secondly, at my confirmation hearing, i promised that i would do this. if a specific matter arose where i believe my impartiality might reasonably be questioned, i would consult with the department ethics officials regarding the most appropriate way to proceed, close quote. that's what i told them at the confirmation hearing. i have been here just three weeks today. a lot has been happening in this three week period. i wish i'd had more of my staff on board but we're still waiting for confirmation for them. much has been done, much needs to be done, and -- but i did and have done as i promised. i have met with senior officials shortly after arriving here. we evaluated the rules of ethics and recusal. i have considered the issues at stake. in fact, on monday of this week, we set a meeting with an eye to a final decision on this question. and on monday we set that meeting today. so this was a day that we planned to have a final discussion about handling. i asked for their candid and honest opinion about what i should do about investigations, certain invest

secondly, we will have mr. comey and mr. rogers to appear in a closed session. the committee has received additional information from monday's hearing that can only be addressed in closed section. thirdly, and i know you are wondering about the documents we were supposed to receive today. i will say the nsa has kept us completely informed. they are fully cooperating. it is possible we would receive documents from the nsa as we requested. the original deadline was on march 15th. but i want to caution i don't expect the entirety of everything we need today so i would hope by early next week we will have a better accounting of what the nsa is able to provide us. i am telling you so you know you will not need to hang out down here because we will not have more information today on this. lastly and forthly, yesterday the council for paul man fork contacted the committee yesterday to offer the committee the opportunity to interview his client. we thank him for volunteering and encourage others with knowledge of these issues to voluntarily interview with the committee.

seco secondly, we have wrestled with this for decades. during that time the ninth circuit has grown and today with five -- four vay captainsies, there is additionally five more requested. if all were granted the ninth circuit would be 34 judges. we're honored to have some of those judges with us today.

secondly, it said that the pattern they saw indicated a clear preference for helping candidate trump. i think beyond that, to my knowledge, the intelligence community can't -- don't know,

secondly, is there guidance from the white house about what kinds of vendors can build the wall, especially can international vendors build walls? >> i think that process is working through, as the president has talked about before. we're trying to move ahead with existing funds dhs has. then we'll continue to create a timeline to ask congress for that funding. we're not -- we're working with congress on that. and then, you know, i don't think it will be any surprise that the president will favor american workers and american companies when it comes to an american project. that shouldn't be any surprise. >> it's looking increasingly likely the federal reserve will hike interest rates. one, how does the president feel about that? two, does he have the backing of janet yellen? >> let me get back to you. i don't have any comment on the federal reserve. what i will say is, you know, as

secondly, it also demonstrates originalism can be used to manipulate the particular results you want to get to and not gives the fixed meaning those who support it say it

secondly, the committee will ask director romy and admiral rogers to appear in closed session and postpone the previously scheduled march 28 hearing to make time available for director called me and rogers. they have additional information that can only be addressed in closed session. thirdly, i know a lot of you are wondering about the documents we are supposed to receive today. i will say the nsa has kept us completely informed the entire time. they are fully cooperating. it is possible we would receive documents from the nsa as we requested. but i want to caution that i don't expect the entirety of everything we need today. i expect next week we will have a better accounting of what the nsa is able to provide a spirit i'm telling that so you know you don't need to hang out down here because we won't have any more information on those today. last, and fourthly, yesterday, the council for paul manafort contacted the committee yesterday to offer them the opportunity to interview his client. we thanked him for volunteering and encouraged others with knowledge of these issues to voluntarily

secondly, the u.n. as the world's most authoritative and incredible intergovernmental organization, should effectively play its role of coordinating international affairs according to the purposes and principles of its charter. thirdly, rather than talking about leadership we should really be talking about responsibility. comparatively speaking large countries have more resources and capability so they should shoulder more responsibility and make a greater contribution. as a permanent member of the un security council, china will fulfill its obligations for international peace and security as the second-largest economy. china will make its due contribution to global growth as the largest developing country. china will play an even bigger role in upholding legitimate rise and interest of our fellow developing countries. thank you. ♪ >> c-span's washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up, former michigan republican congressman peter wikileaksiscusses the relea

