explaining it, you re alleging that there are linkages? there is definitely linkages between trump campaign officials or former trump campaign officials and russia. we learned during the haeearing and during my questioning that special counsel mueller did not come to any counterintelligence assessments with regard to those linkages. for instance, we don t know their financial ties. president trump s financial ties or even his current business dealings with russia. and that s something that we re trying to explore through, for instance, our investigation of deutsche bank and its relationship to president trump and we re continuing with that investigation because we have to know what the risks are to mitigate them and to protect our country. one of the things we do know thanks to the mueller investigation that s been backed up by the intelligence community is that russia did meddle in the 2016 presidential election. absolutely. and they re planning to do so in
russians might have kompromat on the president. i do indeed. i didn t have it before helsinki. but when i saw the performance where the president stood next vladimir putin and essentially not only through his own intelligence services and you know the u.s. government threw them unthe bus but did seem to be totally indirect. although i would grow with leon panetta s comments. we don t know for sure yet. you can do counterintelligence assessments and say what explains this. there are splngss that are straightforward as to why trump behaved that. i believe it does point to kompromat. and that was a tipping point for a lot of people for whom it was merely a theory and then convinced by the performance in helsinki. ambassador, turning to you there was a lot of discussion about ambassador mcfall being part of what the president called an incredible deal. he walked it back and said he