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>>> BREAKING NEWS TONIGHT FROM
"THE NEW YORK TIMES," THE FBI
OPENED AN INQUIRY INTO WHETHER
PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS SECRETLY
WORKING ON BEHALF OF RUSSIA.
THAT’S THE HEADLINE TONIGHT.
HERE ARE THE STUNNING OPENING
LINES OF THAT REPORT.
"IN THE DAYS AFTER PRESIDENT
TRUMP FIRED JAMES B. COMEY AS
FBI DIRECTOR, LAW ENFORCEMENT
OFFICIALS BECAME SO CONCERNED BY
THE PRESIDENT’S BEHAVIOR THAT
THEY BEGAN INVESTIGATING WHETHER
HE HAD BEEN WORKING ON BEHALF OF
RUSSIA AGAINST AMERICAN
INTERESTS, ACCORDING TO FORMER
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS AND
OTHERS FAMILIAR WITH THE
INVESTIGATION."
INVESTIGATION." SO WHAT DOES THAT ACTUALLY MEAN?
WELL, ACCORDING TO "THE NEW YORK
TIMES," COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
TIMES," COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATORS HAD TO CONSIDER
WHETHER TRUMP’S OWN ACTIONS,
"CONSTITUTED A POSSIBLE THREAT
TO NATIONAL SECURITY."
AGENTS ALSO SOUGHT TO DETERMINE
WHETHER MR. TRUMP WAS KNOWINGLY
WORKING FOR RUSSIA OR HAD
UNWITTINGLY FALLEN UNDER
MOSCOW’S INFLUENCE.
MOSCOW’S INFLUENCE. "THE NEW YORK TIMES" REPORTS
THAT TRUMP CAUGHT THE ATTENTION
OF THE FBI COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
AGENTS AFTER THIS MOMENT, THIS
MOMENT IN THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION.
ELECTION. >> RUSSIA, IF YOU’RE LISTENING,
I HOPE YOU’RE ABLE TO FIND THE
30,000 E-MAILS THAT ARE MISSING.
>> BUT EVEN AFTER THAT AND OTHER
ALARMING INCIDENTS DURING THE
CAMPAIGN, "THE TIMES" SAYS THAT,
"LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS PUT
OFF THE DECISION TO OPEN THE
INVESTIGATION UNTIL THEY HAD
LEARNED MORE, ACCORDING TO
PEOPLE FAMILIAR WITH THEIR
THINKING."
THINKING." THAT ALL CHANGED, APPARENTLY,
WITH THE FIRING OF JAMES COMEY
IN MAY 2017 AND TWO OTHER
ACTIONS THAT THE PRESIDENT TOOK
AROUND COMEY’S FIRING.
ACCORDING TO "THE NEW YORK
TIMES," THE FIRST ACTION WAS, "A
LETTER MR. TRUMP WANTED TO SEND
MR. COMEY ABOUT HIS FIRING BUT
NEVER DID.
NEVER DID. IN WHICH HE MENTIONED THE RUSSIA
INVESTIGATION.
INVESTIGATION. IN THE LETTER, MR. TRUMP THANKED
MR. COMEY FOR PREVIOUSLY TELLING
HIM HE WAS NOT A SUBJECT OF THE
FBI’S RUSSIA INVESTIGATION."
NOW, THE SECOND EVENT THAT
TROUBLED INVESTIGATORS WAS ONE
WE ALL WATCHED.
IT WAS THIS INTERVIEW WITH NBC
NEWS’ LESTER HOLT, WHICH
OCCURRED TWO DAYS AFTER JAMES
COMEY’S FIRING.
COMEY’S FIRING. THE PRESIDENT SAID THIS.
>> REGARDLESS OF RECOMMENDATION,
I WAS GOING TO FIRE COMEY.
KNOWING THERE WAS NO GOOD TIME
TO DO IT.
TO DO IT. AND IN FACT, WHEN I DECIDED TO
JUST DO IT, I SAID TO MYSELF, I
SAID, YOU KNOW, THIS RUSSIA
THING WITH TRUMP AND RUSSIA IS A
MADE UP STORY.
