that revealed contacts and interactions between russian officials and u.s. persons involved in the trump campaign. i was concerned about them because of known russian efforts to such individuals, and it raised questions in my mind again whether or not the russians were able to gain the cooperation of those individuals. shepard: remember, brennan had seen the intelligence. the former cia director testified he doesn t know whether the trump team colluded with the russians, but he testified he was so concerned about their contacts, over the summer he pulled together a group of officials from the cia, the fbi and national intelligence agency to focus on this issue. republicans grilled john brennan about whether there is evidence of collusion. brennan said he couldn t answer
i mean, there are certainly a number of republicans that believe this russia investigation is very important for the country and they want to know whether members of the trump team colluded with russia. that s a valid nonpartisan question lawrence. you know, i think earlier tonight senator schumer indicate he would demand there be no vote on he would already demand there be no vote on confirming an fbi director. but it sounds like tomorrow morning he s going to ask for something more than that. to make this question to have all democratic senators number their seats at 9:30 in the morning he may be making a very serious demand on the senate going forward. i want to listen to what rod rosen stein himself said about appointing a special prosecutor in his confirmation hearing when asked by senator leahy. let s listen to this. i guess we don t have it. they told me we have it. we don t. i tell you what he said. he said i m willing to appoint a special council, senator
trump team colluded with russia. that s a valid nonpartisan question lawrence. you know, i think earlier tonight senator schumer indicate he would demand there be no vote on he would already demand there be no vote on confirming an fbi director. but it sounds like tomorrow morning he s going to ask for something more than that. to make this question to have all democratic senators number their seats at 9:30 in the morning he may be making a very serious demand on the senate going forward. i want to listen to what rod rosen stein himself said about appointing a special prosecutor in his confirmation hearing when asked by senator leahy. let s listen to this. i guess we don t have it. they told me we have it. we don t. i tell you what he said. he said i m willing to appoint a special council, senator whenever i determine it s appropriate based upon the
arrogance and indifference to the department of justice and the fbi, and that s turned out to be a mistake. i think that s probably what she s going to say tomorrow. josh, since i interrupted you, go ahead with your final thought before we go. sure. i agree with bob this is going to plague the trump administration for a long time. i m not sure i agree with him it is such an overreach by the russians. they achieved their primary goal, which is to wreak havoc in the u.s. election process. i think the trump administration is still pro russian than hillary clinton would have been. the sheer damage they ve done to our democracy, that s a win for the russians as far as they re concerned. on the yates testimony, i will say this, we re not going to find out whether or not the trump team colluded with the russians on their interference. it is not part of what yates knows or is talking about. it will be interesting testimony, but the big question, whether or not there rory sabbati sabbatini
ministration of wiretapping trump tower before the election. i bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that president obama was tapping my phones in october just prior to election. the president s allegation has yet to produce the proverbial smoking gun it did of course the republican from california to step aside from the panel s probe into russian interference in the election. should not be involved in investing in a campaign i was involved in. he twice met with the russian ambassador during the campaign but failed to do close that. even as the investigation continues there still has been no evidence that the president or his team colluded with the kremlin to win the election. and they will continue to be unrelenting pressure to find donald trump s text or terms.