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Two went off against michael flynn. michael flynn, threatening the logan act. going after him for his contacts. appropriate contacts for the incoming national security advisor should have with foreign officials. and then unmasking him and leaking that information. unmasked information from the press. that, itself is a crime, the leaking of that classified information. and there were certainly other time bombs and booby traps they left behind. the dossier briefing was then immediately leaked the ...

Flynn. michael flynn, threatening the logan act. going after him for his contacts. appropriate contacts for the incoming national securityt. advisor should have with foreign officials. and then unmasking him and unleaking that information. unmasked information from the press. that, itself is a crime, the leaking of that classified information. and there were certainly other time bombs and booby traps they left behind. the dossier briefing was then immediately leaked the facts of it to cnn. and w...

Chief chiefs, with then president-elect donald trump. >> between election day and inauguration, did anyone in government or in intelligence, did they take action to justify their decisions? >> i think there were some very strange developments in that period. 245s one of the thing -- thats one of the things we want to look into. >> such as. >> such as the handling of the meeting on january 26 between the intelligence chiefs, the president, the leaking of information subsequent to that information...

Hes not worried about stone walling the democrats for information. go ahead. >> right. i mean, he is unflappable in the face of this kind of histrionic demagoguery calling him a kgb agent and so forth. he was pulling his punches a little bit in that particular response. because it was not appropriate for bob mueller to put all of this dirt and smear and negative information out there about the president in this report and then not be able to pinpoint any particular crime. that is the type of sme...

Republican president president bush now all of a sudden you look at this and william barr is saying timeout back in 2016 this fisa court which is supposed to be use sod we can surveil terrorists, thats the real goal there. pete: exactly. ed: being used to surveil carter page and maybe other trump officials at the very least mainstream media should we look at this and get some answers and if bill barr is wrong he will be embarrassed obviously and rightly. so the attorney general of the united sta...

At the counter intelligence program. >> reporter: attorney general barr all emphasized special counsel mueller issued the predicate for the investigation and its reliability. >> its a very unusual situation to have opposition research like that. especially one that on face has a number of clear mistakes and an analysis. and to use that to conduct counter intelligence against the american political campaign is a strange -- would be a strange development. im not sure what will be in play but thats...

2017. >> between election day and the inauguration, did any one in government or intelligence take action to justify their decisions? >> between election day, did you say? >> between election day of 2016 in november. and inauguration day. >> i think there were some very strange developments during that period. that is one of the things we want to look in to. >> such as? >> such as the handling of the meeting on january 6th between the intelligence chiefs and the president and the leaking of info...

Regime responsible and what the president is saying with the strategic forces sending a message loud and clear we will hold you responsible. that is the best way to prevent conflict and that is what the president is doing and its absolutely right. in terms of the hundreds of thousands of troops, the pentagons job is to present options. best case and worst case to be able to respond and i think some of that leaking and people reacting is hyperbolic. >> shannon: the president saying he hopes not c...

Unredacted report. i said that would be a crime. you are heading into a world of hurt if you go to the d.c. circuit and argue that you could order barr, that barr could unilaterally release the information. >> sean: the fishing expeb digs is going nowhere. in an effort to be transparent, barr has expanded access to most unredacted, the most unredacted version of the mueller report. so that democrats, if they just take the time, they can see almost all of it. no word by the way if any democrats w...

Now. attorney general william barr telling our own bill hemmer in an exclusive interview that he is trying to get to the bottom of whether government officials put their thumb on the scale during the early stages of the russia probe. and whether there dont like the surveillance of the term campaign was justified. of particular interest to barr, he says, is president trumps meeting with the nation intelligence chief just a few days before he took office in 2017. watch. >> i think there were some ...