as circumstantial evidence of collusion? perhaps. although, he has access to a lot of information we don t have. clearly, his point is that s what the investigation is designed to look into. whether there was anything more, what that means, why did those meetings occur. but, you know, unfortunately it doesn t appear that fbi director james comey will be able to shed light on thatomorrow. that s the highly classified part of the investigation he s probably not going to talk about, richard. why do you think adam shif at this point in the time line because he had has briefings earlier from today, from this sunday which may have indicated to him this idea he has decided to use the word collusion, any sense of what brought him to that statement today? i think he was pushing back a little bit on the statement by james clapper, who said that as of january 20th, when he left office, he had not seen any direct evidence. and also i reported last week that former cia director said in a small
methods or classified information. so he could just say i can t comment on these matters. there is a lot of questions about surveillance but also methods of surveillance involving computer servers, bank accounts. we re not sure if we will get anynswers on those either. adam shif had put pressure on director comey to come out and say there was no wiretapping of trump tower. he could say very little. he could say nothing, but it still could mean a lot as we look at the words that he selects in answering those tough questions. absolutely. tara, what has been the reaction? i know it s only been a handful of hours at this moment, if at all to adam shif s statement, using that word again and i ll go back to the beginning, using the word collusion? i am still checking into that, per se. but we can say that, you know, tomorrow you re going to see you re going to be seeing how
sanctions that obama has put in place but also in gunning for even more sanctions to be implemented in the future. and, of course, it is not just republicans who believe that. adam shif, one of the most influential members of the house of representatives and democrat on works on oversight issues believes the u.s. should ramp up sanctions against russia in the next congress. we appreciate both of your insights. thank you. thank you. the syrian ceasefire enters its first full day, but even the key players admit it is fragile. coming up here, what has to happen to make this deal stick.
started going after hezbollah sites in lebanon. similarly, as russia decided to get more deeply involved in syria. this claim of isil in the sinai that they re now going after russia to punish them for that is something that we have to take seriously. because we ve seen it happen before. we don t have the definitive answer on the russian plane incident, but the signs are looking more and more likely that it was a bomb. senator, i ve been watching you and reading senator feinstein and adam shif, two democrats who are kerpd that we re not taking the fight to the true enemy. that enemy is isil, isis, whatever you want to call it. 55 guys on the ground won t do it. what is the administration saying when you ask them for a strategy? well, great question. we re having two more hearings today in the foreign relations committee on this subject. i think the strategy in iraq is pretty clear. whether it s succeeding or not and when you think of it is
the chicago council.org tomorrow. joe, can i say very quickly, i accept those numbers but those numbers would change very quickly the moment american boots are on the ground, our people start getting killed. we ve seen this in the past where there s great support for getting in and great initial support. that can change if we run into difficulty once we re on the ground. we need to take those numbers with a certain grain of salt. all right. thank you so much congressman adam shif. thank you michael crowley. that s true with iraq and we were more weary people want to know there s a plan. they can shift to the other direction. still ahead, carly fiorina fires back at donald trump for those comments about her looks in rolling stone magazine. we ll play you her new ad. we now know which celebrity will replace trump on the apprentice. maybe the only person with a