when he was pushed by mark warner he said, okay, we'll investigate. then, of course, at the administration's request, he went to the press and said something was wrong. that's taking sides in an investigation. the faith i have in the intelligence committee is in mark warner and the democrats. they have been holding burr's feet to the fire, and they have said they will look for another alternative if chairman burr does not fully pursue this. there is another point to this,

mark warner, senator mark warner says the goal of the hearing was to determine if there was any actual fire. but so far, there's a great, great deal of smoke, he says, given the testimony that we heard today, do you see fire? >> yes. i see fire but in a way that people don't consider. that is circumstantial evidence does carry weight. that's one of the reasons why michael flynn's testimony may indeed be very useful to the administration, to the investigation. because it may be about placing certain people together, or getting certain facts in a circumstantial way that will lead you to conclude the obvious. whatever that may be ultimately. what this tells me is we actually may be having an investigation. this all comes down to one thing. we're presuming that there is in fact a collusion perhaps. but the investigation has to take place. what cannot happen is a premature undermining of that investigation. it would be a great thing if general flynn were to actually give information that the fbi does not already know, or would help the senate or house, that way restore his credibility, but

you know, i have faith in mark warner and the democrats on the intelligence committee. some of the republicans have been very bipartisan as well. we'll see where that goes. >> is there evidence of collusion? >> well, i'm not going to get into any details about classified briefings i've heard. >> can you give us a sense -- >> no. >> you don't want to say anything about that? >> no. i'm very careful about that kind of thing. >> if they were to find some collusion or cooperation between what they call trump associates and the russian government and their meddling in the elections going ahead in the cyber attacks, what would be the remedy? >> i'm not going to -- again, wolf, i'm not going to speculate on something like that. >> i understand. >> good try. good try. >> all right. it's always a good try. before i let you go, your party now you say plans to filibuster president trump's u.s. supreme court nominee, gorsuch. you say if he doesn't get 60 votes you say the rule is to change the nominee. isn't that -- mitch mcconnell could unload the nuclear option that could require

intelligence committee, richard burr of north carolina, some democrats are concerned including mark warner, are concerned that the credibility of the intelligence committee's investigation is now at peril because of this. is there a point -- and i know you believe you guys can do this. you tweeted about that you guys can do this yourselves in the intel committee. is there a point that it might be better for the political process to take politics out of this, have an independent commission, special prosecutor, and put this sort of out of congress right now? >> not really. i mean, not now. i certainly don't think we're at that point this moment. the job of the intelligence committee is to gather facts and evidence, to go through

. >> you just heard from mark warner, the top democrat on the intelligence committee, who just saw the raw intelligence, square that with just what sean spicer said at the briefing, he says they come out and say nothing really happened. that's not certainly not what mark warner said. >> spicer is saying when they look at the intelligence there's no quote unquote collusion between the trump campaign and members of the russian government. 17 national intelligence agents of the u.s. government have determined that russia attempted to medal in the u.s. election but by and large there's an understanding or assessment they did it on behalf of helping hillary clinton. that's different as sean spicer has said from collusion from members of the trump campaign and the russian government. now in my opinion, i think it's going to be impossible to conclude whether that influence that the russians by all accounts tried to make into the election actually swayed voters. we don't know. unless everybody every u.s. voter in the u.s. who voted for donald trump is going to explain why they voted the way th

then we should hear from the ranking member, democrat mark warner. >> quite rare for us. an open hearing on an ongoing, critical intelligence question -- the role of russian acting measures past and present. as many of you know, this committee is conducting a thorough, independent, and non-partisan review of the russian active members campaign conducted against the 2016 u.s. elections. some of the intelligence provided to the committee is extremely sensitive and requires that most of the work be conducted in a secure setting to maintain the integrity of the information and to protect the very sensitive sources and methods that gave us access to that intelligence. however, the vice chairman and i understand the gravity of the issues that we're here reviewing and have decided that it's crucial that we take the rare step of discussing publicly an ongoing intelligence question. that's why we've convened this second open hearing on the topic of russian acted measures. and i can assure you to the extent possible that the committee will hold additional open hearings on this issu

