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Upon us to look at, continue to investigate russias interference in our election, harden our election systems, and hold this administration and other people who played in that process accountable. >> do you think that they have been held accountable, congresswoman? >> i think yes and no. i think with regard to these counterintelligence risk, lets just take jared kushner for example. i believe that he is a walking, talking counterintelligence risk given his numerous unreported contacts with the r...

We have to something like this happening again in 2020? >> well, i also think director mueller was quite clear on the russians have never really gone away. and why would we be surprised by that? because the president has made no serious attempt to hold them accountable. but he said they havent really gone away, and that they are preparing for 2020 and beyond. and so its really incumbent upon us to look at, continue to investigate russias interference in our election, harden our election systems,...

Former fbi director james comey wrote in an op-ed about the mueller report. in it, he makes the argument that he hopes that president trump is not impeached. this is the quote. i hope that mr. trump is not impeached and removed from office before the end of his term because if mr. trump were removed from office by congress, a significant portion of this country would see this as a coup, and it would drive those people farther from the common center of american life, more deeply fracturing our co...

January when he said he had no role in his son-in-laws receiving those clearances. >> i dont think any of us are surprised anymore when the president lies about process and counterintelligence issues. but lets just talk about what this actually means. in laymans terms the president of the united states knowingly directed his team to give a potential counter intelligence risk, jared kushner, access to the most sensitive information in the country. he discounted what experts said and put each and ...

New president and russia and then seeing how he fired comey over the russia investigation. and this profound worry that the president was a counterintelligence risk, that he was, perhaps, not doing the bidding of the united states but doing the bidding of russia. it is exactly what adam schiff has been saying about why hes doing an investigation in the house intelligence committee. this issue has not gone away which is the stuff of spy fiction which is like which side is the president on? >> jef...

What happened. absent any of those things happening -- >> and thats been a tradition in so many administrations. hes breaking with tradition on that. and there has to be a reason, a very specific reason why. >> exactly. and its also a requirement under the presidential records act that anything that the president says or does is kept in the national archives. if that was the worst violation hed made here, wed all sleep a little better at night. in this case, hes given an intelligence advantage t...

Classified information when you were on the national security council under the obama administration. are there generally safeguards in place to stop people who only have a temporary clearance, maybe -- well, supposed to be when they first start working there -- from accessing ultra sensitive, classified information? >> well, typically -- the short answer is yes. i feel the need to say this just because the white house is putting out so much misinformation on this. this is not normal. interim cl...

We know this from testimony yesterday. and the white house chose to knowingly disregard the advice of the intelligence community yet again. i worked for two presidents. i had clearances under two presidents. i have never heard of the white house saying to the intelligence community, okay, we dont take your advice. we dont believe you when you say this person is a counterintelligence risk. i think it follows a pattern, frankly, of the white house listening to the intelligence community when it fi...

Are for the future and how it would impact on the united states. >> just to highlight the different ways and traditional ways in which theyre pursuing this plan, let me ask you, what in your view could you say in the setting is the counterintelligence risk posed to u.s. national security from that those in advanced programs in sciences and mathematics. >> i think in this setting i would just say that the use of nontraditional collectors, especially in the academic setting, whether it is professo...

Different ways and untraditional ways in which theyre pursuing this plan, let me ask you, what in your view could you say in this setting is the counterintelligence risk posed to u.s. national security from chinese students, particularly those in advanced programs in sciences and mathematics? >> i think in this setting i would just say that the use of non-traditional collectors, whether its professor, scientists, students, we see in almost every field office this the fbi has around the country. ...