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Demand an investigation into reports that a longtime u.s. intelligence source met with three trump aides during the 2016 election. they include campaign co-chairman sam clovis, carter page and george papadopoulos. the president sent a dozen tweets over the last 72 hours. a dozen. including eight yesterday. quote, if the fbi or doj was infiltrating for the benefit of another campaign, that is a really big deal. only the release or review of documents that the house intelligence committee, also se...

Was the dossier, it was late july, august when it all started. now were finding out that this guy was reaching out to carter page, sam clovis, pop adopt plus -- pop adopt lis, in early july. these bit players, carter page, papadopoulos, bit players. might be too close to russia. lets net -- get in there and get some eyes and ears in there. abby: that gives you a pretty clear sense of how he feels about president trump. the doj has responded, and theyre saying we treat disclosures of classified i...

Since then, there was no mole inside the campaign but as the fbi became increasingly worried about possible links with russia, it had a fellow, apparently an american professor based in england, talk to several members of the trump campaign, particularly in the foreign policy area. does that bother you? >> yeah, it bothers me that there may be an informant in one of the campaigns, unless theres a good reason. all i can tell you is the dossier compiled by mr. steele that was given to the justice ...

Several reports since then, there was no mole inside the campaign but as the fbi became increasingly worried about possible links with russia, it had a fellow, apparently an american professor based in england, talk to several members of the trump campaign, particularly in the foreign policy area. does that bother you? >> yeah, it bothers me that there may be an informant in one of the campaigns, unless theres a good reason. all i can tell you is the dossier compiled by mr. steele that was given...

To ask them about relations with russia. >> what you have is an ongoing effort to undermine not only the mueller investigation, but the intelligence organizations, the cia and fbi, that started this counter-intelligence effort based on the idea that russia was bette interfearing in an ong election. this changes nothing in terms of the substance. the president has backed off the embedded stuff. iat one point he said it was bigger than watergate. >> he was talking about infiltration. >> all three ...

Of the campaign to try to ask about relations with russia. >> you have an ongoing effort i think to undermine not only the mueller investigation but the intelligence organizations, the cia and fbi that started the counter-intelligence effort based on the idea that russia was interfering in an ongoing election. this changes nothing in terms of the substance. the president backed off the embedded stuff. at one point he said this was bigger that watergate. >> chris: hes talking about infiltration. ...

Co-chairman sam clovis for coffee in northern virginia, offering to provide foreign policy expertise to the trump effort. in september, he reached out to george papadopoulos, an unpaid foreign policy adviser for the campaign, inviting him to london to work on a research paper. now, its a lot. well grant you that. robert costa is among the co-authors of that piece we just read you. and as a national political reporter for "the washington post" and moderator of "washington week" on pbs, he has bee...

To trust that were going to protect their identities, and in many cases, their lives and the lives of their families. the day that we cant protect human sources is the day the american people start becoming less safe. >> that was important right there. "the washington post" has also been working on this story and reports that a secret fbi source for the russian investigation made contact with three trump advisers during the campaign. the "post" reports that quote in mid-july 2016, a retired amer...

He said, yes, someone had been implanted and there was all sorts of query about that and the reporting was that somebody met this person, this academic, an american academic living in london, met with three different individuals of the campaign. that is much different than being implanted within the campaign. >> alex, the "washington post" reported, not the "new york times," that when steven halperin met with sam close advice, he asked sam clovis for a dwrob. he was going to give everything over...

>> the three individuals that are in our article are the same two thats in "the new york times" and the third is sam clovis, who was affiliated with the trump campaign under a different guise. >> matt, your report tonight says that the informant is well known in washington circles, having served in previous republican administrations and as a source of information for the cia in past years. do you have any sense of how, is this person concerned that the presidents allies want to -- want his iden...