you saw that pay off today. >> let's talk about mark warner. yuf you're? the senator, senator murphy. i'm romantic about politics. i keep looking for heroes. i saw a gleam today of people doing a serious job of finding out what role trump's people played with the russians in manipulating our elections last year. are you confident they can do it? >> i'm confident they can stick together and make this bipartisan. they have a strong relationship. i think there was some question initially as to whether they were going to let the facts lead wherever they may. >> what made you question them? >> well -- >> what don't you trust? >> well, initially burr was suggesting that there was going to be limitations on the investigation, and i think he's seen previews of evidence that suggest that they have to make this as comprehensive as possible. and i think they've been pushed by the debacle in the house to show the american public that there is going to be a non-partisan investigation. >> what about the committee because you've got people in there like dianne feinstein,

one of those was senator mark warner, the top democrat in the committee who told me that it looks like from that data that russia was trying to help one candidate over another. >> a lot of what we saw today was the evidence underlying how russia manipulated the news, how it hacked into the dnc and john podesta and leaked out in favor of one candidate against another candidate. but i think these efforts beyond even the whole question about whether there were contacts between campaigns and the russians, but this underlying assault on our democracy, i think americans need to know about this. >> reporter: is there anything that suggests that the trump campaign was involved in coordinating that release of information? >> at this point i'm not going to get into that part of the discussion. that's part of our investigation. it's always been about the misinformation. it's been about the hacking and selective release of e-mails. >> reporter: now, wolf, two things that mark warner did point to was a change in the republican party platform to discuss russia's treatment towards ukraine and more fa

if there's a way to avoid that, i would like to be part of it. >> senator mark warner, thanks for being with us today. >>> coming up, a massive crack down in russia after a rare act of defiance against president putin. you're watching andr"andrea mitl reports" on nbc. then the chronic, widespread pain drained my energy. my doctor said moving more helps ease fibromyalgia pain. she also prescribed lyrica. fibromyalgia is thought to be the result of overactive nerves. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. woman: for some, lyrica can significantly relieve fibromyalgia pain and improve function, so i feel better. lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions or suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doctor right away if you have these, new or worsening depression, or unusual changes in mood or behavior. or swelling, trouble breathing, rash, hives, blisters, muscle pain with fever, tired feeling, or blurry vision. common side effects are dizziness, sleepiness, weight gain and swelling of hands, legs and feet. don't drink alcohol while taking lyrica. don't drive or use machinery until you kn

way that would undermine faith in the democratic process, something that is so key and certainly mark warnerichard burr feel goes beyond politics which we heard today. >> burr and warner, the chairman and the vice chairman. right at the top before they even answered any questions said we're not going to discuss what's going on in the house intelligence. >> probably a good thing to stay away from. this is outside of the comfort zone for the senate intelligence committee. that's not usually a public venue. to handle this kind of she-profile public investigation is requiring them to go beyond what they usually do and so far they are handling it better than the house. what you're seeing is the dysfunction and parliamentary polarization of the house. this is the way the house operates on most issues over the last several years and what we're seeing here is the public getting kind of a window into what happens on many of the substantive issues and the same we did on health care where there was no effort from the beginning to have bipartisan buy-in. here's some where you node it and they can't cros

and to that end, earlier i spoke with democratic virginia senator mark warner, vice chairman of the senate intelligence committee. we began with the questions he still wants to have answered. after watching today's house hearing with director comey and admiral rogers. >> what i heard today confirmed knowledge that i already had. that there are active investigations going on with people that were involved with the trump campaign about possible influence, or potentially even collusion with the russians. we heard as well the fact that russia massively intervened in our elections in a way that was unprecedented both in terms of hacking into individuals' accounts, leaking that information in a way to benefit one candidate, mr. trump over mrs. clinton. i wish the white house would fully understand, the house intelligence committee, leadership, democrat and republican, senate intelligence committee, democrat and republican, we both gave the president about two weeks to back off from his false claim that somehow president obama had been involved in wiretapping him. you now have director comey who

