of that meeting expressing frustration that comey was not in the words of adam schiff, the top democrat, not forthright, not forthcoming. did not answer the requests and schiff for the first time calling for an independent investigation and special prosecutor because he does not believe that the fbi has been direct enough about what they know about these contacts which allegedly occurred between the trump campaign and russian officials. but devin nunes, the republican chairman standing behind adam schiff. i said do you agree with adam schiff's assessment and he said no. so the disagreement remains. >> serious disagreement between the republican chairman and democratic ranking member. jeff zeleny, what about the reports we did report that the white house actually learned about the attorney general's russia contacts from news reports. they didn't know that he actually met with the russian ambassador here in washington. what does that suggest? >> that is our understanding that president trump and the rest of the white house learned about this contact indeed from that "was

that concern is coming from the top democrat on the house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff, democrat referring to an interview that the president just gave which appears to acknowledge the cia was hacked. all of this is out there right now as we're waiting for shawn spice to spice -- spicer to step behind the podium. jim akos sta costa is standing . this is a massive rebuke on the president's claims. >> reporter: it is, brooke. and you heard the speaker of the house repeating what devin nunes said long the adam schiff there's no evidence of wiretapping conducted on trump tower before or after the 2016 election and now to have the statement from both republican chairman of the senate intelligence committee long the ranking democrat mark warner saying based on the information available to us we see no indication that trump tower was the subject of any surveillance by the united states government either before or after election day 2016. i think the key word is the word surveillance. you have been hearing from this white house over the last few days you had the white house pre

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new reaction from house intel committee ranking member adam schiff on whether he expects fbi director james comey to flat-out reject president trump's wiretapping claims during a closely watched hearing tomorrow. >> director comey will say that definitively tomorrow? >> i expect that he will and i hope that we can put an end to this wild goose chase because what the president said was just patently false and the wrecking ball it created now has banged into our british allies and our german allies. it's continuing to grow in terms of damage and he needs to put an end to this. >> tomorrow's hearing on russia's alleged interference in the u.s. election kicks off a very busy week on capitol hill. also on tap, senate judiciary committee begins confirmation hearings for neil gorsuch, president trump's supreme court nominee and on thursday the house will vote on the republicans' health care bill, a proposal president trump is confident will pass and he's even burying the hatchet with one of his biggest critics, senator rand paul. >> i like him. he's become a friend of mine, and he's a good g

once again as we just heard congressman adam schiff speaking out about ttnd his very tense meeting today with the committee chairman devin nunes. let's go to our reporter on the hill. what did we hear from congressman schiff. >> reporter: mr. schiff's raising questions about how the national security council staff apparently was the source of this information, at least helped devin nunes get access to this infortion at the same time as they came across this information, the quote ordinary coursef business and now is allowing mr. schiff and other leaders of the senate and house intelligence committee to review this information at the earliest date. if this is coming forward now, does that mean that this was the same information that you provided to mr. nunes in that privacy briefing that he had before briefing the president of the united states on the surveillance information suggesting the president may have been iidentally collected the communications in the trump team through the united states surveillance efforts. now mr. nunes does not -- mr. scff does not have an answer that questio

now we also, of course, heard from democrat adam schiff on "meet the press" today and he talked about sort of the behind the scenes of the committee. will democrats get every tool to use that they want like the power of a subpoena? here's adam schiff. >> the real question where the rubber will really hit the road is as you suggest when we have to use compulsion to get documents that we need to bring in witnesses. i hope the answer will be yes from the majority. i also do think -- >> right now you do not -- you have not been given that authority? >> well, we haven't -- >> you haven't asked for it. >> to subpoena certain witnesses, but we will be. there are a lot of witnesses -- >> devin nunes agrees with you on this? >> well, he'll have to otherwise -- >> which means he doesn't yet. >> i don't want to say that. >> reporter: so that's delicate because democrats on their own can't subpoena witnesses or compel people to come and testify. that will really have to be done by the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee. so that's something to watch going forward. is the commi

adam schiff saying the most names are masked. manu raju saying the content of the conversations unmasked were gossip among the transition team. what do you think the real story is? >> that's a really good question. one, i don't know. but here is the question for me. does this fall into the category of the trump campaign was surveilled? i don't think so. does it fall into the category of being unlawful? i don't believe so. is it disturbing, in this regard it is. i meet with foreign leaders all the times a senator, i wonder if my meetings are being surveilled by the intelligence community. if so, i think when i'm involved that may be inappropriate because i may be talking of things of policy that i don't want the executive branch to know about. >> the fbi director and the national security agency director, they were testifying up on capitol hill before the house intelligence committee on monday and said none of this. what does that tell you? >> it tells me that there is no evidence of surveilling of the trump campaign where a warra

