Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180523:01:47:00
To make is we did not use that as a source for our intelligence community assessment. it was based on traditional intelligence sources. our whole point, though, in briefing then president-elect trump about it was, i felt strongly and i think we all did that we owed it to him to warn him that it was out there, without respect to the content. jim comey was particularly concerned from a counter intelligence standpoint, because rush russians will use compromise whether it's real or contrived, if they can, to exert levera leverage. jim felt we should at least warn him about that. that was the whole...
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