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But yet today in washington the white house forced the exposure of information about that source, that human source, and the evidence that that source collected in part through his contact with george papadopoulos during the campaign when the fbi was investigating, hey, howd you have advance notice? i mean, that is a live ongoing investigation that has not yet come to its end. we do not know what prosecutors are trying to do with that information, if anything, and how they are going to charge th...

Bust. i think we look at two things here. one is the content of this meeting, which should never have happened, because the premise of the content of the meeting was it was going to be describing elements of a human source. so only people who cared about undermining the sanctity of human sources were interested in holding this meeting. but structurally as you pointed out, it was also very problem atible for two reasons. one it was first designed as a gop only meeting. only later did democrats ha...

Todays gang of eight briefing was conducted to ensure protection of sources and methods. nothing we heard today has changed our view that there is no evidence to support any allegation that the fbi or any intelligence agency placed a spy in the trump campaign or otherwise failed to follow appropriate procedures and protocols. thank you. >> was it appropriate to have -- >> congressman adam schiff, one of a handful of members of congress who was ultimately allowed into a weird and unprecedented br...

Notice that russia had stolen democratic e-mails. russia stealing democratic e-mails is very simply a crime under u.s. law. the special counsels office has thus far filed no charges related to russia stealing democrats e-mails. so we know the crime was committed. we know from the intelligence communitys assessment russia did it. we know there was some connection to the trump campaign at least in terms of papadopoulos having some advance notice of that. but we dont know where that crime is going ...

Usually its a foreign national who is going to work on behalf of u.s. intelligence agencies and provide information about issues related to our national security. a confidential human source is what the fbi uses in order to have some insight into what may be going on that could involve criminal activity and so to label someone as a spy when they are confidential human source is doing a disservice to these individuals but to the fbi. this is something that mr. trump is masterful at in terms of tw...

An american citizen? >> they may use a confidential human source. they may use some type of physical or technical surveillance. they may use other types of authorized techniques in other words to gain that kind of information thats going to allow them to better understand what foreign actors, in in case, russia was doing to try to undermine our democracy. >> youre one of the top advisors in the nsc in the obama white house and had a long experience as an intelligence officer studying north korea...

Terrorist phillip mud and national security analyst shawn turner. gentlemen, thank you so much for join us. good evening. >> thanks, don. >> former fbi director james comey tweeted this out today in response to president trumps attacks against the fbi. facts matter. the fbis use of confidential human source, the actual term, is tightly regulated and essential to protecting the country. attacks on the fbi and lying about its work will do lasting damage to our country. how will republicans explain...

There. he didnt accomplish anything there but undermined the credibility of the meeting and once again your look for adult sup supervision saying why would we turn this into a meeting by personal case. thats alarming that these types of mistake still occurring. kellys presence there was not problematic. >> martha: in terms of the substance of the meeting and whether there was an informant and theres been twitter back and forth whether its supposed to be called an informant, james comey said its ...

Russia by three people on the trump campaign. that counterintelligence source, that fbi human source is the kind of thing, the identity of that source, the evidence collected by that source is the sort of thing that would typically be held very, very closely by the intelligence community and by the fbi. the president has nevertheless campaigned publicly. that information on that source should be release and that it should be handed over. now what the white house has announced thus far is when th...

Confidential information about a confidential human source that the fbi used in the early stages of its investigation into whether or not the russian government and russian intelligence agencies were trying to penetrate donald trumps presidential campaign. to compliment the ongoing at the time russian government efforts to interfere with the presidential campaign to benefit trumps candidacy. and were going to be speaking with presidential historian michael beschloss later tonight. so we will che...