>> THIS RUSHER THING.
NOW "THE TIMES" NOTES SPECIAL
COUNSEL ROBERT MUELLER TOOK OVER
THIS INQUIRY INTO PRESIDENT
TRUMP WHEN HE WAS APPOINTED,
JUST DAYS AFTER THE FBI OPENED
IT AND IT IS UNCLEAR WHETHER MR.
MULLER IS STILL PURSUING THE
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE MATTER.
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE MATTER. NO EVIDENCE HAS EMERGED PUBLICLY
THAT DONALD TRUMP WAS SECRETLY
IN CONTACT WITH OR TOOK
DIRECTION FROM THE RUSSIAN
GOVERNMENT.
GOVERNMENT. LET’S JUST BE CLEAR ABOUT THAT.
BUT ONE FINAL NOTE THAT CAUGHT
OUR EYE IN THIS BOMBSHELL "NEW
YORK TIMES" REPORT IS THAT FBI
OFFICIALS FELT THAT THEIR
DECISION TO OPEN A
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATION WAS VALIDATED,
"WHEN A COMMENT THE PRESIDENT
MADE TO VISITING RUSSIAN
OFFICIALS IN THE OVAL OFFICE
SHORTLY AFTER HE FIRED MR. COMEY
WAS REVEALED DAYS LATER."
"I JUST FIRED THE HEAD OF THE
FBI.
FBI. HE WAS CRAZY.
A REAL NUT JOB.
MR. TRUMP SAID ACCORDING TO A
DOCUMENT SUMMARIZING THE
MEETING, I FACED GREAT PRESSURE
BECAUSE OF RUSSIA.
THAT’S TAKEN OFF."
IT WAS AN INTERESTING MEETING IF
YOU RECALL.
YOU RECALL. U.S. PRESS WAS NOT ALLOWED INTO
THAT MEETING.
THAT MEETING. WE HEARD ABOUT IT AFTERWARD.
JIM COMEY IS A NUT JOB AND A
CRAZY GUY ACCORDING TO THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
JOINING US NOW, WASHINGTON
BUREAU CHIEF FOR MOTHER JONES.
CLEN CONCERNENER, FORMER FEDERAL
PROSECUTOR.
PROSECUTOR. BOTH ARE MEAN NAENLTS AND
JOINING US FRANK MONTOIA WHO
SERVED AS THE NATIONAL
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE EXECUTIVE.
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE EXECUTIVE. THIS, FRANK, IS A
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATION.
INVESTIGATION. THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF
INVESTIGATIONS THAT THE FBI
DOES.
DOES. MOST OF WHAT WE TALK ABOUT ARE
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS.
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS. COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATIONS SERVE A DIFFERENT
PURPOSE.
PURPOSE. WHAT WAS THIS FOR?
>> EXACTLY THAT, TO DETERMINE IF
THERE WERE INTELLIGENCE
ACTIVITIES THAT A FOREIGN POWER
WAS CONDUCTING, IN THIS CASE
RUSSIA, AGAINST THE UNITED
STATES, AND THAT PERHAPS
AMERICANS OF SOME SORT WITTING
OR UNWITTING WERE ENABLING OR
HELPING OR FACILITATING THAT
INTERFERENCE OR THAT
INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION.
INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION. >> GLENN, THAT’S A HIGH BAR AND
A BIG DECISION FOR THE FBI TO
MAKE, TO GO AFTER OR TO LOOK IN
TO A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES.
STATES. IN FACT, ACCORDING TO THE
ARTICLE, I WANT TO READ A LITTLE
MORE FROM THE ARTICLE.
THERE WAS A DEBATE WITHIN THE
FBI.
FBI. IT SAYS "A VIGOROUS DEBATE HAS
TAKEN SHAPE AMONGST SOME FORMER
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS
OUTSIDE THE CASE OVER WHETHER
FBI INVESTIGATORS OVERREACTED IN
OPENING THE COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
INQUIRY DURING A TUMULTUOUS
PERIOD AT THE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT.
