guardian today, we now have at least their reporting which suggests what might have freaked out john brennan enough to do those one-on-one, inperson briefings. their head robert hannigan passed material in the summer of 2016 john wren in an. the matter was deemed so sensitive. it was handled at the director level, meaning this information was handed from their director of their nsa to the director of our cia. it wasn't like agency to agency or staff of assistance. it was head of the agency to head of the agency handing off this information. according to "the new york times," our top guy at the cia then personally went right to the oversight committees and right to the top leadership in congress with it, himself, alone. did he take those actions? did he mount those one-on-one in person briefings because of what the british intelligence services and these other intelligence services had collected? is what alarmed him enough to do those meetings with the european agencies and western agencies collected in terms of sur veiling trump people talking with russian intelligence operatives? is that ho

what did john brennan know? was this done for pure political purposes, under the ruse of national security? what did then-president obama know and when did he know it? did president obama and members of his administration surveilled an incoming president? america deserves answers tonight. we bring in adam housley with the very latest on his explosive new report. adam, this is a huge deal and a big development. let's talk about it. >> we started researching this last week when we started getting some of our sources, eli lake, he was the first one that came out to actually say it was susan rice. we had a belief it was susan rice but of course we had so much information coming in, we have to get it right first which we did. susan rice requested to unmask the names of trump transition officials. the unmasked names or people associated with donald trump and were all been sent to the john brennan, james clapper, all the people of the top including ben rhodes. these names were part of incidental surveillance, we are to

the times reports that in late august, ten weeks before the election, john brennan, then the cia directorwas so concerned about increasing evidence of russia's election meddling that he began a series of urgent individual briefings for eight top members of congress, some of them on secure phone lines while they were on their summer break. officials said mr. brennan also indicated that unnamed advisers to mr. trump might be working with the russians to interfere in the election. of course that's what we're trying to find out right now, to nail that one down. joining me now is ericlish blou who wrote that report, and also terrorism analyst, our friend malcolm nance. i want to start with eric on this one. tell us what's new here because we went all around this thing. the role of the russians, their purpose in the campaign, our campaign, and what role the trump people played. >> well, if you go back to last summer, which was when the concern about the russian hack of the dnc really erupted, the thinking, the conventional wisdom within washington for at least a while was the russians are just

lou: in the case of john brennan, his agency was surveilling -- to me this one of the richest momentsintelligence committee. got away with lying by the, and now he's going back to talk to his friends on capitol hill. >> this is a domestic information operation where these guys get in front of this open session and they try tocast the narrative. they try to get the talking heads on television, and the writers to all agree on the mutually agreed upon lie they will try to sell the american public. lou: which they have done so well for so long. thanks to you and judicial watch. they get away with fewer than they might have otherwise. lou: democratic national committee chairman tom perez discusses a lot. a lot of swearing and not so much unity. >> he called it a skinny budget. i call it something else that begins with "s." my mama taught me you shouldn't do spotty talk, but i hope you don't mind. this is a [bleep] budget. lou: just awful. david horowitz and nan hayward. so powerful, that profanity. looking sharp len. who's the lucky lady? i'm going to the bank, to discuss a mortgage. ugh,

we'll put up the whole of that interview with john brennan on newsnight‘s youtube channel later on.ee his richard dimbleby lecture on bbc one tomorrow night. at 2:30pm this afternoon in russia's second city, a suspected bomb detonated on a metro train, killing at least 11 people and injuring many more. st petersburg is vladimir putin's home town, and tonight he laid flowers at the metro station. russia is used to terror attacks by chechen separatists. but the country's involvement in syria has also brought threats from is propaganda groups. here'sjohn sweeney with what we know, and a warning that his film does contain some upsetting images. the fog of terror in st petersburg metro today. the bomb packed with shrapnel was powerful enough to shred metal doors. this is the moment passengers struggled to escape from the doomed train. long before the authorities arrived, passengers did their best to help the casualties. 11 dead, 50 injured and little clarity on the big questions. who did this? and why? what happened is relatively clear. a bomb on the tube train travelling between sennaya

