warner: we sure hope so. mr. burr:'s tomorrow's hearing is with that -- tomorrow's hearing is with that in mind that. we provide more public this ess, not just in country, but throughout the world, as to what russia's up to. i think it's safe to say that u.s. officials have pushed what we know, not we the committee, what we the government know, about russia's capabilities and intent. we pushed it out to those countries that are most imminent to have elections. but i'll remind you that we're within 30 days of the first french election. four candidates. it will go down to two candidates with the runoff in may. i think it's safe by everybody's judgment that the russians are actively involved in the french elections. last one. reporter: you mentioned earlier that -- [inaudible] -- thousands of pages of documents to go through. are they having to do this by hand? [inaudible] -- shared drive or documents online? mr. burr: i'm not going to be specific as to how we're doing it. there is no shared drive this time around.

joining me from capitol hill is senator mark warner.he is the ranking democrat and vice chairman of the senate intelligence committee. have askedt -- chairman richard burr to join the program and hope he will do so soon. let me begin with the question of today's testimony. what is the take away from what you heard today? sen. warner: today's testimony focused on the foundation, what did the russians do, why did they do it. this is part of russian doctrine that goes back to the soviet era of spreading misinformation. they have now taken it to a much more modern space in terms of using cyber techniques. so it was revalidated one more time. i think everyone with perhaps the president would accept the russians were behind the d.n.c. hack, the hack of the john podesta emails. they were behind the use of distributing fake news. the way they do this is they have close to 1000 paid internet trolls in moscow that create bots that can flood search engines like twitter and facebook and others with false news. real fake news, not the kind of presid

chief foreign affairs correspondent margaret warner has our report. >> warner: chancellor merkel waseted warmly outside the north portico of the white house. yet minutes later, an odd scene in the oval office: merkel offering to shake hands, but getting no response. >> do you want to have a handshake? >> warner: in a joint news conference later, they did exchange compliments in prepared statements. >> our alliance is a symbol of strength and cooperation to the world. it is the foundation of a very, very hopeful future. >> ( translated ): we had a very good first exchange of views so i'm very much looking forward to the talks we will have over lunch. >> warner: but the body language between the two leaders at their first meeting was not warm, perhaps reflecting their sharply different styles and views. mr. trump, the businessman- turned politician, who campaigned on "america first." and merkel, political veteran, now europe's most vocal defender. it's been a touchy long-distance relationship up to today. last year, candidate trump accused merkel of "ruining" germany by accepting hundr

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

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

community has, like senator warner, i will be going over to review that information. it is many binders thick, so let's see where the evidence leads us. >> dickerson: let me ask you a question quickly on the affordable care act. you put forward an alternative or a bill. where do things stand in the republican ranks in terms of a replacement for the affordable care act? >> there is not a consensus. this is very difficult to achieve the president's goals and the goals that many of us have of wanting to expand access to coverage and have a damper on the prices we have seen a lot of problems with the individual markets, in a death spiral in many states under the acat so the irony here is regardless of who is elected president, we were going to have to do major repairs on the aca. i put forth a plan with senator cassidy, who is a physician, that is a comprehensive plan that gives states the options of doing what is best for their citizens, and we believe would actually expand the access to health insurance. that is our goal. but there is not a consensus at this point. >> d

robert wolf: no, warner. liz: you said burr. robert wolf: no, warner. liz: i want to make sure.t wolf: he's a straight shooter and seems to burr is a straight shooter. these two want to do what's best for the country. thre acting like two adults in the room, unlike the house. liz: the first public hearing will be tomorrow. robert, thank you very much. saying the intersection between wall street and, of course, washington, d.c. is now inextricably linked. we knew that at fox business a year ago and that's why you guys have we hoped stayed with us, we are helping you watch your money as the developments continue. closing bell, 37 minutes away. the dow down just about 25, kind of stuck in the mud, as i said. listen to this, britney spears first ever show in israel is nearly sold out at this hour. tickets for what will be the july 3rd performance in tel aviv went on sale just last night. the pop princess joining a growing list including guns n' roses, aerosmith and radio head who refused to be swayed by the movement that urges government, performers and businesses to isolate in isra

republican richard burr and mark warner speaking out on the eve of the panel's first hearing. they say they are getting unprecedented access to secret information as they review thousands and thousands of documents and look to interview at least 20 witnesses. including the president's son-in-law, jared kushner. burr also suggesting that the committee has reached out to fire national security adviser michael flynn. the senators repeatedly expressed their bipartisanship. all a stark contrast to the turmoil and partisan division that stalled the house intelligence committee's investigation into russian meddling. chairman devin nunes telling cnn that next open hearing won't happen until after the easter recess. democrats accuse nunes of trying to provide political cover for the president. tonight the white house insists there is nothing problematic with nunes's contact but least one house republican now joined with democrats in calling for nunes to recuse himself from the entire investigation. i'll talk live with the ranking democrat, congressman adam schiff is standing by along w

