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The intelligence investigations would extend to encompass what's going on now in the administration? whether any of those favors might be being paid back in the way the u.s. government is being run now by president trump? >> it has to and it has to look at what the consideration may have been because all the dots here in this investigation continue to connect and the biggest question, of course, is were any of these contacts or ties that the trump team had with russia, were they working with russia as they ran the interference campaign and now what we're looking at is whether u.s. policy towar...

Way the u.s. government is being run now by president trump? >> it has to and it has to look at what the consideration may have been because all the dots here in this investigation continue to connect and the biggest question, of course, is were any of these contacts or ties that the trump team had with russia, were they working with russia as they ran the interference campaign and now what we're looking at is whether u.s. policy toward russia is also changing. that would be pretty powerful evidence that they were working with russia and that russia is now getting something in return. congre...

Sight. but i don't know whether any of that rises to the level of conspiracy and whether that conspiracy rises to criminal responsibility. >> an open setting congressional testimony last spring that in the summer of 2016, you at cia were alarmed by, said your radar went up about the number of contracts between russian officials and u.s. persons at a time that russia was mounting this interference campaign. when you say that your radar went up about that, did you radar go up about that because it appeared that the russian operation had as a component the engagement of americans towards that end...

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Change anything for you and for the house intelligence committee's investigation? >> well, anderson, a lot of people said well, isn't this bizarre? but actually for me it fits the pattern. when you look at who was involved, these are the senior principals of the campaign. when you look at what was being discussed, it was how they could damage hillary clinton, which was the goals of russia's interference campaign. when you look at where it was being held, at trump tower. and then when it was being held, right before the convention and right at the peak of russia's interference campaign and just...