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But when people hear that, that its out there, that just sounds like its existence was something that was noteworthy but doesnt mean there was necessarily any reason to believe anything that was involved or contained in it. >> well, there are all kinds of possibilities here, one of which is given the russian proclivity for what they call compromising material, which they can either -- which is either valid or contrived. and at the time that we dealt with this and before i left, we didnt sort any...

Recently as 2010 sader had had a trump organization business card and an office in trump tower. donald trump jr. said in september 2007 he made half a dozen trips to yush ya in the proceeding 18 months noting that investors were involve d in trumps new york real estate projects. we see a lot of money pouring in from russia, he said. one trump property in manhattan had become within a few years of opening a prominent depository of russian money according to a report in "business week." here there...

And an office in trump tower. donald trump junior said in september 2008 that he made half a dozen trips to russia in the preceding 18 months, noting russian investors were heavily involved in trumps new york real estate projects. we see a lot of money pouring in from russia, he said. one trump property in midtown manhattan had become within a few years of opening a prominent depoz toeur of russian money according to a report in bloomberg business week. so here there are still big questions. of ...

Financial entanglement, hacking, dumping, theyve used paid media trolls. some of these things we know they have used here. can you be specific as to what you know theyve used here? >> i think its quite clear from the public record that, obviously, they were deeply involved in hacking democratic institutions. that they were involved in the dumping of these documents through cut-outs like wikileaks, dc leaks. we know they had a very extensive media operation. were investigating some of the other t...

Interfere with elections in europe. they used some here. and we want to find out everything the russians did. i would say also, though, i think what would give the public the greatest confidence is if we had a truly independent commission that was well resourced and could be completely repromoved from my political consideration. >> you raise an interesting issue, which is about how will the people find satisfaction? there is argument to be made you shouldnt be dealing with the collusion issue. t...

Serious criminal investigation. >> i think the fbi has the capability to do it, but all of the political bargaining, the cherry picking of intelligence inside the government, using it for political purposes with congressional committees, that just derails investigations. how on earth could the fbi do a good investigation when intelligence is possibly being leaked from inside of the government in a different location? it is hard to run down leads or come to decisive conclusions. >> there were a f...

>> why did he ask that question? what was he going after there? >> i think hes making a clear reference to the dossier that came out a while back with allegations, some of them lurid with regard to potentially the russians having compromising material on donald trump. and it raises the bigger question of, okay, if the russian intelligence services, and, therefore, the russian government have information that makes somebody in this case president trump blackmailable, then, you know, thats a dange...

>> its a technique they use to gather information on people that may be embarrassing or humiliating and using it to coerce cooperation. >> have you known instances where that has been successfully leveraged? >> yes, i believe our counterintelligence division has encountered it a number of times. >> does that include private places such as hotels that are wired for audio and video? >> i dont think i remember enough about the particulars to say, but in theory, sure. >> why did he ask that question...

Narrow question of the wiretapping we can expect an answer from director comey on monday. this larger question you expect that is something hes going to demure on? >> thats what i expect but nonetheless we will be able to ask the director a great deal that he will be able to comment on. for example we can ask the director about what techniques the russians use to financially entangle people. about how they make use of compromising material, what techniques they have used in europe, what tactics ...

Ask the director a great deal that he will be able to comment on. for example we can ask the director about what techniques the russians use to financially entangle people. about how they make use of compromising material, what techniques they have used in europe, what tactics we already know they used in the united states. we can ask about how they used wikileaks and how they used guccifer and we can certainly ask him about public information, people that have acknowledged contacts like roger s...