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Committing treason against one's country frequently takes place in an unwitting fashion in the early stages. >> what role do you believe the intelligence community should play when you first see it? if you see that there is somebody that could be compromised and they don't know it, do you go and warn these folks? do you say, hey, be careful with this relationship? or do you -- what is that line there? isn't there a point where you want to warn an american, hey, don't do business with them? >> there are a lot of unique circumstances that will determine how we proceed. if we believe that the rus...

We have an obligation, because of our very important counterintelligence responsibilities, to make sure the fbi is informed about all of these possibly suspicious counterintelligence concerns that we have. >> when you were collecting this data at the time, and you were raising alarm bells, we now know, back in, i believe it's june now of 2016, a little bit before the fbi was told. why is it in hindsight it seem that it took awhile for the rest of the intelligence community to come around to your assessment? >> we were working very closely with the fbi as well as with nsa. as you can understand...

Using, especially coercion, or some sort of pressure to tried and co-opt an american official, it's a serious fbi and at the heart of the counterintelligence mission. >> so if you got a 36-page document of specific claims that are out there, the fbi would have to for counterintelligence reasons try to verify anything that might be claimed in there, one, and probably first and foremost is the counterintelligence concerns that we have about blackmail, would that be an act rat statement? >> yes. if the fbi receives a credible allegation that there is some effort to co-opt, coerce, direct, covertl...

Counterintelligence concerns, all of which he'll sift through as we try to figure out exactly what the role was of trump administration officials in russia's meddling. >> president trump has called this the biggest witch hunt in history. is that the kind of rhetoric that would affect bob mueller in any way? >> it would certainly affect some criminal and law enforcement probes. bob mueller is not someone who will be swayed by rhetoric like that. president trump said -- told the russians, in fact, he fired jim comey to relieve some of the pressure, and in firing jim comey, president trump actual...

Some of which raise serious counterintelligence concerns. i asked director comey about these concerns last week. miss yates, what are the consequences for a white house staffers who nail to disclose their foreign contacts on their security clearance forms? >> well, there can be a variety of ramifications. you can lose your security clearance. you can lose your job or in certain circumstances you can be criminally prosecuted. >> is it up to the didn't of justice or the fbi to pursue these kinds of allegations against staffers who do not disclose appropriately? >> again, it would all depend on t...