and you have a bunch of people, you can't sit down and be sad and this is terrible but you had john brennan who went on to be cia director but at the time assistant to the president for counterintelligence, homeland security and we were in the room explaining what we heard from the governor of connecticut's office and doing our work but barack obama and john brennan and i worked through the tears and that was the most impactful, followed by the gun legislation not passing a few months later. maybe we should do one more question. so it is not such a bummer. >> the queen is awesome. >> a good michelle story? >> the first lady, i know there are many. first lady michelle obama very much believed that when we would go to a barn country, we would have a state visit, it was not a party for us, so we were in tanzania and i was at a table and the tourism minister on the other side of me, people were not talking that much but a lively band was playing and she looked at me and it was like i knew it was my time to leave the conga line to get everybody up. so i did and valerie jarrett got up and everybo

tonight: an exclusive interview with john brennan, the head of the cia, until donald trump entered the that there are some things that have been tweeted coming out of washington, where the care was not taken and that was, it was not, the individual who tweeted it was not mindful of the importance that people attach to the words of a president. he warns about the dangers of america going it alone against north korea and decries trump's plans for a travel ban. the st petersburg blast, which has killed as many as ten people and injured scores more. the russian prime minister is investigating a suicide bombing. we'll ask who is the prime suspect in a country with no shortage of enemies? also tonight: i am the devil's advocate. we remember the civil rights activist darcus howe. i believe that we are faced with a serious potential, that is the overwhelming intervention of blacks on the current stage of history in britain. and the war on airborne diesel particulates. the mayor of london is expected to announce tomorrow morning a toxin

you have a bunch of people like you can't stop and be sad like this is terrible, but you have john brennan who went on to beat the cia director but at the time was the assistant to the president for the counter intelligence and homeland security and we were in the room explaining what we heard from the governor of the connecticut's office and we were all just doing our work that barack obama and john brennan and i come to you just work through the tears and that was probably the first and most impactful followed by the gun legislation not passing a few months later. maybe we should do one more question so it isn't such a bummer. [laughter] >> tell us a good national story to the -- michelle story. first lady michelle obama believed when we would go to a foreign country and we were having a state visit that it wasn't like a party for us. this was work. so, we were in tanzania and i was at a table and the tourism minister and interior minister were on either side of me. for some reason people were not talking that much that there was a lively band playing and she looked at me and was just li

john brennan said it had not. he had to apologize. think about this.intelligence agency then having to say he lied about saying he didn't do that. scott: dni clapper was also seemed to be lying under oath or 23569 and easy with the truth. lou: this had nothing to do with you getting out of the racket. scott: one reason i was able to get out, i saw what was going on and you could see the writing on the wall, and i thought i might be spend my time, retire, and depart. it ruins morale for the junior personnel in the agency wanting to protect their country. lou: give us your sense of this. how pervasive? how pervasive is the politicization of each of these intelligence agencies. scott: i think it is a problem. the more washington insiders say it's not a problem, the more i'm inclined not to believe their claims. once you remove the political appointees, people who reached seniority in the government. people who reached seniority because post past 8 years of the obama administration, they are still there, they haven't departed. lou: this any way to root the

yates along with cia director john brennan and dia director james clapper, the question is what can they say in public in an open hearing, nonclassified setting about this stuff, greta. >> you know, ned, a lot of people are probably thinking why are we talking about mike flynn. he's gone. tell the viewers why this is important. >> well, mike flynn is gone, but if you remember for the last month we have been talking about aspects of this that have absolutely no relevance to the broader question of russian interference and intervention in the campaign. frankly russian potential russian collusion with the trump campaign. so, to return to the subject of mike flynn actually means we are getting back to the subject at hand. for the past several weeks we've been talking about unmasking ambassador rice. issues unrelated to this. but as ken just said, sally yates will real have i some insight to offer because she was one who served both with the obama administration and then for a matter of a couple weeks for the trump administration and knows precisely what mike flynn did and when the government

and we are all just doing our work but obama and john brennan and i, you just work through the tears. that was probably the worst, most impactful followed by the gun legislation not passing a few months later. yes, sorry. maybe we should do one more question so it's like - not such a bummer. >>. [inaudible question] >> the queen was awesome. >>. [inaudible question] >> a good michelle story? let's think. the first lady. the first lady michelle obama, she very much believe that when we would go to a foreign country that we were not having, we would have a statement. it was work. and so we were in tanzania and i was at a table in the tourism minister and interior minister ron on the side of me. for some reason people weren't really talking that much but there was this very lively band playing. she looked at me and she was just like - and i knew it was my time to get up and leave the conga line to get everyone up. and i did! and valerie got up and everyone got up and we did this conga line. and at the end of the night she was and why were the oys on their blackberries? and i knew i was i

