focused on the most. in many people s minds, law enforcement, fom fomer law enforcement officials and experts have thought there was a counterintelligence aspect there, but it had never been reported. only been report ed that there was a criminal obstruction investigation. all right. thank you so much. remarkable piece of reporting on the phone with me now, senior fellow at brookings, editor and chief of law fair. what is your reaction to this story? well, so i have just posed a very lengthy analysis of this story. and some of the documents around it. i think it s a very important development and the most important aspect to me is that it raises the question we always imagine imagined then the president fired comey and the fbi opened
impede it? and many people s minds law enforcement, former law enforcement and experts and such have thought there was the counterintelligence aspect there. but it had never been reported. only been reported there was a criminal obstruction investigation. thank you so much. remarkable piece of reporteding on the phone with me fou. what is your reaction to this story? well, so i have just posted a very lengthy analysis of the story and some of the documents around it. look, i think it s a very important development and the most important aspect is we ve always imagined there was a collusion investigation and then the president fired comey and the fbi opened an obstruction investigation. and this story raises the question to me as to whether
progressive enough. okay. thank you so much for staying with me through julian castro announcement and answering some of the questions on all of this. thank you so much. thank you. we are just hitting top of the hour here. we begin this hour with new revelations adding to the political challenges facing the president for firing fbi director james comey. after the president fired comey, the fbi began investigating whether trump, as a sitting president, was working on behalf of russia against american interests wittingly or unwittingly. the times reports the counter intelligence inquiry constituted a national threat. the president appeared to say he fired comey because of the russia investigation. regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey
look, i think it s a very important development and the most important aspect is we ve always imagined there was a collusion investigation and then the president fired comey and the fbi opened an obstruction investigation. and this story raises the question to me as to whether ilgs it s really one investigation. whether the collusion was the obstruction from the fbi s point of view. explain what you mean by that. well, so what if from the fbi s point of view the understanding of what the firing of comey was, the obstruction, was it was itself an effort to support or facilitate the russian hacking activity and the russian interference in the election by obstructing the investigation of it and potentially shuting it down.
rosenstein would seriously cuss secretly recording the president after the. fired comey. they said the comments were misunderstood and sashg kas particular. the incoming chairman of the powerful judiciary committee said he will drill down on the surveillance. senator graham shared his assessment with william barr, the nominee to lead the justice department. i want to give him a deep dive on the fisa warrant problem as i see it. get him to comment about when counter intelligence investigation turns into criminal investigation. but we ll talk about that, that s a concern of mine. senator graham says he pressed barr on the special counsel report and how much he d like to see it become public, barr was committed to as much transparency as possible in this case. dana: we re also learning more about the allegations