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That says what they can and cannot does. on the one hand criminal investigation they cannot open it unless they have all actually basis. they opened the probe of the trump campaign. the second is in a counter intelligence probe, they have to submit evidence for surveillance warrant that is corroborated and verified. again e its in the i do diag. >> sean: dont we know it was never verified. >> thats right. >> sean: in january comey goes to trump tower and say its salacious to the verified. months...

Is noteworthy. youre from the intelligence community and you understand that they have an inside job here. all the information that was given, the organizational chart, all of the banking institutions that were used to foster this sort of thing, all of the information, all of the conclusions, everyone involved, you have somebody who was able to have a counter intelligence probe probably from the inside doing just that since 2014. >> final thought from you as we -- actually, i want to look at som...

It. essentially, this was -- this was put up or shut up moment. this was a put up or shut up moment when putting up was not the better of the two options. the central claim of their weeks of hype, their whole campaign to release the memo is somehow this memo would prove the dossier by an mi 6 officer christopher steele, the campaign was based around the idea this memo would prove that the steele dossier is what led to the whole russia investigation. now the problem with that argument with having...

Talked with him. >> when "all in" starts right now. >> good evening from new york. im chris hayes. the announce memo is out and it does indeed contain a stunning revelation. unfortunately for the white house and the memos authors the revelation is precisely the opposite of what they wanted to reveal. you see, the memo finally answers a central question, one of the central questions about the entire russia investigation. what prompted is the u.s. government to open an official counter intelligenc...

>> it literally mirrors kgb style tactics. >> what were learning about the man at the heart of the memo. >> did you meter is guy kislyak income cleveland? did you talk to him. >> im not going to deny that i talked with him. >> when "all in" starts right now. >> good evening from new york. im chris hayes. the announce memo is out and it does indeed contain a stunning revelation. unfortunately for the white house and the memos authors the revelation is precisely the opposite of what they wanted to...

It came out about 60 seconds ago "the hill" reporting the congressional republicans will make the case that half to three quarters of the evidence that federal law enforcement officials used to begin the investigation into trump and his campaign came initially from partisan sources connected to hillary clinton. basically democratic oppo was used to start this investigation. does that sound plausible? >> yeah, it does sound plausible. because, look, people need to step back. when they go and look...

Hill reporting the congressional republicans will make the case that half to three quarters of the evidence that federal law enforcement officials used to begin the investigation into trump and his campaign came initially from partisan sources connected to hillary clinton. basically democratic opo was used to start this investigation. does that sound plausible? >> yeah, it does sound plausible. because, look, people need to step back. when they go and look at this memo when it finally comes out,...

Counter intelligence probe is not to bring charges, not necessarily to indict anyone. its just to figure out who in russia, which individuals did which acts that had any impact on the u.s. election. thats the point. thats the probe that was under way when comey was fired. he mentioned that russia probe on capitol hill earlier this year. and what it demonstrates beyond the fact these rallies happened and that russian actors wanted them to happen, our reporting demonstrates that attribution is pos...

Over time, part of what they were doing in florida might have converted a nonvoter into a trump voter. >> certainly. and thats part of having campaign rallies and creating facebook pages. >> youre here to brag. this is about bragging about the daily beast reporting. >> if you insist. part of the reason the label today is so important the mueller probe sort of has two silos. the entire purpts of muellers counter intelligence probe is not to bring charges, not necessarily to indict anyone. its jus...

Fire rosenstein, and both those things are things he should not do. >> remember, talk about obstruction of justice. talk about satellites. the obstruction issue is pretty much a tangential issue to the counter intelligence probe where this all began. it may in fact be the president is making his bed of tweets and will eventually lie in them for a criminal obstruction charge. he may. but the realistic approach for the fbi and doj right now is this has begun as a counter intelligence probe. whatev...