the former director of the cia, john brennan, who was in post until this year, said this month: "theey would work with us, try to restrain the syrian government and military from carrying out these atrocious attacks, and they wouldn't, so i lost faith in their willingness and interest to do the right thing". is that russia's problem here, that you are losing the trust of people around the world? i don't have that impression. actually, this in my view isn't the case at all. you don't fear that that might happen? i don't think so, because russian foreign policy has been clear and transparent, and of course, our goals are quite obvious, be it in syria or elsewhere. vladimir chizhov, thank you for coming on hardtalk. hello. if you think we're finished with winter weather, think again. next week it will turn much colderfor a time. frost and even some wintry showers around for some of us. we'll talk about that weather change in a moment. but this is the fairly quiet picture as friday begins. i say fairly quiet because we have got rain affecting parts of scotland with a stronger wind. it'll

the former director of the cia, john brennan, who was in post until this year, said this month: "thenow. they would promise they would work with us, try to restrain the syrian government and military from carrying out these atrocious attacks, and they wouldn't, so i lost faith in their willingness and interest to do the right thing". is that russia's problem here, that you are losing the trust of people around the world? i don't have that impression. actually, this in my view isn't the case at all. you don't fear that that might happen? i don't think so, because russian foreign policy has been clear and transparent, and of course, our goals are quite obvious, be it in syria or elsewhere. vladimir chizhov, thank you for coming on hardtalk. hello. after several days of fairly quiet weather taking us through much of the weekend, next week is looking very different. next week's weather will get us talking, stay with me for a tease of what's to come. this is how thursday begins, with more cloud around than recent mornings, not as chilly as it's been on recent mornings, but that cloud will

and that may explain some of the behavior of john brennan the former cia director last august when he was going around hair on fire trying to get the gang of eight congressional leaders to go along and understand russia was involved in this election interference. >> malcolm, a quick follow-up. what happens in your life and your electronics when the full power of u.s. surveillance w the order of a federal judge, gets switched on? >> oh, they can just take your life apart. i mean you essentially have all the rights of, you know, a russian intelligence officer. you know, the fisa warrant is not a game. this is not something which is issued routinely. although many of them do occur with great frequency. but it means that we know something, and we have indications that you are a linchpin to an investigation. so if you are calling a known russian intelligence officer and it's -- it will start out as incidental collection until the lawyers get involved. then it will be passed onto the justice department, they will go to the fisa court. they will get a warrant. and then suddenly everything th

names people associated with donald trump were send to all of the nsc, some at dod, james clapper, john brennan john rhodes. these are all people close to trump and including family members for up to a years before he took office. when names are accidentally collected, they're supposed to be masked meaning they're redacted from report whether it's international or domestic collection unless it's a crime or security of the people mentioned is threatened in any way. but there's loop holes, neil. americans are supposed to be protected from incidental collection. in this case they were not. this comes in the wake of ellen farcus's interview last month. she said this. >> i was urging my former colleagues and frankly speaking the people on the hill, it was more actually aimed at telling the hill people get as much information as you can and as much intelligence as you can before the president leaves the administration. >> meantime, we're told that the house intelligence chairman devin nunes new about the unmasking before the trump wiretapping allegations. nunes could have seen the logs at other place

john brennan got caught lying about whether they were spying on congress. there is three instances of them using our intelligence apparatus to spy on domestic political opponents. this is going deep. charle iis going deep. we are starting to understand the whole thing a lot more. we'll find out more obviously with respect to susan rice. this this ised the same person who in her official credibility went on fox sunday talk shows to proclaim the benghazi incident having started by a cartoon that was offensive to certain people of the islamic faith. >> and memos afterwards that were leaked showed they had known the benghazi attack had nothing to do with that video. this is the same person an obama advisor went on pbs and said she didn't know anything about this unmasking. and she wrote an op-ed saying donald trump wouldn't win the confidence of the american people if he lies on television, which she has a history of doing. this is a-long plan to attempt to sabotage them. it's a culture that came up from the top. president obama spent last days in office trying

