republican opponents of the president, then hillary clinton's campaign hired. they hired a former british spy. he solicited information from russian officials. that is equal to the russian government and the russian military intelligence interfering in the election in 2016? >> first of aushlll, the steele report. steele turned the report over to the fbi in the summer of 2016. so this document was turned over. but let's say on a going forward basis, if there was a former foreign agent that was hired, yeah, that ought to be disclosed to the fbi. i'm open to -- again, how do we make this work going forward? we've got to protect our democracy. the one thing we know is that russia and others will be back. don't take my word for it. take the director of the fbi. trump's own hand-picked director