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And negotiations with trump tower moscow? >> no doubt about it. as matt says, you read the body of the appointment of mueller and that is any links between the campaign and russia, what he has been directed to answer. and it did begin and comey knows this as a counterintelligence operation that he first announced to the congress. thats what it says in the appointment of mueller. thats the one thats being continued. i think he wants to give mueller breathing room and not prejudge in any way, but ...

Quickly. that was already known by the time the special counsel had already -- had started his operations. so he would sort of jump ahead by a light year on the investigative process which is why he unspooled very quickly these administration people who were having contact with foreign intelligence officers, foreign diplomats, foreign contacts in the old-school counterintelligence operation, like you played in one clip where he said, people that you call nontraditional agents and assets would ma...

Attention to the white house and saided following. it is not clear whether robert mueller is still pursuing the counter intelligence matter. no public evidence has emerged that mr. trump secretly conspired or took direction from the russian government. what are we to think, whats the hunch as to why you do a counter intelligence operation? >> it is not a criminal investigation. it is not designed diet or charge anybody with a crime. it is designed to get information to prevent a foreign enemy fr...

Thats critical, not about prosecutions. the fact that the president of the united states became a target of a counterintelligence operation is really something that at this point is not surprising but that we should still be stunned by. >> jeffrey goldberg, i want to read you something else from toms column because im sure youll agree with it. "finally, its exhausting but nonetheless necessary to point out again the titanic hypocrisy of the republican party and of trump apologists in the conserv...

Counterintelligence operation especially on the president of the united states without layers and layers of review. and thats done to protect everybody involved. there has to be -- im convinced theres even more. theres signals intelligence. theres intelligence from our allies, human intelligence, and more information before the fbi could take the dramatic step of opening up a counterintelligence operation against the president of the united states. and then we have to look at it, now you have th...

Behavior that they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of russian -- russia against american interests. thats according to former law enforcement officials and others in the investigation. take a look at that one more time. the fbi was not worried that trump was colluding with the russians. they were worried he might be working for russia against the u.s. either unknowingly or even on purpose. around the time comey was fired in may of 2017, two events prompted them to launc...

Counterintelligence sometimes is that its possible. it may have happened in the past, but this would be unprecedented, especially, especially if this is the kind of counterintelligence operation that did result in an arrest in a prosecution or even, possibly, an impeachment. >> not since teddy roosevelt, frank, just to give another historical marker have we seen this -- that was when the fbi was created during that presidency, how would you -- how would you describe this? >> it is pretty astound...

With you and the dossier, the steele dossier. "the new york times" has reported and others saying, no, no, thats not right. it began with george papadopoulos and his conversations drunkenly in london about whether the russians might have hillary clinton dirt and how that came back to you. theres another narrative, which is the one im interested in, thats been reported in the guardian and in the observer here in the united states, that in fact, your interest in this and the real roots of this cou...

Im kidding. the president has to step in and get this material, unredacted, 302s, phis applications, everything in between, now that we know what happened. >> the president has been going to have to do that because attorney general sessions as they are in name only. d hes not doing anything. he should have b never recused himself, the counterintelligence operation, not a criminal investigation, weve been through that. but theres no reason why the attorney general cant step up and make sure that ...

Investigative pros. >> is there a money element to the russia operation to influence the election. some banking and money moving illusions, seemingly not on a large scale in the mueller indictment in terms of how the russia operation unfolded. as far as you know and as far as you can tell us, is there a financial component to that that may be helpful in terms of understanding the scale of the crime? >> where know the russians have used financial transactions in previous efforts overseas to influ...