director comey: sure. mr. swalwell: how about somebody that does business with russians, would that be attractive to them? director comey: could be. depend upon other things as well. mr. swalwell: and we were starting to discuss this. efforts to recruit include investing in a u.s. person, is that correct? director comey: efforts by russia in their trade craft, that can be one of the ways which they cultivate a relationship, sure. mr. swalwell: if you are a u.s. person with a business, investing in your business or being a partner in some of your endeavors? director comey: lots of different ways someone could try establish a relationship. mr. swalwell: going back to compromise, could we assume any prominent u.s. person traveling to russia would probably be covered by russian surveillance? director comey: depends on how you define prominent. they have an extensive surveillance of foreign visitors because no matter who you are you ought to assume it. whether it's true in reality it's hard to answer. admiral rogers

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

mr. director, i want to start with something the president told tucker carlson on fox about the healthcare plan. he acknowledged that the people who voted for him and sent him to washington bear the brunt of a lot of these changes in the healthcare bill panned he said, quote, we need to take care of our people -- meaning the bill, how will he take care of his bill without fundamentally changing the bill? >> the same way we have taken people for a long time in this country which is through competition, i think it is one thing that doesn't get heavily reported is that part of the problem with obamacare right now, and i discovered this first time, i live in south carolina, we are down to one provider, you can imagine what that does to price competition on costs, it doesn't do anything, but increase the costs, and one, the key points of the plan that is in the republican house right now is it is going to encourage more competition, which will lower the cost for everybody, not just trump voters. >> dickerson: but the president's remarks here were having taken all of that into account, knowing t

. >> director, outside of mr mr. sadr's relationship with the trump organization, are you aware the u.s. government knew of him because of a $40 million stock fraud case prosecuted bit u.s. government? >> same answer. >>. >> director, what a u.s. person having multiple trademarks in addition to the other relationships that i just described be a red flag for a counterintelligence investigation, if those trademarks were in russia? >> multiple trademarks? >> yeah, registering trademarks in a foreign adversary's country. >> i don'ten what to make of that. >> were you aware donald trump had six trademarks in ruche? russia? >> i'm not going to comment on that. >> were you aware trump tried to market his trump vodka brand in russia? >> same answer. >> were you aware donald trump ran miss universe 2013 out of moscow? >> same answer. >> are you aware donald trump jr. said on a number of occasions that russian money is pouring into the trump organization and there's a disproportionate cross-section of the company's revenue comi

mr. director. i'm going to yield to mr. rony. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i i'd like to direct my questions first and foremost to admiral rodgers to convey my thanks to the many men and women for their dedication at the nsa for keep aing our country safe d as well as i'd like to talk about the recent media story which may have led to confusion about what the nsa is and is not legally collecting and the safe guards put in place to protect personal data. i'd like to clarify as chairman of the subcommittee on the nsa, i recently got to meet your deputy admiral last week and we vitsed and spoke about some of those things. what we can talk about here today publicly. if you can't, you can't, but i think that this is important for the people and listening outside understand. is it true the nsa would need a court order based on probable cause to conduct electronic surveillance on a u.s. person inside the united states? >> yes, sir. >> and just to be clear, the section of the fisa that is expiring later this year that 702, which we'll be talking about a little bit,

mr. director. >> but they're begging for better control to get more efficiency and better ability to serve their people. the medicaid system today is a one-size-fits-all system. we fixed that. you can provide better services for less if you get the federal government out of the way. >> are you saying if the congressional budget office says fewer people will be covered, many millions fewer people will be covered, the costs will be going up, that you're simply rejecting that analysis? >> i don't think the costs will go up at all. in order for this to be passed on budget reconciliation, it has to reduce the debt and thus save money. >> on the coverage, though, if it says fewer people will be covers, you simply reject that? >> if the cbo is right about obamacare to begin with, there would be 8 million more people on obamacare today than there actually are. i love the folks in the cbo. they work really hard. they do. sometimes we ask them to do things they're not capable of doing. and estimating the impact of a bill of this size is probably not the best use of their time. >> it sounds like you'

