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Under false pretenses and the f.b.i. recorded all of this. in some cases the f.b.i. monitored it live. obviously there was the wiretap of carter page which was gotten under some information from the dossier that turned out to be false. and then finally there was something we didn't know before which was that in august of 2016 there was an intelligence briefing for candidate donald trump and the briefing also included michael flynn, a top aide. the f.b.i. crossfire hurricane team had someone there and michael horowitz called it as a pretext to do the briefing but try to gather information about...

One was for investigative purposes and one was purely for the intelligence briefing. >> in this case, the agency at the trump campaign briefing documented statements and interactions of michael flynn and candidate trump for the fbi's investigative files. is it normal for the counter intelligence briefers to document statements of individual that they're briefing for investigative purposes? >> it was documented in one and not in the other as you said and based on what we saw, there's actually no policy on it. but based on the reaction of the current leadership and director wray's response where...

Again to the fbi two months ago. we noted that text messages between strzok and page indicated that the fbi may have used defensive briefings not to warn the trump campaign but to investigate it. four questions along this line. question number one, would you agree that with respect to the defensive briefings, the trump campaign's briefings were treated differently than those provided to the clinton campaign? >> if i could, they were called -- it was not an fbi briefing if they went to a office of the director of national intelligence briefing. it was a strategic counter intelligence briefing. ...

The net result was one was for investigative purposes and the other was purely for intelligence briefing. they documented statements, and interactions of, is it normal? for the counterintelligence prefers to document statements and interactions of individuals that they are briefing for investigating purposes? >> it is documented in one and not the other. there is no policy on it but based on the reaction of the current leadership and a director raise a response where he underlined of the word "this will not happen" going forward, i think it's pretty clear what his state of mind is on that. it ...

Differently than those provided to the clinton campaign? >> they were treated differently in that the agent wrote it up to the file and put the information in the file. the briefings were identical, but the net result was one was more in the skin purposes and one was purely for the intelligence briefing. >> dana: juan has got a point but i wanted to get your take on this. >> katie: the big question has always been saying there's no political bias in the investigation and saying, clearly that's not true if the process was covered for both the clinton and trump campaign, the other was simply use...