january of 2014 to december of 2017. as that top fbi lawyer, james baker was in the room for many of the major decisions made for the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election and the issue of potential coordination of people associated with the trump campaign. baker is currently the director of national security and cyber security in a nonprofit research organization. mr. baker, thank you very much for being here. an honor for having you here. you spring more than 20 years at the justice department and the fbi. since you left last year, you have been under investigation by the inspector general for handling of the investigation of the president s campaign and subject of a criminal investigation over alleged leaks to the media and the president made a sport out of suggesting that you personally acted treasonously and attempted a coup and you have been a star on conservative media.
now director of national security at a nonprofit research organization. good evening to you. hey, how are you? thank you. i m great. as we all remember, you were the man at the center of it and for a long time were not speaking because of that. when you look at it, all told, the mueller report mostly out in redacted form. what should americans bottom line understanding be of what bob mueller found? that the russian federation poses a serious threat to the united states, to our security, to the security of our elections. that as he described it, the elements of the russian military and intelligence forces were engaged in a concerted attack. that was the word he used. that director mueller used on our political system. and we should be very, very alarmed by that. so look. we started an investigation to ask the question about what the russians were up to. and director mueller answered that question and he found that
center of attention today, getting a ton more attention even then, certain measures being kicked around that could avoid a government shut down. shep? shepard: peter doocy live on the hill. thank you. let s go to john alterman now. he served in the state department under president george w. bush and the director of middle east programs at the center for strategic studies, which is a nonprofit research organization. john also new jamal khaishoggi. what do you make of what is happening there today, sir? it s interesting that the administration has been trying to head this off, to say there s nothing to see here. it feels to me like a lot of what we re seeing out of congress is not so much about really bashing the saudis but about pulling u.s. policy towards being serious, at least saying this cannot stand. where u.s. policy ends up, but it s a strange tug of war with
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