mr. clapper? mr. clapper: that's a possibility. senator graham: what i don't get how they can have a counterintelligence investigation and you as director of intelligence not knowing of it and the f.b.i. signed on to a report that basically said there was no collusion. mr. clapper: i can only speculate why that isn't so. the evidence, if there was any, it didn't reach the evidentiary bar in terms of the level of that assessment. senator graham: are you familiar with the dosier about mr. trump compiled by some guy in england? mr. clapper: i am. senator graham: was that a credible report? mr. clapper: we didn't make a judgment on that and one reason e didn't include it in our assessment. the sources.borate lamb senator graham: are you familiar with the dosier? ms. yates: you asked me whether i was aware of any evidence of collusion and i declined to answer because answering would reveal classified information at is the same answer that director comey gave and i would like to make clear just because i say i can't answer that, you shou

mr. clapper? >> that's a possibility. >> what i don't get is how the fbi can have a counter intelligence investigation suggesting collusion and you as director of national intelligence not know about it and the fbi sign on to a report that basically said there was no collusion. >> i can only speculate why that is so. there wasn't -- the evidence, if there was any, didn't reach the level we were striving for in that assessment. >> okay. follow up. are you familiar with the dossier about mr. trump compiled by some guy in england? >> i am. >> did you find that to be a credible report? >> we didn't make a judgment on that. that's one reason why we did not include it in the body of our intelligence community assessment? >> you didn't find it -- >> we didn't corroborate the second or third sources. >> mrs. yates, are you familiar with the dossier? >> if i could clarify one answer before. senator graham, you may have misunderstood me. you asked me if i was aware of any evidence of collusion. i declined t

mr. clapper? >> well, as much as i love a congressional hearing, i think there is a huesful purpose, sir, because i think the most important thing that needs to be done here is to educate the electorate as toss what the russians objective is and the tactics and techniques and procedures that they have employed and will continue to employ, and i predict it will be against all the parties, and so -- so i think education of the public is the most important thing we can do in this hearing, grudgingly though i admit it, serves that purpose to the extent that this can be shared openly. i do think as well there needs to be more done in the way of sanctions to the russians or any other government that attempts to interfere in our election process. >> i'm done. >> thank you very much. senator klobuchar. >> thank you, and we thank you both for being here again. i think senator graham then asked if you would want to come back, director clapper, and we're very glad that you're here. when i asked the questions

mr. clapper, does mr. putin have assets in the united states? >> i don't know the answer. >> who would know that? >> well, some component of the intelligence community might know it, or the fbi, but i don't know. >> do you know of any of mr. putin's friends might have assets in the united states being held for mr. putin? >> that's a possibility. >> who would know that? the same person box mexico i would guess so. >> okay, if the intelligence community and the attorney general knew all of this information about mr. flynn, how did he get a security clearance? that he had had a conversation with the russian ambassador about sanctions. >> that was late, the 29th of december or so. as reported in the media when that took place. >> january 19, i think. how did he get security clearance? >> well, he had a security clearance. he had a was a career military intelligence officer. i don't know the specifics of when his cell -- fell due. you are supposed to get a periodic investigation. i don't know the details of that. it would probably be done by his old

mr. clapper? >> that's a possibility. >> what i don't get is how the fbi can have a counterintelligence investigation suggesting collusion and you as director of national intelligence not know about it and the fbi sign on to a report that basically said there was no collusion. >> i can only speculate why that's so. there wasn't -- the evidence, if there was any didn't reach the evidentiary bar in terms of the level of confidence that we were striving for in that intelligence community assessment. >> okay. that makes perfect sense to me. follow-up on that. are you familiar with the dossier about mr. trump compiled with some guy in england? >> i am. >> did you find that to be a credible report? >> well, we didn't make a judgment on that and that's -- that's one reason why we did not include it in the body of our intelligence community assessment. >> you didn't find it credible enough to be included. >> we couldn't corroborate the sourcing particularly the third order sources. >> ms. yates, are you f

