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Dr. grant, do you have concerns about national security impacts if the mueller report is released in its entirety. >> i think they obviously will be very careful to take out anything that compromises counter intelligence operations. i think thats the reason the review is going on. but we do need to see, and we need to be aware of how forceful russia is in this domain and were setting up for a long-term competition and a long-term struggle with russia in cyber as well as in the physical domain. t...

Counsels questioning of cohen has focused primarily on all aspects of trumps dealings with russia. so how much does michael got on trump on russia? >> i think he has all of his financial transactions, his relationships with the russian mafia. craig unger has a great book out about that. the relationships with real estate dealings. when the soviet union broke up, they liquidated all those assets, took their illicit money and put it into real estate all around the world but that money is a vehicle...

That he has, and that is one of the many things that should make people terrified about what else happened in those two hours because this is mostly a symbolic thing. but it is the most embarrassing symbolic thing you could possibly do. vladimir putin has executed one of the most successful counter intelligence operations in the history of humanity against the united states and for that he has not been punished by donald trump. he has been rewarded by donald trump and hes humiliating the preside...

Look, given the circumstances, it is not clear to me on the basis of what he said in that interview that he still doesnt know what happened in the meeting with lavrov. what coats learned is one of the things they talked about in that two hours is that whatever vladimir putin has on donald trump is enough to win him a summit meeting in washington, d.c. after assaulting our democracy, after waging this information war against the united states, while hes still ongoing with those same kind of activ...

He was fundamentally wrong when he made that and what created the special counsel. number two they should have informed donald trump himself. we as a country protect our presidential candidates. we give them secret confidence protection, a c.i.a. briefing, the daily even before they become the president. and if there was a counter intelligence operation, they should have informed donald trump along the way. even when he was the president elect. they had a duty and obligation and protocol would s...

Disinfectant. when it comes to classified documents, when it comes to the inner workings of counter intelligence operations and how the fbi investigates folks, especially when some things are still ongoing, this is extremely troubling. and i have to make the distinction between congressional oversight and congressional retaliation and retribution. and thats what troubles me the most, is the understanding that operations might be changed, might not ever be entered into in the first place because ...

We have got counter intelligence operations. but you are on the ground. sheriffs like yourself, the law enforcement community in this country are responsible for the people in their communities. lets bring that as expected into it fjt what we can do when isis goes into ungoverned spaces. when they inspire someone on the sweater or someone takes up that flag such as it is. >> there has to be effective counter tragedy to their recutement. before i get too far into that its been incredible the prog...

I cant -- it cant be denied either that a lot of the challenges that he is facing right now are self-inflicted. so maybe if he starts to pay attention to the briefings that will change. >> frank, ill let you have the last word because i want the bottom line for you. when it comes to jared kushners role inside the administration, based on what you know and whats been reported there, do you have confidence he is the best person to be two offices down from the president in the oval? >> a lot of con...

Alone, they are sort of mel laze. they will want to have a plan for counter intelligence operations, which is something that the secretary again has highlighted with the new intelligence unit they opened. >> but, again, of the 28 member countries of nato that actually meet -- of the 28 members, only five have actually met that 2% of total threshold. i have heard some republicans say this was a risky bet that the president made using language like this. but its working. and more and more are comm...

Down like he did can toll hill? >> what nunes told us this afternoon, this incidental collection took place but it was completely unrelated as far as he can tell to the investigation of russian interference in the presidential election. so this was collected through some other sort of counter intelligence operations. >> neil: you just followed up my last question, was i dont know who to believe. alternate agencies alternate eves dropping, alternate ways of getting information are not being share...