ocho bobama white house in the p to the briefing, they are figuring out what they will say to trump and his team, what they will say to trump himself and national security team and advisor, we have since learned that was a very intense time in the obama white house trying to handle this unprecedented situation. quote, on january 5th, fbi director james comey, john bennen and james clapper briefed president obama in a small group of his top white house advisors on the contents of a classified intelligence report showing that russia intervened in the 2016 election to help trump. quote, that s what whien white officials learned the fbi was investing the flynn kislyak calls. the relationship was highlighted. the burro, meaning the fbi made clear that there was an actual investigation underway. an actual investigation of flynn. that was reported last year in the washington post.
fbi john bennen testiro brenhamt that. that s how and why that investigate started. basically why we are going through this as a country. that s the best information and most direct information we got about what the intelligence community saw that freaked them out about the trump campaign. i encountered and am aware of information and intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions between russian officials and u.s. persons involved in the trump campaign that i was concerned about because of known russian efforts to support such individuals and it raised questions in my mind again, whether or not the russians were able to gain the cooperation of those