mr. clapper said there was no evidence of collusion whatsoever. the new york times reported american officials found no proof of collusion. so where is all this speculation about collusion coming from? in january, buzz feed published a dossier spanning -- spinning while conspiracy theories. about the truck campaign they knowledge they were unverified in some details were clearly wrong. buzzfeed has since been sued for publishing them. since then, much of the dossier. has been proven wrong >> we will leave this now a senate minority leader chuck schumer has arrived to react to the firing of fbi director james comey today by donald trump. sen. schumer: earlier this afternoon, president trump called me and informed me he was firing director comey. i told the president, mr. president, with all due respect, you are making a big mistake. thefirst question administration has to answer is why now. if the administration had objections to the way dire

mr. clapper? >> that's a possibility. >> what i don't get is how the fbi can have a counter intelligence investigation suggesting collusion and you as director of nat intelligence not know about it and the fbi sign on to a report that basically said there was no collusion. >> i can only speculate why that is so. there wasn't, the evidence, if there was any, didn't reach the evidentiary bar in terms of the level of confidence that we were striving for. >> okay. that makes perfect sense to me. are you familiar with the dossier about mr. trump compiled by some guy in england? >> i am. >> did you find to be a credible report? >> well, we didn't make a judgment on that. that's one reason why we did not include it in the body of our intelligence community assessment. >> you didn't find it credible enough to be included. we couldn't corroborate the sourcing, between the second and third sources. >> are you familiar with the dossier? >> if i could try clarify one answer before as well. i think he may have

mr. clapper: yes, sir. i think that is good idea. senator grassley: mr. clapper, you sent the russians or you said the rush yaps did not release any negative information on republican candidates. i believe that that is not quite right. on june on june 15, 2016, gaza for 2.0 released the smoking gun more than 200 pages of the dnc opposition research on mr. trump's hundreds of pages of what i would call dirt. this happened just two days after the "wall street journal" published a plan for republican convention delegates to revolt to prevent mr. trump from securing the nomination.nomi why wasn't, why wasn't the russian release of harmful information about mr. trump addressed in the russia report?s and was this even evaluated during the review? >> i would have to consult with the analysts that were involved in the report to definitive answer that. i don't know personally whether they considered that or not. >> can you submit that as anat answer in writing? >> well, either a private citizen now. i don't know what the rules are on my obtaining classified can pot

mr. clapper, he know you're a private citizen now. but if you can help determine the pool of people who could do unmasking, we would appreciate it. when it comes to incident cloaks 2016 campaigns, i'm a little confused but i think we found least one person where that did happen. is that right? >> yes. >> do we know of any other candidate on either side of the aisle? >> i don't know. there could have been other unmasking requests. >> there's a way to find that out. >> yes. the best way would be the original collection agency. >> finally, the current deputy attorney general, do you know him? do you have confidence in him? >> yes, i do. >> thank you all. final comment? >> absolutely. >> during the last hearing we had the author of the kremlin play book as one of our witnesses. and we had the very well regarded kenne as one of our witnesses. and they both agreed that the united states is leaving itself vulnerable to this kind of influence if we continue to allow shell proliferation. so i mentioned that. chairman grassley and i are work o'

mr. clapper didn't know about it, didn't make it in the report ask we'll e see what comes from it. ms. yates, what did you tell the white house about mr. flynn? >> i had two in-person meetings and one phone call with the white house counsel about mr. flynn. the first meeting occurred on january 26th. i called don first thing that morning and tell him that i had a very sensitive matter that i needed to discuss with him. that i couldn't talk about it on the phone and needed to come see him. and he agreed to meet with me later that afternoon. i took a senior member of the national security division, who was overseeing this matter, with me to meet with him. we met in his office at the white house, which is a skid so we could discuss classified information in his office. we began our meeting telling him that there had been press accounts of statements from the vice president and others that related conduct that mr. flynn had been u involved in that we knew not to be the truth. as i tell you what happened here, i'm going to be very careful not to reveal classified information. >> the reason y

