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Intelligence agencies got information, and one case of a papadopoulos breaking to a foreign diplomat that he had contacts with a russian -- let me f finish point -- and carter page, who had gone to russia, been under investigation, who had been trying to been recruited by russian spies, this is credible. >> tucker: youre evading my question. should they have told donald trump that they were spying on his campaign? we talked to these guys surreptitiously. why did they keep that from him? >> becau...

Try to knock it off. >> tucker: i thought i was going crazy. byron york, thank you. an fbi informant reporting to the obama justice department did secretly gather information on trump campaigner officials, but never told the trump campaign about that. all the usual geniuses demand that you not call this spying. okay. u what was it? joining us now is julian epstein, former chief counsel, democrat and house judiciary committee. why is that not spying? >> i agree with everything byron just said. yo...

Important to get to the facts of this case.he byron york has been covering this case from the very beginning. he joins us now. theres a lot of ways to interpret a fact set. lets go through, slowly, so we can understand it, what we know. my understanding is that we know that the obama fbi had an informant speaking to people in the trump campaign and reporting back to the doj. >> we do know that. we know that from the testimony of glenn simpson, the founder of fusion gps, and who hired christopher...

Campaign? >> they did. >> tucker: they said they didnt. >> the fbi went to the trump j campaign in july of 2016 -- >> tucker: and warned them that theyy were looking at, spying on the campaign? >> that the russians were trying to infiltrate -- >> tucker: why didnt they -- >> both the campaigns, clinton andam trump campaign, because yu normally wouldnt. in the course of an investigation, you wouldnt go tell other people that might be caught up in illegal activity that they are -- >> tucker: you w...

Whoa, if trump is doing this to elizabeth warren next year, ill be very worried. >> i think we can find some common ground. the idea of the fbi going into a political campaign, cooked in, is very disturbing. it shouldur be very, very -- the point we should agree on, the inspector general ought to look at at this, of the inspector general ought to determine -- >> tucker: like yesterday. >> whether it was kosher or not kosher. >> tucker: wer: have to go. if i find out another person on television ...

Part of a campaign, in this case, papadopoulos and carter page. the fbi informant was simply trying to get, once carter page had flown to russia, had bragged in emails -- >> tucker: im aware of all of this. he wasnt spying on the campaign. >> this was an effort, for the fbi, to investigate whether or not, based on information -- >> tucker: i understand some people have been compromised, i get it. i understand. >> foreign agents. >> tucker:he two levels. thats at the first one. that is spying on ...