the faith i have in the intelligence committee is in mark warner and the democrats. they have been holding burr's feet to the fire and they have said they will look for another alternative if he doesn't fully pursue this. but there is another point to this. the other of course is whether the law was broken and whether the trump campaign was complicit in working with the russians to influence the election. that needs a special prosecutor. rod rosen steen, he's a career man. he will be before the judiciary committee for his nomination for deputy attorney general. i am urging him at that hearing to say he will appoint a special prosecutor to look into this because it's on the executive side that the full investigation is done and any criminality is put forward. >> let me ask you about this specific charge, what you were just talking about with president trump, this idea there may have been a court order surveillance. you're one of the gang of eight on intelligence matters, the most sensitive intelligence matters. you're briefed on this. is it fair -- wouldn't you have b

that hearing heard top democrat senator mark warner describe the tactics used as "propaganda on steroids here's laura bicker. he was one of donald trump's close advisers and appointed national security advisor. it's understood that he is asking, and is in discussion with the senate, house and house intelligence committees, about giving testimony in return for being granted immunity or protection from what he calls unfair prosecution. now, it's worth remembering that general flynn was the national security advisor, but was forced to resign from the administration after it was disclosed that he misled the vice president about the nature of his calls with the russian ambassador, and the fbi is investigating his links to russia. but his lawyer, in a letter, says he has a story to tell, and very much wants to tell it to the senate and house intelligence committees, he said, but no reasonable person would submit to questioning in this witch—hunt environment without insurances against unfair prosecution. so that's the latest that we have on michael flynn, who may or may not give evidence. but,

the co-chairs of the senate select committee on intelligence, senator richard bu burr and mark warner issued this statement. i quote, based on the information available to us, we see no implications that trump tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the united states government either before or after election day 2016. i've tweeted that out. if you want to just move that over a little bit. as we await sean spicer, let's talk about this with our panel of correspondents and analysts. i told you ari wasn't going far. peter alexander at the white house, kelly o'donnell on qulil, joining me in studio chief legal correspondent ari melber, former campaign manager for hillary clinton, robby mook and former rand paul campaign senior advis adviser elise. we're waiting for this press conference to start. everybody said -- people are saying now, no evidence that obama wiretapped trump. speaker ryan saying again today, the white house is -- is the white house ready to back down now? >> it's a question we'll pose to the president today. he said through his press secretary he wanted

but, with regard to the evidence that has already been heard, here's what democratic senator mark warnersay. russia's president, vladimir putin, ordered a deliberate campaign, carefully constructed to undermine our election. russian propaganda outlets like rt and sputnik successfully produced and peddled disinformation to american audiences, in pursuit of moscow's preferred outcome. this russian propaganda on steroids was designed to poison the national conversation in america. the committee heard about a sophisticated operation that is alleged to have taken place. cyber security experts said that in key swing states there were operations underway, fake news operations, to disseminate disinformation to those who may be persuaded to vote. and, when it comes to some of the information that russian agents are alleged to have put out there, many believe, and certainly it was the belief of cyber security experts, that they were trying to target donald trump himself. clint watts, who's a former fbi agent, testified that when it came to online habits, they were monitoring the then—campaign and

we will explore all of this with the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee mark warner and fellow republican committee member susan collins, former cia and defense chief leon panetta will also be here. and we will go in-depth into a blockbuster new york times report that the u.s. has been involvedin cyber warfare against north korean miss still launches that is president and republican leaders begin a coordinated push to replace obamacare we will get a progress report from health & human services head dr. tom price and have plenty of political analysis. all straight ahead on "face the nation". >> dickerson: good morning and welcome to "face the nation", i am john dickerson. the senate intelligence committee was already investigating russian efforts to med until the 2016 election but yesterday the president opened a whole new set of questions by accusing his predecessor, president obama of wiretapping trump's campaign headquarters and this morning, the president has asked congressional committees to investigate. we are going to try to sort through all of this today and we be

