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Unanimity. there are not parts of the intelligence community who do not prescribe to this. this is a unanimous view, except for one person important. >> frank, let me ask you what this looks like. i think when the report came out in "the new york times" a couple fridays ago that a counterintelligence investigation had been opened up into the president, there were some questions, it was reported mueller took it over but questions about whether it was ongoing, whether it had been absorbed and wrap...

And reassured that we have an fbi thats doing the job that american people should want them to do. thats unafraid to take evidence and look at it. now, we need to dig deeply into this. i have a lot of questions. was this a preliminary inquiry? did it turn into a full investigation? the standards, american people should know the standards to open a preliminary inquiry in counterintelligence is reasonable suspicion. standards to open a full investigation in counterintelligence is specific and arti...

Standards that are required to open a case, right, that this is not something done in a vacuum. if youre going to look into the president of the united states, youre going to the department of justice. youre showing them your evidence. they are concurring with your concerns and theyre allowing you to pursue this line of inquiry. to open even a preliminary inquiry in counterintelligence, you need to have a reasonable suspicion that someone is or may be an agent of a foreign power or is being targ...

All of that likely was part of this predication to be concerned enough to open a case, counterintelligence case, to determine whether the president has been coopted or is working for a foreign power. my gut tells me theres much more to this than just the public antics of the president. >> chuck, i have one for you. every night here, i try to watch all the cables, cnn, fox news, part on the job, and tonight, watching fox news, they seem to devote most of their coverage to illegal immigration, var...

Because youve got to keep the rulebook in your top drawer. i lived as a counterintelligence agent with the attorney general guidelines in the top drawer of my desk and referred to them daily until i memorized entire portions of them. thats how heavily regulated it is. so, any notion that some agent can open some case willy nil ly against a president is misguided. the level of review, the department of justice review, the number of lawyers that would have to have touched this to allow this to hap...

That as a point and said, look, if this was really a problem, we would have heard about it. >> frank, i have a question for you. what beyond trumps own words and behavior, some of it, as you and i have discussed, happened in plain sight, as we watched, what beyond that obvious evidence would there be? >> well, barb touched on this and that is the really well-founded theory that the bureau would not be opening such a case and convincing doj to allow it without something more than just the kind of...

Same. hes struggled to connect to regular people. he keeps claiming that federal workers are telling him that you should stay with the course. the walls important. dont do this. but yet, the white house has not been able to provide any concrete examples of the instances. he talked to thousands, he and his staff talked to thousands of union workers, none of them have told the president that would have happened. this seems to be a case where hes viewing this through a political lens and not able t...

Agent of a foreign power. this is sobering stuff. >> chuck, a statement from rudy giuliani. "if it was a counterintelligence investigation and it obtained any evidence, it would have to resulted in some action being taken or they are imperilling our national security. this shows how out of control they are. they, being the feds, the fbi. chuck, does he have it right there? >> im afraid not, brian. and a shocking development, he doesnt have it right. counterintelligence investigations are hard, t...

Adversary is the same thing the fbi wondered, and then reassured we have an fbi thats doing the job that american people should want them to do, thats unafraid to take evidence and look at it. now, we need to dig deeply into this. i have a lot of questions. was this a preliminary inquiry? did it turn into a full investigation? the standards, american people should know the standards to open in counter intelligence is reasonable suspicion. standards to open a full investigation in counter intelli...

In counter intelligence. it was about the russians, what we havent known until tonight, if this is accurate, is that it looks like the presidents name, donald j. trump was in the subject line of a counter intelligence case. that is just, it is unprecedented. >> so -- >> and its scary but there we are. >> okay. you have a technical knowledge here for a second. what you said is so, there is two kinds of inquiries,inquiry second one? >> full investigation. >> what im hearing from you is that these ...