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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

mr. director -- >> can i ask you an estimated time? i'm not made of steel. i might need to take a quick break. >> would you like to do that now? >> if you can. i didn't know how much longer you planned to go. >> i think we want to keep going until members have asked all their questions. >> just a quick rest stop? >> we'll break for about ten minutes? >> that's plenty. >> all right. so this is the break. it's been going on since 10:00 in the morning. some major headlines emerging from the house intelligence committee hearing. the fbi director james comey now confirming -- confirming that an investigation is underway. not only an investigation into the russian government efforts to interfere on the 2016 u.s. presidential election, but he goes one step further saying the investigation also includes the nature of any links between individuals associated with the trump campaign and the russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russia's efforts, and he then goes on to say this. he says as with any counter intelligence inves

mr. flynn resigned as national security adviser. now, director comey, all of these accounts are open source press reportings. given russia's long standing desire to cultivate relations with influential u.s. persons, isn't the american public right to be concerned about mr. flynn's conduct. his failure to disclose that contact with the russian ambassador and attempts to cover it up. it looks like white house attempts to sweep this under a drug. don't we as american people have a right to know and shouldn't our fbi investigate job claims? >> i can't comment. i understand people's curiosity about our work and intense interest in it and often times speculation about it. we can't do it well or fairly to the people we investigate if we talk about it. i can't comment. >> i would like to turn to another topic to fl flynn. his failure to disclose until pressured last week by my colleagues on the house oversight and government relations committee. payments he received to the tenth anniversary gala of rt, the russian owned propaganda media outlet. according

mr. flynn working as an agent of a foreign power. director comey, following on mr. hines' line of questioning am i correct that the foreign agents registration act requires that individuals who lobby on behalf of a foreign government must register with the united states government? >> i believe that's correct. i know i keep saying i'm not an expert. the reason i'm saying that is, i don't know exactly how they define things like lobbying in the statute but as a general matter if you're going to represent a foreign government here in the united states, touching our government, you should be registered. >> and isn't it true that just last november, 2016, mr. flynn was working as a foreign agent doing work that principally benefited the government of turkey, and yet he didn't report it until just last week? >> i can't comment on that. >> isn't it true that mr. flynn was reportedly paid over half a million dollars for this work? >> same answer. >> and isn't it true that the trump white house on at least two occasions was asked by mr. flynn's lawyers whether he should rep

mr. flynn resigned as national security advisor. now, director comey, all of these accounts are open source press reportings. given russia's longstanding desire to cultivate relations with influential u.s. persons, isn't the american public right to be concerned about mr. flynn's conduct, his failure to disclose that contact with the russian ambassador, his attempts to cover it up, and what looks like the white house's attempts to sweep this under the rug? don't we as the american people deserve the right to know and shouldn't our fbi investigate such claims? >> i can't comment. i understand people's curiosity about our work and intense interest in it, and mr. king said oftentimes speculation about it, but we can't do it well or fairly to the people we investigate if we talk about it. i can't comment. >> i would like to turn to another topic about mr. flynn. his failure to disclose until pressured last week by my colleagues on the house oversight and government relations committee. government reforms committee. payments he received from russia fo

mr. chairman. thank you director comey and admiral rogers. my first set of questions are comey.r that director when the fbi has any open counterintelligence investigation, what are the procedures for notifying the dni, the white house, and senior congressional leadership? director comey: there is a practice of a quarterly briefing to the chair and ranking of the house and senate intelligence committees. i hesitate, thanks to feedback we are trying to make it better and that involves the briefing of the department of justice,'s i believe the dni, and some portion of the national security council at the white house. so it is quarterly for all three senior congressional leadership, the white house, and mr. comey: yes -- mr. comey: yes. anyou said there was investigation open-ended started in july. when did you notify the dni, the white house, or senior congressional leadership. director comey: leadership, sometime recently they were briefed on the nation of the investigation. the justice department has been aware of it all along. the dni, i do n

