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Christopher steele in the very end of october, 2016, he was talking to me very reluctantly. he was scared. the material that he had found, connections, allegations between the -- of interactions between trump and the russian government frightened him as a veteran counterintelligence officer. and he had taken his material to the fbi, had been working with them, but he felt this information needed to get out in some way before the election. that the american public had to be told this. so, he -- >...

The material that he had found, connections, allegations between the -- of interactions between trump and the russian government frightened him as a veteran counterintelligence officer. and he had taken his material to the fbi, had been working with them, but he felt this information needed to get out in some way before the election. that the american public had to be told this. so, he -- >> david, had the fbi publicly confirmed that on the record before? >> no, not at all. >> so why now? >> in ...

Trump and the russian government frightened him as a veteran counterintelligence officer. and he had taken his material to the fbi, had been working with them, but he felt this information needed to get out in some way before the election. that the american public had to be told this. so, he -- >> david, had the fbi publicly confirmed that on the record before? >> no, not at all. >> so why now? >> in fact, they were doing everything -- >> do you know why now? >> excuse me? >> do you know why now...

We want to start with this contempt of congress, impeaching rod rosenstein. does this really happen? >> the timeline is so short, only tween 9 full days of congress before the actual election, 19 days -- lets remember why rod rosenstein is so important, he accused himself of his investigation, should not have happened from a lot of experts because this is the counterintelligence operation, not a common investigation of the attorney general should never recuse himself but the focal point of the r...

2016 election, dominic also were involved in cyber attacks on the state department, while hillary clinton was secretary of state. joining me now for reaction is peter schweizer, president of the government accountability institute and are made killing, the rnc committee woman from california. thank you both for being here. peter, one of the things that i am so concerned about here, is why -- now that we have at exposure, time to digest it, and the medias bringing it up again, "the new york times...

2016 election also were involved in cyber attacks on the state department while hillary clinton was secretary of state.le joining me now for reaction is peter schweizer, president of the government accountability institute and harmeet dhillon, the rnc committee woman fromom california. thank you both for being here. peter, one of the things that i am so concerned about here, is why -- now that we have had exposure, time to digest it, and the medias bringing it up again, "the new york times," abo...

First of all, what is behind the presidents tweet? >> look, the key thing to point out is that apparently, from the indictment we know that the obama administration discovered this in 2016.before the election. the real question here is, why didnt they take immediate action and a counterintelligence operation to not only warn everyone involved in the political campaign and what was going on but take steps to prevent this from happening. there has really been no explanation. >> arthel: well, i wil...

Russian intelligence operatives, theres actually no evidence including these indictments. that there was any collusion between the russian government and the trump campaign. it is supposed to be the purpose of the mueller campaign. if they really want to go after russian intelligence operatives, then they ought to be running a counterintelligence operation, not engaging in a law enforcement investigation like this one. >> arthel: understood. by the way, you have a lot of viewers who are very con...

By republican leaders. >> thank you, wolf, for your question. as many americans now know, the president just makes stuff up. and in this case, theres no evidence that there was a spy put into the trump campaign. but there is a lot of evidence that what the fbi did is they ran a counterintelligence operation because they were so freaked out by what some campaign associates were doing with their interactions with russia. the republicans and democrats looked at this and said it was appropriate what...

Community versus an informant in an ongoing investigation, which i think is beyond the point. i want to play for you a sound bite from from jason chaffetz. >> if jeff sessions is there in name only, is absolutely worthless. the sooner the president names a new attorney general, this better. he should have never recused himself, he never needed to any counterintelligence operation. >> laura: this is of course regarding the trump tweet today, commenting on what gowdy did say which many of us took ...