reporter: that ben rose, and john brennan had regular access to the intelligence where members of the trump transition team were identified. but in a statement today it may be possible at times to guess the identities, just based on th the context of of the conversation in the intelligence report. liz: susan rice is asking these names be unmasked? >> based on what i have learned, we were doing surveillance on foreign targets, for example, ambassadors oversea, they were discusses trump transition, the trump campaign and team. when those conversations weresume arized there -- summarized there was discussion of the trump people but they minimize or masked, they did not know who they were, to the rice's request to ask those names be identified. the important issue that is incidental collection, but you only identify americans when you feel there is a necessary intelligence value. it is just not clear what the national insecurity imperative was, it are not based on russia, was it related to politics, she said no, or related turkey? that is something slightly different, that is why it will

we have not -- we heard from james clapper, the head of national intelligence, we heard from john brennan tinsella of evidence -- tinsella of evidence to support that allegation. >> what is it. >> a ruse to confound? >> i think there is a concern that russia tried to meddle in our elect, probably not first or last, he should be prepared it will happen, the evolution of story that somehow trump was in bed with moscow and rigging the election today, that is where no er evidence has emerged, kind of unfortunate so much of focus on, that i think that people look at civil liberty questions, it something that affects a much broader part of the population. lou: sues susan rice it appears almost certainly did unmask american citizens and with impunity more than once. where are civil liberty advocates herewhy are they not speaking out? and why not more people in particular, people who are elected to presuffe preserve our rights and liberty, why not expect bigger concern and anger toward those. >> funny 2011-2016 before a trump presidency envisioned, libertarians raised several concerns about what

john brennan is would i would put my money on. he's a noted liar. to congress with the cia spying on congress. charles: this latest turn much events including representative schiff going to the white house and just leaving moments ago. >> the white house is saying they want michael flynn to testify. but the president did call for him to seek immunity on twitter. people point out it was hypocritical because he criticized hillary clinton's aides who wanted immunity when they were investigating hillary clinton's private email server. people pointed out it's hypocritical for donald trump to tell michael flynn 20 seek immunity when he criticized other people for going doing so in the past. >> i think that's theatrics. i think that part makes a lot of sense. you know you will be targeted, but you also want your story to get out there. more importantly, robert. what do you think he has to tell? typically as a prosecutor you would not offer immunity news were going to get something newsy in return. >> we know's not on team f.b.i. he would be buttoned down a

the chairman of the cia director john brennan goes to hill, and addresses so-called "gang of 8", about this, what does this mean? what is the significant that it was the cia first? >> well, depends on what they got, that is the drama hire. if you look at reporting there is comments like, may have been. they may have done this. there are comments like president trump campaign possibly was involved. that not good enough for me. if i were representing congress i would' to know what the basis. analyst -- analytical report is one thing, a detail get in the weeds type. who said what, where and when. the issue is, what was the effect on the election,y know that someone released a lot of documents that were somewhat harmful to hillary. but we have to step back and think we need hard evidence. that these happened. without that, we're speculating, and agency sometimes does that, their threshold for coming to a conclusion is different from that of the fbi, it will be good to see what they come up with together, then we could make a decision. we don't want russians here in our democracy. and we kn

four or five weeks ago we were about to have sally yates and john brennan and a few others in open hearing and that was abuntly cancelled. did i with the phone director and add miller rogers at the nsa. that and now the two hearings which were supposed to have four weeks ago will go forward and i'll be chd to see who -- chairman moneyes said that was really, really urgent. we certainly need that and the american public will have an opportunity to hear from three individuals on may 2nd and it will be an important moment to clarify a lot of issues that are out there. >> as you also know, mary mcmccord, overseeing the russian probe, stepping down next month. do you have faith in theed in to carry out an independent. >> from the standpoint of us getting to the bottom of what happened, the fbi investigation under the department of justice and that will proceed with or without mary mccourse. she was the overall pint person and, of course, as we lever every single day. focusing on our voeblts and looking at how we protect ours selves is important. the hearings will pride. the attorney general has