here is the top democrat on the house intelligence committee, adam schiff, talking about that. >> the chairman will need to decide whether he is the chairman of an independent investigation into conduct which includes allegations of potential coordination between the trump campaign and the russians or he is going to act as a surrogate of the white house, because he cannot do both. >> reporter: he cannot both chair this committee that is tasked with looking into russian meddling in last year's election and into potential ties between trump associates or surrogates and russian officials while at the same time heading to the white house to keep the president abreast of every development. adam schiff in that same press conference says this makes an even stronger case that there needs to be an independent commission, an independent investigation into all of this. nunes' actions raise questions about whether that committee can credibly look into this. and one more thing, guys, chairman nunes' also raise other questions. who are these other officials or foreign persons that members of

adam schiff just put out this statement, manu. what is he getting at?rter: well, he thinks he may have actually revealed classified information if this is true. now, remember, president trump said this last night, "i just want people to know the cia was hacked and a lot of things taken, that was during the obama years." schiff is saying in his effort to blame president obama, president trump may have revealed classified information that the cia was hacked. schiff was careful in his statement about saying whether or not the cia was actually hacked, but his warning to president trump is this, if you want to declassify something, it should be done in a thoughtful manner, not done shooting it off your head and just saying something that could be classified and something that ordinarily would be considered in a leg an illegal leak. remember, kate, the president can declassify anything he wants. the question is if the president wanted to declassify this key piece of information, if it's true, and if it's true, that's something that other people would not be a

. >>> the top democrat in the house intelligence committee adam schiff has gone to the white house to review classified material ten days after a pair of white house staffers help provide the secret information to it the republican chairman devin nunes. nunes went public and briefed the president before informing his own committee about the documents which may show tt trump aides were picked up in intelligence collection. i'll talk to republican congressman lei zeldin and our correspondents, analysts and guests, they are standing by with full coverage of the day's top stories. cnn's evan perez and barbara starr joining us now with their exclusive reporting. they reported this story along with jody enda from cnn.com. evan, first of all, what have you learned? >> reporter: well, wolf, cnn has learned that u.s. tell jens and law enforcement agencies belief isis and other terrorist organizations have developed innovative ways to plant explosive in electronic devices that fbi testing shows can evade some commonly use airport security screening. the concern is heightened because there's u.s

i've just been told that adam schiff has just arrived to do that. we have video and we'll show it in just a moment. chairman nunes said that he viewed intelligence reports on the white house grounds, showing us is officials may have incidentally monitored donald trump or his top aides while conducts foreign intelligence that did not involve russia. nunes shared the investigation with reporter -- well, he shared knowledge of it. he didn't share details at all. he did brief the president and shared nothing with his fellow committee members in the house intelligence committee. the chairman refused to reveal his source. fox news confirms two house staffers provided the documents to nunes. back to john roberts. this is much about something else and nothing about the matter at hand, yet it has served their purposes nicely. >> it has, shep. we're learning more about the time line of the tick tok of this. adam housley has talked to a couple intelligence officials that say the two members of the white house staff, ezra watnick was involved in helping nunes s

this is the opening statement of adam schiff. he cited the accounts of christopher steele, the agent who put together that now infa mougs or famous or notorious or whatever you want dossier that was made public in january. the congressman described a deal may have been struck between russia and the trump campaign last year. here he is. >> we do know this. the months of july and august 2016 appear to have been pivotal. it was at this time the russians began using the information they had stolen to help donald trump and harm hillary clinton. and so the question is why. in early july carter page travels to moscow on a trip approved by the trump campaign. according to christopher steele, a former british intelligence officer who is reportedly held in high regard by u.s. intelligence, russian sources tell him that page has also had a secret meeting with igor sechen. he is reported to be a former kgb agent and close friend of putin's. also according to steele's sources, the campaign has offered documents damaging to hillary clinton. wh

invitation to speak with us tonight, but we did talk to the ranking democrat on the committee, adam schiffngressman schiff, as we speak this evening, is there any evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia? ar well, i think what we saw in ace hearing today was director emey acknowledged that there was sufficient evidence and credible information that warranted his opening up a stunterintelligence investigation, that is, is there h ordination with a foreign power, has someone become an agent of a foreign power? there was sufficient evidence certainly for the director to open that investigation. deat's certainly consistent also with what i've seen and the way i'd describe it is there is circumstantial evidence certainly of collusion or coordination. there has been direct evidence of deception, and i think people pehope got the sense today during this long hearing about ist why it's so important that both congress and the f.b.i. do a thorough investigation. >> pelley: but to be crystal clear, this evening, as we teak, there is no hard evidence t collusion between the trump ca

