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Origin of this russia probe. you have rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who over sees the mueller investigation, trying to protect the process of a counterintelligence operation, all amid an ongoing investigation. its an uneasy situation for all of these players. but theyre dealing with a president who is combative as ever. >> bob, lets say on behalf of the press corps, the president tried to wave away questions about rod rosenstein, we would love to ask questions about visiting dignit...

About is what did the source find out? what was the information revealed? again, if we believe the president that he in his campaign did nothing wrong, they should not be so freaked out about the fact there was a source in a counterintelligence operation. because this operation at its beginning was to protect the trump campaign and prevent russian influence. >> ill ask you what i asked general hayden a little while ago. is this source in any danger right now? >> i would not know that. but its my...

Uae, saudi arabia, and an israeli social media expert about possible further intervention in the election, which would be a possible violation of election laws. that was his first tweet yesterday. he was angered over that report. and then he went on to basically attack the fbi and the justice department throughout the day. >> so of course now we are learning that the justice department asked its inspector general to expand its review to try to determine whether there was any impropriety or polit...

Formation of this counterintelligence operation -- >> why are they whether they were colluding with the russians or not? if the question were they including, isnt that what we do in america? we enforce the law? your thoughts. >> exactly right. the fbi and doj believe they had cause to start a counterintelligence operation. but theyre dealing with congress and the constitution says congress does have oversight. and some people think the congressional republicans are overstretching here, pushing d...

Different overlapping agendas here. think about it didnt get a lot of attention over the weekend. but when i spoke to mayor giuliani on sunday, he said the president wont do an interview with bob mueller until this whole matter of the secret source and these documents with congress is settled. and so you have not only the white house and don mcgahn, the white house counsel and chief of staff john kelly negotiating with the justice department, but you have this element of the personal legal team ...

Focus on what? and i dont even know who the audience is. isnt the fbi supposed to investigate possible criminality? isnt it the jeb telephone fbi to see if the russians were involved in one of the campaigns? and what is this spooky intrigue theyre trying to create? if they did that, its terrible. no, it doesnt matter that theyre doing it. theyre doing their job. this reminds me so much how we get forced down that rabbit hole of iraq, setting up false premise that if they investigated, they were ...

Tweet, bob, here talking about how he believes it should go actually even further, right? >> reporter: whats going to be important to follow as reporters here is what does it mean to be politically motivated? thats the real -- >> yes. >> reporter: you have to underscore here. because when you think about this counterintelligence investigation that began in 2016, some people in the dupt of justice believed there was a reason, not political, but a reason to have a counterintelligence investigation...

Illegal. i think thats where the question is about what took place at congressman ted l lieu. it says, i look forward to this inquiry. it will show the professional acts of the fbi engaged in a counterintelligence operation. so tell me how he will demand that the fbi get information to him. >> the president doesnt seem to understand that the fbi initiated this investigation as a counterintelligence investigation known as crossfire

Out but tom. >> we had confirmation last week from the house intelligence committee that there was a counterintelligence operation against flynn while he was on the campaign are working for the transition. >> laura: how does that play out? out? wiretaps or what? >> what did the program entail? this justice berman takes the approach of the modified limited hangout in terms of information. four months the mueller operation sat on the fact that they had the strzok-page messages. then we found out a...

This, dont use it is good for the mueller investigation to go forward to potentially uncover more evidence of russia interfering in the democracy of our country, not necessarily the president? >> we dont need a special counsel to do any of that. this is a counterintelligence operation we can have done by regular employees at the justice department and the fbi. and said he has got 17 prosecutors looking for crimes on individuals whose only crime was defeating hillary clinton. that is the way i lo...