mark warner the democrat clearly would love to see donald trump's tax returns and the republican burrot but aside from that, they both agreed that committee, as warner said, will follow the intelligence wherever it leads. so they didn't limit themselves in terms of where their investigation would go. but what you didn't hear was either of these people going off on a tangent about unmasking people in documents or intelligence and rather they just kind of were stick together task at hand. >> you did chahear the chairmany they they are going through an unprecedent number of documents. they have 20 names of individuals. they want to call for questioning whether open or behind closed doors. that's reassuring to those who want answers on russia's meddling in the u.s. election. >> no doubt is. certainly what we've seen over the past week between devin nunes and of course adam schiff unable to get together and honestly not even adam schiff's fault. it is 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

when he was pushed by mark warner he said, okay, we'll investigate. then, of course, at the administration's request, he went to the press and said something was wrong. that's taking sides in an investigation. the faith i have in the intelligence committee is in mark warner and the democrats. they have been holding burr's feet to the fire, and they have said they will look for another alternative if chairman burr does not fully pursue this. there is another point to this, and people mix up the two. the other, of course, is whether the law was broken and whether the trump campaign was complicit in working with the russians to influence the election. that needs a special prosecutor. rod rosenstein, he is a career man. he will be before the judiciary committee for his nomination for deputy attorney general. i am urging him at that hearing to say he will appoint a special prosecutor to look into this. it's on the executive side that the full investigation is done, and any criminality is put forward. >> let me ask you about this specific charge, what you w

if you watched the press conference chairman burr and mark warner this afternoon, if you didn't know, you couldn't tell which was the republican and which was the democrat. i think that's an important way to think about this. the committee is very closely balanced. it's eight republicans, six democrats and me. they're really good members of this committee. i think we are going to be able do it. the intent is non-partisan, follow the facts. i'm not going to participate in a whitewash and i'm not going to participate in a witch hunt. i think we're on a good start. it doesn't mean it's not going to be hard. we're on our way. >> you have full confidence in chairman burr, his impartiality. he was tapped by the white house to knock down reports of ties between russia and the trump campaign. but from you -- as far as you see it, he is going to be impartial? >> i believe so. i work with him every day. i think he gets it. i think he realizes to quote hamilton, history has itsize on him. this is one of the most important pieces of work any of us have ever been involved in. as i say, it's a very

you just talked with mark warner, the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee as we get ready for the hearing. what is he saying about what they expect to see today? >> reporter: good morning. i caught up briefly with the vice chairman here as this hearing is set to get underway. he emphasized that they are trying to make sure they show americans that their investigation into russian meddling is credible, bipartisan, even nonpartison. now of course the question here, one that we may not get into too much depth today is of course whether or not there were trump campaign associate who is commu -- who communicated with russians during the campaign. i heard james langford say this morning he does really want to get to the bottom of it. >> obviously we've got to get connections, whether there was any connection with the trump campaign and collusion with any russian officials. there's no question now that russians were trying to affect our election and they were trying to engage and destabilize, the exact same thing they do across europe. >> reporter: i asked mark warner if he was s

. >> both republican senator richard burr and the tom democrat on the committee mark warner said they'll subpoenas if necessary as they investigation the actions. >> we will get to the bottom of this. >> the two men stood side by side as they vowed to work as a by part san unit. >> he usually knows my sources before i do. >> i've also got his cell phone. >> while the house investigation remains stalled and in disarray. there is no timetable for hearings after last week's testimony from fbi director james comey. >> all i can tell you is what we're investigating, which includes whether there was any coordination between people associated with the trump campaign and the russians. >> the embattled chairman of the house committee devin nunes is still resisting calls to recuse himself amid accusations that he's trying to shield the white house. >> there's nothing to report. i appreciate the attention, though. thank you. >> senators warner and burr say their investigation will be fair and impartial. >> senator burr, have you personally coordinated with the white house at all on the scope of thi