mr. flynn resigned as national security adviser. director comey, all of these accounts are open source press reportings. given russian's long standing desire to cultivate relations with flunks u.s. persons, isn't the american public right to be concerned about mr. flynn's conduct, his failure to disclose that contact with the russian ambassador, his attempts to cover it up, and what looks like the white house's attempts to sweep this under the rug? don't we as american people deserve the right to know? and shouldn't our fbi investigate such claims? >> i can't comment. i understand people's curiosity about our work and intense interest in it. as mr. king said, oftentimes speculation about it. but we can't do it well or fairly to the people we investigate if we talk about it. so i can't comment. >> i'd like to turn to another topic about mr. flynn, his failure to disclose until pressured last week by my colleagues on the house oversight and government relations committee, government reforms committee, payments he received from russia for his 2

mr. podesta's? director comey: i believe that is a correct chronology. representative schiff: do you know how mr. stone would have known these emails would've been released? director comey: it not something i can comment on. representative schiff: do you know that mr. podesta said he was not even aware that some of his emails would be published? director comey: it's not omething i can comment on. representative schiff: at this point, i will yield to mr. himes. epresentative himes: thank you for being with us today. when i get my own time, i will have questions, but let me start with a point that the chairman brought up, which is there is no evidence that votes were technically changed in any of the jurisdictions that he named. admiral rogers, thank you for confirming that. am i correct when we say russian hacking, what we are referring to is the fact that the intelligence community believes that the russians penetrated the networks of the dnc, of john podesta, and other individuals, stole information, and then disseminated that information? is that a fair

mr. chairman. director comey, you and i were discussing the felonious disclosure of classified material. is there a law addressing current or former u.s. officials requesting anonymity? >> no. >> or for reporters who want to break a story? >> that's a harder question, as to whether a reporter incurs criminal liability by disclosing classified information. >> the statute does use the word "published," doesn't it? >> that does. that's a question i know the department of justice has struggled with through administration through administration. >> lots of people have struggled with it, but you're not aware of an exception in the current dissemination of classified information statute that cavs out an exception for reporters? >> no, i'm not aware of anything carved out in the statute. i don't think a reporter has been prosecuted, certainly in my lifetime. >> there have been a lot of statutes for which no one has been prosecuted or convicted, and that does not keep people from discussing those statutes, namely th

mr. -- director comey's testimony and everything that's followed.an opportunity strategically to shift for the white house, but it's not clear that they will. >> they should be taking mary katharine's advice and talking about neil gorsuch. >> they rarely do. >> clarissa, as someone who has spent months in russia. i can't think, as somebody who likes to meddle in elections and vladimir putin must be enjoying this one way or the other. the american political system is in disarray. >> i think up to a certain point he was kind of enjoying it. he was enjoying the ambiguity of it, the possibility that he could have thrown the election in the most powerful and important consequential country in the world. that certainly spoke to his ego. what was noticeable today, while every single news channel pretty much in the worl. globally. sky news. bbc, al jazeera. one news channel that noticeably did not take today's hearing was russia today. i think you're starting to see the beginning of what we may call a conscious uncoupling of the kremlin and the trump admini

finally about a criminal investigation, director of national intelligence, the former director, mr. clapper, said that during his time he saw no evidence of collaboration between the trump campaign and the russians and he didn't believe a warrant was issued, and if one had been he would have known about it. all i'm saying i'd like to get to the bottom of this one way or the other. if there is an investigation covering time periods mr. clapper was not in charge of or something new came up, i want to know about it so we do not run afoul of it. we're not trying to impede an investigation. we're trying to make sure that one can go forward without congress getting in the way. in the next hearing will be how to protect an investigation from political influence if there is one. so i would imagine most americans would like to know the state of play of what's going on in our country. count the subcommittee to be in on the idea we should provide you more than we provided. senator grassley has been supportive of this committee's efforts. there will be another hearing soon about how to protect

