mr. comey: no. rep. nunes: thank you. admiral rogers, i know that there is a leak of information regarding director clapper and former secretary of defense carter were looking at relieving you of your duty here are you ware of those stories? adm. rogers: i'm aware of media reporting of that. rep. nunes: those stories were leaked as soon as you visited with president-elect trump, is that correct? adm. rogers: yes, interviewing with the trump administration for a position, which i did. ep. nunes: did that impact the assessment you did for the committee? adm. rogers: no, if i spend time worrying about unsourced media reporting i would never get work done. rep. nunes: thank you, admiral. director comey, i'm extending concerned about the illegal leaks you referenced in your testimony. just for the record, i want to get this on the record. does the disclosure of unauthorized classified information to the rest violate a section of the espionage act that criminalizes properly accessing from handling, o

mr. comey and mr. rogers, you both said that the russians had -- they favored donald trump, this election, you made that change from the beginning of december it was not that they were trying to help donald trump, but that changed by early january. mr. conaway talked about that. do russian -- director comey: i don't agree with that. i might misspeak earlier. we didn't, we at the fibfifpblet i don't know anybody on the i.c. team. chairman nunes: at some point the assessment changed from going just trying to hurt hillary clinton know they were trying to hell help donald trump get elected. that was early december as far as i know. and then by january you had all changed your mind on that. director comey: that's not my recollection. director rogers: that's not mine either. chairman nunes: do russians historically prefer republicans to win over democrats? director comey: i don't know the answer to that. chairman nunes: did the russians prefer mitt romney over barack obama in 2012? director rogers: i

mr. comey, are you aware whether or not the director of national intelligence, director clapper, ever briefed the president of the united states, then president obama, concerning the possible inadvertent or incidental collection or interception by the u.s. intelligence community of any communication of members of the incoming trump administration? >> that's not something i can comment on. >> then why not, mr. comey? >> a couple of reasons. it might involve classified information. it might involve communications with the president of the united states. on both of those grounds, i can't talk about it here. >> mr. comey, have you previously discussed your conversations with president obama with this committee? >> i don't remember. it may have with the chair and ranking. i don't remember with the full committee. >> we'll have to refresh your memory on those conversations then. mr. comey, did president obama ever acknowledge to you of having been briefed concerning possibly inadvertent or incidental

mr. comey, and mr.rogers, you both said that the russians had, they favored donald trump, the selection and you made that change from the beginning of december, it was not that they were trier to help donald trump, but that changed by january, early january. mr. conaway talked about that. do russian -- >> i don't agree with that. i'm going not to misspeak earlier. we didn't change our view from december to early january. the fbi. i don't know anybody did on the ic team. >> from my perspective -- >> at some -- >> at some point the assessment changed from going from just trying to hurt hillary clinton to know that they were actually trying to help donald trump get elected. that was early december as far as i know. and then by january you had all changed your mind on that. >> that is not my recollection. >> that is not my recollection either, sir. >> okay. so is it, do russians historically prefer republicans to win over democrats? >> i don't know the answer to that. >> i don't know the answer to that. >>

turner. >> mr. comey the "new york times" reported on february 14th, 2017 that general flynn was interviewed by fbi personnel. is that correct? >> i can't comment on that, mr. turner. >> mr. comey, i do not have any additional questions but i thank you both for your participation and again i thank the chairman for the bipartisan aspect of this investigation. >> the gentleman yields back. mr. winstrop is recognized. >> thank you, gentlemen, for being here. i appreciate your endurance in this effort today. one question, how long has russia's soviet union been interfering or attempting to interfere with our election process? >> in the report we previously talked about we have seen this kind of behavior to some degree attempting to influence outcomes for decades. not to this same level. >> going back to the soviet union. >> the basic trend has been there. >> i'm curious what triggers a counter intelligence investigation of a government official, and in some ways asking for myself. for example, last week i spo

mr. comey, are you aware whether or not the director of national intelligence, director clapper, ever briefed the president of the united states, then president obama, concern ing the possible collection of communication between the incoming administration or officials? >> i cannot comment on that. >> why not, mr. comey? >> because it may involve classified information that i can't talk about here. >> i can't remember with the full committee. >> we'll have to refresh your memory on those conversations then. mr. comey, did president obama ever acknowledge to you being briefed of possible inadvertent or incidental collection by the intelligence community of any communications of members of the incoming trump administration? >> i'll have to give you the same answer, mr. turner. >> mr. comey, the first question related to whether or not mr. clapper had briefed the president of the united states. he will be appearing before us next week and we'll certainly be directing the question to him also. mr.

