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Professor in london linked to the rush xwranz now weve got erik prince going to the seychelles, the crown prince of the uae has a russian fund manager and russian lawyers going to trump tower through some russian singers kid. that seems to me purposeful and part of what steele was putting together. he was trying to figure out where all these cutouts relate back to the original push by russians. >> you have to remember that steele was at mi6, the secret intelligence service of great britain for a...

>> you have to remember that steele was at mi6, the secret intelligence service of great britain for about 20 years and his expertise was in russia. so he knows this kind of technique, and he understands how russia works and how their intelligence system works and so this is somewhat familiar to him. and hes looking at this pattern and thinking watch out. oh, my gosh. you know, theyre really trying to sort of seduce and the people around him. >> jane maier, its an amazing piece in the new yorker...

Information for those who are deeply in the weeds on this investigation. and following very closely. at the end of the day, i think this is a sideshow. it shows a disk functioning house intelligence committee. anything that comes out of the house intelligence committee is not bipartisan, we will have to be suspect of giving this that is occurring. it causes us to focus very much on what robert mueller is doing. >> you just mentioned let me pick up on that a second pretty data shows it is functio...

Here you have adam schiff engaging with ukrainians trying to dig up dirt on the president with seemingly no interest in whether or not the information is true or false or doctored. if you use the same standard applied to schiff he should have no role as a lead on this issue. if you look at his credibility with the american people, itsk eroded. i mean, it was only a few weeks ago adam schiff saying if we released the national security memo there would be national security catastrophe thats been p...

To knock the investigation off track, and they want to stop mueller from doing his job. and the public needs to be very concerned about that, because bob mueller is their representative in the justice system to get to the bottom of whats happened with this russia attack on our democracy. >> for the sake of transparency, would you ever be an advocate of all of the information of the process as it pertained to carter page or anyone else who, you know, the fisa court wins approval on surveillance, ...

This dozen yessier alone doesn you there. >> how often does this happen that the intelligence community would use something like this information from an outside intelligence source thats nobi to form the basis of their own investigation? is that common? >> it depends on whether you are talking about a law enforcement matter or intelligence matter. you have to remember that, a lot more is based on analytical presupposition and probability. theres no real legal -- you are not prosecuting somethin...

Surveilled, it means people who are doing the surveilling are being surveilled. one would hope, i dont know. great to have you back on the program. >> i think that its important to note that the only people who are entering the intelligence community report are people with the information and has foreign intelligence value. if you are not doing anything that foreign intelligence value, even from a person thats talking to you, thats going to eventually be discarded from the intelligence system. y...

The way it thought about the problem. and i think that paints a picture of a guy who came in thinking that the system is fundamentally flawed in some way and is probably saying that to trump. you add in the fact that flynn was later forced out of a job at the pentagon intelligence office, defense intelligence agency and might have a little personal ax to grind against clapper in particular who was the guy that pulled the plug on him. and i think that it could -- im speculating a little bit here,...

Issues. flynn has a history of saying there are fundamental plau flaws in the intelligence system and might have a personal grudge against jim clapper. i think theres more to the story than that, but i think thats important to understand to your particular question. >> im going to ask robert costa to respond. he actually knows the players around donald trump better than anyone. robert? >> when you look at general flynns influence, its certainly perhaps -- the president-elect has confided with fl...

Monday. we are learning about the president-elects plans to perhaps overall the intelligence system. cnns sara murray has latest. >> reporter: good morning, john and christine. donald trump going to battle with the u.s. agencies and leaders of his party as he takes to twitter to suggest he doesnt believe u.s. intelligence agencies assessment that russia attempted to meddle in the u.s. election. suggesting he may be more likely to believe julian assange who insists none of the information about h...