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indication yet that investigators remain skeptical that trump has been fully cooperative in their efforts to recover documents the former president was supposed to have turned over to the national archives at the end of his term. heres how team trump responded to brat according to "the new york times" reporting. the outreach from the department prompted a rift among trumps lawyers about how to respond, one camp counseling a cooperative approach that would include bringing in an outside...

National Security Adviser all together. Trump then asks the directors of National Intelligence to clear him of any guilt in the matter. When that fails, he fires the fbi director saying he wanted to rid himself of the russian thing. He then shared with the Russian Ambassador his relief having gotten rid of the fbi director. Thats a lot of obstructing, not to be obstruction. Thats hardball for now. All in with chris hayes starts right now. Tonight on all in what is the nature of what you saw in i...

Leslie stahl. Shes a cohost of 60 minutes. Also tonight we have new photos that have been uncovered. They show Franken Groping Huffington during a 2000 photo shoot. Here you can see franken grabbing her breath. The second photo shows are behind and shes rushing to her defense saying they were just having fun in that people shouldnt be offended by the photos. The rest of the Mainstream Media wont tell you this, but this kind of gross behavior is part of a pattern when it comes to al franken. Take...

It was that they were starting to get murdered, he himself was allegedly being paid by foreign governments in secret. i only know what i read in the spy books and what i read in the indictments. but from a national security perspective, this seems very bad. it also seems very, very unusual. joining us now is someone who really does know these things, and not just from spy novels. mary mccord served as the national top official at the department of justice. she is an executive director for the in...

Going on with ukraine. yep, we didnt like it. we wanted to push giuliani back. yep, we didnt understand why the president was doing this. where does that lead you as an investigator? >> on the counterintelligence side, one of the things youre worried about, is access and influence operations. so, it doesnt matter in essence, you know, the counterintelligence investigators are not going to be focused on what state departments reaction was to giulianis activity. they are simply looking at what he ...

Which has surfaced in other areas. so this kind of goes to the heart of this collusion inquiry. was there some kind of quid pro quo where russia was giving help, targeted help in terms of, you know, social media or disinformation campaigns in exchange for some kind of policy change from the campaign? i mean thats what i see just on the surface. i suspect that rick gates is in a position to provide even more information, and this would really go to the counterintelligence side, which is why its p...

Areas. this goes to the heart of the collusion inquiry. was there some kind of quid pro quo where russia was giving help, targeted help in terms of social media, disinformation campaigns in exchange for some kind of policy change from the campaign? thats what i see on the surface. i suppose rick gates could give more information. this goes to the counter intelligence side. which is possible that he could be wrapping up the criminal part of the investigation and wrapping up the report but still t...

If the purpose were transparency, the grand jury would meet in public. the trial jury would deliberate in public. all of the witness interviews would be done in public if the purpose transparency, the purpose is fairness. ultimately i hope the report is released. consistent with classification, dont want any classified information out there, dont want grand jury material but theres a third point too and comey did this in july. he held a press conference and laid out all the evidence he had on so...

Counterintelligence aspect. >> joining me to talk further about this, retired fbi supervisory special agent, cnn analyst james galliano, and assistant director for congressional affairs formerly, greg broward. good to see you both. there has to be a lot there or a lot of red flags for the fbi to launch both a criminal probe and counterintelligence probe, right? >> thats fair, fred. lets make a distinction for the viewers here that there are two separate standards. in a criminal investigation, yo...