counterintelligence investigation not a criminal probe. the criminal probe grew out of it. but it was essentially out of a concern by the f.b.i. d the concern in our committee which was also focused on the counterintelligence issues about whether individuals around the president or the candidate himself were acting as agents of a foreign power either witfully or unwittingly. was the foreign power exercising influence? one way russia exercises its influence is financially. probably the most graphic illustration of the danger is moscow trump tower. where unbeknownst to the american people -- to the american people and this was something the president was the seving the company about, the president and his company were seeking to build a tow for the moscow, perhaps the most lucrative deal of his life, and seeking permits to make it happen. you can imagine how deeply compromising that could be. we want to ferret out, we want to follow the money and determine is there some other form of compromise? we don't yet know what the result of the counterintelligence investigation are. we are seeking that from the justice department and the

f.b.i. counterintelligence investigation into russia. there is a suspicion that they may be another collusion the collusion between the democrats and the intelligence services if true and how big of a deal it's going to be you for a democrat public it's a big deal but if there were any truth to it but this is a propaganda campaign mr ball i don't think is just. an agent of mr trump he was just a point to a few months ago after a long interviews with mr trump and an effect he has so well with this process in a quite disgraceful fashion as a spokesman for for the white house he has no credibility in the minds of anyone but republican partisan but i suppose it's well it's not going to be him personally looking into that if he were to appoint somebody like let's say robert miller again to investigate another killer collusion do you think that would have more credence in your eyes no i think at the end of the day. highly doubtful that he'll do. just making political points you know the american electoral campaign has already begun we're going

f.b.i. . foreign counterintelligence and i get a lead that says investigate. for fast terrorist there fasting on the steps of the capitol jack ryan reviewed the veterans fast for life case files and also those of other u.s. nationwide solidarity groups in the investigation wanted to find out who was this group veterans fast for a life and they were called terrorists under the sabotage statutes. and concluded that the fasters were nonviolent and refused to investigate further is superior putting them under review the bureau just came down on me when i likened it to killing a flea with a shotgun yet i was fired ten months shy of getting a pension but they came down big. those of you who voted for aid i want to say i have yet to receive an explanation that speaks from a place other than beer bordering on a paranoia reminiscent of them a guide to the idea that we were terrorists and. that it. was it is ridiculous. and a terrorist has no regard for human life whatsoever. i don't see how that can possibly be construed as hurting someone else. as we continue to grow.

counterintelligence investigation, not as a criminal probe. the criminal probe grew out of it. but it was essentially out of the concern by the f.b.i. and the concern in our committee which was focused on the counterintelligence issues about whether individuals around the president or the candidate himself were acting as agents of a foreign power wittingly or unwittingly. and one of the ways that russia exercises its flunse is financially. the most graphic i will us lation is moscow trump tower, where unbe noneses to the american people and this was something that the president was deseffing, the president was seeking to build a tower in moscow, perhaps the most lucrative in his life and seeking the help of krim lynn and you realize how deeply compromising that could be. we want to toll the money and determine if there is some other form of compromise. we don't know what the results of the counterintelligence investigation are. we are seeking that from the justice department and the intelligence committee. what happened to that probe, is it still ongoing and did it come to an end, what conclusions did they reach. >> what about the ba

f.b.i.'s head of counterintelligence, peter strzok and he tells him, look, we now have proof positive, hillary clinton private server was hacked. we found this in here. and as i dug in to figure out what is this thing, it was an embedded placement in the server that directed every email coming in and every email going out of hillary clinton's private server which we know contained classified information, directed to go to a known front organization for the chinese government. . and peter strzok, after all the protection he tried to afford, he's going to sit there and -- afford hillary clinton, he's going so to sit there and lie -- he's going to sit there and lie? he remembered very well what frank rucker said. that was a lie. and since he has said previously , he told the truth, then any time he had ever told a lie it would have been admissible in front of a jury. even with the more restricted rules of evidence. you could have asked about every time he ever lied. i just chose to make one blanket question about the hundreds of times he lied to his wife. he does not always tell the truth. he's a

