kick russia out of, to get them out of the g7 or the g-8. they also imposed sanctions on russia. this is a similar pattern of russia interfering with other nations, in the case of the ukraine of course that was a physical intrusion into a country but it s a pattern by vladimir putin of interference with sovereign nations. your colleague congressman maxine waters said james comey had no credibility. is that your assessment? the competence of many members of congress was quite low getting out of that room but at the same time i will say this. i was asked the question should fbi director comey be called on to resign, and i would say the answer to that is no. i still trust his judgment, and his independence from the incoming president and the incoming administration more than i would trust anybody who
things. we need to figure out how it happened, why exactly it happened. there are of course things discussed there in a classified setting that i can t talk about, but also we need to go back and look at the fbi s response during the election period and whether that was appropriate. i see now that the ig decided to look into that which i think many members support, and then i think another big question that all of us want to know is, whether there was any cooperation between an american or americans and anybody part of the campaigns with those responsible for the russian hacking. that s going to be a question that s going to continue to linger and we re not going to let that question go. you said earlier in this week on that very topic that intelligence officials were investigating whether russia had any american help in its attempts to hack into democrats emails. is there any indication, any evidence to the best of your knowledge at this point russians had help from anyone inside t
nose. so the question then becomes was it appropriate for mr. flynn to have this conversation with the ambassador from russia to the u.s. after the sanctions were out there in the ether? you ll get different views on that, right? a lot of transition teams, what they do, this period of time, they are setting up meetings, they re setting up phone calls. this is pretty standard, and when you have any sort of phone call that s going to be set up, you usually do quite a bit of advanced work. you have call sheets. you know what you re going to say. the actual calls are usually pretty boring and a bit of a formality. if we take trump s view of the event, they were trying to set up calls, there may be others. you take what the u.s. intelligence official told david ignatius, very respected columnist around town. here s what s the most interesting thing to me about that. this could appear to the trump team that the u.s. intelligence organization, the community is somehow suggesting that mr. trum
i m talking to are confident that this is going to pass in the house, but it might be a little bit more dramatic than we were expecting, peter. so kasie, walk us through what happens next, the real question of the structure about how they may go about doing this. reporter: peter i apologize if you re asking me a question, i think i lost hold of it so i ll kick it back over to you. we were going to ask her about the challenges of trying to find what that replacement will in fact look like. it remains an unanswered question when we talk to kasie and others we ll look into that, a question republicans to this point haven t been able to sufficiently resolve. on another topic critical issue, director comey along with director of national intelligence james clapper was on capitol hill this morning to brief members of the house intelligence committee on russia s hacking activities. nbc s hans nichols hoping he hears me is also on capitol hill right now. hans, by that nod i know you he