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hearing, director comey suggested that he provided you and chairman nunes that he didn't want to share publicly with respect to the names. do you know the names of the persons they are investigating? mr. schiff: i can't comment what the director has shared with the gang of eight. i can't go into any of that. i want to make one additional point is and we heard from director comey there is no evidence to support the president's accusations against president obama. i hope this will put this matter to rest. enough is enough. and i hope the president will not compound the damage he has already done not only to his own credibility but to our relationship with our british allies and german allies and other allies who have been watching this rather ugly chapter. let's just say this is done. i hope o evidence and the president will have the streck of character to apologize to president obama but to the american people for leading this on this wild goose chase. reporter: the president was eeting and white house was tweeting. what effect is this haveing on your investigation and the justice department investigation? mr. schiff: the concern that many of us have on the impact that the white house

yesterday, i nominated william webster, a man of the sterling reputation, to be director of the central intelligence agency. mr. webster has served as director of the fbi and is a -- and as a u.s. district court judge. he understands the meaning of rule of law. so that his knowledge of national security matters can be available to me on a continuing basis, i will also appoint john tower as a member of my foreign intelligence advisory board. i am considering other changes in personnel and will move more furniture as i see fit in the weeks and months ahead. second, in the area of national security policy, i have ordered the nsc to begin a conference of -- comprehensive review of all covert operations. i've also directed that any covert activity be in support of clear policy objectives and in compliance with american values. i expect a covert policy that if americans saw it on the front page of the newspaper, they would say, that makes sense. i have issued a directive prohibiting nsc staff itself from undertaking covert operations. no ifs, ands, or buts. i've asked vice president bush to reconvene his task force

the director of the fbi has rejected mr trump's claims that president obama ordered a wiretap on his election campaign office. leaders of the french centre—right republican party will meet today to try to resolve the crisis surrounding its presidential candidate, francois fillon. mr fillon says he won't pull out of the race. german politicians have reacted angrily to comments by the turkish president, who accused germany of nazi practices after several towns cancelled political rallies involving turkish ministers. now for the latest financial news, with sally bundock and world business report. a european car colossus in the making. france's peugeot citroen is poised to buy general motors‘ european business, including the opel and vauxhall brands. china's premier cuts the economic growth target for this year. we look at the risks to the world's second—largest economy. welcome to world business report, i'm sally bundock. also in the programme: deutsche bank plans to raise billions of euros in a share sale. details in a moment. general motors is set to announce a deal to sell opel and va

mr. castro. director, you were asked about mr. clapper's comments. >> i understood the question to be about the report itself. >> i want to make it clear to people though, the intelligence assessment, unclassified intelligence assessment doesn't discuss the issue of u.s. person coordination with the russians. aassume that's because at the time of the report in january of this year that was under an investigation that you have now disclosed; is that right? >> correct. the counter-intelligence investigation is the fbi's business. the ic report was about what the intelligence community had about what russia had done. there is nothing in the report about coordination or anything like that. it's a separate responsibility of the fbi to try and understand that, investigate it, and assess it. >> so we shouldn't read mr. clapper's comments as suggesting that he takes a different view of whether you had sufficiently credible information and evidence to initiate an fbi counter-intelligence investigation? >> i don't know exactly what he meant

director comey back. is there any progress involving this impasse? mr. schiff: i wouldn't say we are withholding anything. we signed the letter that the chairman wanted. we invited comey and rogers to come back and we are inviting sali yates and clapper and brennan. and the chairman has yet to sign that letter. i hope he will. that will be in the interest of the public. the white house has made clear now they want sali yates to testify. we want sali yates to testify and she is fully prepared to testify, so the only obstacle is the signature of the chairman and we hope we get that. reporter: you wrote a letter first? mr. schiff: white house counsel wrote a letter to us, i think the white house press secretary referred to, we received that effectively at the same time with him announcing it during the press conference and that letter invited the chair and i, in response to questions i had raised, to review these materials. but again, we have accepted. i'll go read them. i look forward to it. it is ultimately going to be necessary if the white house really

