have lied and told half statements and mistruths over and over again. today we heard definitively, let's remember this, that on multiple occasions trump campaign officials were talking to the russian government, something that the trump sewer gates told us, trump's spokesman told us for months never happened. the facts are only heading in one direction. >> we also heard important testimony today from the director of national intelligence, dan coates. he was questioned on recent reports that president trump tried to pressure him to ecomomically deny evidence of any collusion with russia. he didn't confirm or deny those reports, simply saying it would be inappropriate for him to discuss conversations he had with the president in public. if the president though did try to pressure director coates, should he report that conversation to congress? >> well, it would have been very easy for him to deny that that conversation took place today and i think it's telling that he did not deny it. you played a clip in which he