classified secret information the reporter can t tell who it is because as mr. gotti speaking on condition of anonymity, it should be termed i m breaking the law and don t want to be outed. sometimes. i think there are other motives but that can be one of them. it s your statement to us then that the fbi was consistent in its assessment that denigrate the u.s. electoral process, hurt hillary and her potential candidacy and coincidentally, concurrent across all of that they intended to help trump. that s your testimony? correct. i yield back. mr. king. thank you, mr. chairman. if you can yield a few minutes into the next round, i ll start with this and make the comment. i thank director comey and admiral rogers for what i believe is the cooperation you ve always given the committee. thank you for your service. director comey, we re in a predicament here today. i understand your situation where you can t comment on the
i can t. so isn t it, i just find it to be really hard to believe that, given the emoluments clause does apply to retired officers like mr. flynn, i can t believe that mr. flynn, a retired military officer, would take money from the russian government in violation of the united states constitution and i believe that such violations worthy of a criminal investigation by the fbi. what level of proof do we need in order for us to have a criminal investigation by the fbi of mr. flynn? i can t comment on that. shouldn t the american people be concerned what i think that it s really hard for us to fathom that he wouldn t know he should have disclosed that he received $35,000 as a part of that arrangement to rt, the
institutions. and what specifically, based on this loudness, did the fbi or the nsa do to prevent or counter this russian active measure that we read about in the intelligence community assessment, as loud as they were, what did we do to counter that? well, among other things, we alerted people who had been victims of intrusions to permit them to tighten their systems to see if they couldn t kick the russian actors out. we also as a government supplied information to all the states so they could equip themselves to make sure there was no successful effort to affect the vote and there was none as we said earlier, and then the government as a whole in october called it out, and i believe it was director clapper and then secretary jeh johnson issued a statement saying this is what the russians are doing, sort of
the lessons they may draw from this is that they were successful because they introduced chaos and division and discord and sowed doubt about the nature of this amazing country of ours and our democratic process. it s possible they re misreading that as it worked and so we ll come back and hit them again in 2020. i don t know, but i think we have to assume they re coming back. i fully expect them to continue this level of activity, because our sense is that they have come to the conclusion that it generated a positive outcome for them in the sense that calling into question democratic process, for example, is one element of the strategy. we re working closely, we, our fbi teammates, others are working closely with our european teammates to provide the insights that we have seen to try to assist them, as they themselves, france and germany for example, about to undergo significant national leadership elections over the course of the next two months. and in terms of the european
because as mr. gowdy was saying earlier, speaking on condition of anonymity, that really should be interpreted because i m breaking the law, and i don t want to be outed. is that a fair statement? sometimes. i think there are other motives behind people requesting anonymity. that can be one of them. so it s your statement to us that the fbi was consistent in his assessment that it denigr e denigrated the u.s. electoral process, hurt hillary and her o candidacy, and cross all of that this they intended to help trump. that s your testimony this morning? correct. all right. yield back. mr. king. ladies and gentlemen, if if i ll just start with this and make the comment. first of all, let me thank director comey for being here today and for what i believe is the cooperation you ve always given this committee. thank you for your service. you can t comment on the investigation, and yet we can