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Dossier out there that was being investigated that contained information alleged information about compromising information on the president. the other point i would make is this, we noted in the letter that president trump sent to comey, made a point of referencing that you have told me many times, im not under investigation here. you will remember it yesterday when director clapper was asked in the senate hearing if he was aware of any evidence of collusion with trump and russia. he said he wa...

>> immediately fired general flynn, suggesting theres compromising information. >> we dont know that. >> eric: what do you have? theres been no evidence of collusion. >> sir, we dont know yet. >> eric: hold on. not fired for colluding with the russian spirit he was fired for lying to that vice president. >> eboni: we dont know that yet, but peter, you make an excellent point. thats one of my questions. we also know both sides of this as there was actual intelligence from the nsa that there was r...

Correct. >> >> right, but i think the key point here is that -- as i indicated earlier the requirements for a tssei versus the requirements for occupying a sensitive position in the white house as a part of the national security council. >> way higher than whats required for a general. >> and much more invasive and aggressive than a standard tssei. >> now, in terms of compromised trade craft, if you have somebody and you have them compromised, its pretty standard compromised trade craft to ask t...

Fell into that same category, might they be vulnerable to blackmail? >> certainly any time the russians have compromising information on you, then you are certainly vulnerable to blackmail. >> let me ask general clapper this, youve looked at a lot of these. the other case of senior government officials. if they had hidden financial information, things that are normally disclosed when you take a senior official position, is that an area where they could be blackma blackmailed? if its discovered. ...

Fell in that category of vulnerable to blackmail? >> certainly any time russians have compromising information on you youre certainly vulnerable to blackmail. >> let me ask general clapper. youre looked at a lot of these. the case of senior government officials, if they have hidden financial information things that are normally disclosed when they take a senior official position, is that an area where they could be black mailed, if its discovered. >> why i, of course. and is it your experience t...

>> and indeed they operate at multiple levels. >> right. but i think the key point here is that as i indicated earlier, the requirements for a tssci versus requirements for occupying aensitive position in the white house as a part of national security counsel -- >> way higher. >> and as i can attest, much more invasive and aggressive than the standard. in terms of compromised trade craft, if you have somebody and you have them compromised, it is pretty standard compromise trade craft to and them...

Dod operates clearances at multiple levels. >> i think the key point here is, as i indicated earlier, the requirements for a tssai, part of the national security council. as i can attest, much more invasive and aggressive than a standard ts/sci. >> if you have someone and you have them compromised, its pretty standard to ask them to do some little thing for you under the threat of having the compromising information disclosed, and if you succeed, you now have two things on them. you work it that...

Blackmail? >> any time the russians have compromising information on you, then youre certainly vulnerable to blackmail. >> let me ask general clapper this. you looked at the other case. the sergeant government officials, if that had hidden financial information, things that normally disclose, they could see your official position. is that an area where they could be blackmailed? if its discovered. >> yes, it is. of course. >> and is it your experience that the russians search for that kind of th...

Russians have on this president, whether its financial, nonfinancial, compromising information. what explains this presidents bizarre behavior where he will attack literally everybody, but he handles vladimir putin with kid gloves? >> congressman jim himes, appreciate it. this is a big day. people have been waiting for this. theyre hanging on your questions. i will be among them. thank you for coming on "new day." >> thank you, chris. >> appreciate it. stay with cnn. this is going to be a big ...

American companies and number two would be to acquire information that is criminally valuable so credit card information and then another way is to collect information that is come ppromising and caught un these attacks. and personal information that could be embarrassing to them, that could be compromising information that you could use to manipulate them. thats why its so important. >> revelations that are coming up every day, whats the end game? ultimately what do you suspect is behind all of...