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Concept of compronaud. >> its a technique they use to gather information on people that may be embarrassing or humiliating and using it to coerce cooperation. >> in your career have you known instances where thats been successfully leveraged? >> yes, i believe our counterintelligence division has encountered it a number of times. >> does that include private places including places such as hotels that are wired for audio and video? >> i dont know enough about the particulars to say, but in theor...

Investigation in some details. the department of justice has been aware of it all along. the dni, i dont know what the dnis knowledge of it was because we didnt have a dni until mr. coates took office and i briefed him his first morning in office. >> just to drill down on this, if the open investigation began in july and the briefing of congressional leadership only occurred recently, why was there no notification prior to the recent addition t-- the past mo? >> our investigation was it was of s...

Counterintelligence division of that -- of the bureau. thats necessary because for the most part, that is the most sensitive types of investigations we carry out. those who have fisa warrants on them, people who may actually be in collusion or cooperation or communications with russian intelligence agencies. i think hes going to be very circumspect. if he says there is no fisa warrants, that were issued during that time, that doesnt mean there hasnt been more activity. >> i feel you. and yet at ...

Hes the president of the united states. he made a shocking accusation. the white house has run away from it since then. the administration as a whole has run away from it. they are -- you have to wonder whether theres anybody around the president who believes there is any veracity to this story. >> hugh, it seems to me, if nothing else, the one thing i take away, theres still nobody -- >> the only piece of evidence supporting any kind of an assertion is that general flynn was subject to surveill...

To the president handling this. so woos why this week youve heard more about the possibility of a special prosecutor or creating some kind of select committee. watergate style committee to launch a full investigation into the connections between russia and trumps advisers. if any existed that affected the election. so i dont think inn him recusing himself is going to end this kind of controversy. i think people are suspicious of the justice department handling this at all at this point. >> we do...

Fbis counterintelligence division, brooke. >> john dean and evan mack cullen, evan perez thank you. we have video from the white house, president trump and the president of peru. thank you very much, everybody. its a grade honor to have the president with us from peru. peru has been a fantastic neighbor. weve had great relationships, better now than ever before and i have known him for quite a while through reading about the work that hes done and i believe hes here to get an award at princeto...

House and the fbi was unusual because of decades-old restrictions on such contacts, specifically laying out -- laid out in two department of justice memos. if mccabe did say this to the white house, he may have overstepped, since it is an ongoing investigation, not to mention an investigation involving the presidents associates and russia. the request from the white house is a violation of procedures that limits communications with the fbi on pending investigations. and these memos are very clea...

Ongoing investigation, not to mention an investigation involving the presidents associates and russia, and the request from the white house is a violation of procedures that limit communications with the fbi on pending investigations. basically these memos say specifically, make it clear that the chief of staff to the president and the fbis deputy director should not be talking to one another about a pending investigation, which is what this "new york times" article was, poppy. >> and the key ph...

Perhaps against regulations? >> there are decade-old restrictions, poppy, on such contacts between the white house and the fbi limiting those discussions only when it is important for the presidents duties and where appropriate from a law enforcement perspective. now, if the deputy director of the fbi, andrew mccabe, said this to the white house, he may have overstepped since it is an ongoing investigation, not to mention an investigation involving the presidents associates and russia. the reque...

Investigating for months and the counterintelligence division. as this is ongoing, is this trump russia honeymoon faze, is it over and how is the russia b media reacting and portraying trump at this point? >> oh, yeah, pam, i would say that it is over. and its striking, i mean, how overnight this has changed. you remember, literally a few weeks ago, it was a love fest. there was nothing in the russian media more than trump. even more reports about trump than about mr. putin. the president of rus...