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To have floor action this week, laura. this week on the house floor, where we compel them to turn over those documents. >> laura: just so people know, kleinsmith is the one who wrote "viva la resistance." >> if he is indeed. why cant we identify attorneys theyre not under cover agents. >> >> they are not part of the counterintelligence division. >> laura: which they are at work trying to pass them off as. >> they are actually part of the general counsels office. so an attorney working for the fb...

Into the fbi -- republicans meantime ramping up their investigation into the fbis investigation into the e-mail probe. the probe has three witness interviews set for june. the first in more than four months. two of thens witnesses are former top fbi national security officials and one is director of the bureaus counterintelligence division. bob goodlat weighing in earlier today. >> they know what was going on at the fbi during this period of time when director comey was conducting an investigati...

Of the fbi and they work under cover. >> theyre not assets. >> theyre not assets. thats right. >> theyre employees. >> what a confidential informant is an asset or a source of information who is someone who through the ordinary course of his or her life comes into contact with anything of interest. in this case, its counterintelligence, so it may be something related to russia or otherwise. and then they report back to their handlers. thats how the whole counterintelligence division of the fbi o...

Can you explain what it is? >> it came from a rolling stones song, "jumping jack flash," the lyric, "i was born in a crossfire hurricane." >> when did the investigation actually begin? >> it began july 31st. >> of 2016. >> of 2016. correct. it was given a code name. >> and agents were dispatched to london, correct? >> yeah. shortly after that, a key agent in the counterintelligence division was on a plane headed to london to interview an australian diplomat who had drinks with george papadopoulo...

>> theres a big nationwide debate over whether this audio clip someone posted on shrine s -- online is saying yanni or laurel. listen to this. >> laurel, laurel. >> it seems like everyone is talking about it. take a look. >> good morning, everybody, welcome to "today" on a wednesday morning and its yanni. >> how do you hear laurel? >> you hear yanni? >> i hear yanni. >> she hears yanni. i hear laurel. my producer in my ear hears laurel. >> its definitely yanni. >> some says yanni, some say laure...

Concerned about that. its the reason bob mueller removed peter whos an excellent agent and removed him from that investigation. poor judgment and shouldnt happen. so i get the concern about it. >> your book is about leadership. throughout. does it say anything about your leadership that strok who was a very high level fbi agent was doing this? did you set in any way any tone where that kind of glib insult of a -- of a major political candidate at the time would be not that big of a deal? >> no. ...

Around george papadopoulos just says that he was told that the russians had e-mails of hillary clintons. you appear to be going further here saying it was more than that, that he actually was in conversations with them about obtaining those e-mails presumably for the trump campaign. is that how you meant that? >> the public source for that is the two versions of the memo from the hpsci over the page fisa. so thats an accurate description of what is in the public record. >> so papadopoulos, that ...

But the statement of offense around george papadopoulos just says that he was told that the russian himself e-mails of hillary clintons. you appear to be going further here saying it was more than that, that he actually was in conversations with them about obtaining those e-mails presumably for the trump campaign. is that how you meant that? >> the public source for that is the two versions of the memo from the hpsci over the page fisa. so thats an accurate description of what is in the public r...

Classified documents. that for us was additional corroboration that these were in fact dana boentes handwritten notes from his conversation with james comey about on march 30th because the counterintelligence division at fbi had to step in to say this classification was improperly stamped on here. were trying to follow the clues to make sure what were looking at is what we think were looking at. we are surmising the reason these things were prepared in the way they were, the reason the fbi had t...

Counterintelligence division of the fbi. and its an unusual thing. you can can csee this letter isd two weeks after he was notified the justice department wanted to talk to him and its essentially a certification for boente that a certain set oof notes that he took, hand written notes that were marked by a justice department employee as top secret, those are not actually top secret at all. check it out. quote dear mr. boente and then you see the "you." i think that means this is unclassified. th...