The eight Republicans and seven Democrats on the Senate Intelligence committee each get their moments as they take turns questioning the former Federal Bureau of Investigation chief who was sacked last month by President Donald Trump.
Two top US intelligence officials raised eyebrows during a Senate hearing when they refused to say whether Trump ever asked them to interfere with the Russian Federation investigation.
"I said I asked did the White House intend to invoke executive privilege associated with any interactions between myself and the President of the United States".
Rogers replied: "I have never been directed to do anything I believe to be illegal, immoral, unethical or inappropriate".
King also questioned Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe about why he wouldn't reveal details of his conversations with his predecessor. Comey may be more willing to discuss his dealings with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who backed the White House decision to fire him.
While the hearing was explicitly meant to focus on FISA, its timing - a day before former FBI Director James Comey will testify for the first time since his firing - led Senators to frequently derail conversation around the intended topic.
She said it appeared the intelligence officials were in a "limbo" where executive privilege had been discussed, but not yet decided on.
Comey quoted Trump as telling him: "I hope you can see your way clear to let this go, to let Flynn go". But he said, here in this open session, I'm not going to get into conversations with the president.
When the president made his comments about loyalty at the January 27 dinner, Comey wrote that "I didn't move, speak, or change my facial expression in any way during the awkward silence that followed".
At the close of the hearing, the Republican committee chairman, Sen. A couple of them asserted that they didn't "feel" pressured, but nobody would say what Trump had asked them.
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At a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Virginia Democrat Mark Warner asked Coats and Rogers about media reports that Trump asked them to intervene regarding the Justice Department investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, and the broader inquiry surrounding Russian Federation.
On March 22, less than a week after being confirmed by the Senate, Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats attended a briefing at the White House together with officials from several government agencies.
"The president said, 'I need loyalty, I expect loyalty.' I didn't move, speak, or change my facial expression in any way during the awkward silence that followed", Comey said.
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Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris of California asked Rosenstein several times if he would sign a document that would to give full independence to Mueller from the Justice Department during the Russian Federation probe, reports CNN.
In the Capitol this week she told reporters she was preparing diligently: "Reviewing everything that has happened in previous hearings, reviewing public source documents including a lot of the interviews that you all have accumulated and conversations that you all have had as press, reviewing the timeline and the calendar around some of the dates that we know certain conversations or hearings occurred and where there were certain answers to questions, and checking to make sure that they were consistent".
"And when there are ongoing investigations, I think it's inappropriate to ..."
LISA DESJARDINS: Independent Angus King hammered the intel chiefs for neither answering nor explaining why they weren't answering. "Beyond that, there's no excuse for not answering the question". "I served on the committee here and often saw that information that we had discussed had been reported but it wasn't always accurate", Coats said.
"Well I do mean it in a contentious way, I don't understand why you're not answering our questions". He also parried Republican contentions that anyone else accused of mishandling classified information would have been prosecuted, saying it would have been "celebrity hunting" to charge Clinton under statutes that didn't fit the conduct.
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