we are asking mr. comey and mr. rogers come to back in. until we can get them in in a closed session it will not be worth it to have the open session. we are hopeful mr. rogers and mr. comey will be able to come in next tuesday in that time slot so all the members have a chance to interview him in both sessions. it is exactly to what i said. [inaudible questions] >> that is nice. [inaudible question] >> i will not get into that. we will find out when we get the nfrp nfrpgz -- information. as far as i know they will come forward and we encourage others to come forward freely. they can come in voluntarily. thank you. >> later the lead democrat on the intelligence committee responded to the chair's statement and decision to cancel the open hearing on the 2016 election. >> good morning, today i want to address the chairman's cancelation of the opening hearing with

mr. comey: no information supports those tweets. we have looked carefully inside the fbi. tim: the head of the fbi says there is no evidence of wiretapping, but the bureau is investigating possible russian meddling in u.s. election and any ties to the trump campaign. iraq's prime minister visits the white house to talk strategy against the islamic state. how the leaders hope to fight back against the militant group. ♪ tim: and celebrating the force's sweetheart, dame vera lynn, on her 100th birthday. her voice the soundtrack to the second world war. , and welcome to our viewers on public television in america and also around the globe. the allegations had been explosive, and the question --ay, what is the testimony would the testimony be equally so? straight out of the gate the director of the fbi confirmed his agency is looking into possible interference by russia in the u.s. presidential election. by he also made clear there is no evidence to back up president trump's claims of wiretapping at

mr. comey, mr. rogers, thank you for being here today for what appears to be and attempts to be forthcoming with the committee. i also want to thank the chairman and ranking membership. this is a bipartisan effort. as you look to what this committee is undertaking, everyone wants answers and everyone wants answers to all the questions that are being asked because this does go to such an important issue concerning concern ing our elections. mr. rogers, concerning the foreign intelligence surveillance act. admiral, as you know, foreign intelligence surveillance act provides the circumstances or authority under which the intelligence community may collector intercept the communication of a foreign person located outside of the united states or, as mr. comey has indicated, a person who is covered under a fisa court order. with mr. rooney and mr. gowdy you discussed minimization procedures under the foreign intelligence surveillance act. those procedures are supposed to protect the privacy rights of u.s.

mr. comey, have you ever formed -- this is going back to the article from february 14th in "the new york times." have you ever formed and articulated an opinion about the article from february 14 tth in "the new york times"? >> have i ever formed -- >> formed an opinion or articulated an opinion on that article? >> yeah, i don't want to say, dr. wenstrup. >> thank you. when i look at your jobs, and thank you for being there and doing your jobs, and i mean that sincerely. your job, you observe and you investigate and you assess and you try to predict and you sometimes have to act, would that be correct? >> sure. >> my question is, as far as predictions and actions, had hillary clinton won the 2016 election for the united states presidency, which most had predicted, i would conject even the russians predicted she would win, what were the russians planning for november 9th and beyond that had she won? you mention -- i reason i ask is you said, they'll be back. my question is, have they left? i con

mr. comey, are you aware whether or not the director of national intelligence, director clever, per evertor clap briefed the president of the united states on the possible collection of interception by the u.s. intelligence community of any communication of members of the incoming trump administration? dir. comey: that's not something i can comment on. >> why not? dir. comey: it might involve classified communication with the president of the united states. >> have you previously discussed your conversations with president obama with this committee? dir. comey: i don't remember. i may have with the chair and ranking. >> we will have to refresh your memory on those conversations. mr. comey, did president obama every knowledge to you of having been briefed concerning possibly inadvertent or incidental collection or interception by the intelligence community of any communications of members of the incoming trump administration? dir. comey: i will have to give you the same answer. >> the first ques

