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Fair point? >> yeah. so what i can tell you, chris, is what i know about how fbi assets work in the counterintelligence division, and this would have been a counterintelligence asset. what he said that jumped out at me is that maria butina approached him and said that she had contacts in high levels of the government, that she might even be the next president of russia and that he had a close relationship with her. so what the fbi does when they suspect a foreign agent operating in the united st...

Nuclear missiles. and in that context, we have mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader, cozied up joined at the hip with russia, something is wrong and needs to be investigated. and dont surprised if the fbi counterintelligence division is looking at that aluminum factory deal in kentucky. >> let me ask you, let me dumb this down for my purposes here. if i were just the communications person working on mcconnells staff and i got this press call, and i was presented with some of the basic fac...

Rallies before last years midterm elections, president trump repeatedly warned that america was under attack by immigrants, heading for the border. you look at what is marching up. that is an invasion, he declared at one rally. that is an invasion. and "the washington post" phil rubbinger, isnt about how the president will respond but whether his words contributed to the carnage. joining me now assistant director in the counterintelligence division and nbc national security analyst who wrote tha...

Fbi because thats what the fbi does. and getting information like that from a candidate whos received any sort of outreach from a foreign power is incredibly powerful investigative leads for the bureau as they try to keep our country safe from that influence. >> i want to talk to you about what it must be like at the fbi today. a building you worked, an agency you served, much of your career. the commander in chief who sits atop the chain of command of the executive branch called the director wr...

This case, has done his speaking through those indictments, through those court filings, through those guilty pleas, through those sentencing documents. >> hes added more details than necessary. >> absolutely. i think we have every reason to believe hes going to do that with one final round of indictments that ties up some of these loose threads and fills in some of the bread crumbs that hes left us along the way. >> nelson, you recently wrote that we may be focusing on the wrong report, there c...

Indictments that ties up some of these loose threads and fills in some of the bread crumbs that hes left us along the way. >> nelson, you recently wrote that we may be focusing on the wrong report, there could be a second counterintelligence report filed. can you explain that? >> thats right. its a piece i did in the "daily beast" last week. in addition to working in the clinton white house, i was also for six years a federal prosecutor in new york. in fact, rudy giuliani hired me and i know fro...

Democrat because if it were a democrat i think the view was it would have been dismissed as a political attack. the former head of the f.b.i.s counter intelligence division also gave this declaration to the court. that confirms the f.b.i. got the first 33 pages of the dossier from senator john mccain in december of 2016. this declaration also confirms that president obama was briefed on the contents of the dossier in january of 2017 about a week and a half before the inauguration, sandra. >> san...

Immediately after they exonerated hillary, with no investigationch, they launched a so-called trump-russia collusion investigation. nine months into it, comey is fired but we learn from peter strzok, lisa page, mccabe himself, and comey, that they had nothing at that point. why would they then sit in a room and basically say, maybe the president conspired with putin to fire james comey?et >> sean, lets think about it a different way. we have s these is suppose that russia hawk sitting at the cou...

Launched the so-called trump-russia collusion investigation. nine months into it, comey is fired. but we learn from peter strzok, larger himself and comey that they had nothing at that point. >> why would they submit a room president conspired with putin to fire comey. >> sean, lets think about it a different way. we have these supposed rickenbacker hawks sitting over at the counterintelligence division at the fbi and doj. where were they in 2012 when barack obama got caught on a hot mike tellin...

Cia has counterintelligence center that works very, very closely with the fbis counterintelligence division. so just imagine at the end of 2016, jim clapper and john brennan and jim comey sitting in a room saying, we dont like donald trumps position, we should open an investigation and let it leak out later that he has a russian spy. the fbi did this to henry wallace in the 1940s. they did it to martin luther king and the 60s. after george mcgovern in 72. if they do not like you, they call you a...