we talked to adam schiff after that meeting but not before this new information came to light or this report in the "new york times." and of course, we are still working corroborating, came to light. so yet another twist in this saga that has frankly raised doubts about the credibility of the house it's intelligence into russian meddling and put the onus on the senate side. you're seeing the opening parts of that today. they decided not to go with a fireworks big name oriented first hearing in this investigation. we're not hearing from jim comey or mike rogers or any of the potential trump administration officials that are expected to be called to testify. jared kushner we know will at some point but likely behind closed doors and not today. instead, they '38 ground work for the context of their investigation. they had a couple of expert witnesses. one of whom talked about how president trump when he was on the stage during the campaign occasionally cited what he referred to as active measures. active intelligence efforts from the russian government on stage. fake news reports, et cet

adam schiff doesn't want to get as categorical on that issue. interesting to hear that disagreement about roger stone, that trump associate and those conversations he had with alleged russian hackers during the elections. nunez says i don't even know who roger stone really is. not that interested in the topic. schiff was concerned and wants to learn more about it. you see disagreements play out along partisan lines and also questions about whether or not these incidental surveillance tactics that were going on whether or not the president's communication itself were picked up during those surveillance techniques. we'll still learn if there was any news there. a lot of different topics hit on. one thing they would not confirm is whether or not the fbi is investigating any campaign ties, talks between russian officials and trump campaign. that's something senators want to get to the bottom of it. they'll hear from comey today privately. nunez and schiff would not confirm what they were told. >> to their credit, top republican and democrat on this

adam schiff is the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee. >> you said there has been nodence of an illegal wiretap by president obama. is that right? >> i've said the f.b.i. and the department of justice have no information to support those tweets. >> reporter: another white house claim that british intelligence wiretapped trump tower on behalf of the united states was dismissed by the director of the n.s.a., mike rogers. >> i have seen nothing on the n.s.a. side that we engaged in any such activity nor that anyone ever asked us to engage in such activity. >> reporter: comey did confirm that since last july the f.b.i. has been conducting a counterintelligence investigation into russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign and colluded with russian officials. committee chairman republican devin nunes. >> do you have any evidence that any current trump white house or administration official coordinated with the russian intelligence services? >> that's not a question i can answer. >> reporter: comey declined to answer questions dozens of time, citing the ongoing i

congressman adam schiff is the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee and you will see him a lot tomorrow and he joins me for a preview. congressman schiff, good to have you. >> thank you. >> the agency security director mike rogers, what do you hope, what light will be shed tomorrow, do you hope? >> i think for a lot of americans this is the first time to really tune in to exactly what the russians did and what the investigation involves, and i'd like to walk through with both directors. what do we know about the russian operation? what was its breadth? we know it was hacking and dumping of documents. we know their slick use of their media campaign, but more than that, i think we want to share with the country why we are so concerned about the issue of u.s. person involvement. were there u.s. persons that were helping the russians in any way? was there any form of collusion and what can we do to protect not only ourselves in the future, but our allies are facing the same russian onslaught. >> if this is an investigation

invitation to speak with us tonight, but we did talk to the ranking democrat on the committee, adam schiff. congressman schiff, as we speak this evening, is there any evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia? >> well, i think what we saw in the hearing today was director comey acknowledged that there was sufficient evidence and credible information that warranted his opening up a counterintelligence investigation, that is, is there coordination with a foreign power, has someone become an agent of a foreign power? there was sufficient evidence certainly for the irector to open that investigation. that's certainly consistent also with what i've seen and the way i'd describe it is there is circumstantial evidence certainly of collusion or coordination. there has been direct evidence of deception, and i think people i hope got the sense today during this long hearing about just why it's so important that both congress and the fbi do a thorough investigation. >> but to be crystal clear, this evening, as we speak, there is no hard evidence of collusion between the trump campai

adam schiff and dianne feinstein have a lot to say.s for going to donald trump and giving him more information. every time something like that happens, there are some sources at the fbi that cnn has that get mad and they go leak something new to cnn and the story -- there is another shoe to drop. i think we will see a lot to come out there. >> eric: bob, for the first time in a long time both sides, we heard, have a smoking gun. what happens when both sides have a smoking gun? >> eric, there is so much we don't know. we will eventually find out. they are probably going to be some bombshells. yeah, at any moment i think the intel story can be the big story of the month and maybe the year. >> eric: yeah, okay. erin, your thoughts on both? we talked about adam schiff saying he has direct evidence, not circumstantial evidence, direct evidence and then devin nunes says he knows. he has been told who is leaking some of these names. unmasking, i'm sorry. unmasking some of these names. >> who sun masking them? i don't know. i mean, if i knew.

