No evidence of Trump campaign-Russia ties: House Intel chair

A top Congressman heading the House intelligence committee said today that there is "no evidence" of any contact between the Trump Campaign and Russia.
"There is no evidence that I've been presented (by the intelligence community) of regular contact with anybody in the Trump campaign. The way it sounds like to me is, it's been looked into, and there's no evidence of anything there," House Intelligence Committee Chairman David Nunes told reporters here.
Addressing a news conference here, on Russian hacking reports, Nunes said he and his committee members have not seen any evidence of anyone from the Trump campaign or any other campaign for that matter that has communicated with the Russian government.

Responding to questions, Nunes said the recent leaks being reported in the mainstream media is committing a major crime.
"If you look at what's happened, major crimes have been committed. And what I'm concerned about is this, no one is focusing on major leaks that have occurred here," he said.
"So right after the leak of the transcript that President (Donald) Trump had with the Australian Prime Minister, I was in contact with the Australian ambassador. I was also in contact with the White House and the appropriate agencies because we can't run a government like this. A government can't function with massive leaks at the highest level of our president talking to foreign leaders," he said.

Nunes said one should be concerned about these major leaks.

Insisting that there would be no evidence of that nor is there any evidence of the Trump advisers speaking to Russians, he claimed that it has been known for a long time that the Russians have been very interested in manipulating elections, manipulating the press.
"They're very good at propaganda. That's what caused me a year ago to come out and criticise the intelligence agencies for the largest intelligence failure since 9/11 because of the lack of good intelligence we were getting on Putin's plans and intentions," he said.
"We do need to have some scrutiny put on to the Russian government and we do need to know if there are any Americans that are talking to the Russians and anybody connected to the Russian government or Russian agents. But at this time, I want to be very careful that we can't just go on a witch hunt against Americans because they appear in a news story somewhere," Nunes said in response to a question.