testimony from john brennan, james clapper, and former acting attorney general sally yates, the one whoeportedly went to the white house with disturbing news about the national security adviser having communication with russian government officials that he was lying about. these three had been scheduled to testify in an open hearing last month before the hearing was abruptly cancelled by the committee chairman devin nunes. devin nunes has since recused himself from the investigation. the administration tried to desuede sally yates from testifying. but as of today, she's been reinvited to testify. her lawyer last month said she wanted to testify. now we're waiting to see the house intelligence committee set an actual date for that hearing. they'll set a date sometime after may 2nd, but they haven't set it yet. watch this face. there's nothing more than my vacation.me so when i need to book a hotel room, i want someone that makes it easy to find what i want. booking.com gets it. they offer free cancellation, in case i decide to go from kid-friendly to kid-free. now i can start relaxing ev

associated with donald trump were then sent to dio g, james clapper, john brennan, basically the people at the top including ben rhodes. these names are part of incidental electronic communications, for up to a year we are told before he took office. the names of americans are instantly collected but are supposed to be masked. meaning the names are redacted from reports whether it's international or domestic collection unless it's an issue of national security crime or their security is threatened in any way. americans are supposed be protected from this incidental collection. we are also told that house intelligence chairman devon nunes knew about unmasking and leaking back in january while before his tweet in march alleging the wiretapping, our sources say the intelligence agencies slow ruled nunes, you could've seen it besides the right white house. but it'd already been a few weeks so he went to the white house so he could be protected there. he could get to the logs. tucker, as you can tell, there is a lot here. we believe there's a lot more coming and it's already changed a lot si

john brennan and clapper cia director of national intelligence need to be asked the following question. did susan rice ever make the request of your agencies or the nsa to have unmasking of any trump transition figures that were surveilled? then you go and ask the real question, what say you if she did? >> what committee should do that in the senate? >> good question. this is where it's confusing. you have brennan and clapper under the jurisdiction of the intelligence committee but i've made a request of the judiciary sub committee for clapper. sally yates, for our committee and testify in public, we'll see if we can do that. >> bill: can you compel them to come to your committee? can you compel them to do it? >> they only want to come once. they'll testify once in an open hearing, once in a closed session. i've got to cordate this with i the intelligence committee to find out who's in charge. sally yates was in the justice department so she's under the judiciary committee jurisdiction, the other two are probably on the intel jurisdiction. but my committeemm is ready to move forward wi

that information was disseminated to the nsc, dod, james clapper, john brennan.eople at the top, including ben rhodes. that put some concern out for some of our sources. >> dana: were going to take it around the table, adam. >> greg: adam, how are you doing? good to see you. i have a question about this idea of reverse monitoring where you say i'm not spying on you. i am spying on the foreigner with you. seems like it's almost like you turn the foreigner into an unknowing wing man. like your free pass to go pick up the other person. is that being used in a way as a loophole to maybe monitor other u.s. citizens? >> i am told yes. one of the sources yesterday spent about 8 minutes explaining how that works. i'm not going to take your time because i wouldn't do it right but it's basically a gray area. it's a roundabout way, and the concern really when it comes to crime potentially, again, we have to look into this a lot more is the leaking and who did that. obviously the way the names were redacted and the number is much more than they've ever seen in something like

director john brennan had regular access to the intelligence where members of the trump transition teamere identified or unmasked. as the house intelligence commitsty's ranking democrats said, it may be possible to get identities to under the conversations. >> bill: are they doing that already, catherine? >> a short time ago, fox news asking the republican chairman richard burr about susan rice. mean tonight the house intelligence committee, fox news said that those that will be interviewed be investigators including carter page, paul manafort and roger stone. based on our reporting, there's an agreement in principle were democrats for the interviews and could be done as early as april 17th. likely after the recess. >> so the fbi director is back in the cross hair. what gives with that? >> james comey and the nsa director admiral mike rogers testified at the hearing march 20th. but after these reports came to light, both men were recalled. that was supposed to happen last week. the fbi said that they're not cooperative on the matter. meantime, a government official said the fbi director

agency director and also open hearings that are scheduled for may 2nd with former cia director john brennan and former director of national intelligence james clapper and former attorney general salliatey yates. to from your perspective, what needs to be answered? >> certainly in closed session we want to have a more detailed understanding of what the fbi knew and when they knew it. and the extent to which they will share that information with us in closed session is something that we will have to wait and see. in terms of the other participants, those were all persons we wanted to have testify in an open hearing. it is good to know the committee agreed to do it under the leadership of the new acting claire. i think what we want to find out from those individuals is, you know, to what extent was michael flynn engaged in activity that was without portfolio. by that, i mean, was negotiating with the russian ambassador and trying to talk to him about reducing the sanctions on russia due to their activities in the ukraine and crimea. i think there will be many more questions we will be asking.

