the presidential election. correct. do you stand by that? yes. thank you for that cl clarification. it s not the job of the intelligence agency to determine whether the information dumped had an affect on the outcome, only whether machines were impacted, not people? correct. you would need a social scientist to do that. i wanted to ask you about the information concerning potential coordination with the russians. are you aware of the basis we heard testimony that the fbi investigation was somewhat compartmentalized and director clapper wasn t fully aware of what went into the investigation. are you aware of the information that formed the basis for director comey opening a counterintelligence investigation as he testified in july of last year? no, not as i sit here. if i did, i m not sure i could talk about it in open session. i do not. i m not going to ask you to. do you believe director comey would have opened a
i had been engaging state election officials since august. i had issued a public statement on august 15. i issued a public statement on september 16. informing the public and state officials what we knew at the time. i issued another public statement on october 1. there is the october 7 statement. then i issued another statement on october 10. this was an ongoing effort to inform the public about everything we were in a position then to tell the public. it wasn t just the october 7th statement. that october 7th statement was notable in another way in had a it didn t include james comey s signature as the agency that would be foremost have the foremost responsibility for the forensics of attribution. why wasn t director comey s signature on the statement? well, the thinking was that
first, i had been engaging state election officials since august and i had issued a public statement on august 15th. i issued a public statement on september 16th. informing the public and state officials what we knew at the time. i issued another public statement on october 1st. and then another statement on october 10th. so, this was an ongoing effort to inform the public about everything we were in a position then to tell the public. it wasn t just the october 7th statement. that october 7th statement was notable in another way that it didn t include james comey s signature as the agency that would be foremost, the foremost responsibility for the forensics of attribution. why wasn t director comey s signature on that statement? well, the thinking was that a
is trying to focus on and that frankly i think is what the resy of the country is ready for the media start focusing on as well. tucker: catherineat herridge just reported that this has been under consideration for at least a couple of weeks since the end of april. so there s clearly been time to think through who will replace director comey? what s the time frame for replacing such a significant job? not to step on anything at this point, and the presidentt wants to make sure that he gets the right person in that position coming was to make sure that whoever it is has the respect of the rank and the fbi and frankly that is somebody who s not political. i think we have to find somebody who can restore credibility back to this department, that certainly wasn t director comey. it s one of the reasons that he can no longer serve in that role and i think that he ll be looking for somebody who can step in and frankly i think bring credibility back to the fbi that has struggled with o
of the country is ready for the media start focusing on as well. tucker: catherine herridge just reported that this has been under consideration for at least a couple of weeks since the end of april. so there s clearly been time to think through who will replace director comey? what s the time frame for replacing such a significant job? not to step on anything at this point, , and the president wants to make sure that he gets the right person in that position coming was to make sure that whoever it is has the respect of the rank and the fbi and frankly that is somebody who s not political. i think we have to find somebody who can restore credibility back to this department, that certainly wasn t director comey. it s one of the reasons that he can no longer serve in that role and i think that he ll be looking for somebody who can step in and frankly i think bring credibility back to the fbi that has struggled with under director comey s leadership at one of the big