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Counterintelligence question. the fbi tried to determine whether the president of the united states was compromised or influenced by a foreign adversary, my russia. congress has a right to know the results of that information under a separate intelligence reporting statute. the intelligence committees argue the fbi should come to them and tell them what they found. that would have to be in a classified setting and nancy pelosi has apparently said today that's not acceptable to her. she doesn't think the report should be shrouded in any classification. she wants it to be briefed in the open so ...

Release. if you're going to say, well, we're not going to talk about our findings because it doesn't reach a criminal threshold that's a mistake because this is answering a counterintelligence question. what did russia do with us? and to what extent was our president involved in that? and that's not criminal. and what i'm watching carefully for is what i'm going to call a speaking declination. mr. president, we have good news, the good news, we chose not to seek your indictment. the bad news is, we're going to explain everything we found and it's going to be really, really ugly. >> so you're o...

Possibly be emerged from a southern district investigation if you had direct links and indictments from the trump campaign to high level figures in the russian government, that would be the number one thing going on. >> steve, let's all remember that the start for the whole special counsel investigation was an fbi russian counterintelligence investigation. and that seminole question still needs to be answered. and here is my concern. if we apply criminal metrics and standards to what gets into the mueller report, and only report that which meets the standard of a crime, then we're going to mis...

World, evidence can become stale. well, he refreshes the evidence almost on a weekly basis, that he is compromised in some way. whether that feeds into a criminal charge by the special counsel or others or whether that goes towards impeachment or whether it's straight-up counterintelligence question that needs to be answered, it's got to still be going on. look, this national intelligence report from the dni's office, this just sets up the stark contrast between the geopolitical realities of the spy world that we live in today and what the man occupying the oval office actually believes. and i...

With russia, he said, i don't know. kaitlan, i'm sure you freaked out when he said he wasn't going to nashville. what does the white house think about this moment? >> reporter: they're furious about it. you saw that reflected in the statements they issued this weekend after that flurry of questions came out. clearly the president is bothered by it, too, because not only did he deny working with russia, he said the question was absurd. the reporter only asked the question because of the series of questions over the weekend. apparently there was a counterintelligence question that the president ...