The Senate Intelligence Committee will hear Wednesday morning from four of the men at heart of the government’s response to Russian meddling in the 2016 election, possible collusion with the Trump campaign, and the administration’s alleged efforts to derail the inquiry.
Though the official purpose of the hearing with Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats, Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, NSA Director Michael Rogers, and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is the reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, senators plan to question the men about a wave of shocking recent reports, including Tuesday night’s allegation that President Trump asked Coats to intervene with the FBI to get it to back off its investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
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I’d like to hear more from Clapper. Clapper yesterday at Australia’s National Press Club:
Then later:
Yesterday on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell he discussed how once it became clear that Nixon had obstructed justice by agreeing with Haldeman’s plan to ask the CIA to tell the FBI to “back the hell off” of the Watergate investigation, Republicans had heard enough and three of them marched over to the White House and informed Nixon that he could no longer survive impeachment. How long will we have to wait after Comey’s testimony on Thursday for anyone in the Republican party to do the same?