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Focus on what? and i don't even know who the audience is. isn't the fbi supposed to investigate possible criminality? isn't it the jeb telephone fbi to see if the russians were involved in one of the campaigns? and what is this spooky intrigue they're trying to create? if they did that, it's terrible. no, it doesn't matter that they're doing it. they're doing their job. this reminds me so much how we get forced down that rabbit hole of iraq, setting up false premise that if they investigated, they were doing something wrong. so let's find if they're investigating or not. it look likes the old ...

Tweet, bob, here talking about how he believes it should go actually even further, right? >> reporter: what's going to be important to follow as reporters here is what does it mean to be politically motivated? that's the real -- >> yes. >> reporter: you have to underscore here. because when you think about this counterintelligence investigation that began in 2016, some people in the dupt of justice believed there was a reason, not political, but a reason to have a counterintelligence investigation begun. but there will now be new scrutiny with whether it's the inspector general or with the tru...

Illegal. i think that's where the question is about what took place at congressman ted l lieu. it says, i look forward to this inquiry. it will show the professional acts of the fbi engaged in a counterintelligence operation. so tell me how he will demand that the fbi get information to him. >> the president doesn't seem to understand that the fbi initiated this investigation as a counterintelligence investigation known as crossfire

Out but tom. >> we had confirmation last week from the house intelligence committee that there was a counterintelligence operation against flynn while he was on the campaign are working for the transition. >> laura: how does that play out? out? wiretaps or what? >> what did the program entail? this justice berman takes the approach of the modified limited hangout in terms of information. four months the mueller operation sat on the fact that they had the strzok-page messages. then we found out about the clinton dnc dossier. there is going to a third or fifth shoe that drops. i don't believe th...

This, don't use it is good for the mueller investigation to go forward to potentially uncover more evidence of russia interfering in the democracy of our country, not necessarily the president? >> we don't need a special counsel to do any of that. this is a counterintelligence operation we can have done by regular employees at the justice department and the fbi. and said he has got 17 prosecutors looking for crimes on individuals whose only crime was defeating hillary clinton. that is the way i look at this and about time people start calling out the justice department for wide-ranging probe, ...