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And reining in aoc. how to get the novice to play ball. we start with a new report on president trump. "the new york times" reporting that after the president fired james comey in 2017, the fbi began investigating whether trump as a sitting president, was working wittingly or unwittingly with russian interests against america's interests. now "the times" reports there was an fbi counterintelligence inquiry. officials were considering if the president's actions constituted a possible threat to national security. now the investigation was triggered by the president's own actions and words, inc...

Actually. i read that article and my initial reaction was, okay, this always seemed to be what the fbi would have wanted to know in the end, right? this started out, the russian investigation as a whole began as a counterintelligence inquiry into what the russians were doing on u.s. soil including whether any american were helping in their efforts and so the president, being the head of his campaign, of course, would be a natural person to investigate, just to see whether he was having any inappropriate contacts with the russians or even going into office, whether those contacts were sustained...

The suspicions even that there 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. >> a...

Before and after comey's departure was concerned about how this would look. according to "the new york times" report, as for a counterintelligence inquiry, law enforcement officials concluded they would need strong evidence to take the sensitive step of investigating the president and they were also concerned, this is interesting, also concerned that the existence of such an inquiry could be leaked to the news media, undermining the entire investigation into russia's meddling in the election. so that has come to pass, the news media now knows that there was an investigation. the president has ...

The fbi opened an inquiry if trump was working on behalf of russia. law enforcement officials were alarmed after the president fired james comey and they sought to tackle a question. did the president's actions constitute a national security threat? the inquiry triggered by what the president told my colleague lester holt during this nbc news interview. the president appeared to say he fired comey because of the russia investigation. >> regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. knowing there was no good time to do it. i said this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up s...