may go well beyond rice, claiming former presidential aide ben rhodes and former cia director john brennanlso had access to the unmasked intelligence. the house speaker said today that he stands behind the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee devin nunes who first alerted the white house and briefed the president before democrats about the intelligence report that did not relate to russia. >> chairman nunes has my confidence. i've met with the committee. they have my confidence. this -- it's what is important is that this committee does its investigation, on a bipartisan basis to get to the bottom of things and go investigate all things russia. >> the house intelligence committee's ranking democrat issued this statement, not commenting on the con dent of the intelligence reports, but family sizing that unmasking in his experience is not unusual. dana? >> dana: well, one thing that is a little unusual in my experience, at least, is that the national security advisor is usually somebody that you never hear about. but in the last two administrations, first with secretary --

we've also been told now the former cia director john brennan, former director of national intelligence, james clapper, they are ready to testify in open session. their earlier meeting was canceled. give us an up date on how your intelligence committee investigation is moving. have you guys gotten your act together now that the chairman devin nunes has recused himself as the leader of this investigation? >> you know, one of the things many of us being on the committee have been discouraged and a little concerned is the idea that in the past the intelligence committee has been very bipartisan. we do our work behind closed doors, not in front of cameras and i think we do better work when that's the case. over the last month or so, many of us have been discouraged that it has become so public and frafr frankly so part sisan. this two week breaks let us take a break and come home and think about something else. now i hope we can take more bipartisan approach. this is serious work and we need to report to the american people, but i think we're better doing that if we don't have a daily press

week, but the other hearing with sally yates who is the acting attorney general james clapper, john brennan, former cia director, that will be an open session earlier in the week. is that date still open? >> that date is still open. i believe we're going forward with the closed hearing towards the latter part of the first week of may. the open hearing we're still in negotiation with the senate over who will be interviewing what witnesses in open session. but we expect that to go forward as soon as we can pin down the date as well as get the schedules of the witnesses. but in all of this we're working very collaboratively, democrats and republicans together. >> quickly on north korea, you've been studying this very closely as all of us have, when the president of the united states says in his reuters interview there is a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with north korea, absolutely, what's your reaction? >> my reaction is if this was a statement made in complete isolation, it would be one thing. when it's a statement made while we have an aircraft carrier group head

get president obama, susan rice, ben rhodes, john brennan, director clapper, anybody who touched classifiedation in the obama administration in terms of this, get them in front of the committee. >> how about the people who tried to hack our election? the russians, we know the beneficiaries of the trump campaign. i'm trying to say something good. >> yes. for you. >> there is no conclusive proof they colluded. i want to know if there is any. the only way is to have an investigation. everybody is lying about their contacts with the russians, but there's no collusion. >> the argument folks on capitol hill use against having an independent investigation, it will take a lot more time. you have to get security clearances for people and get people together these committees already cleared. they can already look at information. >> that's true. it would take many months to get that off the ground, but they would have a budget and according to how the legislation is put together. the senate and republican commissions don't have the budget the 9/11 commission had when they investigated something, a sim

little while back, it was about to happen, sally yates and james clapper were going to testify and john brennanthey understood about michael flynn and the larger picture here. are you going to speak to them? >> we are going to speak to them, whether it will be a public setting or a private setting, i think that will be determined by chairman conaway and ranking member adam schiff. i have been pretty vocal. we had one public hearing in which the but this is almost 100 times that they could not answer the question. most investigations i'm familiar with in the previous life were done confidentially. then, you share the results of the end. but the process is confidential. that is above my pay grade to make that call. chairman conaway tells me that i will be ready. >> martha: there was some discussion that sally yates had presented some of this evidence with regards to michael flynn to the president, that she may have made someone in the white house aware of it. is that a question you need answered? if it's not answered in a public forum, do you think the american people will feel like they have hea

