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Assad. which means after going down to a quarter of syria with russian and iranian intervention, and now this moment, assad has reconstituted. >> right. they were really clear eyed about what civil war means and they were careful not to get involved. they had an agreement with the regime from the beginning. were going to control our areas but wont rebel against you. because of that, isis attacked them. they control oil fields in the kurdish region. they control oil refineries and lots of valuabl...

A quarter of syria with russian and iranian intervention, and now this moment, assad has reconstituted. >> right. they were really clear eyed about what civil war means and they were careful not to get involved. they had an agreement with the regime from the beginning. were going to control our areas but wont rebel against you. because of that, isis attacked them. they control oil fields in the kurdish region. they control oil refineries and lots of valuable real estate. the war kind of came to ...

That issue. >> currently? >> currently. >> what is your understanding of what that means? >> well, it was a little bit of a surprise when he said that. i wasnt expecting it. it sounds like there may be -- he said many elements within the fbi who are actually looking to see whether there are counterintelligence risks associated with flynns lying. and it raises the question who else are they basically assessing from a counterintelligence standpoint. it goes to the issue that even though they may n...

And it raises the question who else are they basically assessing from a counterintelligence standpoint. it goes to the issue that even though they may not have committed crimes in their interactions between themselves and russians, the relationships between those entities may have been embarrassing or they may have lied about them such that they would be subject to manipulation or compromise by the russians to the detriment of our national security. >> congresswoman, did anything you hear today ...

Hes going to speak to two committees committees. joining me now is illinois congressman raja krishnamoorthi, a member of the intelligence committee. its one of the committees that will be allowed to question him. thank you, congressman. >> absolutely. >> i appreciate you joining us for this breaking news tonight. what do you want to know from the special counsel? >> theres so much that we want to know. i think that one of the things that wed like to know is he said that there was insufficient ev...

Anxieties about this. >> i do think that gives some comfort. but i hope that the senators push on that in a public forum in testimony under oath. i hope that bill barr is pushed for commitments that he will not shut down the mueller investigation, he will not starve it as resources. that he he will make public a report as far as he can and the american people can hear that directly from bill barrs mouth because thats going to be very important going forward. >> this will be a public hearing next...

Embassy? >> most likely not, but i think it misses the broader point here, which is that mueller is looking at the counterintelligence investigation with two aspects. one is the social media one. we saw the indictment. the second is the hacking of the democratic national committee and podesta. and then as to each, whether there was collusion or coordination with respect to the first social media its going to be cambridge analytica and the kushner analytics operation and with respect to the hacki...

Could be suppressing voters of color which was a clear objective. yeah, julia? >> the other thing i wanted to say is theres no chance in hell essentially that any of these 13 russians are going to see justice in the u.s. the u.s. and russia dont have an extradition treaty. theres no way were ever going to see these people here, face trial here. but this is kind of a shot across the bow to the trump administration. no collusion, no collusion. we keep hearing this from the white house. and saying ...

Extensive financial ties between russian-backed entities and the trump organization. that, in my mind, if it is true would be a relevant fact from a counterintelligence standpoint. >> youre the ranking member of the senate intelligence committee. which questioned donald trump jr. today behind closed doors. is donald trump jr., is he being forthcoming? >> listen, im not going to comment about his testimony this morning. we dont talk about that testimony, but if you simply look at the public recor...

>> yeah. i think your defense of hillary clinton starts from her side. but from the russian perspective, look, they were trying to interfere with our election. once they had the contact through to tphps and s.e.a.l. and so forth, they could work it from the other end. as we saw with facebook and google, they didnt just support trump. they were around ferguson stirring things up and other activities like that. so once they had that connection, whether the dnc and the clinton campaign started out ...