know in order to understand thi this. thanks to the times story we have some sense of the answer. if yousw are imagining a secret transmitter covered in cyrillic scripts discovered hidden in the lincoln bedroom, no. think again. there were no cloak and dagger clues in this case apparently. the fbi assumed that donald trump might be a russian agent not because of anything he did in secret but because of things he did -- said in public. a very public, standing on the stage on camera while running for president. here's one of them. >> there's nothing i can think of that i would rather do than have russia friendly as opposed to the way they are right now. wouldn't it be nice if we actually got along as an example with russia? e i'm all for it. >> tucker: that was then candidate from speaking at a press conference in florida in july of 2016. according to the fbi, the words you just heard are evidence that trump may have betrayed thisus country. that's their view. but there's another way to look