secondly the markets respond.ing the brain before opening his mouth and pressing text button. he has suddenly thought to himself, when i'm a little bit more measured people do things i want. i hope the penny drops. the bar is set so low, thatis penny drops. the bar is set so low, that is why people are delighted. we haven't got time for you talk so much about brexit. do not start that again. a company bosses quitting amid claims of profit chilly profiteering. this used to drive me mad. this country has committed 0.7% of gdp, 14 billion, i'm sorry, 13 billion. regardless of where it is spent, anything else, we are closing libraries at home, we will spend this money. of its own, not a bad idea. the places and the way they are spending it is a waste of money. what it is doing here, the aid budget has doubled on what they spend on consultants. not giving money to help starving kids in sudan, £1 billion a year increase since 2012 on consultants, paying themselves. i agree with you. the money is not going to people who

secondly, you said that the fbi haven't been cooperating. and then you said they had started cooperating with what has occurred between the two statements. >> as it relates to crimes that have been committed, i'm confident it is illegal to leak fisa collected names of americans. that's illegal. it's also illegal to leak any additional classified information. so that has happened. it remains the crimes that we know have been committed, which i'm sure we'll get into more of that on monday. there's a second question, i think. >> with respect to the second question, the concern that i raised a couple weeks ago is that during our hearing with director comey, a number of the questions members had, the director declined to answer. it wasn't that i was unsatisfied with the content of the answer, it was that he simply declined. and i expressed that at the time. my hope is that the director would go back to the department of justice and be prepared to come back to us, and respond more fully to the questions we were asking. the fbi has now been more fo

secondly, there's a project in pakistan th pakistan. but the potential is for more than 15,000. that could easily be accommodated. the last area is data. if you look at the data, the internet traffic globally, half of that is between europe and asia. if you look at those that are familiar with the routing of that, it goes through europe to the mediterranean through the swiss canal, the red sea, then wraps through china on the east side of china. that's why data packet takes about 130 milliseconds to send from europe to asia. through these -- of course, those cables have maintenance issues as well as now people that can sniff those data. we're talking about one cable that we're looking at which will be part of a gas pipeline that will connect from india to turkmenistan. then there's a similar piece under the caspian sea. there's one pipeline already to italy, so we can have this line of italy to india fiberoptics that will rival and would be a great alternative for the tra tratran trans siberian fiber. by this fiber, we can cut that transmission time by about 35 to 40 millisecond

and secondly, if there is guidance in the white house about what kinds of vendoring can build the wall, especially can international vendors build the wall? >> i think that process is working through, as the about . we're trying to move ahead with existing funds that dhs has and we'll continue to create a timeline to ask congress for that funding. we're working with congress on that. and then, i don't think it will be any surprise to know that the president is going to favor american workers and american companies when it comes to american project. that shouldn't be any kind of surprise. blake. >> reporter: increasingly lightweight that the federal reserve will hike interest rates. two questions, one, how does the president feel about that? secondly does, he have the full confidence of janet yellen who described the campaign as too political? >> let me get back to you on that. i don't have comment on the federal reserve. as i mentioned at the outset, when you look at hiring and the jobs and the manufacturing and the pace, the consumer confidence of the ceo indexes that have already com

secondly, when you look at the pathology of these organizations, start from al-qaeda all the way to --, how the pathologist changed the look at groups whose only interest is destruction because only interest is denial of peoples rights, and if you look at around afghanistan, and afghanistan the government is fighting over 20 globals terrorist organizations. and people from russia to china to uzbekistan to turkestan and so many other middle eastern countries are fighting in afghanistan, people who have no fight in the case of the afghan people of the area, somehow they feel that they are part of this whole pathology of this death and destruction. and the final aspect of morphology, how these organizations are moving and becoming more lethal and far faster level. if you look at, for instance, al-qaeda, took them over a decade to develop the level of lethality that they got you, but by contrast when you look at daesh it took them a year or two. so when you look at all of these combinations today, the afghan soldiers are fighting that fight not only for their own country but also supporti