mr. chairman. general clapper, mrs. yates. good to see you. mrs. yates, i remember so well your confirmation. i remember one senator just bearing in on you, intensely bearing in on you saying, would you stand up to the president of the united states if you thought he was asking you to do something unlawful. he's demanding for you to say yes under oath to stand up. you told them senator jeff sessions that's what you would do. and it appears to me that you kept your word. apparently it's okay to keep your word depending on who the administration is. but i'm proud of you for keeping your word. the president tried to set a religious test for entrants into this country, something that most first year law students would say is unconstitutional. you said you weren't going to uphold it. i wish that mr. sessions and others kept it consistent in this administration as they did the last. that's my editorial. you wrote to the justice department, i'm responsible for ensuring the positions taken in course remain consistent with this institution, solemn obligatio

mr. clapper. >> as much as i love congressional hearings, there is a useful purpose because they think the most important thing that needs to be done here is to educate the electorate as to let the russians object it is in the tactics and techniques and procedures they have employed and will continue to employ. i predict there will be against all parties. i think education of the public is the most important thing we can do in this hearing though i admit it serves that purpose to the extent that this can be shared openly. i do think as well there needs to be more done in a way ofn sanction to the russians or any other government that attempts to interfere in our election process. >> senator klobuchar. >> thank you greatly thank you for being here again. i asked if he would want to come back again. we are very glad that you aret here. when i asked the question before, i asked about this high-ranking national security official, tape with a foreign official saying one in private and then said somethi

mr. clapper, i don't think there's anything to this investigation that's going on. do me a favor, get out there and let people know there's nothing to worry about, how would you have responded to that request? >> i probably would have said i couldn't do that. just as i was asked to go out publicly and completely rebut the contents of the dossier, the infamous dossier, i could not do that and i would not have done that in this case had i been asked. >> when you say you couldn't rebut the dossier, why not? so much of it was dismissed as propaganda or false hoods, what was your reckoning of the value of the dossier. >> the importance of it at the time and the reason that we wanted at the time president-elect trump to know about it, just to let him know it was out there, without commenting on the veracity of it or parts of it. the challenge we had at times was corroborating second and third order assets that were used to compile that dossier. that's why we did not include it as a formal part of the intelligence community assessment. >> do you believe that the dossier ha

mr. clapper said today. he said unless we stand up to it, defend our country from it we will yield to it and ultimately it will end us. that is the failure of the administration here. they not only didn't stand up to it. they allowed the person compromised to stay in that post. >> the president on twitter today kind of fighting the other angle, and 109 days of kind of forced or at least attempted normalization of all things russia and putin. >> we've gotten insurel newered to things the president says on twitter. he said something tonight as remarkable. he talked about this investigation as being a waste of taxpayer money. it is an investigation of people who ultimately work for him. the director of the fbi, the deputy attorney general, who he can fire. these are people conducting investigations of which the president's associates are subjects, maybe targets. the >> gentlemen, it's been a long day. it was a lot of testimony. perhaps it's unfair to ask you for a headline, but starting with you jeremy, what wa

mr. clapper, welcome back to the show. >> thanks, chuck. >> before i get to the rest of the story, you justd secretary kelly talk about the leaks that took place. we know the u.k. complained about the manchester bombing and they responded to some of these leaks as they sort of walk up to the line of treason. some might say, hey, they're just leaking out something that they think the public should know. where do you draw that line? >> well, i think, first of all, i have to say that leaks are damaging. they're corrosive. they risk compromising sources, methods and trade craft. as we've seen recently, they damage relationships with crucial partners. u.k. and israel come to mind. and this is particularly serious now, because in my experience, 50-plus years in intelligence, i don't know of a time when we depended more on friends and allies for sharing information in intelligence, particularly with respect to terrorism. so, i know secretary kelly takes this quite seriously, and he should. the legal definition of what's treason, i'll leave that to the lawyers, but just from a practitioner's standp

