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did they violate the law? >> all the facts point to that. >> dana: andy mccarthy has legal analysis and david spunt is live outside federal court in virginia. hi, david. >> this is an interesting case because on paper it is about lying to the f.b.i. but in the actual courtroom special counsel john durham is going far beyond this case and trying to expose or uncover some riffs and problems within the f.b.i. leading up to the 2016 election and shortly there after, after donald trump became president in the early days. the man on trial is a russian national named danchenko charged with ...

Link? >> the very same code that you just cite says that even the appearance of a conflict of interest necessitates recusal. and we're not prosecuting some street level drug dealer. people are going after the trump administration. so we should hold to the highest conflict of interest standard. because mueller as the fbi director had a counter intelligence mission. while there was counter intelligence information lirnging uranium assets to bribes at the same time that the clinton foundation was taking money from russian oligarchs, there is a mountain of admittedly circumstantial evidence but it...

Uranium one deal. >> so you believe -- you believe the fbi -- >> let me finish. because he was part of that fact pattern, he cannot now go back and investigate something where he may very well be a witness. >> you're stating a belief that the filibuster was involved in this, the fbi was involved. there are nine government agencies involved. the "washington post" has reported, the fbi was not part of the government refuse. let me read to you. nine government agencies make up the government committee that review such deals. along with five other observer agencies. the fbi is not one of them. how...

Ranking member have allowed us to do our job, have empowered us, have been hands on and it's much appreciated. with that i'll direct it to senator whitehouse. >> thank you for what you are doing, investigating the threat of russian interference in our election. in january the russian government on the orders of putin engaged in an election influenced campaign throughout 2016. in march fbi director comey confirmed that and i quote him here, the fbi as part of its counter intelligence mission is investigating the rush government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 election and that includes inves...

Now, you report that people are worry that administration will try to interfere with ongoing russia. >> sure, the biggest concern is i think in some way funding but the mission of fbi, there is a counter intelligence mission with the fbi, there are thousands of agents who assigned to the intelligence. we don't hear everything that they do. russians are very well known for doing this from wanting to come here and spy on us and infiltrate our government and institution and the fbi working with over sea sources and some of their sbintelligence. the concern is we appointed different directors and ...