mr. comey and mr. rogers, you both said that the russians had, they favored donald trump this election, and you made that change from the beginning of december, it was not that they were trying to help donald trump, but that changed by early january. mr. conway talked about that. do russian -- >> i don't agree with that. i we didn't change our view from december to early january. we the fbi and i don't know that anybody else did on the ic team. >> meaning from my perspective, we didn't -- >> at some point the assessment changed from going from just trying to hurt hillary clinton to know that they were actually trying to help donald trump get elected. that was early december as far as i know, and then by january, you had all changed your mind on that. >> that's not my recollection, mr. chairman. >> that's not my recollection either, sir. >> okay. so is it, do russians historically prefer republicans to win over democrats? >> i don't know the answer to that. >> did the russians prefer mitt romney over ba

mr. comey said that the claims by the president of him being wiretapped by obama were unsupported by any evidence, but the claim that he made about wiretapping in reference to merkel came up in the snowden disclosures. i won't ask you if the chancellor was the subject of any eaves droppings, but did the snowden disclosures do any damage to the relationships with the german ally and if the chancellor, herself, expressed concern at the time. >> yes, sir. >> and in light of this, is it helpful to us with the chans r chancellor or the german intelligence to bring this up again in a public forum? >> it certainly complicates things, but again, i would like to think that our are relationship is such that we can continue to move forward. >> so the relationships with the british and the germans you hope are strong enough to withstand any damage by these comments? >> by anything in general, because we have foundational interests and we need to keep working together. >> all right. at this time, director c

mr. comey and mr. rogers, you both said that the russians had -- they favored donald trump in this election, and you made that change from the beginning of december. it was not that they were trying to help donald trump, but that changed by early january. mr. conway talked about that. do russians -- >> i don't agree with that. i didn't try to misspeak earlier. we didn't change our view. we, the fbi. i don't know that anybody else did on the ic team. >> you mean from my perspective, we -- >> at some point the assessment -- >> at some point the assessment changed from going from just trying to hurt hillary clinton to know that they were actually trying to help donald trump get elected. that was early december as far as i know, and then by january you had all changed your mind on that. >> that's not my recollection. >> that's not my recollection either, sir. >> okay. so is it -- do russians historically prefer republicans to win over democrats? >> i don't know the answer to that. >> do the russians prefer

the step now is for mr. comeycome out. >> have you been been briefed on transcripts of any communication between russians and trump associates? >> i can't comment on internal deliberations or documents in front of the intelligence committee. i just am very concerned that with investigations you would like to have it about a closed box or at least as closed as possible. i think the press and the american people are obviously getting more and more cynical. i would like to see a special counsel named. i think that's in the public interest. but from the standpoint of the next step, in my view, to address the public's concerns is mr. comey coming forward. >> we have to go, but before i let you go, i just have to ask, briefly, are you comfortable with the way that the justice department counter-intelligence agencies are delivering information to you for your investigation? and the house intelligence committee just gave them a march 17th deadline to give them information. is that something that you in the senate would al

mr. comey and mr. rogers, you both said that the russians had -- they favored donald trump in this election and you made that change from the beginning of december. it was not that they were trying to help donald trump but that changed by early january? mr. conaway talked about that. do russians -- >> i don't agree with that. i want to make sure i didn't misspeak. we didn't chang your view from december to early january, the fbi, nor did anybody else on the ic team. >> from my perspective we didn't have a fully view -- >> the assessment changed from going to trying to hurt hillary clinton to knowing they were actually trying to help donald trump get elected. that was early december, as far as i know, and then by january, you had all changed your mind on that. >> that's not my recollection, mr. chair. >> that's not my recollection either, sir. >> okay. so is it -- do russians historically refer republicans to win over democrats? >> i don't know the answer to that. >> i don't know the answer to that. >>

