SEN. MARK WARNER:

That's, you know, just factually not appropriate.

You know, we are still early on into particularly some of the individuals that were affiliated with the Trump campaign and their potential contacts or communications with Russians. We thought we would be further along, but for the fact that the president, in an unprecedented way, fired the FBI director, Jim Comey.

We have had obviously a pattern here where there are at least reports of other individuals that were at least contacted by the president. I'm not going to comment on the specifics of the individuals we saw. And that's — we need to keep confidential.

But we do have the former National Security Adviser General Flynn who was fired because he didn't come forward with his contacts with the Russians. We have had the attorney general recuse himself because he didn't fully disclose his contacts with the Russians.

If the president's rendition is true, you know, that there's no there there, why wouldn't he collaborate with the investigation to get this cleared up, as opposed to his constant tweetage saying that this is a witch-hunt and fake news?

I don't think there's any member of the Senate that believes this is fake news that the Russians interfered, just as they interfered in France, just as they will probably interfere in the German elections coming up later this year. And it's a national security threat.