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Stuff day-to-day its confusing. for the great mass that doesnt follow it in detail day-to-day, it gets very confusing and as i say, i think the purpose there is to trivialized concerns. >> put aside for a moment the question of whether he is serving fine as well with the shifting explanations. how much interest would it be from an intelligence perspective whether or not candidate trump was having these moscow tower conversations or people representing him were having these moscow tower conversat...

Was having the tower conversations or people representing him having the conversations throughout the 2016 campaign is this it has potentially great implications from a counter intelligence perspective. if there was in fact a financial interest or hope for it financial interest, that could potentially have serious counter intelligence and national security implications. certainly contempt rainously. in the last administration were not aware of the extent of what is now apparently emerging about ...

>> seems like -- >> sent this polling data over the russians is clearly disturbing, and im giving a legal analysis to this. and robby, youre making political statements. and i get that. thats what you do. >> heres whats odd -- heres whats odd from a counterintelligence perspective. if we were to take rudy giuliani at his word that the president didnt know anything about what paul manafort was doing, the reaction after the fact to that information being revealed publicly has been sort of odd, bec...

Counterintelligence perspective. if we were to take rudy giuliani at his word that the president didnt know anything about what paul manafort was doing, the reaction after the fact to that information being revealed publicly has been sort of odd, because the reaction hasnt been boy, i would have never wanted my campaign chairman to be coordinating or to be providing information about my campaign. >> yeah. >> to a foreign power that has adversarial interests to the united states of america. so th...

>> dana: president trump blast ago "new york times" report that the fbi has been investigating whether hes secretly working for russia, calling for evidence that he may be compromised a hoax. the white house slamming a report that the president tried to conceal details of his one-on-one talks with russian president vladimir putin. the interpreter that was translating between the two leaders may be forced to testify before a congressional panel. can that happen? lets bring in justice department p...

>> go back to the campaign. during the campaign the russians attacked the election to cause diz order and help trump. po publicly know and reported by the media and obama eventually said it was the russians. throughout the summer and the whole campaign donald trump said it wasnt the russians. repeating, amplifying, boosting the russian moscow disinformation that were not doing this. so there you have collusion and a cover-up and when questioned i guess if youre an fbi counterintelligence officer...

Phrased the question, yeah, its a very big deal. from a counter intelligence perspective, there was always a lot of questions about guys like michael flynn, palm manafort, more recently. a lot of people have been in the news because of the activities that they undertook and they were brought to justice after allegations. but there was always a question, oftentimes raised by the white house, themselves, yeah, but was the boss involved? did donald trump know what paul manafort was doing or michael...

Look at this is from a legal perspective, this tells us the obstruction was the root of and the original seed of this collusion investigation. we keep looking to find, the quote, collusion, as you put it, and here it is right in front of us. what it was was that the president of the united states was aiding russia because he was obstructing an investigation into whether or not they were undermining them and their elections. that appears to be what caused the fbi initially to think that he may ha...

Perspective, there were questions about people in the news because of the activities they undertook and they were brought to judgment after investigations. there was always a question, oftentimes raised by the white house themselves, yeah, but was the boss involved. did donald trump know what manafort was doing or flynn? now, what we have learned is the fbi is seriously asking that question. that, in and of itself is a big deal. yeah, for me, from a counter intelligence perspective, its a big de...

That they knew about that he was trying to conceal. they even used his own words that he had used in conversations. and what is really telling is what mueller said in the sentencing memo, that flynn was committed to his story. and that he wasnt even sweating it. he wasnt showing any signs of deception. from a counterintelligence perspective, this is really concerning because that means there is already a cover story that has been decided upon that this guy is sticking to no matter what the fbi w...