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Lead investigator in the case for the fbi who texted his girlfriend about the case. there is nothing there. so, what is mueller doing? he has to shut everybody up and use the power of the federal law enforcement boot to keep everybody quiet. hence the deal with papadopoulos. if papadopoulos starts talking about this initial meeting, about the dirt on hillary and it turns out the air quotes here dirt on hillary came from western intelligence assets and not russians, ed, the guy was set up. what o...

Intelligence." earlier we played a very disturbing recording of crying undocumented children who had been separated from their parents. we want to credit propublica from that. just ahead, more reaction to the attempts to defend an immigration policy that some republicans now are calling indefensible. well be back in a moment. when youre particular, you want things done right. thats why we test all of our paints and stains for months. or even years. we dedicate 175,000 square feet to getting ...

Including many americans. >> the u.s. intelligence officials we contacted are not commenting on deans information, but hes sharing other information details with us tonight. he says al qaeda is making a major comeback thanks to an influx of new fighters and cash from the syrian civil war. and he says, al qaeda is grooming hamza bin laden, osama bin ladens son, to be its new leader. the group is counting on a major attack on a western target to propel hamza bin laden onto the world stage. >> and ...

Symptom at beiatic of something broad in american society. >> whethat are the fears you se? >> a move forwards nativism here in the united states. look, blood and soil. sounds familiar. that used to be unacceptable. for god sake -- >> thats what we heard at charlottesville. >> jews will not replace us. >> because of some things the president and the administration have done, wolf, the center line of acceptable american discourse has changed. now suddenly thats not so far out there that you never...

Passiona passionately, as strongly as you are? >> im not alone. there are actually quite surprisingly a lot of folks with kind of my background, jim clapper, john brennan, john mclaughlin, who are out there expressing this. maybe its because in our intelligence lives we have seen the face of evil. maybe in our intelligence lives we have seen societies that should have been healthy turned very unhealthy. maybe in our intelligence lives we have recognized how fragile these things really are. wolf,...

Meeting in june in this -- one way or the other, the russians are trying to gain access, leverage to the campaign. presumably, exert influence. >> does this incident that we are now learning about over last day or so, does it -- its obviously the offer of damaging information involving hillary clinton. does it fit into how russians operate? >> absolutely. as we recounted in our intelligence communitywe render major objective of the russians was to disparage hillary clinton and her campaign. this...

Much to stomach. so therefore, i decided that this is not for me. >> reporter: he spent nearly eight years working as a spy against al qaeda, undercover, deep inside the group, on behalf of british intelligence. in fact, dean isnt even his real name. its a cover to protect his identity. his life as a spy inside the terror group is the subject of a new book, nine lives. >> arguably the most important western spy inside al qaeda. his intelligence was priceless. his identity, one of the most closel...

Know where countries make nuclear weapons and where they store them, so what we fall back to typically is trying to look at their capabilities to make plutonium and weapon grade uranium and those facilities tend to be easier to understand and to inspect. paul: all right, how many of those facilities do we have, for a while we had a plutonium site but we didnt know about enriched uranium site? >> thats right, plutonium is much better understood. a focus of the six-party talks in the 2000s and ear...

Know where countries make nuclear weapons and where they store them, so what we fall back to typically is trying to look at their capabilities to make plutonium and weapon grade uranium and those facilities tend to be easier to understand and to inspect. paul: all right, how many of those facilities do we have, for a while we had a plutonium site but we didnt know about enriched uranium site? >> thats right, plutonium is much better understood. a focus of the six-party talks in the 2000s and ear...

Mifsud -- or mifsud is there and later goes and tells papadopoulos about the e-mails, right? >> right. so they met at some point in the spring of 2016, and papadopoulos at first, if mifsud was not interested in papadopoulos at all. he thought he was some low level energy consultant. and upon learning he was actually associated with the trump campaign, thats when mifsud started to take interest in papadopoulos, according to special counsel robert muellers court filings. now we dont know where mif...