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Entities that could be linked to foreign governments. we could require campaigns to do the right thing. we shouldnt have to. but we could do that. but the fact is that the american people will get the final word here. we need to hold him accountable at the polls and everywhere else. >> in terms of his directive that the fbi direct ser wrong to suggest that campaigns is should contact the fbi if they get an overture like this from a foreign country, would you expect as a member of the intelligenc...

Adversaries watch every word said by the president of the united states, and they analyze it, what does this mean. if you take two things the president recently said, one in his conversation with putin where he said he still thinks this whole russia intervention on our election was a hoax, and if you combine it today with him saying i wouldnt necessarily call the fbi if the russians offered me dirt again, you put two and two together and is the russians know as long as they intervene on trumps b...

>> the fbi director says thats what should happen. >> the fbi is wrong. >> your campaign this time around foreigner, if russia, if china, if someone else offers you information on an opponent, should they accept it or call the fbi? >> i think maybe you do both. i think you might want to listen. there is nothing wrong with listening. if somebody called from a congress, norway, we have information on your opponent. oh. i think id want to hear it. >> you want that kind of interference in our electi...

Evidence on tape of criminal intent, right? thats the criminal intent that mueller said he couldnt quite nail down the last time trumps campaign actually did take help from a foreign country. but now there it is, out loud on tape as he is promising to do it again in the next election. joining us now congressman adam schiff, the chairman of the house intelligence committee. sir, thanks very much for being here. i really appreciate your time. >> great to be with you. >> so what is your reaction to...

On the show, what a former fbi official told the intelligence committee as you saw today. as the president today tells abc news he would welcome anything he could get from a foreign country to help him in an election. i mean, the back channel secret communications mike flynn had with the russians during the presidential transition is the kind of stuff russia uses to keep adversaries off balance. donald trump fired the fbi director who wouldnt shut down the investigation into flynn and then trump...

There are former senior counterintelligence officials from the fbi warning about how dangerous it is as a national security matter for a campaign to take information surreptitiously shopped to them from a foreign government. yeah, thats how you compromise people in the u.s. government. thats how a foreign government, particularly a hostile foreign adversary would compromise people in the u.s. government. thats how a hostile foreign adversary would conceivably get power over our government, and o...

As a potentially criminal act by trump and his campaign. and in explaining what they found when they investigated that acceptance of an offer of information from the russian government, mueller and his team wrote this. quote, the communications setting up the meeting and the attendance by high level campaign representatives support an inference that the trump campaign anticipated receiving derogatory documents and information from controversial sources that could assist trumps electoral processe...

Very institutions at their core because theyre rooted fundamentally on shared values. >> if the president goes through with what he was promising to do today and openly solicited or surreptitiously solicits and gets found out later on he is working with a foreign government of some stripe to try to obtain information that he can use against his opponents or some other form of advantage that he can get in the election, how do you think the congress would react? how do you think law enforcement wo...

Again, to subvert our democratic process. >> today at the intelligence committee in the house, we just spoke with the chairman of that committee. there were former fbi officials who testified at experts who talked about why foreign governments might want to offer a candidate in a u.s. election assistance with dirt on their opponent or something else that they could use to help them get elected, why that might be an influence operation. can you as somebody who has done counterintelligence work li...

Counter intelligence section under president obama and during the fibs yerst year of the trum administration. its a real honor to have you here. thanks for making time for us tonight. >> good evening, rachel. >> so we are continuing to cover the surprise news involving the president tonight. did an interview with abc news in which he flat-out bluntly asserted under fairly open ended questioning that he would be basically happy to accept foreign assistance in the next election, that he would not ...