would you agree with that? i agree with that. we keep hearing the whole thing about ukrainians, that has all been debunked. it was just the russians. that comes from an ic community that some of the people have come up with those conclusions are some of the very people that we are going to find out, if we haven t already, were deeply involved with this whole russian collusion hoax. but i want to say you did a great job. you ve added zelensky s intentions. what he intended to be as a president. would you say that is accurate? yes, that is in fact one of the key objectives of the inauguration, to take our own judgment and report back to the president. and that is what your job should be. and you became comfortable but this president, is that correct? yes, i did. and you work to assure our president that you were comfortable with this president. is that correct? that is correct. in some ways you have to work through any means available. and that might include working
country can be trying to influence our elections, would you agree with that? i agree with that. and we keep hearing that whole thing about ukrainians, that s all been debunked. it was just the russians. you know that comes from an ic community that some of the people that have come up with those conclusions are some of the very same people we re going to find out if we haven t already were deeply involved with this whole russian collusion hoax. but i want to say you did a great job. you vetted zelensky s intentions, what he intended to be as a president. would you say that s accurate? yes, that was in fact one of the key objectives of to take on judgment and report back to the president. and you became comfortable with this president, correct? yes, i did. and you worked to assure our president that you were comfortable with this president, is that correct? that is correct. and in some ways you have to work sometimes through any means available. and that might include
from dan coats, because the democrats who are objecting to this are saying that, essentially, we re going to put our operations in turmoil, we re going to expose certain i ways that we do investigations in this country, and it s going to put the entire ic community at risk. to a degree, it sounds like dan coats is agreeing with that. well, he has to make sure that the classified information, national security information is classified and remains classified. but that s a different animal here because we re talking about everything from how in the world did we go from george papadopoulos being investigated by the investigators themselves, how did that happen. because that s the genesis of the whole russia investigation. then you had the fusion gps document, that dossier that came in that was fraudulent, that was paid for by the dnc and relied on by the fbi and the doj to get fisa warrants. all of those things should be
some lunch, we will reconvene at 1:30. the afternoon vote to my knowledge is not set yet, but we will work around that, so plan to be back at the skiff by 1:30 for that hearing to start. with that, director coates, the floor is yours. chairman burr, vice chairman warner, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. i m here with my colleagues from across the ic community, and i m sure i speak for my colleague, mike pompeo, new director of the cia, that the two of us, new to the job, have inherited an intelligence community with leadership and professionals with expertise that is exceptional, and it is a great privilege to hold these
no one from the ic community, intelligencey, community, whater do the unmasking and give that information on a verbal order. it just doesn t happen. there has to be written protocols that are followed. those written protocols have to be there. they have to bee there some that do ask him or whether they re on a ledger or some work on their logs and claiming executive privilege here would indicate to me that the president actually spoke to susan rice. we will see if she claims executivee privilege. sean: weeks ago she had no idea of this happening. no knowledge at all. just like evelyn farkas. it s very interesting to watch everyone walk things back. east pulled and i know nothing. sean: thank you, laura. your aging is by the way. the alt left destroy trump media is putting their liberal spin on these explosive reports about susan rice during their best to defend her. we will get reaction from richard grenell and sharyl