>> secondly, does he have any plans to revamp that visa program by the april 1 deadline? >> i think we've talked before about immigration as a whole. there is the legal part of immigration, and the illegal part of immigration. the president's actions that he's taken in terms of his executive order and other revamping of immigration policy have focused on our border security, keeping our country safe, our people safe, and then obviously whether it's h 1b visas or spousal visas, other areas of student visas i think there is a natural desire to have a full look at comprehensive look at that. he discussed the raise act with senators purdue and cotton. we'll have more on that coming forward but i think as the readout mentioned he was supp t supportive of their efforts with respect to how we view legal immigration. he mentioned it in his joint address we're one of a handful of countries that doesn't use a merit-based system of immigration and that is something that we need to look at in its totality. hunter? >> reporter: thank you, sean. two quick questions. are you aware of an

and then secondly, with respect to the adaptive functioning prong, what did the court below do wrong? identify the two ways in which what they're doing and how they're applying the standards we're talking about were in error. >> and as to both, they are in very sharp conflict with clinical guideness generally, and especially with current clinical standards. beginning with the intellectual differences in the iq. the court of appeals accepted as valid an iq test. we take it well below 69, the range of flexible instability. but what the court did here, it chopped off the lower end of the standard error of measurement. it then treated the 74, the number 74, as decisive and as in and of itself determining that mr. moore couldn't establish an intellectual deficit and he could not establish intellectual disability which conflicts with clinical standards and this court's decision in whole. the reasons that the court gives for lopping off the lower end of the standard of measurement are completely, clinically unsupportable. the court says he had a history of poor academic performance. that's n

secondly, there were people like whitney from the national urban league about one person making a difference. he did a lot in the inner-city, ok in which hea bo talked about the importance of the african-american community, building our communities. people like leon, thurgood hamer,l, fannie lou phillis wheatley, all of these people contribute to me in one way or the other. it in this particular seat, am the fifth african-american to serve in this particular seat. was elected person in 1958. i was four years old when he was in the seat. those people also laid the groundwork for where i am today. host: what specifically did your mom or your dad -- what did they tell you about giving back? >> basically, they were individuals who believed that we are not in this world by ourselves. we are our brother and sisters keepers. you go to school, you go to church, the first church i went to was the providence baptist church. then there was elementary school. the elementary school was directly across from the church. school during the week church on, sunday, and that is when my mom would stress to the,

secondly, the unmasking of americans names essentially for political purposes, and we are continuing to ask more about that. we are sending a letter today to director comey and admiral rodgers asking for the total number of names that were unmasked in the last six months. sowill pass that letter out that you will have it. lastly, the third issue today is, we are a little odni, andble wh the whether they will let us have the proper computer technology to go through the evidence that exists at the cia out of langley. we are trying to look through that but i can tell you it has been a stumbling block for investigators to compile and go through the information. those are the three issues i have for you today and i would if he hask mr. shipp a couple comments. today ild like to say see no evidence that supports the claim that president trump made that his predecessor had wiretapped. we see no basis for that whatsoever. we still want the justice department to respond to our letter. we have given them until march 20. we are willing to use compulsory process if that is necessary. neither of

secondly, representative cuellar mention of border patrol, not being able to hire anyone.ow could a higher in what if they were looking to be prosecuted? and thirdly, i still would like to know how 60,000 kids were able to travel all the way from south america and arrived in idaho without ever having any difficulties at the border? >> guest: the three points, the indigent care, absolutely, is a very high cost to our counties, to the system. secondly, on the hiring of border patrol agents, for some reason they had a policy that they don't hire locally. they can't get agents you really want to come live in southern new mexico on the border. it's a very remote. you would have to have grown up there, but they don't allow the border patrol to our people and keep them there. so we discussed the hiring practices with border patrol, something obviously should be looked at. on the task force that the speaker of the house created to look at these kids who are coming all the way north. that looked like a pipeline that was well-established. it appeared that the president at the time p

