We will move as expeditiously as possible, but we have to see what witnesses are going to make themselves available and what witnesses are going to require compulsion.

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The unclassified intelligence assessment doesn't discuss the issue of US person coordination with the Russians, and I assume that's because, at the time of the report in January of this year, that was under an investigation that you have now disclosed, is that right?

Then, later in August, Stone does something truly remarkable, when he predicts that John Podesta's personal emails will soon be published. 'Trust me, it will soon be Podesta's time in the barrel. #Crooked Hillary,'.

Is it possible that all of these events and reports are completely unrelated. ... Yes, it is possible, it is also possible, maybe more than possible, that they are not coincidental, not disconnected and not unrelated and that the Russians used the same techniques to corrupt US persons that they employed in Europe and elsewhere. We simply don't know, not yet, and we owe it to the country to find out.

Many of Trump's campaign personnel, including the President himself, have ties to Russia and Russian interests. This is, of course, no crime.

There is direct evidence, I think, of deception and that’s where... by Adam Schiff

There is direct evidence, I think, of deception and that’s where we begin the investigation.

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The wrecking ball it created now has banged into our British allies and our German allies, it's continuing to grow in terms of damage, and he needs to put an end to this, now maybe this is the way he conducted his real estate business, with half-truths and sometimes no-truths and a lot of bluster. That, in my opinion, is no way to run a business. But it's an even worse way to run a country.

At the outset of the investigation, there was circumstantial evidence of collusion. There was direct evidence, I think, of deception, and that's where we begin the investigation.

It's one thing if the President has a detailed and thoughtful conversation with the intelligence community about what to declassify, what to release to the public, but if, on the other hand, this was simply the President looking for an opportunity to attack his predecessor, and giving little thought to the consequences of what he might be disclosing, that is a big problem.

This is not something that should be done off-the-cuff by the President of the United States just looking for a cheap shot at his predecessor.

It concerns me greatly that this President, after criticizing so many others about leaking potentially classified information should be discussing things that may very well be classified in such a cavalier fashion.

We're going to be able to ask the director of the FBI … is there any truth of this? Have they seen any evidence of this? and I think on March 20, if not before, we'll be able to put this to rest.

If we don't confront him on this, you can expect he's going to make other equally false claims in the future and this is not only hurting him but it's hurting the presidency, it's hurting our credibility around the world.

I think what Sean Spicer and the President wanted was to take this spurious claim and try to bury it in a closed hearing in the intelligence committee. We're not going to allow that to happen. We're going to air this very publicly.

The President has asked our committee to investigate this, mr. Pr... by Adam Schiff

The President has asked our committee to investigate this, mr. President, we accept.

We know that country of origin is a poor predictor of a propensity to commit acts of terror. If it were, Pakistan has been a far more problematic source of attack planning and would be at the top of the President's list, but that country merits not even a mention in the order.

If they say they are going to conduct this investigation by the book, I believe that's what's going to happen.

I think both of them wish their airplanes had never come anywhere... by Adam Schiff

I think both of them wish their airplanes had never come anywhere near each other.

Whether this attack was also ISIS-directed, remains to be determined. I ’m confident that we will know much more in the coming hours and days.

At this point, we still can't corroborate the theory that terrorism brought it down or there was some structural problem with the plane, certainly, the backdrop is suggestive of terrorism in the sense that we have the Russian plane in Sharm el-Sheikh and we have the aspiration we've seen time and time again, not only of ISIL( Islamic State) now but of AQAP( al Qaeda), still very potent and still very determined to bring down aircraft.

If terrorism was indeed the cause, it would reveal a whole new level of vulnerability to aircraft – not only from those flights originating in the Middle East, but to those departing from the heart of Europe and with, at least in theory, far better airport defenses.