-- comey: mr. putin would like people who like him. >> would they haven't -- preference for a candidate who encourage brexit? dir. comey: would they like to see more brexits, yes. europehave russians in demonstrated they can entangle them and financial interests or allow them to take place over the countries they represent? dir. comey: we account that president clinton has -- president putin -- he believes there are people more open to negotiation and dealing with. i would like to continue the line of questioning on michael flynn. understand hean said he did not remember whether he discussed sanctions. i find that hard to believe. wouldn't you think that mr. flynn would have remembered meeting with the russian ambassador and would have told him to stop meddling in our affairs? but that did not happen, did a question mark >> -- but that did not happen, did it? >> i can't answer that. -- that is something i cannot answer. he also appears to have lied to vice president mike pence all about it. do you t

rogers and mr. comey will be able to come in next tuesday in that time slot so all the members have a chance to interview them and hold a hearing in closed session. >> it's not because of the -- [ indiscernible ] >> no. it's exactly for what i said. >> how has it come to be investigated. wh

i think he made very bad errors of judgement. —— mr comey.d by forces inside the fbi who may have wanted influence stockpot. not to see hillary clinton elected? to see hillary clinton elected? to see hillary clinton elected? to see hillary clinton lose, yeah. i think mr comey was motivated more from the pressure coming from republicans on capitol hill, pressure coming from people, particularly in his new york field office, that were putting pressure on him but against the advice of the department ofjustice, against the long—term practice of democrat and republican justice department is and fbi leadership. he got involved and i think it was a terrible error in judgement. john podesta, thank you. thank you. back to our main news. tributes have been paid around the world to the victims of the westminster terror attack. sophie raworth spoke to some of those who went to show their solidarity and respect. shoulder to shoulder. police, politicians, faith leaders from all over london. the mayor of london urged people tojoin him in trafalgar square. t

mr. comey refused to answer between -- he kept mum even though the director of national intelligence, james clapper, -- even though others had said publicly that they had seen no such evidence. they added that if mr. conley won't help, the hope is that the intelligence committees will go further to classify relevant details. the public needs to know if whether the obama administration used cloak and dagger methods for partisan purposes. let's head to mike in california. caller: good morning. basically, what i would like to say is there is a lot of investigating that seems to be going on, but most of it is speculation. the public needs to know that trump is a businessman and not a politician. they answerow can these questions when you are confronted with fbi and so forth as far as the investigation, it was just a basic overreach of everything that is still going to satisfy thely democrats. i think that was the whole intention of the investigation was to be publicized on c-span. that's all i need

mr. comey, if i can use your phrase, intense public interest, there is intense public interest in the fact that our new president will attack anyone and everyone. he will attack the cast of "hamilton," he will attack chuck schumer, our allies, mexico, australia, germany, he will attack the intelligence community which you lead, associating you with mccarthyism and with nazism. but there's one person and one country which is immune, which is inoculated from any form of presidential attack, no matter what the behavior, no matter if there is a violation of the inf nuclear treaty, no matter if vladimir putin kills political opponents. the new president defends, obfuscates, does not attack. and the people around the president -- michael flynn, jeff sessions, paul manafort have an odd connection to russia, a series of odd connections. eall campaign. i don't think our campaign people have communications with a foreign power, much less an adversary of the united states. and further, apart from these we

clapper, then have mr. comey and admiral rogers come back.has been an extraordinary mess. inexcusable. but we have to move forward. this is too important to delay any more. my respectful request is, schedule that public hearing. schedule mr. comey and admiral rogers as soon as possible. we could get back on track on a bipartisan basis. again, the information, the american public has a right to know, follow the facts wherever they are. >> do you believe that this investigation can continue in a bipartisan way and one that will yield results that the american people can trust if chairman nunes does not recuse himself? >> i made myself clear, with the greatest respect, i told him he should step aside and move the investigation forward with someone else. only he can make that choice. either him or the speaker of the house. i don't expect that to happen. to answer your question, the investigation, it's not a question of can it forward? it absolutely must go forward. the information is too important. what we've gleaned already is critical. without

i have to get back. >> we're asking mr. comey and mr.ogers to come back in until we have them in a closed session it is not worth it to have the open session severe hopeful with that timeslot they can come in on tuesday that all the of members of the chance to have the hearing in full session. >> [inaudible] >> that is exactly what i said. >> water your thoughts greg. >> so there is only one announcement? >> i will not get into the specifics of that. >> were they or weren't they greg. >> we will find out when we get the information. >> of this still committed to appearing part. >> that has nothing to do with it we encourage others to come forward i have to go. thank you. [inaudible conversations] >> we're just the beginning of this unwanted to inform you that mr. maniford volunteered to come in free the. >> good morning i want to address the cancellation of the open hearing

