willing to comment about whether they received similar pressure from the wlous. but they seem to be acting like that. >> they're act being like they're being pressured from the white house. i want to play you something from james clapper. obviously the russia investigation at core is a question about whether russia tried to influence the election, were russia has undue influence on the trump campaign and maybe at the beginning stages of trump presidency. this is what former dna. clapper said about phone calls between vladimir putin and president trump over the weekend. >> i think this past weekend is illustrative of what a great case officer vladimir putin is. he knows how to handle an asset. and that's what he is doing with the president. >> do you think president trump is an asset to vladimir putin? he is treating him like an intelligence asset. >> i think the president is allowing himself to be manipulated by putin. putin knows, because the kremlin