in order to achieve their objectives in the presidential election. >> while you were in office as cia director before you left on inauguration day, did you conclude that u.s. persons were successfully leveraged in that effort? >> no. no. and that's why i said in open testimony that i was concerned about these contacts because people will go down a treasonous path sometimes very unknowingly and get into very hot and deep water and they cannot extricate themselves because the russians are very clever at getting people flm positions of potential kompromat, compromising positions that they then cannot sort of turn back. so, when i left office on january 20th of 2017, i had unresolved questions in my mind about whether or not any of those u.s. persons were working in support of the russian efforts. >> and those were referred, those concerns about specific u.s. persons referred to the