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The "new york times" said, a vigorous debate has taken shape among some former law enforcement officials outside the case over whether fbi investigators overreacted in opening the counterintelligence inquiry during a tumultuous period at the justice department. where do you fall in this debate? >> its interesting because senator graham doesnt say what would we do if a foreign power tried to insert somebody into the presidency. remember, this started before he became president. this investigation...

Articulable facts that someone is or may be an agent of a foreign power. that would not be done in a vacuum. that would have gone across the street to department of justice. it would have been approved, and then of course, we know that the doj said, you know what, we need a special counsel inquiry, so now were seeing what the real origin of this was. now, heres what it doesnt say, joy. it doesnt say that they proved it. it doesnt say that that aspect of the case is still running. and we dont kno...

Given what you have done, given what you have done for a living, in this reporting? >> so, theres a couple of takeaways here. i think its important to talk about what this reporting says and what it doesnt say. what it says, if accurate, is that the impetus of the special counsel inquiry or what turned into the special counsel inquiry was not necessarily just figuring out the degree to which the russians influenced the campaign but rather now were faced with kind of a worst case scenario that we...

During a period at the justice department. joining us now is frank, nbc contributor, national security contributor and assistant director of the counter intelligence deputy. frank, thank you for being here. >> thank you, joy. >> what jumps out to you given what youve done for a living in this reporting? >> so there is a couple of take aways here which its important to talk about when this reporting says and what it doesnt say. what it says, if accurate, is that the special counsel inquiry or wha...

Here. >> thank you, joy. >> i just want to start by asking you, what jumps out to you given what youve done -- given what youve done for a living in this reporting? >> so theres a couple of takeaways here. i think its important to talk about what this reporting says and what it doesnt say. what it says, if accurate, is that the impetus of the special counsel inquiry or what turned into the special counsel inquiry was not necessarily just figuring out the degree to which the russians influenced t...

That threshold is specific and articulable facts that someone is or may be an agent of a foreign power. that would not be done in a vacuum. that would have gone across the street to department of justice. it would have been approved. and then, of course, we know that the doj said, you know what, we need a special counsel inquiry. so now were seeing what the real origin of this was. now, heres what it doesnt say, joy. it doesnt say that they proved it. it doesnt say that that aspect of the case i...

Really conditioned by the star report. he may not see that as the mission here, the regulation under which he is serving doesnt say what kind of report he is supposed to write. maybe it will be a very spare report that says i brought 38 cases, i submitted 800 subpoenas, i talked to this number of witnesses, you can imagine a very restrained report that really doesnt consider it his job to tell us the whole story of what happened. >> all right, let me put out another theory, then, what if the rep...

Shared? what did the president know and when did he know it? to me, this is quite significant, inadvertent it was. >> you are not ready to say collusion? >> whats the legal definition? for me, as a layman, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck. >> this russian who was receiving this sensitive internal trump campaign information in previous mueller filings, they said he was affiliated with the russian military intelligence agency. thats the agency the u.s., the federal prosecutors have said was h...

Table pounding portion. what you have here are people trying to control the narrative as opposed to trying to find a solution. either way you look at it, the american people look at this and say, well, whether this is a negotiation tactic or the art of the deal or whether this is the omnipotent nancy pelosi, where he in a shutdown. no one is moving the needle. the president said a few weeks ago that he will own this. now you see that that tide -- that train has left the situation. >> dick durbin...

In meltdown as president trump walks out of a meeting with democrats over at the white house after they refuse to agree to fund his border wall. we are learning with the revelation that paul manafort gave sensitive internal trump campaign polling data to an alleged kremlin operative in 2016 during the campaign. joining us now, the former director of national intelligence, james clapper. thanks for joining us. >> thanks, wolf. >> i want to read to you what the president tweeted right after this...