to determine what the russians were up to you. i think they were just doing their job and trying to protect our political system. the justice department now launched its own investigation to suss out the truth. some intelligence insiders are crying politics. the president is saying, they should have known better than to be poking around with intelligence powers on an issue that so directly affects the politics and the possible outcome of a presidential election, and there is a lot of reason to believe that there were steps that were either missed in this process or there were abuses at a minimum of authority. president trump demanding clarity via twitter. he wants to know who authorized the alleged covert operation at win. if we are talking about a situation where a human source was knowingly being run against members of the trump campaign, we have to assume that would be known at the attorney general level and it is very likely it would have made it straight from the attorney