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Assistance, counterintelligence deputy, talks about why they didnt brief president trump, and he is not pointing to the principal. they did not give a defensive briefing to then candidate nominee trump. he said ultimately they decided not to conduct offensive briefings and expend his reasoning. while the counterintelligence division does regularly provide briefings to governmental officials are possible soon to be officials, in my experience we do this, that the person to whom we could brief wou...

The politics of western democracies and attempting to disrupt the nato alliance, the atlantic alliance, the european union, all of which has been frightening successful. >> and just one other point on sort of the investigative hygiene here, its really important to remember that when we tasked or hired chris steele, we didnt tell him who we were working for. he didnt know when he created that first report. >> ken. >> thanks, willie. guys, there was a broadly-held assumption that robert mueller wo...

Disgusting. its outrageous, and i want those people to apologize and to remember what theyre doing when they take cheap shots at people like colonel vindman when they dont know his background and they dont know his history. >> with us tonight to talk about it, clint watts, former fbi special agent, a distinguished research fellow at the foreign policy research institute and author of "messing with the enemy." clint, we talked about having you on under the headline of what must vladimir putin be ...

Clint, we talked about having you on under the headline of what must vladimir putin be making of what he sees? what does putin make of all this? >> if you look at how the u.s. opposes aggression from a foreign state like russia, every element of the government has been attacked but not by russia, but by people in the white house, people in congress, people in the public. think about it. fbi agents in the counterintelligence division that have investigated and done their duties to counter russia ...

Those people to apologize and to remember what theyre doing when they take cheap shots at people like colonel vindman, when they dont know his background and they dont know his history. >> with us tonight to talk about it, clint watts, former fbi special agent, a distinguished research fellow at the foreign policy research institute and author of "messing with the enemy: surviving in a social media world of hackers, terrorists, russians and fake news." clint, we talked about having you on under ...

Those have to be closed every six months if you warn them and its taken care of. for anything beyond six months is a full investigation and in my opinion, given that rudy giuliani is the presidents lawyer that hes a u.s. person, i think for an investigation going on for that long would likely have to have a higher threshold than he might be unwittingly in contact. i mean, we know that hes quite overtly been involved with meeting and talking to foreign officials. the concern for a counter intelli...

Officials. the concern for a counter intelligence division would be is he somehow furthering the interest of a foreign principle, foreign state, foreign business, some kind of foreign entity that is not in the national security interest of the united states? >> interesting. the southern district of new york, is digging into giulianis possible offenses in the office he once led, which is very interesting and the fbi counter intelligence aspect to this. how much trouble is rudy ghoul -- giuliani p...

The president has openly talked about spies and treason and ruminated about how spies were treated in, quote, the old days. he also says he wants to meet his accuser and his accusers sources. joining me, former fbi special agent clint watts and former whitewater associate kim waly and the author of "how to read the constitution and why." clint, the president wanting to know who it is. is he just trying to put the persons name out there in order for the internet and his defenders to trash that pe...

>> absolutely not. we have a directive. i have a directive. no intelligence collection in the united states. no spying and its rigorously enforced without any exceptions. its complete fabrication. >> reporter: joining me right now is the reporter who broke this story, daniel litman, white house reporter who broke the story. good to see you. >> good to see you too. >> why are government officials confident this is likely the work of israel. >> these are the type of devices called sting rays, cell...

Agreement with them. i get why you would be suspect about the story. so am i. but patrick byrne is not just some infowars guy, okay? he was a very legit business person of high success, overstock still has a market cap of two terrible years of $745 million. okay? this is an influential person in our country. he just resigned over this, he says. so with all that, asha, either its true or it isnt. thats always true. its a binary reality. but he either has the names and they check out as people who...