justice department policies kind of got us to this point where he felt he could come out and say that, yes, this investigation is ongoing, that has come because there has been increasing anger and frustration among people in both political parties up here on capitol hill. the chairman of this committee, yes, gave the trump administration some covering in his questioning here. he had been giving them cover in what have become regular news conferences. last week he came out and said on the wiretapping allegation, the president is wrong. that was a key turning point here. it was the moment when comey started collaborating more closely with members of congress because he was coming under intense pressure from them to say more about what s going on. the result here is now the trump administration does have to grapple with what devin nunes, again a republican, said is a big cloud hanging over the administration, with no end in sight at this point, brian. so, remember, we ll have more hearing
as well. it could easily be as dni clapper says there s no collusion between trump campaign and the russians. but could be causing mischief they could have been doing this all themselves. it s reported that at least and then comey today said putin hates hillary. i think that s an important point. what happened here was not just the russians trying to help donald trump. they were punishing hillary clinton because she had bn an advocate for human rightsn russia. that should be scary to everybo everybody. that if an american politician speaks out. we ve got to speak out about this. i want to go back. we don t know yet whether there was collusion between the trump campaign. that s what we need to learn. it s so early. there s so many unanswered questions at this point. i m just repeating what somebody said today. what was secretary clinton saying during the time or during the whole leadup to election with all this? i think she was trying to focus on communicating her message. you
the white house, in my view, should have presented it with this tweet. you can t say things without backing them up if you re the president. erbut on and off camera today, they take this seriously and he alluded to it, they have information that they will present as evidence. i totally agree that everyone needs to put up or shut up. there is been far too much information put out theree without any evidence to back it up. we are months into a selective releasea campaign, selectively releasing information that did come from surveillance. transcripts of phone calls, all these nefarious reports designed to make people think there is this treasonous involvement with russia. we don t have evidence. there is not a scintilla ofs evidence from someone who is a named source providing anything that would have support for this. you also have the former obamama odni clapper saying that he had no reason to believe there was any collusion between trump and the russians. we do need to wait and see w
presumably the intelligence community has known about this for a long time. roger stone admitted long ago to having a back channel with wikileaks and he posted his conversations, screen grabs of his conversation with guccifer 2.0 when he says were innocuous. these are things dni clapper knew but he still says there is no evidence he s seen of collusion between trump and russia. collusion is a very technical term. what we want to know is, were they working with russia. you know, it s okay to have business ties with russians. i think it shows bad judgment, they re not our friend, but what we want to know is where they working hand in hand with russia, where they providing information to russia. have you seen any evidence of that yourself yet? what i have called for is an independent commission to take this out of congress. i think it s too partisan right now. we need to declassify as much as possible. we need to debunk the myths that the president has put out there. the only way to
about whether or not the fbi and doj sought a fisa warrant and used wiretapping. that s something that they have every authority to do. but dni clapper also said that didn t happen. so it s unclear why we re talking about this still. but this is a tactic, to your point, that they ve used, calling for internal and external investigations to distract from the issue at hand, whether it s obamacare or ties to russia. jen psaki, david drucker, senator santorum, stick around for us. coming up next, the white house prepares for a hard sell on the health care bill. and the congressional budget office is caught in the crosshairs. why the nonpartisan agency is under fire from the trump administration itself. they re saying, don t believe these numbers that are about to come. why? ce rates are probably gonna double. but dad, you ve got. .allstate. with accident forgiveness they guarantee your rates won t go up just because of an accident. smart kid. indeed.