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Has. a couple questions, what has general flynn offered and what has he said about the white house and the authorization of conversations with the russians? what kind of e-mails has the team, the fbi team under mueller acquired around the meeting, the famous meeting last june with don jr.? what kind of financial transactions have they reviewed between russians or russian intermediaries? i'll go back to my career at the fbi, 30 seconds or less. i remember following a terrorism suspect who was communicating in code with a terrorism recruiter in europe. that subject was in a major u.s. city. that...

This happened on new year's day. it is unusual for the suspect to be on the run this long, isn't it? >> reporter: that's exactly right, christine. when i was talking with police spokesmen, they were saying they usually when it comes to a terrorism suspect, they have not said it is a terrorism case. they say usually they are killed or captured at the scene of the crime. when they do run, there is a lot of security in the country. they have cameras all over the place and they can follow the suspect and see in which direction he went. this is why they are searching house to house. he could be hol...

>> i think half of it is true. i agree with tom on the volume piece of this. you can't have ever human being look at every access, and figure out where they were two years ago. that said, i think there has to be a conversation with silicon valley that says, identity has changed. 15 years ago if the government wanted to determine if you were dirty, they would bounce you up against their own data bases. did your phone number ever call the number of a terrorism suspect, for example? right now, your identity has changed fundamentally. you're out on social media in ways that the government could ac...

There's also -- they are trying to piece together his history. he was arrested for driving under the influence earlier this year. that was really his only reason he was known to law enforcement. he was not in federal watch list of any sort. the fbi did not consider him to be a terrorism suspect. they had briefly, according to federal officials looked at his father years ago for perhaps having some type of connection to a terrorism organization. he's from palestinian territories but that investigation was closed and he was not put on any terror watch list. now we are looking to cut out perhaps ...

That as well. this investigation is not just looking at the logistics of what went on here. there's also -- they are trying to piece together his history. he was arrested for driving under the influence earlier this year. that was really his only reason he was known to law enforcement. he was not in federal watch list of any sort. the fbi did not consider him to be a terrorism suspect. they had briefly, according to federal officials looked at his father years ago for perhaps having some type of connection to a terrorism organization. he's from palestinian territories but that investigation wa...