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He likes Brennan and interviewed him.

"In late April, I met Brennan for lunch at a Morton’s Steakhouse in Northern Virginia. He sat down in the booth and ordered a Diet Coke with lime. That morning, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, led by one of Trump’s most devoted supporters, Representative Devin Nunes, had released a 253-page report that found no evidence of direct ties between Trump’s campaign and the Russian government. It cited testimony that Brennan had given on the Hill, in which he said, “I don’t know whether or not such collusion — that’s your term — existed.” At lunch, Brennan sounded a more suggestive note, telling me he had “serious questions about the extent of that interaction, cooperation, collusion.” He was careful to attribute this sentiment to “what I’ve been reading in the press.”

“I try to be careful with the language that I use,” he said. “When people ask me questions, for example, about why is Mr. Trump so submissive to Vladimir Putin, and whether or not Mr. Trump fears that the Russians have something on him, I say, I don’t know. Perhaps. Maybe. I just don’t want to get into details about what I know or don’t know.” He added: “I have to be very mindful of my obligations as far as classified material is concerned.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/magazine/john-brennan-president-trump-national-security-state.html