Nunes Has No Evidence of Improper Russia Links

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee says he still doesn't have any evidence that people associated with Donald Trump's presidential campaign had improper contacts with Russian officials.

Rep. Devin Nunes made the comment to reporters after committee members heard from FBI Director James Comey.

Nunes says the only contact he's aware of involves Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, and the Russian ambassador to the United States.

The top Democrat on the committee, Adam Schiff, says the FBI director hasn't provided a full counterintelligence briefing to committee members.

"I would say at this point we know less than a fraction of what the FBI knows," Schiff said. "The director spent about three to 3-1/2 hours with us and on the areas he was willing to discuss we had a very in-depth set of questions and answers. But there were very large areas that were walled off, and those walls are going to have to come down if we are going to do our job.”

Attorney General Jeff Sessions also met with the Russian ambassador during the campaign — when Sessions was a senator and an adviser to the Trump campaign.

The Justice Department says there was nothing improper about the meetings.

Earlier, White House spokesman Sean Spicer defended Sessions — saying that Sessions was "100 percent straight" about his contacts with Russia during his Senate confirmation hearings.

Spicer tells Fox News that "there's nothing" for Sessions "to recuse himself" from.

Spicer says people are "choosing to play partisan politics" and "should be ashamed of themselves."

And House Speaker Paul Ryan said Sessions should only recuse himself from a Justice Department investigation into Russian interference in the presidential election if Sessions is a subject of the probe.

Ryan says Congress has been "presented with no evidence that anyone on the Trump campaign or an American was involved in colluding with the Russians."