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>> there are documents that i found which i describe in my book the most significant document is dated may 20,2016. a month before the first steele report. this proto dossier this describes an opposition research looking into the trump's teams ties to russia. it'sin skeleton of what later became known as the steele dossier. the reason why this is so important is because it started, they are talking about the trump's teamor tie to russia. it's laying the groundwork for a counter intelligence information. >> laura: of the campaign. >> exactly. this is what the clintons are scared of. the clinton...

Either one of those two things. beyond that, they didn't really look. and the one glimpse we got today is when mueller said, we got this counterintelligence information and we fed it out to the bureau. so, i think mueller viewed his job as to determine if he could prosecute people on these issues, some of the other cases were farmed out, but in terms of whether he observed the red line that donald trump tried to set around his finances, he wouldn't answer directly, but i think indirectly, it looks very much like that line was observed. >> does that create new urgency or new justification for c...

The fbi. in fact, they attacked the fbi. if that helps the president, well then our country has bigger problems. >> you think mueller's reluctant to go beyond the scope of the report underscores the need to bring in witnesses like the former white house counsel for example don mcgahn? >> i think it does. i think the bigger part of that -- look, this is the most important investigation in the report of our lifetime but as important as is what is not in there and the special counsel referenced the counterintelligence information. questions of the possibilities of money laundering. the president ...

As a result, we structured our investigation around evidence for possible use in prosecution of federal crimes. we did not reach what you would call "counterintelligence conclusions." we did, however, set up processes in the office to identify and pass counterintelligence information on to the fbi. members of our office periodically briefed the fbi about counterintelligence information. in addition, there were agents and analysts from the fbi who were not on our team but whose job it was to identify counterintelligence information in our files and to disseminate that information to the fbi. fo...

United states attorney. as a result, we structured our investigation around evidence for possible use in prosecution of federal crimes. we did not reach what you would call counterintelligence conclusions. we did, however, set up processes in the office to identify and pass counterintelligence information on to the fbi. members of our office periodically briefed the fbi about counterintelligence information. in addition, there were agents and analysts from the fbi who are not on our team, but whose job it was to identify counterintelligence information in our files and to disseminate that info...