mr. flynn said, quote, yeah, i didn't take any money from russia if that is what you're asking me, end quote. so directorcomey, isn't it true that the house oversight committee last week received information and released publicly that mr. flynn accepted nearly $35,000 in speaking fees and traveling fees from rt, this government, russian government-owned media outlet? >> i believe i've seen news accounts to that effect. >> moreover, isn't it also true that according to the emoluments close of the united states constitution a person holding any office of profit or trust can not accept exists or payments from a foreign, from a foreign country? and doesn't the do confident, the department of defense prohibit retired military officers from taking any consulting fees, gifts, traveling expenses hon rare yum or salary from a foreign government including commercial enterprises or owned by or controlled by a foreign government like rt? >> not something i can comment on. >> an you speak to whether or not the emoluments clause would apply to someone like mr. flynn a retired three-star general. >> i can't. >> so isn'

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director comey, you're recognized for five minutes. >> mr. chairman, ranking member schiff, members of the committee, thank you for including me in today's hearing. i'm honored to be here representing the people of the fbi. i hope we have shown you through our actions and our words how much we at the fbi value your oversight of our work and how much we respect your responsibility to investigate those things that are important to the american people. thank you for showing that both are being taken very seriously. as you know, our practice is not to confirm the existence of ongoing investigations, especially those investigations that involve classified matters. but in unusual circumstances, where it is in the public interest, it may be appropriate to do so. as justice department policies recognize. this is one of those circumstances. i have been authorized by the department of justice to confirm that the fbi as part of our counterintelligence mission is investigating the russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential electio

mr. trump, and russia. >> thursday is our chance to ends obamacare. >> fbi director james comey confirmed the probe during yesterday's five-hour house hearing into russian involvement in a 2016 election. >> they want to mess with our election, secretary clinton, want to harm her, and help mr. trump. >> while director comey would not comment on the specifics, cbs news has learned that those under scrutiny include former national security advisor, michael flynn, campaign foreign policy advisor carter page, one time campaign chairman, paul, and roger stone, a long time friend of president trump. white house press secretary tried to down play. >> flynn was with a campaign, obviously been discussion of paul manafort who played limited role for very limited amount of time. >> comey as well as admiral mike rogers far more firm when it came to the president's unproven wiretapping claim. >> president obama could not unilaterally order a wiretap of anyone. >> no president could. >> i've seen nothing on the nsa side that we engage in the any such activity. >> the white house is still standing by the president's asse

we have some preliminary evidence from the former dni, director of national intelligence, mr. apper emma director of the fbi, mr. comey, both of said there is no evidence to date such a claim. nonetheless, because this is so much in the public domain, i absolutely agree that the committee has to pursue this, run the rabbit down the hole so to speak and get to the bottom of it, and make certain that there has been no collusion. >> heather: here's the thing, some of the experts, you mentioned james call me, mike rogers, john brennan, former national intelligence director james clapper, your interest him and also the former acting attorney general, sally yates. who is not on that list is former national secured advisor, michael flynn. you say that he would be significant. >> i think it's up to the chairman of the committees to call him, certainly, i know mike flynn, i had lunch with him last week. i know for a fact that if he is called, he certainly will go and provide a testimony. i think, clearly there was electronic surveillance being executed against him when he was a private

i believe he will be a great fifth director of. thank you, mr. president. again, i thank my friend, the senator from texas, for giving me time. mr. cornyn: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cornyn: mr. president, i want to thank my friend, the senator from virginia, who is vice chair of the senate select committee on intelligence for his remarks. i, too, support the nomination of dan coats to serve as the next director of national intelligence to succeed james clapper who has been in the intelligence business for 50-plus years. he has got big shoes to fill, but i have every confidence that dan coats can do that. one of the things i hope he looks at is post-9/11 when the office of the director of national intelligence was created, we basically created another layer in the intelligence community, and as the presiding officer and other members know, the d.n.i., the director of national intelligence office has grown by leaps and bounds, and i just hope he takes a good, hard look at the layers that we've created, perhaps the dupli