secondly of committee will ask the director to appear in closed session and make time available for director komi -- comey there seeking additional information that can only be addressed in closed session. a lot if you are wondering about the documents received today i will say the nsa has kept us completely informed and are completely cooperating it is possible we receive documents today as requested the original deadline was march 15 but i want to caution i don't expect the entirety of everything today's so i hope that buyer of the next week be will have a better understanding of what the nsa can provide us. you don't need to hang out because we will not have any more information on those today. and yesterday's the council before paul maniford offer the committee to interview his client. we thank jim for volunteering and encourage others with knowledge of these issues to voluntarily interview with the committee. that is what i want to alert you of this morning so stay attuned. >> does paul maniford name appear in the files? >> no. the documents? no. >> are you recalling director comey beca

secondly, i want to say, as i old you last week, about the issue of the president talking about tapping trump tower, that evidence still remainls the same. we don't have any evidence that that took place. in fact, i don't believe just in the last week of time, the people we've talked to, i don't believe there was an actual tap of trump tower. however, as i expressed last week, and i remain even more concerned about this, which are twofold, one, the incident dent -- of -- ins incidental collection of americans that were tied to the trump campaign that could have been leaked and the unmasking of americans' names potentially for political purposes which we're continuing to ask more about that. mr. schiff and i are sending a letter today to director comey, pompeo, and admiral rogers, asking for the total number of names that were unmasked over the course of the last six months. and that letter, i think, we'll pass that letter out to all of you so that will you have it. lastly, the thirt -- lastly, the third issue i have to bring to you today is we are a little uncomfortable with the odni an

the potential conflict of interest. 0n secondly the potential conflict of interest.ee of conservative backbenchers, they shovel in and there is a senior member of the party co m es there is a senior member of the party comes and speaks and we put oui’ party comes and speaks and we put our ears to the door trying to hear, quite a thick wooden door, to see are the cheering or banging the desks and we will try to ask what has emerged and they are not meant to tell us. sometimes they make privately texas afterwards. —— text us. privately texas afterwards. —— text us. they protective that environment. and yet george osborne could go to that meeting and he's the editor of london evening standard. so that kind of issue is going to be an interesting one in terms of how it plays out. a very interesting insight into how you spend monday evenings, i cannot believe loiter anywhere. plenty of loitering in myjob. believe loiter anywhere. plenty of loitering in my job. say no more. a man's been arrested after a thomas gainsborough painting at the national gallery was vandalised. th

secondly, the u.s. has distinguished itself by the flexibility and speed with which the foreign disaster assistance bureau works with ngos like us to work with those in grave need. i would just draw your attention to what's happening in mosul at the moment. i was about 15 kilometers from mosul at the end of last week. it's thanks to u.s. support that when isis is driven out of an area of mosul, humanitarians are the first to go in after, including from the organizations represented here, supported by the u.s. in doing that. that work is beginning to put together the elements of a functioning city. so in the east of mosul there is reconstruction work allowing people to have basic services that they can go back to. thirdly, u.s. foreign assistance is distinguished by its ability to target the most vulnerable. often that is women and girls. that's labeled as protection work. we're certainly proud to be partnering across the region with the u.s. in protecting women and girls from the unspeakable levels of a

secondly, going back to spicer, today, he was having quite a few problems in that press briefing. he didn't want to outright deny story, he would deny the post a couple days ago. and he also did not want to be nailed down on who let if congressman nunes to the white house facility. which is a simple call to the secret service. let me see the visitor log on this day and we could not immediately and satisfy the public's need for information. he had previously deny that had this had, that the whistle blowers had been from within the white house. nunes also, too. >> so these two individuals are now having to recant "the new york times" reporting is corroborated, which i expect it will be. 38 have to recant their statements. >> is this something they're going to be seizing on, this reporting out there, if it is confirmed by other sources, that the white house had two members on staff who least played a role in getting nunes' information. >> katie, i think this has been long suspected. and we had started to hear these two names bubble up in conversation and i know you've been reporting

