russian officials. i was aware of intelligence and information about contacts between russian officials and u.s. persons that raise concerns in my mind about whether or not those individuals were cooperating with the russians in a witting or inever unwitting f and served the basis to term which collusion, cooperation. that served as the basis for the fbi investigation. that s how the fbi investigation came into being. the fbi investigation not just into russian interference but the possibility of the trump campaign being involved in it, cooperating in that effort somehow. that is is how that fbi investigation started, right? u.s. intelligence obtained information, obtained intel about suspicious contacts between the trump campaign and russia. while russia was trying to influence the election to trump s benefit.
publish this class tiefiified information even though they haven t been able to review it assessing the classified information. we don t know when they will put it out but the vote and the hearing today that they held behind closed doors where they decided to do, this we ll get a transcript of what happened at that hearing as soon as tomorrow. we ll know how they decided to do this. all right. much more to come here tonight. it been a very, very busy news day and night. stay with us. i was wondering if an electric toothbrush really cleans better
the defendant with male one s outlook on the current and future of the energy industry. male one provided documents to the defendant about the energy business. so these russian guys, right, two of them working as russian government employees and one of them as a russian bank employee, it s a spy ring. and they got an american asset, they got male one. they got this american energy consultant guy who was happily shoveling them information, giving them documents, communicating with them and meeting with them in person. in the course of the investigation into this russian spy ring operating in new york, the fbi paid a visit to male one, to this american guy who was successfully being recruited by russian spies. and we later found his name. carter page. the same carter page that turned up as one of the five named foreign policy advisors to the donald trump for president
election that year. they seemed to be making moves to interfere with, to try to influence that election. but simultaneously they saw something that concerned them that was going on between russia and the trump campaign. did evidence exist of collusion, coordination, conspiracy between the trump campaign and russian state actors at the time you learned of 2016 efforts? i encountered and am aware of information and intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions between russian officials and u.s. persons involved in the trump campaign. there was a sufficient basis of information and intelligence that required further investigation by the burro to determine whether or not u.s. persons were actively conspireing, colluding with
fbi john bennen testiro brenhamt that. that s how and why that investigate started. basically why we are going through this as a country. that s the best information and most direct information we got about what the intelligence community saw that freaked them out about the trump campaign. i encountered and am aware of information and intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions between russian officials and u.s. persons involved in the trump campaign that i was concerned about because of known russian efforts to support such individuals and it raised questions in my mind again, whether or not the russians were able to gain the cooperation of those