conversation about classified matters ending up in the media. a lot of it is dead wrong one of the challenges because we don t correct it but it strikes me a lot of people talking or reporters saying people are talking to them in ways that have struck me as unusually active. i understand the media s fascination with palace intrigue, which faction at the white house is trying to outdo the other. that depose with the game. if you re talking about leaking classified information, leaking investigations, you stated today there is an fbi investigation going on. so if the new york times can be believed i would think it would have to be somebody from the fbi who is telling them about these purported meetings which mr. mccabe said was b.s. with the russian intelligence agency. somebody familiar with that investigation spoke to the new york times. and so i ll use that as an example and also one there s a
it. thank you. i yield back to my ranking member. time s expired. i recognize myself for 15 minutes. mr. comey and mr. rogers, you both said that the russians had, they favored donald trump this election, and you made that change from the beginning of december, it was not that they were trying to help donald trump, but that changed by early january. mr. conway talked about that. do russian i don t agree with that. i we didn t change our view from december to early january. we the fbi and i don t know that anybody else did on the ic team. meaning from my perspective, we didn t at some point the assessment changed from going from just trying to hurt hillary clinton to know that they were actually trying to help donald trump get elected. that was early december as far
person, ma am. director comey would it be unusual for a foreign government official to get paid by a foreign adversary to attend such an event, and would it be unusual to raise some questions at the fbi if that person failed to disclose the payments received for that trip? i don t know in general and as to the specific, i m just not going to comment. yes, sir, i understand you can t comment but like to read an ehange bween mr. flynn and a yahoo! news correspondent from july 2016 regarding his trip to russia during the rt event. the correspondent asked, were you paid for that event? then there was back and forth for a bit, and then mr. flynn said yes, i didn t take any money from russia, if that s what you re asking me. so director comey, isn t it true that the house oversight committee last week received information and released
room. were there any other people that could leak this out? this is an unmasking of names where you may have 20 people in the nsa, 100 people in the fbi, not putting together a report all the intelligence agency, this is four people in a room with the president-elect of the united states. i don t know who else was in that room, and that was leaked out seemed within minutes or hours of you handing him that dossier and it was so confidential that you handed it to him separately. i m not saying it s you. it s a small universe of people that would have known about that and if it is a disclosure of classified information, if you re going to start with legislating leaks, that would be one place where you could start to narrow it down. again, mr. king, i can t comment because i do not ever want to confirm classified conversation with a president or president-elect, i can tell you my general experience, it often turns out there were more people who know about something you expected at first,
director comey, would it be unusual for foreign government official to be to get paid by a foreign adversary to attend such an event, and would it be unusual and raise some questions that the fbi if that person failed to disclose the payments received for that trip? i don t know in general, and as for the specific, i m just not going to comment. yes, sir. i understand that you can t comment, but i would like to read an exchange between mr. flynn and a yahoo news correspondent from july 2016 regarding his trip to russia during the rt event. the correspondent asked were you paid for that event? then there was a back and forth for a bit, and then mr. flynn said, quote, yeah. i didn t take any money from russia, if that s what you re asking me. director comey, isn t it true that the house oversight committee last week received information and released