you see it with chairman richard brrr,ing with mark warner the senator from virginia who said this is the most conscious convention counsel thing he's done as a u.s. senator >> he said it to me, in fact. i want to move on to health care. a little confusion. you were at the reception last night at the white house. republican senators, democratic senators are all invite there had. the president was speaking. first i want to play what the president said and then sean spicer's reaction. >> okay. >> i know that we're all going to make a deal on health care. that's such an easy one. i have no doubt that's going to happen quickly. i think it will actually. i think it's going to happen because we've all been promising, democrat, republican, we've all been promising that to the american people. so i think a lot of good things will happen there. >> the deal he's looking for is willing to have members come and talk to him and engage with on this whole area and figure out what it would take, what their ideas are to get there to grow that vote. if they can do that and get to an area where we have

. >> senator mark warner of virginia is in the committee.. >> good morning. >> look, i want to get right to getting your reaction to what fbi director james comey said when he testified that they are indeed investigating ties between the trump campaign and russia. >> well, chuck, i want to talk about russia, as well, but we just saw the first half of this show talk about the failure of trumpcare take place. the reason was nobody talked about the details of the bill. it would have cost 24 million americans their healthcare, it would have raised prices for seniors, it was a major tax cut for the wealthy and an $800 billion cost shift for the states to pick up the medicaid and it was an awful bill and i think people across the country revolted against it. sometimes the substance actually matters. in terms of russia, this is -- i've said before, this is the most important thing i've ever done in my public life, and what i know now as i get more and more into this, i will double down on that statement because it's extraordinary. we have the fbi d

this is virginia democrat mark warner, vice-chair of the committee. >> in addition to what we already know, any full accounting must also find out what if any contacts, communications, or connections occurred between russia and those associated with the campaigns themselves. i will not prejudge the outcome of our investigation. we are seeking to determine if , but is an actual fire there is c clearly a lot o of s. amy: thursday's hearing focused less on the trump campaign's alleged dealings with russia and more on how russiaia used what e lawmaker described as propaganda on steroids to influence the election and to undermine the u.s. media. meanwhile, the "new york times" reports two white house officials met secretly with republican house intelligence chair devin nunes last week on the white house grounds to show him secret u.s. intelligence reports. nunes said the documents indicated trump or his associates might have been incidentally swept up in surveillance carried out by american spy agencies as thehey conducted foreign surveillance. on the day after the secret meeting, nunes, w

. >> that was chairman bury appearing today with democrat mark warner. the working relationship that they displayed today is the exact opposite of the chaos created in the house intelligence committee by its stunningly unprofessional and obviously incompetent chairman devin nunes. you just heard former senator bob kerrey say that devin nunes is like a guy who can't swim locked in the deep end of the pool. senator kerrey served on the senate intelligence committee. he also served on the 9/11 commission. he knows what professionalism looks like in this arena. he knows that devin nunes, as we've been saying on this program, is in way over his head. senator richard bury shamed devin nunes today without ever mentioning his name. senator bury and senator warner specifically said they had no intention of answering any questionabout the house intelligence committee and instead they tried to restore america's faith in the senate intelligence committee's ability to dig out the facts involves russia's interference in our presidential election. >> we will always say

richard burr and the top democrat mark warner vowing an impartial bipartisan investigation. laying out their plans side by side at a news conference. they say there are 20 witnesses on the list starting with cybersecurity experts and focussing on alleged russian meddling. >>> the deepening stalemate on the house side. adam schiff says he will meet today with chairman devin nunes, days after he called on him to recuse himself and growing accusations of possible collusion between nunes and the white house. >>> the chairman is going to have to find way to lift this cloud, otherwise we're going to need someone else to preside over this. i think we really do need someone else to preside over this if we are going to do this credibly. >> reporter: good morning. a stark contrast between the house intelligence investigation and senate intelligence investigation. there's gridlock, a partisan fight over devin nunes and whether he should go forward with the investigation. the democrats do not like the way he briefed the white house on surveillance he obtained through a secret source. th