mr. clapper said there was no evidence of collusion whatsoever. yo "the new york times" reported that americans found no proof of collusion so where is all of this speculation about collusion coming from? in january, buzzfeed published a dossier spinning wild conspiracy theories about the trump campaign. buzzfeed acknowledged that the claims were up verified and some of the details were clearly wrong. buzzfeed has since been sued for publishing them. since then, much of the dossier has been proven wrong and many of his outlandish claims have failed to gain traction, for example, no one's looking for moles or russian agents embedded in the dnc, yet some continue to quote parts of this document as if it were gospel truth and according to press reports the fbi has relied on the document to justify this current investigation. there have been reports that the fbi agreed to pay the author of the dossier who paid his sources, who also paid their sub sources. where did the money come from, and what motivated the people writing the checks? the company that

mr. clapper said there was no evidence of collusion whatsoever. "the new york times" reported that american officials found no proof of collusion. so where is all this speculation about collusion coming from? in january, buzzfeed published a dossier spinning wild conspiracy theories about the trump campaign. buzzfeed acknowledged that the claims were unverified and some of the details were clearly wrong. buzzfeed has since been sued for publishing them. since then, much of the dossier has been proven wrong and many of his outlandish claims have failed to gain traction. for example, no one's looking for moles or russian agents impei embedded in the dnc, yet some continue to quote parts of this document as if it were gospel truth and according to press reports, the fbi has relied on the document to justify its current investigation. there have been reports that the fbi agreed to pay the author of the dossier who paid his sources, who also paid their subsources. where did the money come from? and what motivated the people writing the checks? the comp

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mr. chairman. thank you both for being here. director clapper, how likely do you think it is foreign intelligence services are trying to compromise congressional i.t. systems? >> well, i think that's -- congressional i.t. systems are a target and have been and certainly i saw examples of that during my time -- my time as dni and this is one case where we expeditiously informed the congress when we saw evidence of that, and, again, that's not just russians, there are others out there doing the same thing. >> and what intel value would it provide to them? >> well, depending on the nature of the material, it could be quite sensitive. hard to make a general statement about it, but just as a general rule, it could be quite damaging. >> and could you talk a little bit about the relationship between that particular intel gathering on legislators, and the interface with problem began do campaigns such as you say, russia? i've hea you testify in other places of russia's activity among their mere neighbors. what's the relationship between propaganda and d

do you agree with mr clapper's fears, or is he being alarmist? i agree with them.e that is ransomware is had plenty of note that is ra nsomwa re is dangerous. had plenty of note that is ransomware is dangerous. we have poor cyberhygiene across the world and the business model is wrong. companies that are subject to this fay ransom. at this rate it is going to get worse. i want to ask you about the firing of the fbi chief and that institutions could be under flett? -- threat. the election of donald trump reflect a lot of dissatisfaction with political leadership. the way the firing was handled, not his right to fire, it seems to mejust handled, not his right to fire, it seems to me just amplifies the mistrust and the polls show in america that a majority of people think it was handled wrong. the clip you played, our ambassador is right to say he is the ceo and he can hire and fire. but better timing and better preparation was really it seems to me required here. ijust add two things. president obama could have fired mr comey last summer. i thought his press conferen

mr. chairman. general clapper, miss yates, good to see you again, good to have you back here. miss yates, i remember so well your confirmation hearing, and i remember one senator just bearing in on you, intensely bearing in on you saying would you stand up to the president. united states if you now the he was asking you to do something unlawful. he's demanding under oath-for-you to say yes you would stand up, and you then told then senator sessions of alabama that's what you would do, and it appears to me that you kept your word. apparently that's okay to keep your word depending upon who the administration is, but i'm proud of you for keeping your word when the president tried to set a religious test for entrance in this country, something most first year law students would say is unconstitutional, you said you weren't going to uphold it. i wish that mr. sessions and others had kept as consistent in this administration as they did in the last. that's my editorial judgment. now you wrote to the justice department i am responsible tore ensuring that the positions we take in cou

