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Happened in early 2016, first reported in slate.com in october of 2016, but cnn reported in march 2017 that the fbi still had the matter under investigation. federal investigators and computer scientists continue to examine whether there was a computer server connection between the trump organization and russian bank. investigation is open, in the hands of the counterintelligence team, same team looking into russian interference in the 2016 election. if that report is accurate, fbi looked into the alpha bank/trump server matter, for months, counterintelligence issue. likely still going on when...

There's nothing wrong, as far as i'm concerned, with mike pompeo looking into this in the counterintelligence world. he might find his first judgments is exactly right. maybe it's only 75%. i don't know. but the president can certainly ask a senior person to look into a counterintelligence issue. >> his acceptance has been tepid. >> when he said, by the way, none of it had any effect on the election, which is not what they concluded. they said they're not going to touch that. they then pulled it back. >> there is a difference between determining the outcome of the election and having any effec...

Members of the intelligence community said the russians were certainly tempting to skew the election. when you have all that together, you can't simply say, yeah, we're probably good here. you've got to go a little further and do some sort of independent investigation as to what was happening. if it's one thing the russian intelligence services were really good at, it's clandestinity. you have to look hard at it. there is a counterintelligence issue. >> mike, one of the reasons it may need to be independent, if there is no other effect, the president is killing credibility when it comes to the...

The justice department and the fbi. >> on any given scenario when you have the daily intelligence briefings and say that the justice department is the one that ordered the fisa warrant, the president wouldn't know, and that he wouldn't be told or briefed that this could be a possibility? >> look, in a normal course, the president of the united states, the senior officials and the white house are not involved in any investigative activity including the be on take of a fisa warrant. it is conceivable that in a situation where there is a counterintelligence issue and where there is a concern that...

>> they may understand them a little too well. they were not happy. >> well maybe they have a right to be scared. >> i am glad. >> thanks for helping that. >> we can talk more about this later. >> maybe drinks. >> sounds excellent. >> petraeus. mike, you said this is confusing to some people. petraeus was caught with his hand in the cookie jar. he admitted he did something wrong and he resigned. actual question, i know the military can prosecute adultery if it chooses to. does the cia -- what is the policy on that? can they prosecute it? >> yes, if there is a breech of classified information, ...