republican senator richard burr, democratic senator mark warner, both saying their panel is reviewingpages of documents and it hopes to int interview at least 20 witnesses. that list, by way, includes trump's son-in-law, jared kushner and former trump campaign chairman paul manafort. committee scheduled to hold a hearing on the issue tomorrow. >>> at least 30 democratic senators say they will support a filibuster of neil gorsuch's nomination to serve on the united states supreme court. that's when that issue reaches the senate floor next week. if republicans do not get the 60 votes needed to overcome the filibuster, they could be forced to use the so-called nuclear option, change senate rules so that gorsuch could be confirmed by a simple majority vote. >>> news out of new jersey today, two former allies of new jersey governor chris christie are now going to jail for their roles in the so-called bridge-gate scandal. bill baroni and bridget kelly convicted of orchestrating the lane closures on the george washington bridge as a political revenge scheme against a mayor who had refused to

npr write the committee vice chair, senator mark warner of virginia, accused vladimir putin of ordering a deliberate campaign carefully constructed to undermine the election. we'll show the hearing in its entirety tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span but here's a portion with florida senator and former presidential candidate marco rubio talking about how his presidential campaign staff was targeted by unknown i.p. addresses. sen. rubio: thank you, mr. chairman. in the first panel, one of the first panelists mentioned me in connection with efforts in the 2016 primary. i'm not prepared to comment on that. i do think it's appropriate, however, to divulge to the committee, since a lot of this has take an partisan tone, not in the committee but in the broader perspective, the following facts. in july of 2016, shortly after ai -- i announced i would seek re-election to the united states senate, former member my presidential campaign team who had access to the internal information of my presidential campaign were targeted by i.p. addresses with an unknown location within russia. that effort was u

. >> senator mark warner of virginia is in the committee.come. >> good morning. >> look, i want to get right to getting your reaction to what fbi director james comey said when he testified that they are indeed investigating ties between the trump campaign and russia. >> well, chuck, i want to talk about russia, as well, but we just saw the first half of this show talk about the failure of trumpcare take place. the reason was nobody talked about the details of the bill. it would have cost 24 million americans their healthcare, it would have raised prices for seniors, it was a major tax cut for the wealthy and an $800 billion cost shift for the states to pick up the medicaid and it was an awful bill and i think people across the country revolted against it. sometimes the substance actually matters. in terms of russia, this is -- i've said before, this is the most important thing i've ever done in my public life, and what i know now as i get more and more into this, i will double down on that statement because it's extraordinary. we have the f

you have mark warner, the senator of the vice chairman committ committee, let me make this sound bite from "meet the press" yesterday. >> i said the most important thing i have worked on, with what i know now, i doubly believe that. this is the most serious effort that has to be done bipartisan. we have to get the facts out to the american people. >> you keep saying there's a lot more smoke. you think the fire is there? >> listen, time will tell. >> so here's where two break being stories intersect, right? you hear what mark warner has to say, but then you have devin nunes, the chairman of the house intelligence committee, he canceled the committee's hearing that was scheduled for tomorrow on russia. democrats say he's protecting the president. and so the question is, is there more smoke here? >> i mean, it certainly looks like that. let's put what nunes is saying in perspective. this unmasking of names in intelligence reports is not unserious, but in the same week, last week where director comey went before the house and said, there is an espionage investigation that touches on the w

senator mark warner, said that includes investigating disturbing reports a russian army of trolls used fake news and blasted negative stories about hillary clinton on the international to hurt her chances to win the presidency and help donald trump. we have to get to the bottom of it there were 1,000 paid network trolls operating a facility in russia. >> he knows my sources before i do. >> reporter: it's a far cry from the chaos unfolding across the capitol within the house intelligent committee. chairman devon nunes is refusing to recuse himself. he came under fire for rushing to brief the white house on information he received before telling his own committee. we learned the day before he had aecource on white house grounds. he is still refusing to reveal the source as more republicans are questioning his credibility. >> are you concerned he cannot lead an impartial investigation? >> i think so. >> reporter: senators say they have looked at thousands of documents and people they plan to interview that includes former acting attorney general sally yates. >> president trump tapped new