mr. clapper saying that our institutions are under attack because they're being challenged by mr.trump and republicans -- eric: do you agree with that? >> we will have a very tough fight ahead. i do agree with him. yes, i do. i do. i think it's fair because when you look at how president trump operates, that's what he attempts to do. he attempts to discredit those who disagree with him, whether it's the fake media as he calls us, or judges who rule against him, so-called judges, systemically he has criticized obstacles to what he wants to do. now, if congress lets him get away with that, i think we do have an institutional challenge to worry about, but i don't think the republic is all that weak and people will get up to kind of do the right thing and proceed with this investigation. eric: the view from judy miller this sunday afternoon. always good to see you. >> thank you, eric. eric: arthel. arthel: emmanuel macron sworn in, the challenge that is lie ahead as he seeks closer ties with the european union. plus interviews well under way for a new fbi director after the firing of

mr. clapper said based on the information he had when he left his position, he saw no evidence of this heeaffirmed based on what he knew at the time, he saw nothing to suggest otherwise. you know, and, look, i think the best statement that was made this week, ironically, about the president's prerogative in firing the fbi director was by the outgoing fing bi director. -- fbi director. jim comey himself said he has long thought that the president of the united states has the right, has the ability the to fire the fbi director, and that's exactly what the president did. how're howard we played some clips ott the top, the new york daily news cover calling it a coup, mcclatchy used the word dictator, bob beckel called the president a liar and a boo toon. what do you make of some of this language and covering this admittedly-important story? >> it's irresponsible, and it's conjecture, and it's opinion. it's people passing themselves off as news reporters when they're expressing their opinions, and they're using a lexicon that's never been used about a president of the united states, one who ju

mr. clapper in the days to come. >> so, gentlemen, how about more of what james clapper had to say in this interview with jake tapper? let's listen. >> there are a lot of americans out there who are scared this week. democrats, republicans, independents. because of the behavior by the president. are you among them? >> i'm concerned. i will say that. >> so, brian, should people be concerned, and do you think that there are others, including clapper, who are concerned? >> well, people are always concerned. and particularly when they're in an opposition party. but the fact of the matter is, as i've said, there are two bipartisan investigations going on, and the fbi's own investigation going on. and ellis, even director comey recognized that the president can fire the fbi director for any reason or no reason. >> how about this? do they have reason to be concerned? >> reason to be concerned, no. because these investigations are ongoing and we'll have a result at some point and we'll figure out what's going on. and they're not interfering with that. the fbi's looking into it and two bipartisan c

mr. clapper, the former director of national intelligence, has served. thank you both for coming raise your right hand, please. >> do you confirm that the information you're about to give to the subcommittee is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you god? >> i do. [ inaudible ] >> general graham, ranking members of the white house and is members of the subcommittee, i certainly didn't expect to be before this committee or any other committee. i thought i was all done with this when i left the government. this is only my first. the egregious interruption in our presidential election is unacceptable. a special process resulted in an assessment or ica, as we call it. i'm here today to provide any information that i can now as a private citizen on how the intelligence committee came up with its analysis, pulled up its fundings additionally, i'll briefly address four related top. . of course, my direct official knowledge of any of this stopped on 20 january when my term of office was happily over. as you know, the ic was a coordinate

mr. clapper, hyperpartisan democrats out to undermine the trump administration? >> well, no, as a matter of fact, you know, ouf been thinking while all this has been going on, we have to trust our intelligence agencies to protect us and to be able to identify those who are placing us at risk and harm. and so we know that the russians were hacking into the dnc and two other elected officials, united states elected officials. we knew about meetings. they knew about them. i am just a little bit unnerved that between the obama administration and our intelligence community that none of this came forward in a way that we should have been dealing with it even before the election took place. the election date. we knew enough. they knew enough. what happened to all of this information? >> yeah. and yet, you know, you know there have been many analysts who've said that the key to try to uncover and unravel at least one key to trying to understand what's going on here, why there are so many contacts, so many connections, would be to see donald trump's tax returns and yet li

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mr. clapper, is that accurate? >> yes, it is and it is quite sensitive. the specifics are quite sensitive. >> we got reports from multiple european allies observing contacts between the trump campaign and russians. is that accurate? yes, that's accurate. quite sensitive but accurate. confirmed under oath by the director of national intelligence. so when the deputy director of the fbi went up to the white house and said the "new york times" reporting on that exact thing, that reporting is bs, you know what, that reporting was not bs at all. why was the deputy director of the fbi calling that apparently true story, why was he calling that bs? why was he giving the white house that ex-parte advice on their bad press? why was he talking to the white house at all? what the heck was the deputy director of the fbi doing? i don't know. i've never known. it's been one of the weirdest parts of this investigation all along. now the deputy director of the fbi has been promoted, now the director of the fbi, the acting director of the fbi. which means he's now leading

