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>> jeremy brings up very relevant issues. and some sources of mine in the intelligence community beyond jeremy are really appalled tonight by the administrations decision. but talking to the administration, it is clear they think they can get away with this because they feel all theyre trying to do is give the attorney general the ability to declassify information as part of this i.g. report into how the counterintelligence operation started that was related to the trump campaign. but this has a...

Dangerous. and intelligence sources, human sources tonight, brian, i think should be concerned that their identity could be revealed in an investigation. >> well, that as they say gets your attention. and robert costa, i know you talked to a key republican tonight. >> jeremy brings up very relevant issues. and some sources of mine in the intelligence community beyond jeremy are really appalled tonight by the administrations decision. but talking to the administration, it is clear they think they...

Meeting and asking to use the phrase matter instead of investigation but then you look at comey and there were reports out a while back and said comey told other investigators he didnt think michael flynn was lying. michael flynn is facing time for lying to the fbi. comey didnt think he was lying, he came on special report for bret baer and denied he said he didnt think he was lying in these reports say he did in fact believe michael flynn was not lying to the fbi. he could go to prison for that...

Conducts investigations saying it was wrong for the f.b.i. to conduct an investigation out of headquarters regarding the trump campaign. >> if there are changes that need to be made to make it better, lets look at that. but the fundamental investigation was not targeting the trump campaign. it was a counter intelligence operation, it wasnt based on the dossier, it was based on intelligence gathered from a foreign ambassador who had a conversation with papadopoulos and was concerned the russians ...

There without bill barr trying to characterize. >> jon: the mueller report is out there and americans can make their own decision and he is not allowed under law to release it without redacting grand jury and other sensitive information. >> two things. first the mueller report concluded that the russians interfered in our elections. sweeping, systematic, bob mueller indicted 37 people on that account. and we should thank him and thank the f.b.i. for having this counter intelligence operation. so...

Period after the fbi opened a formal inquiry which was in july, 2016 but in the intelligence gathering that occurred before then and i think the fbi response is going to be at that point this was not a criminal investigation. there was a counterintelligence operation and you conduct that in a certain way so theres going to be some bumping of heads over the use of the word spying and what exactly that means and when it is that attorney general barr is concerned about what the fbi did. >> but your...

At what he is demonstrating his hes going to get to the bottomf this. what is that "insurance policy" that the leading officers in the fbi, peter strzok and lisa page, were talking about in regards to their text exchanges? weve got to do is make sure that transparency is brought to this investigation. and make sure that if people are abusing their power to spy on a campaign in america, that needs to be held accountable. the one im wondering what the conversations are like on capitol hill. becaus...

Anything else that were going to find out our deep state did to try and undo a president election, presidential election? >> i think you are going to get all of that, hopefully it will be declassified and given to the public. i dont know if anybody on the other side will care, which will be the sad thing,wi you know, all of my friends at cnn are going nuts over, you know, my concern about congress getting out of its lane. but have you heard one person from these otherse networks even show concer...

They didnt use on purpose. anything else that were going to find out our deep state did to try and undo a president election, presidential election? >> i think you are going to get all of that hopefully it will be declassified and given to the public. i dont know if anybody on the other side will care, which will be the sad thing. you know, all of my friends at cnn are going nuts over, you know, my concern about congress getting out of its lane. but have you heard one person from these other net...

It started as a counterintelligence operation because were clear signals and clear signs and clear evidence that the russians were attempting to interfere and use trump campaign. both the candidate and his staff at either winning -- >> tucker: a speaker of the house and unlike other people are not fixated on maxine waters. i dont care what she says. nancy pelosi is not stupid, the third most powerful person. she called trump the russian agent. if she can prove that, why wouldnt she apologize? >>...