LISA DESJARDINS:

That's right.

Senators were just finding out about this report as they were voting for a nomination. And I talked to Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr. He said he had been told about this by Senator John McCain.

And when we went through The New York Times report with him, he told us: I believe that Director Comey might have told us if a request like that from the president had been made. And Burr said, it was never mentioned.

John, essentially, the intelligence chairman is questioning The New York Times report, saying he thinks Comey would have brought that up. He also said that he believes the onus is on The New York Times to present this memo, not just have someone read from it.

He went even further, John, further, and said that he thinks there is a very legitimate question, in his mind, as to whether someone out there in the intelligence community or elsewhere is trying to undermine the president.

That's one of the strongest reactions we have had in the president's favor on Capitol Hill today.