secondly, this is a public location. the very location this woman was killed apparently, the woman who apparently was knifed to death, i have been there. i've actually done both intelligence operations and done filming for the travel channel. that location is very public. this was meant to send a very public message by the fact that westminster bridge, parliament, are very public targets, and i think again whoever did this, we don't know who it is yet, i'm pretty sure we're going to find out this was meant to send a severe message to the british and to the western intelligence service. >> can you give us an idea how the cia itself has been forced to change its own terrorist fighting tactics as a result of these sort of lone wolf attacks using vehicles and otherwise? >> i think -- i was trained by cia. i worked mostly for department of defense. we have capability. what we noticed over the years is we've seen a franchise of capabili capabilities. back in the old days, my first anti-terrorism operations were inn ethe mid '8

secondly -- >> i'm sorry to interrupt, mr. sloan. can i just make sure i understand that? what you're essentially saying is that the court of appeals said you are barred from using new standards, you must use the bresenio standards. so the two are flip sides of the same coin. and what the holding was is, you must use bresenio standards. now, your qp reflected their framing of the issue, you can't use new standards, you must use the bresenio standards. but you were just reflecting their essential holding, which is we have this bresenio case and you have to use it. >> that's exactly right, your honor. >> then why didn't you say that? really the question presented talks about a comparison between current and outdated. it's pretty dramatic to say you can't use current standards, you're only using outdated. it's quite a different question, they use the bresenio standards and they shouldn't. you don't think they should have used the bresenio standards under the old medical standards, do you? >> no, that's correct. but i think, your honor, first of all the question presented, we

secondly, we have to abide by the senate rules. so, the house has some guard rails.nkly, we'd prefer we didn't have, so we're going to send the most free-market, most local control reform bill to the senate. we are hopeful that they can do their magic with their own rules and continue to make it better. and so, i don't think this is over yet, and i think, frankly, moving forward, it can get even better. >> you know, i'm a market guy. you know that. and i hate when things come down into the marketplace that i love as a binary scenario, meaning, if this passes, markets generally will like it. if it doesn't pass, markets generally won't, kind of like that first t.a.r.p. vote. so, i will ask you, are people expecting too much? when the media puts out, it's messy, people like puritiy. we live in a social age -- thumbs up, thumbs down. that's what people want to see. but it isn't pure. but can it get more pure if you make it over this hurdle? >> look, i think a lot of good things happen moving forward. one, as you said, it shows the unified republican government can act bo

secondly, there was people like whitney young from the national urban league about one person can make a difference. reverend leon sullivan who did a lot in the inner city and internationally when he talked about -- he wrote a book called "build, brother, build," and in that book he talked about the importance of the african-american community building our communities. so people like are leon sullivan, people like whitney young, people like thurgood marshall, fannie lou hamer, phyllis wheatley, all of those people contributed to me in one way or the other. but in this particular seat i'm the fifth african-american to ever serve in this particular seat. the original person was robert -- [inaudible] nix. he was elected in 1958. i was 4 years old, and this seat is a seat that congressman bill gray served in who went to, ultimately, being the whip of the united states congress and the chairman of the budget committee. so those people also laid the groundwork to where i am today. >> what specifically did your mom or your dad, you know, what did they tell you about giving back? >> well, basi

and secondly, this approach will not work politically. donald trump is no longer an he is president. the american people are looking to him to help solve their problems. if he does not, it will hurt him and his party. pointing the finger of blame is not going to solve anyone's problems. that strategy is not only bad for the american people and beneath the presidency, it will backfire politically. he is in charge. people want him to make their lives better.not make them worse because of some political anger organ data. now i know many of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle do care about fixing the nation's healthcare problems. we are ready with bipartisan way. with first repeal must be taken off of the table and the president must stop hurting citizens by undermining the affordable healthcare act. and now that the jig is up in healthcare, our republican friends have signaled that they will turn to taxes. i hope they have learned the lessons of trump care. one of the reasons that trump care felt so spectacularly was because republi

and secondly, most importantly, he just wasn't in a good place.