director comey: i can't answer that. mr. swalwell: are you aware in trump tower where two tenantseses -- tenants who ran a high stakes illegal gambling ring that was run out of trump tower? director comey: same answer. mr. swalwell: are you aware of the prosecutor? director comey: same answer. mr. swalwell: are you aware that u.s. attorney was recently fired? director comey: yes. mr. swalwell: by the president of the united states? director comey: i don't know who fired him. i know from press accounts that he was asked to leave. >> we will leave this hearing now for live coverage of the house for legislative work. the hearing itself will continue live on c-span3 and online at c-span.org. the house coming in for the start of debate on a number of homeland security related measures. live coverage of the house. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] the speaker pro tempore: th

right now mr. comeys saying russia did in fact support donald trump, and this is in the investigation that he also says has been going on for the past nine months, ever since late july. they are looking for a couple things. a are at any connections between the trump campaign and the russian government. on another level they are looking for any coordination. if you delve further into that, there is a very emotional motivation for president vladimir putin, saying that he actually really does not like hillary clinton, and that is the whole reason. let's take a listen to mr. comey. vladimir putin hated secretary clinton so much that the flipside of that coin was he had a clear preference to the prison running against the person he hated so much. reporter: we can also see the donald trump white house is now in defense mode. sean spicer taking press questions after that house intelligence committee with the fbi as well as the nsa director. he wanted to get out the line that there was no collusion from the poin

mr. comey, if i can use your phrase, intense public interest, there is intense public interest in the fact that our new president will attack anyone and everyone, he will attack the cast of "hamilton," he will attack chuck schumer, our allies, mexico, australia, germany, he will attack the intelligence community you lead, associateding you with mccarthyism and naziism. but there is one person and one country which is immune, which is inoculated from any form presidential attack no matter what the behavior, no matter if there's a violation of the nuclear treaty, no matter if vladimir putin kills political opponents, the new president obfuscates, does not attack. the people around the president, carter page, paul manafort, have an odd connection to russia, a series of odd connections. we all campaigned, i don't think any of our campaigns have connections with a foreign power, much less one that is an adversary of the united states. further, without exception the individuals i quoted have dissembl

mr. comey saying that looking ahead to the future, because of this success on russia's part in terms of your selection meddling, that we should expect more to happen in 2020 if not the 2018 congressional elections, yvonne. yvonne: comey delivering a blow to the trump administration. donald trump's unfounded allegations that former president obama wiretaps trump tower -- i mean, comey poured cold water on that as well. ramy: basically the fbi and nsa directors, they both are throwing cold water saying, listen, there is no evidence whatsoever in terms of these claims. these claims of course, stretching from march 4 when inald trump set out to -- believe, three tweets calling obama a bad guy and thing the president went to a new low. let us take a listen to what mr. comey had to say in his own words. thathave no information supports those tweets and we have looked carefully inside the fbi. the department of justice has asked me to share with you that the answer is the same for the department of ju

. >> mr. comey, i want to begin by attempting to put it rest several claims by president trump about his predecessor. i want to ask you about wha the president said and ask you whether there was any truth to it. first the president claimed, quote, terrible, just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. nothing found this is mccartyism." was the present state that obama had his wires tapped in trump tower a true statement? >> with respect to the president's tweets about alleged wiretapping directed at him by the prior station, i have no information that supports those sweets and if have looked -- the department has no information that supports those tweets. >> the president accused mr. obama and presumably the fbi of engaging in mccarthyism. as you understand the term mccarthyism, do you have think president obama or the fbi was engaged in such conduct? >> i'm not going to try and characterize the tweets themselves. all i can tell you is we have no information

