is going for a one-on-one meeting with no witnesses. we saw this in the oval office, when the president had foreign minister lavrov of russia actually come into the meeting. there was no u.s. presence in terms of the media and we heard the narrative of the russian state first. the only real note-taking and accountability was from the russian media. this is a damaging and damning scenario coming up for the united states, particularly as we saw the senate intel committee roll out their report last week that said that putin did in fact order the attack on the u.s. elections in 2016. that report, bipartisan report rolled out on the eve of july 4th, very little notice or media attention. it basically validates everything that former cia director brennan and former dni clapper, and comey, actually, said in their report in 2017, that the russians did it and they did it to try to tip the balance of the election to donald trump against hillary clinton. thanks so much.
since president trump had reinvigorate thad pardon power i thought most men what they thought of the decorated war hero receiving a pardon himself former dni clapper would not comment. senator cornyn thought it was a very good idea. and so do i. president trump has taken a lot of criticism and praise for his more liberal use of the pardon power. he has certainly departed from past president s practice in this area where going out the door pardons. bill clinton pardons rich who had stayed outside the country. and barack obama chelsea manning. and a bombing campaign in the 70s and 80s. president ford pardoned president nixon.
. elizabeth: well, welcome back. new information about the russian lawyer who met with the trump family before the election. she sometimes is an informant for the kremlin. they release a final report on the year long investigation into alleged russian election meddling. fox news correspondent, gillian turner went through the report and also has more on this russian lawyer. hi, leland. so the report from republicans on the intel committee largely exonerates the trump and clinton campaigns and confirms russia did interfere in the election and roundly condemns the u.s. intelligence community and also accuses president obama s intel chief of lying, what information they shared with journalists and when. and roads in part, former dni clapper denied the reporting the
some of that is classified. i heard the bit by former dni clapper. and i agree it started out as a campaign to create chaos and pour acid on every wound of politics to divide people. it came clear that donald trump had a chance to win, then you saw more efforts for russians to intervene and be helpful. part of that is dumping the clinton campaign e-mails. do you believe the cia got it wrong? the fbi got it wrong? the dni got it wrong? no. i believe their intelligence agencies. thing they got it right and i had a chance to visit the headquarters. were democrats consulted on this at all. no. and i heard adam schiff would have been contacted first.
is that true? and i respect my colleague congressman stewart, but i wholeheartedly disagree. this was a take their word for it investigation that simply went through the motions. this was like bringing in a suspect that you suspect of arson or something else, asking them, did you start the fire? they say, i didn t start any fire. and you say, oh, great. go ahead and go home. that s what this was. the other thing that congressman stewart says is that the u.s. intelligence assessment from the cia, fbi, and the dni, that russian interference in the election was an effort from putin to help trump win the election is just flat out wrong. congressman stewart says i went to cia. i read the raw intelligence, and the cia just got it wrong. what did they know that the u.s. intelligence community apparently doesn t? well, of course, some of that is still classified. but i can say i heard the bit by former dni clapper, and i agree that it started off as a campaign to create chaos and to