Page 2 - John Cypher News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

To evade it forever. >> yeah. >> i think the report will be taken seriously. look, there will be always be trump loyalists who will set themselves on fire if he wanted them to but the majority of americans will look at this as a professional and serious and troubling report. >> not to mention the big factor in all of this could be once this report comes out who actually controls congress after the mid terms. katie benner, john cypher, great to have you with us and rick and steven, i'll ask you both to stick around. still ahead, not my problem. children separated from their parents at the bothe...

Their job is to try to protect us from hostile foreign powers and foreign espionage, so one of the ways to find out what's going on, especially when they had people that were in touch with russians, would be to use an informant, but i think what's happened here is the president and others have publicly used the term spy and infiltration in order to sort of confusion and scare people because these issues unmask and fisa and spying are things that people generally don't understand, and when they are used by the president that way, they seem sort of sinister and stuff. in fact, you know, what gen...

He would have turned it into a giant show and i think this is another one of their plays, like the former nunes memo and the unmasking scandal and all the other things that they have played out as cards over the last year that have failed and failed again and again because the substance of this, the fbi was playing by the rules. they were going by the book this. wasn't something that was, you know, as general hayden said this was normal. you want a counterintelligence service. you want your counterintelligence services to go after hostile foreign intelligence operations of which there was one ...

The fact it is under questioning of the united states and russian involvement and the fact mr. trump has questioned the fbi must have driven federal officials to say if we don't tell the president-elect this is swirling and he finds out elsewhere, we have a bigger problem. >> i will accept phil mud's characterization it is gossip, yet i still want to ask john cypher, does it nevertheless fit the m.o. of putin that he seems to gather this kind of data on business leaders, for example, that come to moscow? >> this is where i might disagree a little with phil. i think that information is complete...

>> you need to be sure who you're dealing with. president of russia for last 17 years just shown he plays the dirty game. >> marina, we wish you good things. thank you for being here. >> thank you. more on the man that prepared the dossier on trump. former british spy christopher steele worked undercover in russia and paris. joining me, retired cia agent, john stiefr, 28 year veteran, ran the cia russian program three years, and counter terrorism official, phil mud. john cypher, i know by reputation you know mr. steele. what is his reputation within the intelligence community? >> i reached o...