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In this case the russians. and its the how of the communications channel, the fact that according to the reports that have been oud t at the beginning of the weekend, that it was intended to use the secure communications out of russian diplomatic facilities. that, using a foreign governments facilities, is what is so highly unusual from a counterintelligence perspective. >> hey, paul, were going to have so many concurrent investigations going on. youve got the house and senate and, candidly, stu...

The investigation going forward? >> thats a good question. look, what we heard brennan say very clearly to neds point is, to footstorm the idea there is a connection between the intelligence and the investigation. look, intelligence looks over the horizon. the job of intelligence officers is not to determine criminality or to investigate. in fact, especially when it comes to u.s. persons. so i think what was most interesting about that is exactly what ned said. the fact that brennan confirmed th...

That youre in the military would do something like partner up or cozy with them. >> in terms of the counterintelligence aspect of this, from a counterintelligence perspective, the reporting that weve got, and it wont be all borne out until tend, what appears to be the case about mike flynn is him not telling the truth about the number of contacts he had with the russian government, him not telling the truth about what he was talking russian officials about, him not requesting permission to take ...

Administration which let him go against his l. he took on with such zeal that he accepted money from a state propaganda outlet from russia. its bizarre he wouldnt take advice from the lawyers at the dod. even filing the form saying youve taken money from a foreign government is admitting you were trying to deceive before. its puzzling why the guy in charge of counterintelligence for the entire military at one time, a briefing that you get every day or year, excuse me, that youre in the military ...

From russia. its bizarre he wouldnt take advice from the lawyers at the dod. even filing the form saying youve taken money from a foreign government is admitting you were trying to deceive before. its puzzling why the guy in charge of counterintelligence for the entire military at one time, a briefing that you get every day or year, excuse me, that youre in the military would do something like partner up or cozy with them. >> in terms of the counterintelligence aspect of this, from a counterinte...

Because prosecutors want to see that hes telling the truth and that his information is valuable and that hes going to offer somebody whos either in an equal position or a higher position than he occupied. and lets face it, he was at the top of the pyramid in the security part of the united states government. >> yeah, for the time that he was there. >> yes. >> and all along the -- and especially in the trump campaign, which is kind of the time period that is in question when it comes, obviously t...

And evan macmillan. a former cia operative. what do we know at this point? >> its difficult to tell what we know. i dont think well know more until we get more into this investigation, 25ez going to take a long time and its going to be hard. the surprising thing i heard from director comey earlier today, its a counterintelligence investigation. a counterintelligence investigation, because they deal with sensitive information. and it also overlaps into the legal part, it takes a long time and its...

Theories and a lot of the stuff youve been hearing but when you see just the sheer volume of questionable things, you know, flynn lying to the vice president, you know, all this sort of the little pieces which theres no evidence yet of any kind of collusion, to you are all those pieces just too many to be a coincidence? >> anderson, i look at it from a counterintelligence perspective and admittedly that is a different threshold from a legal perspective or from bringing somebody to trial or court...

Of the stuff youve been hearing. but when you see the sheer volume of questionable things, flynn lying to the vice president, all this sort of -- little pieces, theres no evidence yet of any collusion, no evidence. but to you are all the pieces just too many to be a coincidence? >> anderson, i look at it from counterintelligence perspective. admittedly thats different from legal perspective or bringing somebody to trial or court. for me from counterintelligence perspective, looking at it in my o...

Jose, stand by. i want to bring other folks in. russia expert matthew rojanski. director of the kin none institute at the wilson center. jack kingston, a former senior adviser to the trump campaign, cnn national security analyst juliette cayenne. steve hall, retired chief of the cia russia operations. good to have all of you. stephen, cnn sources are saying this cnn server activity is odd. what is your take? >> it is odd. at this point its unexplained. until we get more information as to whether...