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There are former senior counterintelligence officials from the fbi warning about how dangerous it is as a national security matter for a campaign to take information surreptitiously shopped to them from a foreign government. yeah, that's how you compromise people in the u.s. government. that's how a foreign government, particularly a hostile foreign adversary would compromise people in the u.s. government. that's how a hostile foreign adversary would conceivably get power over our government, and of course over our elections. but when the sitting president said today yeah, he would happily tak...

As a potentially criminal act by trump and his campaign. and in explaining what they found when they investigated that acceptance of an offer of information from the russian government, mueller and his team wrote this. quote, the communications setting up the meeting and the attendance by high level campaign representatives support an inference that the trump campaign anticipated receiving derogatory documents and information from controversial sources that could assist trump's electoral processes. this could implicate the federal law election ban on contributions from foreign nationals. the s...

Very institutions at their core because they're rooted fundamentally on shared values. >> if the president goes through with what he was promising to do today and openly solicited or surreptitiously solicits and gets found out later on he is working with a foreign government of some stripe to try to obtain information that he can use against his opponents or some other form of advantage that he can get in the election, how do you think the congress would react? how do you think law enforcement would react? what should the country do if something like that is revealed for 2020? >> he's already ...

Again, to subvert our democratic process. >> today at the intelligence committee in the house, we just spoke with the chairman of that committee. there were former fbi officials who testified at experts who talked about why foreign governments might want to offer a candidate in a u.s. election assistance with dirt on their opponent or something else that they could use to help them get elected, why that might be an influence operation. can you as somebody who has done counterintelligence work like this from the perspective of the justice department, can you tell us how this work from an intell...

Counter intelligence section under president obama and during the fibs yerst year of the trum administration. it's a real honor to have you here. thanks for making time for us tonight. >> good evening, rachel. >> so we are continuing to cover the surprise news involving the president tonight. did an interview with abc news in which he flat-out bluntly asserted under fairly open ended questioning that he would be basically happy to accept foreign assistance in the next election, that he would not necessarily contact the fbi if a foreign government contacted him to give him things that would hel...