good morning. the f.b.i. opened a counter intelligence investigation against china on average every 12 hours. think about that. that statistic coming directly from the f.b.i. director christopher wray in london meeting with top british intelligence officials. we were there. he was talking about the china threat to the united states. now there are about 2,000 plus investigations, active investigations now dealing with chinese espionage, academic. this is more specifically against people or entities with connection to the communist government. outside the building i speak to you people proper tellsed to get rid of the china initiative. it began in the trump administration to root out chinese espionage in academia. merrick garland and his team disbanded the initiative in the
trump campaign, and the russian government. and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russia s efforts. it would later be revealed that trump had demanded loyalty from comey, and repeatedly pressed him to end the investigation into trump s first national security adviser, michael flynn. after he refused to do so, trump fired comey in shocking fashion. in a remarkable oval office meeting the following day, the day after he fired him. trump told russian diplomats that by firing comey, the previous day, quote, i faced a great pressure, because of russia. that is taken off. around the same time, he all but admitted to lester holt that he had fired comey because of the, quote, made-up russia investigation. with comey gone, andy mccabe became the acting fbi writer director. in one of his first actions, the very next day, was to open up a counter intelligence
campaign and russia s efforts. it would later be revealed that trump had demanded loyalty from comey, and repeatedly pressed him to end the investigation into trump s first national security adviser, michael flynn. after he refused to do so, trump fired comey in shocking fashion. in a remarkable oval office meeting the following day, the day after he fired him, trump told russian diplomats that by firing comey, the previous day, quote, i faced a great pressure, because of russia. that is taken off. around the same time, he all but admitted to lester holt that he had fired comey because of the, quote, made-up russia investigation. with comey gone, andy mccabe became the acting fbi director. in one of his first actions, the very next day, was to open up a counter intelligence investigation into the president, and his ties to
when you poll the average american, they don t trust the people in congress. given your position, what can you do to actually impact the president s behavior? the mueller investigation had three central findings. first that russia interfered with our election for the exclusive purpose of trying to artificially place donald trump at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. the second finding is that the trump campaign willfully accepted that as donald trump just confirmed for all in america to see. the third point is that when a counter intelligence investigation and a criminal inquiry was launched, the trump campaign and donald trump may have engaged in at least 10 different instances to obstruct justice in connection with the investigation. we need to make sure that bob mueller tells this story to the american people and does it in a public way and that s something that the house judiciary
steps they take from here. adam schiff said his committee still can t get a simple answer on whether the counter intelligence investigation is still going on or people are still being investigated either willingly or unwillingness as foreign agents. what do you make of that? adam schiff plays two roles. he s a member of what we call the gang of eight. in both of those cases, he should be aware of the counter intelligence investigation that s ongoing. the executive branch has to keep the intelligence committees fully and currently informed on major intelligence activities. we also know the gang of eight was informed when president trump was a subject of a counter intelligence investigation in the past. where the red flags flying a bit higher since the mueller report came out than before the mueller