to remain a strong leader in europe." >> warner: for the pbs newshour, i'm margaret warner. >> woodruff'll hear from the british ambassador to washington, right after the news summary. in the day's other news, the u.s. military announced its review of a disputed air strike in iraq is now a formal investigation. local officials in mosul say the march 17th strike killed at least 100 civilians. today, the top american commander for the middle east, general joseph votel, appeared at a house hearing. he said the investigation will examine a number of factors. >> this was a very dynamic situation, so this wasn't a deliberate target or anything else. this was an evolving combat situation, so we'll take a look at the intelligence that was provided to us by the iraqis that we had. we will look at the enemy's reaction here and we'll try to understand exactly their role in this. >> woodruff: votel also said the islamic state is using human shields in mosul, in a bid to exploit american concerns about killing civilians. still, president trump told lawmakers last night: "we are doing really well" in

warner -- senator warner said there were 1,000 russian trolls specifically working on that. >> well,n, i really can't divulge what i know or don't know with respect to classified information, but i can tell you that it's important that we get to the bottom of russia's meddling. i mean, they attacked america. they tried to and did affect our u.s. election systems, and what we learned in the public hearing that we had is that it can and it will happen again, so i think it's really important that we get to the bottom of how it happened and make sure that it never happens again. >> yeah. your colleagues in the senate, they totally agree. congresswoman sewall, thanks for joining us. >> thank you, room. >>> state department employ who had access to top secret information has been arrested for making false statements and is accused of spying. our justice reporter laura jarrett is with us right now. this woman is facing some serious charges. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. in a lengthy federal complaint released today, federal investigators say this state department employee allegedly faile

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

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warner: welcome to fbn a.m.. welcome. attorney general jeff sessions saying his meeting with the russian ambassador to the us has been hyped beyond reason. the attorney general on tucker carlson tonight. >> i don't recall any discussion of the campaign in any significant way. it was in no way a coordinating of an effort, doing anything improper, i don't believe anybody that was in that meeting would have seen or believed i said one thing that was improper or unwise. >> peter barnes in washington with more. >> reporter: jeff sessions problem is during the confirmation hearing in january when asked if anyone in the trump campaign had any communications with the russians during the campaign he said, quote, i did not have communications with the russians but we know while he was a top trump campaign advisor he spoke to the russian ambassador to the us twice. that has many democrats calling for him to resign saying he lied to congress under oath. as a result of the controversy, in a press conference thursday sessions announced

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

senator warner said it's the most important thing he has ever taken on in his public life. where do you see this in terms of importance? >> well, i put it right up there. this was an attack on our democracy. by the way, the hearing that we're having tomorrow, which is a public hearing, i think we should do as much of our work in public as we can. is going to talk about the fact that the russians are doing what they did here all over the world. they have been doing it in eastern europe right now while we're talking. they're doing it in france. they're messing around with their election. they're doing the same thing in germany. this say nis a new kind of aggrn that they're carrying out. not only all -- all the attention has been focused on what did the russians do, the hacking of the e-mail, the release to wikileaks, the question -- the second question which is were there connections between the trump campaign and the russians. the third issue that i don't think has gotten enough attention is the russians were also probing and pushing on our state election systems. they were

senators warner and burr the top democrat and top republican on that committee walking in. this thing is set to begin any second. on the house side, you have essentially a standstill. as you've watched this development over the last 48 hours or so, what's your take-away? >> there really is a story of two very different committee approaches here. on the one hand, the shenanigans from last week which really undermined the credibility of the investigation on the house committee stands in contrast to what we saw yesterday, which was a bipartisan press conference by the ranking republican and democrat. and starting today with a hearing that is designed to really put the spotlight on why this investigation is so important, which is vladimir putin orchestrating a campaign of activities to weaken the united states. >> vladimir putin responded to that just this morning. he essentially said, watch my lips, no, i had nothing to do with it. let's take a moment for the senate intel committee hearing. >> requires that most of the work be conducted in a secure setting to maintain the inte