speak at the next public hearing will include john brennan, former acting attorney general who was firedpresident trump over the travel ban as well as former director of national intelligence james clapper, we expect that probably about mid month. >> jenna: interesting pet allowed to watch for. thank you. >> jon: remembering the victims of the holocaust. ♪ sirens blaring as one country comes to a standstill and a somber tribute to the millions killed by the nazis. the trump campaign taking aim at a new foreign policy trouble. iran finds itself in the crosshairs. >> and unchecked iran has the potential to trevor the same path as north korea. and they could take the world with them. home caregiver. and if i'd been caring for tom's dad, i would have noticed some dizziness that could lead to balance issues. that's because i'm trained to report any changes in behavior, no matter how small, so tom could have peace of mind. we'll be right there. we have to go. hey, tom. you should try right at home. they're great for us. the right care. right at home. when they thought they should westart savin

so we finally get to hear from sally yates, john brennan, former dni james clapper and former actingorney general sally yates, the one who reportedly went to the white house with disturbing news about the national security adviser having communication with russian government officials that he was lying about. these three had been scheduled to testify in an open hearing last month before the hearing was abruptly canceled by the committee chairman, devin nunes. devin nunes has since recused himself from this investigation. we later learn the administration tried to dissuade sally yates from testifying publicly at that open hearing. as of today, she's been reinvited to testify. her lawyer last month said she wants to testify. now we're just waiting and watching like hawks for the house intelligence committee to set an actual date for that hearing. all they've said is that they'll set a date for some time after may 2nd, but they haven't set it yet. watch this space. on your big day the only tears you shed should come from joy... ...not allergies. flonase allergy relief helps block 6 key

former director of national intelligence james clapper, former cia director john brennan, and formerttorney general sally yates could also be called in if they were supposed to appear before the house intelligence committee earlier this week, i mean. but chairman devin nunes canceled that open hearing without explaining why. one intelligence committee member democratic congressman mike quigley of illinois said this about the investigation and the other possible witnesses. >> at this point in time, the only thing we have is the opportunity to go forward. i'm not giving up on the house investigation. i do believe we're going to have that open hearing. and i do believe we're going back to meetings with the admiral rogers and mr. comey to find out exactly what took place. >> the former fbi intelligence operative and author of "how to catch a russian spy." he worked for a double agent and is an msnbc contributor. let's game out who you think would be the most important witnesses to call in trying to get to the bottom of russiagate. if you could pick anyone, with the senate intelligence co

have included former director of national intelligence james clapper and too former cia director john brennanope she testifies. i look forward to it. it was never -- let's be honest, the hearing was never, was actually never notified. if they choose to move forward, great. we have no problem with her testifying, plain and simple. the report in "the washington post" is 100% false. >> reporter: chris, speaker paul ryan said that nuÑes told him his source has whistleblower-type information. we'll see what that means. we don't know at this point, but what we certainly know is that mike flynn, the former national security adviser, had his rights violated in this saga. we'll see if he's able to testify with immunity. we'll see how that all turns off. chris? chris: kevin corke, thanks for that. joining me now from kentucky to discuss this and much more, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. senator, welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> good morning. chris: let's start with russia. you were last month briefed by fbi director comey as part of the so-called gang of eight congressional leaders. have

we are also going to hear from john brennan, the cia director. i think you are going to see the story reemerge in a big way. and it's going to force -- you know, when these hearings happen, brian, and there are events coming out of capitol hill, they kind of create their own momentum because then sean spicer is forced to respond, trump starts tweeting. so it really triggers this sort of domino effect where i think we are going to be spending a lot of time talking not about only the investigation but trump's reactions to it next week. so it's going to be very interesting. >> eli here's what else is going to happen. people are going to watch the hearings and there is going to be this predictable round of questions by party. and it's going to cause a lot of good people in the audience to say why can't this be taken out of their hands? why can't this be an independent investigate? is the answer to that in large part still that it would take six to eight months to stand up such a thing and with our attention span these days interest would fade? >> i d