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Dr. grant, do you have concerns about national security impacts if the mueller report is released in its entirety. >> i think they obviously will be very careful to take out anything that compromises counter intelligence operations. i think that's the reason the review is going on. but we do need to see, and we need to be aware of how forceful russia is in this domain and we're setting up for a long-term competition and a long-term struggle with russia in cyber as well as in the physical domain. that's going to be a real marker that the mueller report puts down, that this cyber struggle with r...

Counsel's questioning of cohen has focused primarily on all aspects of trump's dealings with russia. so how much does michael got on trump on russia? >> i think he has all of his financial transactions, his relationships with the russian mafia. craig unger has a great book out about that. the relationships with real estate dealings. when the soviet union broke up, they liquidated all those assets, took their illicit money and put it into real estate all around the world but that money is a vehicle for buying governments and individuals. and like in all good counter intelligence operations, the...

That he has, and that is one of the many things that should make people terrified about what else happened in those two hours because this is mostly a symbolic thing. but it is the most embarrassing symbolic thing you could possibly do. vladimir putin has executed one of the most successful counter intelligence operations in the history of humanity against the united states and for that he has not been punished by donald trump. he has been rewarded by donald trump and he's humiliating the president of the united states and america at the same time in the most flagrant way possible and donald t...

Look, given the circumstances, it is not clear to me on the basis of what he said in that interview that he still doesn't know what happened in the meeting with lavrov. what coats learned is one of the things they talked about in that two hours is that whatever vladimir putin has on donald trump is enough to win him a summit meeting in washington, d.c. after assaulting our democracy, after waging this information war against the united states, while he's still ongoing with those same kind of activities, he has enough leverage over trump that he could get trump to invite him to washington this ...

He was fundamentally wrong when he made that and what created the special counsel. number two they should have informed donald trump himself. we as a country protect our presidential candidates. we give them secret confidence protection, a c.i.a. briefing, the daily even before they become the president. and if there was a counter intelligence operation, they should have informed donald trump along the way. even when he was the president elect. they had a duty and obligation and protocol would say they would actually give him a briefing. but evidently they didn't. why did they break protocol y...