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Right now robert mueller is chasing after. >> the fbi has two different missions. it's easy to lose sight of this. but it's important to understanding what happened here. the fbi investigate violations of criminal law, but they also have a counterintelligence function. and that's how this investigation started out. they began to receive intelligence, probably the most important thing that they heard was that george papadopoulos was talking about the theft of emails, about having access to clinton's emails. and this intelligence came in from the australians. so what, what president trump is now...

That's their job. had they ignored this, they would be, i think, could be accused of being derelict. it's crucial to note as joe did earlier in a previous segment that the fbi said nothing about what it was doing publicly. that this information was carefully held and suppressed, but it was part of their normal counterintelligence function. what we've seen over the last, id say, six months, is that the trump counterpunch to the mueller investigation is to add each of these extraneous details. there was a focus on chris steele, the former mi-6 agent in britain and his role and that was made to s...

Assuming that, beyond what's already under investigation, do you have any sense of what more the fbi would do beyond the investigation that director mueller is tasked with that you can conceive you may perceive with? >> there is more that i don't know yet as an outsider sitting before this committee. i look forward to making that a high priority. i will say that an addition to providing all appropriate support to former director mueller's special counsel investigation, there is also a counterintelligence function that the fbi has to play. i'm sure there are things of the fbi, working with its ...

But assuming that, beyond what is already under investigation, do you -- do you have any sense of what more the fbi would do beyond the investigation thatta that you concede you may proceed with? >> i think there is more that i don't know yet than i do as an outsider sitting before this committee. so i look forward to making that a high priority. i will say that in addition to providing all the appropriate support to former director mueller's special counsel investigation, there is, of course, also a counterintelligence function that the fbi has to play. and i'm sure there are things that the ...

Who are now, who have now announced that they are going to measure his propriety and his suitability and his ethics by whether or not he appoints a special prosecutor. and in order to have a potential prosecutor, there's got to be something to prosecute. and as far as i know, there is no criming being investigated. this is a counterintelligence investigation, not a criminal investigation. paul: explain the difference. >> the fbi has two functions. one is, of course, the traditional one. we all know it investigates crimes. paul: right. >> after 9/11 it was given an intelligence-gathering functi...