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Peter strzok text messages and the scandal surrounding those. but the question of who's doing the day in, day out work and who has for the last year or so, i think has really gotten lost here. so what i tried 20 do in a story this week is profile a number of individuals that have been put onto this team helping mueller conduct this investigation. a number of them have longstanding ties to some of the other prosecutors on mueller's team, such as andrew weissman, one of the top fbi agents who is handling this investigation, has been working almost 20 years ago. i met weissman working on the enro...

He and the president have never gotten along. the president chafes at the way that h.r. mcmaster briefs him, because he feels he's being condescending when the president asks questions. so it is safe to say there would be no love lost there. but they are talking about an exit plan for h.r. mcmaster. a sense he could be out of the white house. and though officials were cautious to express any kind of confidence in him being here for the long-term, just a few days ago, just this morning sarah sanders, the press secretary said the president thinks he's doing, quote, a great job. >> kaitlan collin...

Disagreements as you know over the russian activity. president donald trump as we heard today is still reluctant to accept intelligence inclusions about russia's bhed meddling in the election and slowed efforts to counter the threat. former and current intelligence officials tell us. we're also told that counterintelligence agents and the fbi are seeking to keep an eye on this activity to some extent. in some cases, the fbi will use surveillance to track the suspected russian intelligence officers as part of a counterintelligence effort, and that's how the u.s. was able to identify and expel 3...

That this is an intelligence inquiry as opposed to criminal investigation. the fbi used to just investigate crimes. starting in 2008. we put in guidelines that allowed them to gather intelligence. the other night on adam schiff of california blurted ought that he as member of the house intelligence committee was interested in hearing from the counterintelligence agents at fbi about this meeting. i think what that discloses is that there may very well be a matter of fbi intelligence gathering. in that case, there's no criminal investigation. >> want to get answer from both of you. jeffrey and r...

Allegation of a crime, they tier not going to stop investigating. >> actually, i think that's overly optimistic about the work of the fbi. if robert mueller is fired and this investigation, you know, tblly still exists, but there's no one in charge of it, donald trump wins. >> i didn't say he didn't win. the counterintelligence agents at the fbi that are working the case, they don't simply go away. anticipate you don't shred your files and case closed. that actually requires a process. and if there's additional information, if there's an allegation that there's a crime, they don't simply stop ...