assad. which means after going down to a quarter of syria with russian and iranian intervention, and now this moment, assad has reconstituted. right. they were really clear eyed about what civil war means and they were careful not to get involved. they had an agreement with the regime from the beginning. we re going to control our areas but won t rebel against you. because of that, isis attacked them. they control oil fields in the kurdish region. they control oil refineries and lots of valuable real estate. the war kind of came to them. and then partnership with the u.s. began. and now the same soldiers that the u.s. trained, armed, think about it this way from a counterintelligence standpoint. soldiers who worked with the most elite united states military are now going to work with assad and russia and bring you all that knowledge with them and by force, with no other choice saying hey, please protect us. they don t have any leverage and
a quarter of syria with russian and iranian intervention, and now this moment, assad has reconstituted. right. they were really clear eyed about what civil war means and they were careful not to get involved. they had an agreement with the regime from the beginning. we re going to control our areas but won t rebel against you. because of that, isis attacked them. they control oil fields in the kurdish region. they control oil refineries and lots of valuable real estate. the war kind of came to them. and then partnership with the u.s. began. and now the same soldiers that the u.s. trained, armed, think about it this way from a counterintelligence standpoint. soldiers who worked with the most elite united states military are now going to work with assad and russia and bring you all that knowledge with them and by force, with no other choice saying hey, please protect us. they don t have any leverage and what goes on after that. what do you think what
that issue. currently? currently. what is your understanding of what that means? well, it was a little bit of a surprise when he said that. i wasn t expecting it. it sounds like there may be he said many elements within the fbi who are actually looking to see whether there are counterintelligence risks associated with flynn s lying. and it raises the question who else are they basically assessing from a counterintelligence standpoint. it goes to the issue that even though they may not have committed crimes in their interactions between themselves and russians, the relationships between those entities may have been embarrassing or they may have lied about them such that they would be subject to manipulation or compromise by the russians to the detriment of our national security. congresswoman, did anything you hear today change your assessment of the exposure that
and it raises the question who else are they basically assessing from a counterintelligence standpoint. it goes to the issue that even though they may not have committed crimes in their interactions between themselves and russians, the relationships between those entities may have been embarrassing or they may have lied about them such that they would be subject to manipulation or compromise by the russians to the detriment of our national security. congresswoman, did anything you hear today change your assessment of the exposure that we have to something like this happening again in 2020? well, i also think director mueller was quite clear on the russians have never really gone away. and why would we be surprised by that? because the president has made no serious attempt to hold them accountable. but he said they haven t really gone away, and that they are preparing for 2020 and beyond. and so it s really incumbent
he s going to speak to two committees committees. joining me now is illinois congressman raja krishnamoorthi, a member of the intelligence committee. it s one of the committees that will be allowed to question him. thank you, congressman. absolutely. i appreciate you joining us for this breaking news tonight. what do you want to know from the special counsel? there s so much that we want to know. i think that one of the things that we d like to know is he said that there was insufficient evidence of a conspiracy but what was the most compelling evidence? what was the evidence that we need to know? from a counterintelligence standpoint, we don t have enough information to know like what were the relationships that might compromise current trump administration officials? and then finally, how do we prevent this type of interference from happening again in 2020? i think that s probably one of the biggest questions that are out there as well. but how do you get how do you get sub