agreement that, part of which we weren t able to see. so, i wish you well. we ve had one witness who said she was in the room where they have the side agreements and they were passing them around and she touched them as they went by, but did not read them. so, she wasn t able to tell us either what was in the side agreements. i wish you well. if you get your hands on the side agreements, give me a call, would you, because i d like to join you and have a look. thank you, mr. chair. thank you. senator kaine. thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, mr. tillerson, for your fortitude and patience. i think it bodes well for the riggers of the secretary of state. senator risch has taken us on a tour of the jpoa. i thought i d go back to an important point you referenced in passing. i believe earlier today you said one of the failings of the deal is it does not deny iran the ability to purchase a nuclear weapon and my diligent staff has reminded me that the nuclear
that members asked second rounds when we ll try to give you the time. it is possible we all cooperate, we might be able to complete this hearing this evening and not go into tomorrow. that s what we re trying to do. obviously we have to complete it by 6 o clock because we have business on the floor at 6 o clock. i saw the look of disappointment on m mr. tillerson s face. [ laughter ] as i understand it, senator rubio will have additional questions. senator menendez, senator sha hee n has a little bit, little bit. for those members who senator risch. we may be here tomorrow, but it looks like we re going to try to finish this evening if everybody can cooperate. and again, if that s not the case as we all know, we re perfectly willing to come back tomorrow. and i appreciate the chair. he s been very open about that and it s been very helpful. we also have members that have not had their second round yet. and now to senator portman.
him to be their president and that s that s important and people are going to listen to him. and i m sure that as he goes day by days, he realizes how closely people are listening to him and the power that he does have. be it with a tweet or elsewhere. he could do it through a tweet or a statement he makes or we ll see what he does at that news conference, if, in fact, that news conference takes place. his tweets are more closely followed than any tweeter before him. well, there are some movie stars that have more followers than he does. probably not as much influence. that is correct. all right. standby. there s new developments happening on the russian hacking. right. new information we re getting about statements that are about to be made by the director of national intelligence, the cia director. we ll take a quick break. much more with senator risch right after this. then smash it into a tree. your insurance company raises your rates. maybe you should ve done more
we re back with republican senator james risch and want to talk to him about the classified report on cyber attacks linked to the u.s. election which u.s. intelligence blames on russia. sources tell cnn it s expected to be ready as early as this week and president-elect donald trump will get a personal high-level briefing. our justice correspondent evan perez is joining us now with more. evan, trump continues to cast doubt on russia s role in the hackings and the wikileaks founder julian assange denies russia was the source of stolen e-mails leaked by his organization. what s the latest information you re getting? well, wolf, we know that the intelligence community is certain about its assessment that russia was behind the election hacks. they don t so much care about what julian assange has to say but later this week the top leaders of the intelligence community hope to make the case
that would ex-band on these sanctions on russia for the cyber activities. wolf? evan perez, justice correspondent. thanks very much. we re back with senator risch. you have any doubt that russia was responsible for these cyber attacks? well, i wouldn t put it in terms of having any doubt. people keep saying, oh, they re certain, 100%. that never happens in the intelligence community. particularly on hacking. it is with a high degree of probability that that s where it came from, but with the kinds of spoofing that s done on the internet, and what have you, you re never 100%. however, certainly the intelligence community has concluded with a high degree of reliability that, in fact, the russians were involved. you have to set aside what the russians say, you have is to set aside what assange says. they both are people in you clearly don t believe the russian statements, you don t believe julian assange? set them aside. what does that mean? that means look at all the other