i think at this point i've never accused mr comey of trying...ed to influence the election. i'm not sure i would accuse him... not to see hillary clinton elected? yeah, to see hillary clinton lose. i think mr comey was motivated more from the pressure coming from republicans on capitol hill, pressure coming from people, particularly in his new york field office, that were putting pressure on him but against the advice of the department ofjustice, against the long—term practice of democrat and republicanjustice departments and fbi leadership. he got involved and i think it was a terrible error in judgement. john podesta, thank you. thank you. not far from the scene of wednesday's attack, several thousand people gathered in trafalgar square for a candlelit vigil to honour the victims. sophie raworth spoke to some of those who went to show solidarity and respect. shoulder to shoulder. police, politicians, faith leaders from all over london. the mayor of london urged people tojoin him in trafalgar square. thousands answered his call. those evil and t

mr. comey said no, it did not happen. mr. comey, the f.b.i. director. again of march 4, 2014, i bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that president obama was tapping my phones in october just prior to the lech. again, mr. comey said no. then again on march 4, again, mr. trump, how low has president obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process. this is nixon-watergate, bad or sick guy. mr. comey, the f.b.i. director said no. definitively, mr. trump did not tell the truth. more investigation, deliberatively, to determine the status of the actions of the president of the united states, accusing a former president of a criminal felony which did not happen, it did not happen. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker this past saturday, in my own first congressional district of california, we had the first of a series of town

i think at this point i've never accused mr comey of trying...nside the fbi who may themselves have wanted to influence the election... not to see hillary clinton elected? yeah, to see hillary clinton lose. i think mr comey was motivated more from the pressure coming from republicans on capitol hill, pressure coming from people, particularly in his new york field office, that were putting pressure on him but against the advice of the department ofjustice, against the long—term practice of democrat and republican justice departments and fbi leadership. he got involved and i think it was a terrible error in judgement. john podesta, thank you. thank you. not far from where wednesday's attack took, several thousand people the diplomatic row between russia and the ukraine about eurovision, is rumbling on. russia has rejected an invite for its consistent to take pa rt invite for its consistent to take part via video link. she has been hand from ukraine, accused of illegally visiting crimea. she had been offered a chance to perform via video link but th

mr comey is reported to have asked thejustice department to reject mr trump's unsubstantiated accusation the former director of national intelligence james clapper denied there was any wire—tap on president trump or his election campaign team. our north america correspondent nick bryant reports from new york. voiceover: now, on a special edition of this week with george stephanopoulos... on the sunday talk shows this morning, one main topic of discussion... ...from president trump, claiming the trump campaign was wire—tapped by president obama. in his extraordinary twitter tirade, donald trump accused his predecessor barack obama of being a sick and bad guy, who ordered wire—taps at trump tower, in a watergate—style conspiracy. and this morning the white house issued a statement asking that as part of their investigation into russian activity, the congressional intelligence committees exercise their oversight authority to determine whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016. but the white house has produced no evidence to back up the president's claims, and seems t

there's another possible another possible expedition with a few minutes and remaining -- mr. comey, you indicated -- do you believe ever came to a conclusion on whether mr. trump was going to win? >> said the intelligence community was early on, they thought he might have a shot. they wanted to mess with our election and hurt our country. that is always the baseline. they hated her, secretary clinton. they want to harm her and thought they would have a chance to help mr. trump. and later concluded that mr. trump, it was hopeless. then they would focus on trying to undermine six k clinton. .- undermine secretary clinton >> from summer through the fall, they believed that secretary clinton would win. >> the assessment was late in the summer they concluded based on the polling that mr. trump did not have a chance in the shifted to focusing on trying to undermine her. >> if you were to tell me, and i know you did not -- if anyone were to tell me that mr. trump was going to win, i would say they did not. there was no one in the world who believed that. every organization last fall thoug

mr. comey confirming the fbi is investigating russia's interference in the election, including whether there were contacts between russianals andp campaign. let's get right to fox business blake burman standing by live at the white house. i said it was a busy day, blake. >> happy monday there, ashley. got tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday to go i guess; right? ashley: yep. >> so lots of headlines out of this one. you just mentioned one of them. the fbi director james comey confirming there is an investigation into possible collusion between russia, the trump campaign. he said this has been going on, the investigation has since late july. he also would not put a timetable on when it might wrap up. he also talked about the tweets that the president had sent out a couple weeks ago that president obama had wiretapped him, and he said at this point mr. comey did, that there is no evidence to back that up. also pointing to the department of justice saying they wanted that message to be put out the

