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Remains is whether this was manafort freelancing somehow in an effort to pay off his open bad debts or whether there was someone else in the trump campaign who was involved along with them. >> john heilemann, i have looked at presidential campaign data two ways. ive looked at it myself and i have looked at it with the guidance of professionals who have actually run president campaigns. >> yeah. >> and i find that guidance very helpful, and im sure russians seeking to interfere in our election an...

Counterintelligence operations against u.s. assets not only in russia but worldwide. >> she is able to be there for teen years. she may not have information at her finger tips that they are concerned about as you spoke of, no classified information. >> abilitily. >> that she would have access to. she would know who is who get a lay of the land. >> this is a classic threat of the insider threat. the person thats a trusted betrayer. someone that has shone up every day, reporting shows that she was...

Fsb officer. we dont know that. all i know is shes got some pretty good gun handling skills for someone who was just an amateur gun proponent. but when that comes out, thats when youre goinging to see th espionage charges come up. >> she was charged by the d.c. u.s. attorneys office and not by robert mueller. what does that tell you? >> it tells me that mueller and his counterintelligence team in the fbi had indications that she was working on behalf of russia and instead of bringing it into the...

How frequently does the fbi engage in counterintelligence operations against foreign powers? >> every day. >> all the time? >> yes, sir. and this is how frequently does the fbi investigate a possible conspiracy between a presidential candidate or a campaign and a hostile foreign power? >> this is the first i can remember in my lifetime. >> is it fair to say we are in unprecedented territory? >> speaking from my experience, thats fair. ny experien-- my experience in . >> is it fair to say the cou...

Mcconnell, the one republican who did speak, said i still support robert mueller. i wanted to get to the bottom of this. if he had seen evidence that this was born of some nefarious activity, he would have said something different. listen to michael hayden, former director of the central intelligence agency who knows how the counterexperience operations work. he -- counterintelligence operations work. he believes the fbi did everything by the book, used human sources to figure out were there peo...

Protect their documents, and theyre trying to work with the administration by having this briefing. john kelly is going to participate in a briefing of lawmakers of highly classified material of how they use source, secret sources for counterintelligence operations at home and abroad. but they know that if theyre forced to release documents to congress that they dont feel comfortable releasing because it could put people in jeopardy or operations in jeopardy, that they may balk. and thats the cr...

To the floor of the house, poppy. >> all right, i want to get you on the news that is breaking left and right this morning from the president, from his attorney who sat down for a long interview on cnn with chris cuomo. the latest message from the president right now on a suspected fbi informant in the russia probe who was working on this counterintelligence investigation with the intelligence community early on during the days of the campaign, heres what the president writes. reports are that t...

Other aspects of human intelligence, we got to have counterintelligence operations, but here on the ground, sheriffs like yourself, the law enforcement community in this country are responsible for the people in their communities. lets bring that aspect. what we can do when isis goes into those ungoverned spaces, we may inspire others on the internet or someone takes up that flag, such as it is. >> first of all, there has to be an effective counter strategy to their rhetoric, to the recruitment,...

The 19 how 40s when russia was still alive with gjere germany before hitler decideded to invade russia. they spent a lot of time here in the u.s. trying to influence public opinion. trying to keep the u.s. igslationists out of the war. they paid off journalists. they set up trade groups that were independent. they paid off union leaders. they contacted and tried to engage and influence government personnel. theyve been doing this all this time. this is what the russian intel service does. theyre...

Something. when we talk about criminal, a lot of people assume if its criminal, its bad. if its noncriminal, its okay. but there are a lot of things that are wrong and improper and dangerous that are not criminal. it is not a crime for the president or his family to owe hundreds of millions of dollars to foreign interests. its not a crime for a private citizen or somebody in a transition to meet with representatives of an adversary state and tell them what he knows. its not criminal even -- the ...