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As a cover. emmanuel macron, these efforts are crucial. to severely poke and prod and see what vladimir putins thoughts are and what his intentions are. diplomacy in this sense is an information gathering exercise. just as diplomacy right now by the united states has masterfully crafted to organize sanctions to put more pressure on vladimir putin and to ensure that the choices before him are clear and so that he does come to the table with serious intent to actually engage and cut a deal to end ...

Russians, most of the ones who have been fingered, including cohen and manafort and stone, most of them have been focused on lying. youre lying to congress, lying to investigators, thats it. im wondering if it has veered off course. >> i dont think it ever had a course, neil. thats the problem. we talked about this before. i think it was given -- the fbi took it as a counter intelligence investigation and thats the way mueller inherited it. the problem with a counter intelligence investigation i...

In like any minute now. neil: right. >> are being overly optimistic. that doesnt mean that hes got something big coming down the pike necessarily because i think if he did, he wouldnt be allowing people who would be potential witnesses to be sentenced, rather than old back their sentencing until theyve been able to testify. but i do think there are loose ends here and lets not forget, this from the beginning was a counter intelligence investigation, not just a criminal investigation. and as i ha...

Ordinarily counter intelligence doesnt get a prosecutor. its not lawyer work. when you a sign a prosecutor to a counter intelligence investigation rather than a criminal investigation its very open-ended. its just an information gathering exercise. >> if i a sign someone to investigate whether there is a conspiracy between trump and the kremlin to hack into democratic computer systems, i know i have a crime. finite transaction with a beginning and end, essential elements to the crime. the good t...

Fitness to be president. his narrow job as federal prosecutor is im authorized to look at these potential criminal charges. there is enough evidence to charge or isnt enough evidence to charge. usually in the justice department thats a narrow and short summary. >> maybe the summary will be narrow but it field like the scope of the whole thing was just sort of indiscriminate. i believes the general public believes it was all about potential pollution -- collusion with the trump campaign and russi...

Carry this as a counterintelligence investigation, because counterintelligence is just an information gathering exercise. the regs, when you appoint a special counsel, say you are i supposed to describe the offenses that require a criminal investigation and that the justice department is recused from, and the importance of that, criminal investigation has a beginning and an end. its got concrete elements that you know you have to prove to prove the transaction is being investigated, whereas coun...

Anybody you might be able to -- im not defending the behavior, some of the really dumb behavior. this could be done to anybody if you wanted to do it to somebody. am i overstating? >> this is why i was so excited beginning, tucker, that they carry this as a counterintelligence investigation, because counterintelligence is just an information gathering exercise. when you appoint a special counsel, they say you are supposed to describe the offenses that require a criminal investigation, and that t...