mccaul: the last briefing i had when i was chairman of homeland, i had the f.b.i., foreign counterintelligence they told me, they said we're shifting from radical islamic terrorism which is still a thrit, but we're shifting to china. which indicates to me that china is the number one splet. russia is a threat but the -- but china, through their one road, the chinese, the current president who is outgoing, was cutting a deal with the chi meeze to give up two sea ports to allow the chinese come. in they overleverage country, bring their own workers in, and effectively economically take over the country. they're going to bring their 5g in, the telecommunications. if china brings its 5g in, they own those countries. twhare doing? it's a playbook that the he sador gave me, it's -- did everything he said he was going to do in that boom. the chinese have written their manifesto as well. it lays out exactly what they're doing. they're in africa. african nations really don't have much of an alternative. they say we'll come in and invest. they overleverage them, they've taken over the sri lanka port. th

paragraph, talking about how the special counsel's office met regularly with the f.b.i., and even embedded counterintelligence agents for of -- these work of those agents and her findings is not detailed in the report. what do these agents under mueller's supervision recover? americans present an acute counterintelligence risk, and what steps if any have been taken to address these threats? guest: this is again where the story began, concerned that a foreign power was attempting to influence our elections and our particular campaign. this is why we need to protect the country. to make sure that in the future, every candidate, potential presidential candidate, understands that it is unacceptable to accept help from a foreign adversary to help pursue an election. that basic ground truth that we need. the counterintelligence and perhaps speculation of what it is not in the report, it was such a level of concern that we had to have our national security team make sure that a foreign adversary was not trying to unduly influence a campaign and ultimately an election. host: adam schiff right -- a candidate, he write

f.b.i. agents considered infiltrating our transition team by sending a counterintelligence agent to one of myings only nine days after the election. let's bring in a national security attorney. great to have you with us. so we've had some really interesting revelations in the last couple of days. these texts that are talking about sending certain people to meetings, a couple of senators, chairman grassley and johnson, have reached out to the intern general saying we need to know what the heck was going on here. what do you think, bradley, was going on? >> there was already an ongoing counterintelligence investigation that had been going on since the summer. we know that the trump campaign, this is outlined in over a hundred pages in the mueller report, everybody in their mother in the trump campaign, was talking to russian nationals somewhere, and you get the transition, and you've got mike flynn having calls with the russian ambassador, telling them not to respond to what obama is doing with sanctions. don't worry, we'll fix it. we've got kushner saying let's have communications over the rus

paragraph, talking about how the special counsel's office met regularly with the f.b.i., and even embedded counterintelligencegents for of -- these work of those agents and her findings is not detailed in the report. what do these agents under mueller's supervision recover? americans present an acute counterintelligence risk, and what steps if any have been taken to address these threats? guest: this is again where the story began, concerned that a foreign power was attempting to influence our elections and our particular campaign. this is why we need to protect the country. to make sure that in the future, every candidate, potential presidential candidate, understands that it is unacceptable to accept help from a foreign adversary to help pursue an election. that basic ground truth that we need. the counterintelligence and perhaps speculation of what it is not in the report, it was such a level of concern that we had to have our national security team make sure that a foreign adversary was not trying to unduly influence a campaign and ultimately an election. host: adam schiff right -- a candidate, he writes

f.b.i. would have responsibility for. that they'll take the charge to make sure that we perform our counterintelligence function appropriately and properly. bob: rudy giuliani said recently there's nothing wrong with taking foreign information in a presidential campaign. do you agree with that? mr. pompeo: i don't have anything to say about that. i'll let the white house and mr. giuliani speak for himself. having said that, we should all be cognizant of the sources of information we receive. we should be cognizant when we receive dossiers to make sure that they are right, that we have validated information before we report on it. we should always, every one of us has a responsibility to make sure that the information that we provide, the information we receive, is truthful, accurate and creates real value for whatever place we find ourselves. whether it's at the state department or the work i did as the director of the central intelligence agency. we each have a duty to do that. bob: do you think the media and election entities should not use stolen or hacked material? mr. pompeo: i'll leave that to others. bob: ok. mr. pomp