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Members of the intelligence community said the russians were certainly tempting to skew the election. when you have all that together, you can't simply say, yeah, we're probably good here. you've got to go a little further and do some sort of independent investigation as to what was happening. if it's one thing the russian intelligence services were really good at, it's clandestinity. you have to look hard at it. there is a counterintelligence issue. >> mike, one of the reasons it may need to be independent, if there is no other effect, the president is killing credibility when it comes to the...

Reaction. >> when we think about where we were back at that time and ramping up to the conventions, donald trump at the end of july puts that public call out to russia to find hillary clinton east missing e-mails, saying hack into -- you know, find them, use whatever measures you need necessary, because of world we were living in then with wikileaks and the information that was coming out based on the dnc or john podesta, he made reference that the press would reward them. for doing such. the basis that got a fisa court to potentially take this under consideration would have been donald trump ...

Don't know for sure the leaks are coming from the intelligence organizations. that's a trump construct. that's what his claim is. >> fair point. >> that's why his lies are so dangerous. they seep into what we accept as truth without there being validation of them and i think that's an example of that. but i will say when you have a president who pits his own senior staff against others in his senior staff, when you have a president that has a destructive vision for leadership in the country, as does his key strategist, then you're going to have more leaks because people are going to have disag...

Be. that's the reality. what i find interesting about this is that donald trump refuses, really, to deny in a full-throated way and repeatedly that his campaign had contact with russian officials, possibly as we have read in the "new york times" russian intelligence officers. that's what he should be talking about. that's what he should be refuting if it's not true. but instead, he goes after the leaks over and over again and i think that's -- it's very telling that that's where he focusing. >> what about this? as someone who worked in the cia, i've seen a broad range of opinions on this and s...

All the picks i think that has really rattled the intelligence community. >> lindsay, what do you think the president needs to do to improve the relationship? so much damage has been done at this point. >> you are right. so much damage has been done. there have been a number of missteps right from the get-go. even to the point of ignoring intelligence briefs, you know, for a long time trump wasn't even interested in hearing the presidential daily brief. and that is something you know aed lo of people put work into that. and the point of that is to keep the president informed. this idea that th...