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President at the time. youre aware of the broad concerns in the intel community about the presidents handling of classified intelligence. how serious are those concerns? how should people at home digest that? >> i think the one comment was given to me is it was just, it is a lack of discipline problem, on the information provided. and you have to remember, it doesnt have to even be a direct thing that comes from a very sensitive source, its context, and if you talk about that context in a place ...

Counterintelligence agents, questions about prosecutorial decisions that were made fact questions about these statements that were made in the report so any number of issues we wish to cover. >> what questions will you have because he will ask him of those. >> the mueller team was hr chernobyl. look at the last inspector general report where the ig appointed by president obama said it was inappropriate for robert mueller to bring peter stzrok and lisa paid onto his team after they worked america...

People who participated in that meeting, don junior, you know, jared kushner, paul manafort, that they should have called the fbi. so its not just chris wray thats made this comment, but a lot of people who a security interests of this country at heart that believe what you should have done is picked up the phone and called the fbi. that did not happen. and so thats one of the things i think coming away from the mueller investigation, coming away from the report, look, what the president is sayi...

Major newspaper reports are calling into serious question how he is conducting himself with regards to russia, americas adversary. one of them, "the washington post" throwing light on the extremes president trump has gone to, to hide details of his conversations with vladimir putin, the russian president, swearing interpreteris to secrey and on one occasion confiscating written notes after a private meeting with the russian leader. another report from "the new york times" that claims the fbi ope...

Morning. tweeting about a half dozen times about this. calling comey and his former deputy andrew mccabe corrupt and also claiming falsely that the fbi pursued a probe of him, quote, for no reason and with no proof. of course, the fbi opened that obstruction of justice inquiry into the president in may of 2017 shortly after he fired comey because trump twice tied his decision to fire the fbi director to the russia investigation. the counterintelligence probe that the "new york times" reported on...

Attorney general, and this is going to play into the intensity of those confirmation hearings and it is going to be i think a real washington event in the next few days, and the russia investigation, even as were in the middle of a government shutdown is going to take center stage yet again. it has been a shadow over donald trumps presidency from the start and he cannot escape it. it keeps coming back. i think thats going to be the case again here. >> all right. >> samantha vinograd, stephen col...

Probe is. what may happen is mueller and his prosecutors are now working or will be soon working on a report to conclude their investigation and you may see some elements from the counterintelligence investigation included in that record. >> thank you so much. lets talk more about how the white house and the president are pushing back on the report and the investigation. cnns white house reporter sarah westwood joining me right now. what more are we hearing via tweet and otherwise? >> president ...

Bit. but extrapolate further on exactly what the president is thinking. >> reporter: fred, president trump and the white house are slamming the fbi in the wake of these reports that counterintelligence agents were looking into whether president trump was working on behalf of russia against u.s. interests in the days after he fired former fbi director james comey. as you mentioned, white house press secretary sarah sanders calls this counterintelligence probe absurd. president trump has been voca...

The excepted circular intelligence, they knew everything was coming from the hillary clinton funded dossier but made it look like it was coming from multiple sources. two weeks before the election, they are trying to force through a warrant on the term campaign before the election was over. the day after the election, they make and all call, we need all the rockers reporting on the term campaign, lets start collecting him beard the day after he is elected. you get to this point in may where they...

They accepted circular intelligence. they knew everything was coming 48 hillary-funded dossier. they made it look like it was coming from multiple sources. two weeks before the election, they had to hurry the f-up pressure. trying to force through a warrant on the trump campaign before the election is over. the day after the election, they get -- make an all-call we need all derogatory reports on the trump campaign. lets start collecting them. the day after hes elected! you get to this point in ...