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And that erodes our national security >> frank, i heard it asked to why arent the intel chief resigning in protest, the cia. fbi. dn. and they would worry about who replaces them. at least by staying on the job they can get through. what do you think morale is like on the inside? wont there be a natural attempt to withhold the best stuff because of institutionalists worried about the institutions? >> yeah i think what we are headed to here is a situation both external to the intelligence communi...

He was deputy director of the fbi under james comey. he became acting fbi director once comey was tried. andrew mccabe, of course, is one of a long string of senior intelligence and law enforcement officials who were involved in the initial investigation goes of trump and the trump campaign and potential ties to russia, who have sense been targeted and/or fired in an effort to discredit them and destroy their credibility. he is one in a long string of those officials and the list is kind of asto...

Election. they picked it up by they were bugging the south vietnamese and they picked up nixon. they werent bugging nixon, but they caught him dealing with the south vietnamese. i think thats a pretty good parallel. >> if youre a counterintelligence agent at the fbi, and you started this investigation, you worked on it, how do you see the presidents most recent comments? how did you see helsinki? how did you see the comments about afghanistan that lined up with the kremlins talking points about ...

There is peter strzoks performance as an fbi employee. he had a reputation of someone who is widely known as an excellent investigator, a counterintelligence agent. and then conduct. if youre sitting in the shoes of dave bowdich, does this type of conduct warrant a serious meting out of punishment, which would include termination in this case. he said that it did. i think that the audience wasnt necessarily the outside world, the american people, but it was internally. it was telling the rank an...

>> i think its a tough decision. if youre the fbi director, youre trying to weigh two different things. there is peter strzoks performance as an fbi employee. he had a reputation of someone who is widely known as an excellent investigator, a counterintelligence agent. and then conduct. if youre sitting in the shoes of dave bowdich, does this type of conduct warrant a serious meting out of punishment, which would include termination in this case. he said that it did. i think that the audience was...

>> he wasnt fired from the fbi. he was removed from the robert mueller investigation last year when the text messages became public. and this really was peter strzoks downfall after his 22-year career in the fbi as a counterintelligence agent. but it was disclosed that he had been texting with lisa page from the fbis general counsels office with some anti-trump comments. and that was further clarified when the justice departments inspector general in a report earlier this year disclosed some add...

Speculative. obviously what i wonder is if the big fish to catch here might be michael cohen. right? we are operating under the assumption, because were spending all of our time thinking about the president of the united states for understandable reasons that trump is at tt at the head of t pyramid. michael cohen has a shady behavior including trying to sell access to the white house. >> but thats okay. it doesnt have to be something that takes down the president. one of the presidents closest a...

From this russian lawyer and this russian informant. how do you see it? >> you know, i think its a little bit much to try to speculate the peoples motive for showing up to the meeting. i mean, clearly, you can get some of that through the testimony, and i think the biggest piece missing here, poppy and john is what happened next? you have two individuals in the meeting and one who admitted to be an informant for the russian government and another used to be a soviet-era counterintelligence agent...

Closely. >> getting bigger by the day. the capitol hill hotseat welcomes another high-profile government official today with ipa -- fbi director christopher rate being questioned about those texts. justice to permit officials are reading through 10,000 texts between peter struck and lisa payne. counterintelligence agent struck worked on the robert mueller russia probe but was reassigned after the discovery of anti-trump text messages exchanged with paige, with whom he was having an affair. discl...

Theyre taking it to the level that is a criminal activity. the democrats and free-speech groups had cried foul. they have a crackdown on democracy. the california congresswoman. told the view she hopes it will continue. they are undermining him because they want to see him stop. they want to do something. not every president would be pretty -- treated this way. it is a staggering number of leaks that has led the doj to publicly warn would be leakers that they would not hesitate to criminally cha...