question is should it have been done in the first place, did it meet foreign intelligence value and secondlye any other american names unmasked and i have information that says there were. >> bill: new york republican peter king is a member of the house intelligence committee. good morning. do you defend the chairman's decision to go public with this information suggesting there was surveillance, number one, and number two, where are we? our viewers are wondering with all the charges and countercharges. where are we in the investigation. >> i support chairman nunes it was right for him to go to the president. he should go to the president when this happens and he had no choice but to go to the president and he was clear he s. what happened here is you had legal surveillance probably wiretapping of foreigners talking to foreigners that's allowed under the fisa act but when an american's name is mentioned it should be masked or blacked out. it has nothing to do with russia or criminal investigations it's likely small talk but the president-elect of the united states and people close to him and

but secondly, there's a few members of the freedom caucus, both prior to last friday's vote and since then, who have expressed their willingness to work with him rather than necessarily as a bloc and i think there continues to be some promising signs in that -- with that. so again, i think part of it is if people are more concerned with voting as a bloc and what's in the best interests of the american people, he's hoping that people will see the bigger picture, the goals that we outlined and sometimes not the really good be the enemy of the perfect. >> there was a tweet that he would be in favor of primary in some individuals and the freedom caucus who oppose his agenda. did i read that correct? >> i'm going to say i'm going to let the tweets speak for themselves or just for your understanding, it would be improper to discuss that on the podium. matt? >> two questions, if you don't mind. >> i want phenomenal questions from you. >> that's what i'll give you. >> first, two white house officials, according to "the new york times" provided representative nunes information about last week

secondly, when you're asking about the validity of the cbo report. again, i refer to you the cbo itself. the number they issued that would be insured in 2016 was 26 million people. the actual number is 10 -- excuse me, 24 million. the actual number is 10.4. that's not a question of our credibility. it's a question of theirs. do you have any more? >> reporter: you have not answered this. >> i have answered. >> reporter: can you say affirmatively, whenever the president says, we can trust it to be real? >> if he's not joking, of course. but in that case -- hold on. you're asking -- >> reporter: let me start over. >> your point is -- every time that he speaks authoritatively, he speaks, he's speaking as president of the united states. >> reporter: more than 3 million americans voted illegally. >> he believes that. >> reporter: was he joking or -- >> he believes it. thank you. julie. >> so on health care, secretary price said on sunday that nobody will be worse off financially and more people will be covered than are currently with the plan that you guys

and secondly the unmasking of americans' names, potentially for political purposes which were continuing to ask more about that. mr. schiff and i are sending a letter today to director comey, pompeo and rogers asking for the total number of names unmasked offer the course of the last six months. and that letter, we'll pass that letter out to all of you so that you'll have it. the third issue i have to bring to you today is we are a little uncomfortable with the odni and whether or not tay ahey are goio let us have the proper computer technology that we need to go through the evidence that exists out at the cia, out at langley. and we are trying to work through that, but i can tell you that it has become a bit of a stumbling block for our investigators to actually be able to compile and go through the information. so those are the three issues that i have for you today. and i'd like to ask mr. schiff if he'd like to say a couple of comments. >> thank you, chairman. i want to join in saying that to date, i've seen no evidence that supports the claim that president trump made that his prede

and secondly, congressman schiff, you said that the fbi hadn't been cooperating, and then you said that they had started cooperating. what has occurred if betwen bet those two statements? >> as it relates to crimes that have been committed, i am quite confident that it is illegal to leak fisa-collected names of americans. that's illegal. it's also illegal to leak any classified, additional classified information. so that has happened. it remains the crimes that we know that have been committed, which i'm sure we'll get into more of that on monday. mr. schiff? there was a second question. >> with respect to the second question, the concern that i raised a couple of weeks ago was that during our hearing with director comey, a number of the questions members had, the director declined to answer. it wasn't that i was unsatisfied with the content of the answer. it was that he simply declined. and i expressed it at the time, my hope that the director would go back to the department of justice and be prepared to come back to us and respond more fully to the questions we're asking. the fbi has