DEPARTMENT. OTHER FORMER OFFICIALS NOTED
THAT THOSE CRITICS WERE NOT
PRIVY TO THE EVIDENCE AND NOTED
THAT SITTING ON IT WOULD HAVE
BEEN AN ABDICATION OF DUTY."
THAT THIS SORT OF INVESTIGATION
WAS NECESSARY MUST HAVE MEANT
THERE WAS ENOUGH EVIDENCE FOR
THEM TO WANT TO GO FORWARD WITH
IT.
IT. >> ALI, I THINK WE SHOULD ALL BE
HEARTENED THAT THE
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATION WAS UP AND RUNNING
BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, FOR THE LAST
COUPLE OF YEARS WE’VE SEEN WHAT
-- AT LEAST TO MY EYES AS A
CAREER -- FORMER CAREER
PROSECUTOR TO BE COLLUSION WITH
RUSSIA IN PLAIN SIGHT.
WE HAVE A PRESIDENT AT BEST WHO
HAS THIS STRANGE AFFINITY FOR
PUTIN AND FOR RUSSIAN POSITIONS
AND AT WORST HAS BEEN
CONSPIREING AND EVEN DOING
RUSSIA’S BIDDING ALL ALONG TO
THE DETRIMENT OF AMERICA.
AND, YOU KNOW, YOU HAD A GREAT
RUN-UP OF EVERYTHING THAT
DEMONSTRATES THAT.
DEMONSTRATES THAT. ONE OTHER THING I WOULD ADD,
ALI, WHEN JAMES COMEY AND
CLAPPER AND SOME OTHERS GAVE THE
PRESIDENT AND HIS TEAM AFTER HE
HAD BEEN ELECTED THE FIRST
NATIONAL SECURITY BRIEFING AND
TOLD THEM, YOU KNOW, MR.
PRESIDENT-ELECT, RUSSIA HACKED
AND INTERFERED IN OUR ELECTIONS.
THE PRESIDENT-ELECT DIDN’T ASK,
OH, MY GOODNESS, HOW DOES THIS
HAPPEN?
HAPPEN? HOW DO WE HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE?
HOW DO WE PREVENT IT FROM
HAPPENING AGAIN?
HAPPENING AGAIN? WHAT DID HE DO ACCORDING TO
FORMER DIRECTOR COMEY?
HE IMMEDIATELY STARTED TO SAY
HOW CAN WE SPIN THIS SO IT’S NOT
A PUBLIC RELATIONS DIS.
THAT SHOULD HAVE TOLD US RIGHT
THERE.
THERE. >> HE HAD NONE OF THE NORMAL
CURIOSITY WHEN TOLD A FOREIGN
ENTITY INTERFERED IN OUR
ELECTIONS.
ELECTIONS. SOME OF THIS HAPPENED IN PLAIN
SIGHT, RIGHT?
SIGHT, RIGHT? THE CONVERSATION WITH LESTER
HOLT.
HOLT. THAT WEIRD MEETING AT THE WHITE
HOUSE WITH THE RUSSIAN FOREIGN
MINISTER AND THE RUSSIAN
AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES
IN WHICH AMERICANS WERE NOT
ALLOWED IN.
ALLOWED IN. THAT PRESS CONFERENCE IN
HELSINKI NEXT TO VLADIMIR PUTIN,
WHICH NO ONE COULD UNDERSTAND.
BUT SOME OF IT DIDN’T HAPPEN IN
PLAIN SIGHT.
PLAIN SIGHT. LIKE THE TRUMP TOWER MEETING.
LIKE THE IDEA THAT DONALD TRUMP
WARNED AMERICA THAT E-MAILS WERE
GOING TO BE RELEASED AND THEN
SUDDENLY E-MAILS WERE RELEASED.
PUT THIS ALL IN CONTEXT FOR US.
>> LET’S TAKE IT TO THE CAMPAIGN
ITSELF.
