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You know, in my opinion, transparency and sunlight are perhaps the best disinfectants with regard to these counterintelligence issues. and so bringing light to what happened or what is going on in terms of those ties will help us in defeating those threats. >> when you think about all of the things that have transpired during the trump administration, do you feel that we have the necessary safeguards in place to ensure that either outside interference, outside interference potentially through a presidential campaign or this kind of plotting to undermine the justice and law enforcement systems ...

Because you might have gotten a cup of coffee with don jr. at the starbucks downstairs but instead you're sitting in a conference room deep in trump tower -- by the way, that raises all sorts of counterintelligence issues that we don't talk much about but you've got all these people associated with the russians wandering around the very heart of the trump campaign. >> troubling? >> beyond troubling. nine out of ten americans would have said wait a second, russians want to give me dirt on my political opponent? i'm in politics too. the first thing you do is you call the fbi and say hey, they're...

With congressman jim himes and asked him for his thoughts. >> i haven't seen the details. but this sort of paints a picture of veselnitskaya as a broad-ranging operative and adviser to the russian government. >> and then suddenly she's at that key meeting in trump tower with donald jr., paul manafort, and jared kushner. so what does that say? >> well, again, this is success beyond the wildest dreams of the kreml kremlin. right? because you might have gotten a cup of coffee with don jr. at the starbucks downstairs but instead you're sitting in a conference room deep in trump tower -- by the way...