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From "the new york times" reporting and what we can all kind of take in is we don't know any conclusions from it. if this counterintelligence inquiry is still ongoing or was it dealt with when it started in 2017, folded into the mueller investigation, and we waiting for robert mueller, the special counsel, to ultimately conclude his probe to find out what came out of that. we just don't know. the president said if there had been anything to be found, it would have been made public. he insists there was no such interference between himself and russia, no collusion as we heard him say. alex? >> ...

Was something that was there, and, you know, we were compelled or the fbi was compelled in those instances to conduct an investigation to determine if it was unwitting or witting. the fact, you know, there was just so much of the activities that were out there, whether it was meetings by individuals associated with him, closely associated with him or his own behaviors, and it was before and after jim comey's dismissal. so in terms of the counterintelligence investigation itself, really relevant that it was conducted because of all of the suspicious behavior. >> and glenn, obviously the fbi bef...

That seem to benefit trump when he fired fbi director james comey, and when robert mueller was appointed special counsel. as you know, that counterintelligence probe was an aspect of the obstruction inquiry that was folded into mueller's broader investigation of russian meddling in 2016, so it is unclear how long that counterintelligence probe went on. nonetheless, the white house is responding forcefully to news of its existence, sarah sanders saying this is absurd. james comey was fired because he is a disgraced partisan hack and his deputy, andrew mccabe in charge at the time was a known li...

If the president was acting, as you said, knowingly. you can bet your last dollar that president trump somewhere on probably twitter will react to this story. we might even hear corruption there of the fbi. help us understand what it takes to get that point. head off preemptively some of these deep state corruption conspiracy tweets, statements, defenses that will come. >> sure. so, victor, let's go back to what josh campbell the former special assistant to james comey and a cnn law enforcement colleague said earlier. you played the sound on that. yes, you need an allegation to open up an inqu...

Leading to the top. now it's the president of the united states of america. griff: just to put this in perspective. what they did was wrote a headline based on an unnamed source who is a former law enforcement official apparently. they gave us this headline, look at that right there. right? shocking the fbi investigated if trump worked for the russians. worked for the russians. but then you go barreling down several paragraphs to read there was no evidence that they found. the investigation found nothing. so, listen. good on the fbi for, perhaps, pursuing anything they think legitimately shoul...