thank you. >> senators warner and burr say their investigation will be fair and impartial. >> senatorr, have you personally coordinated with the white house at all on the scope of this investigation, and how do you prevent it from going off track? >> no, sir, i have not, and it's the relationship and the trust we have. >> and that will be tested during the course of this process. they say their responsibility here is to produce a bipartisan report that exposes the extent of russian interference not only here but in europe as well. norah. >> all right, jeff. thank you so much. >>> house speaker paul ryan is standing by the house intelligence committee chairman. we spoke with ryan yesterday in the speaker's ceremonial office in washington and asked him what he knew about nunes's unnamed source and the other evidence he's seen. now, this is his first extended interview since the failed effort to replace obamacare and we asked him about the house bill. ryan insisted his party isn't giving up. >> let me first ask you about devin nunes, the head of the senate house committee. you were among

we assume mark warner, schiff, wants to investigate trump. it's important that burr is taking a much different approach than nunes is. >> jeff, let me bring you in. former kgb spy. you just wrote a book about your experience called deep undercover. my secret life entangled, allegiances at a kgb spy in america. let me ask you about another name we heard floated out there, who will be talked to as part of this investigation, jared kushner, the president's son-in-law, top adviser. and so we know that he had met with this russian banker, a man by the name of sergey gorkov. we know he graduated from a school that trains kgb agents. can you talk about vladimir putin and how he likes to bring in kbg agents to come in and help him out? >> it's a little bit different. when the soviet union collapsed, this was a big feeding frenzy about who would get the pieces that were being dismantled? and of course, kgb agents and folks who had some idea how to operate in a competitive environment were right there and a lot of those became oligarchs. and the ones t

richard burr, republican from north carolina, chair of the senate intelligence committee, and mark warner, democrat from virginia, top democrat on that committee, both of them stepping to a microphone just a short time ago saying their hearings are ready to get under way. >> obviously, there's a lot of drama out there about the stories that all of you are running down. it's important for us, at least, i think all of us here, to remember to not lose sight about what this investigation's about. >> one thing that we're really conscious of is we weren't given a free pass to do a witch hunt. we were asked to do a real investigation. thisas of th biggest investigations thathe hill has seen in my tenure here. >> nbc's kelly o'donnell is with us on capitol hill. kelly, that's quite a comment there from richard burr. he's been there a couple decades saying this is one of the biggest investigations he's seen in his time on capitol hill. so we know the house investigation got under way. there's all sorts of controversy there right now. the status of that unclear at the moment. what is the difference

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

and so i'm taking only mike warner's public statements today.certainly i have never heard this before, so i'ming forward to hear more in these public hearings. >> do you have anything to say to this, jonathan the. >> all i can say is that it's a two-edge sword. demonstrations between 82 and 99 different cities across the country in the face of tremendous opposition to talk about the regime in the kremlin as corrupt and a bunch of crooks. it goes both ways. we need to ask the question why are they so good at computers and why are we not so good at computers in the digital era? and some of it is really scary because the reason may be they're better at math and have better math education than we do. and that's a big things we're facing in the mass hysteryo the russians are coming. we're paying the price. >> the house the paralyzed on this thing. that's a quote from him. and the only way to move forward is for the senate to take the lead on this russian probe. do you think that's a right move first jonathan and then julia? >> well, the other day, do

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

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

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

warner one of your sources of intelligence on this investigation? >> he usually know miss sboufrs i do. >> and i've also got his cell phone, which he hears from me sometimes more than he likes. >> and congressman swalwell, we show these little bits simply because it's such a stark contrast to the way things are working on your committee. and you point out it's the way things were working on your committee two weeks ago, as recently as two weeks ago. what do you believe happened to change all that? >> i believe that after the open hearing, the dots that we were connecting as far as donald trump's and his team's personal, political and financial ties to russia that were converging with russia's interference campaign were brought to light. they were validated by fbi directors stating to the world that the president and his campaign were under federal criminal counter intelligence investigations. so i believe that the chairman panicked. and the next day he goes to the white house without telling democrats, receives classified information, and then goes

i personally think the time warner deal will go through. don't see a real reason why it wouldn't unless you add that 20 megahertz of spectrum nationwide into the equation. on paying for the 5g question, there's something bigger going on here. that's the shift to wholesale ail -- wholesale markets for band width, rather than kon concentrating spectrum into a small market, following mexico's model, what argentina is doing now, allocating 40 megahertz of spectrum for a public safety and wholesale network. u.s. is doing this with the first net spectrum. canada is doing this, having allocated 20 meg heahertz of spectrum. there's something big going on here that the market has not woken up to yet. that is that we are moving away from the traditional way of selling futile-type grants to monopolies over vast swaths of the spectrum and moving to a wholesale model. public safety need access to spectrum for emergency services, et cetera. these open access wireless markets will force competition for that resource and will free up lots of cash to pay fo

