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Those moves. it depends, certainly, to some extept extent on what the russians say and do. simply because the russians demand something doesn't mean we have to do acquiesce to it and these are diplomatic games that go on all the time. this is really nothing new. >> anything you're hearing now from the sort of new rhetoric, the increased rhetoric from russia that is giving you cause for concern or to you as you're talking about, hey, politics as usual with them. >> i don't really see anything here that is alarming at all. again, you know, even years ago when i worked in the intelligence busines...

Which they knew they had a live one. they knew they had somebody who was interested in that information and then suddenly this meeting happens. first it was four people, now it's six people and then everybody just walk away and nothing happens any more. the russians are in the intelligence business, as are the americans, had pay real conversation with the son and son-in-law of a man who could be president of the united states and everybody just dropped it and walked away after that. >> yeah. and in the meantime, there are also some reports that there may been additional two people at that meet...

First step. so that's, my guess, investigators are going to follow on, on what happened next? not that he took the meeting. he was fairly a neophyte in both national politics and certainly in the intelligence business. so what happened next? >> right. >> that's going to be a very key question to answer in the investigation. but, again, that's why when a foreign government says that they have information for you, that isn't related to some business arrangement you already have, then it's time to pick up the phone and call somebody who knows what they're doing. >> chairman rogers, let me ask you...

>> we don't know how long that lasted for. >> just read the story. says nothing about loretta lynch specifically doing it. >> by way of saying if she was a russian agent, why would the democrats have approved her visa? >> ate of russi >> a lot of russian agents are here. >> to your point, mike, do you -- >> listen, you know, the russian intelligence services are very clever. what you want to do, if you were actually trying to figure out if there's something you can gain access to a campaign -- by the way, a notion they weren't trying to get access to someone in the clinton campaign, we ought t...

Service actually have? you've said that those men and women are going to do their job, regardless. >> we used to refer to the president as the first customer in the cia. when you're in the intelligence business, you think you're serving a customer that has to make decisions for america. but if you take a step below in washington, the people in my world regard the other customer, secretary of state rex tillerson, secretary of state mattis, cia director, these people in the six months that the president have been in have gotten pretty good reputations. in my small world -- >> oh -- >> uh-oh. >> ...