vladimir putin, that the russians were trying to hurt hillary clinton. so, you know, perhaps it's just phrasing. if you hurt hillary clinton during a contested presidential election, that effectively helps donald trump. so whether or not they were trying to make donald trump president or trying to make sure that hillary clinton wasn't, it has the same result. >> dana, manu, thank you very much. appreciate it. >> thanks, don. >> joining me now is the former director of national intelligence. director clapper, thank you so much for joining us. the president just tweeted in all caps, "the house intelligence committee has after a 14-month-long in-depth investigation found no evidence of collusion or coordination between the trump campaign and russia to influence the 2016 presidential election." is that the conclusion you would draw? >> well, first of all, on collusion, in our intelligence community assessment, we had nothing in there about any collusion. and as i've said before, at the time i left on january 20th of