coates and admiral rodgers had my is liemited to what we hae here today. have you had any contact with the special prosecutor or any i have not. have you been advised by any of your councils, private or public, that this conversation that you had with the president could be subject to a criminal investigation? i have not. rodgers, same question. to the last question, no i have not. let me return to the points that i think senator king made very well. which is this unwillingness to comment on the situation with the president, but to characterize it in a way that you didn t feel pressured, yet refusing to answer very specific and nonintelligence related
terrorists an violating the privacy of americans. admiral rodgers, you apparently felt free to discussion the conversations you had with the president in january about russian active measures. can you share with this committee how you re determining what conversations you can share and which you don t feel free to share. the fact that we briefed the president previously, in new york and it is a matter of public record. so you feel free to discuss the conversations. can i get to respond? no, sir, no. are you saying if it is classified you will not discuss it and my follow up question would be is do you believe the discussion of russian active measures is not the subject of
that we all agree on so far based on the questions and the comments and that is that 702 is an important tool for the intelligence community. and one that needs to be preserved and i agree with senator cotton that it should be extended without a sunset provision as currently written. but i wanto ask director coates and maybe admiral rodgers if you want to comment on this as well. it is to intentionally not target american citizens. it is to target foreign persons and not collect information from american citizens except by way of incidental collection. i think you described admiral rodgers and the extensive procedures that they have in
information, of fact, that caused me so come to the conclusion that this would do just exactly what you said. you re breaching someone s privacy to determine whether or not they are an american person. to generate a list for congress. it could, potentially, yet. that wasn t the only basis on which i made the decision, but that was an essential basis. thank you, i want to ask a little bit more about the minimumization procedures and the importance of those and a little about unmasking of u.s. persons names that admiral rodgers and others have director coates you talked about the procedures in place to make
asked two past chiefs to deny cooperation between his campaign russia. one of those officials the director of national intelligence dan coats testified before the senate armed services committee today. tell our viewers what he said. well, that s right, wolf. this all started yesterday after the washington post broke the story that trump had asked two of his intelligence officials, dan coats and admiral rodgers who runs the nsa to knockdown reports there was any kind of meddling. this was all an attempt to try and raise doubt in the fbi investigation. without surprise in some ways, today on the hill dan coats was asked and said he would not talk about and here he is. i have always believed that given the nature of my position and the information that which we share, it s not appropriate for me to comment publicly on