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That christopher steele simply made it up or approached it from a political point of view. he was basically probing his sources to see what he would come up with, and what he came up with is now out there for everyone to see and judge. but christopher steele is a reputable british intelligence officer and a close colleague of many americans. >> and again, to reiterate that carter page was first picked up as a result of a counter intelligence operation against a russia spy ring in new york city. ...

Including one inside the trump camp. now, that last claim, from this, again, op-ed place, weird place to break news, but thats where its breaking tonight, that last claim, that the steele dossier wasnt what started the fbis counter intelligence investigation into whether or not the trump campaign colluded with russia, we are now learning, tonight, that the guys behind the dossier told the senate that in august, maybe thats why the republican s in the senate dont want to release those transcripts...

Transcripts, but weve also just had a big new piece of public reporting that corroborates that, as well, not from the op ed pages but reporting pages of the "new york times", this bombshell story which doesnt just say that the dossier isnt why the fbi started its counter intelligence operation. this "new york times" story explains what did lead to the fbi counter intelligence investigation. according to the times, george papadopoulos is coordinating with the investigation. according to the times...

The fbi is trying to get to the bottom of how the russians were able to not only infiltrate the highest levels of a presidential campaign but fundamentally gets a sets assets related to putins pockets. trump fawning over putin particularly in the last week, two phone calls that he made to congratulate putin without even once mentioning election concerns. if we look at this as a counter intelligence operation, that will certainly help give the fbi the support it needs. but that support will have ...

Doing them the most damage. whether that was donald trump junior or those advising him who didnt want him to pull out the full account. youll remember he went on fox news on the hannity show and he said i told you everything and then we immediately learn more. that was the fundamental problem in how they related the news. there was another fundamental problem here which is the judgment it shows when you get an e-mail that says a representative of the russian government, whether she was or wasnt,...

Already been a candidate once before. it wasnt a lot of new territory to come up in the public statement world. so, what they were being promised here was something that hadnt been revealed before. if you believe the e-mail, even if it turned out to be false, the e-mail promised two things, one that they would be meeting with a representative of the russian government. now, she may not have been that, but thats what the e-mail said. and secondly, they were going to get information that came from...

If the president did that with the intent to obstruct the investigation, thats part of muellers purview now. he has very broad authority here. >> lets and something we dont know. people say this is just a counter intelligence operation. this is just to find out if there is any spying going on. other people say no, it is a criminal investigation. did rosenstein, the deputy ag explain that? are they going after criminal activity? >> if you read the regulation that justifies the appointment of a sp...

Regime change. their assumption will be thats whats coming towards them. that is going to be our retaliation. we have to communicate with them clearly as were undertaking the investigation saying were going to conduct our investigations within this zone. >> that is a sobering assessment, general marx. are we under that big of a threat? >> as matthew indicated, if this is by definition extension, it has all the potential of being and from the perspective of moscow, it is marching down that path. ...

Firedog lake jane hampshire. >> david house is a friend of bradley manning. when bradley was arrested the members of the community got together and they put together the bradley manning defense fun and ever since that time the government has been investigating them. they had the department of the army, counter intelligence operation was investigating them and robert gates himself said he wanted to put the fbi on it because the fbi could prosecute civilians and the army couldnt. they brought home...

Dont have any problem with that inquiry, because its going to show that this fbi started this operation as a counter intelligence operation, they were trying to protect the campaign against russia and influenced by foreign power. and it turned out that it mo morphed into a intelligence investigation. two of them that th-- >> so you actually welcome this kind of an investigation, you dont see it as a politically motivated information? >> i think what the about wants to do is politically motivated...