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Standpoint, i will tell that you my dashboard warning light was clearly on. and i think that was the case with most of us in the intelligence community. very concerned about the nature of these approaches to the russians. if you put that in context with everything else we knew the russians were doing to interfere with the election and just the historical practices of the russians who typically almost genetically driven to penetrate, gain favor, whatever, which is a typical russian -- typical russian technique, so we were concerned. >> and so this is what's likely triggered the fbi's now extra ...

Because james clapper is not given to overstatement. he said, my dashboard warning light was blinking. at some point, what does donald trump have to do about this? you can't just have donald trump's people saying, no biggie, and everyone else saying, this is very unusual. >> this is fundamentally the problem we're facing as a country by having the ceo of a family business bringing his family members into government. this is more akin to how saudi arabia, a monarchy operates, which donald trump now has a great relationship with them where issues are managed by family members. it's very difficul...

You were still the director of national intelligence in december. are these things you would have known? >> well, yes, they would have, and just to reinforce john brennan's -- former director of central intelligence a.g., his comments before the house firm -- i have to say without specific -- specifically affirming or confirming these conversations since even though they're in the realm, they're still classified, but just from a theoretical standpoint, i will tell you that my dashboard warning light was clearly on and i think that was the case with all us in the intelligence community. very co...

Bank. you were still the director of national intelligence in december. are these things you would have known? >> yes, they would have and to reenforce john brennan's comments before the house committee on intelligence, and i have to say that without specific -- specifically affirming or confirming these conversations since even though they're in the realm, they'll still classified but from the theoretical standpoint i would tell you that my dashboard warning light was clearly on and i think that was the case with all of the intelligence committee. very concerned about the nature of these appr...

This, four investigation, we have mueller and his investigation as well. what is the reaction of the staffers that are part of the investigations? >> i think that richard, they really don't know what to expect is going to happen next. i mean, you know, just literally waiting for one shoe after another to drop. i think they feel out of the loop. i think they feel like there's a lot more out there they don't know about. one thing i would like to circle back to, general clapper when you look under the dictionary for low key, general clapper is it. what he said earlier today to chuck todd you have...