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Team say that flynn told them that flynn didnt actually have those conversations. that creates a counter intelligence worry for the fbi, right? if the ignacious column is correct and those conversations happened between flynn and russia, russia knows they happened, they were in on the calls. and if those conversations did happen, and russia knows they happen, flynns lying about them. thats a counter intelligence problem. the fbi handles counter intelligence issues in the united states. if the na...

What was then the open fbi investigation into russias interference in the election, and their contacts with the trump campaign. he was lying to them in conjunction with a case in a way that was material to what was being investigated. the third problem had to be a counter intelligence problem itself. he was telling lies publicly about something russia knew the truth of. he had been in contact with the russian government, the russian government knew that, when he started covering that up, and tel...

Its reported in the washington post, during the transition, when the u.s. government was sanctioning russia, mike flynn called them and was like, dont worry about those sanctions. david questions whether 245ez kind of illegal or at least improper. mike flynn then a private citizen, shouldnt be messing with this dispute that the u.s. and russia have over russia interfering with our election. thereafter, flynn and other people within trumps transition team say that flynn told them that flynn didnt...

Adviser. its also possible that the lies he told there, were material to what was then the open fbi investigation into russias interference in the election, and their contacts with the trump campaign. he was lying to them in conjunction with a case in a way that was material to what was being investigated. the third problem had to be a counter intelligence problem itself. he was telling lies publicly about something russia knew the truth of. he had been in contact with the russian government, th...

>> tucker: fox news alert. nsa whistleblower edward snowden officially charged by the u.s. for espionage, theft and conversion of government property. so what does this mean for snowden and can we anticipate his next move? he is in china at the moment apparently. joining us now is former cia operative gary. thanks for joining us. >> good morning. >> tucker: im glad the government is spying on me and everybody else in this country hard to be sympathetic to snowden because he fled to china. how mu...

Room with pillows to prevent eavesdropping, he puts a large red hood over his head and laptop to prevent any hidden m cameras from detecting pass words. how quickly and how easily will they find him? >> its going to be very fast. they can search the databases, the e-mails and the rest, what kind of contact he had, who he was calling before. give us a wider net. you just have to look at this as a counter intelligence problem, the fact he went to china and every tool at the governments disposal wi...