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Unanimity. there are not parts of the intelligence community who do not prescribe to this. this is a unanimous view, except for one person important. >> frank, let me ask you what this looks like. i think when the report came out in "the new york times" a couple fridays ago that a counterintelligence investigation had been opened up into the president, there were some questions, it was reported mueller took it over but questions about whether it was ongoing, whether it had been absorbed and wrapped up. it would seem with this decision, with this news in just the last hour he hasn't imposed the...

And reassured that we have an fbi that's doing the job that american people should want them to do. that's unafraid to take evidence and look at it. now, we need to dig deeply into this. i have a lot of questions. was this a preliminary inquiry? did it turn into a full investigation? the standards, american people should know the standards to open a preliminary inquiry in counterintelligence is reasonable suspicion. standards to open a full investigation in counterintelligence is specific and articulate facts. so we need to understand that distinction and where this went. chris, we always knew...

Standards that are required to open a case, right, that this is not something done in a vacuum. if you're going to look into the president of the united states, you're going to the department of justice. you're showing them your evidence. they are concurring with your concerns and they're allowing you to pursue this line of inquiry. to open even a preliminary inquiry in counterintelligence, you need to have a reasonable suspicion that someone is or may be an agent of a foreign power or is being targeted by that foreign power to open a full investigation and you say, well, we don't know whether...

All of that likely was part of this predication to be concerned enough to open a case, counterintelligence case, to determine whether the president has been coopted or is working for a foreign power. my gut tells me there's much more to this than just the public antics of the president. >> chuck, i have one for you. every night here, i try to watch all the cables, cnn, fox news, part on the job, and tonight, watching fox news, they seem to devote most of their coverage to illegal immigration, various discussions of that, then they came a time where they did report this "new york times" story, ...

Because you've got to keep the rulebook in your top drawer. i lived as a counterintelligence agent with the attorney general guidelines in the top drawer of my desk and referred to them daily until i memorized entire portions of them. that's how heavily regulated it is. so, any notion that some agent can open some case willy nil ly against a president is misguided. the level of review, the department of justice review, the number of lawyers that would have to have touched this to allow this to happen is almost immeasurable. so i want to try to dispel that nation, that there would have to be mu...