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2016 election also were involved in cyber attacks on the state department while hillary clinton was secretary of state.le joining me now for reaction is peter schweizer, president of the government accountability institute and harmeet dhillon, the rnc committee woman fromom 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 had 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 counterint...

First of all, what is behind the presidents tweet? >> look, the key thing to point out is that apparently, from the indictment we know that the obama administration discovered this in 2016.before the election. the real question here is, why didn't they take immediate action and a counterintelligence operation to not only warn everyone involved in the political campaign and what was going on but take steps to prevent this from happening. there has really been no explanation. >> arthel: well, i will move on. there was an estimation but we will keep going. is there anything in this report that ca...

Russian intelligence operatives, there's actually no evidence including these indictments. that there was any collusion between the russian government and the trump campaign. it is supposed to be the purpose of the mueller campaign. if they really want to go after russian intelligence operatives, then they ought to be running a counterintelligence operation, not engaging in a law enforcement investigation like this one. >> arthel: understood. by the way, you have a lot of viewers who are very concerned about russia having meddled regardless of who it may or may not have been in favor. that is ...

By republican leaders. >> thank you, wolf, for your question. as many americans now know, the president just makes stuff up. and in this case, there's no evidence that there was a spy put into the trump campaign. but there is a lot of evidence that what the fbi did is they ran a counterintelligence operation because they were so freaked out by what some campaign associates were doing with their interactions with russia. the republicans and democrats looked at this and said it was appropriate what the fbi did. >> let's get to some other news. the president, as you just heard the breaking news, ...

Community versus an informant in an ongoing investigation, which i think is beyond the point. i want to play for you a sound bite from from jason chaffetz. >> if jeff sessions is there in name only, is absolutely worthless. the sooner the president names a new attorney general, this better. he should have never recused himself, he never needed to any counterintelligence operation. >> laura: this is of course regarding the trump tweet today, commenting on what gowdy did say which many of us took note of, which is, you could have that in a top lawyer be the attorney general. meanwhile, you pick ...