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Parliament. wilson outlineded trudeau's bold faced intimidation tactics. >> there were many inappropriate conversations and attempts at political interference that occurred. i believe where it got more heightened were what i described as the veiled threat. >> it's a dramatic fall from grace for trudeau. a young liberal prime minister who grabbed the world's so many interesting details. attention thanks to his easy ancestrydna was able to tell me where my father's family came from in columbia. rapport is world leads. they pinpointed the columbian and ecuador region and then there's a whole new ...

Administration do? the president has spoken out about this. they have taken action. vice president pence going to colombia on monday. he's going to be right there in the region and we've seen top level officials at the border. >> this is really the undiscussed thing. what the administration's done here has defied every single caricature of this administration that you could possibly say, they can't get their act together, that trump's a puppet of putin, that these guys can't muster international support. this has been a textbook case of exactly how the united states can lead and bring people t...

They have witnesses who are allegedly disputing and talking about a conspiracy here. this was a textbook case that was handled very well. >> bill: it's not solved. let me move on to some evidence. you have the letter that apparently some reporting suggested suspicious and the white powder incident. the white would you dear was tylenol. why do you believe that's smollett's biggest issue? >> the problem with that is that's a federal crime and so people that use white powder to intimidate or frighten people are violating federal statutes. the f.b.i. is involved in this. they are going to look ver...

And sometimes there are issues like, you know, the names of informants, stuff that is potentially life and death. so, judges and prosecutors and even defense attorneys have to 1/2 fwat this problem of disclosing information, but not seeing it put to bad use. here, apparently, it was put to inappropriate use. but the idea that you simply couldn't give these people information, that's just inconsistent with our laws, too. it's a hard problem. >> asha, things like this part of why counterintelligence investigations rarely result in criminal charges? >> exactly. this is like a textbook case. peopl...

It's a hard problem. >> asha, things like this part of why counter intelligent investigations rarely result in criminal charges? >> exactly. this is like a textbook case. people always ask, why aren't there more charges being brought? and this is the reason why. counterintelligence cases use certain methods, sources that are typically highly classified. and you don't want your adversary to know what you know. the game is spy versus spy. that's how you have your advantage. as jeffrey just mentioned that's not how our criminal justice system works. you lay all your cards out on the table and tha...