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mr. chairman. director comey, we will begin this line of questioning that will finish at the next round. fisa and other similar related counterterrorism programs have been described even this morning as vital, critical, and indispensable to our national security. many of us on both sides of the aisle believe fisa and similar counterterrorism programs prevent terrorist attacks and save american lives, but fisa in other surveillance programs are intentionally designed to preserve the privacy of u.s. citizens. they are intentionally designed to ensure the information is forected and used only legitimate national security and criminal investigative purposes. there are statutory safeguards. there are warrants based on probable cause. there is a private court that is involved -- fisa court that is involved. there are audits on the backend. we think so highly of this material that it is a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison to unlawfully disseminate it. to makehis was done sure this information gathered

mr. trump. >> reporter: while director comey would not comment on specifics cbs news has learned those undercrutiny include michael flynn. campaign adviser carter page, paul manafort and roger stone, a longtime friend of president trump. white house press secretary sean spicer tried to downplay the claim. >> general flynn was with the campaign and obviously there's discussion of paul manafort who played a limited role for a very limited amount of time. >> reporter: comey as well as rogers was far more firm when it came to the president's unproven wiretapping claim. >> so president obama could not unilaterally order a wiretap of the president? >> no president could. >> i see nothing that we engaged in any such activity. >> reporter: besides the high profile denials the white house is still standing by the president's assertion. and monday's house hearing was the first of several public sessions. the house and senate intelligence committees are expected to hold on russia. a senate intelligence committee has scheduled a similar hearing for later this month. anne-marie. >> hena daniels here in n

mr. chairman. i just want to follow up with a few questions about roger stone that i had started with earlier, before i passed it to my colleagues. director comey, are you aware that roger stone played a role on the trump campaign? >> i am not going to talk about any particular person here today, mr. schiff. >> i'm going to continue to ask these questions because one of the things i want to make sure you are aware of these facts, so whether you're able to comment on them or not. have you read press reports where mr. stone proudly boasts of engaging in political dirty tricks? >> i'll give you the same answer, sir. >> i mentioned before that mr. stone was in direct communication with a creature of russian gru guccifer 2, and that's something the government talked about the role of guccifer 2. are you aware that he received communication from guccifer 2 saying "i'm pleased to say that you are great. please let me know if i can help you anyhow. it would be a great pleasure to me." are you aware of that communication essentially from russian communication gru through guccifer 2 to mr. stone? >> i'd have to give you the same answer. >> are you

mr. trump, and russia,. >> fbi director james comey confirmed the probe during yesterday's five-hour house hearing russian involvement in a 2016 election. >> want to mess with our the co, thought might have chance to help mr. trump. >> while director cuomo would not c tomme specifics, cbs news has learned that those under scrutiny include former national security advisor, michael flynn, campaign foreign policy carter page, one time campaign chairman, hall manafort, and roger stone. a long time friend every president trump. >> and then obviously there has been discussion of pal manafort who played very limited role for very limited amount of time. >> comey as well as nsa director admiral mike rogers far more firm when it came to the president's un proven wiretapping claim. >> president obama could not unilaterally order a wiretap of anyone. >> no president could. >> i see nothing on the nsa side we engaged in any such activity. >> despite hoe -- high profile denials, still standing by the president assertion. hena daniels, for cbs-3, "eyewitness news." >>> brawl at subway station is caught

