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Counterintelligence agents are liable to take outrageous chances and measures that you wouldnt expect criminal investigators to take because they dont expect their work is ever going to be checked. its never going to be taken apart by defense lawyers. its never going to be in a public courtroom, so they go about their business with a little bit of an edge that they just dont think what theyre doing is ever going to be reviewed. if you put on that the overlay that everybody here was ripe dead cer...

Youve seen the worst and the best, devin nunes comes under attack all the time. hes led the house intelligence committee. he helped unmask the unmasking that was taking place. hes plowing into a lot of. this a lot of the preemptive leaks like "the new york times" because nunes and others are on the tail of some of these folks. what do you have to say about devin nunes in all of this? >> i really think hes been heroic, and its been very brave, i think, to go to a place where you had to know you w...

Inspector general will look into the presidents accusations. you tweeted this, perfect response from republican rod rosenstein to trump, rod rosenstein knows fbi counterintelligence agents were doing their duty and is not afraid of any inquiry. but by agreeing to have the inspector general expand his investigation is rosenstein following the presidents order? >> yes, wolf rosenstein is, but i think that was a perfect response to the presidents demands. i have no problem with the inspector genera...

Ago. i met weissman working on the enron investigation. then you have all kinds of people drawn from various ranks of the fbi, counterintelligence agents, business fraud agents, people who are computer specialists, people that deal with international money laundering issues. really a wide variety of people with a lot of different backgrounds, some of them coming from business, some of them coming from even the movie business, believe it or not. >> brian, forgive me for skipping around. also forg...

Think has really gotten lost here. so what i tried 20 do in a story this week is profile a number of individuals that have been put onto this team helping mueller conduct this investigation. a number of them have longstanding ties to some of the other prosecutors on muellers team, such as andrew weissman, one of the top fbi agents who is handling this investigation, has been working almost 20 years ago. i met weissman working on the enron investigation. then you have all kinds of people drawn fr...

Peter strzok text messages and the scandal surrounding those. but the question of whos doing the day in, day out work and who has for the last year or so, i think has really gotten lost here. so what i tried 20 do in a story this week is profile a number of individuals that have been put onto this team helping mueller conduct this investigation. a number of them have longstanding ties to some of the other prosecutors on muellers team, such as andrew weissman, one of the top fbi agents who is han...

He and the president have never gotten along. the president chafes at the way that h.r. mcmaster briefs him, because he feels hes being condescending when the president asks questions. so it is safe to say there would be no love lost there. but they are talking about an exit plan for h.r. mcmaster. a sense he could be out of the white house. and though officials were cautious to express any kind of confidence in him being here for the long-term, just a few days ago, just this morning sarah sande...

Disagreements as you know over the russian activity. president donald trump as we heard today is still reluctant to accept intelligence inclusions about russias bhed meddling in the election and slowed efforts to counter the threat. former and current intelligence officials tell us. were also told that counterintelligence agents and the fbi are seeking to keep an eye on this activity to some extent. in some cases, the fbi will use surveillance to track the suspected russian intelligence officers...

That this is an intelligence inquiry as opposed to criminal investigation. the fbi used to just investigate crimes. starting in 2008. we put in guidelines that allowed them to gather intelligence. the other night on adam schiff of california blurted ought that he as member of the house intelligence committee was interested in hearing from the counterintelligence agents at fbi about this meeting. i think what that discloses is that there may very well be a matter of fbi intelligence gathering. in...

Allegation of a crime, they tier not going to stop investigating. >> actually, i think thats overly optimistic about the work of the fbi. if robert mueller is fired and this investigation, you know, tblly still exists, but theres no one in charge of it, donald trump wins. >> i didnt say he didnt win. the counterintelligence agents at the fbi that are working the case, they dont simply go away. anticipate you dont shred your files and case closed. that actually requires a process. and if theres a...