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Opposite. exactly. and they understand that too. >> ken, here we are over a year later, doesn't he still have a feud going with at least his doj? >> absolutely. in fact, the informant that trump is trying to out right now may well have been a cia asset as well as fbi ats asset and there's a lot of angst about this ongoing battle and his comments calling this a witch hunted because this isn't just an fbi investigation, it's a counterintelligence investigation into russia election interference that involved the cia. in that speech it it was kind of a political speech. a lot of people viewed it a...

The doj. >> talk a little bit about the idea of this source, of the idea of potentially revealing a source. jeremy bash, who i know you've been on this set with talked about that this morning. here's what had he to say. >> that source may have played maybe a negligible role, it maybe playing another important role in another counterintelligence case where he's in touch with russian intelligence agents, maybe russian organized crime, others perts his affiliation with the u.s. intelligence sation revealed, his life is at risk. >> based on your report, how concerned is law enforcement about the i...

Tweet, bob, here talking about how he believes it should go actually even further, right? >> reporter: what's going to be important to follow as reporters here is what does it mean to be politically motivated? that's the real -- >> yes. >> reporter: you have to underscore here. because when you think about this counterintelligence investigation that began in 2016, some people in the dupt of justice believed there was a reason, not political, but a reason to have a counterintelligence investigation begun. but there will now be new scrutiny with whether it's the inspector general or with the tru...

This that page was targeted for russian recruitment dating back to this case of bb bank. he was on the radar before trump ran for president. the russians were interested in him and that's the only reason the fbi was interested in him. this has very little to do with the trump campaign. this has to do with the steele memo. it really highlights both those things. >> the end game for the russians was what, do you think? >> the russians, just like the chinese, just like the iranians, just like the north koreans, part of what they do, like we saw on friday, when they talk about the mueller indictme...

Expected it to be. and that is a point by point refutation of the nunes memo. it's fot as though the nunes memo needed a refutation because the best rebuttal to the nunes memo was in fact the nunes memo. but this lays out in about 10 or 11 very clear, concise pages exactly where the nunes memo erred. in my reading of this the most important takeaway here is the fact that the democrats contend the steele dossier was not in any way used to as a predicate for the july 2016 launch of the investigation into the trump campaign. it was in fact the information that george papadopoulos provided to the ...