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Behavior that they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of russian -- russia against american interests. that's according to former law enforcement officials and others in the investigation. take a look at that one more time. the fbi was not worried that trump was colluding with the russians. they were worried he might be working for russia against the u.s. either unknowingly or even on purpose. around the time comey was fired in may of 2017, two events prompted them to launch a counterintelligence operation. the first was the president's insistence on referencing russia i...

Counterintelligence sometimes is that it's possible. it may have happened in the past, but this would be unprecedented, especially, especially if this is the kind of counterintelligence operation that did result in an arrest in a prosecution or even, possibly, an impeachment. >> not since teddy roosevelt, frank, just to give another historical marker have we seen this -- that was when the fbi was created during that presidency, how would you -- how would you describe this? >> it is pretty astounding. we're talking about not just the president of the united states but the office of the presiden...

With you and the dossier, the steele dossier. "the new york times" has reported and others saying, no, no, that's not right. it began with george papadopoulos and his conversations drunkenly in london about whether the russians might have hillary clinton dirt and how that came back to you. there's another narrative, which is the one i'm interested in, that's been reported in the guardian and in the observer here in the united states, that in fact, your interest in this and the real roots of this counterintelligence operation our investigation began earlier with that with signal intelligence th...

I'm kidding. the president has to step in and get this material, unredacted, 302s, phis applications, everything in between, now that we know what happened. >> the president has been going to have to do that because attorney general sessions as they are in name only. d he's not doing anything. he should have b never recused himself, the counterintelligence operation, not a criminal investigation, we've been through that. but there's no reason why the attorney general can't step up and make sure that rod rosenstein recused himself from the investigation.in his name is on that fisa document. he ...

Investigative pros. >> is there a money element to the russia operation to influence the election. some banking and money moving illusions, seemingly not on a large scale in the mueller indictment in terms of how the russia operation unfolded. as far as you know and as far as you can tell us, is there a financial component to that that may be helpful in terms of understanding the scale of the crime? >> where know the russians have used financial transactions in previous efforts overseas to influence the outcome of election and i talked about this with jim comey quite a bit to make sure that ou...