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mr. clapper brief us.et it was very shocking, these revelations that the returns we russians were trying to influence or elections. at that time i said they should call out russia for what they're doing by name and there should be consequences to those actions. i don't think we have seen that happen, but certainly the american people deserve to know the truth about this. >> yeah, i know jay johnson they did put out a join at the same time with the director of national intelligence in early okay. i think it have october 8th they put out a formal statement accusing the russian of this kind of meddling in the u.s. presidential election. but you didn't hear about it early in the summer, you're saying the earliest you heard about it was october? >> we heard about it in the summer, we got the official gang briefing in october. and i believe the american people deserve to know if a foreign advair power was trying to influence our democratic process. i don't care whether it's republican or democrats, next time it

mr. clapper. >> ranking member ask members of the subcommittee, certainly didn't expect to be before thisgain so soon since i thought i was done with this when i left the government. and this is only my first of two hearings this week. but understandably concern about the egregious russian intern fierce of the election process is is so critically serious as to merit focus, hopefully bipartisan focus, by the congress and the american people. last year the intelligence community conducted an exhaustive review of russian interference in the process resulting in a special intelligence community assessment or ica, as we call it. i'm here today to provide whatever information i can, now as a private citizen, on how the intelligence community conducted its analysis, came up with findings and communicated them to the obama administration, trump transition team, congress and unclassified form to the american public. dishlly, four. topics have emerged since the ica was produced. because both classification and some executive privilege requested by the white house, there are limits to what i can dis

mr. clapper? >> that's a possibility. >> that's one important point. listen here.ry describing his take on the sally yates warning. >> as far as the general's concerned, when i first heard about it, i said huh, that doesn't sound wrong. my counsel came, don mcgann, white house counsel. and he told me, and i asked him, and he can speak very well for himself, he said he doesn't think anything is wrong. he really didn't think -- >> doesn't sound wrong, the president said. but mcgann listened yesterday. yates repeatedly said her message to the white house was it was beyond wrong. >> the russians also knew about what general flynn had done and the russians also knew that general flynn had misled the vice president and others. not only did we believe that the russians knew this, but that they likely had proof of this information. and that created a compromise situation, a situation where the national security adviser essentially could be blackmailed by the russians. >> you can't square these circles. what -- the testimony is very different from what the president and his

mr. clapper and sally yates. what are you listening for afternoon from sean spicer?ing for sean spicer to justify why, after sally yates told the white house that michael flynn was lying and that he was going to be a problem and that their national security adviser might have been compromised by the russians that they still kept him on for something like 13 days. i think the administration needs to understand and make people understand why that decision was made because it goes to the heart of how this administration functions, whether or not they're vetting people properly, what are the decisions they're making in regards to people who to russia. that all goats to the heart of it so i would be surprised if sean doesn't get up there and start talking right away about salary yates or somebody's going to be peppering him with questions about salary yates and specifically what she told the white house. >>> . >>> let's take a quick break. we haven't gotten our two-minute heads up from the white house. they're roughly 20 minutes later. sean spicer heading to the briefing

mr. clapper about any connection, or if he had any concerns about president trump's business interests witho, no, he did not. then graham followed up, because clapper said, no, not at the time of them putting together the intelligence committee assessme assessment. then graham said what about just more broadly, no time frame at all, do you have any concerns about russian ties with trump business interests? and then clapper said, well, i can't comment on that. it could be a subject of an ongoing investigation. and as a result, lindsey graham now is very interested himself in learning more about that. when i had a chance to talk to senator graham this morning, he said, look, that's something that i would like to look into. i want my committee to look into this. and i asked him, well, how are you going to do that? and he said, well, i'll see how the fbi is doing its own investigation, see how that may coincide with anything that i'm going to look at. and i also asked him, are you interested in getting president trump's tax returns as part of this? would that be helpful? he said it would be hel