. >> you're calling representative adam schiff, says he's seeking testimony of a former british spy, who wrote an unsubstantiated dossier of la alleged collusion between donald trump and russia. do you believe anything about that dossier? >> i think it should be taken a look at. i think they should really read it, understand it, analyze it, determine what's fact, what may not be fact. we already know about the part about the coverage they have on him with sex actions is supposed to be true. they have said that's absolutely true. some other things they kind of allude to. yes, i think he should go into that dossier and see what's there. >> you say you think them to be true. how are we all going to find out what is true and what isn't true? does it help that you think so? because unless you have information that we don't have, that's an allegation. >> but you understand that i am saying the investigations must be done, the drilling down must be done. we must get to the facts of what it has been about. i don't think you can do the impeachment just because i think or others think. but i t

ranking member adam schiff reacting to an announcement from house intelligence committee chaired devon nunez. a committee on the hearing of the rush to investigation has been canceled. it was to include clapper, brennan and yates. it was set to take place wednesday. that announcement from devon nunez earlier today. >> good morning, i appreciate you being here. today will be a little bit of a wild day with all the votes but i wanted to make sure i got information to you as quickly as possible. i have four announcements this morning. the first is, yesterday, ranking member schiff and i agreed to request that the fbi brief the full committee on information regarding the ongoing counterintelligence investigation that had been previously limited to mr. schiff and myself. that was an agreement we reached yesterday. secondly, the committee will ask director romy and admiral rogers to appear in closed session and postpone the previously scheduled march 28 hearing to make time available for director called me and rogers. they have additional information that can only be addressed in closed sess

now this is what adam schiff just sent out in a statement saying that in his effort to once again blame obama, the president appears to have discussed something that, if true and accurate, would otherwise be considered classified information. it would be one thing if the president's statement or the product of intelligence community discussion and a purposeful decision to disclose information to the public, but that is unlikely to be the case. now, wolf, schiff also notes that the president does have the power to declassify just about anything given that he is the president of the united states. the one person who can unilaterally decide to declassify classified material, but the question is, did the president intend to do that last night on fox news or did he just try to deflect blame for this major leak of information from wikileaks just a couple of weeks ago. troves and troves of information from the cia, internal information appeared to have been hacked but nobody in the government has officially confirmed that the cia had been hacked until the president of the united states admitte

so we're going to do our best to find out. >> shepard: adam schiff is the vice chairman of the housetelligence committee. i want to explained what happened. 1:15, "the new york times" comes out with a report giving names of those that gave the information to chairman nunes of the house intelligence committee. "the new york times" reports that is michael ellis and ezra cohen watnick, the directed tour of intelligence for the national security council. they have access to the president. the white house press briefing was supposed to follow. they delayed it a half hour. they wanted to delay it because sean spicer reading about this letter sent to adam schiff saying that we have these documents, you can come look at them. so whatever they were trying to keep people from knowing about, which clearly they were because they wouldn't give up whether the information came from the white house that will be more transparent. adam schiff suggesting that he believes the reason they may have done it, the white house needs to answer questions about, whether they were trying to get this information t

. >> dickerson: we will ask the top democrat on the intelligence committee adam schiff why the chairman's revelation threatens to undermine the house investigation. schiff's republican intelligence committee colleague trey gowdy responds. >> conservative senator tom cotton who warned his house colleagues not to walk the plank and vote for a bad healthcare bill will also be here. plus have an interview with ronald reagan's secretary of state george schultz who has some advice for president trump. >> trust is the coin of the really gloom and cover the rest of the week's events with our political panel, including the bright spot for the president, supreme court nominee neil gorsuch appears to be coasting to confirmation despite a filibuster threat from democrats. >> i have a candidate, can, canon of ethics that precludes me from getting involved in any way, shape or form in politics. >> dickerson: if true to his word he will be the only one in partisan washington who does. iit is all ahead on "face the nation". good morning and welcome to "face the nation", i am john dickerson. the behind th

you, sick, you heard the house ranking member there adam schiff laying it out today. lot of smoke. when you're watching that, what are you thinking? >> i'll take the resolution that supposedly the russians got out of the flatfirm. the platform of the republican party is much tougher on russia than the democratic flatfirm. this was not in the platform. this was something that was prupodes to go in the platform and taken out. why? because donald trump was probably much weaker from my perspective, much more hawkish than we've had in a republican president in a long time. >> there wasn't a change iphis platform, correct? >> we are much tougher on the russians than the democratic platform. so that one provision was taken out. that's number one. number two, on the issue of roger stone and having information about john podesta's e-mail, i work on a cybersecurity company. and i talked to some of our analysts there. i was getting information on what was out there on the dark web, this was coming nebs, that next up was going to be this, this and this. that information was there