ITSELF. DURING THE CAMPAIGN, AFTER IT
CAME OUT, IT WAS PUBLICLY
REPORTED THAT RUSSIA WAS
ATTACKING THE DNC AND THAT IT
WAS CLEAR THAT THE HACKED
MATERIAL WAS BEING RELEASED AT
THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION AND
AFTERWARDS HURT THE DNC, DONALD
TRUMP AND PAUL MANAFORT AND
DONALD TRUMP JR. AND OTHERS
RELATED TO THE CAMPAIGN AGAIN
AND AGAIN REITERATED, THEY
REPEATED, THEY ECHOED THE
RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA, THE RUSSIAN
DISINFORMATION THAT THEY HAD
NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS.
THIS IS WHERE THE REAL COLLUSION
IN PLAIN SIGHT IS, EVEN AFTER
DONALD TRUMP IN MID-AUGUST 2016
RECEIVED A PRIVATE INTELLIGENCE
BRIEFING AND WAS TOLD THEN BY
THE U.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY
THAT THE RUSSIANS WERE BEHIND
THESE ATTACKS, HE CAME OUT
PUBLICLY AND REPEATED WHAT
VLADIMIR PUTIN WAS SAYING, THAT
RUSSIA HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH
THIS, AND HE DID THAT THROUGHOUT
THE CAMPAIGN AND EVEN AFTER THE
U.S. GOVERNMENT MADE IT OFFICIAL
PUBLICLY THAT THEY BELIEVED
RUSSIA WAS BEHIND THIS.
SO THERE’S COLLUSION IN THE
COVER-UP.
COVER-UP. AND YOU HAVE THE TRUMP TOWER
MEETING AND YOU HAVE TIME AND
TIME AGAIN WHERE DONALD TRUMP
HIMSELF OR SOMEONE ASSOCIATED
WITH THE CAMPAIGN IS SENDING A
SIGNAL TO MOSCOW, WE WANT TO
WORK WITH YOU, WE’RE ON YOUR
SIDE, WE’RE GOING TO PROTECT
YOU.
YOU. IF PEOPLE CHARGE YOU WITH
INTERVENING IN THE ELECTION,
WE’RE OPEN FOR BUSINESS, WE WANT
TO DEAL WITH YOU.
AND I KNOW THAT THROUGHOUT THAT,
THROUGHOUT THE 2016 CAMPAIGN,
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE PEOPLE AND
PEOPLE IN THE NATIONAL SECURITY
WORLD WERE AGHAST.
THEY WERE WONDERING WHAT’S GOING
ON WITH THIS GUY AND WONDERED IF
THERE WAS SOMETHING ELSE OTHER
THAN WHAT WAS OBVIOUS.
>> FRANK, LET ME READ YOU THE
RESPONSE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE.
SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS HAS GIVEN
US A RESPONSE IN WHICH SHE SAID,
"THIS IS ABSURD.
JAMES COMEY WAS FIRED BECAUSE HE
WAS A DISGRACED PARTISAN HACK,
AND HIS DEPUTY ANDREW McCABE,
WHO WAS IN CHARGE AT THE TIME,
IS A KNOWN LIAR FIRED BY THE
FBI.
FBI. UNLIKE PRESIDENT OBAMA, WHO LET
RUSSIA AND OTHER FOREIGN
ADVERSARIES PUSH AMERICA AROUND,
PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS ACTUALLY
BEEN TOUGH ON RUSSIA."
THE SECOND PART IS ITS OWN
THING, BUT THE FIRST PART, THE
CONSISTENT -- FRANK, THE
CONSISTENT ATTACK ON THE FBI, ON
LAW ENFORCEMENT IN GENERAL AT A
FEDERAL LEVEL, BUT ON THE FBI,
THE IDEA THAT IT IS POPULATED
WITH HACKS, THAT IT’S A WITCH
HUNT, THIS IS THE PRESIDENT’S
RESPONSE TO EVERYTHING THAT THE
FBI HAS SAID OR DONE.
>> WELL, AND IT’S TOTALLY
IRRELEVANT.
IRRELEVANT. WHETHER IT COMES FROM HIM OR
COMES FROM ANY OF HIS
SPOKESPEOPLE BECAUSE AS DAVID
SAID, IT’S ABOUT HIS ACTIONS.
THEY SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES.
IN TERMS OF THE INITIATION OF AN
INVESTIGATION, IT’S ALL BASED ON
THE SUSPICIONS THAT THE FBI HAD
ABOUT HIS BEHAVIOR.
