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It can lay out the story. it's designed to lay out the story. what did the foreign power do? how did it do it? what were its means and methods? then what u.s. assets did they compromise or did they cooperate with in carrying out their intelligence mission? the whole purpose of it is to tell the story and why is it shared with congress? precisely so that congress can consider what action to take. i'm confident that the intelligence committee would find a way to begin to share the findings in an appropriate fashion with their counterparts on the judiciary committee and that's when both committee...

Intelligence mission? the whole purpose of it is to tell the story and why is it shared with congress? precisely so that congress can consider what action to take. i'm confident that the intelligence committee would find a way to begin to share the findings in an appropriate fashion with their counterparts on the judiciary committee and that's when both committees can really dig into what happened during the -- >> right. >> -- campaign and the transition. one more thing to note. obstruction of justice, obstructing an investigation, could, in fact, be part of the counterintelligence effort. why...

Be in the mueller report, how much information is there. but what's your expectation about how much we will ever find out from it? given the fact that we know barr is going to give it a scrub down and then the white house will? >> you know, i just, the three words you are never allowed to say on cable news, i don't know. the discretion that mueller has, i saw froo fareed, if you read the recommendation, mueller can write 100 pages, 500 poijs, i don't know, if it's five pages, we will expect they will fight it a lot. i don't want to give the impression i know more than i do. >> let me ask this....

Investigation, the fbi's investigation, the president himself became the subject of their counterintelligence effort. we don't know exactly how long that lasted, whether it continues to this day. we don't know exactly what that consisted of according to the "new york times" report. so i think -- i say that the report wasn't all that surprising, because i think that has generally been assumed by most, at least sophisticated observers, since the beginning of at least the public announcement of this investigation. >> i can't imagine any other nime our nation's history the sitting president of the...

Russia. it was a political effort, not a counterintelligence effort. >> sean: sarah, your report is also blockbuster tonight. these documents that we now have written by bruce ohr two weeks after the 2016 election, those documents were designed to defeat trump, it didn't work. now they are going back, now they are trying to use it postelection. notes from peter strzok and lisa page have many lawmakers, investigators, fbi had a back channel investigation they never revealed, tell us what you found. >> they never revealed it to the foreign intelligence surveillance court and this is essential be...