i know last year you worked on the at&t and time warner deal. roughly $85 billion. know that often times one deal will impact other companies and beget other deals. how will the at&t deal impact verizon, comcast, t-mobile, etc.? has been a huge driver of change. you look at new entrants like apple, google, facebook, netflix, amazon. new entrants. on the incumbent side, the most important thing will be scale and vertical integration. comcast has most of that. some of the big questions are, are some of the just a vision guidance? do you expect more of this move our industry vision company will get more content the way at&t is doing with time warner? kurt: i do. it was well received. the cable and wireless question is out there as well. we will see what happens in 2017 and beyond. jeff: how much money can be raised in this environment for a big transaction? kurt: $100 billion. the markets have never been better shape. we saw this a bit with unilever, $90 billion. $100 billion is the magic number. we did 60 billion for dell when they bought emc. i think you could get th

claim, warner's response? i have seen no evidence. comey himself today, saying nothing. >> any evidence you see that president obama ordered a wiretap at trump tower? >> reporter: privately, the fbi director has unsuccessfully implored the justice department to refute the president's claims. but in an interview with abc news, the director of national intelligence during the campaign was blunt. >> there was no wiretap against trump tower during the campaign conducted by any part of the national intelligence community. >> reporter: president obama, all smiles at a recent visit to a washington museum, but privately, his aides say he is irritated by trump's accusation. he may not be the only one. white house officials have now been pressed again and again on whether they agree with the president. vice president mike pence sitting down today for a local interview on health care, but confronted with questions about the alleged wiretapping. >> yes or no? do you believe that president obama did that? >> well, what i c

warner's business, my reference -- about senator warner's business, my reference meant it was about 14 years ago, 15 years ago. someone said, in the future people won't file technological patents because technology will change so quickly that you won't have a year and a half to go through the patent approval process before your patent is obsolete. i think we have reached that point of technological explosion that what we're talking about today, we could have a hearing six months from now and probably alk about somhing different. sen. warner: the cell phones i was involved with in the early 1980's have now become ubiquitous. sen. burr: senator rubio? sen. rubio: one of the people who appeared before us earlier mentioned the 2016 presidential prary, i'm not prepared to comment on that, hopefully information on that will be reflected in our report, if any. i do think it's important to divulge to the committee because this has taken a partisan tone, not in the committee. but in july of 2016, shortly after i announced i would seek re-election tthe united states senate former members of thin

he said he could but more comforting was senator warner stepping in and saying i have full confidencesenator burr being able to handle this investigation. i think they are going to get to the bottom of it. the reason why the house committee hearing was canceled before yates, clapper, and brennan is that they wanted to hear from james comey and mike rogers. that was offered but comey and roger said they were going to show up. it got pushed back. there's some news from last night that chuck grassley is looking into what degree the fbi was involved the dossier on trump. with they not only received the information but did they pay for it? grassley looking into whether or not there was a payment. the dossier was put together by trump opposition research team. it gets really, really sticky. >> dana: greg, you said you had watched. did you feel reassured? >> greg: it's called a joint press or because you need one to be high to follow that thing. the more people talk, the less we know. we definitely need an independent investigation. i nominate jack reacher. here's my prediction. you have the

chief foreign affairs correspondent margaret warner begins our coverage. >> warner: the sentence formlin critic alexei navalny was handed down this morning in moscow: 15 days in jail for resisting police. he was also fined 20,000 rubles, about $350, for organizing yesterday's mass protests against alleged government corruption. >> ( translated ): i think yesterday's events have shown there is a large number of voters in russia who support a candidate who speaks for the fight against corruption. these people demand political representation, and i strive to >> warner: the demonstrations were the biggest show of defiance against president vladimir putin since 2012. tens of thousands rallied in 99 cities, from st. petersburg and moscow in the west, to chita in siberia, to the far pacific coast port of vladivostok. navalny generated the protests, in part, to demand the resignation of prime minister and former president dmitry medvedev. navalny released a video earlier this month showcasing myriad mansions, yachts and vineyards medvedev allegedly has amassed. hundreds of protestors were ar

