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Our adversaries, whether its russia or any other foreign counterintelligence adversaries, is something that concerns the fbi greatly. and its a much broader and more comprehensive effort than just one investigation. i know everyones been talking about this one for the last few days, year, however you want to look at it. but the fact is that counterintelligence work is a large part of what the fbi does. it is that part of our mission that is typically done quietly. it is done typically with confi...

For those of us seeing those headlines and wondering what was behind this, its amazing to know this many months later that the fbi was actually taking those developments seriously enough to think that they needed to investigate them, and they still, as you pointed out, are the subject of the special counsel. >> now its muellers job. we now know that at least 16 trump official contacts, trump business orbit with russia during the campaign. we didnt know all that back then. we didnt know the presi...

Advance. the fact that it goes back a year and a half and nothing came of it that showed a breach of national security means they found nothing. is that true or false? is the report essentially meaningless? >> giuliani is absolutely incorrect here and he knows better as he so often does. the whole point of counterintelligence work is that its different from the criminal investigative work we do at the justice department. that information sees the light of day in the form of prosecutions that are...

Its called the 11th hour. up malcolm nance identifies himself as a 35 year veteran of counterintelligence work. his most recent book is called the plot to pack america. the second man you are about to see is brian williams who of course needs no introduction. he was an anchor of the nbc nightly news when that meant something. he is widely regarded as a good guy by the people who know him and he is in washington thought of as one of the smartest people in the news business. the point is, these ar...

Its called the 11th hour. it is the most serious news program. up malcolm nance identifies himself as a 35 year veteran of counterintelligence work. whatever that means. his most recent book is called the plot to pack america. the second man you are about to see is brian williams who of course needs no introduction. he was an anchor of the nbc nightly news when that meant something. he is widely regarded as a goodn guy by the people who know him and he is in washington thought of as one of the s...

Some of those criminal acts. nothing here that took place with respect to the hiring of fusion gps, which is an independent private research firm that campaigns contract with all the time, nothing rises to the level of donald trump taking a meet with an authorized representative of the russian government for the purposes of trying to help donald trumps campaign by way of illegal acts. >> but brian fallon, in july, to our colleague, anderson cooper, you said, quote, theres a difference between go...

Part of his explanation was the opposition research happens. he was out and said one thing and then when this happened he said another thing today. take a look. >> theres a difference between going out and hiring opposition of these that work in the united states of america and going out and soliciting information from a foreign national. >> opposition research have another time. >> christopher steele compiled this dossier. he was a foreign national. >> christopher steeles actions, its akin to c...

Took the points that we had from the fbi, boil that down and we came up with about 27 subjects. >> i now knew i had my work can cut out for me. >> you feel nervous? >> absolutely. i go down and see my colleague in the personal security review section, pass the list of 27 names. i said, barbara, you can get met security files on all 27 of these people. you get the files in your name, and then i go to another office with no window, i didnt want anybody to see what i was doing. >> how many pages is...

Page after page and this is the reality of counterintelligence work. ive never jumped out of a plane, never driven an aston martin. thats not counterintelligence. thats james bond. real counterintelligence agents sit in front of a screen, read files and interview people. and your eyes start to strain and get discouraged. and then i open up file 13. my heart was racing. theres no other way to describe it. every piece of the matrix fit like a glove. it was kendall meyers. >> kendall best fit every...