EXCERPT:
CLAPPER: "Well, it‘s patently false and unfounded. I was present at the meeting that everybody talks about, and I heard directly what President Obama asked us to do, which was to compile all the reporting and summarize it, that we had accumulated in the run-up to the election of 2016, put it in one document in various classified — various levels of classification, and including a public release. And he wanted that done before the end of his administration. It was not to concoct intelligence or make it up or anything of the sort, which is absurd."
COLLINS: "So he told you to investigate. But you‘re saying he did not tell you what conclusion to reach?"
CLAPPER: "He did not."