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Intelligence. >> a lot of republicans disagree with him including gowdy and rubio. >> it was not peter strzok who decided to open the russia investigation. it was throughout the f.b.i. and throughout the intelligence community. they started picking up signals that something might be going on and followed up on it from a counter intelligence perspective. >> who gave the directive? was it president obama? you have to ask yourself who gave the directtive. we cant find evidence of collusion or obstr...

Second. bob baier is joining us on the phone. this news of this person confirmed to have been in the meeting, a russian-american lobbyist which, as our reporting is, he has ties to the russian government, of course. what do you say to that when you learn he is now in the meeting and no one knew before? >> the truth is trickling out slowly. i can tell you, from a counter intelligence perspective, this would alarm -- it is alarming people in the fbi and cia. the russian government, the kjb has spo...

You think jim comey who was then fbi director would have done? >> i think they would have considered, you know, certainly looking at the background of this russian emmissary, this woman who is representing herls as herself as a representative of the government. looking at that from a criminal perspective, a counter intelligence perspective, digging into her background very quickly, evaluating whether they should wire one of these folks or all of these folks or the room up for consensual monitori...

The white house. >> to be honest i think it is gobbly goock i think theres certain types of vetting. theres certain back grounds that happen but you would hope the white house would do its own vet from a political perspective. but you have to remember on the issue of background investigation so much depends on the subject themselves of the investigation. if flynn didnt mention, as we know guys like jared kushner also left some stuff out, then that does a lot of harm in terms of the ability to in...

Was done to u.s. national security guys like alder james and those guys had great security clearance through top secret level. theres a lot more it to it than clearances and vetting, its what these people did and thats what the fbi is doing from counter intelligence perspective. >> according to gordon he said once you get to the level of michael flynn he is saying, i dont want to take you out of context gordon but sounds like you said you should know the game, should know the score, should know ...

Then you say, okay, maybe thats just one-off. the problem is that this is beginning to be a little more than just coincidence. from a counter intelligence perspective, i think theres grave concern here. thats one of many worrisome pieces. >> that, phil, is the focus of the fbis investigation at this point, a counterintelligence investigation. going forward. >> thats right. but again, its not just the counterintelligence investigation. when you sit at the table for these investigations, and i hav...

And it also overlaps into the legal part, it takes a long time and its really hard. were going to have to see where it all ends, but also from a counter intelligence perspective, though. there are so many data points that have gone down over the past really since the investigation began last year, i would be really surprised if there were absolutely no fire for the amount of smoke weve seen. >> what do you think of that, evan. do you think you wouldnt be surprised if theres absolutely no fire? >...

Those threads and indicators that something is going on and make no mistake about how serious this is because if indeed, there was some sort of co-op raoperation prior to the election, if it tracks and drips and leads us back in that direction, youre talking about questioning the election, which is why its a partisan and difficult issue and thats the real from a counter intelligence perspective, im interested as to all the drips that just keep coming out and what is behind them. >> mike, last qu...

>> mike mcfall is absolutely right. the ambassador hit the nail on the head. you know, my book came out one month before the election. my analysis was written four months before. im not, you know, the central intelligence agency and other analysts have been watching this for some time. the ambassador and myself were on television several times in august a -- warning about the hack. and its very true. donald trump right now risks the possibility of not just looking like he is apologizing for mosc...