Editor’s Note: The following is a transcript of the CBS TV’s “Face the Nation” news program from March 5.
The following is a key excerpt of the interview by journalist John Dickerson with U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (Republican-Maine)
COLLINS: The president has called for congressional investigations into the allegations that he made starting yesterday morning.
So I would expect that he is going to want to provide our committee with any evidence that he has. My own theory is that the Russians are determined to sow the seeds of discontent and doubt about the legitimacy of our democracy and other Western democracies, and that they were going to do that regardless of who was elected president.
So, it is really important, so that we know what happened and what the facts are, that we get to the bottom of this.
