about it and so was jake clapper. it s really a tale of two hearings, it s democrats like yourself that were asking about any potential collusion in the election, and essentially all the republicans are asking about are leakings and we saw that again today, we saw that in the house and on the senate side. that s right, it is a tale of two hearings, except they are importantly for senator graham, some of the republicans and my hope is there will be more of them who will see what jim clapper designed very, very powerfully. if there is another takeaway here, it s jim clapper s reference to the power and seriousness of the threat to our democracy, a foundational threat from the russian hacks, the tiber attack, really an act of cyber war. a threat that s still ongoing, that s still out there? very much ongoing as we saw in france, and they tried to hack into our election
sally yates did leak something, just hypothetically, there are a lot of leaks in this white house they can t control. we re going to have to leave it there. the panel will return during the next two hours. a big day on capitol hill in the russian-white house watch. i ll talk to one of the congressmen who questioned clapper and sally yates next. love mom and dad i m takin a nap. dude, you just woke up! i m goin up the country, baby don t you wanna go? i m goin up the country, baby don t you wanna go? geico motorcycle, great rates for great rides.
president. and matthew, the president tweeted again a short time ago, director clapper reiterated what everybody already knows, there is no collusion with russia and trump. based on what he had seen on january 6 when he left, he saw no evidence. but he also didn t even know about the fbi counter intelligence investigation. clapper made it pretty clear that he was staying out of this. and we heard that from the white house too, that they saw the investigation as separate and they couldn t meddle and they shouldn t be talking about it. so what clapper knew and didn t know is a big question at this point. so clapper s statement, he undercuts his own statement on that. and when yates was asked about it, she didn t say yes or no, she said she couldn t talk about it. the clapper statement is something that the trump white house has pointed to all along saying there s no there there, if james clapper didn t see
owns of the time. before she was thrust into main justice, she had a reputation as a prosecutor who put away a lot of democrats in georgia. eric holder, loretta lynch, maybe those are slightly more partisan people at the white house. sally yates, that was not her reputation. i think it was very interesting what we show there, the different responses to the collusion question. clapper who was the dni and did not have visibility into the fbi investigation said, he didn t know about collusion. yates who was at justice obviously. did have details about the investigation said i can t talk about that. to me, that is incredibly revealing. one thing that the white house hasn t really talked about. and the question that sally yates isn t able to speak to, is when she warned about mike flynn
bombshell. when i go back an google, there were a bunch of reports saying there was going to be this bombshell testimony. a week ago it was leaked out what sally yates was going to say and was specifically saying there s not going to be a bombshell. and that wasn t one single piece of evidence saying there was coordination between the campaign and some foreign entity. and now we re into may of 2017 and there still hasn t been one single thing that s been put forward. i think this is getting really ridiculous. i would say one, clapper said something that we have heard a lot before is that there remains a risk, this is ongoing, putin is not a registered republican. he s after creating confusion, he s going to get into our system again, we have seen that recently in france, we have seen that italy. we have heard it before, but that was interesting. unfortunately, there wasn t a ton of evidence on this investigation really by either party today, and there s not a lot of questions tha