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Intelligence at the fbi, frank figliuzzi. with us at the table paul butler, former federal prosecutor and former managing editor for "time" magazine. i pose that question to you to start. >> well, its clear through the indictment out of the southern district of new york that there are persons known and unknown. when you hear persons known that, means that the government knows there is other individuals and that theyre likely under investigation. is one of those individuals rudy giuliani? it woul...

Level of detail in the indictment and actual dates, times, quotes, youre looking at a combination of either a human source and/or legally authorized electronic surveillance of these two guys. is it likely then? perhaps that rudy or others would have been captured incidentally on such coverage? you bet. >> mike schmidt, you and your colleagues have reported on the effort that rudy was in the middle of to get the ukrainians to dig up dirt on joe biden. you and your colleagues have all right report...

Government, they couldnt have obtained any other way. key information about the russian attack on the 2016 election including specific documentation showing that putin himself ordered the election attack, signed off on it and that it was specifically intended to try to install trump in the white house. that is not putin-specific information youll get out of signals intelligence. that was human intelligence that u.s. agencies got from a human source inside the russian government. so the fact that...

2016 election had been approved of and ordered directly by putin himself. for reasons that remain unclear, that very, very, very valuable human source inside the russian government got exfiltrated from russia, got taken out of russia on an emergency basis in 2017 by the u.s. he was apparently brought back to the u.s. to live here instead. and for reasons that also remain unclear his existence and then soon thereafter his identical and soon after that his exact address have all been reported in m...

Episode involving the founder to russias state funded rt network who died under mysterious circumstances in a dupont circle hotel days before he was set to meet with u.s. justice department investigators. jeremy bash, what questions does this raise, especially about election interference? >> well, there are a lot of concerning aspects about the story and frankly a lot of concerning aspects about the reporting. id be remiss if i didnt say this, i think it was a mistake and it was fairly irrespons...

Practiced counterintelligence for as many years as you did, it means knowing a lot about intelligence. how valuable would someone like this have been to us? >> brian, this is the kind of human source that you can go an entire career and never be exposed to. to have someone thats called a recruitment in place at this level reportedly with access to vladimir putins office is exceptionally rare, and americans through this unfortunate leak are getting a very rare glimpse of the human stakes involved...

Means knowing a lot about intelligence. how valuable would someone like this have been to us? >> brian, this is the kind of human source that you can go an entire career and never be exposed to. to have someone thats called a recruitment in place at this level reportedly with access to vladimir putins office is exceptionally rare, and americans through this unfortunate leak are getting a very rare glimpse of the human stakes involved. this human being risked his life, risked his family, to work ...

Prize-winning washington correspondent for "the new york times." frank, in order to have practiced counterintelligence for as many years as you did, it means knowing a lot about intelligence. how valuable would someone like this have been to us? >> brian, this is the kind of human source that you can go an entire career and never be exposed to. to have someone thats called a recruitment in place at this level reportedly with access to vladimir putins office is exceptionally rare, and americans t...

Believe the chem lykremlin lyin can choose to understand how the intelligence community works. i think those who read the mueller report closely like many of us did understood that the level of detail in volume one having to deal with the russian interference with the election had to have come from deep, deep sources, whether they were human or whether they were whats called signal intercepts or both. i think the manifestation has come into reality that the likelihood that one human source invol...

Train out of russia. i cant overestimate this. look, if youre looking -- let me give you a specific example, brianna. if youre looking at what the russians are doing in syria as they enter syria momentarily, if you can look at how the russians are moving in, maybe you can disrupt russian security in syria, but what the adversary is thinking, you need a human source. you need someone in the kremlin saying, this is why were going in and these are our goals. that is really, really tough to get. >> ...