any indication of when we, the committee, may in a classified setting know something from you? would we have ongoing updates? mr. lobiondo, i don t know how long the work will take. i can t committee to updates, as you know. i have briefed the committee as a whole on some aspects of our work and briefed in great detail the chair and the ranking. i don t know, i can t predict or commit to updates, but as your work goes on we re in constant touch with you and we ll dot best we can but i can t commit to that as i sit here. so as the house intelligence committee and the senate intelligence committee are conducting our bipartisan investigations, and looking wherever it may lead with individuals or circumstances, if you, through the fbi investigation, come across a circumstance with an individual
classified secret information the reporter can t tell who it is because as mr. gotti speaking on condition of anonymity, it should be termed i m breaking the law and don t want to be outed. sometimes. i think there are other motives but that can be one of them. it s your statement to us then that the fbi was consistent in its assessment that denigrate the u.s. electoral process, hurt hillary and her potential candidacy and coincidentally, concurrent across all of that they intended to help trump. that s your testimony? correct. i yield back. mr. king. thank you, mr. chairman. if you can yield a few minutes into the next round, i ll start with this and make the comment. i thank director comey and admiral rogers for what i believe is the cooperation you ve always given the committee. thank you for your service. director comey, we re in a predicament here today. i understand your situation where you can t comment on the
facts in the public domain, mr. flynn lied about meeting the russian ambassador and taking money from the russian government and thirdly mr. flynn at a minimum did not disclose work as an agent of a foreign power, and that the white house did not help in this concern. so gentlemen it s clear to me that mr. flynn should be under criminal investigation and i know you cannot comment, but i believe it is my duty as a member of this committee to comment to the american people, that this, that his engagement of lying and failure to disclose really imptant information and contacts with a foreign ambassador do rise to the level of disclosure, and to me criminal intent. so i say this to say that the american people deserve to know the full extent of mr. flynn s involvement with the russians, and the extent to which it influenced the 2016 election. i believe our democracy requires
the scenarios and say that proves something or might prove something. until the investigation was completed, that type of almost possibly slanderous comments could be made. so i would just again, i m not asking you to hurry the investigation along. you have to do what you have to do, but i guess i could ask you just in the remaining moments i have in this round, i know that i guess it was two weeks ago director clapper said that as far as he knows, all the evidence he s seen there s no evidence of any collusion at all between the trump campaign and the russians. now, obviously a detailed exhaustive report was put out talking about russian influence in the campaign, all of the intelligence apparatus had input into that. either you, admiral rogers, do you have any reason to disagree with the conclusion of general clapper that there s no evidence of collusion between the russians and the trump campaign? mr. king it s not something i
i can t. so isn t it, i just find it to be really hard to believe that, given the emoluments clause does apply to retired officers like mr. flynn, i can t believe that mr. flynn, a retired military officer, would take money from the russian government in violation of the united states constitution and i believe that such violations worthy of a criminal investigation by the fbi. what level of proof do we need in order for us to have a criminal investigation by the fbi of mr. flynn? i can t comment on that. shouldn t the american people be concerned what i think that it s really hard for us to fathom that he wouldn t know he should have disclosed that he received $35,000 as a part of that arrangement to rt, the