YOU KNOW, AND I NOTED THAT IN
TYPICAL COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
TYPICAL COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATIONS IT’S ABOUT
DETERMINING IF ONE FOREIGN POWER
IS COLLECTING INTELLIGENCE
AGAINST US AND IF AMERICANS
WITTINGLY OR UNWITTINGLY ARE
ENABLING OR FACILITATING THAT
COLLECTION.
COLLECTION. IN THIS CASE, I MEAN, IT SEEMED
LOUD AND CLEAR BEYOND, YOU KNOW,
THE SUSPICIONS EVEN THAT THERE
WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS THERE,
AND, YOU KNOW, WE WERE COMPELLED
OR THE FBI WAS COMPELLED IN
THOSE INSTANCES TO CONDUCT AN
INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE IF IT
WAS UNWITTING OR WITTING.
THE FACT, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS
JUST SO MUCH OF THE ACTIVITIES
THAT WERE OUT THERE, WHETHER IT
WAS MEETINGS BY INDIVIDUALS
ASSOCIATED WITH HIM, CLOSELY
ASSOCIATED WITH HIM OR HIS OWN
BEHAVIORS, AND IT WAS BEFORE AND
AFTER JIM COMEY’S DISMISSAL.
SO IN TERMS OF THE
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATION ITSELF, REALLY
RELEVANT THAT IT WAS CONDUCTED
BECAUSE OF ALL OF THE SUSPICIOUS
BEHAVIOR.
BEHAVIOR. >> AND GLENN, OBVIOUSLY THE FBI
BEFORE AND AFTER COMEY’S
DEPARTURE WAS CONCERNED ABOUT
HOW THIS WOULD LOOK.
ACCORDING TO "THE NEW YORK
TIMES" REPORT, AS FOR A
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INQUIRY, LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS CONCLUDED
THEY WOULD NEED STRONG EVIDENCE
TO TAKE THE SENSITIVE STEP OF
INVESTIGATING THE PRESIDENT AND
THEY WERE ALSO CONCERNED, THIS
IS INTERESTING, ALSO CONCERNED
THAT THE EXISTENCE OF SUCH AN
INQUIRY COULD BE LEAKED TO THE
NEWS MEDIA, UNDERMINING THE
ENTIRE INVESTIGATION INTO
RUSSIA’S MEDDLING IN THE
ELECTION.
ELECTION. SO THAT HAS COME TO PASS, THE
NEWS MEDIA NOW KNOWS THAT THERE
WAS AN INVESTIGATION.
THE PRESIDENT HAS GIVEN US
EXACTLY THE RESPONSE THAT WE
WOULD HAVE EXPECTED TO SUCH A
THING.
THING. ONCE AGAIN CHOOSING NOT TO TAKE
THE MATTER SERIOUSLY OF RUSSIAN
INTERFERENCE INTO THE ELECTION
BUT TO SOMEHOW DESIGN THIS AS A
WITCH HUNT WITH PARTISAN HACKS.
BUT THIS IS IMPORTANT TO ME
BECAUSE THE FBI MUST HAVE
THOUGHT ABOUT THIS AND THOUGHT
ABOUT IT AND THOUGHT ABOUT IT
FIVE MORE TIMES BEFORE MOVING
AHEAD.
AHEAD. >> YEAH, THERE IS NO MORE SORT
OF DRAMATIC OR -- AND PERHAPS
EVEN UNPRECEDENTED STEP THAN FOR
THE FBI TO OPEN A
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATION INTO A
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OR A
SITTING PRESIDENT.
SITTING PRESIDENT. BUT I CAN TELL YOU, DECLINING TO
DO IT WOULD HAVE BEEN
IRRESPONSIBLE AND IT ULTIMATELY
WOULD HAVE BEEN DANGEROUS.
YOU KNOW, WE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT,
WHEN I WAS A FEDERAL PROSECUTOR,
I HAD PEOPLE ATTACKING ME ALL
THE TIME FOR PROSECUTORIAL
DECISIONS I MADE.
