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To senior administration. now we are getting insight into perhaps the reasons why. last night president trump on fox news strongly pushing back on the "the washington post" report he meets with a number of leaders and took no efforts to conceal notes from those putin meetings. take a listen. >> im not keeping anything under raps. i couldnt care less. i met with every leader, just about. individuallily. i meet with modi. in japan, i meet with aby and all of them. anybody could have listened to th...

York times", the meetings with vladimir putin being undocumented and the fbi looking into whether the president, you know, was working in some fashion, unwittingly or otherwise, with russia. how do you suppose that might change or alter some of the questioning or rough focus of this upcoming hearing? >> i think thats a very rich your of explanation for him to be focused on, particularly and very different time. thats an area of potential weakness for him. he was not overseeing that kind of depar...

There is a suspicion as to why would you fire comey? was this beyond just political strategy? and so, you know, well see where it ends. we already know that there are a lot of people close to the president involved with russia. whether he personally got involved for whatever reason, we dont know, so well see. >> peggy? >> it is astonishing, chuck. we are talking about a major newspaper report that the federal bureau of investigation in america has launched a counterintelligence probe against a s...

He called comey a crooked cop. >> the investigation was eventually handed to robert mueller, of course. not clear what happened after that. joining us to help explain, cnn reporter erica orton. >> good morning. the counter intelligence probe was taken over by robert mueller after his investigation began, and the counterintelligence probe puts a finer point on the mueller investigation, which has of course been investigating whether the trump campaign colluded with russia, and the counterintellig...

The fbi counterintelligence probe was prompted by the firing of former fbi director james comey. may 9th, 2017. >> today marks the longest shutdown of the federal government in history. talking about more than 800,000 federal employees who do not have a paycheck now nor is there one in sight. and were hearing all of these stories of people selling things that are very valuable to them, their cars, momentos, books, whatever it takes so they can pay their bills. cnn national correspondent dianne g...

This counterintelligence is another aspect of that inquiry. a counterintelligence is not necessarily criminal in nature. according to reporting, investigators on the counterintelligence side of the fbi first had their interest peaked by president trump in july, 2016, calling on russia to leak hillary clintons hacked e-mail. thats sort of the kind of thing they were looking at. all of this got folded into muellers broader investigation of election meddling. so it is unclear how long the counterin...

Morning. tweeting about a half dozen times about this. calling comey and his former deputy andrew mccabe corrupt and also claiming falsely that the fbi pursued a probe of him, quote, for no reason and with no proof. of course, the fbi opened that obstruction of justice inquiry into the president in may of 2017 shortly after he fired comey because trump twice tied his decision to fire the fbi director to the russia investigation. the counterintelligence probe that the "new york times" reported on...

Comeys firing to the russian investigation which helped spark this counter intelligence probe. heres one of those moments. >> regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey knowing there was no good time to do it. and in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story, its an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election that they should have won. >> a second instance, a draft letter the president in...

That seem to benefit trump when he fired fbi director james comey, and when robert mueller was appointed special counsel. as you know, that counterintelligence probe was an aspect of the obstruction inquiry that was folded into muellers broader investigation of russian meddling in 2016, so it is unclear how long that counterintelligence probe went on. nonetheless, the white house is responding forcefully to news of its existence, sarah sanders saying this is absurd. james comey was fired because...

President trump did unload this morning, going after current and former members of his intelligence community, the president clearly irked by this reporting in the new york times about this counter intelligence probe, questioning whether the president was wittingly or unwittingly working for russian interests. heres one of the tweets from the president, he writes, just learned in the failing new york times the corrupt former leaders of the fbi almost all fired or forced to leave the agency, open...