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Ask. in it's true they sort of forgot to ask, that would be careless. that is not good lawyering. but on the other hand, when people go in to speak to an investigator, if the system is working the way it's supposed to be, you're not supposed to be able to manipulate that system. you're not supposed to be able to get an inside glance at what the investigators are doing. this may be an example of the system working the way it's supposed to be. again, i'm saddened that people are surprised by that. that's a theme that we've talked about throughout the evening today. there are institutions. they w...

Came over the weekend, samantha, when the president went back to his familiar refrain that this is all democratic excuse for losing the election and then slammed the former cia director, dni and fbi director. and then both brennan and clapper came on cnn together, to push back on this, and to say -- give their thoughts on it. what is also important, as they push back, was that his own cia, donald trump's cia put out a statement saying that director pompeo stands by the intelligence assessment, the intelligence assessment put out january 2017, by all of these guys? >> president trump's comments...

In there. the problem is, even if you put someone who knew the intelligence world better in there, donald trump spent lots of the campaign, the transition and being in the white house running down our intelligence agency. they are doing a bad job. they are not organized well. so, it's always going to be that type of relationship. look, at the end of the day, yes, investigating the leaks and how the intelligence community works is a worthy endeavor. but, it's not the most important thing here. the foreign government hacking into our election with the expressed purpose of electing one person and...

These are people who come to the u.s. and buy high-end real estate. that could be part of it. russian money, we know that's part of the picture in the trump business. the last word here is, that's the question here. not what is trump's understanding of how the intelligence community works. what is his thing with vladamir putin? we just don't understand it or see why he's doing it. >> jeremy bash, if anyone could get to the bottom of it, wouldn't it be the cia? >> yeah, but they're not going to look at that question.

Understanding of how the intelligence community works. what is his thing with vladamir putin? we just don't understand it or see why he's doing it. >> jeremy bash, if anyone could get to the bottom of it, wouldn't it be the cia? >> yeah, but they're not going to look at that question. >> why not? >> i think this is the point, which is, i think the flynn stuff is interesting, but i think fundamentally what's going on here, the president-elect is sensitive. he's really sensitive. he believes that people are trying to question the legitimacy of his election. >> right. >> that's not what the intel...