aligned with the body of our intelligence reporting. were you aware of the confluence of what the russians were saying and what our own intelligence sources are saying? i i believe i understand your question to be, between the intelligence community sources and methods and open source reporting from russia, yes, i was aware of all of those things coming together at the same time. do you have any reason to believe that the senate intelligence committee or the nsa or the cia or the fbi or the office of the division of intelligence are on some kind of a effort to discredit president donald trump. time has expired but you may answer the question? no, not at all. thank you. the gentleman yields back, gentleman from ohio is recognized. thank you, mr. chairman.
aligned with the body of our intelligence reporting. were you aware of the confluence of what the russians were saying and what our own intelligence sources are saying? i believe i understand your question to be between the intelligence community sources and methods and open source reporting including those from russia, yes, i was aware of all those things coming together at the same time. do you have any reason to believe that the senate intelligence committee or the nsa or the cia or the fbi or the office of the division of intelligence are on some kind of a of an effort to discredit donald trump? the time is expired but you may answer the question. not at all. the gentlemen from ohio is recognized. thank you, mr. chairman.
wrote together. and now is tcoming is the releaf the next one, russian roulette. one of the things they ve got is the reaction from president obama when he was first briefed on the steele dossier and the somewhat pricely reaction from vice president joe biden when he first heard after the election on intelligence reporting. quote, on thursday january 5, 2017, the day before its public release, the intelligence chiefs briefed obama and his senior staff. white house officials were taken aback. it was the first time all the pieces came together for us, one senior official said. it seemed a much grander conspiracy than it was during the election. this was an intelligence failure and a failure of the
counterparts to get information about jared kushner s ties with that country. what is the likelihood they re going to cooperate with those in turkey? it s certainly possible that they will. it s possible, as well, that we ll have other streams of intelligence reporting on what is known about jared kushner s business dealings in turkey. i think what the mueller investigation is doing, what the special counsel is doing, is just trying to cover all the bases and make sure they don t miss anything. what s the protocol here to get foreigners to cooperate in investigations like this one? and, really, what s their incentive? i think what would normally happen at the embassy is this is a legal matter. they would meet and explain that we have this investigation going on. there is an element of reciprocity here. in other words, when the turks have legal issues in the united states, it s not always so smooth, but they would like for us to help them and vice versa. the key, though, is keepin
says we are all intelligence reporting by steel did not inform the fbi decision to initiate its counterintelligence investigation in late july 2016. it claims investigators had field reporting in mid-september and more than seven weeks later. it also says they told the court about the political motivation of those hired steel but it doesn t specifically named the dnc or clinton campaign. you have a political party in this country actually saying don t worry the american public, it s okay. we do this all the time and we will go dig up dirt on our apartment and get it from russians or from the brits and we will take it to the fbi and open up an investigation into another campaign. reporter: democrats claim it cherry picked facts and was nothing more than an attempt to discredit special counsel robert mueller s investigation. now this memo is out, and adam shift says he hopes their committee will get back to their normal russia investigation. rick. rick: allison barber in washington. fo