mr. spicer that nobody's asked. the predecessor republican, george bush, democrat, barack obama, met repeatedly typically weekly with their fbi director discuss what mr. spicer says is the top concern of the president of the united states. that's the security of his country. those meetings were to discuss terror threats to the united states. "a," is the president meeting his fbi director regularly along with the attorney general weekly and "b," if he is, did he ask him a simple question before he tweeted? what happened at trump tower? and did the former president authorize anything? what's going on with contacts with the attorney general and the fbi director? i don't know, wolf. >> yeah. we heard from the white house apparently there have been no conversations between the president and the fbi director before the president made this assertion saturday morning in those four tweets, 6:30 in the morning, or since, for that matter. we'll double check that. david swerdlick, the white house does say it wants congress, the house and senate intelligence committees, to investigate whether or not the former president wiretapped trump tower duri

director as the gentleman, mr. speaker, from across the aisle say agree that the premiums will go down. as so many americans have asked for. we will put medicaid on a sustainable path. we will give republicans, democrats, flexibility to manage their state in a better form. and most importantly, we will give america exactly what they asked for. the freedom to choose their own health care. the options of having more. 10 they can direct what they want and desire. at the same time, having a lower cost. so i welcome the gentleman for his questions, i know that wasn't about scheduling. but i think this is too important. those 113 hearings, we listened to the people before us and we promised we would act and we're keeping that promise as we move forward. i yield back. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for his information. people, i'm sure, listening to this colloquy must get confused. as they hear one representation from somebody who sounds pretty reasonable, my friend mr. mccarthy. and then they hear exactly the opposite

. >> i'll yield to director schiff. >> 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 inform

mr. flynn and the russian massacre discussed sanctions. director comey, all of these pressts are open-source --orting straight given isn't the american public right to be concerned about mr. flynn's conduct? his attempts to cover it up in what looks like the white house attempts to sweep it under the rug. don't we deserve the right to know and shouldn't our fbi investigating such claims? dir. comey: i can't comment. i understand will turn off of the. well or fairly to the people we investigate or talk about. return to another topic. payments he received to russia , according torip classifiede 2017 d and long-standing, anti-u.s. messaging likely named at undermining viewers trust in the democratic procedures. this is a says that russian -- employed going back to the 20 sony -- 20's 12. how long has the intelligence community been looking at rt as an arm of the russian government? >> we are certainly aware and have been for some time. >> how long have you known about it? >> some number of years. -- mr. flynn would have been rt cost -- when he agreed

presidential candidate, francois fillon, has suffered another blow — with the resignation of his campaign director. mrnd two of his children were paid more than one million euros for parliamentary work which was never carried out. sarah corker reports. he has been putting on a brave face but more cracks are appearing in his presidential campaign. the scandal over allegations he misused public funds to pay his wife and family members and won't go away. heavyweight supporters are abandoning him. his latest defections, spokesman and campaign manager. but, in an effort to fight back, he made this direct appeal to the french people. translation: i invite everyone to come next sunday at 3pm with a calm and assured strength. those who respect our democratic institutions. you will make your voice heard. he has also lost the backing of the allied union of democrats. many in his party are calling for him to step aside. translation: we are in a countdown, it's either the stop watch all the detonator. it is likely to explode our political family and i detonator. it is likely to explode our politicalfamily and i d

chaffetz: when we have the fbi director, mr.ey, come and talk about what was going on and not going on with hillary clinton, that was certainly a big, big moment, and nation was captured to it. dir. comey: if i don't see the evidence in that case that she was acting with criminal intent in her engagement with her lawyers. rep. chaffetz: and i guess like i read criminal intent as the idea that you allow somebody without a security clearance access information. everybody knows that, director. everybody knows that. sharyl: how do you describe for people who don't pay that much attention to congress what the job of the oversight committee is? rep. chaffetz: oversight was founded in 1814, its role and responsibility is to look over every government expenditure there is. abraham lincoln actually sat on this committee in the two years that he served in the united states congress. >> he was concerned that the president wasn't telling the truth, and so he set off on this quest to find the truth. sharyl: more recently, the oversight commi