let's go on with the next, hopefully. >> secondly, building on the jobs numbers today. obviously there's a lot of ceo's who are excited about the possibility of a tax cut plan. and yet the president has also expressed a lot of concern about the national debt. if you're going to get a tax cut on the level of ronald reagan, historic size tax cut, how are you going to do that, plans the need for continued job growth with concerns about the debt? >> i think one of the best ways to get the national debt down is to grow the economy. the more the economy is growing, the more we can get it at 3%, 4%, 5%, the more the debt goes down. that's the best way to tackle the deficit is to grow the economy, put people back to work, create a deeper manufacturing base. that is between that and some of the efforts that the president put into make government more efficient and effective and save money at that level. those are two things that i think combine to get the deficit down. jennifer? >> sean, of the more than 13,000 in this country, 150 of them, less than 150 of them are christian, s

referred to the speech he gave out of phoenix, arizona where he pointed out about border security, secondly about criminals apprehended, and thirdly looking at anyone else who was here undocumented. i would say to irish undocumented that if there are small issues, like parking fines or traffic lights or whatever, they should clear those up through their legal people whether they be in whatever city. and that's an issue that can lift the concern and fear and anxiety that many irish undocumented might have. at the end of the day this will require cooperation on the hill between republicans and democrats and the president is very conscious of the majority that the republican party have in the senate and in the congress. so my conclusion on the discussion we had about immigration is that there's clear agreement to work constructively in this regard to deal with this matter. i had conversations earlier in the morning with john kelly himself, of irish extraction in boston, knows ireland exceptionally well. and i had further conversations this morning with vice president pence. pointed out to the

and then, secondly, it's actually going through the process. while we can predict a timeline, ultimately it will be up to the house and then the senate to determine how fast it goes. there are members on each of those committees and then ultimately every member on the floor that has the ability to give input. >> one other question. i'm curious about this meeting with senator cruz tonight. he's come out and expressed skepticism on the bill as it stands now. presumably that's topic of the conversation. heidi cruz is coming, too. i wonder if the president has any plans to apologize to her from the insin youations he made on the campaign trail? >> they're looking forward to coming out and having a great dinner. he had lunch yesterday with senator graham. as he stated weeks ago the president will have outreach to members of congress, both parties. he's meeting with congressman cummings today. this is a president who wants to engage with both sides of the aisle and both houses. also groups, business leaders, union leaders, the afl-cio head was here y

secondly, there's the issue of unmask $, additional ubs will sflrks. >> this has been a very big weekmittee, the parkand -- yeah dwrrks this is not an easy process. because sfrrjs and i'm trying to navigate as bell as i can. we have people that come forward to provide us information and we went that to opinion n that the public implement on this vagsprrj people who have information about this, whether it's top success kret tornd, or anyone who has prrngs as i said, we heard from mr. man a fort yesterday. >> talk about the job you've done at chairman this wook opinion you can tell toll her if your communications involvementbury sfrnls other than mr. trump and the trags igs team. >> yesterday you heard from testify such as paul mann for the, mook emstone and, from -- we'd have to work that out really mr. sflshl and we will work with snrng you know, there's many names that have been mentioned by several members of congress and all of sfrrm we're not going to just start bringing in americans bass they were mentioned in a press story and i am highly concerned about that. if eem woont psh f

secondly, there's the erb of unmasking, additional unmasking. and i think that's of most concern to me. >> it's been a very big week for the committee, the hearing on monday and the reports in your trips to the white house. can you just summarize what you think the committee accomplished this week and your role in it? >> yeah. this is -- look. as you snow, this is not an easy process because the -- you know, there's politics on both sides of this and i'm trying to navigate as best as i can. i would say that what we've been very successful at is we have people that continue to come forward to provide us information, and we want that to continue. and the only way we can do that as long as we provide an avenue that the public or others can come to the committee that want to offer information on this investigation. so we would still encourage whistle blowers to come forward, people who have information about this, whether it's top secret or not, or anyone who has read their name in any press article, that e're welcome to come forward and be intervie