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Together. now enter professor number two. hes a confidential source who cnn wont name. a retired emeritus professor at the university of cambridge. also a former white house official from the nixon, ford and reagan administrations. his relationship with u.s. intelligence dates back at least to 2012 when he began work with the pentagon think tank. this confidential source had himself recently met carter page at cambridge university at a political conference. he would subsequently have interaction...

Facts. joining me now is phillip bump, a correspondent for "the washington post." he wrote the piece i referred to, "how the fbi informants outreach to trump staffers fits into the overall investigation." phillip, what can you tell us about the interactions this confidential source had with the three trump campaign officials? >> well, i think you nailed the overview, which is that he had some limited conversations with page, he had met him at a conference and had some subsequent e-mails with. he...

Towards all of this. >> and according to his own intelligence community leadership, the dni and the cia director and -- his own top people, the russians are still doing it and looking ahead to the mid-term elections. >> and unless we grapple with what really happened in 2016 with what the russians did, not what the fbi did, and how are we going to fix the problem going forward. >> and ultimately the president is putting his personal interests first and his personal priorities over the security o...

Most importantly, the great thing for the world. well see what happens. >> sean: full interview tomorrow starting at 6:00 a.m., on "fox & friends." here with reaction, fox news national security strategy of sebastian gorka and attorney victoria toensing. full disclosure, she has done some legal work for me in the past and i v am proud to be a friend of both of them. lets start with you,en victori, a law to break down here tonigh tonight. >> listen, sean, since last december, my husband joe to je...

That anybody was a spy. in fact, i think yesterday carter page who was part of the trump campaign basically said that based on his interactions, he had no indication that anybody was spying on the campaign. >> sam clovis has virtually said something similar. >> sure. >> so what does congress do about this that the president is tweeting this morning that this could be the biggest scandal in history? >> i mean thats the presidents m.o. the president is basically blows thing up and exaggerates thin...

And so they eventually cave in. they give him the information he wants and then he finds a way to feed it to the president. the presidents able to handicap or figure out some better legal strategy because of the information he has and they keep doing this over and over. >> from what you learned, do you think the fbi did anything wrong by using a confidential informant or source to try to talk to george papadopoulos or carter page or sam clovis? >> let me say this, in all of the information that ...

That this truly was an effort to build something that did not exist. i really think that was what his mission was. >> why havent you read the attachments to his emails? >> well, one, i was busy. i worked 16-20 hours a day. we already had a lot of help on foreign policy in areas of china. i really didnt think they were going to contribute to anything. frankly, ive gone back and reviewed all my emails. i didnt report that meeting to anyone in the campaign, so the meeting was of no consequence to m...

New york congressman alleging misconduct at the justice department and f.b.i. in both the hillary clinton email investigation and the russia investigation. listen. >> these are historic legendary agencies that require transparency and accountability regarding the misconduct that took place. we learned the d.o.j., f.b.i. or both appear to have planted at least one person into the trump campaign to infiltrate and surveil the campaign. this action alone reminds us of just how necessary this resolut...

Be with one of the fbi spies on that campaign. sam clovis joins us. thanks for coming on. >> thanks for having me on. >> you believe you had a face-to-face encounter. describe that meeting. >> several days before the september 1st meeting i had an opportunity to receive emails from steven halper, saying he knew carter page, and asked for a sit-down with me. he wanted to come in and discuss foreign policy and to provide some -- what he thought might be his -- some of his writings that would be ab...

Campaign as the number of people contacted by informants continues to increase. sam clovis, george papadopoulos and carter page were targeted. the letter responding last night on the "angle." >> i never knew anything about the person i was speaking with who is a university professor at cambridge in the u.k. at the time. i was invited to participate in a conference in july of 2016 and everything seemed totally norma normal. >> laura: its called grooming, thats what they do, carter. but a much mor...