i want to thank mr. comey and mr. rodgers for appearing today. last summer at the height of a bit early contested presidential campaign, a foreign adversarial power intervened to weaken our democracy and to influence the outcome for one candidate and against the other. that foreign adversary was of course russia, and it acted through its intelligence agencies and upon the direct instructions of its auto democratic leader, vladimir putin. the campaign may have begun as early as 2015 when russian officials launched an attack. this continued at least throughout winter of 2016. while at first the hacking may have been intended solely for the collection of foreign intelligence, in mid 2016, the russians weaponized the stolen data and used platforms established by the intel services such as d.c. leaks and third party channels like wikileaks to dump the documents. they were almost uniformly damages to the candidate putin despised, hillary clinton and by forcing her campaign to deal with the constant dripping, it favored donald trump's campaign. we will

mr. nunes: what are they going to look at? reporter: take over the investigation that director comey -- mr. nunes: take it away from the f.b.i.? i don't know. i would have to think about that. the f.b.i. is an independent organization. they should be suited to do this. if i sense any problems with the investigation, then i would recommend that. but i don't see that as of now. reporter: were there issues upset about, like an independent counsel? mr. nunes: an independent counsel isn't going to do anything less than what director comey said. until this gets cleared up, you guys are going to continue to have these questions and i just don't have evidence of people within the white house or the administration has any ties to russian intelligence services of any kind. that even hanging out there is bad for democracy, bad for america and clearly it helps r adverse our adverse areas. reporter: why was the reason director comey did not -- [no audio] mr. nunes: there is no reason and look, i don't think there is any written rules on what the congress should be informed of and perhaps we are going to

to say that there was a meeting already scheduled with mr. comey and mr. rogers is simply not true. the brutal fact is there is more than two hours in a day. it is what, 2:00, 3:00. we would be done by now. we can meet with more than one person in a day. >> wow. let me move on. congressman quigley, we haven't talked to you since the whole health care -- before i get on to that. this whole thing erupted. the secret rendezvous with mr. nunes on white house grounds, not difficult vvulging who cleao get into the skiff or what he saw. what are your thoughts on what devon nunes did that day? >> look, i take no great pressure in talking about the chairman this way. it is just facts. i thought the first two years he ran the committee i was a member he was very fair. ever since mr. trump has become president trump it has been a different story. what he did was beyond the pale. it makes no sense after what mr. comey said, that the trump white house was part of this investigation, the trump campaign, to go to the white house with information completely but never mind the fact that he never sha

. >> mr. comey, you indicated as of august, september, do you believe they ever came to a conclusion you know what, mr. trump is going to win? >> no, our -- the assessment of the intelligence commune was that early on they thought he might have a shot. so they wanted to mess with our election, hurt our country in general. that's always the baseline. they hated her, secretary clinton, wanted to harm her, and thought they might have a chance to help mr. trump. and later concluded that mr. trump was hopeless and they would focus then on just trying to undermine secretary clinton, especially with the european allies. >> got that. >> great. >> so up until center and through the fall, they believed that secretary clinton would win is that true? >> i think the assessment was late in the summer they concluded based on the polling, i think a lot of people, were reading, that mr. trump didn't have a chance and they shifted to focusing on just trying to undermine her. >> i tell you if you were to tell me and i

mr. comey's washington.d for our global audience in an extraordinary back-and-forth between the fbi and the trump administration. look throughout bloomberg today for the news flow off of this. kevin cirilli will join us at the top of the next hour. here's taylor riggs. >> we will start with washington. the white house wants congress to investigate president trump's claim that president obama had him wiretapped just before last year's election. the president offered no evidence to back up the allegations. james clyburn denied it. >> on the part of the national security apparatus, there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president-elect at the time as a candidate or against his campaign. the fbi director asked the justice department to publicly reject president trump's claim on wiretapping. the agency has not done so yet. russian hackers have launched a new wave of attacks targeting liberal groups in the u.s. been scouringve the organization's for embarrassing details and have demanded hush money