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There's our counterintelligence professionals are frequently confronted by this dilemma of how and what of their work to share with congress. he's obligated to share some of his work with congress, obligated to keep the intelligence communities obligated of significant developments and significant intelligence problems or failures as they're defined in the statute. but there is a great sensitivity involved there and ongoing work as well. so i would expect that would be an issue that kind of remnants of the special counsel's team will coordinate very closely with the fbi folks who may be contin...

Counterintelligence professionals in the fbi and in other places are listening to those comments yesterday and they are very concerned. very concerned not just about this cavalier attitude that the president has about federal election law, they're also concerned about the invitation effect that his comments may have to those adversaries that are best positioned to take advantage of it. so i am sure those folks are kind of recalibrating their efforts today and figuring out how to get to the bottom of this. i would expect that to be happening. >> joyce, my question for you is what footing is cur...

Would see those statements the same way you did in the spring of 2017? do you think there's anybody inside our law enforcement agencies or inside our intelligence agencies who heard what we all heard? we know the president doesn't want us to believe what we see or what we hear, but what he said in that interview was abundantly clear and it's very clear why his lawyers didn't want to sit for an interview because you heard the intent, you heard the intent to conspire and people are confused how robert mueller couldn't connect the dots. maybe you can illuminate that and answer the first question,...

>> final question for you about the effect of all of this. here you've got folks who started a very secret counterintelligence investigation that had it leaked would have been explosive politically and did not leak. they get it completely secret during that period of time. what will it do to folks who work in counterintelligence in the back of their head that if they pursue them, they may find themselves on the wrong end of an internal investigation? >> i hope they stay strong. the attempt here is to try to intimidate those who might go against mr. trump and the members of his administration. ...

Potentially try to obstruct justice and negatively impact our investigation into russia? why are his associates and the people around him and people in his key positions lying about their contacts with russians? these are very concerning questions and things that need to be investigated. >> director brennan, you want to take a whack at any of that? >> well, i don't disagree with anything andy said. this is a very abnormal situation where you have donald trump as well as those around him who continue to do things that raise eyebrows among counterintelligence professionals in terms of how he has...