in the house intelligence committee to get information on what s being described as the counterintelligence portion of the mueller probe which wasn t included in the final mueller report, the 450 pages. is that something members of congress should be privy to? well, it s a difficult analysis that you have to go through in terms of what you discussed with congress but historically we at the bureau and in the justice department have apprised the intelligence committees and sometimes other leaders of congress about sensitive intelligence matters, so i think the answer is yes, that s why those committees were created in the first place in the 70s. you urged the country to come together because this threat from russia potentialally is still out there going into the 2020 elections. is that right? it s huge and we need to stop this rancor and make sure we re protecting and honoring our country and those who went before us to give us the freedoms we have. are you concerned that the ru
have the tools to prevent them from doing it. gillian: republicans have been decrying the investigation, two years, millions of dollars, but if we get some new, real information that teaches us something about how russia tried to interfere and where they were successful, sounds like you re saying it ll be well worth the money and the time. well, that s where i m focused. i want to see what russia did. i suspect much of that will stay classified because that s the counterintelligence portion of it, but that part is vital. you know, the other part of it, i frankly think the genesis of this was a terrible overreaction by the obama administration when some low-level people connected tangentially to donald trump had contacts with russians, and those russians were people on the watch list. and then the obama administration dramatically overreacted when trump won. they weaponized the intelligence briefing, they leaked information about trump, they bit on the dossier, and that s what launche