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X9 Metrobus will detour in Downtown DC due to ongoing First Amendment activities. There is a potential for changes to street closures based upon public safety. Sign up for metroAlerts to receive updates or changes to your route. Customers are encouraged to plan ahead, allow additional travel time and transfer to the nearest Metrorail station. The following routes will detour or cut back service: 5A DC-Dulles 7Y Lincolnia-North Fairlington  16E Columbia Pike 30N, 30S Pennsylvania Avenue (two segments) Buses will operate between Friendship Heights Metrorail station and a bus stop located on ...

>> it's huge. look, you know, there are two kinds of investigations in the fbi. there are criminal investigations and there are national security investigations. and there are different predicates, is what they're called in the fbi to open both. on the criminal side, it's whether there's suspicion or a belief that someone has violated the law, the u.s. code. but on the national security side, it's whether this person may pose a threat to the national security of the united states. now, sometimes that can be a low threshold. it could be, you know, they're being targeted by a foreign intelligenc...

Are dealing with first amendment activity, when you're dealing with journalists, politicians, clergy, things that deal with first amendment activity, the bar is so high. and here, we're talking about the sitting president of the united states. the bar here had to have been incredibly high and therefore the evidence that would have been required to form the predicate to perform this investigation, incredibly compelling. and i feel that this is incredibly damning to someone who is charged and has taken an oath to protect the united states. >> so jim, we know that the fbi opened these cases, righ...

Is in alleging that. russia is the target and president trump is not the target. he clearly thinks that that's something that should give the president comfort and yet it doesn't. it seems that the president over and over cannot separate these things from himself and from challenging as he sees the legitimacy of his presidency. >> that's right, briana. it's quite unusual because acknowledging that it was a counterintelligence investigation would allow the president to say, look, i wasn't being investigated which is what he wants. the threshold to use a source that involves any kind of first am...

Are doing. you may use an asset or a source to get some of that information to sus out what is exactly going on there. it's partly to keep the investigation itself confidential. because you may not want to alert the foreign intelligence service of what's going on. >> it can generate more intelligence. if that interaction between the source and the target is then picked up on the other end, in this case russia, you are verifying there is some communication going on. it's not an unusual step to take. and in the context of a political investigation, there would be many additional approvals that a...