Number one, we know that russia tried to meddle in the election. Why do we know this . Because we in congress and the Intelligence Community did an investigation after the election was discovered russia was trying to meddle in the election. This is something we all well know. Heres another thing. We have seen no evidence from any of these ongoing investigations that anybody in the Trump Campaign or the trump team was involved in any of this. We have been presented with no evidence that an american was colewding with russians to meddle in the elections. This is something we also know. Were still doing investigations. In the house and in the senate the intelligence committees have been investigating this. The Intelligence Community itself, not the committee but the community did an investigation after the election and gave us the results of that investigation before the inauguration. The House Intelligence Committee just finished coming up with its oversight plan to continue investigations. We will always make sure that we are making that we are protecting our sources and methods and getting to the bottom of any of these things. But we have seen no evidence, been presented with no evidence that anybody on the Trump Campaign or an american was involved in colewding with the russians. What about the idea that the Obama Administration has tried to preserve some of this information that was coming out about russia because they believed this influenced the election and secondly secondaryly that that was an effort of keeping the story alive, or b, contributes to what were seing now as the inquiries continue. Mr. Ryan i think part of what is happening is democrats are lighting their hair on fire to get you cotover this to cover this story. Theres nothing new we have seen here. This is stuff weve been going over. By the way, we are going to make sure we leave no stone unturned. Thats why our intelligence committees are conducting the investigation. You have to protect your sources of investigation. Is that what you think they were doing for the democrats . Mr. Ryan im not going to speak to the motives of the i. C. , Intelligence Community, before this. But you know they did an investigation, Intelligence Communitywide, many of us went down and got the briefings after the election, before the inauguration and never have we ever seen any evidence presented to us that an american or person in the Trump Campaign was involved or working with the russians. President trump also weighed in earlier on the attorney general and whether Jeff Sessions should recuse himself from any investigations into russian hacking of u. S. Elections or restein or resign entirely. The president was in virginia and he said he has total confidence in his attorney general. Reporter do you still have confidence in in your attorney general . Pardon me. Mr. President , should sessions recuse himself from the investigation into russia . When did you first learn sessions spoke to the Russian Ambassador . I dont think he should do that at all. When were you aware he spoke to the Russian Ambassador. I wasnt aware at all. He should have spoken truthfully about that. He probably did. Aint no doubt i love this land d bless the u. S. A