mr. clapper say we found no collusion. mike mo rely, former head of the cia, we found no collusion. understand the president's rage that comey or someone won't stand up and say look, not going to tell you where we're investigating, but we can tell you this, we have found no collusion between the president of the united states or his closest aides in the russians in hacking and disseminating that material. why can't they tell us that? >> if investigations were concluded and had come to that point -- >> >> michael, this is the problem. why cannot the fbi in ten months cannot make a decision as to whether or not somebody in trump's operation wired, phoned, e-mailed, went to moscow, you're doing a great job, and here is where you ought to put these out? excuse me, comey's why are we ten months in? ten months into watergate people are in prison. what is going on that they can't find any evidence that mr. trump colewded with anybody to do that? >> after you famously told nixon to burn the tapes, he didn't take your advisor maybe history would have taken us a different direction. to the ex

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mr. clapper is not the only person to have told us that mr. comey was invited and didn't invite himself. what these people who talked to him at the time say, that comey told them during dinner, the president asked if he could be loyal. that comey said, well, i can't guarantee you that. i would certainly be honest. the president asked about that a couple more times and finally comey said, what if i say i would be honestly loyal. the president said, okay, that's fine. that's the big divergence here. these people say mr. comey did not go to the white house. he did not and for a meeting because he was hoping to keep his job. he had a ten-year term and it didn't require any action by the president to keep it going. >> would it make essential for him to go and say i would like to stay on. he was staying on. he had a ten-year term. >> obviously as we've learned this week, that can be ended any time by the president. unlike other officials, for instance, u.s. attorneys who serve a four-year term or whose term expires when the presidency does, the fbi

mr. clapper at the time. i hope that is asked of him, so that is cleared up. and what i was suggesting on friday is that i have seen evidence both on the unclassified and classified side of collusion. that's evidence that the fbi must continue to develop, you know, so it can come forward -- >> so, you can share with us then, you can share the unclassified evidence then. >> sure. >> so, what is it? >> happy to go through it. first is senior foreign policy adviser carter page. after being told he was meeting with russian spies, he, you know, showing very bad judgment at the very best, looking in the best light for carter page, he goes over a month after it's revealed that russia is interfering with our elections to moscow. general michael flynn, who had a security clearance at the highest level, knew that "russia today," a russia state broadcasting company, is directly linked to russia's intelligence services, gives paid speeches to russia, sits next to vladimir putin, and then working on the transition team reportedly is telling the russian ambassador, don't wo

mr. clapper. what did you mainly take away from today?ell, this one thing i heard was a career department official describing handling a situation exactly the way it was handled numerous other counterintelligence investigations. that said, highly unusual the individual having secret with russians and intentionally not telling his bosses is the act actual national security advisor, and you can see why we take that type of situation very secialtion even when it's a much lower-ranking official that possesses access to our nation's secrets, but for the national security advisor to be secretly having conversations with russian officials, not telling the vice president of the united states, i can't imagine the situation which would cause more alarm for the career counterintelligence officials. >> woodruff: it's just a natural question, how unusual is a situation like this? >> well, in some ways, it's usual insofar as the russians are constantly trying to compromise officials, even businessmen, in order to gain access and be able to gain secrets

mr. clapper. think that opportunity has been lost, maybe for the greater good. >> reporter: now that a special counsel has been chosen, some are concerned it could over shadow or hamper the congressional investigation. in effect, whether former fbi director james comey will testify before congress, which has been called for by numerous congressional committees. >> we happen to think that an open hearing in front tv intelligence committee is the right way for him to do it. >> reporter: the latest revelations are bringing president trump's former national security adviser michael flynn back into focus. the new york times reporting flynn told the trump transition team two weeks before inauguration before he was chosen for the job that he was under federal investigation for working as a paid lobbyist for turkey during the campaign, an issue because flynn had not registered then as a fortunate agent and was working on behalf of another country while a senior transition official. a senior white house of