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good to be back. >> it's great to you have here. do you remember the name brandan van grek? >> as i have memorable name. if not, the circumstance of which you first heard it? but if you are like me and the first time you heard the name brandon van grabbing is the first time you heard the word he is spee naj formerly associated with the presidency of donald trump. espionage as in the espionage act, not just spy movie stuff, as in u.s. law. we were only about four months in to the trump administration when "the new york times" was first to report that the then brand new trump admini...

Of that plot in the spring of 2017, that veteran espionage prosecutor that led the flynn investigation who we just learned about in the spring of 2017, brandon van grack, he has left the justice department. he left government service. he started his justice department career as a trial attorney in the national security division and prosecuted cases on cyber attacks and money laundering and theft of trade secrets and, yes, espionage. a spy for china out of michigan. a guy who was rubbing the high-tech sanctions on iran. a hacker from kosovo. he gave isis personal information on more than 1300 u...

Flipping over the seriousness of this thing. it's one thing to feel like oh, there is some shenanigans, there is maybe not the best people. there is some incompetence, there is some cavalierness, some stuff to worry about here. but when it's the espionage prosecutor that has to be working on the case involving the new national security adviser, that's bad. right? your country is put in a bad situation. if a new president, a new administration is playing games like that. if that's how it's starting, you can be sure it's not going to end well. and it's likely not going to end for a long time. th...

Inherited from them. files seized from a former president part of espionage inquiry. what it meant specifically is that search warrant that they unsealed cited a portion of the espionage act that concerns the handling of national security information that could harm the united states or help our enemies. it means to get that twoornt search the house, prosecutors had to prove to the satisfaction of a federal judge that there was probable cause to believe that at trump's home they would find evidence that that part of the espionage act had been violated. that that crime had been committed. now t...

Disclosure at this junk tour of affidavit supporting probable cause irrepairable damage to this on going criminal investigation. if disclosed, it would serve as a road map to the government's on going investigation providing specific details about its direction and likely course in a manner that is highly likely to compromise future investigative steps. that's all in the justice department's court filing tonight and what we learn from that court filing is that the justice department is expecting further investigative steps. they are contemplating further investigative steps in what they repeat...