AND, YOU KNOW, WE CAN’T DECLINE
TO DO THE RIGHT THING FOR FEAR
OF REACTION BY THE WRONG PEOPLE
OR BY THE COMPLICIT PEOPLE.
SO I THINK THE FBI DID THE RIGHT
THING, THE NECESSARY THING, AND
YOU KNOW WHAT?
LET THE CRITICISM COME.
>> YEP.
>> YEP. THAT’S AN INTERESTING POINT YOU
MAKE, GLENN.
MAKE, GLENN. I WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT THIS,
FRANK -- I WANT TO ASK DAVID
ABOUT THIS.
ABOUT THIS. THE ARTICLE’S A REMARKABLE READ.
IT’S FULL OF DETAIL.
MICHAEL SCHMITT, ONE OF THE
AUTHORS OF IT SAID THEY’VE
REALLY BEEN WORKING ON IF FOR A
YEAR AND A HALF BECAUSE THEY’VE
HAD BITS AND PIECES OF THIS
INFORMATION FOR A YEAR AND A
HALF.
HALF. IT SAYS AS THE FBI OFFICIALS
DEBATED WHETHER TO OPEN THE
INVESTIGATION, SOME OF THEM
PUSHED TO MOVE QUICKLY BEFORE
MR. TRUMP APPOINTED A DIRECTOR
WHO MIGHT SLOW DOWN OR EVEN END
THEIR INVESTIGATION INTO RUSSIAN
INTERFERENCE.
INTERFERENCE. HERE IS THE KEY SENTENCE TO ME.
MANY INVOLVED IN THE CASE VIEWED
RUSSIA AS THE CHIEF THREAT TO
AMERICAN DEMOCRATIC VALUES.
AND DAVID, ULTIMATELY THAT’S
WHAT THIS COMES DOWN TO.
>> YES.
>> YES. YOU KNOW, WE USE THE WORD
MEDDLING, INTERFERENCE,
MEDDLING, INTERFERENCE, INTERVENTION, RUSSIA ATTACKED
AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IN THE 2016
CAMPAIGN.
CAMPAIGN. THEY ATTACKED IT WITH SOCIAL
MEDIA.
MEDIA. THEY ATTACKED IT BY HACKS AND
RELEASING MATERIAL THAT ARGUABLY
HAD AN IMPACT ON THE ELECTION
ITSELF.
ITSELF. THEY DID SO WITH -- TO DISRUPT
AND CAUSE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY TO
LOOK MESSY AND AT SOME POINT
THEY ALSO DECIDED HELPING TRUMP
WOULD BE PART OF THEIR AIMS AS
WELL.
WELL. SO THIS WAS INFORMATION WARFARE.
THIS IS THE MOST SERIOUS MATTER
THAT ONE CAN THING OF BECAUSE IT
ATTACKS THE FOUNDATION OF OUR
SOCIETY.
SOCIETY. AND YET DONALD TRUMP HAS NEVER
COME TO TERMS WITH THIS.
REPUBLICAN PARTY IN GENERAL HAS
NOT HAD A RECKONING AND RECKIZED
THAT THIS WAS A MONUMENTAL ACT.
AND I THINK WHAT WE’VE SEEN IS
ONE OF THE BIGGEST SCANDALS IN
THE HISTORY OF AMERICA, YET WE
GET DISTRACTED, WE TALK ABOUT
DONALD TRUMP’S TWEETS.
AND SO I CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT
IT WAS LIKE INSIDE THE FBI ALL
THIS TIME WHEN THEY WORRIED
ABOUT THE RUSSIAN ATTACK AND ANY
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE TRUMP
CROWD AND THE ADVERSARY THAT WAS
ATTACKING A U.S. ELECTION.
>> GENTLEMEN, I THANK YOU FOR
HELPING ME KICK OFF THIS HOUR IN
SUCH A MEANINGFUL WAY.
YOUR ANALYSIS IS INDISPENSABLE.
DAVID CORN IS THE WASHINGTON
BUREAU CHIEF FOR MOTHER JONES
AND THE CO-AUTHOR OF A
REMARKABLE BOOK CALLED "RUSSIAN