warner one of your sources?> he usually knows my sources before i do. >> let me assure you, i have his cell phone which means heears from me more than he would sometimes like. >> the white house and supporters of the president complained at times that the intelligence community has leaked intelligence or communications, scooped up, by members of the transition team improperly. does the scope of the investigation include any of that? >> the normal course of business for the intelligence committee is about leaks. that's an ongoing process that we look at. we will try to assess leaks if they take place in the same way. if we find them we will refer them to the appropriate law enforcement agency by requesting a crimes report. >> have you seen anything that anything improper, that it had to do with -- >> my answer would probably be no. we're so early in the investigation. i'm not sure that we've triaged every piece out there. >> and i think one of the things we are both very concerned, leaks can sometimes be extraord

shaq warner told me not to, the head of warner bros.. -- jack warner, the head of warner bros..as having lunch with him and he said that movies cannot be made every day, so tv cannot ever work. kitchen to in the think the cook for a nice dinner, and they were all watching a little tv. i knew right there and then tv was going to work. i think a few of you, if not most of you are journalists, but we need an infrastructure before we can truck service -- practice journalism. we needed to build one of the very first tv stations, and in order for us to be here. theof the journalists found infrastructure, and we wouldn't be nothing without that. i cannot thank you enough. i am not as negative as some people are. i think the president has a right to be a jerk, just like anybody else. [laughter] things --e can stay say things that are not thought out or sounding stupid, and that is his right of free speech. but you know what, i do not think you story one moment about the first amendment. donald trump or anybody else's not going to take that away. we need to keep doing what we are doing,

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

richard burr and mark warner announcing they will pressure 20 people over time. among them, president trump's son-in-law, jared kushner who serves as a white house senior advisor. paul manna fort and possibly michael flynn. meantime, senator warner giving a preview of heart how far rusn interference went. >> if you google russian hacking, he wouldn't get fox or abc or "new york times," what you get is 4 out of the first five newspapers that popped up were russian propaganda. >> sandra: he was asked if he could lead a fair investigation. >> having served as advisor on the trump campaign, can use a hand over heart you can oversee an impartial investigation? >> absolutely. i'll admit that i voted for him. i've got a job with the united states senate. i take the job extremely seriously. >> i have confidence in richard burr that we together with the members of the committee can get to the bottom of this. if you get nothing else from today, take that. >> sandra: of course the republican or democrat overseeing this committee think that the senate committee will have mor

but at the same time, senators warner and burr, they say they will be working hand in hand on really a bipartisan basis. >> the circumstance with which you wouldn't share with are warner your sources the intelligence on this investigation? >> he usually knows hi sources before i do. >> i have also got his cell phone, which means he hears from me more than he would sometimes like. >> really a change in tone, from a bit of a partisan finger pointing we have seen on the house side of things, these two senators coming out wsaying the want to work together on this and not get into petty differences. >> they were also asked if there was any involvement with the campaign and russia. what did they say? >> reporter: they say they will not be revealing any of them. they are telling the public not to expect any information. that this information is under wraps. >> reporter: can you definitively rule out that there was no coordination between trump officials and russian officials? >> we want to let this information go through before we would form any opinions and we would hope that that's what y

senators warner and burr say they are in the process of interviewing 20 people. you think of that? >> well, you know, compared to what's happened in the house, i suppose it's a piece of good news that the senate is how -- is becoming involved. but i have to say, remember, not too many weeks ago things were looking pretty good on the house side. you had people standing behind podiums pledging cooperation, transparency and following the intelligence and facts wherever they lead which is what we're hearing in the senate right now as well. i'm still skeptical, largely because i still think the politics is simply too baked in to these proceedings and to these oversight committees for us to be able to have anything like a real investigation. i think it's going to have to be something independent. i don't know what that would look like, a special prosecutor or whatever. i don't think the oversight committees are going to be able to pull it off. >> you think it's too big for them? they say they're opened to issuing subpoenas to obtain certain documents but it's difficult

burr and warner today were very reassuring to me. i'm working with the white house and leahy.just had a hearing about russia. >> why do you think nunes did that? >> i really don't know. the pressure, maybe he thought he should go down -- >> why isn't he explaining? the reason we're talking is because he won't end it. >> the best thing for the house to do is see if they can get an agreement with their democratic colleagues to call witnesses. >> he canceled the hearing with the clapper, yates and brennan. >> well, a public hearing may have should have been canceled, but behind closed doors is probably the way to do this. the bottom line is restart the process. >> you think he can restart this? do you think chairman nunes can have -- can regain credibility? >> we'll see, i don't know. whaerkd do in my view is tell everybody who he met with and what he saw. he doesn't have to tell you on tv but tell his colleagues, republican and democrat. here's who i met with and here's what i saw. >> why wouldn't he do that? >> i don't know. >> don't you think that's odd? >> that is odd. so tre

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

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