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Arthel: jeff paul, thank you very much. >> at the government he was looking at whether or not the trump campaign had conspired with the russians but he was not going back and looking at the counterintelligence program. and we have a number of investigations underway that touch upon it. eric: that is the attorney general william barr speaking exclusively with fox news when he sat down with bill hemmer. he talked about the origins of the russia investigation paid me while the democrats allege he l...

Mueller did not look at the governments activities. he was not looking at the counterintelligence program. we have a number of investigations underway that touch upon it but no one has looked for us. >> you came into this job and started asking questions. do you get answers? >> i thought when i came in from the other side that questions, i had, many other people had, that would be readily answered once i got in but i havent found that to be the case. >> reporter: the attorney general was in el s...

>> catherine, thank you. i turn during the 2016 election. in an exclusive interview, the attorney general spoke with fox news anchor bill hemmer while traveling in el salvador. >> and his first interview since becoming attorney general, bill barr laid out a legal road map for his investigation. he made it clear he has questions about the fisa court and how the steele dossier was used. >> it appears to run deep. why is it so hard to figure out? >> i think there is a misconception other that we kn...

The trump campaign had conspired with the russians. he was not going back and looking at the counterintelligence program. we have a number of investigations underway that touch upon it. the main one being the office of inspector general is looking at the fisa warrants. as far as im aware, no one has really looked across the whole waterfront here. >> so you came into this job and started asking questions. did you get any answers? >> when i came in from outside, i thought all the questions i had -...

Foreign influence for the very same reason we should be worried about whether government officials abused their power and put their thumb on the scale. >> back with me former federal prosecutors dan alonso and amie barr spoke about his reasoning, so i want to play a little more of that. >> the fact of the matter is bob mueller didnt look at governments activities. he was looking at whether or not the trump campaign had conspired with the russians. he was not going back and looking at the counter...

Bottom of all of this. mike? >> reporter: in that exclusive interview, attorney general william barr spoke about his desire to get to the bottom of how that whole russia investigation got started. >> no ones really looked at it. i think theres a misconception out there that we know a lot about what happened. the fact of the matter is bob mueller did not look at the governments activities. he was looking at the -- whether or not the trump campaign had conspired with the russians. but he was not g...

Lets talk about the term black identity extremists. where does it come from and what is the myth about the concrete ideology behind it? >> it does not exist, this is an attempt by the jeff sessions justice department together with the fbi under a trump administration to reinstate the counterintelligence program that was begun in the 1950s. to target at that time communist folks. eventually they targeted martin luther king and also were responsible for killing folks like fred hampton and other me...

Respond to a request for comment, john. >> if u.s. intelligence knows or believes there are more russian agents here in the united states and more active than before, why arent they trying to stop it? >> well, you know, even after the meddling in the 2016 u.s. elections, both the obama and trump administrations have been slow to take measures to respond to the intelligence threat, according to current and former u.s. officials. partisan political disagreements over the russian activity and presi...

Meet with president trump. we heard him come out today and say he plans to make a pick soon. that could happen before this foreign overseas trip by the end of the week. but let me ask you about other reporting. you talked to sources inside the fbi and the agency. they tell you they are worried about the russian investigation, why? >> so the biggest issue i think for agents and staffers, analysts who work counterintelligence at the fbi. for many years it has been a new priority. a new director wo...

Sacrificed at the alter of national security. >> and in terms of the balance. in terms of tracking -- >> he kind of alluded to -- counterintelligence program under jay edgar hoover to literally stop the rise of a black messiah. thats the language you found in those documents. it is true that that when the president raidsed those issues, it should let everybody know it is legitimate. it is right to probe into this issue. youre not soft on security if youre really concerned about secrecy and gover...