testimony about russian contacts during the campaign. they say he may have to come back to capitol hill and explain himself. mike conway spoke to manu raju today and he said, look, he down-played the significance of he testified. we saw pictures of that that we ve been using had last few days and that s where the former national security advisor, george papadopoulos who pleaded guilty of lying to the fbi raised the prospect of a meeting between trump and russian president vladimir putin. sessions we were told, ended up erejecting the idea. we also learned tonight there was another campaign advisor pictured in that photograph we re using. he tells jim acosta that donald trump listen today george papadopoulos on the putin idea, and he quote, heard him out. the white house, of course, don
cnn reporter manu raju today that on the russia investigation, public comments indicate there is no overwhelming evidence to suggest there was collusion. do you agree? what i would say is we would have been further along in the investigation. but who could have ever expected that the president would have fired the guy that was heading up the criminal investigation, jim comey? that took us down a path that has required a lot of time and work. it also took us down a path of trying to bring in front of our committee the attorney general, enagain, who had to recuse himself because of nondisclosed contacts with the russians. today we had a hearing where we had, again, a series of experts confirming what we already know, that the russians intervened in our elections, intervened in french elections, other european elections. it became clear as ambassador burns said, the only elected
forthright or willing to work with the jury present of justice or with capitol hill, specifically the democrats. they have not been as forthcoming as they should have been. do you think we ll figure out who let him onto the white house grounds? do you think we ll get answers? eventually. there was a lot of speculation about working for nunes who went to work at the white house on national security matters and so he would seem to be a natural suspect as it were to have at least facilitated this visit by nunes. but nunez was asked about michael ellis by manu raju today and his response is you re asking too many questions. right. i hate that. but can i just say on the question of the executive privilege here.
the russian ambassador. senator sessions at the time mislead his confirmation hearing. donald trump made a deceitful claim about wiretapping by president obama, and now they re inviting the chairman over to the white house to see classified information and keeping all the committee members in the dark. that doesn t look right to me. i think we need to reclaim our independence. here s what you said about chairman nunes. here s what he said on manu raju today. are you going to stay as chairman and run this investigation. why would i not? you guys need to go ask them why these things are being said. can this investigation continue with you as chairman? why would it not. aren t i briefing you guys continuously and keeping you up to speed? but they re saying it
to know about but mr. trump. adam schiff, the top democrat on the house intelligence committee, told cnn s manu raju today he s seen no evidence but suppose the question will come up when james comey testifies on capitol hill later this month. he s certainly prepared for the question and i don t see any reason why he can t answer it. he may even welcome the opportunity. reporter: chairman devin nunez echoed his comment from earlier this week he had not seen any proof to back up the president s claims. we want to find that out but at this point i don t have anything to tell you. jeff zeleny, we re learning about a deadline to produce evidence, aren t we? we are indeed. the house intelligence committee has given the department of justice a deadline. they say by next week on monday they want any relevant information on this wiretapping allegations. now, so far as you said, no one has said that they have seen anything, not a democrat, not a republican, no one here at the