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Only about these two men igor fruman and lev parnas, two of the guys indicted last week, but also about their ties to rudy giuliani. they were interested in whether there were any counterintelligence concerns that arose from those ties, those business dealings. so that's the first indication we have that prosecutors in new york have been digging into this much longer than we all realized. >> wow. then who in new york, who at sdny is investigating it? >> reporter: we know not only are these counterintelligence agents and counterintelligence people working on it we know the people who do public ...

Have those ties to giuliani indicted. all four due in court tomorrow. now, cnn is reporting the criminal probe of giuliani also now includes, according to cnn's reporting, what they call counterintelligence concerns. now, that's a big deal. because it could mean there are national security implications to all of this. and it also means potential charges. donald trump seemed to turn on giuliani, then he seemed to embrace him this weekend. and just on cue, here he is, distancing himself from him today. >> rudy was seeking out corruption. and i think there's nothing wrong with seeking out corrupt...

Fact that the russians did in fact meddle in our campaign. they then narrowed the scope of their inquiry to whether or not they can prove a criminal conspiracy between the trump campaign and russian actors and, of course, concluded they did not have evidence to prove such a conspiracy. that is a far cry from resolving counterintelligence concerns that may arise from any number of facts they uncover during the course of their work. so we often refer to the fact the report cites over 100. i think it's more in the neighborhood of 140 different interactions between people associated with the campa...

He referred this matter to congress. we have taken up that referral. and it's fully important in our view that we have an opportunity to flesh out what the russians did, how they did it, what the role of the trump campaign personnel were, what were the counterintelligence issues, what was the process used to handle the counterintelligence concerns, where are the findings. all of these questions and a great many more the american people should have the opportunity to pose through their representatives to mueller himself. we never felt it was sufficient to rely simply on a written report or a te...

Goal or agenda with respect to the president's prospects for impeachment and that sort of thing. the most important function we're trying to serve here is that congress has a responsibility to conduct oversight and that information should be heard by the congress and to the greatest extent possible by the american public so that people can consider these things as they make their own decisions, as they proceed through their own political -- the decisions they make according to their own political preferences. people have a right to know what the team uncovered in the same way congress has a ri...