James Clapper told ABCNews that after Trump was briefed on the Steele dossier on January 6, he asked Clapper to rebut it:
“His main concern was, I think he asked me to put out a rebuttal or repudiation of the dossier which I couldn't do and didn't,” Clapper told ABC News in the interview on Monday. “I had no way of validating, at the time corroborating the information in it. Some of the second and third order sources that were used in that we could not corroborate and I told him that.”
Clapper also spoke about Russian interference in the election:
Speaking of the president's unsubstantiated wiretap allegations, Clapper said: "I think it's a terrible distraction, and it gets us away from some of the, in my mind, more crucial issues. You know the last one I dealt with, significant one I dealt with, was the Russian interference in our election, which I thought, both as my position as DNI and as a citizen, was a terrible thing, and I wish we could clear the air on that and deal with that."
I think we all would like somebody to “clear the air” on that Russian business.
Here’s the link:
Clapper denies Trump wiretap claim, calling it a 'distraction'