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At the fbi, and he in this text message says what he thinks about what he knew at that time when the fbi was giving this warning. and this was his text message, all caps, "omg. i cannot believe we are seriously looking at these allegations and the pervasive connections." the pervasive connections. deputy assistant director at the counterintelligence division of the fbi apparently xlaming over exactly what the fbi was looking at in terms of the trump campaign and its pervasive connections with ru...

Contacts between trump associates and people connected to the russian fossett. so how weird is that, right? how weird is that? arent you dying to know what these fbi guys were thinking? just think about that timeline. right? theyve already started their investigation. the counterintelligence guys at the fbi they know all about all these suspicious contacts between trump folks and russians before they go into this meeting with trump to warn him hey, you know what, when you have contacts with russ...

Fbi agent, in the the counterintelligence division and leading the investigation is involved given his text message, you see a renewed interest in how that investigation was handled. >> were going to continue to watch this and as soon as the president does begin to speak you will hear it live. there are other headlines including omarosa, from the white house, you worked in the white house, although you didnt have so many headlines when you left the white house as she does, shes speaking. she spo...

Counterintelligence division, our cyber division and our criminal division as well as some other parts of the bureau. we are in coordination through that task force with dhs which has responsibility for a lot of the election infrastructure, along with states and we are in contact with our foreign partners because as you know, efforts to interif fear with elections are occurring in other countries as well and so by doing that with our close relationships with our foreign counter parts we learn ab...

The language as editing changes were made. the fbi declined to comment for the story anderson. >> youre learning more about the fbi agent role in the investigation into investigation during the election. >> we have learned that strzok was the fbi official who signed the document or the memo that officially opened the investigation into the russian meddling of the 2016 election. former and current officials tell us this isnt surprising. he was the number two official in the counterintelligence di...

Carnage of 9/11. look, they built this area way better than it used to be before. and that is so new york. it is such a metropolitan area. its a diverse area. it stands to anything and everything that the terrorists hate. and thats why new yorkers are resilient. thats why we will win and they will lose. >> it speaks again, mika, to where terrorism has gone since september 11th where those attackers took months and years and spent millions of dollars recruiting and training people to learn how to...

Radicalization, influence and recruiting on the whole spectrum from terrorism to who youre going to vote for. what are americans willing to accept here? who do we want governing through what we see on our screens on social media? do we want the government saying what ad is bad or what not to see? one thing is for sure. it requires us all to be much smarter consumers of information and question everything were seeing on that facebook page, on that twitter feed. >> former assistant director of the...

A very busy monday. >> jay sekulow said he is not concerned about a guilty plea coming from the former campaign foreign policy adviser. >> im not concerned about it because the, if you look at what again george papadopoulos plea is, what the actual plea he entered into was again, a false statement about timing about as to when he talked to somebody about russian activities. it wasnt, by the way, these werent activities that were illegal. the conversation that they had, theres nothing in there th...

Counterintelligence division is trying, you know, is making efforts to keep an eye on some of this activity. chris and poppy zb. >> a very interesting issue there. obviously, a visa is a privilege, not a right. and you have the travel ban put in place to keep the country safe, but you have these people who are getting visas and its kind of freaking out those in the system. why isnt that on lockdown? shimon, thank you for the reporting. lets bring in our panel. ron brownstein, cnn global affairs ...

Comey he couldnt testify? >> i think that would tell us probably everything we needed to know about whether he was trying to pressure james comey to make the flynn case go away or whether he was trying to make the russia investigation go away. >> all right. congressman eric swalwell, thanks for joining me. >> my pleasure. >> im joined now by associate dean at yale law school and former special agent with the fbis counterintelligence division. i was struck by reading the article theyre considerin...