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Countries that have significant signals intelligence collections capability. and russia in particular puts a lot of resources, a lot of effort into listening in on the phone calls and the communication of senior u.s. intelligence officials. so that analysis is spot-on. now, most people might hear that and they might say, well, so what? nations spy. but heres why this makes a difference. look, gordon sondland will go up and testify next week about this phone call and whether or not it actually ha...

Manipulate and compromise that president. thats what putin is doing. the notion that putin may have teamed up with the hungarian leader to present a common theme and narrative is particularly disturbing from a counterintelligence perspective. a leader who only hears what he wants to hear is no longer a leader, andrea. he becomes a follower of anyone clever enough to feed him the narrative they want to feed him. >> and here is another example, right from that cabinet meeting yesterday with the pr...

Just absent, hes actively undermining our national security and our form of government with every action that he takes, and its dangerous. its reached the point of dangerousness. >> frank, while i have you, because its part of your title, this word "counterintelligence," we saw those reports today that mr. giuliani is the target perhaps or among them of a counterintelligence investigation. just what -- for us, the consumers of this news, what does that mean? >> yeah, and i want to exercise cauti...

The president is the article 2 authority here. this was a problem of statutory concepts not envisioning this scenario existing in reality. >> sam, now, the "washington post" reporting is that the issue is a promise that the president made to a foreign leader on possibly a phone calm. you would have to -- i guess assuming that this person, the whistle blower knows that a president can dee clclassify an information he wants to, that wasnt a problem of passing along overly sensitive information. wi...

We dont talk to the feds. thats what it sounds like to me. i want to focus on something the president said which is its okay to listen. its okay to listen if youre offered some as he called it research oppo from a foreign nation. heres whats wrong with a counter intelligence perspective. the moment you agree to sit down and listen, the moment they agree to sit down at that trump tower and listen to dirt being offered on hillary clinton, they are owned by that foreign power. that is the recruitme...

That is intent. that is willfulness. if he engages in collusion going into 2020, the president is a criminal. thats what he said in that statement yesterday. >> why didnt robert mueller push for the interview if he could have yielded something as fruitful as what we saw from the president? >> well, were right back to the constraints that mueller felt handcuffed and barr kind of stabbed him in the back. mueller said i cant push hard. whats the point. i cant indict the sitting president. this will...

To look the other way and tell their analysts dont report this. where is the help coming in the form of russians perhaps, who are -- are they co-signing? are they pressuring deutsche bank to assist and give loans they wouldnt otherwise give to trump? and what does trump know about this? understand this from a counterintelligence perspective. foreign intelligence services plant people inside major global financial institutions. if they cant get somebody in, theyll hack in and observe whats going ...

Unauthorized way. it doesnt surprise me in that respect. the use of whats app is really hitting a triple but not for the home u.s. team. every white house staffer that enters the white house is briefed on the presidential edures and counter intelligence risks. by using whats app, jared kushner is knowingly violating the presidential records act. he is using a device and not keeping a record of information that has to do with presidential records. i did not throw out a post it when i was in the w...

For the comey firing. how do you negotiate through this. there were other remarkable points in this. the president calling andrew mccabe on an unsecure phone. i mean, this, to me, you know, from counterintelligence perspective is like alarm bells. how many phone calls has the president made on unsecured lines that could have been intercepted from abroad? as far as the deliberations, i wonder about the 25th amendment discussion has been popping up and down. based on the rules, it doesnt seem like...

They are conducting themselves. >> are people lying more than others would? >> there is something called consciousness of guilt. if you find that somebody lide you can find it is for a reason. people dont lie for no reason. these are lies that are sort of all over the map. these are fairly concentrated. they all have to do with russia. they all have to do with election assistance, wiki leaks, the hack, the trump orgs business, the efforts to build the moscow project and all have to do with sanct...