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Fine. we still don't have an answer whether or not he's compromised and why has he been so deferential to the russian president or any other autocratic leader. we still don't know. that's the counter-intelligence person to this. >> that's not in the purview of what a special counsel does. >> no. you're totally right. >> this is a legal question. if there are people in intelligence circles have other view, that's their prerogative. i am curious why the obama administration in the last six months of its time in office did so little to push back on russia and influence. i will tell you -- they we...

>> martha: one of the things we are investigating is whether or not she was using this gun advocacy group to funnel money through the nra to then have the nra use money to support that theory? >> right out of the old kgb playbook. we worked hard, and this -- i think this is real. the best recruits are the one who have strong convictions. even more so, people who are subject to ideological thinking, but strong convictions where you will be befriend people and you make believe that you have the same beliefs and that way -- and this is called in intelligence circles, it's called ultimately recrui...

A coincidence that we're not going to enforce our russia sanctions, that devin nunes was investigated by the ethics committee for mishandling fisa intel and now he wants to have a vote on fisa intel without letting the director of the fbi, who sort of stewards and shep d shepards fisa intel -- i suppose they could all be coincidences. the stakes are nothing less than understanding the extent and degree of the russia question. >> the greatest foreign policy, national security scandal, of our lifetimes, maybe the history of the country. look, i raised this question this morning, i was not, perha...

Situation and the black box has been damaged. and not fully analyzed. so no firm conclusions have been reached. >> isis has said they did this, but they're not going to say how they did it and it's up to other people to figure that out. is that typical response or does that raise suspicion that maybe they're making it up? >> the track record with isis thus far is very much like al qaeda post 9/11. in that they don't typically take credit for a successful terrorist attack that they were not responsible for. what's key about these isis messages is there have been two from what are called intelli...

The question, how did he know what he knew then? if i take your inference, you're saying by knowing it then and early before everyone else did, before the media did, before it was really public, that suggests that he had good sourcing? >> well, i think we can look at a couple things on suggest he has good sourcing. first of all, christopher steele a well known entity within intelligence circles. he was based in russia for a long time. he was head of the russia desk. he is known cia and fbi. he actually worked the fbi on their fifa investigation prior to this. so he is someone trusted within th...