President ial election, confirm an investigation is ongoing, but refuse to release information. Im jim donovan. Im rahel solomon. Correspondent weijia jiang on capitol hill with a story. Ive been authorized by the department of justice to confirm that the fbi as part of our Counter Intelligence mission is investigating the russian government effort to interfere in the 2016 president ial election. Fbi director james comey broke with normal protocol to reveal the buyer so looking into russian interferance in the 2016us president ial election. That includes investigating the nature every any link between individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and the russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russias efforts. President trump is likely paying close attention to this hearing. He sent out a flurry of tweets, just hours before it started. The president s tweets claim the russian connection was made up by the democrats, and the real story is the