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Issues. lt i dont like the attack on the intelligence agencies. le i didnt like it in helsinki. i dont like it now. what id say to the president is youve got to rank and file in the intelligence agency. by and large those people are very supportive of you but theres three or four pin dots at the top that you think weaponized against you. they probably did and have probably wanted to do it for 1350 years. easier to tag it now because of the fish bowl gach of everything thats going on with our soc...

In december, was the first time i had ever put eyes on the so-called steel dossier that i recalled the conversation i had with those two members of the media. and said, oh, this must be what theyre talking about because they said this was widely circulating among the media and the press, this document, this report and these rumors and whatever else. i basically told them, i cant help you with that and im not going to engage. but it was subsequent to that that i connected the dots then and said t...

The so-called steel dossier. with those two members, this must be what they are talking about. they said it was widely circulating among the media and the press. this document, report, rumors, whatever else. i told them, i cant help you with that. i am not going to engage. it was subsequent to that they connected the dots and said, they must have been talking about what ultimately was referred to as the steel dozier. i didnt see it until december. there are members of congress who claim they tol...

I had ever put eyes on the so-called steel dossier that i recalled the conversation i had with those two members of the media. and said, oh, this must be what theyre talking about because they said this was widely circulating among the media and the press, this document, this report and these rumors and whatever else. i basically told them, i cant help you with that and im not going to engage. but it was subsequent to that that i connected the dots then and said they must have been talkingimatel...

Foreign intelligence collection authorities. any time we would incidentally collect information on a u.s. person, we would hand that over to the fbi because they have the legal authority to do it. we would not pursue that type of investigative, you know, sort of leads. we would give it to the fbi. we were picking things up that was of great relevance to the fbi and we wanted to make sure that they were there so they can piece it together with whatever they were collecting here domestically here....

Fbi. >> we call it incidental collection in terms of cias foreign intelligence collection authorities. any time we would incidentally collect information on a u.s. person, we would hand that over to the fbi because they have the legal authority to do it. we would not pursue that type of investigative, you know, sort of leads. we would give it to the fbi. we were picking things up that was of great relevance to the fbi and we wanted to make sure that they were there so they can piece it together ...

Where they break the law, and they dont even know theyre doing it until its too late. >> right, the witting and unwitting accomplices. >> that speaks to don junior. and i think in the last month or so, you really see trump starting to connect dots that hes been too dense to connect before, which is that his son is in trouble. >> let me ask you about cohen. we dont have to answer the question around this table about what cohen knows because donald trump answered it for us. on the day of the raid ...

Collect information from a u.s. person, we hand it over to the fbi. they have the legal authority to do it. we would not pursue that we give it to the fbi. we were picking things up, great relevance to the fbi. we wanted to make sure they were there, to piece it together to whatever they were collecting. >> intelligence sharing operation. >> put together officers together with cia, to make sure the proverbial dots would be connected. >> during your tenure as cia director. i dont believe you were...

Dossier and i think president trump is trying to tie things together that dont necessarily fit. he is trying to connect dots that are not related. bruce ohr is a career federal employee, worked in the dod-- i the doj under democrats and republicans. this isnt about his work on the russia investigation. >> and on the russia investigation, allen, we were talking about this earlier, how with the article in the new york times today that the unique reporting does fit into the bruce ohr fem attic. >> ...

I think it has been a lingering question if hes going to testify. thats been part of the pr strategy. thats not part of the legal strategy. thats been clear probably for several months, certainly in the last week or so. the president saying right there, write his report. hes setting up for what he intends to say is a system thats rigged against him. so why would he sit down with him? i thought he seems to be almost, you know, urging him to do it. theres no way i can see now he would sit down reg...