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Christopher steele in the very end of october, 2016, he was talking to me very reluctantly. he was scared. the material that he had found, connections, allegations between the -- of interactions between trump and the russian government frightened him as a veteran counterintelligence officer. and he had taken his material to the fbi, had been working with them, but he felt this information needed to get out in some way before the election. that the american public had to be told this. so, he -- >> david, had the fbi publicly confirmed that on the record before? >> no, not at all. >> so why now?...

The material that he had found, connections, allegations between the -- of interactions between trump and the russian government frightened him as a veteran counterintelligence officer. and he had taken his material to the fbi, had been working with them, but he felt this information needed to get out in some way before the election. that the american public had to be told this. so, he -- >> david, had the fbi publicly confirmed that on the record before? >> no, not at all. >> so why now? >> in fact, they were doing everything -- >> do you know why now? >> excuse me? >> do you know why now? >>...

Trump and the russian government frightened him as a veteran counterintelligence officer. and he had taken his material to the fbi, had been working with them, but he felt this information needed to get out in some way before the election. that the american public had to be told this. so, he -- >> david, had the fbi publicly confirmed that on the record before? >> no, not at all. >> so why now? >> in fact, they were doing everything -- >> do you know why now? >> excuse me? >> do you know why now? >> well, the reason is, the conventional reason, that it was a counterintelligence operation that ...

We want to start with this contempt of congress, impeaching rod rosenstein. does this really happen? >> the timeline is so short, only tween 9 full days of congress before the actual election, 19 days -- let's remember why rod rosenstein is so important, he accused himself of his investigation, should not have happened from a lot of experts because this is the counterintelligence operation, not a common investigation of the attorney general should never recuse himself but the focal point of the rob: 17 -- the fisa document, mark meadows make the point he is doing an investigation with the sign...

2016 election, dominic also were involved in cyber attacks on the state department, while hillary clinton was secretary of state. joining me now for reaction is peter schweizer, president of the government accountability institute and are made killing, the rnc committee woman from california. thank you both for being here. peter, one of the things that i am so concerned about here, is why -- now that we have at exposure, time to digest it, and the media's bringing it up again, "the new york times" ," about this hacking, and why is it that this started, not as a criminal investigation, but a co...