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Audit of what the national security agency was looking into? no, not so far and they should. >> so do you think -- what about snowdens leaks, bob, youve looked at in terms of how orchestrated they are? do you think he has been working with foreign governments, or is that allegation to your view at this point also not clear? >> well, erin, the problem is i spent so many years up against the russians. and in that world, when someone goes to moscow theyre presumed guilty, not the other way around, ...

Is true, they should be held accountable. you know, we do need clarity on how far it went. and does congress know? have they done an independent audit on what the nsa agency was looking into? no, not so far, and they should. >> so do you think -- what about snowdens leaks, bob, do you think he has been working with foreign governments, or is that allegation, to your view at this point, also not clear? >> well, erin, the promise -- i spent so many years up against the russians. and in that world,...

>> well, erin, the promise -- i spent so many years up against the russians. and in that world, when someone goes to moscow, theyre presumed guilty. not the other way around. presumed innocent. so you know, i always look at it from a counterintelligence perspective. and i wish he had not gone to moscow, i wish he would have made his protests on the floor of the courthouse, there is no evidence he is a deflector, but i can assure you that the fbi and the cia are looking at that possibility, but a...

And they will be taken to a safe facility, and they bl kept company, if you will, by intelligence officers who will go through a period of debriefing them and preparing them for a new life and arranging for new identities and relocation and housing and financial assistance and get them settled. and they will go through a period of where they are talking to them to understand what were the sorts of questions that russian officials were asking them when they were in prison and arrested and how wer...

To the russians. i think whats important to also take a step back and say look, whether youre talking about the steele dossier, talking about a guy like papadopoulos or even a guy like flynn or paul manafort playing much larger roles in the campaign, in the trump campaign, you could take away any one of those legs, and this is from a counterintelligence perspective now. you could take away any one of those legs of this investigation and you would still have a whole lot of stuff that the trump ad...

Reporting. simone, what do you have? >> back in december when kushner met with his banker sergey gorkov, we didnt learn about it until march. weve learned that the fbi has been krscrutinizing that meetin. certainly they are looking at it and want to know what that meeting was about. its still not really clear to u.s. officials and to those of us in the media what this meeting was about because back in march a statement was issued basically saying it was about a business, sort of a personal busin...

This particular server in russia from alpha bank and the trump server. from a counterintelligence perspective, on the trump side, what you have is sort of this continuing drumbeat of these incidents of contact and just encounters between the trump campaign and team and the russian side. on the russian side, alpha bank. this is not the first time weve heard of alpha bank. alpha bank mentioned in the steel dossier, the 35-page dossier making startling accusations. youve got this on both sides. the...