Himes: "Have you been asked to provide assistance to the current Ukrainian government with respect to Paul Manafort, and how do you intend to respond to that request?
Himes: "The story says that the DOJ confirmed that there have been requests for assistance on this matter. You can't go as far as confirming that, in fact, there have been these requests made?"
Sewell: "Does the FBI generally assume that Russian ambassadors to the United States, like Ambassador Kislyak, are at least overtly collecting intelligence on influential Americans, especially political leaders?"
Sewell: "Would someone like Ambassador Kislyak play [the role of a spy acting as a diplomat] for Russia?"
Rep. Devin Nunes, R.-Calif.: "Do you think that [inaudible] Russians would not be trained to infiltrate Hillary Clinton's campaign, get information on Hillary Clinton and try to get to people that are around that campaign or The Clinton Foundation?"
Rep. Peter King, R.-N.Y.: "Do either you or Adm. Rogers have any reason to disagree with the conclusion of Gen. Clapper that there's no evidence of collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign?"
Schiff: "I'm not going to put you in the spot of answering whether this is an accurate characterization of Mr. Trump's views, but it would be logical for the Kremlin to want someone [elected president] who had a dim view of NATO?"
Schiff: "Would [the Russians] have a preference for a candidate that expressed an openness repealing the sanctions over Ukraine?"
Sewell: "I'm sure you can understand my concern that Mr. Flynn not only failed to disclose the contacts with the Russian ambassador, but he said he did not remember whether he discussed sanctions against Russia with that ambassador. I find that really hard to believe. Wouldn't you think that at the height of our concern about Russian hacking that Mr. Flynn would have remembered meeting with the Russian ambassador and would have told him to stop meddling in our affairs, but that didn't happen, did it?"
Sewell: "Now, Mr. Comey, do you think that Mr. Flynn's failure to disclose the communication and contact he had with the Russian ambassador and their topic of conversation, along with the blatant lie to Vice President Pence meet the standard for an investigation by the FBI?"
Sewell: "Given Russia's long-standing desire to cultivate relations with influential U.S. persons, isn't the American public right to be concerned about Mr. Flynn's conduct? His failure to disclose that contact with the Russian ambassador, his attempts to cover it up and what looks like the White House's attempts to sweep this under the rug -- don't we, as American people, have a right to know and shouldn't our FBI investigate such claims?"
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