US House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes announced that “no evidence of collusion” between Trump’s administration and Russia has been found. The announcement came just before the first public hearing on the matter. Nunes told Fox News Sunday that the leaking of General Michael Flynn’s name to the media is “the one crime we know that’s been committed.” FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Michael Rogers attended to testify at the hearing.
Director Comey confirmed the existence of an FBI investigation into the matter, however he was unable to share details:
I have been authorized by the Department of Justice to confirm that the FBI, as part of our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia’s efforts. […] Because it is an open ongoing investigation and is classified, I cannot say more about what we are doing and whose conduct we are examining.
Nunes then questioned Rogers and Comey on whether they had uncovered any evidence that Russia cyber actors changed vote tallies in the 2016 election:
NUNES: So — so you have no intelligence that suggests, or evidence that suggests, any votes were changed?
ROGERS: I have nothing generated by the national security industry, sir.
NUNES: Director Comey, do you have any evidence at the FBI that any votes were changed in the states that I mentioned to Admiral Rogers?
COMEY: No.
Since the 2016 election, rumors have spread about Donald Trump’s involvement internationally. Trump opponents have claimed potential conflicts of interest could exist between the sitting US President and Russia.