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Not leap to the conclusion. it doesn't look good. that's why we're talking about it. it doesn't give the american people confidence or some section of the population confidence that everything was done in exactly the right way. >> if you look at the whistle-blower complaint which everybody can go online and read for themselves, the very first paragraph talks about an allegation about president trump who obviously works at the white house. and an allegation about attorney general barr who obviously runs the justice department. sam, let me ask you, are you surprised to hear that the justice depa...

Counterintelligence perspective raise my antenna. >> sam, you are agreeing? you want to respond? >> in is an amateur hour the russian operative didn't have to work very hard. you look at this reporting about the russians having contact with campaign officials at the republican convention. the russian didn't have to try to get meetings with the campaign officials like we've seen happen in the past. campaign officials were actively seeking out meetings with the russians. they were doing their job for them. you have to wonder, for example, why would you want to meet with a former spy? why would y...

>> or some young folks, like don junior and jared kushner. >> exactly. >> people previously in politics. steve, we've talked many times about how russia uses its contacts. it builds networks to get information. do you see that in how they dealt with gates and manafort? >> yeah, i think, yes, absolutely. i mean, certainly manafort, as i was alluding to earlier, has a long record of contact with people that would have ended up you know back at moscow knowing about it, the russian intelligence services knowing about it. i think paul manafort is the kind of guy based on his activities in ukraine f...

That's a really complicated. because there is legal implications, there is certainly counterintelligence implications. hopefully, mueller is trying to get to the bottom of that slippery slope. first you have to understand how the russians work. in the united states, for example, somebody reaches out to the fbi with a foreign intelligence matter and the fbi usually says, well, cia handles that, vice versa, cia has foreign intelligence matter -- but that's not the way it works in russia. everybody works for vladimir putin. so you know you can say, well, the ambassador wasn't an intelligence offi...

Eye right now to come down and check our cars which, unfortunately, this is our fleet here. which got taken out by a bunch of trees. what sam was saying before, palm trees are -- again, they're sort of evolutionarily designed to withstand this. you see that root bowel just falls out and pops over. as the ground gets wetter and softer and the second round of wind is going to come, they're just going to take these out. >> chris, let me just ask you something. you and i have had an interesting conversation here. if you go to dubai or abu dhabi or places like that, you think humankind's won the ba...